Before satan can come and touch you, he needs your permission to allow him into your life. This permission will always come in two ways:
THROUGH SIN: Sin is the greatest instrument which satan uses against mankind. When you sin against God and man you must confess it to God and plead for forgiveness. When someone offend you and you refuse to forgive him, you have sinned and thereby opening the door for satan to enter into your life. The bible says ''For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God'' - Romans 3 : 23. When you dwell in sin, you have place a gap between yourself and God. The scripture says that ''do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God and you are not of your own? For you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which is God's'' - 1 Corinthians 6 : 19 - 20. Where the Holy Spirit dwells, satan cannot have his way there.
Sin can come from an act of wickedness. ''For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity'' - Proverbs 24 : 16. Disobedience against the word of God is a sin that is why the bible says that '' If it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it - Jeremiah 18 : 10. ''You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing, but I called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you - John 15 : 14 - 15. When you obey God, you become His friend because you no more live in sin and His protection will be upon you. When you sin against God, the protection of God will depart from you which will make the door to be openned for satan and thereby making you vulnerable to him.
The bible says that, ''This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all'' - 1 John 1 : 5. Since God is light, and we are children of God, therefore, we are also light because He created us in His own image and where there is light, darkness vanishes away. When we dwell in sin, the light that is in us will not shine and darkness is bound to appear. Because of the presence of darkness, the door is opened for satan to come in which is the permission he is looking for.
THROUGH IGNORANCE: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ......Hosea 4 : 6. God after creation, He gave us authority over everything He created - Genesis 1 : 28. After the fall of Adam, God sent Jesus Christ, His only Son to come and redeem us from our sin. After He has fulfilled that purpose, He said ''And these signs will follow those who believe. In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues. They will take up serpents and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover'' - Mark 16 : 17 - 18. Because we do not know the value of such authority, that is why satan is still controlling many people. This authority was not given to us based on merit but rather, because of the love God have for us from the begining.
Because we do not know or remember this redemptive price Jesus has paid, that is still why satan is holding many people to ransom. I believe it is high time we know whom we are in Christ Jesus so that satan cannot continue to terrorise us anymore. ''If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - John 14 : 15 - 16.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you - John 14 : 26. We should come out of our ignorance and always remember that our Helper is with us forever so that no more permission will be given to satan anymore.
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