Victory Lives In Me
Author: Rev. Esther Holmes
May 10, 2018
Think about it! The Secret of life – victory is
normal / defeat is abnormal.
Phil 1:21 Not a goal, a way of
life now!
Gal 2:20 Not a standard to
arrive at but God’s way of victory.
It doesn’t say what I should do that
I may live; neither does it say what I can do to make me live; it simply says
that Christ lives in me.
Victory went to the cross and
couldn’t remain dead but rose in great victory over all powers of darkness!
It’s not a goal – it’s a process.
The cross – a way of life.
Denying your will and doing His. Praise your way to victory – He inhabits the
praises of His people. Paul didn’t say I hope I can let Him live through
me. He said no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me!
Acts 16:25-27 Example – If you
are impatient person, your will to be patient will block the victory. His
patience must live through you. Your flesh will never change.
That’s why we must die in order for Him to live. No matter what comes our
way we should be over-comer for He knows no weakness. I John 5:4; II
Cor 2:14; I Chron 29:10-11; I Sam 15:29 Victory will not lie or
change.
The victory of Israel is not an
experience or an event it is a Person. It is Jesus.
Understanding victory:
1. Not a changed life but an
exchanged one.
2. A gift, not a reward.
I Cor 15:57
3. Obtained not
attained. Obtained – means gaining possession of a thing. Attained –
implies you have a long way to go to get it. Rom 5:27
4. Possessing the life of
victory is a miracle. Phil 2:12-13
5. An expressed life not a
suppressed one. Phil 2:12
Victory gives us faith, joy, love,
holiness, perfection, life, power, and richness. Walk by faith – not by
sight. We can’t know victory by sight for He is faith.
I Cor 15:54,57 Death is swallowed up in
victory. But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ
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