Victory!

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - Corinthians 15:57

We have been given the gift of victory through the Lord Jesus Christ! Victory is the means of success. It is not the means for success, meaning that it is something that is off in the future or something that has to be attained. It is the means of success, meaning that it is already accomplished and it already belongs to you! Jesus has already given you the victory in every area of your life. How? By washing away your sins and putting you in right standing with God. By disarming demons, principalities and powers of darkness. By defeating the devil and rendering him powerless. By fulfilling the Law of commandments against us and annulling them, making them void and legally nonexistent. By conquering death so that we would never again be separated from God. He accomplished all this and more by his death on the cross, and now through his resurrection we have the victory that He won for us!

　"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."