FOCUS ON GOD’S OVERCOMING POWER
The Bible identifies two overcoming powers that are in place for one that believes in the word of God. Revelation 12:11records, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…”When a believer pleads the Blood of the Lamb or claims the word of testimony, experiencing the power of God will answer for the believer.
ABOUT THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
John the Baptist informs all about Jesus as the Lamb of God in John 1:29, “…Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”Jesus is the Lamb of God that shed His blood on the Calvary for those who will receive and believe in Him.
The word of John 10:10 confirms the coming of Jesus as the reason to believe in Him as the overcoming power as it states, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
As a believer of God’s word, calling on God for your expectation for manifestation, plead the blood of Jesus with trust and hope, expect God’s intervention on your behalf.
ABOUT THE WORD OF TESTIMONY
Word of testimony can be described as an open declaration of what God has done or what God is doing in one’s life. In the face of a challenging situation, a believer that declares what the Lord God has done or what God is doing will experience the move of God. In most cases, what you declare is set to decorate you with your testimony to the glory of God. As a believer, give testimony to the glory of God to become an overcomer. As a believer, when your testimony about the goodness of God becomes your meditation at the time of challenges or no challenges, experiencing the overcoming power of God will become your portion.
Through the pages of the Bible, there is evidence of what positive or negative testimonies delivered into the lives of the testifiers, let your testimonies of God be positive to answer for you to make you an overcomer.
Evidence of Positive Testimony: King David, by the word of his testimonies, had a great and mighty deliverance when he overcame Goliath. In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) David refused to be discouraged, but gave an account of what he was able to do as he responded to King Saul, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) David was not intimated by the confronting challenge that was posed by Goliath. Instead, David dwelt on what The Lord his God had enabled him to do in the past and he gave testimony, “The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:37) David, by the word of his testimony, was able to overcome the giant challenge of Goliath.
Evidence of Negative Testimony: The children of Israel experienced a great miracle when they were coming out of their bondage of over four hundred years and passing through the Red Sea on dry land but their testimonies denied them from God’s Promised Land.
The Israelites’ response to the spy’s negative report after investigation of the Promised Land, they had no better testimony but to confess, “…If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? So they said to one another, ‘Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.’” (Numbers 14: 2-4)
God heard the children of Israel’s negative testimony when sent Moses to the Israelites, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.’” (Numbers 14:28) In truth, entire numbers from twenty years old and up except Caleb and Joshua, failed and not get to the Promised Land, because of their negative testimony.
What are your testimonies? Which words are being produced in you and being released by your tongue as testimony? Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” David saw challenges, he testified to the power of God and he overcame. The children of Israel saw challenges, they confessed negative and could not arrive Promised Land. In facing challenges, give positive testimonies, meditate, confess and be established for the glory of God.