Daily Encouragement For July 09:

Tools For Sale

It was advertised that the devil was going to put his tools up for sale. 
On the date of the sale, the tools were placed for public inspection; each 
tool being marked with its sale price. They were a treacherous lot of 
implements...Hatred, Envy, Jealousy, Deceit, Lying, Bitterness, Guilt, Pride, and so on.

Laid apart from the rest was a harmless looking tool, all worn out and priced 
very high.

"What is the name of this tool?" asked one of the purchasers, pointing to it.

That is Discouragement", replied the devil.

"Why have you priced it so high?"

"Because it is more useful to me than and of the others. I can pry open and get 
inside anyone's heart with that when I cannot get near him with my other 
tools. Once I get inside, I can make him do what I choose. It is badly 
worn because I use it on almost everyone, since very few people know that 
it belongs to me."

Discouragement gets the best of us, but it does not have to because we have the
greatest tool to defeat the devil and all his tools of destruction, Jesus Christ. The devil
has no power over you, you have the power to overcome through Jesus Christ.

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the
whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore
take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand.” - Ephesians 6:10-13.