We need to get it clear in our minds that God is greater than the devil. God passed judgement and threw the devil out of heaven because of pride. God caught the devil off guard by defeating him on the Cross. Whether devil likes it or not, God is going to the throw him into the Lake of Fire after Jesus returns. The devil ultimately doesn’t have a choice in his demise. The glorious part for us is that all defeats declare our victory!
We would all like to be victors – overcomers in every area of life. The truth is, if we’ve received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are victors! However, our lives and its imperfections can make us believe that we are not. That is why we must believe in what we cannot see or feel – that our victory status is a present tense reality. We aren’t going to be; we are!
Our redemption in Christ happened when Jesus died on the Cross. When Jesus died and rose from the dead, it was as if our old man died and rose from the dead. Our sins were washed away, and Jesus’ victory became our victory the moment we believed in Him. Our salvation is a current fact, not something that will be done in the future. We are – present tense – children of God!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) (emphasis added)
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:57) (emphasis added)
When our situations and feelings seem to say something different than the victory God has given us, we need to walk by faith. This means we should not believe what we see and feel, but believe what God says.
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)
Once we understand that we have the victory and are victors, our actions should follow! If victory is ours regardless of what is going on around us, then our faith will put it into action through a life of victory speaking, living, and believing.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! (Philippians 4:4)
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials . . . (James 1:28-8)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. (I John 5:4)
But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:28)
But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. (Acts 16:25-26)
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30)
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)
And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!” (Joshua 6:16)
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19)
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
Let’s live like the victors God has made us to be! And rather than simply keeping the benefits of victory to ourselves, let’s pass it on to a word that needs to know the King of Victory!
When a “mountain,” a problem, doesn’t move in our lives like we want, we often want to shift the blame on God. We think perhaps He really isn’t who He says He is, or He has some hidden reason for not moving it. Though God’s power is ultimately what moves a mountain, that power can’t be released without our personal action, our faith. God has already done His side of the mountain-moving through the Cross; now He is waiting for us to exercise our faith and authority to get the job done! There is no such thing as an unmovable mountain!
Mark 11:23-24 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
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