You Are More Than A Conqueror!

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him that loved us." Romans 8:35-37

Romans Chapter 8 is quite a chapter. Read it anew today and you will see that it is a magnificent chapter. Let its eloquence strengthen your soul.

Leonard Ravenhill wrote that the 8th chapter is a one about the liberated soul, of our emancipation, of our triumph in Christ. The 8th chapter is a chapter about the Christ-centered person. He notes that "In the 7th chapter (of Romans) you read that first person over and over and over until you get weary of reading 'I, I, I, I,...' 'I want to do this but I can't...,' and 'I find I'm in bondage...,' and so forth and so on. If you count you'll discover 41 times you find that 'I,' and no mention of the Holy Spirit. In the 8th chapter there is no mention of the "I" except in two verses where he says "I reckon" and "I am persuaded" (where there is no alternative). But the difference in the 8th chapter is that there is all the mention in the world about the Holy Spirit. Nineteen times the Holy Spirit is mentioned."

And the 8th chapter proclaims us as "more than conquerors!" Never forget this: we are more than conquerors. Most believers misread this to say, “We defeat any opposition we face.” Doing this severely diminishes Paul’s statement, however. We may not win every battle, but we do win in the end -- and God can bend all things for our good, even our temporary losses and defeats. So we are more than conquerors through His power!

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, TELL YOURSELF THE TRUTH -- YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR! JESUS HAS MADE YOU MORE THAN A CONQUEROR!

Christ’s love defeats our enemies, restores peace, and extends our reach. While we make it our duty to prosper in faith, Christ engages our adversaries and triumphs on our behalf.

“Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ,” 1 Corinthians 15.57 says in the spirit of one who is more than a conqueror. In Exodus 14.14, while the ground trembles with the roar of Pharaoh’s cavalry and chariots, Moses assures Israel, “The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” As more than conquerors, neither fighting nor winning is ours to worry about. Through Christ, God’s love carries the day. He gives us victory.

Jesus' love guarantees He and we will remain inseparable always. “For I am convinced,” he writes in Romans 8.38-39, “that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is the "great crescendo" of the Christian faith!

Jesus told His disciples, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 14.13) Calvary is the believer’s Gettysburg—the blood-soaked battleground where God’s unconquerable love turned history’s tide to reunite Him with us for all time.

In Christ, love ultimately triumphs. To paraphrase Paul, no wall can be raised so high, no trench dug so deep to separate us from God’s love. He chose us. He called us. He justified us. He qualified us. He wins us the victory for us. We are more than conquerors.

Christ conquers all with love and we are more than conquerors, who express our gratitude and praise for the victory He gives.