Everyone has either been overcome or is an overcomer. Your situation in life gets so difficult or your problem becomes so large that it simply overcomes you. Your habit gets so deeply ingrained or your vice gets so deeply entrenched in your life that it overcomes you.
In the last church that I pastored, we had a support group that we called “Overcomers”. It was for anyone, who through faith in Jesus Christ, was overcoming any kind of addictive or obsessive behavior.
Jesus is the Great Overcomer. In John 16:33 Jesus says, “in this world you will have trouble. But, take heart! I have overcome the world.”
The whole story of the Christian experience is a story of overcoming. One man said at the beginning of his faith, “Jesus, I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24) The victory that has overcome the world for the true believer is faith in Jesus Christ. (1 John 5:4)
Christians are commanded in Romans 12:21, “do not be overcome with evil but you overcome evil with good.” How can this be? 1 John 5:5 has the answer: “who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”
It is sad to think of so many people around us broken and despondent about their situation when a releasing answer is so clear.
It started as a possibility for you when Jesus started his church and said “the gates of Hell itself will not overcome my church.” (Matthew 16:18) This confident statement still stands! Hell itself cannot defeat you.
You may reply, “I tried the church but it just did not work for me.” My question: “Whose church did you try?”
The church founded by Jesus offers overcoming power, the power he used when he overcame death and the grave. If he could overcome man’s greatest enemy through his resurrection, you should try him,
Your choice today: Overcome or be overcome?
“We shall overcome, Victorious Lord, in every circumstance that we
confront in life through Your mighty power. Amen”
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