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Victorious living There is an experience of victory available to every Christian whereby he or she can praise God. It is the strategy of Satan to make you believe that the victorious, Spirit-filled, holy life that always overcomes, was for God’s special saints of a previous age or generation. Perhaps he reminds you frequently of your weaknesses and past failures, and times of defeat, and as a result you are not really expecting a different spiritual experience in the near future. Praise God, there is in Scripture the promise and picture of a life of spiritual victory and power. It is described in various biblical terms. It is the life of victory, the crucified life, the Spirit-filled life, the sanctified life, the holy life, the empowered life, the overcoming life. It is described also as a life of spiritual freedom, spiritual rest, and perfect love. It is an experience of death to the carnal self, of resurrection power, of cleansing by the precious blood of Christ. The main proof of a Spirit-filled life is the presence of the Holy Spirit Himself in all His fullness within the heart of the believer, giving His constant rest, victory, love, and power. It is an invisible but wonderfully knowable experience in the believer’s inner nature, which is soon manifested in his or her outer life. The Spirit-filled person will have streams of living water flowing from within and blessing all around (John 7:38-39). The Spirit-filled person will have the love of God poured out in his heart by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5), and this love will manifest itself in beautiful graces. The new birth is described in many ways and by many terms in Scripture, so is the life of victory and holiness, and no human language is adequate to describe the wonders and glory of the fullness of the Spirit. This experience is for you. Resurrection power and life are for you. The fullness of the Spirit is for you. The victorious life is for you. All of God’s provision and power are available for you. The Holy Spirit is waiting to do within your heart and life, all that you long for and all that you need. First, you must know that your sins are all forgiven, past, present and future, and that you are a child of God. Then you must make a total surrender of yourself to God as a living sacrifice, daily taking up your cross and being crucified, dying to self, that He may increase. You can be as triumphant over sin as Christ was over death. The Bible repeatedly associates Christ’s death and resurrection with what should be the normal spiritual triumph in abundance of life. The Christian is to be a person crucified with Christ and raised with Christ in a new life of spiritual power and victory. Satan’s great desire is to get Christians to put off to some future date the experience and life God wants us to enjoy today. Satan wants us to be content in weakness and powerlessness. God wants us here and now to be children of God, purifying ourselves even as God Himself is pure. Satan wants us to be carnal Christians walking in the flesh instead of victorious believers walking in the Spirit Galatians 5:16, carnally minded instead of spiritually minded, controlled by the flesh instead of controlled by the Spirit Romans 8:6-8. Resurrection power is overcoming power available to every Christian every day of his life. Triumph should be the normal everyday experience of every Christian. God wants your life to be a demonstration of the very same power of the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. He wants your life to manifest abundance of life and victory. He wants your daily life to be a living demonstration of the world’s greatest miracle – resurrection power. Lord, help me to live in resurrection power today! Blessings, Pat Extracts from article by Wesley L Duewel |
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