40 Days of Praise - Day 22

Day 22

“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’”
Matthew 28:18

Jesus has been given all authority by the Father. With that authority, Jesus will restore all that Satan has taken or damaged. 1 John 3:8 says:


Satan is the father of lies. By his deception he has persuaded men and women to construct structures, systems, and lifestyles that are dishonoring to God and destructive to humanity and to the earth.

Jesus is “the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:6)

• Satan had put things in place to block our path to God. Jesus destroyed Satan‘s works by becoming our way to God.

• Satan began deceiving and leading humans astray in Genesis 3 and he continues to develop sophisticated and layered deceptions to entrap us. Jesus is the Word who became flesh. He has revealed the Father to us. He is the Light of the world that has exposed the lies and deceptions of Satan.

• Satan led us into sin. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). Jesus took our sin on Him and suffered death in our place so that He could give us life.

Jesus has defeated Satan and triumphed over him. Nothing that Satan has perpetrated against humankind or the earth will stand. Jesus has begun the restoration through His work on the cross and will finish it when Satan, Death and Hades are thrown onto the Lake of Fire. The heavens and the earth will be new, and Jesus will present a fully reconciled Kingdom to the Father (1 Corinthians 15:23-28). Nothing can hinder Him from completing all that He came to do.

In the words of the Negro Spiritual:

“Ride on, King Jesus!
No man can hinder Thee!
Ride on, King Jesus! Ride on!
No man can hinder Thee!

For He is King of kings!
He is Lord of lords!
Jesus Christ, the first and last,
No man works like Him!

Charles M. Butler