When He went back to heaven, He said to us, “Ye are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). So as long as we’re walking by faith in Him, the darkness can’t touch us either. Because we’re born of God who “is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5), even though we’re still in this dark world, it’s not dark where we are because God is in us, on us, around us and for us. All we have to do is “walk in the light, as he is in the light” (verse 7) and wherever we go darkness has to flee.
This is why we can have victory!
It’s why we can rebuke sickness and disease off our children and lack off our lives. It’s why we can rise above temptation, say no to foul habits that try to take over our flesh, walk through danger, storms and threatening situations and come through them whole, undamaged and intact.
We can do all those things because believing God enables us to walk through the darkness and still be in the light. We can overcome anything by the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
Victory is sweet! And it’s available to every believer because we all have faith. God Himself gave it to us the moment we were born again. (See Romans 12:3.) What we do with it though is up to us.
We don’t have to walk in the faith God has given us. We don’t have to develop it and put it to work for us by believing the Word and speaking it. God won’t make us do those things.
It’s our choice: Do we want to walk in victory by faith? Or do we want to walk by unbelief? Astonishingly, a lot of sweet Christians choose unbelief. They receive just enough light from God’s Word to get saved, and that’s as far as they choose to go. Rather than believing what God’s Word says about healing, they’ll actually fight to hold on to their sicknesses. They’ll believe the religious lie that it’s a “blessing in disguise,” and then go to the doctor to get rid of that blessing. Rather than believe what God says about financial BLESSING, they’ll get mad at prosperity preachers, and then work 40 to 80 hours a week trying to get rich.
There’s something wrong with that kind of thinking! How can sickness be a blessing from God, and it be OK to go to the doctor to get rid of it? How can it be OK for Christians to make themselves rich, but not OK for God to do it? That doesn’t even make sense.
What does make sense is to believe what God says. To agree with Him and live as the healed, prosperous, victorious overcomers He created us to be. What makes sense is for us to develop our faith, as Romans 10:17 says, “by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
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