Miscellaneous
It ‘s popular to shout Satan down in prayer. "Satan, bite the dust! I bind your forces in Jesus name! Go ahead--bring on your attacks I'm prepared for the fight!" If all this confidence is biblical, then why did Jesus teach us to pray "Lead us not into the time of testing--of temptation?" The sixth petition of the Lord's prayer is our subject today and it raises this issue of the believers attitude toward the battle with evil and hand to hand combat with the evil one.