A large number of prayers are being devoted to killing enemies in African churches and you could wonder as to how much resources we earmarked for the destruction of another human being.
Before we proceed, let established four points.
1. You don’t have a human enemy.
Devil is your enemy, influencing unregenerated human beings to hate you. I said unregenerated because you can’t be a Christian and hate someone. Therefore, leave your fellow human beings alone and face Satan.
Are you going to pray for Satan to die? No! Doing so is wasting precious time and saliva because Satan is a spirit (and spirit doesn’t die). What you should do to Satan is to resist him. After resisting him, stand firm.
So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place].
Ephesians 6:13.
2. You will have an enemy.
There is no how, all the people will like you because you are not ice cream. Even if you are ice cream, some people will just hate you for no reason. Some will hate you for a reason. Even God have enemies and who are the enemies of God, if not the wicked?
Infact, some people can become your enemy because you are looking for their uplifting and betterment? Human hearts are so deceptive.
3. Do not be somebody’s enemy.
People will hate you but you don’t have to pay hate with hate.
I bet it with you that some people want you to hate them consciously and unconsciously, in words and in deeds. Still don’t hate them.
Why shouldn’t you hate? One, there is no hatred with God. Even when some people rejected His eternal plan of salvation, still He loves them. Two, since you are God’s ambassador here, it is demanded of you to behave like Him.
4. God expect you to treat your enemy nicely, dutifully, respectfully and in the manners He treated His own enemies.
How then do you treat your enemy nicely, dutifully, respectfully and how did God treat His enemies? Thanks to God for not leaving us unguided about dealing with enemies.
Deal with your enemy thus:
1. Love for your enemy.
This command is directly from our Lord Jesus Christ
You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy; But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43 - 44.
2. Pray for your enemy.
You don’t only love him/her, you are also expected to love. One God is love and you are His image and Bible enjoins us to bless and curse not.
3. Feed your enemy.
Give the person that hates you food, give him clothes and find a way for your hater to sleep (not under the same roof though).
God feed His own enemies by providing food, sunlight and rain for them and doing so mean you are aiming for God’s reward and be GODLY.
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Proverbs 25:21
To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?
Matthew 5:45 - 47.
4. Don’t allow his/her property to ruin if you have the power to prevent the decline.
If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying [helpless] under his load, you shall refrain from leaving the man to cope with it alone; you shall help him to release the animal.
Exodus 23:4 - 5.
What the passages mean is that
- If you see a link that can benefit haters, share it.
- If your enemy’s child comes for your help, render it.
- If you see danger ahead, notify him/her .
- Etc.
This is an instruction, not a suggestion.
5. Rejoice not about enemy’s downfall
Why? Because Yahweh hates it.
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles or is overthrown, lest the Lord see it and it be evil in His eyes and displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him [to expend it upon you, the worse offender]. Proverbs 24:18 - 19.
Will it be easy doing all these un-human acts (un-human because a natural man is revenge-certified)? It won’t but doing so means obeying God and that comes with a whole loads of benefits.
Why should you do it? Do it because in the God’s kingdom, we repay good with evils, bless and don’t curse.
May God gives us the strength to do as He does in Jesus mighty name.
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