How to be “More than Conquerors”

        The authority of Christ has been given to every believer. Jesus said, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Lk 10:19). 

        So the most important thing for us is to appropriate and take on the power and dominion which has been embedded in our new identity and inheritance. “For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith“ (1Jn5:4). There’s no condition to “whosoever”. It means all of us who are born again have that victory made available to us.

        Most Christians don’t believe that they have power. I know I did not really believe it for many years. I read Mark 16:15 “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”, as the great commission that we must believe and OBEY, and I did. I witnessed plenty, but I gave no regards to the following verses that were in the same sentence when Jesus gave them the commission, he said, “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mk 16:17-18). 

        Jesus gave us the AUTHORITY to enforce the victory of the kingdom God on earth. He said, “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever YOU bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever YOU loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (Mt 16:19). That power was given to EVERY believer. 

It is not only an ability but also a RESPONSIBILITY. 

        In other words, because Jesus lives in us, we can do those “works” that He did. And it works. It says, “Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name” (Lk 10:17). It worked then, and it works now.… but our faith only works if we work it. “Faith without works is dead”. It only can work if we practice it. 

        The way to be more than a conqueror, is to exercise and make use of the weapons of warfare that God has given us. The main one of course is the Sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God. Heb 4:12 says, “For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart“. 

        Jesus won the war. “God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:9-11). We possess the power of attorney of the highest authority in the world. It may be hard to believe, but that’s precisely the key: If and when we believe it and exercise it, we bring about the victories.

        John said, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil“ (1Jn 3:8). And Jesus did so throughout His life by healing and casting out demons, but He also destroyed the purpose of satan in the end, by paying the full price for the redemption of man. The enemy is defeated. The Word says, “who is he who overcomes the world, but he who BELIEVES that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1Jn 5:5). 

        The new covenant made it possible for Christ to live in you. But the devil will try to pester you with lies, doubts and fears to dissuade you from letting Christ live through you. Jesus said, “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father” (Jn 14:12). 

        So, the key is to believe and exercise that victory. We have Jesus abiding in us. “The Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one” (1Jn 2:14). But our “FAITH is the victory that overcomes the world” (1Jn5:4). Through the victory of the cross, Jesus has empowered all of us to operate with His authority on earth. So instead of one Jesus fighting the devil, now there are millions of us with the same power and authority. 

        But we must be fully mindful of the power given to us by God’s Word. 1Jn 4:4 says, “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

        So when we are under attack, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him” (Isa 59:19), that’s when we raise our badge. That’s when we enforce the kingdom of God and destroy the works of the devil. We’ve ALREADY been brought into the victory “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love“. 

        So we CAN’T loose because He’s already WON… But it says “ABOVE ALL, taking the shield of FAITH with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one” (Eph 6:16). This is so powerful if we can get to FULLY understand it. It’s our FAITH in God’s Word and USING the Word against the enemy. Nothing is impossible if we believe.

We’re MORE THAN CONQUERORS through our (exercised) FAITH that overcomes the world.