Wed.’s Devo - We are Satan’s Greatest Fear

Read: Genesis 24:52-26:16; Matthew 8:18-34; Psalm 10:1-15; Proverbs 3:7-8 Once Abraham’s servant heard that they believed he was sent by God, he was ready to get back home with Rebekah. They tried to convince him to stay for 10 days but Rebekah said she was ready to go so they returned to the land in the Negev. Isaac saw the camels coming and walked to meet them. Rebekah got down from her camel and walked to meet him. Isaac brought Rebekah into his tent and loved her deeply. Abraham married another woman named Keturah and had six children. He gave everything he owned to Isaac but gave gifts to the sons of his concubines. Abraham died at the age of 175 and was buried with Sarah. Ishmanel had 12 sons who became princes of their areas. Ishmael lived for 137 years and then died. His descendants lived in the area of Asshur and lived in open hostility to their relatives just as was prophesied. Rebekah was barren but Isaac prayed for her to bear children and God heard his prayer. She became pregnant with twins who battled in the womb. God told her that there were two nations in her womb and they would be rivals. The older one would end up serving the younger. When she gave birth, Esau came out first. He was red and hairy like an animal. Jacob came out holding on to his heel. Esau grew up to be Isaac’s favorite because he was a hunter who killed wild game and Isaac loved to eat it. Jacob was Rebekah’s favorite because he stayed at home and helped her. One day while Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from hunting famished. Jacob would feed him only if he gave him the right of the first born. Esau was so hungry he pledge an oath, thus despising his birthright. A famine came that drove Isaac and his family to Egypt. God told him to live there as a foreigner but this was his land in Canaan. God would multiply his descendants He told Rebekah to tell everyone she was his sister to save his hide just like Abraham had done. Abimelech happened to see Isaac being intimate with his wife and called him in to rebuke him for lying. Isaac told him he was afraid he would be killed for his wife. Abimelech issued a public proclamation saying if anyone touched Isaac’s wife would be killed. Isaac harvested his crop and made a hundred times more grain than he planted. He became so rich that the Philistines filled up all of Isaac’s wells with dirt. These were the wells that Abraham had dug. Abimelech finally ordered Isaac to leave and go somewhere else because he was becoming too powerful. In Matthew, Jesus and his disciples were on their way across the Jordan to the land of the Gadarenes. Both times they tried to go to this area, Satan sent a storm to stop them. Both times Jesus rebuked the storm and they made it safely to the other side. This time their mission was to take the principality of the region who lived in a man. Jesus rebuked the demons and sent them into a herd of pigs and they ran off the cliff to drown in the water. The men watching the herd ran into the town telling everyone what had happened. The entire town came to chase Jesus away. In both the Old and the New Testament we see the fear Satan has of God’s people. When we become who we are suppose to be, we will cause the devil to tremble. Lord, may we become the sons of God who know our inheritance and walk in power and authority.