MY LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023
CONQUER EVIL WITH LOVE
MAIN TEXT: ROMANS 12:21
Don’t let evil conquer you. But conquer evil by doing good. (NLT)
1 SAMUEL 24:17-18
You are a better man than I am, for you have repaid me good for evil. Yes, you have been amazingly kind to me today, for when the Lord put me in a place where you could have killed me, you didn’t do it. (NLT)
Love is one of the attributes of God which He uses to conquer the devil. David did not kill Saul even when he had the opportunity to do so despite the many attempts King Saul made to destroy David, David displayed goodness and mercy onto Saul.
It was also love that made Jesus to die on the cross even though He did not commit any sin. These attributes of God He has also deposited in you to demonstrate this attitude of love, kindness, forgiveness, and goodness etc., on that man, woman, boy, girl, young or old who has wronged you in no small measure. Dearly beloved, don’t pay them back in their coin because if you do so, both of you will be classified as evildoers and God cannot fight or defend you.
If they need food or water, and you have, please give them to eat or drink because God in Romans 12:19 has passionately appealed to you not to revenge for yourself that He will revenge for you. He marshaled out what He will do to his enemies on the day of his vengeance and recompense. Our main text wants us to resist our natural human instinct for revenge. Those that revenge are conquered, but those that forgive conquer. You must not disappoint God.
REPAY EVIL WITH GOOD AND BE A CONQUEROR FOREVER
PRAYER: Oh Lord my God, I reject the spirit of envy, hatred, and vengeance and I embrace the spirit of forgiveness, love, and kindness in Jesus’ name. Defend and Fight for me, Amen.
BY BISHOP DR NGOZI DURUEKE (HE REIGNS CHAPEL INT’L) mylivingwaterdevotional@gmail.com
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