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When the devil comes to accuse you with the law and shows you how you have fallen short and failed, turn your eyes away from yourself and point to the payment that Jesus made on the cross. Christ is your title deed, which is why you are called a “Christian” today. You are not your own. You have been purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. His blood, shed for you, is what makes your relationship with God secure. It is what gives you the basis to reach out and receive your freedom from your loving Savior today!
Today’s Thought
Grace is a person—Jesus Himself. He paid the full debt for my sins with His own life so that I can reign in life today
.
Today’s Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You that You fulfilled every requirement of the law perfectly on my behalf. Thank You for making me holy and righteous by Your blood once and for all. I’ve been purchased with Your precious blood and I belong to You. Because of Your perfect sacrifice, I can enter boldly into God’s presence without fear, guilt, condemnation, or expectation of punishment. Keep me growing in the revelation of Your finished work. Let me receive more and more of Your love, grace, and goodness so that I may truly walk in Your liberty in all areas of life. Amen
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“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
M
ATTHEW
11:28
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
J
OHN
14:6
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him…He who has seen Me has seen the Father…”
J
OHN
14:7, 9
Today’s Scripture
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
M
ATTHEW
5:17
NIV
A
llow me to emphasize what I said in the previous reading: Christianity is about having a relationship with a loving God. My friend, it is when you get a revelation of God’s desire to have a personal, loving relationship with you and how Jesus has forever made secure this relationship that real transformation from the inside out begins to happen to you.
Listen to how this revelation led fifty-year-old Jarvis, whose personal life was a daily struggle, to his breakthrough:
I have gone to church for as long as I can remember. I have run the sound at church for nine years, painted, cleaned, donated time, and done everything I was able to. I gave my 10 percent and more. I also sang praises, read books, and spoke in tongues. I did all this and yet was miserable. I lived in lack, had no confidence, and had no relationship with Jesus. I always wondered what was wrong with me
.
My friends in church were like me too and we all acted as if life was wonderful when, in fact, it was the complete opposite. In the end, I was mentally and physically drained with all things concerning God. I read numerous books on how to fix ME. I prayed and had people pray for me but nothing changed! I thought that I had a problem and even wondered if I had a mental issue. I felt like the worst husband and father even though I love my wife and have the two greatest kids in the world
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One day, just before going to bed, I discovered your television program. I saw only three minutes of preaching before your broadcast ended, but I heard enough to want to know more. I picked up my Kindle Fire and typed in “Joseph Prince.” I downloaded a free preview of one of your books, read one chapter, and bought the book
.
I read three chapters that night and was SET FREE before I went to bed. I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life. “The law has been fulfilled by Christ…” Oh man, GLORY TO GOD! What a blessing this book has been. My life is forever changed. I am back to reading the Word, worshiping with CDs, and praying in the Spirit. I’m in love with Jesus, I am on FIRE, and I am not a fake trying to impress others. I have an intimate relationship with Jesus that I didn’t know was possible and that has been the greatest blessing of all. I know my life will never be the same!
I pray you will discover, as Jarvis did, that the answer to your struggles does not lie in you trying to fix yourself. If you go down this route, you will never see an end in sight. The truth is, because of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice, nothing you have or have not done can hijack or derail the loving relationship God wants you to have with Him. Let this truth sink into your heart and begin to enjoy a relationship with your heavenly Father where you can freely receive His love and grace for you. All your fears, confusion, and struggles to receive from Him will come to an end. You won’t be struggling to love Him. Instead, your heart will be fired up with love for Him, and like Jarvis, you will know and see how your life will never be the same!
Today’s Thought
Jesus paid the full price for me to have a real, personal, and intimate relationship with Him where I can freely receive His love and grace
.
Today’s Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You for fulfilling the law and paying the full penalty for my sins at the cross. Thank You for doing everything that was needed for me to always have a real and loving relationship with You that is based purely on Your unmerited favor. I believe that nothing I have or have not done can ever forfeit this relationship You want me to have with You. Thank You, Jesus, for Your amazing sacrifice and love for me. I ask that You make Your grace so real to me that my life will never be the same. Amen
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“…by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
A
CTS
13:39
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep
.
P
SALM
127:2
Today’s Scripture
…
having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it
.
