Preprogrammed
for Victory!
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
Who is it that overcomes
the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:5, NIV.
TODAY’S
WORD
Did you know that you are
preprogrammed for victory? As a child of the Most High God, you are filled with
His conquering power. You are filled with the power to overcome all the
negative, self-defeating forces of the world. Do you know what that power is?
It’s you’re faith. When you activate your faith, you are tapping into His
unlimited strength. You are opening the door for Him to move supernaturally in
your life.
Understand that faith
causes you to live your life differently. It causes you to speak and act
differently than before. When things come against you, instead of complaining
and giving up, faith causes you to rise up and say, “No weapon formed against
me shall prosper. I am able to do all things through Christ who gives me
strength!” Faith causes you to obey God’s Word and do the right thing even when
the wrong thing is happening. When you choose to live the life of faith, you
are choosing God’s best. You are choosing blessing. You are choosing to allow
His conquering power to flow through every area of your life!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father, thank You for
filling me with Your conquering power. I choose to live in faith and declare
Your promises over my life. I choose to follow Your Word. I choose Your ways
knowing that You have good plans for me in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24:35 NIV)
The Bible is the most despised, derided, denied, disputed, dissected, and debated book in all of history. This Bible has been under attack for centuries — for everything you can imagine.
Yet the Bible is still the most read, most published, and most translated book in the world. And, most importantly, it’s still changing the lives of those who apply what it teaches.
One of the reasons I believe the Bible is God’s Word is that it has survived so many attacks throughout history.
Despite all the attacks throughout history, today the Bible is the greatest single source of culture. It’s the greatest single source for music, art, and architecture. If you take the Bible out of culture, you would destroy most of the major music, artwork, and architecture of the past 2,000 years. Even much of our English language comes from the King James Bible.
The Bible has flourished in spite of unrelenting attacks during the past 2,000 years.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:35, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away” (NIV). The only item on the planet that will last is the Word of God. Everything else will burn up, because truth is eternal.
Voltaire, the famous French philosopher, was a brilliant atheist. He wrote a number of tracts deriding the Bible. He once made a very bold statement: “One hundred years from today the Bible will be a forgotten book.”
Today, everyone has forgotten that quote — not the Bible! After Voltaire died, for nearly 100 years, his homestead was used as the book depository for the French Bible Society. They sold Bibles out of his house! It’s now a museum. People have forgotten Voltaire. Nobody forgets the Bible.
No matter what attacks come the Bible’s way, it always survives — and it always will. You can depend on that.
Talk About It
- Does your perspective on life reflect the knowledge that this earth will one day pass away? How would your life change if you focused your life on the one thing that will never pass away?
- Ask God for the courage to stand up to those who oppose God’s Word with grace, gentleness, and wisdom.
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