Vibrance Ministries: Victory - The Power of Living Faith

VICTORY, the power of a living faith. Your walk of faith is supposed to feel like victory every day. Make it so. Take your place in the winner’s circle child of God. Know that even before your storm abates you can celebrate your victory lap.

One of the core strategies in athletic training is developing the ability to experience the victory even before you run the race.

There is a tried and true mind training technique, where athletes mentally rehearse their event, visualizing themselves winning and experiencing the joy of the victory. This strategy helps to build their confidence, reduce anxiety, and improve performance by creating a positive mental blueprint for success.

If You Want To BE It, Gotta Let Yourself SEE It

Dear Christian friend, do you have a blueprint for personal victory? Do you know how it feels to come out on top of the situation that threatens to overwhelm you? Do you really?

Will I dance for You, Jesus, or in awe of You, be still? Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall? Will I sing hallelujah? Will I be able to speak at all? I can only imagine*

Can you imagine?

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine good outcomes for your situation because of the pain and stress associated with it. So take yourself out of it. Come, walk with me…

Walk into the body of Usain Bolt. Beijing Olympics 2008, you are 21 years old, primed for the 100 meter sprint, not yet knowing that you will beat a record set by the great Carl Lewis in 1984 by shattering 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meters records in this single Olympics. This record has literally stood longer than your entire lifespan. You are about to rewrite history.

Be in Usain’s body in the moments before the 100 meter sprint. Just three short years before, you placed dead last in the 2005 world track-and-field championships final. The year before that you failed to even make the Olympic team. But you’re back and you are not just here to be here, you’re here to win.

Feel the energy in your body, feel the buzz, feel yourself gather in all your strength and power, feel that moment of take-off as you give it everything that you’ve got.

Move into the moment after you cross that finish line, heart pounding in your chest, gasping for breath, muscles quivering in the aftermath. 9.69 seconds. It echoes in your head, over and over you hear it 9.69 seconds. Asafa did 9.74 just two years before. You are now the world record holder.

Feel into the moment, feel your heart trying to fly out of your chest, feel the sweat running in sheets down your face, feel your muscles spasming, feel your emotions. Is your heart racing? Are there tears streaming down your face, do you have a sense of elation or relief? Are you amazed?

Now move into the moment when you do that iconic lightning bolt pose as the crowd goes wild. That’s what victory feels like.

I've got, got the victory, I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, He is a mighty conqueror, In him I will trust, all my battles he'll fight. I've got, got the victory, I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus**

Christian friends your walk of faith is supposed to feel like victory every day. The actual events unfolding around you do not determine your ability to walk in victory. Your victory tour does not depend on stuff, it does not depend on people, money is not a determinant nor is the state of your health, your environment, or any of the things we love to stress about.

Your victory lives within you. We Christians call him Jesus.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Gal 2:20

This is everyday practical Christianity. This is the true power of faith.

When the apostle Paul said ‘it is not I who lives, it is Christ living in me’ he meant it very literally. To say that He dwells in us and we dwell in Him is a very literal thing. Jesus’ spirit moves into your body and cohabitates. This should mean something to you.

It is not you trying to gather courage to speak to your sickness. Christ is in you and when he speaks he knows it is done. So he’s not speaking and testing, speaking and fretting, speaking and hoping. He is confident.

He is also alpha and omega, beginning and end ie. He’s super smart and has all divine wisdom. He knows the end from the beginning, he is not worried about what happens in between. So what if you speak and your situation gets worse? You are devastated, you think your faith is not working!

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. - Philippians 2:5

Child of God, Jesus hated the thought of the cross, he knew the suffering he would endure and it was frightening. But he went anyway because he knew the end. You may not know the end in your situation but whatever comes it is well done. Jesus is in you and his guidance is sure, he never misses and he never loses.

When you are in desolation, distress and anxiety you are being double-minded. The Christ mind within you is at peace, it is your carnal mind that is freaking out. Get yourself together, line up with the higher mind that is already active within you.

Are you a Christ-ian? Well, this is what that means. It means Jesus is not an external deity that you are begging to help you, it means he moved in the moment you extended the invitation. So its not you who is facing the world in this day, it is you hid in Christ.

All you have to do is recognize that you are not the person you used to be. You are not subject to the weaknesses, frailty and powerlessness that the human you was subject to. You’ve got something extra in you, you are a spiritually enhanced being.

You Are So Much Bigger, Stronger, Smarter, More Capable And More Beautiful Than You Know Yourself To Be.

You may seem to be losing some battles, but for sure you will not lose the war. You cannot. Did Jesus lose? If he did you would not be reading this right now.

Step into the winners circle my friend. Live every day from that place. Visit often in your imagination until the day that life catches up. Then you will be so well rehearsed you will have such grace and poise in victory. And the world will celebrate your God because of the way you handled your walk.

For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. - 1 John 5:4

Author: Max Patrick @VibranceMinistries

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