1 John 5:4 (AMP)
Whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.
You know, many years ago the devil started an untruth. He told a few Christians that as long as they’re alive, they had to suffer as the world did. He told them they had to share the diseases and the defeat, the deficiencies and the disappointments of those around them.
It was a crafty lie, and it worked!!! Believers accepted it and began to spread it among themselves. You may have even heard it yourself. If so, I want to help you put that untruth to rest today. I want to help you get the facts straight once and for all.
You see, despite what you may have heard, health, affluence and victorious living aren’t concepts some well-off greedy believer selfishly dreamed up. They’re God’s ideas.
Now, someone out there might be saying: “That sounds really good, Bishop Houston, but we’ve got to be realistic. We live in a world that’s full of problems. And as long as we live in this world, it seems to me we’re going to have our share.”
And I do agree with you 100%. Even Jesus said, “In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration.” But now want you to notice, He didn’t stop there!!! He went on to say in John 16:33 (AMP), “But be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you]”.
Beloved, most believers don’t have any trouble believing the first part of that verse. They know all too well how many problems, prosecutions, sufferings and obstructions surround them. But they’re less certain about the last part. They haven’t yet experienced for themselves exactly what Jesus meant when He said He had deprived those things of power to harm them.
Someone out there may be asking: Bishop Houston why not? “WELL I’M GLAD YOU ASKED!!!”
It’s because they’re still living as though they’re part of the world. Listen Beloved. Jesus said in John 17:17 you and I are to be “sanctified,” or separated from the evils of this world. We are consecrated through the Words of God!!!
Beloved, the Word of God will separate you from the world. His Word will set His dream for victory into motion in your life. If you’ll receive it and believe it, speak it and act on it, that Word will set you apart from those around you. It will take you from trouble to triumph again and again.
