Living Like An Heir

During my recent Encouragement Trip, I had lunch with two lady friends.  During lunch, one of the ladies shared a very emotional story.   While she was in the waiting room of a hospital during a recent visit to a relative, a man engaged her in a conversation.  During the conversation the man told her that he was hungry.    Through this conversation, my friend was able to discern that not only was the man hungry for the food of this world, he was hungry for the food of the spiritual world. 

After purchasing some food for him, she sat with him while he ate and they continued their conversation.     My friend listened to the man’s problems and when he was finished, she began to share Christ with him.  He listened at first, but as she delved deeper into the spiritual realm of who Christ is and what He could do in this man’s life, the man’s persona began to change.  He became defensive and angry.  He began to speak in a very high pitched voice, like that of a little girl.   He began to verbally attack her.

My friend said the man became very intimidating to her and she realized, at that point, she was speaking to a demon that had taken up residence in him.   Upon this realization, my friend began to rebuke the demon in the name of Jesus as well as quote scripture to him.  You see, because my friend loves Jesus with all her heart, she knows the scriptures well.  Because she knows the scriptures well, she knows I John 4:4 which says, “greater is Jesus who is in her than the enemy who is in the world.”  Because she knows her scriptures well, she knows that when she asked Christ to be her Savior, she became an adopted child of God and that God gave her the same power and authority that He had given Christ (Ephesians 1:18-23).  My friend took all the authority that God had given her through Christ and used it to cast the demon out of the man in the waiting room.

When my friend came to faith in Christ, she was delivered from her addictions to drugs and alcohol as well as her compulsion to steal.  As a result of what Christ did in her life, she decided to totally surrender her life to Christ and follow Him, regardless of the cost.  And, as with this incident, she has found that cost can sometimes be high.  By the time she finished telling me her story, she was weeping.  Weeping over the emotion of it all.   Weeping over the man.  Weeping over the power that she has in Christ.  Weeping because God is so very real to her.

As I wept with her, I thanked God for our friendship.  I thanked God that He would use me, in all my weaknesses, to be a part of encouraging my sister in Christ.  I thanked God that I too have surrendered my life to Christ and have the same power that my friend has, which she used to cast the demon out of the man in the waiting room. 

If you have come to faith in Christ, you are an adopted child of the King (Galatians 1:1-7).  As an adopted child of the King, you are an heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).  As an heir with Christ, you have the same power and authority that Christ has.  It is my prayer for you that you embrace this truth and live like an heir. 

Encouraging You In Christ!

All Praise, Honor and Glory to God!