Daily Devotional
Spiritual Free Radicals
Text: Genesis 6:2
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose”
Message
From the biblical account of creation, when GOD wanted to create FISH, he spoke to the SEA. To create TREES, he spoke to the EARTH. But when GOD wanted to create MAN, he turned to HIMSELF! GOD said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness”.
If you take any fish out of the water, it will majorly struggle, famished, and eventually die. Also, when you remove a tree from the ground, it also dies just as a detached branch of a tree soon wither and die.
Similarly, when man disconnects from GOD, he dies because GOD is of hus essence. Man is created to live in HIS presence. We have to be connected to Him because only with Him does LIFE exist. Let’s stay connected to GOD.
Remember that while water without fish is still water, fish without water is nothing but death .
Also, the soil without the tree remains a soil, but the tree without soil is nothing but death.
More important and should concern us is that God without man is still God, but man without GOD is nothing-vanity.
Living a life without Jesus is vanity.
The ball is in your court. Play and score on the side of eternity with Jesus Christ.
May God continue to help us.
Biologically, free radicals are a type of unstable molecule that is made during normal cell metabolism (chemical changes that take place in a cell).
Free radicals can build up in cells and cause damage to other molecules, such as DNA, lipids, and proteins. This damage may increase the risk of cancer and other diseases.
Free radicals in the body are highly unstable molecules that have electrons available to react with various organic substrates such as lipids, proteins, and DNA.
Symptoms of free radicals include cancer,
autoimmune diseases, cataracts, rheumatoid arthritis, heart and cardiovascular disease,
neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease), ageing skin (including wrinkles and sun spots), to mention a few.
Getting rid of free radicals in your body involves a diet high in antioxidants, which may reduce the risk of many diseases (including heart disease and certain cancers).
Antioxidants scavenge free radicals from the body cells and prevent or reduce the damage caused by oxidation.
As we have free radicals in sciences, so do we in the spiritual!
Genesis 6:1-4 recounts that in the early days, entities described as the “sons of God” intermingled with humans:
The “sons of God” as used in this context were angels who had left their calling and estate and used their bodies for evil things; they mated with humans and produced giant offspring.
God imprisoned these disobedient angels to prevent them from continuing in their wickedness.
Jude, by the Spirit, revealed what eventually
happened to these angels, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 1:6).
The offspring of these unions roamed the earth with insatiable appetites and a propensity for unrestrained evil.
These physical giants built cities and consumed vegetation at an alarming rate, such that it took a lot to sustain them.
But as they died, their spirits—which were not human spirits but demons—went to hell and punished those in hell because their legal condemnation was not yet established.
And because they haven’t been permanently put in hell, they moved in and out of hell as they chose, and also ran rampage in the earth, carrying out evil activities.1 Peter 5:8 warns, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Our world still contends with these spiritual free radicals today; demons that influence human affairs and perpetuate
evil.
Ephesians 6:12 captured it succiently, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”
2 Corinthians 10:4 provides succour, “For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;”
So, thanks be unto God for we have the authority in the Name of Jesus to dislodge and dispossess spiritual free radicals of their hold and sway over nations and the lives of men.
Every so often, we are given to use the Name of Jesus against them and put a stop to the works of these demoniacal entities. Forbid them from influencing things in your life, in your home, in your environment, city, and nation. Cast them out in the Name of Jesus!
Once you do, the hearts of many in those regions will become open to receive the Gospel gladly and heed the call to salvation, and righteousness will prevail.
Praise God!