65. Nothing Shall Hurt
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall be any means hurt you.
The promise is definitive, awesome and all encompassing: “Nothing shall by any means hurt you.” That’s saying a lot: “nothing…by any means.” In spite of all the dangers and threats against us and with all the things we have to worry about we shall not be hurt. Sin, Death and the Devil (serpents and scorpions) will unceasingly try to hurt us and scare us, but we have this promise: we can’t be hurt. Though we have this promise we still are afraid of getting hurt. No need, fear not: The overcomer overcomes.
The other awesome part of this promise is that Jesus gives to us the power over all the power of the enemy. This is awesome in two ways: 1) the power is given to us, and 2) the power is over all the power of the enemy. The head of the serpent is absolutely crushed; he has no right, no authority and no power over us, for our overcomer has given the power back to the redeemed. Jesus has stripped the authority from the Devil and transferred that authority to the believer. Jesus has finished the treading and the crushing. The amazing truth is that He has given to us that authority to tread; the followers of Christ now do the treading and exercise the power that Jesus wrested from Satan. We are the ones who can say, “Get behind me, Satan. Be gone!” In Jesus’ name we resist the devil and he flees; amazingly, he flees at my word. It is hard to believe that I would have that kind of power, that God would entrust such authority and responsibility to me.
Jesus has done the treading; we who follow Him execute it in real life. We are not worthy to exercise such awesome authority, but Christ is worthy; this is what Jesus promises, and he gives us the promise so that we would believe it and do it. There is nothing wrong with such a “prayer against” all the power of the enemy. Jesus loves us so much He doesn’t want anything to hurt us; so He promises that explicitly.