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RESIST! For our college-aged students each week we share the simple plan Jesus practiced and Paul taught: SAYING NO TO THE DEVIL. If you have never tried this, I’d encourage you to start a new dimension of your spiritual life by starting one of the more wonderful spiritual exercises you can ever do.
As you begin each day, one of our greatest privileges is to take up the helmet of the salvation God has given to us.
By faith, we please God when we believe what He’s said about us.
We need to not live by what others say or have said about us all our life.
Satan is the Accuser and wants us to only remember all the many times we have fallen;
Satan delights in the days, weeks, or months he can keep us condemning ourselves for what we’ve done.
That is his plan, so don’t fall for it.
Resist Satan as you believe the truth; speak the truth; and preach the Gospel to yourself.
And whenever we fall down, God says to just turn back to Him and repent, confessing our sin immediately—and believe that what God has promised in His salvation.
We are forgiven, justified, regenerated, reconciled, adopted, redeemed, and sanctified.
That makes us precious in His sight, special in His plan.
One of the most powerful habits you could develop is to take these truths about the gift of salvation and rejoice by faith in what God has done and wants to do in you!