Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for April 11, 2026

WARFARE BEFORE VICTORY

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Romans 8:37

“Yet in all these, we are more than conquers through Him who loved us.”

Additional Verses

📖 Exodus 14:1-31; Romans 8:28-39; Ephesians 6:10-18

Romans 8:35 lists the strategies which the enemy uses against children of God in his attempt to rob them of their salvation. Whether it is tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword, Paul in Romans 8:37, is reminding you that as a child of God you are already more than a conqueror in all these through Christ Jesus Who loved you. Jesus Christ fought the battle for every believer when He defeated the devil once and for all when He suffered death at the Cross, was buried and on the third day was victoriously raised from the dead. By His death and Resurrection, He gave you a completely new nature which is not subject to all the weapons and strategies of the devil. He gave us His Holy Spirit who works in us in this warfare against all the strategies of the devil. The Holy Spirit will however only work in you when you are fully yielded to the Word of God as Jesus Christ says in John 14:23-26, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep my Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the Word which you hear is not Mine but the Father who sent Me.” In Luke 10:19, Jesus Christ has given to every believer the authority over the devil when He says, “Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” However, this authority will only work when you live according to the commandments of the LORD Jesus Christ. Mark 16:17-18 says, “And these signs shall accompany those that believe. In my name, they will drive out demons, they will pick up snakes with their hands, and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all, they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” It is only the child of God who participates in the spiritual warfare who enjoys the victory. Many children of God continue to suffer unnecessarily just because they expect God to do everything for them. God has already done everything for you when He gave you His life through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. It is now your responsibility to declare His Word upon all your circumstances. Joshua 1:8 says, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” What this is saying to you is that act on the Word of God now, and that victory in that area of your need is yours. It is beautiful to study the Bible, but just studying the Bible is not enough because it is only when you take the Word of God into your heart and then release that Word as spoken Word or Rhema through your mouth that you will be able to see that victory that Jesus Christ has already given you through His death on the Cross and His resurrection. So what are you still waiting for? Get intimate with the Word of God now and act upon it and that cancer, poverty, failure in life, marital problem, financial crisis, HIV, or whatever problem you may have suffered from for so long, will be blotted out of your life in the name of Jesus Christ. Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, thank You for equipping me with all the weapons so as to defeat the devil. I also thank You because in all the battles, You are with me and the battle is Yours. I bless Your name for making me victorious. In Jesus’ mighty name I pray. Amen.