When life gets challenging, do you find yourself asking, “What am I going to do?” Even though we may face difficult times, that doesn’t mean we have to give up or surrender to our circumstances. We don’t have to live a “settled-for” life. Regardless of your circumstances, you still have the privilege and the power to become the person your heavenly Father wants you to be. It’s a matter of seeing things from God’s perspective rather than the world’s—focusing not on the circumstances, but the Person who lives within you. In this message, Dr. Stanley explains how Christians can see themselves as “more than conquerors.” Also, he teaches that, because of our relationship with Christ, we will never be alone. Christ defeated our adversaries through His death on the cross, and He is always with us. Nothing can overwhelm us without our permission. So, when difficulties arise, you shouldn’t ask “What am I going to do?” but should instead say, “God, what are You going to do? Holy Spirit, what are You going to do?” and “Jesus, what are You going to do?” We can persevere when we’re ready to watch the Lord work in our lives. Learn how to view any situation as a healthy challenge to your growth and spiritual maturity rather than an impossible obstacle. Order this sermon today: https://store.intouch.org/purchase/ou…
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with a message from God’s word here’s
Charles Stanley if you’ll turn to Romans
chapter
8 and beginning in verse 31 and verse 39
are probably some of the most comforting
and reassuring verses to be found in the
Bible anywhere and Paul deals with a
problem here that all of us face and
that is how we’re to respond to
circumstances and difficulties in our
own
life and when a person understands what
that means Sometimes they come out of it
shouting out of this wreck I Rise as
conqueror not his victim and so he says
in verse 31 What then shall we say to
these things if God is for us who is
against us he who did not spare his own
son but delivered him up for us all how
will he not also with him freely give us
all things who will bring a charge
against God’s elect God is the one who
justifies who is the one who condemns
Christ Jesus is the one who died yes
rather who was raised who is at the
right hand of God who also intercedes
for us who shall separate us from the
love of Christ shall tribulation or
distress or persecution or famine or
nakedness or Peril or sword just as it
is written for thy sake we are being put
to death all day long we were considered
as sheep to be slaughtered but in all
these things we overwhelmingly conquer
through him who loved us for I am
convinced that neither death nor life
nor angels nor
principalities nor things present nor
things to come nor powers nor height nor
depth nor any other created thing shall
be able to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our
lord God
did not make us to be immune from
trouble but
rather he promised to be with us through
the trouble he didn’t promise to always
remove the trouble but he promised to be
with us through it he knows that real
character is formed best by not evading
problems and heartaches and burdens but
by learning to endure them until God has
finished what he set out to do in our
life God knows that spiritual maturity
is not the Overflow or the fruits of a
life of Ease comfort and pleasure but
what tribulation trial Temptation and
testing and if that be true the goal of
the believer should never be to avoid
all problems all heartaches all
difficulties all disaster all Calamity
but rather to learn how to respond when
these things come into our life now when
your best plans get halted and you get
derailed and set on the highway side
over here when your dreams get shattered
and your plans come to a screeching halt
what is your reaction is it to blame God
is it look for someone else to blame or
do you respond the way a Believer should
respond according to the scriptures well
the man who wrote this the Apostle Paul
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
was certainly not a novice to hard times
and difficulties and heartaches for what
he’s written in this eighth chapter here
he knew by experience was the truth it
had been tested and tried he knew it to
be the Eternal
truth and so when he wrote in this 37th
verse but in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through him who
loved us here is a man who is speaking
out of the testimony and the witness of
his own life he knows what he’s saying
to be true
now when you and I think about the
things that we go through the
difficulties and the hardships that you
faced in life and the things that people
face every day what is our response to
be is it to be defeat or is it to be one
of Victory listen to a man who knew
exactly what it was like look in 2
Corinthians if you will for a moment and
verse chapter 4 and here is just a
little two verse biographical sketch of
a man who knew all about heartache
difficulty tribul ations trials testings
and he said beginning in verse 8 of 2
Corinthians chapter 4 speaking of
himself and those who traveled with him
