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Christ is in you. But even better to know, you’re in Him! See, that
is part of your wealth. That is, being “rich in Christ”. It’s tragic
to see Christians so afraid. Afraid of sin. Afraid of Satan. Afraid
of riches, and afraid of poverty. They tremble at world events and
physical threats. God never intended that!

If I would ask, the most instructed group of Christians, to list the
greatest blessings in their lives, would any of them dare to
mention Satan. As you go on in the Lord, you are going to see
that he is a great blessing in your life. God makes Satan sweat,
to make you a mature Christian. If anything, doesn’t the Book of
Job teach us that. Wasn’t Job a lot better off after Satan
attacked, than before. Job in the beginning, worshipped a harsh
God, he couldn’t see or hear. At the end of the book, and at the
end of Job, he surrendered to the “Omnipotent Lover of his soul”,
who he both heard and saw.

Would you be a better Christian right now if there were no devil?
See, you wouldn’t be. God uses him on your behalf. It’s tragic to
see Christians who think they are soldiers with a battle to win.
There’s no battle to win. There’s no struggle. He doesn’t say,
“Attack! March! Charge! Go forward! Take the land!” He just
says, “Stand!” Why does He say, “Stand”? He says stand,
because there’s nothing left to do. There’s no territory to win.
There’s no land to be conquered. This is not struggling to take
another hill, and then struggling to take another piece of land. We
are as safe as a baby on his mother’s breast. You couldn’t be
safer.

You are clothed in God. He gets ready to close this book and He
says, “What is your greatest responsibility?” Just stand in God,
clothed from head to foot. That’s the greatest thing you could
ever do. What a picture of rest! Hallelujah, “It is finished”!
AMEN!

In Genesis 15:6 it says, “Abraham believed God”. What a
wonderful word. He believed God. God the Holy Spirit took those
three words and put them on Abraham’s tombstone. Isn’t that a