Joel Osteen Podcast - God Has Made You More Than A Conqueror | Victoria Osteen

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

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God is saying you are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. So today, you have to understand that God sees you in your wholeness, in the position of more than a conqueror. He calls you more than a conqueror because Jesus Christ already conquered. And what he conquered, he gave you the power to conquer. He put the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. on the inside of us. So Jesus overcame, so you're not powerless, you can overcome when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You see, how you activate the power is simply saying, I receive

Jesus as my Lord and my Savior. I believe he overcame so that I can overcome. You are more than a conqueror. Jesus never intended us to be under the oppression of the enemy, to be in slavery or in bondage. Jesus came to set us free. That was the master plan of God from the very beginning. He spoke it through his prophet Jeremiah when he said, I know the plans I have for you. There are plans to prosper you, not to harm you. There are plans to give you a hope and a future. You see, you have a champion living on the inside of you when you are born again and when you

accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. See, that relationship with Jesus is supposed to grow and it causes us to be more than a conqueror. See, actually, God's already said it in heaven. It's established and it's finished. We are living it out in real time. That's what you got to understand. You may not feel like a conqueror, but you are living out your destiny right now in real time. So don't let the enemy tell you you're anything but more than a conqueror.

I heard about this famous boxer who had this world-renowned trainer that developed him in to a world champion. And what this trainer would do before each and every match is he would take a little piece of paper, he'd write a number on it, and he'd slip it into the boxer's glove. Now that sounds like a crazy thing to do right before a match, but the trainer had a reason for doing it. He wrote that number on the piece of paper because he was predicting when his champion, which round his champion was going to deliver the final blow to knock out his opponent. See, he had so much confidence in that boxer that it wasn't whether he was going to win.

It was which round he was going to win. You see, that little piece of paper gave that boxer so much confidence because it reminded him that he could do it. It reminded him of the champion that lived on the inside of him. It gave him what he needed to go out and knock out his opponent. But, you know, the truth of the matter is, that little piece of paper was only a number. It had no effect on that boxer until that boxer let it get in to his thinking, let it become a part of who he was, believing that it was only a matter of time before he knocked out his opponent. See, God has placed in your glove today the seed of a champion.

He's already given you the seed that is going to be developed to cause you to overcome in every area. See, God knows what's in you because he put it in there. He believes in you. He is in your corner. And he is not saying if you're going to win. He is saying it's only a matter of time before you deliver that final blow and you knock out your opponent. But we have to get this into our thinking, just like that boxer, until we activate that seed of greatness on the inside of us by what we think, by what we say, by how we praise, how we respond

to the forces of God, that is when we will become more than a conqueror. You are living out your destiny right now in real time. And let me tell you, when God sees you, he sees you as a champion. He knows exactly what he's placed on the inside of you. You know, that day that Jesus hung on the cross, the enemy thought he'd done it. He was just waiting for Jesus to relinquish control of the kingdom. He said, we finally got him. All the demons in hell were rejoicing.

He sat on that cross, and he was bleeding. He was bleeding great drops of blood. The demons said we did it. But instead of hearing Jesus say, I'm finished, he heard Jesus say, it is finished. It is done. He dismantled the powers of darkness. In fact, the scripture says that he made a spectacle out of them. He proved them defeated.

He is the champion of the world. Amen. But you know what's so amazing about our champion? He not only took the keys of hell and death. You know, keys represent control. They represent going in and coming out. They represent either locking him out or locking them in. They are, you are in control and in possession of the keys of hell and death. That champion not only dismantled the power of darkness, took away the keys. Then he sat down on his throne and he turned to you and I and he handed us the prize. That's what makes us more than conquerors today. You are a champion. It's not a matter of if you're going to win. It's a matter of that final blow. What round you're going to take out your opponents. Amen. Amen. We got power in the name of Jesus.

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