Victory or Defeat in Life

Want some Victories in Life?

Note: This Sept.27, Tuesday is the start of our New 16 week Moving Forward Group. If want to join us-It is at 7PM at Christ Church. Moving Forward is a Biblical based guide developed to assist you in pursuing your Vision or Dream through the process of goal setting and accountability.  (Need more assistance in helping with- victories, boundaries setting, goal setting and follow throughs, problem solving, Balance to mention a few). Come join us!

Stay on track with your faith to overcome.  You have all the power and authority necessary to gain the victory.  Be strong, says the Lord.  I am with you.

Joshua 1:9  “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

How do we react in the midst of adversity?
*Our attitude determines our Victory. *Although God has already granted us Victory through His Son Jesus Christ; Victory is not totally ours until we learn to adopt the right attitude when facing battles.
The story in Exodus 14 portrays two types of attitudes: the attitude of a victor and the attitude of defeat.

Why Doesn’t God Destroy Evil?

Have you ever wondered why God doesn’t obliterate the devil and eradicate all sin?
***If God destroyed evil, God would destroy every opportunity for choice. ***And if God were to destroy every opportunity for choice, then God would destroy every opportunity for love.

Therefore, God would destroy the highest good. For God to destroy evil would be evil.

God doesn’t destroy evil, instead God
defeats evil.
How? Calvary and the resurrection! *God turns every hurt into a hallelujah. *Every defeat into victory!

Spend some time today thinking about heaven and the glorious reunion you’re going to have with Him one day.

1 John 4:4 But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

Children of God must be determined to adopt the right attitude no matter how hard things may be. Life is not a bed of roses but Christ has promised us His unfailing love, and we know with Christ Jesus things will and can only get better.
Today, choose to adopt Moses’ attitude and see God acts on your behalf for if you are able to see God’s salvation in EVERY situation you can rest assure that He will fight for you and you shall hold your peace!
Philippians 2: 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
*When Jesus came to earth he came as a man and gave up his God privileges and operated as a human being so as to show US how to operate in Holiness. He stripped himself of all his Heavenly attributes…
1 Peter 1:16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
*The Lord requires us to walk in holiness by yielding to the holy spirit within us…… looking to him and walking in obedience we experience the joy of the Lord that will sustain us through trials and tribulations.
We as servants of God, we should separate ourself of the things of the world or of the things that the flesh desires.
*Know that Jesus died for our sins and that we as sinners should die as well. *We can make as many excuses as we want but it’s right there and it’s either your in or your out.
*There’s no in between. The law is the law and we should obey the law cause the law is the way the truth and the light.  And thru the law we are saved cause through Christ Jesus we are set free.
So stay holy, stay righteous. For God will grant us gifts and will listen to our wants and our needs. But we can not get what we want in it’s entirety unless we live what?… Holy.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.
* “The main thing about being a Christian is to see that the main thing remains the main thing.” That is what Paul is saying. The “main thing” is that at the heart and center of your life is the “simplicity that is IN Christ,” a simple thing.
*I have noticed over many years of observation of myself that when religion becomes complicated, it is always a sign that it is drifting away from the realities and centralities of my faith.
The world around us is getting increasingly complex, and it is because it is drifting farther and farther from God.
* God basically is simple. When religion becomes complex, it is a sign that it is departing from Christ.

When you ask yourself just what that simplicity is that Paul is talking about, the answer from everywhere in the Word of God is the “Daily companionship of the Lord Jesus”.
* Do you sense that Christ is yours all day long? 24/7!
* Do you reckon upon that, think about that, and live out of that relationship and out of that sense of the expectation of His presence?
** We often say, and rightly so, that Christianity is not a creed, it is a relationship; it is living with a Person. That is the simplicity that is in Christ.

Emotional choices are more deeply felt and experienced than faith choices, but we must constantly remind ourselves that emotional choices will keep us in total bondage to our flesh.
* “For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
Galatians 6:8

***The danger that we constantly face is that we get involved in the things ABOUT Christ and fail to live in a Personal Relationship with Christ.
*We can lose it in the midst of Christian activity.
*We can lose it when you get so involved in some of the fascinating aspects of Scripture that you lose
“the simplicity that is in Christ.”
*We can lose it in the pressures of daily living.
*We can get so busy and so worried and so anxious about ourself and the things that are happening to us that we lose the sense that Christ is with us, and He is adequate.
The Corinthian believers were assaulted with teachers who were exposing them to things that caught their attention, but they were Drifting from that Central Point being their Relationship with Jesus!.
*They were involved with fascinating philosophies based on the Word of God but that went off on sidetracks and rabbit trails of thought.
* They were being challenged with certain ego-appealing experiences and believed that if they could only grasp them, they would feel great, wonderful, and so God-possessed.
**Likewise people today are invited to explore strange and wonderful mysteries all involved with Christian faith, but these tend to move them away from the simplicity that is in Christ.
What is the beautiful? It is the “simplicity” that is IN Jesus.

Colossians 2: 2.   I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. 3 In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Father, grant that I may walk close to Jesus and not let anything take me away from that day-by-day, moment-by-moment companionship of His presence.
Father, I desire for your name to be lifted up. Help me today to act in such a way that I bring glory to your name. May others see the light that you have put in us to glorify You and help us keep it simple.  Amen