It\u2019s taken me a lifetime to fully understand what it means and how to live the victorious life Jesus died to give us as believers. I remember my growing-up-spiritually years. I was a whiny kid and a less-than-confident teenager, a young wife and mother learning the ropes of responsibility. I was a good-doer attending church faithfully and really loved God with all my heart. But, I didn\u2019t have a \u201cconqueror\u201d mindset. As I grew in my personal relationship with Christ, studying His Word and making every effort possible to serve Him wholeheartedly, I came to understand what it means to be \u201cmore than a conqueror\u201d. Romans 8:37 says Christians are \u201cmore than conquerors\u201d in this world. Maybe that’s far from how you feel today, but in Christ, that’s who we can be. We certainly need to get that indelibly imprinted on our hearts so that we get it, understand it and become it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That verse is in response to the Apostle Paul’s questions before saying we are \u201cmore than conquerors\u201d: \u201cWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?\u201d (Romans 8:35). And, then he replies in Romans 8:37: \u201cNO, in all these things we are MORE than conquerors through Him Who loved us.\u201d Sounds to me like Paul could have been right here with us during our situations today. He tells us we can be more than conquerors in the midst of hardships and right in the middle of a trial. Paul certainly proved it is possible. Being more than a conqueror means whatever the enemy uses to take us out, he fails every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It means we stop naming ourselves \u201cforgotten, loser, mess-up, mistreated, etc.\u201d It means we persevere to the other side of the trial and wait, expectantly, for our new name, \u201cmore than a conqueror\u201d. When we keep our old names, identifying with our old stories, we make the name-changing process about us. Yet this overcoming process is not about us; it\u2019s about God revealing His name to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we fully understand that Jesus came to give each of us a life of abundance (John 10:10), then we’ll see ourselves as more than a conqueror through Him. All the enemy wants to do is kill, steal and destroy what God wants us to have. He wants to diminish us \u2013 make us small-minded and small in spirit so we\u2019ll live a small, frustrated life. Whatever your situation is today, God knows about it. He sees you and hears the cry of your heart. Welcome His overcoming love, grace and power. Live it. Own it. After all, you ARE more than a conqueror through Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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