Keys to Experiencing Victory

Word of Truth Family Church
Many, Louisiana a Hemphill, Texas
Celebrating 29 years of ministry
1982-2011
"Come hear and be healed."

Keys to Experiencing Victory
By Suzanne Leitz

We’ll never be able to effectively witness and minister to a lost and dying world as long as we are not experiencing victory in our own lives. It’s not all about us, but it starts with us.

We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we do not apply God’s word to our situation.
- 1 John 5:14-15
  ¹⁴ Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.¹⁵And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
- His word is His will.
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we see other people as our problem.
- Ephesians 6:11-13
  ¹¹Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. ¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we are ruled by our flesh.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
  ¹⁹Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
- Romans 8:4-9
  ⁴So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].
  ⁵For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
  ⁶Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
  ⁷[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
  ⁸So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
  ⁹But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].
- Galatians 5:16
  But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).
- Galatians 5:25
  If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit [Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with A Commentary.] we have our life in God, let us go forward [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we do not know who we are in Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
  ²¹God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we do not use the God-given blood-bought authority in the name of Jesus.
- Luke 10:19
  ¹⁹I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we are proud.
- 1 Peter 5:5-7
  ⁵… All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,
  "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." ⁶Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. ⁷Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
We cannot experience victory in our own lives if we do not know we have been given the victory.
- Proverbs 2:7-8
  ⁷ He holds victory in store for the upright,
  he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
  ⁸ for he guards the course of the just
  and protects the way of his faithful ones.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14
  ¹⁴Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- John 16:33
  ³³These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
- Romans 8:37
  ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- 1 Corinthians 15:57
  ⁵⁷But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 5:4
  ⁴for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.