We need to wake up conquering our day we need to wake up defeating our day not letting our day
defeat us every day is for us to win we're more than conquerors we're called to win every day
stop settling for half wins stop it stop settling for that listen you have a choice every day to
stay defeated or to get up and walk in victory it's up to you my victory is my responsibility
he said on the cross it is finished greatest statement in the history of mankind it's done now
it's my job to accept it and apply it and start living in it listen God came to give you life
and life to the fullest you either have a theology that Jesus wants you to be miserable
angry mad frustrated with life miserable to be around not not happy with anybody not happy in
any season or you believe that God came you to get came to give you life and life to the fullest and
sometimes I'm not saying that life's gonna be easy I'm saying you have the choice to walk in victory
no matter what's going on around you very many of us are facing our own battles and when we look
at them our tendency is to get insecure when we're facing that difficulty in our marriage
or in our finances or in our ministry or in our organizations in which we're involved or
whatever it is that you may be facing in your life it is our tendency to look at it and hang our head
in discouragement because we feel overwhelmed just looking at it but when you really understand what
the enemy thinks about you it changes the way you face your battles you need to know that every time
he sees a daughter or a son of the most high he is shaking in his boots because he really recognizes
what your potential is you need to know that even if you don't believe every single thing that the
word of God declares to be true about you the enemy does he knows even if you don't believe
it that you have been forgiven he knows that you have already been given the victory he knows that
you have been made competent by the spirit of God he knows that he is already under your feet
listen to me he knows that he can form a weapon against you but he's very clear on the fact that
it will never prosper he understands and knows and believes every single thing that the word of
god declares to be true about you and about me he knows that you have been given power and authority
that he will never ever have access to he knows that you have been made competent by the spirit of
God what ashamed it would be y'all for the enemy to believe more about our potential than we do
What a shame it would be for you and I to face our battles with insecurity and lack
of courage because we don't even understand as clearly as the enemy of our soul does how potent
and powerful we really are so it doesn't mean that your troubles will change your battles will change
it just means that the way you face it changes when you recognize that when God is for you who
can be against you could I tell you that maybe your victory is motion activated maybe the thing
that you're waiting for God to do God's saying you got to rise up you got to rise up on the
inside and you got to do something on the outside do something that you think you cannot do overcome
what the enemy has told you is impossible rise up in victory it's time for you to start living the
life that God's called you to live John 10 verse 10 says the thief came to steal kill and destroy
you know what the devil wants the devil wants you to stay defeated destroyed struck down thinking
that it'll never turn around but Jesus said I came to give you life and life to the fullest
I've never yet woken up in the morning and had the enemy say to me before you get up today I want
to remind you of all your good qualities but if you're listening to the Lord he'll tell you that
What God is doing is always greater than anything the devil is ever doing I'm going to say that
again what God is doing is always greater than anything that the devil is doing the devil's
desire is for you to quit the devil's goal is to get you to stop believing stop trusting stop
worshiping stop praising God stop serving Jesus stop walking with God stop talking with God
the devil wants you he doesn't even care if you're saved he just wants you to shut up and be quiet
and live in darkness and be depressed and give up and quit on your harvest quit on your family quit
on your loved ones quit on yourself the devil's a quitter and he wants you to be a quitter too
So what he tries to do is paint a hopeless dark picture of your life
So that you will be discouraged so that you will feel lonely
and so that you will feel depressed the truth is is that Jesus destroyed the works of the devil
but we lose sight of that at times because we can't see beyond what's right in front of us at
times we can't see beyond our anxiety we can't see beyond our loneliness we can't see beyond our fear
we can't see beyond that those moments of depression those feelings of darkness your
enemy satan wants you to be transfixed on the bad times and let the bad times eat up the good times
but here's the great thing when Jesus steps into your life
He's the good thing he's the best thing that ever happened to me and suddenly he stops the bad
and wherever bad has happened please listen to me
where sin abounds grace does much more abound
where failure abounds forgiveness much more abounds don't let
the enemy get you to maximize the bad and minimize the good
God is for you and God is with you
and God is going to help you don't let the bad destroy the good in your life
Find the good and focus on it in Hebrews 12 2 it says fixing our eyes on Jesus
pioneer and perfector of our faith you have a choice what to look at
what are you going to set your mind on today good things that are going to lift you up and build
you up are things that are going to make you sad and depressed and discouraged and tear you down
the more you folk whatever you focus on is what becomes the biggest thing in your life
do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good there are bad things but they're not stronger
than good things because everything that God has is greater than anything the enemy has to offer
so if we focus on the Godly things and the good things and the positive things they're going to
drown out and swallow up the bad things in life weeping may last for the night but as
joy comes in the more it's time to move forward you've cried long enough about this defeat just
because you lost the game doesn't make you a loser just because you had one mistake doesn't make you
a failure failure is not final rise up and move forward Psalm 42 David said why am I discouraged
why is my soul downcast why am I letting depression ruin my days if I only get one life
