More than Conquerors: Part One
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Will opposition from people or even Satan be too great?
Will opposition from people or even Satan be too great?
What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
The proof of God being for us:
The fact that He says there is therefore no Condemnation for us in Christ Jesus
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,
The fact that He gives His Spirit to help us in our weakness
In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.
In all things that we face or go through God works it for our Good if we love Him (WE ARE BLESSED BEYOND THE CURSE!)
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
These proofs of God’s love need to make us ask the question:
Since God has shown that He is For me, who of any real significance can be against me?
What then do we even say in response to these wonderful things?
God is for you!
We have to remember who God is? He has proven He is for us, He sent Jesus Christ for us.
How Much is God “For” us? So much that He gave sin only son to die for Us!
For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
God has called us, justified us (meaning put us back in right standing with Him by dealing with our sin,), and glorified us (meaning we are a people of His presence; God with us and in us), what else could we possibly do but just fall before Him in humble gratitude!
But who exactly is it that is on our Side?
God promises us Victory- No one will oppose God, and no one will oppose those who He is for
Our Problem is not that God doesn’t answer our prayers, but rather they aren’t answered in our scheduled timing.
Or we take matters into our own hands and blame God when they don’t work out in our favor
The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord handed them over to Midian seven years, and they oppressed Israel. Because of Midian, the Israelites made hiding places for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east came and attacked them. They encamped against them and destroyed the produce of the land, even as far as Gaza. They left nothing for Israel to eat, as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey. For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it. So Israel became poverty-stricken because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord.
When the Israelites cried out to him because of Midian, the Lord sent a prophet to them. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you out of Egypt and out of the place of slavery. I rescued you from the power of Egypt and the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave you their land. I said to you: I am the Lord your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites whose land you live in. But you did not obey me.’ ”
Obedience always brings blessing from God-
“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God:
But when we go against God’s word it always leads to:
Loss of Identity- the people of God where never supposed ot be in bondage
We forget His promises
Loss of Freedom- other dictated to them who they were and what the could do- SLAVERY
Oppression/ Depression- Lives that miss the blessing and instead get the curse
God Reminds His people of His promise, His Provision, and His direction
Blessing Comes from Obedience
Our Blessing comes from our obedience to God
The angel of the Lord came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites. Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.”
Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and deliver Israel from the grasp of Midian. I am sending you!”
He said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s family.”
“But I will be with you,” the Lord said to him. “You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.”
God’s Promise is I will be with you!
God never leaves us:
Be strong and courageous; don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For the Lord your God is the one who will go with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.”
Gideon’s Encounter With God bring the knowledge of who God is -
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.
For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh, he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.