Jesus made it crystal clear that satan (our enemy) is a thief in John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Satan has stolen something from all of us. Maybe it’s your peace, your joy, your health, your marriage, your finances. But our calling is confidence in God’s promises.
Satan doesn’t have legal rights to what he’s taken from us. He’s an illegal occupier, a squatter, and it’s time to evict Him.
I’ve walked through enough spiritual wars to recognize satan’s tactics. He doesn’t just steal once and disappear. He keeps coming back to the same areas, hopefully you won’t notice the pattern.
Think about it. What keeps getting attacked in your life? What do you keep losing ground on, even when you pray? What area makes you want to give up and say, maybe this isn’t God’s will for me?
That’s not God’s voice. That’s the voice of a defeated enemy trying to convince you he’s won.
But the truth is Jesus already defeated Satan at Calvary, when He was crucified for us. Colossians 2:15 says, He disarmed the powers and authorities, “having striped the principalities and the powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” The war is won, but we still must enforce victory over our life.
Most believers know Satan stole something from them, but they don’t realize they have the authority to demand it back.
Jesus gave us authority. Luke 10:19 says, “Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.”
We don’t beg God to get it back, we don’t hope it magically reappears. We stand in our authority as believers and we take it back in Jesus’s name.
I am not talking about the name it and claim it response. I’m talking about biblical warfare. I’m talking about knowing who we are in Christ Jesus and operating in that identity.
I’ve have used three steps to reclaim what was stolen from me.
- Identify what was stolen
You can’t fight for something if you don’t know what it is. Get specific. Don’t just say, “The enemy is attacking me.” Say, “The enemy has stolen my peace, my finances, my family unity.” Name it out loud.
2. Reject, the lie that you can’t get it back
The enemy’s biggest weapon isn’t what he takes is the lie that it’s gone forever. He wants you to accept that the loss is permanent. Don’t. God is a restoring God. Joel 2:25 promises, “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locusts have eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.”
3. Declare God’s Word over what was stolen
Scriptures such as John 10:10, Colossians 2:15, and Luke 10:19.
Isaiah 61:7 also tells us, “Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion…”
The enemy doesn’t want us to know. This fight isn’t fair, and it’s tilted in our favor.
Satan is a defeated foe. He has no authority except what believers ignorantly give him. He’s like someone who got evicted, but keeps showing up hoping you forgot you own the property.
Don’t fight from a position of weakness. Fight from victory. Jesus already won. Our job is to enforce that victory through prayer, the Word, and refusing to back down.
I’ve seen God restore my marriage, my health after the doctor gave me a death sentence, work financially when there was no hope. Stop accepting the theft and start taking back what belongs to you.
The warfare is real, and it’s exhausting and Thete will be days when you will wonder if things are even worth fighting for. But what the enemy stole isn’t just about us. It’s about our families, our calling, this generation. God had trusted us with an assignment, and Satan is terrified of what happens when we walk in the fullness of what God has for each of us.
Satan comes to steal, to discourage, to make us think we will never get back what we’ve lost in our lives. He’s a liar.
The same God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in us. The same power that parted the Red Sea is available to us. The same authority that casts our demons belongs to us. We see this in Luke 10:29, Colossians 2:15, and 1 John 4:4 tells us, “Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
We are not powerless, we are not defeated, and God has not forgotten us.
God’s Word tells us how to fight the enemy. We need to know what His Word says, and start fighting. Our breakthrough is found in obedience to God.
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