C
OLOSSIANS
2:14–15
F
or all the talk of “nuclear disarmament,” are you aware that there is someone more sinister who has already been disarmed of his power over your life? The Bible says that God has “disarmed principalities and powers,” referring to Satan and his cohorts (Eph. 6:12). So the devil has already been disarmed. But do you know what weapon he was wielding before his forced disarmament?
Today’s Scripture gives us the answer clearly: the devil was armed with the “handwriting of requirements that was against us.” On Mount Sinai, God wrote the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone. The “handwriting of requirements” was thus a reference to the
law
that was written by the finger of God. Let me stress that the law is holy, just, and good. It was designed by God to expose man’s weaknesses, sins, and inability to be holy, just, and good so that man would see his need for a Savior. You need to understand that no amount of keeping the law can make you holy. Only the blood of Jesus can do that.
The devil then armed himself with the
law
to accuse and condemn man. Now, listen carefully to this: God didn’t give the law to arm the devil, but the devil, knowing that the law was against us, took advantage of it and has been using it as his weapon to further alienate us from God. That’s why when God nailed the law to the cross, He made a public spectacle of the devil and all the powers of darkness! Once the law was nailed to the cross of Jesus, God knew that the law no longer had the power to condemn us as long as we believed on Jesus. Therefore, when you know and believe that
Jesus has fulfilled completely the righteous requirements of the law on our behalf, the devil cannot use the law to condemn you every time you fail
.
Today, if the enemy uses the law to point out your sins, look to the cross of Jesus and reject the condemnation. You may say, “No one can blot out God’s handwriting.” Yes, you are right. No man can, but God can! And God did it righteously. My friend, you have been redeemed from the curse of the law. The devil and his crew have been disarmed. Hallelujah!
Refuse to subject yourself any longer to the old covenant system of the law. Don’t put the weapon of the law back into the devil’s hands. Every teaching that says, “You have to keep the law to be blessed by God,” is doing just that. Reject such legalistic teachings and rest in the truth of God’s disarmament and grace. The more you believe and embrace the truth of His grace, the more you are empowered to experience victory over your failings and challenges. This is how you reign, and when you reign, the devil doesn’t!
Today’s Thought
God has disarmed the enemy of the right to use the law to condemn me
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Today’s Prayer
Father, I thank You that the “handwriting of requirements” that was against me was nailed to the cross when Jesus fulfilled every righteous requirement of the law for me through His death. I therefore believe that no devil, principality, or power has the right to use the law again as a weapon to judge or condemn me. I stand forgiven and accepted before You because Christ has fulfilled the law for me and was judged and condemned in my place. Amen
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And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night
.
R
EVELATION
12:10
KJV
But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
G
ALATIANS
3:13
NLT
“Your right hand, O L
ORD
, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O L
ORD
, smashes the enemy.”
E
XODUS
15:6
NLT
Today’s Scripture
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin
.
R
OMANS
3:20
B
eloved, understanding the purpose of the law is critical to your relationship with God. He gave the law for one purpose: that you would have the knowledge of sin and recognize your need for a Savior.
Without the law, there would be no sin (Rom. 4:15). For example, if there is no law on how fast you can drive on a particular road, that is, if there is no speed limit, the state trooper cannot stop you and give you a ticket for speeding. In simple terms, no law equals no sin. No recognition of sin equals no need for a Savior!
The law was thus given to bring man to the end of himself so that in his despair, he would see his need for Jesus. Because of the law, no man can say that he is not a sinner and no man can say that he doesn’t need Jesus. That is the purpose of the law. It was not designed to make you godly, but to expose your ungodliness.
What the devil wants to do is keep the law over your head all the time so that you constantly feel condemned and guilty. That is how he keeps you trapped in a cycle of defeat. The devil is the master legalist who constantly reminds you of how unworthy you are of God’s blessings. Known as the accuser of the brethren (Rev. 12:10), here are some of his common attacks:
You call yourself a Christian?
You are a hypocrite!
Forget about praying. God will never listen to your prayers
.
Look at your life. How dare you step into church?
My friend, these are lies, all lies! The devil is using the law to make you conscious of all your shortcomings. But through Jesus Christ, you are no longer under the condemnation of the law. The devil has been disarmed by the power of the cross! Jesus, who knew no sin, was condemned on your behalf on the cross. Through Jesus Christ, you are now made righteous apart from the works of the law. So when you hear the voice of the accuser condemning you, remind yourself that you are the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:21). Declare it out loud! Come on, say it with me three times, each time louder than the first:
I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ!
I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ!

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