Mensa Otabil - You Will Overcome
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This has been a great week. We’ve been talking about overcoming limitations, and this is day number 18 of our 40 Days of Power. We’ve looked at many people; we’ve looked at people in the Bible who overcame limitations, whether it was their own sense of inadequacy or their opponents out there. Then we’ve looked at the New Testament and what it tells us about overcoming. So, we are ending our teaching on overcoming limitations in the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation.
In Revelation chapter 21, verse 7, it says, «He who overcomes shall inherit all things. I will be his God, and he shall be my son.» You know, that’s how everything ends up in the Bible; it ends with us staying and overcoming. That’s what God wants us to do with our Christian life. The Christian life is not something you live part-time; you don’t just go to church when you feel like it and then give up when life is tough. You don’t just wait for things to be nice and then continue. We wrestle and battle in the Christian life constantly. We battle within ourselves; we battle with our past, our mistakes, our limitations, our fears, and our anxieties. But we never stop because God wants us to win.
So yes, you may go down a little bit, but you must come up. You may have some difficulties, but you must rise again. No matter what you go through, you must determine, «I will overcome,» because that’s how it ends in the Bible. It is a book for overcomers, and God says those who overcome will receive an inheritance. The Book of Revelation talks about the end times, and in the context of the Book of Revelation, it addresses all the tribulations and trials that come to believers and the Antichrist, but in the end, we must overcome; in the end, we must win.
To overcome, we need two things. First, we must remain faithful to the end. God has been faithful to us; we must be faithful to Him. To be faithful means to be loyal to something, to hold on to something, and to stick with it. We must be faithful to God, of course, but beyond that, we must be faithful to ourselves. We must be faithful to our marriages and to our Christian commitment. We must be seen as people who don’t give up easily but as people who see things through to the end-that’s what faithfulness is all about.
Secondly, for us to overcome, we must maintain our confession in the Lord to the end. Our confession is what we say about God. If we say God is good, we respond, «He is good all the time.» That is, in good times and in bad times, we don’t change our confession that God is good. If we say God is merciful, He is merciful at all times. If we say God gives us the victory, He gives us victory at all times. Don’t allow circumstances to determine your confession in God or what you say about God.
Remember Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate? The Bible says He maintained a good confession. He said He was the Son of God from the beginning. Before Pilate, He didn’t change His mind; He didn’t say, «Oh, I’m sorry; I think I overstepped my boundaries.» He maintained who He was both when He was not under arrest and when He was under arrest.
If we’re going to be overcomers, we have to hold fast to our confession of faith and remain strong in the faith. Those who do this, the Bible says, will have an inheritance. This week, I pray that every inheritance of the overcomer will rest upon you, and that in the coming week, you will walk in abundant victory as Christ has made you. In Jesus' name, let’s pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, thank You for my eternal reward. Help me to remain faithful to You at all times. In Jesus' name, amen and amen.»