he says we are afflicted in every way
but not crushed perplexed but not
despairing persecuted but not forsaken
struck down but not destroyed and what
Paul is simply saying In this passage is
this even though you and I strike out
out that doesn’t mean we’re down we
don’t have to give up we don’t have to
throw in the towel we don’t have to
surrender to our circumstances we don’t
have to settle for a settle for life
regardless of where you are today in
your circumstances you still have the
privilege and the power to become the
person that God Almighty wants you to be
but it’s a matter of seeing things from
God’s perspective and not as the world’s
perspec perspective seeing not the
circumstances but the person who lives
within you and so I want us to look at
this passage in the light of all of this
and where you may be and the first thing
I want you to notice in this passage
here is that Paul does not see his
circumstances as problems and
insurmountable impossible situations but
rather as a challenge that is look at
your challenging position listen to what
he says he catalogues seven major trials
heartaches testings that have always
affected the body of Christ individually
and as a corporate body and he says of
them in verse
35 tribulation that means great pressure
distresses that means being crowded into
a narrow Place persecution from others
famine
nakedness Peril or danger or sword or
death that he that is what he’s saying
is as we face each of these things what
what is their response to be is it to
see them as impossible situations and
blame someone else or is it to see your
situation as a challenge to your growth
and your spiritual maturity now let’s
take these words what kind of
circumstances and situations and
heartaches and burdens are people living
in today divorce separation divided from
their children financial disaster
Calamity loss of job
frustration anxiety about the vocation
because there’s an imminence of the
possibility of the loss of their
vocation suffering a lifetime handicap
illness disease under the point of death
broken
relationships full of fears and
anxieties and frustrations and worries
that you can’t quite put your finger on
root causes of bitterness down in your
life that you can’t seem to trace and so
you find life often times just crowding
in as he says a place of distress he
says it’s like being crowded in and the
Situation’s getting narrow and narrower
tribulation the Greek word means
increasing pressure more and more
pressure and so all of us find ourselves
in situations like this at times and
what is the response to be well I
Believe In this passage he tells us what
that response is to be because you see
when these things begin to come upon us
they are trying and they’re
testing we feel hopeless sometimes and
and helpless and harassed by
circumstances and situations that we
would like to push out of our life but
sometimes because someone else executes
them it isn’t something you and I can
always push away sometimes it’s because
God has allowed us to be in a situation
where we find ourselves in a straight
and we’d like to break out and we’d like
to push it away but somehow God won’t
let us push it away what is our response
are we to give up blame God blame
someone else are we to mature in that
situation or to fight back back at our
circumstances are we to try to remove
the circumstances or to ask God lord
what are you saying to me in these
circumstances listen this is always the
proper question whatever your
circumstance and whatever your situation
the proper question is God what are you
saying to me because I want to tell you
my friend he never loses an opportunity
to teach us something to stretch us a
little bit further to grow us up a
little bit more to mature us he never
overlooks a single situation of testing
and trial tribulation and temptation to
teach us something that he knows we need
to know which will shape us and conform
us into his likeness so what is your
response when you get to those
situations do you blame God do you blame
the devil do you blame others or do you
blame yourself and sometimes we’re in
one of those situations as a result of
one of those four reasons it may be that
God is placed as there it may be
something that
we have done to ourselves it may be
something that we can look and say that
person is responsible but regardless of
why it’s there why you’re where you are
the question is Lord what are you
attempting to teach me and if I’m able
to ask that question I will not see my
present circumstances as difficult as
they are I will not look upon the
circumstance but I’ll be focused upon
God I will not see it as an impossible
situation but an opportunity for God to
work out and to work in something in my
life that he feels is necessary
necessary in order to accomplish his
perfect will so when you look at the
catalog of things here that he says in
verse 35 then you translate them into
your own lifestyle what is it that you
brought with you today and you’ve
already identified as you read these
things or heard them tribulation
distress persecution famine nakedness
