The Lion at the Door - Love Worth Finding - August 27
August 27, 2025 – The Lion at the Door
Sermon: 1696 Victorious Prayer, Part 1
Pray Over This
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
Ponder This
If you knew there was a ravenous, hungry lion somewhere on your property, wouldn’t you be careful when you walked out the door? You certainly would not walk out the door without being prepared. That is what God is saying to us in 1 Peter 5:8—“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary…” Not somebody else’s adversary . . . your adversary walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
The bitterest enemy of God and His people is someone called the devil, the evil one. Have you ever thought about the names that are given to him in the Bible? He’s called the deceiver. He’s called the liar. He’s called the murderer. He’s called the accuser. He’s called the tempter. He’s called the destroyer. He is called the evil one.
The devil is not the figment of someone’s imagination. When we talk about the devil, that’s not a figure of speech. He is personal. He is aggressive. He is intelligent. He is cunning. He is destructive. And his cleverest method is to make people think he does not exist at all—that he’s just some sort of an idea we should make jokes about or view in a cartoonish way. And we laugh because that is a comic presentation and illustration of this one that the Bible tells us we are to beware of. The devil is not in Hell. He will be. But right now he walks about seeking whom he may devour.
- What are some of the ways you have prepared yourself for the Enemy’s attacks? What are some ways you could grow in that?
- What are some ways you have forgotten the urgency of the spiritual battle every day? What does it look like to be prepared for the spiritual battle?
Practice This
Talk with another Christian and confess to one another how you have struggled against sin. Keep each other accountable to be ready for the daily spiritual battle.
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