...I hope we have all seen how wonderful God has planned out each of our lives. We are very valuable to God and His Kingdom. Psalm 139:13-14 (NLT) “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” Today I want us to see how God truly wants us to find our soul print and to be more than conquerors.
1. In discovering you are more than a conqueror; you will have to recognize your compensatory skills. We all know that David’s defeat of Goliath was supernatural, but also his compensatory skill. Batterson “If David isn’t an expert marksman with a slingshot, there is no way he defeats Goliath; he most definitely does not become king; and he therefore never produces a royal lineage that includes the Messiah.” A skill given by God and developed by David is used to help him be more than a conqueror!
2. In discovering you are more than a conqueror; you will have to deal with your control issues. One of Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest) powerful statements was: Chambers - “Let God Engineer.” What he was saying was that we must let God be in control. Batterson: Most of our emotional problems are symptoms of one deep-rooted spiritual problem: lack of trust in the sovereign God. It’s our lack of trust in Him that results in high levels of past-tense guilt, present-tense stress, and future-tense anxiety.” We want to be in control. We want to control others. We want to control God Himself. You do not belong to yourself; you were bought by the blood of Jesus so give up your desire to control what you do.
3. In discovering you are more than a conqueror; you will have to recognize your unconquerable-ness.
Oswald Chambers not only said “Let God Engineer” he also coined the word “Unconquerable-ness”. Chambers – “No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerable-ness.” David had this unconquerable-ness. Batterson – “In a sense, our faith is really a by-product of God’s faithfulness. God proves Himself to be faithful, and it builds our faith as we connect the dots.”Each wild animal that David conquered...each new psalm of worship that he wrote to the Lord, each time he practiced using his sling was moving him closer to his day of destiny. Philippians 1:6 (NKJV) “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” God is ordering your steps just like he did with David...there will be delays, there will be seasons, and there will be disappointments...that’s just life. Let God engineer and let Him build in you your inner unconquerable-ness! You are wonderfully Complex!
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