Overcomers

Christ did not die for us to be defeated by this life.  He wants us to rise up and be overcomers.  But why can we do this? In John 16:33 Jesus states, "I have overcome the world".  He has overcome the world and that is reason enough to fix our eyes on Him and not look away.  

When we have Christ as the center of our lives, this world cannot defeat us because in 1 John 4:4 it says, "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world".  Mandisa even has a song about being an overcomer.  click here

Some of the advantages to being an overcomer of this world include but are not limited to:

"Being granted to eat from the tree of life which is in paradise and overcome the second death." Rev 2:7-11

"Will be given hidden manna and a white stone with a new name written thereon". Rev 2:17

Christ will give us "authority over the nations".  Rev 2:26

"He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.  He who overcomes, I will make a pillar in the temple of My God and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the Name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and My new Name."  Rev 3:5-12

These are really great things.  The only way that we are able to obtain these is if we are overcomers of this world with Christ.  Trusting in Him to do what He says He will do.  This world will cause us to have problems.  It will knock us down and steal our lunch money, but only if we let it.  We will get knocked down, but staying down is a choice.  I for one want to be get back up.