Be an Overcomer

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith.” I John 5:4

How to be an overcomer. This is the theme of numerous volumes available at your local bookstore.

How to overcome bad eating habits, financial problems, smoking...

Much is spent each year by consumers for hospital care, psychoanalysis, seminars, cults, and paperback books - just to learn how to be an overcomer.

What a waste - when you consider they could listen freely to any evangelist, read a Gideon Bible at no charge, or at least, find a Christian analyst, and through the power of God become an overcomer.

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith.” I John 5:4

Faith is what exists in the heart of the one who knows Jesus as Lord and Savior. The faith you exercised when you yielded yourself to God and asked for forgiveness of sins based on what Jesus had done, is the faith you exercise daily as you yield yourself to His Spirit.

How do you live like who you are - someone who is free from bondage?

By considering yourself to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus - Rom 6:11. You can literally do this through the power of the Holy Spirit Who lives in you.

“But if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” Romans 8:13

What area of your life are you ready to yield to the Spirit of God so that you can be an overcomer?