Admit defeat and win!
Admit defeat and win?! That statement doesn’t make sense! Or does it? When we surrender to God, admit that we cannot win against the spiritual principalities in our own strength, then He comes in and wins for us. That is the only way to victory in the Christian life! But first, we must acknowledge that we are no match for the devil, the enemy of our souls, when it comes to spiritual warfare. That is a job for Christ, for only He is the Victor. Our Lord made a spectacle of the devil when He died for us on the cross. Satan was defeated then and there. Alleluia! So though the devil is still active in this world (duh), think of him as always trying but never winning. That is the great deception that he offers the world - that he can still take God’s place. He is already defeated. But millions around the world do not know this, and that is how he gets into people’s hearts and lives, unknowingly. So when we admit that we cannot slay our Goliaths, but in the power of the Lord we can, th