“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!”
Isaiah 14:12 NKJV
I had not given this much consideration before…satan is the weakener of the nations.
I read recently a post on Richard’s Watch on the same theme http://richards-watch.org/2025/10/18/an-urgent-word-for-the-uk-church-veronika-west/.
Sampson’s strength was weakened when his hair was cut and his promise to God broken.
He was tricked by Delilah.
Sampson mistakenly thought he was still strong but was in fact rendered weak.
His strength had been taken from him by guile whilst he slept.
How terrible to be deceived into thinking you are still strong but in fact your strength has been taken away and you did not realise until too late.
Lulled into a false sense of security.
Captured by your enemy.
Satan is a weakener of nations.
but,
God is and can be our strength.
God can strengthen what satan has weakened.
God can renew our strength.
When Sampson cried out for help, God did not ignore his pleas but showed him mercy and answered him.
The nations are being weakened by Satan’s strategies.
In so many ways the nations are weak.
Tossed about, this way and that way.
Nations have been weakened but are blinded still believing they are strong.
May God open our eyes to show us where we have been robbed of our strength.
Where have we been weakened, individually and corporately and just not realised.
Father God hear our prayers today and shake us from our apathy, our complacency and bring us to our knees in prayer. May we repent of our wicked ways and turn back to you and the ways of righteousness, truth and justice. May your Kingdom come and Your will be done. You alone can save us and give us strength to overcome satan’s strategies and influence. Your son Jesus overcame and has the victory. Empower us and fill us today with your Holy Spirit. Let us be arrows in the hand of our God. Amen 🙏
Our strength is in God.
Our strength is in waiting for God.
“But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31 NKJV



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