Christ Is Our Victory

God is able to strengthen His people by the indwelling power of Christ so that they are enabled to stand through whatever tests may come, knowing that in Him is their sufficiency, and from Him they can draw the necessary help, strength and understanding.

God is daily confirming this truth as we see the manifestation of the inward work. There are always struggles, but there is also growing faith. Perfection is yet to come, but there is a pressing on and a striving for the goal. There are discouragements, there are doubts, but there is also a growing confidence and deepening consecration. The seed planted is bearing fruit. The lives transformed are being daily strengthened in faith. God has not deserted His people, and He never will. By His grace, His people likewise will not desert Him! Some who are now going through valleys will be coming out into the sunshine in the days ahead; and some who are now in the sunshine may experience some valleys! But God is FAITHFUL and our confidence is in Him. We do not put confidence in the flesh: our confidence is in the Lord, that He is protecting, keeping and preserving those who are His, and that He will continue to do so.

It is human to waver and to experience days when discouragement moves in like a cloud and seemingly blots out the sunshine, but those days do not tell the story. They come and they go, but always faith is arriving on the scene again, like the sun rising in the morning, regardless of how many cloudy days may have passed. God has nowhere promised perfection in this life; but He has promised ultimate victory, and we claim that, and press on. The end is always in view, victory is coming, and we can hold steady while He works everything out according to His purposes.

We can encourage ourselves, and each other in the Lord, for truly, HE IS OUR VICTORY and we rejoice in HIM!—not in ourselves. He is always in victory and in Him we are bound to win in the end, and the more we trust Him, the more often we will find ourselves in victory in the present moment. Bright hopes of the future by no means cancel the present needs. We have as much right to expect victory today as tomorrow. The secret is in resting in Jesus, standing still, and letting Him fight for us, as He has promised to do. If an action is needed on our part, we will get our guidance more clearly in the quietness of communion than in the “noisiness” of our feelings. Our biggest difficulty is in getting still. In the stillness, the answers come without pressure. The pressure usually comes from outward circumstances and other people’s thoughts or actions. Remember: HE IS OUR PEACE. HE IS OUR VICTORY. HE IS OUR COMFORT. HE IS ALL AND EVERYTHING. PRAISE HIS NAME!

All this is by the cross and the blood has as much power to save us from our stresses as from our sins. It will do its healing work as we claim its power to break all the powers of darkness.

In You, 0 Lord, is our life and our strength. In Your presence is fullness of joy. We would live this day in Your presence, in the awareness that we are never out of Your sight, nor out of Your mind, for as the Psalmist wrote, “I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me” (Psalm 40:17a). Surely, Your thoughts toward us are thoughts of deliverance and salvation. You are mindful of our weakness, but it is Your desire to heal and to bless. You have commanded a blessing toward us, Your children, and we look for good, not evil. Accept our praise for Your loving-kindness, Heavenly Father, we pray. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Frances Roberts

Timely Reminders

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Gal.2:20). Therefore, I will not seek to have my own will and way.

“If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). Any righteousness we have is by the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus. “Our own righteousness is as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). Self-righteousness separates brethren. His righteousness brings us into close fellowship one with another.

JESUS IS LORD: therefore, we look to HIM for guidance and direction and in so doing, we will not be distracted by fascinations with people, places and things.

GOD IS OUR SOURCE…”My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). What He does not give, we are better off not having. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33). Compare Psalm 106:15

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