Topic: Victory
Text: John 15:1-7

Victory is your birthright. The Bible says that, “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” When Jesus declared that, “It is finished” , He was referring to our victory, hence our victory has been settled. If you are a real child of God, the devil should be no terror to you. Rather, you are the one who should frighten him.

As a Christian, you are expected to have dominion over the devil and his demons. A testimony from an African brother reveals the truth of this statement. The man testified that he lived in a house where he regularly led Christians in vigils, prayers, worship and glorifying the Lord. Near him lived an idol worshipper who so hated the brother that, one day, he planned to kill him but for the intervention of neighbours who came to inform him of the idol worshipper’s evil intention. Still, rather than get frightened and go into hiding, the brother stood his ground and wondered why light should run from darkness. He maintained that it was the devil that should run from him. Sure enough, after some time, the idol worshipper packed his things and moved out of the neighbourhood never to return again. That was how God gave the brother victory over the satanic agent.

The Bible says: “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight,” (I John 3:22). Our Lord has assured us of receiving the desires of our hearts. However, to receive those desires, we must make sure they are God’s desire for us. One way of ensuring this is to have His words in our hearts and minds and always do things that are pleasing to Him and in accordance with His will for us. God’s will and desire is for His children to be like Him: pure, holy and perfect. So to ensure that our prayers are answered, we need to live our lives in agreement with God’s requirement, we can do this by keeping ourselves as pure as light.

Memory Verse: I John 5:14 - “And this is the confidence that we have in him, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.