Wars, battles, arguments, the enemy leaves a footprint of sorrow, hurt, pain everywhere he goes. But Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and that is exactly what He did on the cross. He made a public spectacle of the enemy and if Satan knew what crucifying Jesus would do, the Bible says, he would have never crucified the King of Glory. This means the devil knows what was paid for on the cross, what was accomplished in the words “It is Finished”, but we don’t. The enemy wants to keep us unaware of all that Jesus did on the cross so all we do is claim we are forgiven, but the enemy knows better than us, it is much more than forgiveness we received by His death, burial and resurrection.

Psalm 142 says, “Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.” The cross opened the prison doors of sin, and brought us out so we can restore the honor of God in the earth by giving thanks to the Lord. But it also took us from confinement and brought us into bounty. Oh yes, we have been given access to abundance, but the enemy wants us to believe we were made for forgiveness not prosperity. Jesus became poor so we could become rich. The cross paid the debt, every debt, so we could be free from the slavery of financial poverty.

The Bible says, by His stripes we are healed. The enemy says, God doesn’t heal today, but the cross says, Jesus dealt with the spirit of infirmity on the cross. The “It is finished” applies to sickness, disease and infirmity of every kind, nothing was left out, it was all nailed to the cross. The enemy wants you to think you are cursed, but the Bible says, we are blessed and highly favored. I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but Psalma 103 says we are to forget not all His benefits. The cross awarded us so much more than we are accessing, but today, we are opening up the storehouse of God for there are more rooms to access, more glory to apprehend and more power to experience. He died to forgive you, yes, but He died for so much more than that.