Today I am going to share on something marvelous which I’d gain in last weekend conference. This conference helped and encouraged me in my Christian life and thus I’m here again to share on the treasure that I’d gain to all my friends.
A brother from the United States, brother David, began the conference by directing us a question, “Are you willing to be an overcomer? Are you willing to make the choice?”
This is a matter of choice. God gives us the rights to choose just like Adam and Eve. God gives us the freedom to choose but are we willing to make the choice? What choice? The choice of being an overcomer!
Previously, I had a thinking of what for I had to be an overcomer? I just have to live a simple live. I do not need great achievement, fame, fortune… I just need a simple yet happy life which I believe most of us have this kind of feeling as well. We just have to go to campus, get a degree or master or even doctoral degree, then getting into the working society, getting married with a good husband or wife, children, taking care of family and eventually collapse. Besides, I had a kind of feeling that I just need to be ordinary and normal Christian, I do not have the burden nor feeling that I should involved very much and in deep in the church life which is categorized as unimportant to me. This is the kind of life that I thought and I am going to live as well.
This time conference, God reveals to me that to be an overcomer is not that I had to be spiritual hero. Is just an ordinary Christian living an ordinary life, loving the God with their whole heart, mind, soul and strength! In Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength. To be an overcomer is important! For God need overcomer as His dispensational instrument.
I realised that it is not in a blink of eye that we would become an overcomer. It is through our daily life, through many little things in our daily life, the accumulation of decisions on things (from tiny little bean matter to big problems) in our daily life that we overcome with the overcoming Christ within us will make us the overcomer. It is not that we can do or perform but it is the Christ, the overcoming Christ, within us will overcome. In John 16:33 it says that These things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but take courage; I have overcome the world.
Praise the Lord! He had overcome the world. I believe and I trust in His world He had overcome the world and everything that has been begotten of God overcomes the world.
To overcome something, the resistance within us, need a great effort. Whether I could overcome is all voice down to whether I want to make a choice? I am very much in touch when brother shared that will we overcome? We need to make a choice! The choice is in our hand! I might fail but I could prayer to the Lord that by Your grace and mercy I am able to overcome! For God is faithful, for the good work that He had started He will definitely accomplished.
However, in order to accomplish His work God’s work needs our cooperation. We need to cooperate with God. The first and the foremost thing is the dealing of our heart. Prayed to God to take away the veils within our heart, to dig away all the stones within our heart that we could received Him. The more we receive Him, the more we would know Him. I was very much in lack of knowing God. I still don’t know Him neither do I recognized His voice. If I know Him, I will overcome all things in my life, for the overcoming Christ overcome everything!
May the Lord grant me ears that could listen. Listen to His words and His speaking that I would be renewed day by day and by the little choices that I made in my daily life, choose the tree of life, He is able to make me an overcomer!
In 1 Peter 5:7-8, Casting all your anxiety on Him because it matters to Him concerning you. Be sober, watch. Your adversary, the devil, as roaring lion, walks about, seeking someone to devour. We are born to be in this world under satanic chaos but we are not belonged to satan. Praise the Lord. I treasure that to be an overcomer is not being delivered out of the satanic chaos, instead they conquer the destructive satanic chaos and triumph in the constructive divine economy. They do suffer in the chaos but instead of being disappointed or discouraged, they are strengthened by the all sufficient grace. I just realized that how much I need to know and apply the all sufficient grace to remain in His flow of life that by this overcoming Christ I would be able to overcome all things in my life.
I really need to learn to have faith and to believe even at this very moment. I am worried about my research; I am not able to found the solutions. In state of being bounded by the pressure and anxiety, I began to blog again to write out the enjoyment that encourages me last few days. It reminded me again to have faith. Casting all my anxiety unto God for it matters to Him concerning me. I need to be sober!
In our daily life, I was enlightened that I need to faithfully run the course that God had assigned to me. God had assigned me some course, but am I faithful? I am not! I am rebellious! May the Lord grant me mercy, shine on me that I would positively gazed upon God while running the course. Beside that I must behold and look away unto Jesus that I would be encouraged and be persistence with endurance to finish my course. Is not that I could but I need to apply the all-sufficient grace of God.
I was enlightened this morning when a sister called me to help her up in some of her complicated situations that drag her down. She shared to me regarding her life, her studies. Deep within me, I praise the Lord for enable me to be there at that time. Though I am busy and have my own research analysis to be carried out, I spare the time for her, for I know that she is more important than my research analysis. I didn’t do much; I just listen to her and pray for her deep in my heart. There is nothing that I could do to help her up. Only God could give her peace within that she is able to move on in her life. Now I realized that why brother mention about come to meet together! Meetings encourage and strengthen each other’s faith. This noon, I purposely request to go to Jalan Song to have lunch, is not that I have a lot of time to spare but I would like to meet brother and sisters that I would be encouraged by the Christ within them. We all have different kind of complicated situations but Praise the Lord that we could come together to encourage each other to go on in the course!
