That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; Ephesians 3:16 Living Victoriously is our promise and gift from God not because of how great or good or perfect we are but instead an unconditional loving gift from Him. God so loved the world, unconditionally, that whosoever would believe would not perish, not lose but instead have victory, an experience eternal in the here and now as well as eternally, forever! As you and I determine in our circumstances that we will LIVE, God has promised to give unto us His strength to accomplish what we cannot do in the flesh or alone, however, with Him with us and before us we
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Ephesians 1:19 Living Victoriously is rooted in our connection to God. The relationship that we intentionally feed and nurture with God equips us with a cachet, toolbox of tools that allow us to engage the circumstances of our lives not alone but with the fullness of God’s power, authority, and love. The fullness of God operating in our lives provides us strength, courage, and unconditional love that empowers us to overcome whatever obstacles, internally and externally, that exist in order to inherit all things, His promises for our lives to LIVE life and life more abundan
And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels. Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and sal
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Philippians 1:6 Whatever God has declared for our lives, regardless of whether it appears impossible or not, it is done. When God speaks that is it and God will perform it! God is His Word and His Word is Him and with Him, therefore, we can have confidence that what God has spoken will come to pass for it is God Himself. God has put His very best, the first fruit of Himself, His Son as a sacrifice so that what He has declared will be so; that you and I would LIVE in His promise of life and life more abundantly. Living Victoriously as God promised requires that we
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. I John 3:16 Living Victoriously is directly connected to our receiving and embracing the love of God to and for us that is also translated in our sharing that love to one another. We cannot expect to receive the abundance of life promised by God without being His witness, reflecting HIs love for and to us and thus the world through us. Humankind’s aim is to reveal God in and through their actions and thus expressing and showing the love of God as the greatest, our fruitfruit, gift we can give God in exchange for His blessings on our life, the fulfillment of His pro
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: I Peter 3:18 The power of resurrection is the challenge of death that leads to your new life and life more abundantly. We have the opportunity through the difficulty and adversity of our lives to be resurrected to the new and powerful if we would believe. The challenges of our life are opportunities for God to reveal Himself and us, shedding that which is necessary to release us to His promise of life and life more abundantly. No one likes or even desires the pain of life’s challenges but they are necessary for us to discover ou
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 The willingness of God to offer His only begotten Son on our behalf that we would be reconciled to God, made one with Him, is an act of love and confidence in us. God offered the sacrifice of His Sion with the confidence that we could and would be what He intended, Living Victoriously in and through His purpose and plan for our lives. You and I have the right to LIVE, the tree of Life, that bears fruit and causes us to multiply in the promises of God for our lives. The challenge and decision is ours to choose to LIVE and not die in our circumstances. No matter how difficult our circumstances may
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. I John 4:9-10 The love of God to and for us is made real by His voluntarily offering His Son to stand in for us as payment for anything and everything that would separate us from Hiss purpose and plan for our lives. The love of God enriches our lives and abilities to overcome any and all things for Living Victoriously. The challenges of life are real and do at times look impossible to overcome but with God and the flow of His love to and
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Romans 5:7-11 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that we would not lose, perish. Living Victoriously is overcoming g the c
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16 Life’s challenge are a direct attack on our Living Victoriously in all things as promised by God. It is the challenges we face that are intended hurdles to keep us from experiencing and enjoying our life and life more abundantly, the first fruits of God, His very best to and for us. Although challenges do exist we have the power to keep ourselves rooted and grounded in what God has declared, the should be of our life, to LIVE. To st
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:12-14 Living Victoriously requires our yielding, submitting to God and His purpose and plan for our lives. The Spirt of God has been given to us, both as a result of our creation and our developing relationship with God, so that we might navigate life to God’s purpose and plan yielding His promises for
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2 (The Message) Living Victoriously is a pro
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. II Chronicles 32:7-8 Standing on what you believe should be, despite and in spite of adversity, is the foundation for Living Victoriously. Fear comes to steal your mind and convictions of what should be, that which you believe is your promise and in order to combat that fear, you must continuously renew your mind in that which God has declared. God’s Word is
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. Deuteronomy 31:6-8 Living Victoriously requires strength and courage of both mind and action. The place in which the struggle begins
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God: And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Then I said unto you, Dread not,
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. Exodus 14:13-14 There is absolutely no room between God, His Word, and what He has ordained. God has spoken into and for our lives that we should have life and life more abundantly and as a result we, you and I, have it. The question for each of us to LIVE in that which God has promised is to stand. Standing on God’s Word leaves no room for the impossible, it is possible simply because God said it and He is God. The del
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the i
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. I Peter 4:19 Living Victoriously demands total dependence upon God. Although you and I have been gifted by God with tools to navigate life and its circumstances, the challenge is the process of discovery which is supported by our reliance on the power of God. God through our circumstances pushes us to discover Him but also the power within you that is from Him to accomplish what He has purposed and planned for our lives. When God created humankind He blew into them the breath of life, depositing into each of us His Spirit, making us living souls,
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. II Timothy 1:12 Living Victoriously comes as a result of the trials and tribulations of our lives that forces us to trust and rely on God and His intervention in our lives. As we invoke the intervention of God, allowing Him to be our strength in our weakness, God is revealed not only to us but everyone and everything in our space. Thus, as we go through to get to, believe God for who He is and His Word, promise, purpose and plan for our lives as a result whatever you face you will over
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Romans 4:20-21 Faith is critical to you achieving that which God has promised in order to LIVE in the life and life more abundantly available to you. God has spoken that abundant living is ours and we must believe, believing is not only conceiving it in our mind but also taking action upon that belief. Faith without works is dead and demands that actions reinforce our faith in order to realize what we believe should be for our life and life more abundantly. Living Victoriously is our right and promise beca
