More Than Conquerors

The following is taken from "Streams in the Desert" by Mrs. Charles Cowman.

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37).

The Gospel is so arranged and the gift of God so great that you may take the very enemies that fight you and the forces that are arrayed against you and make them steps up to the very gates of heaven and into the presence of God.

Like the eagle, who sits on a crag and watches the sky as it is filling with blackness, and the forked lightnings are playing up and down, and he is sitting perfectly still, turning one eye and then the other toward the storm. But he never moves until he begins to feel the burst of the breeze and knows that the hurricane has struck him; with a scream, he swings his breast to the storm, and uses the storm to go up to the sky; away he goes, borne upward upon it.

That is what God wants of every one of His children, to be more than conqueror, turning the storm-cloud into a chariot. You know when one army is more than conqueror it is likely to drive the other from the field, to get all the ammunition, the food and supplies, and to take possession of the whole. That is just what our text means. There are spoils to be taken!

Beloved, have you got them? When you went into that terrible valley of suffering did you come out of it with spoils? When that injury struck you and you thought everything was gone, did you so trust in God that you came out richer than you went in? To be more than conqueror is to take the spoils from the enemy and appropriate them to yourself. What he had arranged for your overthrow, take and appropriate for yourself.

Lord, I pray that I could become more than a conqueror, by your Power. Make me humble, totally dependent upon you. Through your Spirit I can become mighty by faith.

Prayer

My reading for today came from Mrs. Charles Cowman's "Streams in the Desert." This is the original version of the book, NOT the "updated for modern readers version." I have an old 1949 edition gleaned from my grandmothers attic years ago and also a newly printed one that was VERY hard to find. It seems with the dumbing down of America all the old classic devotionals are being dumbed down too!

In part the message was:

No doubt by praying we learn to pray, and the more we pray the oftener we can pray, and the better we can pray. He who prays in fits and starts is never likely to attain to that effectual, fervent prayer which availeth much.

Great power in prayer is within our reach, but we must go to work to obtain it.

How true this is. Prayer is like exercise. The more we do it the easier it gets. When we first try it is difficult and so easy to want to give up but then as we perservere and make it a part of our "daily routine" we find it easier and easier and we spend longer and longer at it with little effort.

Heritage of the Lord

Lo children are an heritage of the Lord...

--Grandchildren are too!

Standing in the Light

"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2:27

This is the message we have heard and declared unto you:

"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we havve fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:5-7

What do we, my Beloved, in secret, in private? What do we, that we tell not or share not with our brethren in the Light. Those secret things we do, unwilling to share with our brethren are done in darkness. Open thy life to the Light that those things may be seen for what they are--SIN--which once again plunges thee into darkness.

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1

Jesus Christ is the Light that came into the world. Search out the Light and live in the Light.

Beloved, these things I write unto thee that thee sin not. If thee says thee knows and lives by that Light (Jesus Christ) who came to save us but do not live according to he Light, thee is a liar and the truth is not in thee.

Beloved, this is nothing new - hereby we do know that we know Him (the Light) ifwe live in obedience to Him. Love not the world, neither the thing that are in the world. If thee love the world, the love of the Father is not in thee. For all that is in the world, lust of the flesh (which is personal gratification through what thee eats, drinks, or takes into thy body) lust of the eyes (which is those things of the world we see around us which we desire or covet) and the pride of life (which is worldly ambition, but can also be a form of spiritual ambition.) Al this is not of the Father. Flee from all this and seek the Light, in order to wlak in the Light, no longer in darkness, held captive by thy sins.

Let that therefore abide in thee which thee has heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

These things have I written to thee concerning them that seduce you. But the annointing which ye received of him (the Light) abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him (who is the Spirit of Truth).

And now Beloved, abide in Him that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 1 John 2:26-29