Conquerors: May 4, 2011

MAY 4, 2011. TODAYS WORD FOR WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 2011

CONQUERORS

DEFINITION:

One who subdues by force, one who overcomes or gains victory or wins by effort.

SCRIPTURE:

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37

KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING:

Most people are conquerors by nature. We like to be victorious in what we do. We all like to conquer a test we have to take in school. We like to conquer a job at work. We like to look back in our lives and evaluate circumstances and accomplishments. We conquered some and we failed at others.

The story of David and Goliath is one of the favorite Bible stories that our children loved to hear read to them. As the scriptures reminds us (above) from Romans 8:30, we can be more than conquerors through Jesus who loves us and David proved that he could conquer anything or anybody with God at his side. Being a conqueror for Jesus is life’s greatest accomplishment for all of us.

David loved God and trusted Him to be his shield and defender. When David went out to face the Philistine giant, he went out as a conqueror because he knew the battle was the Lord’s and the Lord would deliver him. When Goliath taunted David because his only weapon was a slingshot, David’s response was, “You come against me with a sword and spear and javelin, but I come in the name of the Lord Almighty.”

Not only did David not have a sword or a spear, he had no shield. I Samuel 17:50 tells us, “So David triumphed (conquered) over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.”

David fought many battles and understood that God was the one that enabled him to be a conqueror. He gave God the credit and in his Psalm 144:2 he praised God for being his “shield and defender.” David praised God with these words “He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” He knew that God was with him. This is the key that God has given us so that we can be conquerors in all situations in our lives. We must recognize that “the battle is the Lord’s” and in Him we can have the victory.

One of the world’s most unusual landmarks is a single granite plaque on a pole on the western boundary of Russia near the city of Wilna. There are two inscriptions on this plaque. The western side reads: Napoleon Bonaparte passed this location in 1812 with 410,000 men on his way to conquer Russia. On the eastern side it reads: Napoleon Bonaparte passed this location in 1812 with 9,000 men as he returned home. Napoleon, who had the goal of conquering the world, had met his match in this Russian campaign.

We are reminded constantly in the scriptures that with God we can conquer anybody or anything. The scripture tells us that Satan will meet his match when confronted with the judgment of God and he will have no survivors. Yes, our God will be the ultimate conqueror of evil.

No matter what the circumstances of life may be to you, if you believe in Jesus then you are more than a conqueror. The scriptures tell us that no matter the circumstances or their severity, Christ will carry us through each situation giving us strength and encouragement. We cannot lose when we let the battle be the Lord’s. Christ loves us and wants us to be conquerors through Him. Look what the scriptures say that Christ can do for you:

• He will give you rest.(Matthew 11:28)
• He will give you peace. (John 14:27)
• He provides for you an escape from temptation. (I Corinthians 10:13)
• He will comfort you through all trials that you may face.
(II Corinthians 1:3-4)
• He will supply all your needs. (Philippians 4:19)
• He will deliver you through all persecution.(II Corinthians4:8)
• He will enable you to overcome the world. (I John 5:4)
• He will deliver you from fear. (Isaiah 41:10)
• He will give you eternal life. (John 10:28-29)
• He will keep you from evil. (II Thessalonians 3:3)

In everyday life are you a conqueror? Do you as a believer, let Satan and the world take away your Christian birthright? Realize anew today that you are a child of the King --- the ultimate conqueror. Go out and act like it today in all that you do and say.

LEARNING:

Our memory verse for this week is found in Proverbs 22:6.

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

PRAYER:

I thank You Lord that believers are the ultimate winners in the great spiritual battle that I fight day in and day out. Thank You that it is because of Your power and the marvelous gift that You gave in providing Your Son to pay the penalty of death for my sins.