Whenever the Devil rages against you, it's not so much a personal attack as it's an assault against God. Satan knows the folly of the flesh and it's apparent weakness, so yes, it gets personal when our flesh is touched. But from the start, the object of the Devil's wrath is Christ in us.
There is a story in the Old Testament that I believe is a word for us today. An Assyrian king came against King Hezekiah with threatens to destroy the city just as he did to other cities. He assaulted God by saying if the gods of the other land couldn't save Jerusalem what makes you think He will do anything to help you (Isaiah 36:19-20). King Sennacherib was correct that false gods couldn't deliver those he conquered. However, he made a foolish mistake in saying God was just as powerless as a stone or wooden idol.
To those who suffered from drug addiction, God has a word for you. To those who suffer from poverty that drives you to despair when your children are hungry. To the one who is tormented by fear and anxiety, God has a word for you. To the fatherless who seem powerless against the temptations of the world, God has a word for you!
Listen what God tells the Enemy, "Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest." (Isaiah 37:29, KJV).
Listen to what God says to the enemies of addiction, fear, confusion and poverty. I will put a hook in your nose and drag you clear out of the place you tried to enter. You tried to overtake my child's mind with your lies! You tried to get them hooked, drugged, seduced and bow to you in fear. You tried to scale the walls of protection I built around my beloved people and you even tried to go underneath. You creep around to the back of their homes to enter through another way. I see you snake your way into their relationships to create chaos and pain. God says, I will toss you clear out of the place because where they live I dwell with them! I will always defend My people (verses 34-35).
God will help you, beloved, in your hour of need. It's not you that is hooked on sin and failure, it's the Devil. The Lord will use that same hook the Enemy tried to bait you and will stick it in his nose and drive him out. God will lead the Devil into captivity but for us, we enter into freedom!
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