and if the average lifespan in this in this current season is 75 to 80 years why am I wasting
my years my days constantly depressed discouraged miserable making everyone else around me feel
miserable David said I'm gonna put my hope back in the Lord I'm gonna put my trust back in God
See victory begins when you surrender to Jesus I can't have victory over my situation until I
let Jesus have victory over my attitude until I let Jesus have victory over my heart it's time to
wave your white flag to God and say I'm tired of fighting this on my own I'm tired of pushing you
away from me Lord I surrender have the victory over my life when God gets the victory over you
God will give you the victory over that situation you know how you win the battle
my friend you begin that battle on your knees and you face the battle from a stance of victory
To make a choice that even though the circumstance has not changed that you are going to thank God in
advance for the victory that you're anticipating him to give it's on your Monday mornings and your
Tuesday afternoons and your Wednesday on the job and your Thursday running errands and your
Friday out with your friends and your Saturdays it is in the regular rhythms of our everyday life
in the face of our battles when we choose to get down on our knees and stretch our hands
up high and say thank you Lord in advance for the victory that I know that you are going to grant me
I mean you are looking at the problem your marriage is still a disaster your child is
still living in a way that is not a congruent with the way that you raise them you're still
having a hard time with your boss on your job when you are still looking at the problem but you
choose to worship your great God it is an affront to the enemy it lets him know that you are still
your allegiance is still firmly planted to God when you worship God you roll out the red carpet
that's what worship does it rolls out the red carpet for God himself to descend and march into
your circumstances and the enemy knows that that's why he wants you to do everything except begin the
battle on your knees I don't want to waste another day of my life because I walked through depression
man I stood on a bridge I had suicidal thoughts and you know what it's not God's will for us to
live like that for anyone in the room who's like I just don't buy this theology of good
news what theology are you buying then because the bible says this is the good news something
good is going to happen to you because Jesus lives inside you and guess what Satan doesn't like it so
he's going to bring something bad against you and what are you going to do you're going to shake it
off and you're going to keep walking in victory you're going to keep moving forward this is why
Paul said I'm struck down but I'm not destroyed yeah I'm perplexed I am perplexed life's unfair
but listen I might be persecuted but I'm getting through this I'm moving forward I'm convinced that
I can live in these light momentary troubles they do not compare to the glory that is awaiting us
and I know he's working all things together for good and I'm more than a conqueror and if God is
for me who can be against me so I'm putting my faith not in myself Jesus gives us the victory
not our personality not our connections not our talents not our strengths not what people
think about us but what God says about us we're fearfully and wonderfully made we're children
of the king we have the victory through Jesus Christ who lives in us your temporary setback
is not a permanent vision for your life don't let a temporary season of loss or pain become
the permanent uh attitude you carry the permanent vision you have for your life you can keep looking
in your past but as long as you look in your past you'll never see your future you can't step into
the future victory that God has for you if you're holding on to a past defeat just because you had
one loss doesn't mean you're a loser just because you missed it one time just because you dropped
the ball doesn't mean that God will never hand the ball back to you again God has a future for you
the enemy wants to keep you in a shoulda coulda woulda place you see sometimes we identify with
what we're going through rather than identifying with who we are in the midst of it you're going
through some tough stuff you're going through some tough times but like the like one of the preachers
said years ago tough times never last but tough people do life happens stuff happens but you have
to decide yet in all these things Paul says I can add up everything that's ever been done against me
and everything that's against me now yet in all these things I'm more than a conqueror through
Christ who love me sometimes we're having our own little pity party because life didn't go the
way we thought it was going to go you didn't get the promotion and your best friend did
you didn't win the thing that you wanted to win you didn't get the house that you wanted to get
things haven't turned around yet you were counting on something to happen by the age
of 30 it didn't happen and now you're trying to figure out like when is that going to happen
has God forgot about me and you're laying on the ground God's saying get up
get up there's still victory in front of you you haven't preached your best sermon you haven't sang
your best song you haven't seen your greatest miracle stop acting like your life is over just
because it didn't go the way you planned how many people have stopped short of the victory that God
has for them because of the pain they've walked through the divorce they got let go of a company
someone left them the doctors gave them the report and said this is your final vision for your life
no no it's just a temporary setback you could change that thing you can change what's going on
in your life you have the power to respond with victory you don't have to respond with defeats
Like if you've lost someone and you think their prayer up in heaven is I just pray that they
stay miserable angry mad depressed lonely frustrated pushing everybody away from them
mad at God mad at life that's not their prayer they're cheering you on from heaven saying don't
you throw in the towel I need you to finish in victory dad I need you to finish in victory mom
you weren't born to live in misery you were born to live in victory like the living for Jesus
is not meant to be burdensome frustrating angry discouraging God called you to live
in victory second Corinthians says he leads us into triumphant victory he leads us from glory
to glory from strength to strength he wants us to be an aroma of victory wherever we go