Your cry against the adversary has been heard, and we join our hearts with yours at the throne of grace. There is great comfort in this, that the Lord Jesus Christ has not left us to contend in our own strength against the prince of the power of the air, for He Himself has triumphed over him.
Scripture assures us that He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. Satan may be the master spirit Diabolus, with his black officers in his infernal regiment, yet to escape from Satan himself is the mercy which Divine Grace has wrought for us. When our Lord was lifted up upon the Cross, that death was the deathblow to the devil's usurpation, and the seed of the woman bruised the serpent's head forever. When Jesus the Head was victorious over the foe, every member of His mystical body was virtually a conqueror in the conquering Head.
We are also reminded that God has found a ransom. Just as one seemed about to be dragged down to the Pit, a voice came from the excellent Glory, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, I have found a ransom. Nobody would have thought of that way of deliverance if God had not thought of it, and He rejoices over the finished work of His well beloved Son. It is by that ransom, by the blood of Christ, that you are saved from sin, from self, and from all the attacks of the evil one, for God has given commandment to save you.
Let us pray together.
O Lord our God, who acts from good and wise reasons and whose power overrules all our trials, we bring this soul before You. You have not given Your child over unto death, and You are still thinking upon him. We pray that You would make manifest in his life the complete victory of Christ over every work of the devil, whether direct or indirect, and that You would silence every accusation and halt every plan of the adversary according to Your sovereign will. Deliver him from going down to the Pit, and let him know the power of the ransom You have found. Keep him from darkness having dominion over him, for he is not under the Law but under Grace. Let him not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord, and give him grace to overcome lesser temptations by the strength of Him who overcame the greatest.
We ask this not by our own power to bind the evil one, but by pleading the finished victory of Jesus Christ, who has spoiled principalities and powers at Calvary. Let Your child walk at liberty through the power of the great Liberator, the Lord Jesus, and find peace within and without.
We commit you to Him who has said, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world, trusting that He who has begun a good work will keep you until the day of His appearing. In the name of Jesus Christ our only hope and Redeemer we pray, Amen.