We want to thank Minister of Music Jacqua Williams for our word for today. She led us in this study last night at choir. Thus far we have covered at choir: Obedience, Worthy, Overcoming, and still to come are discipline and stewardship. Things have been heating up for the choir since we have started to study the Word of God together.
Today's word: Overcoming
Let's take a look at 1 over comer Joseph.
We really don't give Joseph all the credit
he deserves as an over comer. We use that word overcome,
overcoming and over comer without really understanding that this is a state of being
and not just a mind set or a bunch of hard work. An over comer is someone who has
been saved, sanctified, and set apart for a specific task God has in mind. Over comers also do not allow Satan to destroy or sway their faith.
Joseph was severely betrayed. He was hated by his brothers.
They sold him into slavery and then after some years had passed, a famine
hit the land. By that time Joseph was running things for Pharaoh
and when his brothers needed some food they had to ask him for it.
Now, here is where the overcoming begins. Joseph could have looked at his brothers
who didn't recognize him, and said let them starve. But he didn't. Instead he advised them to go home and get all the family and come back. When they did so he let them know who he was and fed his family so they would not starve. That's an Over comer. Joseph went through some stuff before he became the King's second in command. He was in prison yet he didn't remain bitter toward his brothers. God kept using him to dream dreams that would help Pharaoh build barns to house grain for the famine. Joseph stayed faultless in the presence of God and God raised him up for a special time in which his brothers would need his help. The brothers who had told their father that he had been killed. The brothers who sold him into slavery.
A person who will not let the past dictate who they are, how they think, or their Christlike
walk is the prime and pure example of an OVER COMER! They will remain faithful to the Lord
making their calling and election sure. They will not doubt that God has set them apart for a time such as this.
Over comers are people who have the love of the Lord. They believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, never demand their own way, and are not puffed up or arrogant. Over comers are disciples baptized by the fire of the Holy Ghost. Over comers have a peace that passes all understanding. Over comers are never bitter or revengeful. Over comers are not people pleasers. Over comers are the strong who say I will not quit singing in the choir no matter what they do to me. I am singing for the Lord and for the Lord I live and for the Lord I will die.
Are you an over comer?
An over comer has a radical faith that will allow him or her to walk on water. They have a faith that can part the Red Sea. They can pray and make the rain stop for 3 years. But they can also humble themselves to forgive, forget, and move on up a little higher using the same Faith, mercy, and grace toward others that God has so generously shown them. Over comers are people who live, breath and have their being in God's divine favor.
Other over comers you might remember are Esther, Job and Peter.
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