Romans 8:31-39 – “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

 “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”  

 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  NKJV

Being a ‘conqueror’ would be significant but being ‘more than’ a conqueror is nothing short of amazing!  The apostle Paul in his discourse regarding difficulties of life, the troubles we face, the temptations that come, and the assault of the evil one against our faith says, “What then shall we say to these things?”   Great Segway into a most powerful and needed truth in every life in every generation!  Here he gives us some specific and powerful truths to digest:

•  If God is for us, who can be against us? [To take that to the logical conclusion, what difference does it make who is against us?]
• If God was willing to allow Jesus to go to the Cross for us how could we not anticipate that He will provide for us everything we need to walk this walk?
• The condemnation we receive is not coming from Christ because He paid the price for us, is making intercession for us and will NEVER leave us nor forsake us.
• No matter what we face we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him that loved and loves us.

Paul goes on to tell us that NOTHING can separate us from God’s Love!  NOTHING can ever cause Him to stop loving us.  We may reject Him, turn our backs on Him, abandon Him but He will FOREVER Love us and reach out to us.  He has provided everything we need through His Word and Spirit to not only be victorious but MORE THAN CONQUERORS in this life.

I quoted this passage once and a person in the audience interrupted and said, “But brother that is for the next life not here on earth.”  REALLY?  You really want me to believe that victory and conquering is reserved for heaven.  You really want me to dismiss the scores of passages from the Bible about victorious living and the fact that Jesus defeated the devil and made an open show of him making us MORE THAN CONQUERORS.  You want me to ignore the promises of God regarding the help He provides for this Christian walk?  NO THANKS!  I’ll stick with the God of Victory and lay claim to His Promise that I not only can be but am MORE THAN A CONQUEROR through Jesus!

May God be with you as you go through your day!