Peril of Sword you’ve already translated
those into your own situation
divorced families left all alone
finances coming to an end hard to make
an ends meet
separated from the people you love the
most all kinds of difficulties and fears
you’ve already translated all of that
and so you feeling the pressure and
you’re feeling the crowding of your
circumstances and so the question is
what am I to do and how am I to respond
and I Believe In this passage of
scripture especially in one verse
because it all sort of revolves around
this one verse I believe here is God’s
answer for God’s people to be victorious
over and in and and through any
circumstance he allows them to be placed
in look if you will in verse 37 but in
all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through him who
loved us or the King James says but in
all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us now
I want us to look for just a moment at
that word here conquer because he’s
talking about here having looked at the
circumstance here is a tremendous
comforting promise from God listen to
what he say says in all these things we
are overwhelming conquerors through
these things look at the word conquer
there it is the word in the Greek Nea
which means to conquer or to be
victorious but this Greek word here is H
Nika which means to over conquer that
word in essence means a super conqueror
and here’s what Paul is saying in all of
these things what things all of our
circumstances tribulations distresses
persecutions famine nakedness peil of
sword he said in all of these things we
overwhelmingly that is we are super
conquerors we do overcome we are
Overcomers of all of these things
through him that is through the Lord
Jesus Christ who loved us now here’s
what I want you to see that verse can be
read backwards or forwards watch
this through him that loved us we
overwhelmingly conquer in all these
things you can read that verse any way
you want to read it and it all comes out
the same way that from God’s Viewpoint
now watch this from God’s Viewpoint
every single one of his children from
his Viewpoint is already a conqueror he
said not only a conqueror but a hn a
super conqueror what does he mean by
that he simply means that not only do we
overcome the situation not only are we
able to survive it isn’t just a matter
of merely survival it is
overcoming h
means super conquer means not only do we
overcome the situation but but we
learned that it was an exciting
circumstance in which we found ourselves
we learn something about God we learn
something about ourselves we learn
something about others our own spiritual
life was deepened we grew in the
experience God taught us something we
couldn’t have learned any other way
we’ve come out Victorious and excited
and challenged and more committed that
is a super conqueror not one who comes
by the skin of his teeth just makes it
through the circumstance just comes out
finally made it just just quite made it
through the difficulty he says that’s
not our attitude our attitude should be
that we are a super conqueror that is we
glean and squeeze out of that
circumstance in that situation as
painful and as difficult as it may be we
squeeze every ounce of spiritual growth
and maturity and knowledge and
understanding and spiritual depth that
was possible for us to squeeze out of
one trying experience we are he said
super
conquerors now my friend we’ll look at
ourselves in one of two ways we’ll
either see ourselves the way Satan would
try to convince us or we see ourselves
the way God sees us notice what he says
but in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through him who
loved us now what is Paul saying he’s
saying we are conquerors but our
attitude must be right what is our
attitude think about the Apostle Paul
how many times he went through
difficulty in heartache stoned beaten in
the stocks there in Philippi and what
was he doing Paul and Silas in the
Philippian jail weren’t wiping each
other’s tears their hands and feet were
in the stock the Bible says they began
to sing what were they singing about
they were singing about the fact that
the God who was in them would conquer
their circumstances they didn’t see
themselves the victims they didn’t see
themselves this prisoners listen those
two men locked in the stocks of a
Philippian jail were far more free than
the Jailer himself who had the keys in
his hand and there are people today who
are physically imprisoned who are far
more free than those people who are
walking the streets because they know
who they are from God’s point of view
listen to Paul does this sound like a
man who struggling and fretting and just
going to make it through life he says I
can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me he says I thank God I
thank God that in Christ Jesus who
always causes us to Triumph that is
always causes us to be not a victim but
a Victor over our
circumstances now why is it that Paul
could say that that in all these things
we overwhelmingly conquer through the
Lord Jesus Christ because he knew who he
was now listen when circumstances begin
