Today—Conquer through Jesus Christ
Today is Monday, the day after Sunday, a day of the week that follows the day many may have attended a corporate worship service with fellow church attenders. Today (Monday) is the day AFTER the weekend, the day when the world returns to working with our hands, when the play of the weekend break has come to an end, and when it’s back to work, as usual. Does it matter how we approach this second day of the week, the one that follows the day of worship we just experienced and enjoyed, the day of gathering alongside other believers within our houses of worship, and the day we sought to raise our voices and hands together as we praised our Lord?
Does it matter how we approach our Monday?
The Bible says it does. Within The Letter of Paul to the Romans, the apostle Paul was led by the Spirit to record:
“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.”
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 37 NASB)
Prior to verse thirty-seven, Paul was led to record a list that comprised “all these things” that “we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loves us.”
“Who will separate us from the love of Christ [of God]?
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 35 NASB)
Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
We who were once fearful are made fearless. The Holy Spirit forms the Gospel in our hearts and on our lips. We become empowered by God’s Spirit, and our pulpit can now be found in any place, beginning with our mirror where we dress and prepare for the day to come. We need to see ourselves as our Lord sees us: Loved—Forgiven—Redeemed & One Who has entered His Eternal Rest.
Pray silently about any sins you might be hanging onto today.
Pray silently asking the Lord Jesus Christ to identify them to you.
Yes, let us pray silently seeking forgiveness before stepping outside our homes to face the coming workday, before we encounter others, both believers and unbelievers.
Child of God, you and I must recall, “we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” It is through Jesus that we are able to put to death those sins that plague us, those sins that stop our witness and hinder our testimony. There is nothing that will EVER separate us from the love of God.
IT IS A FACT, A TRUTH, & A PROMISE OF GOD!
Not external hardship.
Not personal crisis.
Not personal struggles.
Not life at its worse.
Not outward pressure.
Not inward turmoil.
Not relentless harm or persecution at the hands of others.
Not complete deprivation or famine.
Not severe exposure or nakedness.
Not ongoing threats of danger.
Not mortal threat of sword.
Not even the loss of life—death—can EVER separate us who have believed upon the name of Jesus Christ.
“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.”
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 37 NASB)
Today—Conquer through Jesus Christ
“Just as it is written,
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 36 NASB)
“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
So, friend: brother and sister-in-Christ, let us pause now, before stepping outside into the world, praying and asking the Lord Jesus Christ to help us (His sheep) put to death any sins that remain unconfessed.
Then, once we have sought the Lord’s forgiveness, may we step into our Monday—FEARLESS & UNAFRAID—for We Speak Jesus.
Allow the Teacher, the Holy Spirit, to speak through us (you and me).
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, not angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 38-39 NASB)
will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”