Jesus framed the contrast between His plans and Satan’s plans.
Jesus said that each day we live, we face a life or death situation.
John 10:10 (NKJV) The thief does not come except to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
The Evil One wants to steal, to kill, and to destroy our abundant, overflowing life of joy and peace.
The sixth petition in the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:13 is all about that. Seeking and finding God’s protection daily. Please turn there with me.
Matthew 6:13 (NKJV) And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
We are considering a series of petitions as part of our daily plan.
Every day we need to get and stay in touch with God. Each of these petitions is about something God says we need, and Jesus says we should ask for it. Which leads us to our topic today:
Why Should We Be Praying Every Day: For God to Deliver Us & Every Believer We Know, From The Evil One
We are to ask daily for God to deliver us from the evil one. If we are not purposefully praying each day for ourselves and all those in Christ, we are not only not obeying what Jesus asked us to do, we are also showing we are unaware of how dangerous the Devil really is.
This verse prompts three questions for us to ask:
Who is the evil one?
What can he do to us?
How do we pray for each other?
First of all, who is this Evil One?
The Evil One of v. 13 has personal names. 36x times he’s called Satan which means adversary.
35x he’s called the Devil, or diabolos which means slanderer. But, there is one verse where most of his keys names are all grouped together. That spot is Revelation 12. Open there with me to see the Evil One we are to ask God every day to deliver us from.
Rev. 12:7-9 (NKJV) And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
So the Evil One is the serpent, the Devil, the Deceiver, Satan the accuser, the dragon.
The Evil One is here with his demons, and from them, we face grave dangers.
When Jesus prayed in John 17 He gave us a brief glimpse into what His interceding prayers for us look like. Here is one specific area Jesus prays for us:
John 17:15-18 (NKJV) I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth. As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
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