to Buffet you and you you begin to be
pushed and the Winds of Life begin to
blow against you and the hail begins to
beat against you and you feel yourself
being crowded into an impossible
situation and you don’t know what’s
going to happen next and if you’re going
to fall off the cliff and you’re not
quite sure what’s going to happen to
your life what is your
response is your response to believe
what Satan says what does Satan say he
says see there you’ll never make it
you’ll never make it you don’t deserve
to make it look at your life you’re weak
you call yourself a Christian you think
you’re somebody you’re a nobody and we
have to decide right then and there what
we going to do am I going to believe
what almighty God said about me am I
going to believe what the devil said the
devil says you are defeated you are
wiped out you have finished this is it
you might as well give up That’s what
Satan says but what does Jesus say he
says you are a super conqueror in all
these things
listen the extent to which you and I he
says are conquerors he says there are no
boundaries listen persecution distress
nakedness Peril sword all of these
things he says in all of these things
the reason Paul mentioned all of those
is because they cover every realm of
life he says in every single
circumstance whatever your situation is
he says you are to see yourself from
God’s point of view and that is that God
has made you a conqueror now how is it
that he’s made you a conqueror because
when you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ
as your personal savior what happened
the Bible says the Holy Spirit came into
your life sealed you as a child of God
and you became one of God’s
children and as the child of God he says
Jesus Christ is living his life in and
through you so that whatever
circumstance you move into whatever
Valley God leads you through whatever
circumstance you get yourself in you are
never there alone you can’t be there
alone what does he say he says I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee and we
read the 23rd psalm ye though I walk
through the valley of circumstances the
Valley of Death the valley of trials
heartaches burdens and death he says
Thou Art with me he didn’t say he would
remove the valleys he didn’t say he’d
level out the valleys and plains he said
thou art with me that we have the
privilege of knowing that God is with us
every single step of the way so that
when he says in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer what is he
talking about he’s talking
about that because of our relationship
to him we do not have to believe Satan’s
lie we can believe God’s truth and God
says listen doesn’t make this whether
you feel like it tonight God says we are
conquerors over every sort and every
type of experience that brings
circumstances that put us in a
distressful situation but notice how he
says it also not only does he say we
overwhelmingly conquer and that is
because of our relationship to him there
but secondly he notice what he says here
he says in verse 35 who shall separate
us from the love of Christ verse 39 he
says what’s able to separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus now
listen he gives two list here and
referring to both lists here’s what he
says he says these things can’t separate
you from the love of God he says
tribulation distress Peril nakedness
sword hunger none of these things can
separate you from the love of God he
says not only that but he says he comes
to use a a group of extremes listen he
says I’m convinced that neither death no
life to extremes Angels no
principalities things present no things
to come height depth any other created
thing shall be able to separate us from
the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
our lord now
listen he says because we are who we
are that nothing in existence can ever
separate you from the love of God which
is in Christ Jesus now he says here in
looking at these two list there is an
unfailing love an unalterable unchanging
love of God that is always present with
us whenever we are facing anything and
you see whatever the circumstance may be
that you happen to be in today whatever
it might be as we listed just a few and
there are multitudes and multitudes and
multitudes of seemingly impossible
situations the question is what does God
say God says that in all these
circumstances in all of these things he
says nothing can separate you from God
he says not only that he says you are
more than a conqueror he says you are a
super conqueror that is you have the
privilege of learning and becoming and
developing your character has the
privilege of being shaped and formed in
these difficulties and trials in the
furnace of trial and stress you have the
privilege of becoming what you probably
would not become were it not for the
difficulties and the heartaches what did
Paul say he said he used to try and pray
and ask God to remove the thorn of the
flesh but then he learned the most
beautiful lesson that when he was at his
most weakest moment he came forth as
conqueror so therefore he began to thank
God for the difficulty he began to thank
