The Christian: Born for Victory

As Christians, we know that the Bible is important, but do we know how important it really is? Do we know how to take advantage of it and live victoriously? In this book you will discover:

•  That the Bible is authentic, reliable and dependable.
•  How you can tap into the power that is available to you through it.
•  Why God created everything through His word alone and how you too can use it to create.
•  How easy it is to hear God speak to you through the Bible.
•  That when God speaks through His word, nature must obey.

The Bible has been given to us by God to lead and guide us in the affairs of life. Everything we need to be the people God wants us to be is wrapped up in the word of God. To succeed, or prevail, in life, there is nothing we need outside of Genesis to Revelation. It may be encouragement, correction, support, guidance, training, or wisdom to do what we need to do and do it right—all is in the Bible.

The word of God according to II Timothy will teach us all we need to be successful in life. The word of God will also correct us when we are going in the wrong direction. We don’t have to be highly accomplished in whatever God calls us to do, because the word of God will train us. If the word of God can do all these things for us, what else do we need?

Some time ago a man was sick and he began to pray. He kept on praying for healing, but healing never came. The lack of healing was not because God couldn’t heal him but because sin in his life was preventing him from getting healed. One day he picked up his Bible and, at random, opened it to 1 John 1. God used verse 9 to tell him exactly what he needed to do to be healed. God said to him in that verse, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” He knew right away that the sin he had been hiding from his wife must be confessed for him to be healed. It was a hard thing to do, but he did it, and he was healed. God used His word to correct him. This is just one example of what the word of God will do for us.

The Bible says in II Peter 1:20–21, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” The word of God is not of human inspiration but of God.

I talked to a man about God some time ago, and I asked him, “Do you believe God exists?”

He said “Yes.”

“Do you believe in Jesus Christ?” I asked

“Yes,” and he added, “I even have a copy of the Bible, but I don’t really believe the Bible.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s written by men.”

Yes the Bible was written by men, but that’s only partially true. Satan had made this man believe that the Bible was written by men and therefore was an inspiration of men. The word of God was written by men, but it’s not an inspiration of men.

The word of God is the inspiration of God. God delivered every message and every word in the Bible, but He used men to write it down. The Bible says that the holy men of God are moved by the Holy Spirit to write the Scriptures. It has never been an inspiration of humans, and it will never be.

Because the Bible is the inspiration of God, we can expect God to speak to us through it, and whatever He speaks to us, we can surely expect the manifestation of that in our lives.

Also, because it is the inspiration of God and not the will of man, the Bible can never be outdated or obsolete. It is for past generations, this generation, and generations to come. The word of God is alive. It can change anyone or any situation because it’s not a human-made book but an inspiration of God.

Anything that’s born from the spirit of God has the potential to change someone’s life for good, and that’s what makes the Bible special. Every word in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, stems from the Spirit. The Bible says in Psalm 12:6, “The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” For the word of the Lord to be pure, it must be from heaven alone and not from this corrupt world. And that’s why it’s still changing people’s lives today as it did in past generations. And it will change your life too, in Jesus’ name.

The Bible says in John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

The word of God is so important that God could not create without it. Everything God created was created through His word. The Bible says in Genesis 1 that He created nothing without speaking out His word. Every time He wanted to create something, He would speak, and whatever He wanted would be. When He said, “Let there be light,” light came and darkness couldn’t exist any longer. The Bible also says in Psalm 33:6–9, “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded and it stood fast.”

When God was ready to send Jesus into the world in human flesh, the Bible says that God spoke. He spoke His word through His angel, and as Mary believed and received the message that was brought to her, Jesus Christ was conceived and born for us.

Why did God create everything through His word? Because the word of God alone is the only thing that can and will stand the test of time; it is the only thing that nothing can change or uproot. The word of God stands forever. And God has given us His word also to create so that we can have the same result He had. So how do we use it to have the same result God had?
 

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