Pastor's Word - A Triumphant Christian Life

You can live a triumphant Christian life. 2 Cor. 2:14-17 give some important principles.

1. Learn how to pray. There are no shortcuts to pray. Develop your schedule. Appoint a place, time, and pattern.

2. Learn to totally yield yourself to the Spirit. Those that are led by the Spirit are the sons of God. This can only happen when you surrender completely to Him.

3. Know the Word. Read, understand and memorize God's Word. You cannot use what you don't have.

4. Know how to use the Word. The Word is quick, powerful and sharp.

5. Know who you are in Christ. Your position - destined for greatness, built to be habitable by God.

6. Know the enemy. Without this knowledge, the battle is already lost.

7. Be totally committed. It's a lifestyle, not spontaneous, or when you feel like it.

8. Learn how to live the Faith life. The just shall live by Faith. Hab. 2:4.

9. Seek daily cleansing. We are not perfect.

10. Guard what you feed on.

11. Learn to practice the power of praise. The enemy is allergic to praise. When you praise: - Burdens are lifted. - Atmosphere is changed. - Attitude is transformed.
    

12. Learn to be quiet in the presence of God. Listen for an answer, for directions. How often we do not give God an opportunity for response.

Read 2 Cor. 4: 8-9; 16-18. We are troubled ... not distressed, persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, not destroyed. For our "Light affliction which is for a moment, worketh for us, a far more excellent weight of glory."