For Your Greater Blessing!

Romans 8:31
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Whenever the devil throws something evil at us, you can be sure that God will turn it around for our greater blessing because He is for us.

When God first made man, He gave man dominion over everything on earth (Genesis 1:26). But when Adam fell, sin and death entered the world and man lost his authority to the devil. So, did the devil win?
No! God executed His redemption plan by sending Jesus to die for us. And God wants us to know that Jesus' death did not just restore us to the same position Adam had - in fact, it gave us a higher position!

When the Father raised Jesus from the dead, we who are in Christ were raised with Him. We are now seated with Him at God's right hand in the heavenly places, "far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come" (Ephesians 1:21). Adam never had this position. Through Jesus' death and resurrection, we have received so much more.

The Bible also tells of how God promised to bring the children of Israel out of bondage and into a land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:17). The devil thought that he could foil God's plan by putting giants in the promised land to stop God's people from inheriting it.

But God outsmarted the devil. He allowed the giants to build their homes and cities, dig their wells and cultivate their crops until the right time. Then He brought the children of Israel into the land and evicted the giants!

God's people ended up inheriting large beautiful cities which they did not build, houses full of all good things which they did not fill, hewn-out wells which they did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees which they did not plant (Deuteronomy 6:10-11). Although the devil tried to prevent God's plan for His people from coming to pass, they ended up receiving so much more!

Beloved, the devil may throw obstacles and evil circumstances at you, but God will turn those evil schemes around for your greater blessing because He is for you!