Total Provision For Victory

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Journey Into The Promised Land

Romans 6:4–23 (CSB)

⁴Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. ⁵For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶For we know that our old self^, was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, ⁷since a person who has died is freed from sin. ⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, ⁹because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. ¹⁰For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. ¹³And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. ¹⁴For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

FROM SLAVES OF SIN TO SLAVES OF GOD

¹⁵What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! ¹⁶Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? ¹⁷But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, ¹⁸and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. ¹⁹I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. ²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.^, ²¹So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death. ²²But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life! ²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God has made total provision so you can be victorious in every battle, just as He did for the nation of Israel as they prepared to enter their promised land. God has provided you with everything you need to defeat the enemy. Jesus has already destroyed the works of Satan and broken his power over you.

You are facing an enemy that has already been defeated. Two thousand years ago when Jesus cried, “It is finished!” the war against Satan was won. Through His precious blood that was shed, we are totally delivered out of Satan’s hands. He has no claims over us whatsoever! “For sin shall not have dominion over you…” (Romans 6:14).

We are no longer living in the kingdom of darkness under Satan’s dominion as “prince of this world.” We are joint-heirs with Christ in the Kingdom of God. Satan has no power over us. He is defeated and God is going to crush Satan under our feet!

God does not expect you to face Satan and the evil powers and principalities of wickedness in your own strength. He has given you power and authority over all the power of Satan through the Holy Spirit within you. He has given you powerful spiritual armor that makes you invulnerable and invincible against all of Satan’s attacks. He has provided you with weapons of warfare, enabling you to pull down every stronghold of the enemy (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).

God has given the power to you to pull down Satan’s strongholds and totally demolish them so they are nonexistent, but your victory over Satan is not automatic. Simply because you have been born again and are a child of God with the Spirit of God dwelling in you, does not mean that you are automatically going to be victorious over the temptations, lies, and attacks of Satan. Victory is yours only as you put on the armor, use your spiritual weapons of warfare, and resist Satan.

You must take aggressive action and press the battle in the Spirit, using the power and authority God has given you, if you are to win the battles you face against Satan. The reason there are so many Christians today living defeated lives is because they have failed to take an offensive position and fight against Satan and his evil principalities.

In recent years, the Body of Christ has come into a greater awareness of this spiritual warfare we are fighting against Satan. Most Christians today know a battle is raging, but they don’t understand it. During the coming days of this month we will learn where the major battlefield is, how Satan attacks, and how to defeat him.

Make this declaration:

I am facing an enemy that is already defeated. God has given me the power to pull down his strongholds and totally demolish them so they are nonexistent.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

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