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You've Already Won

    Sometimes the difficulties of life can seem overwhelmingly big. It can be hard to see past the circumstances that surround us to the God who has His hand on it all. I want to remind you today that whatever you are facing, the battle is already won! Jesus is victorious and the same power is alive in you. 

Romans 8:11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. (NLT)

    Long ago when Lucifer (Satan) rebelled against God in heaven, he failed. God cast him down to earth and to await his sentence of eternal damnation in hell. As he waits, his goal is to cause pain to God's children and bring them to down to hell with him. However, we have been freed of that! Jesus death and resurrection are no joke. When He was raised from the dead, He loosed Satan's hold on us for all who would choose to accept Him and His gift of life. There is nothing Satan can do to destroy us when we are walking in the power of Christ!

    Remember today that Satan has already lost the battle. Greater is the power of Jesus Christ in you than any power of Satan. Let your heart be lightened in knowing He will get you through any difficulty you face in this world. When you are walking out your victory with Jesus, remember what the end result will be-- you've already won!


1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (ESV)
1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. (ESV)

John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (NIV)

Romans 8:37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. (NLT)
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. (ESV)

Revelation 12:11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. (ESV)
1 John 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (NIV)

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