Good Morning,
We are well on our way into this year. Many of us have already met a lot of new challenges. Prayerfully you arose victoriously from those. We must take into this year the divine character of our Father. His nature causes us to win every time. He has never been defeated and never lost a battle. It all depends upon us giving all things over into His hands. Let's make sure that our foundation is stable and fixed and planted on the Word of God, and then blessings of all kind will begin to overtake us. As we turn situations over into His hands, we must then decree and declare over our own lives the promises that God has spoken, lining our words up with His. No matter what it may look, or, feel like, we are the victors. "Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us." (Rom. 8:34-37) Conquerors means to vanquish beyond; to gain a decisive victory. Vanquish means to defeat soundly, to crush, overwhelm, to reduce the enemy. Conquerors are titleholders also! We do hold the title to all of the promises of God, we must not surrender our titles to the enemy. As believers we are a 'holy nation', 'royal priesthood', a 'chosen generation', 'sons and daughters of the Most High God'. We have been made the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, blessed going in, and coming out, blessed in the city and in the field, blessed in the basket and in the store, we are the blessed. We are highly favored by God, and we are the elect of God, just to name a few of the titles that we hold. How can we go around acting like orphans? We have a loving, caring, heavenly Father, who knows how to be good, all the time. Let's do the Word and decree what our Father says about us.
"For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith. Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?" (1 John 5:4-5) We are born of God, we believe Him, then we conquer the world. The system that has been set up to try and keep us under, our Father will use it to bless us in order to be a blessing. "For to the person who pleases Him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and heaping up, that he may give to the one that pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it." (Eccles. 2:26) Our aim then, should be to please God, by believing His Word, declaring His Word over our lives. Just plan ole' doing the Word of God. That makes us pleasing while making us conquerors. For we know that, "without faith it is impossible to please Him…" (Heb. 11:6) It pleases the Father, when we obey Him. This year make a quality decision to love God and show it by keeping His Word. Don't be concerned about everyone else, whether they are doing the Word or not. Remember Jesus' words to Peter when he was worrying about whether everyone else had to do what he was told to do. "When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man? Jesus said to him, If I want him to stay (survive, live) until I come, what is that to you? [What concern is it of yours?] You follow Me!" So let's not be so concerned about everybody else, you follow Him! Then you will have the same testimony as Enoch, he pleased the Lord. When we work on pleasing the Father, we become conquerors in the process.
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 