Tues.’s Devo - Power Over Evil

Read: Leviticus 6:1-7:27; Mark 3:7-30; Psalm 37:1-11; Provers 10:3-4
The trespass offering was offered for sins people did to people. Some of the examples were deceit, lying, cheating or stealing. First, restitution was to be made in full with a fifth of what he stole added to it. Then a guilt offering was to be made to the Lord because the sin was also against God.
We are to do the same. We are to restore what we have taken from people and ask their forgiveness. Then we are to ask God to forgive us because we not only sinned against a person but against him.
The burnt offering was to be kept burning always. The burnt offering is Christ. His offering is eternal and will never lose its power.
God took Moses back through the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering and the fellowship offering. We are the grain that we offer to the Lord. We also offer him our sin, our guilt and our heart of thanksgiving. It is all holy to him.
In Mark, we see Jesus healing and casting out devils. He didn’t want the devils to identify him for many reasons but one of them was that he knew the people didn’t understand his first coming. He had not come to set up an earthly kingdom but one in their hearts. He would come back again to do that. The people thought that the Messiah would come and destroy the Roman government and they would reign over the earth. Jesus had to keep his identity hidden till he was gone, then the Holy Spirit would reveal it to them.
Jesus called his 12 disciples to him and gave them the office of apostles. They are the ones he would disciple and send out to preach, giving them authority to drive out demons.
We have been given this authority and we need to be not only preaching the gospel but also driving out demons. We are not to tolerate evil in our neighborhoods, our cities, and our nation. We have the authority to stop diseases like the coronavirus from coming to our nation and command it to leave.
Lord, we say “No!” to this coronavirus trying to come into our nation. We stop it from having any power to spread and kill our people. We command it not to come in our borders and we pray against violence, perversion, abortion and all the deeds of darkness. We pray that light would shine in our nation and truth would be with held. We pray justice for your people and your name!