Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes

"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings" (1 Peter 5:8-9, NIV).

A U.S. Army officer told of the contrast in his pupils during two different eras of teaching the artillery training school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (Home of the Field Artillery).

In 1958-60, the attitude was so lax that the instructors had a problem getting the men to stay awake to hear the lectures. During the 1965-67 classes, however, the men, hearing the same lectures, were alert and took copious notes.

What made the different in the class of 65?

They knew that in less than six weeks they would be facing the enemy in Vietnam.*

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me not to go to sleep while 'on duty' -- realizing that at every turn the enemy, Satan, and his horde of evil spirits, are out to destroy every Christian, including me. Help me to stay connected to you at all times. Gratefully, in Jesus' name. Amen."