Wednesday, October 1, 2008

More than Conquerors

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39

Wow what a powerful verse and how it hits so close to home. When are we going to stand up as God's children and realize that we are aren't just conquerors we are MORE than conquerors.
What is a conqueror? Webster's defines conqueror as the following.. overcome by force of arms to gain mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition <conquered the mountain> 4 : to overcome by mental or moral power : intransitive verb : to be victorious

So that means that according to Romans we have the power to overcome anything the devil brings our way whether it be mental, physical, financial, etc... his word says that not only can we conquer those things but that we can even be more than that.. I don't know about you but that excites me. When satan tries to tell us we are no good, that we are never going to get that healing we have been praying for, that our finances will never get better, that whatever situation we are facing is hopeless we can combat his lies with these promises from our Heavenly Father. He has already given us all the tools we need. We just have to realize who we are in Christ and the authority we have through his blood and defeat every negative thought and circumstance that comes our way.
"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." [2 Corinthians 10:4-5]




1 comments:

Paula October 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM  

I needed that today!! Thank you for that beautiful post!