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July 18, 2023
Your Victory is God’s Glory
Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ. (2 Corinthians 2:14 Amplified)
My beloved and precious one, give thanks to God who always causes you to triumph! Paul went to Troas to proclaim the Good News the Message of the Messiah, upon his arrival he found the place wide open, God had opened the door, and all he had to do was walk through it! Don’t you just love it when you are at the right place, at the right time, and with the right people? That was exactly where Paul was! However he couldn’t find Titus his spiritual son anywhere, and he had no rest or peace in his spirit. He was worried about Titus! Instead of walking through the open-door God had opened for him, he left for Macedonia looking for Titus. (2 Corinthians 2:12-13)
Can you think of a time God opened a door for you and but because of worry over children, marriage, finances, or any number of reasons you did not walk through it? I’ve got good news! It’s not over if you miss God, or you blow it, repent, get up and dust yourself off and pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get yourself going again! Go back to the last instruction the Father gave you and act upon it and get moving again. Don’t beat yourself up because you missed the mark! Repent, forgive yourself and get moving! Paul didn’t stop moving forward; he didn’t beat himself up because he was attacked with worry and did not walk through the door in Troas! No! He kept on moving forward, and it is time for you to move forward!
Father God planned your life from the foundations of the earth, and nothing and no one can stop His plan. Look what Paul says next, ‘thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ! (2 Corinthians 2:14) God ALWAYS causes you to triumph in Christ! Praise be to God who always causes you to triumph in Christ Jesus, and He manifests Himself through His knowledge by you every place you go! He releases His sweet fragrance (Love) in you and as believers which draws the lost to us. (2 Corinthians 2:15) In the Messiah, in Christ, He leads you from place to place in one perpetual victory parade. (2 Corinthians 2:14 Message)
Can you see this? Everywhere you go there is a continuous victory parade! You are a walking, talking, breathing epistle of the Word of God because you have hidden the Word of God in your heart. The only Bible many ever read is you! They look at the good change in your heart and see that you are a letter from Christ. It’s not written with pen and ink, but the Spirit of the Living God, not one carved on stone but in your human heart. (2 Corinthians 3:1-3) Everywhere you go, people are watching the continuous victorious parade you are!
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