God for his trials he began to praise
God that he loved him enough to want to
develop him and strengthen him and build
him and form character in his life he
began to thank God for his trials and
his
heartaches how do you respond when these
things come into your life do you see
yourself as a conqueror or do you see
yourself as a defeated foe do you
believe what Satan says about you you
can’t make it you’re too weak this is
just the way you’re going to have to
live this is just the way you’re going
to have to be this is just the way you
were born these are your circumstances
you can’t ever get out things won’t ever
change it’s going to get worse and worse
and worse and that’s just the way it is
you might as well give up and settle
down for a settle for life that is you
can just count yourself as defeated
because life has dealt you a death blow
and I want to tell you my friend you
don’t have to live in
defeat you don’t have to surrender to
your circumstances it doesn’t make any
difference what they are you say but you
don’t know how awful my circumstances
are let me ask you this are there any
worse than this tribulation distress
persecution famine nakedness danger or
death the sword your circumstances any
worse than that listen to what Paul said
he said in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through Christ
who love us that is listen having looked
at the whole gamut and in those seven
words you can put all the difficulties
and hardships that people ever face you
can find a place to slot them in one of
those seven he says in all these things
almighty God when he came into your life
through Christ he made you then and
there a super conqueror over all these
things and the question I’m asking you
is this are you willing to appropriate
for yourself are you are you willing to
believe what God says about your
circumstances and you in your
circumstances are you going to continue
to believe what Satan says what does
Satan say you’re weak you’re frail
you’ve blunted before you’ll never get
the breaks in life other people will you
want but you see if you keep believing
Satan’s lie and you see yourself as a
defeated foe here’s what you do Satan
begins to put the pressure on you and
the more pressure he puts on you and you
say Well that’s right I guess I never
will make it in life and I suppose after
all things never have been too good for
me and I I guess this is just the way I
have to live and before long my friend
you’ll be where almighty God never
intended you to be listen there’s a lot
of difference in that and
this Jesus says you are a super
conqueror you’re not a defeated foe
listen watch this you may suffer periods
and experiences of defeat but that
doesn’t make you defeated listen you say
but I’ve had a whole string of defeats
so what you are still a conqueror listen
you know what we do we mix and confuse
experiences with who we are I may suffer
a defeat here and here and here here
here that doesn’t make me
defeated I may get conquered here and
here and here and here that doesn’t make
me cease to be a conqueror there may be
experiences of defeat there may be times
of distress there may be times of
discouragement that but that doesn’t
make us a defeated foe he says we are
super conquerors through him that loved
us now watch this next phrase because
here’s the key he says in all these
things whatever your circumstance may be
he says we overwhelmingly we don’t get
by the skin of our teeth he says we
overwhelmingly conquer he says we are
super conquerors we overwhelmingly
conquer through him who loved us now
what in the world is he referring to
here now watch this what is the basis of
our saying that even in the midst of
these difficulties and heartaches that
we are superc conquerors what is that
based on how can we honestly say that
and especially if you happen to be one
of those persons who’s really going
through difficulty and heartache and I
mean the bottoms dropped out the tops
caved in and every piece of your life is
unraveling and you just sort of wobbling
through life and don’t have any earthly
idea how you going to get out and my
friend I know that some of you are
suffering and you’re suffering deep down
inside and the pain is becoming more and
more intense and the fears are
increasing and the frustration is
increasing and the anxieties are on the
increase and you’re thinking my God my
God what in this world am I going to do
and I want to tell you listen to
me listen to the basis upon which God
has said you my friend are an
overwhelming conqueror what is the
basis the basis first is found right
here in this 37th verse but in all these
things we overwhelmingly conquer through
him him Christ who loved us now watch
this when you were saved the Bible says
the Holy Spirit came to your life and
sealed you as a child of God and Jesus
said abide in me and I in you who is
living within you today who Jesus Christ
let me ask you a
question what was the most crucial test
in the life of
Jesus as to whether he was really who he
said he was or not what was
it the resurrection of Jesus Jesus
Christ validated everything he said it
