When you were born again, you were sentenced to success.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith. 1 John 5:4
Your God-given destiny is to see the devil eat dirt.
So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.” Gen. 3:14
God has planned this victory for you from the beginning. He who knows all things has always known you would win. He knew this long before you were born.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Jer. 1:5
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. Rom. 8:29-30
Indeed, He planned your victory and your every step of success.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:10
So, since God is for you, what could hold you back or down?
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Rom. 8:31-32
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angles nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:38-39
We, too, like Paul, are to be persuaded. We are to be persuaded and also confident.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13
We are to be thankful that He who lives in us to will and to do His good pleasure sees to it that we win.
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 2 Cor. 2:14
Now all of this is to say that you must prepare to advance, drop the self-imposed limitations that you impose on God and live like a champion. The Lord is not limiting us, but we often limit Him. Paul prayed for the believers at Ephesus that they would get this revelation:
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power. Eph. 1:17-19
He knew that God’s people set the limits on what God does.
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert! Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Ps. 78:40-41
Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Mt. 13:58
He also knew that faith is the victory that overcomes and enters the Promised Land. Unbelief causes one to die in the wilderness, but faith enters into the miraculous. Father Abraham was fully persuaded that He who promised was also the One to perform. Circumstances may not necessarily point to the fact that you are a winner, but faith does.
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Jn. 16:33
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” Jn. 14:12-14
So let’s get our eyes on Jesus and plan for 2019 to be a breakthrough year, a year of overcoming and of breaking through every limiting thing. The rewards are not only temporal; they are absolutely heavenly.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” Rev. 2:7
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” Rev. 2:11
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” Rev. 2:17
“And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations.” Rev. 2:26
“He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.” Rev 3:5
“He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. A nd I will write on him My new name.” Rev. 3:12
“To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Rev. 3:21
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