Victorious Faith

John Owen The Use of Faith, if Popery Should Return Upon Us, 1680

Though our persons fall, our cause shall be as truly, certainly, and infallibly victorious, as that Christ sits at the right hand of God. The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.

William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armour

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Is your faith a temptation quenching faith? Is it able to defend you in the day of battle, and cover your soul in safety when Satan's darts fly about you? Go and touch Christ by faith that virtue may flow from him to your soul and quench the fiery darts of temptation.

Some pre­tend to believe, but it is ostiâ fide—an easy faith; their faith doth not set them on a vigorous endeavour. They look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it. This is a mere fiction, a fanciful faith. He that believes God for the event, believes him for the means also. O Chris­tian, sit not still, and say thy sin shall fall, but put thyself in array against it. God, who hath promised thee victory calls thee to thy arms and means to use thy own hands in the battle if ever thou gettest it.

Richard Sibbes The Soul's Conflict With Itself

In Christ all fullness shall dwell, (Colossians 1:19), from whose fullness grace sufficient is dispensed to us answerable to the measure of our faith, whereby we fetch it from the fountain. The more we trust, the more we have. When we look, therefore, to our own want, we should look withal to Christ's fullness and his nearness to us, and take advantage from our misery to rest upon his all- sufficiency whose fullness is ours, as himself is.

Edmund Calamy The Godly Man's Ark, Or, City of Refuge in the Day of His Distress

The promises God makes to us to mortify our sins for us, are greater helps against sin than our promises to God to mortify sin. Many people in the day of their distress vow and promise to leave sin, and fight against it in the strength of these promises, and instead of conquering sin, are conquered by sin. But if we fight against sin in the strength of Christ and of His promises, if we urge God in prayer with His own Word, we shall at last get victory over it, for He has said that sin shall not have dominion over us (Romans 6:14).

William Mason A Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God, 1803

Philippians 1:21 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

Come Christian, let us, like the wise merchant, calculate our accounts of loss and gain, and see the sum total. What is our gain? Nothing less than precious Christ, and a precious salvation! In Christ we have perfect righteousness before God, full acceptance with God, free access to God, love from God, peace with God, hope of enjoying, yes, present fellowship with God; we are his children in Christ Jesus; all that he has is ours; every attribute and perfection of Jehovah is engaged for us; his Spirit is ours, to make us holy and happy here, and to lead us to eternal happiness hereafter.

In Christ we have gained a sacrifice for sin, and redemption from it. His precious blood has taken away all the guilt of sin from us, and all the wrath due to us from the justice of God. Will sin destroy our mortal bodies? Let it; this is all it can do; it cannot hurt our immortal souls; for, thanks be to God in Christ, we have a complete victory over death; Christ is our gain in death. We shall lose nothing by death but sin and sorrow: but we shall gain eternal glory. We shall be with our Jesus (John 17:24).

Octavius Winslow Daily Walking With God

Believer in Jesus! tell me not only of the sin that dwells in you, often bringing your soul into bondage and distress; tell me also of the grace that dwells in you, which as often gives you the victory, and sends you rejoicing on your way.

G. Campbell Morgan “The Fight of Faith” on 1 Timothy 6:12

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A.B. Simpson

A precious secret of Christian life is to have Jesus dwelling within the heart and conquering things that we never could overcome. It is the only secret of power in our lives. God will come to dwell within us and be the power, the purity, the victory and the joy of our lives. Our attitudes will no longer be, "What is the best that I can do?" but we will ask, "What is the best that Christ can do?"

If when it seems your old self has come back and you listen to it, fear it, believe it, it will have the same influence upon you as if it were not dead. It will control you and destroy you. Instead, simply ignore it and say: "You are not I, you are Satan trying to make me believe that my old self is not dead. I refuse you. I treat you as a demon power outside of me, I detach myself from you." The evil thing will disappear, the shadow will vanish, the wand of faith will dispel the troubling spirit and send it back to the abyss. In its place we will find Christ there instead with His risen life to back up our confidence and seal our victory.

Whatever comes, regard it as of less consequence than that you should triumph and remain steadfast. Accept every circumstance as something God is pleased to allow. Wave the banner of your victory in the face of every foe. Go on, shouting in Jesus' name, "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ" (2 Corinthians 2:14).

A.W. Tozer The Next Chapter after the Last

Jesus is Victor! That is the truth His resurrection proclaims. Now it remains for us to allow Him to be Victor in us, thus multiplying the glory of His triumph in the hearts of His trusting people.

John Angell James

Now the victory over the world is, this subordination in the state of our mind—of the creature to the Creator; of earth to heaven; of temporal blessings to spiritual ones; of time to eternity. It is the formation of an unearthly, spiritual, divine, and heavenly mind-set and character!

F.B. Meyer

O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Captain of Salvation, who discernest the malevolence and working of evil spirits against my soul, deliver me, I entreat Thee, amid the manifold temptations and trials by which I am beset, make a way for me to escape, succour me by Thy mighty power, and cause me to become more than a conqueror.

Whatever our difficulties, whatever our weakness and infirmity, keep us steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; gaining by our losses, succeeding by our failures, triumphing in our defeats, and ever more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

CAUTION

Our victory is always within the boundaries (parameters) of God's law and God's will.

Jude 21 (Living Bible) "Stay always within the boundaries where God’s love can reach and bless you."