was the most crucial test if he were
truly the person he said he was now
listen this resurrected Christ has
determined to live his life in and
through me and through you the Bible
says Christ is our life let me ask you a
question if Christ is in you what
conquered Jesus nothing when he came out
of the Grave he conquered the grave that
he he conquered death sin and the devil
all three of them he conquered that
living triumphant Victorious Christ is
alive within every single child of God
let me ask you a question if Jesus
Christ the triumphant one is living
within you today what can conquer you
without your
consent
nothing if it can’t conquer him who
lives within you it can’t conquer you
listen we cannot be conquered because he
says Christ has become our life we are
conquerors I can only be conquered when
I choose to believe what Satan says
about me then I’m going down in defeat
but as long as I’m willing to believe
what almighty God said about me there is
absolutely no ultimate
defeat and it’s based on our
relationship to Christ you said well
I’ll tell you don’t know my circumstance
God knows them and he’s the one who
wrote this and he said in all these
things you’re more than conquerors read
that verse either way you want
to in the Lord Jesus Christ through him
we are super conquerors in all these
things that test and TR us so first of
all the confidence that we have that we
can come through these circumstances
victoriously and triumphant is the fact
it is based on a genuine personal
Eternal unchanging unalterable
relationship that you and I have with
Jesus Christ who lives within us I can
tell you something as exciting as that
look at this next
part if you’ll notice here in um a
beginning in verse 31 the questions that
Paul asked here and he asked questions
and the answer to all of them is the
same look in verse 31 what shall we say
to these things if God is for us who is
against us that means who can be against
us successfully and the answer is no one
verse 33 who will bring a charge against
God’s elect God is the one who justifies
no one can rightly bring a charge of
condemnation against one who has been
declared right righteous and clothed in
the righteousness of Jesus Christ which
every believer has verse 35 who shall
separate us from the love of Christ no
one no thing and that’s what he spends
the rest of that chapter talking about
so he asked these questions now here’s
what I want you to see and this is so
exciting watch this here you are in the
midst of one of these pressurized
situations whatever it may be I mean
you’re really feeling the pressure and
you’re getting it from all sides and you
don’t have any idea in the world what to
do you think what am I listen what am I
going to do that is never the
question listen now if you lost my
friend and you’re not saved you never
trusted Jesus as your Sav that’s the
only thing you can ask oh what am I
going to do because friend you’re all
alone if you’ve never trusted Jesus as
your sa you can’t call on him unless you
want to call on him on in confession and
repentance of your sins and trusting
Jesus Christ as your savior then you may
call on him for some other things but
until then you can’t call on him for
anything so what is your question oh
what am I going to do listen God’s
people should never ask what am I going
to do because you’ve already turned your
life over to Jesus Christ isn’t what you
going to do but what somebody else is
going to do now watch this this is
exciting listen every time you get in
trouble and the bottom drops out and and
all the Sid start caving on you here’s
what you must
remember listen to what he says let’s
start with the first one back in verse
26 the same
chapter and in the same way the Holy
Spirit helps our weaknesses for we do
not know how to pray as we should but
the spirit himself intercedes for us
with groanings too deep for Words down
to verse 31 What then shall we say to
these things if God is for us who’s
against us he who did not spare his own
son but delivered him up for us all how
will he not also with him freely give us
all things and then in verse 34 who is
the one who condemns Christ Jesus is the
one who died yes rather who was raised
who is at the right hand of God who also
intercedes for us now now watch this
sides are caving in tops falling in
Bottoms dropping out life’s coming to a
big halt you don’t know what in the
world you’re going to do next the
pressure is there the question is not
what am I going to do the question is
Holy Spirit my helper what are you going
to do God the Father who said that
nobody can be against me successfully
but you have freely given me all things
by giving me Jesus Christ what are you
going to do Lord Jesus you said you were
seated at the father’s right hand what
are you going to do listen friend if
those three can’t handle your problem
you’re
sunk and the Bible says that’s what you
and I have we have God the Father God
the son God the Holy Spirit the Trinity
they’re on our team they’re on our side
so when God allows us to be put into
some circumstance or we get ourselves in
