Victory

The devil tries hard to steal our joy and the victory we have in Christ.
It has been about a little over a week since my last post. My family has been sick with the stomach flu. We are finally feeling much better.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Lord's Day.
This morning I preached on Mary and Martha and how we show our love to God in different ways but our worship should lead us to serve which should lead us to worship. It is a continueous cycle.
Worship that does not lead to service is selfish and shallow.
Worship is all about God. Every Sunday we sit at the feet of Jesus like Mary did and we worship. I enjoyed being at the feet of Jesus this morning.
Tonight I am preaching on Having Victory in Jesus.
We sing the song written by E.M. Bartlett which says,
"O victory in Jesus, my Savior forever,
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood;
He loved me 'ere I knew Him,
And all my love is due Him,
He plunged me to victory,
Beneath the cleansing flood!
It is one thing to sing about the victory we have in Jesus and it is something different to claim that victory.
A.W. Tozer wrote, "Christians doen't tell lies they just go to church and sing them." Do we really have the victory? Are living victorious lives?
We must remember we as Christians don't fight for the victory, we fight from the victory. Jesus has already won.
The devil puts up strongholds in our lives to rob of us living victoriously. We must demolish the strongholds.
2 Corinthians says, "For though we live in the world we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary we have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguements and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we bring every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ."NIV.
My challenge for myself and other Christians is for us to live victoriously.
Lets take this scripture to heart: "No, in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." Romans 8:37 NIV.