You have to run over the devil before he runs over you. You are standing on a battlefield (perhaps a different one than you were last year at this time).

You may be standing in the middle of an army or you may be standing all alone. Are you just going to stand there, waiting to see what will happen? Or are you going to do something that will allow you to get and keep the upper hand?

King David gave us a psalm that we should graft onto ourselves so that we can be true overcomers: “I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not return until they were destroyed” (Ps. 18:37).

Earlier in the same psalm, he expressed his utter dependency on God when his enemies proved to be too strong for him: “He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support” (Ps. 18:17-18).

He was a true overcomer—determined to make an end of his enemies, but always aware that he needed help doing it.

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