He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. Revelation 3:21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The problem for most of you today is not that you do not have the resources but that you do not know you do and are searching and seeking to obtain what you already have been freely given by Me. And even those who know what is written in the Bible do not know how to access what I have given you freely. Instead they do not believe they have it and thus never take it and receive it.
If you see yourself as lacking good things, instead of seeing that I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven, given you all you need for life and godliness, and supplied for all your needs according to My riches in Christ Jesus in glory, you will let all those good things just slip away. And on top of all that I have given you the victory over sin and death in Christ Jesus and I always lead you in triumph in Christ, manifesting through you the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.
Jesus asked the two blind men who came to him to be given their sight, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “It shall be done to you according to your faith.” And their eyes were opened. Matthew 9:28-29.
There is a key here, unless you BELIEVE, you cannot RECEIVE. But it is not just believing anything you want to believe and expecting that to manifest, as many are teaching now and leaving Me out of the equation of obtaining good things, it is a matter of having an unending source of supply that you are connected to that flows into your life that never runs out or runs dry but is always new. But the secret is you have to connect for the power to flow, and the connector and conductor for My power is your faith. And faith works by love.
It is true that Jesus came to satisfy the debt you owed to divine justice and to take your sentence of eternal death away from you, I sent Him to save you and give you eternal life, but He also showed you how to live and what is yours as My child. Remember that He emptied Himself of His power as God to take on your humanity as one like you, so that just as He has done for you by reconciling you with Me, He had power and authority by being connected with Me which He exercised by faith, and when you are born again from above and are in Christ you have the same Spirit in you, and that is why He told you that you were to do the works He did and greater. As He did so you must also do.
And what did He do? He rebuked fevers and they left, He laid hands on the sick and they recovered, He spoke to blind eyes and they saw, He spoke to deaf ears and they heard, he raised the dead by command, He spoke to storms and they became calm and He multiplied the bread and the fish when there was need of sustenance. He never was at a loss of what to do and freely used what was in the supernatural to fund and care for the natural. It has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom, but the majority of you rarely draw upon it. Instead you like to beg for things you already have that you think you do not or so never obtain them because they are already in your heavenly account. Just reach out and take it with love and complete trust. For that is the basis of being an overcomer.
An overcomer is not one that is free from trials attacking to bring him or her down but one who knows Me, what they have in Me, and what to do to overcome the trial. And I might add “effortlessly without struggle and painful toil,” for those who lean on Me and wait for My Word, will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31.
When His disciples and His followers did not rebuke the storm or cast out a demon, He did not compliment them for that. He called them an evil and perverse generation that was slow to believe when they could have taken back the earth from the evil one. And He told you to do the same. How? In His Name by the power of the Holy Spirit in you and with you.
You already have the victory in Christ Jesus over sin and death and I always lead you in triumph in Christ, and manifest through you the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. But most of you do not act like you have the victory and when the devil brings something against you, you give up your ground and let him steal what you already have.
That is the same way he deceived Adam and Eve, he made them think they did not have what they already had, that is, they were in My image and according to My likeness, they were already like Me and in My Word knew what was good and evil. But he made them seek the truth they already had in his lie, separating them from their confidence in Me.
Faith is the connection to My power that gives you access to the supply that is already yours in Christ. I give many magnificent promises to those who overcome. The overcomers sit on My throne with Me. Only overcomers enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.” Revelation 21:6-7.
And the good news is I have given every one of you all you need to be overcomers.
“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 54:17.
What does it mean to be an overcomer? It means you always come out on top, the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, the lender and not the borrower.
“Now it shall be, if you listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 28:1-2.
It does not mean you will never have a trial in life, in fact to be an overcomer, you have to overcome something, but it means you cannot be taken down.
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33.
Whoever and whatever is born of Me overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—your faith. Each of you must guard, feed, cultivate, and grow the faith I have put in your hearts and that faith is in the good news of your salvation.
Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5:5.
Who is the overcomer? One who loves Me and is following the call with which I have called them, for I make all things, no matter what their source, work together for good for those who love Me and are called according to My purpose. And that will always put you above and not beneath.
This overcoming strength is not of human power or might, you are not your own creator and source. And the devil is just a creature, he is an angelic being which is beneath mankind, so he is not a source. You cannot lean on and draw what you need to be an overcomer out of him. It will run dry and perish, like any lie in the face of the truth.
But when you turn to Me in love and cling to Me, you have attached to the Most High and there is no one above Me and no other unlimited source of every good thing given and every perfect gift. Only I alone am good but I have stored up all that great goodness for each one of you who believe. It is time you made withdrawals.
In these Life Lessons you will learn how to be an overcomer and live the wonderful, amazing life of unending and limitless possibilities that you can bring into reality if you will just learn My ways for that is how good comes about in your life and that of others.
So we will be studying “resistance training,” Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7; flight school, “Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” Isaiah 40:31, and truth in the inward parts, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:31-32. “Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” Psalm 51:6.
“I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:4.
To overcome, you have to know the truth of who I am, who you are, and what you have in Christ. And then to overcome is easy and no struggle if you understand and become skillful in My ways. But the first thing you have to overcome to be an overcomer is yourself—your own thoughts and flesh, for if you let them run wild they will torment and kill you.
I love you. Overcomers sit with Me on My throne, but you are already seated there in Christ Jesus, so what does that tell you? In Him you are already an overcomer, in fact, more than a conqueror, isn’t it time you took full advantage of what I have freely given you and take hold of that life which is life indeed? Use your faith to walk in newness of life and that is what these Life Lessons will be about. If you will learn and do them your life will become filled with good days, days of Heaven on earth. You just must be determined to take what you have and run with it by faith. Cowards never make it into the Kingdom.