a mess and we’re God’s children we have
the privilege of calling upon God the
Father God the son God the spirit who
are on our
team the Holy Spirit the paracos the one
who walks beside God’s helper he sent to
help us the Lord Jesus Christ seated the
father’s right hand to make intercession
for us God the Father who says he’s
listen listen freely freely he says he’s
given us what all things the question
isn’t oh God what am I going to do but
oh God how exciting what are you three
going to do about my
circumstance there’s a lot of difference
in thinking about what I’m going to do
about them if he’ll encourage you ask
them what they’re going to do not him
what he’s going to do God the Father God
the son God the SP what are you all
going to do about my
mess and what does he say he says we are
super conquerors he says we
overwhelmingly conquer why we
overwhelmingly conquer listen not mind
over matter not just psyching myself up
to do better but listen because there
are some situations friend when you get
pin of the wall you can psych yourself
all you choose nothing’s going to happen
it is when God the Father God the son
God the spirit releases thou
Supernatural natural power in your
circumstances then you have within you
the supernatural conquering power to
make you become the person God wants you
to be right in the middle of the most
painful circumstance of
life and friend if you’re a Believer you
cannot give me one single solitary
reason for giving
up stayed upon Jehovah heart so fully
blessed that’s just resting in him
trusting in Him standing upon on the
Rock that’s unchanging and unalterable
covered with the grace of almighty God
that never ceases to be at its maximum
surrounded by his loving protection
that’s never
altered how in the world can you and I
go down in defeat and give up when we
have God the Father God the son God the
Holy Spirit working in and through our
lives and let me ask you something can
you name anything that’s what Paul says
can you name listen can you name
anything I mean anything anywhere any
time in any circumstance that can de de
feet God the Father God the son God the
spirit who’s living within you what that
means is this whatever is coming toward
you it’ll it’ll never get to you till
first of all it hits God the Father God
the son God the spirit now if God
chooses to let something get to you what
is that mean it means that he’s just
getting ready to bless you it may be one
of those painful blessings hard
blessings difficult blessings but he’s
going to bless and what we must do is
always look to see God what are you
going to do in this circumstance number
two what are you seeking to teach me and
Lord how do you want me to come through
this and God always wants us to come
through triumphantly because that is
exactly what he says we are he says we
are not victims of our circumstances but
we are
Victors he says we’re not the conquered
foe we are the conquerors now if I don’t
believe what God says I’m going to ask
what Satan wants me to ask and what does
Satan want me to ask oh what am I going
to do Paul says I can do all things
through Jesus Christ who strengthens me
because my relationship with him has
tuned me into God the Father God the son
God the spirit and those three persons
of the Trinity are on my side I’m on
their side they are the ones who are my
strength and whatever I need they have
already provided listen to what Paul
says blessed be the God and father of
our Lord Jesus Christ who has already
deposed to your account in the Heavenly
places all things that you will ever
need my friend if you’re a walking
defeated believer you are walking in
defeat today because you have chosen to
believe the devil’s lie rather than God
God the father says you are a super
conqueror you said but know what I me I
I I believe that but I I don’t have that
in my life but I’m come to that in just
a minute because there’s one other thing
I want you to notice here the basis of
our being conquerors is first of all our
personal relationship to Jesus Christ
and salvation then the fact God the
Father God the son God the Holy Spirit
the whole Trinity the whole Trinity
listen that is The Sovereign godhead of
all things of all time for all eternity
past present and future the Eternal
godhead is on your side listen I don’t
care what your circumstance they are on
your
side there’s one other thing
here listen to what he says he says in
verse uh 35 who shall separate us from
the love of Christ verse 39 he says
these things can’t separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
lord now listen God’s love knows no
boundaries God’s love is unconditional
you know what that means he loves you
just the way you are regardless of the
way you
are his love is
unconditional it’s unlimited it’s
unalterable it’s unchanging and they not
enough words in the English language or
all other languages together to
describe the matchless
incomparable unchanging unalterable
unconditional love of almighty God for
you and me listen you know what he’s
saying he says tribulation distress his
neck and his Peril famine and so he says
