December 28, 2017

More Than Conquerors

“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”  Rom. 8:37

Have you found yourself in a battle lately?  Are you facing that battle from the position of victory, whereby you can enforce God's victory through Jesus Christ over the situation?  Paul tells in Romans that we are "more than conquerors through Him who loved us."

The term “more than conquerors” means:

• To gain a decisive victory;
• To vanquish beyond;
• To have an abundant victory!

In all these things is a direct reference to the tribulation, persecution, famine, peril and other adversities described in verse 35.  Paul writes that in those things, despite those things, during those things we are more than conquerors – we will gain a decisive and abundant victory over those things! 

The key is that we gain the victory “through Him.”  We cannot do it on our own.   We are to rely upon the strength of God in our weakness and the power of the Holy Spirit in us to vanquish – to put out – that tribulation. 

• 1 Cor. 15:57 – “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
• 1 John 5:4 – “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world.  And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.”
• 1 John 4:4 – “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
• Rev. 12:11 – “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…”

We are able to overcome adversity, tragedy, defeat, and persecution – by our faith.  The Lord gives us spiritual tools to use in this process:  the blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony.  The blood covers us and the word speaks life into situations.  Picture the armor piece mentioned in Eph. 6 regarding the shield of faith – which is able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked one.  See that shield of faith covering you completely and snuffing out the arrows of attack being slung your way.  Enforce the victory that Jesus has given you - you are more than a conqueror!