When we choose to forgive the victory is attainable. When bad things happen, good CAN come out of it! Romans 8:28 declares it is so! My life declares it is so and I am not alone in that statement. So many people have looked evil in the face and said, “I will find good in this.” Sometimes the evil and bad things are changed or converted or whatever and sometimes it is us that is changed. But ALL things work for good and can bring about change for the good.
Victory
Ed Stetzer
God has supernaturally guided his church for two thousand years. He has overcome every obstacle as if it were nothing, raised up courageous believers to accomplish tasks others thought impossible, and protected his church and Word from every means of attack. Nothing in history has surprised him or come close to overwhelming his power to uphold us.
Samuel Logan Brengle
Some objector says, “I don’t believe that we can be holy till the hour of death. The Christian life is a warfare, and we must fight the good fight of faith until we die, and then I believe God will give us a dying grace.” A great many honest Christians told exactly this view and hence put forth no real effort to stand perfect and complete and all the (present) will of God. (Colossians 4:12) for them. And so they pray daily, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven,” Matthew 6:10 yet they do not believe it is possible for them to do the will of God, and so they really make Jesus the author of a vain prayer which is only idle mockery to repeat.
C. S. Lewis
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to rejoice as much as by anything else.
Ed Silvoso
There is no place for the contemporary Church to resemble a POW camp behind enemy lines. Even if in a weak and feeble condition… the Church today can and must walk in the authority emanating from this newly found truth, straight into the enemy’s domain, and declare, “Our Commander in Chief has defeated your commander in chief.”
Bill Glass
A Christian is not one who withdraws but one who infiltrates.
Francis Frangipane
Our journey into Christ is, at the same time, His journey into us. You see, we are His promised land. We can be assured that the giants in our lives, though they may have humiliated us, they will never humiliate Him. He shall conquer each of our enemies, even death, and dwell in us forever.
Author Unknown
Prayer has divided seas, rolled up flowing rivers, made flinty rocks gush into fountains, quenched flames of fire, muzzled lions, disarmed vipers and poisons, marshaled the stars against the wicked, stopped the course of the moon, arrested the rapid sun in its great race, burst open iron gates, conquered the strongest devils, commanded legions of angels down from heaven. Prayer has bridled and changed the raging passions of man, and routed and destroyed vast armies of proud, daring atheists. Prayer has brought one man from the bottom of the sea, and carried another in a chariot of fire to heaven; what has prayer not done!
Dick Eastman
The greatest blow sent Satan-ward is made by weeping warriors of prayer.
Martin Luther King Jr
The darkest hour of our struggle had become the hour of victory. Disappointment, sorrow, and despair are born at midnight, but morning follows.