these things can’t do what they can’t
separate you from the love of God now
watch friend you may be in a situation A
circumstance and you feel like that
you’re really going down you think what
am I going to do let me tell you one
thing regardless of how low you get
you’ll never get so low to be Beyond
the reach of the love of God for you I
don’t care how much you complain how far
down you get how despairing and
disillusioned life may be you’ll never
get beneath the Everlasting Arms of a
loving father who says that nothing
under God’s heaven on the other side
inside out could ever separate you from
the love of
God tell me something more motivating
than know that somebody loves you but G
thinks her husband thinks she’s the
sweetest thing on earth and the greatest
thing God ever made you don’t think that
doesn’t motivate her if a man thinks his
wife thinks that he’s the greatest God
God ever created you don’t think that
motivates him what about the love of
God shouldn’t that motivate us listen
motivate us to do what to stand up in
the midst of our circumstances and say
thank God praise be unto God I am the
recipient of the unconditional love of a
gracious loving God who loves me in my
circumstances loves me out loves me when
I got myself in it loves me when he put
me in there but the love is
unchanging we don’t have to give in we
don’t have to give up we don’t have to
despair but I must ask the right
question and the right question is not
what am I going to do but God the Father
what are you going to do you’ve given me
all things God the son you’re
interceding with the father’s right hand
Holy Spirit what are you going to do you
my helper what are you going to do in my
behalf in my given situation I’ll tell
you tell you one thing almighty God the
Father Almighty God the son almighty God
the spirit have never responded to you
and me except in pure unconditional love
isn’t that great that’s only way they
respond it’s the only way they can
respond we’re their
children God the Father God the son God
the spirit they’re on your side now the
question is how do I get this in a
practical way into my life I want to
show you something real simple 1 John
chapter
5 1 John chapter 5 and here’s that same
old Greek word
again and the root word of this word is
Nike what means the Victorious One
conqueror chapter 5 of 1 John and verse
4 now watch this whatever is born of God
overcomes NE the same Greek word
overcomes
conquers whatever is born of God we are
overcomes or
conquers the world you know what that
means the whole system not talking about
just dirt the whole the whole world
system that is because we’re the
children of God he says listen whatever
is born of God overcomes the world and
listen this is the victory what’s the
victory this is the victory that’s
overcome the
world and the one thing you and I have
to do to become conquerors is what the
last word in that verse believe God
listen whatever is born of God overcomes
the world and this is the victory that
has overcome the world our faith now
listen to me I’ve said it about at least
10 times in this message the question is
not what am I going to do but God what
are you going to do what is it that
makes it possible for me to be a
conqueror in the deepest darkest valleys
I have to walk
in the highest most treacherous Peaks we
have to climb what is it that makes us
Victor conqueror Victorious
triumphant simply
this that I
exercise
trust in the Lord God Almighty through
my relationship to Jesus Christ that
what he said about
me is true that’s what makes you a
conqueror isn’t that simple
it’s so simple most folks will miss it
what does it take to make you a
conqueror what is it that overcomes the
world even our faith now
listen this is how simple it is you want
to come through your present
discouraging despairing situation you
want to come through that Victorious
Having learned become deepened matured
strengthened joyous excited about what
you’re learning about God what do you
have to
do you have to Simply say this Lord
Jesus I’m trusting you what you said
about me who I
am who you are and what you promis to do
for me in my
circumstance Christ Jesus who’s living
within you is the super conqueror and as
I trust him through my circumstance
we together
become the super
conquerors you can
conquer whatever you think is about to
conquer you if you’re willing to trust
him and believe about yourself what he
said about you let’s pray
together Our Father we thank you and
praise you for your loving kindness you
make it simple and plain clear we
struggle to make it difficult and
complex but you’ve boil it all all down
to one simple word that is Faith
trust you’ve done so much for us you
require so little of us compared to what
you’ve done for
us we want to make it hard on ourselves
when you’ve made it so very simple trust
we trusted you as our savior and our
Lord you want us to trust you for the
difficulties the heartaches the burdens
the circumstances and so I pray this
morning in jesus’ name
that the exercise of Faith many will do
that
today and watch you do a marvelous work
in their life is my prayer in Jesus name
amen