Guest speaker Yan Hadley spoke on Rom 8:37 tonight, reminding us that ‘we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us.’ We are not converted simply to cling to Christ in grim desperation, but belong to a victorious Saviour who always causes us to triumph (see 2 Cor 2:14). We are called not simply to overcome (as the message to the churches in the book of Revelation indicates) but to be ‘more than conquerors’, walking as Christ walked (1 Jn 2:6).
‘Trouble will never triumph over you’ is the phrase we must remember, for life is not easy and there will always be trials and troubles to overcome. If we are to triumph, we have to adopt a new mindset, which is done primarily through the transformation and renewing of our thinking. (Rom 12:1-2) We are called to give thanks in all circumstances (1 Thess 5:18); when we adopt this attitude of thanksgiving and gratitude, we are in God’s will and are strengthened by the positive attitude which thanksgiving cultivates. We must also have high expectations, based on Phil 4:13 (‘I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.’) So often, we have negative attitudes and low expectations, but these hinder us; miracles come in cans, as Joyce Meyer says, for we must learn to encourage ourselves and confess and believe the word of God to trust that we can be all that God says we can be and can do all that He says we can do.
Rend Collective remind us:
‘We are more than conquerors through Christ
You have overcome this world, this life.
We will not bow to sin or to shame;
We are defiant in Your name.
You are the fire that cannot be tamed.
You are the power in our veins.
Our Lord, our God, our conqueror.’ (‘More Than Conquerors’, Rend Collective)
