29th September 2026

Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: REIGN OVER DARKNESS

THEME: SCRIPTURE: "I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you." —Luke 10:19

PREPARATORY QUESTION
Are you currently relating to darkness as something you fear, or as something you've been given authority over?

Somewhere along the way, many believers inherited a posture toward evil that Scripture never authorized: defensive, anxious, hoping merely to survive its attacks. But Jesus didn't send his disciples out to endure the enemy. He sent them out to trample him. That word is deliberate — not "avoid," not "withstand," but trample, the posture of someone walking over what used to walk over them.

This authority isn't earned through spiritual maturity or years of faithful service. Jesus gave it before the disciples had proven themselves in any measurable way. It's granted, not achieved — which means it's available to you right now, not someday after you've become "spiritual enough" to deserve it. The delay isn't on God's end. It's in our failure to actually walk in what's already been handed to us.

Consider what happened at the cross. Colossians says Christ disarmed the rulers and authorities, making a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them. Past tense. Finished. Darkness was not merely wounded — it was decisively defeated, publicly humiliated, stripped of its final claim. Every fear-driven, defensive posture we adopt toward evil operates as if that battle is still undecided. It isn't. You are not fighting for victory. You are enforcing one already won.

This doesn't mean darkness stops trying. It means darkness has no legal ground left to stand on when you know who you are in Christ and refuse to shrink back. The enemy's primary weapon against believers isn't power — it's convincing us we don't have any.

Key Takeaway
You were not given a spirit of fear toward darkness. You were given authority over it.

Beloved, identify one area where you've been relating to darkness defensively — fear, anxiety, resignation — and today, deliberately reclaim the posture of authority Christ has already given you.

Remain blessed.

 

FURTHER READING
- Colossians 2:15
- 1 John 4:4
- Ephesians 1:19-21
- Romans 16:20

 

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD
1. Where have I been cowering instead of standing in the authority Christ gave me?
2. What would change if I truly believed the enemy's power over me was already broken?
3. What's one practical step I can take today to walk as someone with dominion, not someone under siege?

 

PRAYER
Father, forgive me for relating to darkness with fear instead of authority. Remind me that Christ already triumphed at the cross, and that victory is not something I'm working toward — it's something I'm walking in. Give me boldness to trample where I once cowered, and to live as someone who already knows how the story ends. In Jesus' precious name, Amen.