Victoria Price

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Don't worry that some people can't see how you're ever going to make it. I have found that God has been much easier to please than man. It is an exercise in futility to try to please everybody.
~ Chuck Smith
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it." Matthew 16:25
There is much pressure today for people to develop a strong sense of "self identity." Many try to sort through the issues of their past to discover who they are today. In contrast, Jesus gives us a tremendous key: to enter the Kingdom we must lose our life for His sake, and then we find out who we really are.
Through the hurts and pains of life, many people turn inward in self-preservation by building a wall around their hearts. Their past has been so devastating that they never want to feel that pain again. The bricks that are put in place around the heart are often held together with the mortar of alcohol, drugs, or illicit relationships.
On the other hand, many people try to patch the pieces of their childhood by pressuring themselves to fit some perfect standard of the world's image. Jesus says above that if you are trying to save your life by hanging on to this world's ideals, you are going to lose your life. But if you let it go for Jesus' sake, you are going to find life.
In a sense, it's as if people live life trying to pull all the broken pieces of their life together like a jigsaw puzzle, hoping to form a coherent picture of "self." But this pursuit is a dead end; life happens in just the opposite direction. Only God, your Creator, can see the full puzzle. Only God, the Designer, can assemble the broken pieces to form the true picture. The deception is that you will find peace and happiness by living for self, but the truth is that if you'll die to self, Jesus can work and show you who God created you to be, and how God sees you. Realize today that the denial of self is the only place where one can discover true peace.
"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7
1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win! God created you to be a warrior, and He's given you all the weapons you need to WIN! Here are some of the weapons the Bible talks about:
God's Word (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12). Quote a Bible verse and watch Satan scram! Prayer (Ephesians 6:18). You win when you pray God's Word! Praise (Psalm 8:2). Hush Satan up with your praises to God! Jesus' blood (Revelation 12:10-11). Overcome the devil by telling him that you love and belong to Jesus—and are protected by Jesus because He died for you on the cross! Even before God made the world, He planned out exactly what you would be like—and what you would do as a soldier in His kingdom. You are special! You were born for this! SO REMEMBER: Spiritual warfare is real, and the weapons are real. And God has given you everything you need to be one of the most amazing warriors the kingdom of Light has ever seen. So you can inform all of your enemies that you are tailor made for God's assignment and that He has already factored in every trial, battle, hindrance, report, weakness, failure, circumstance, rejection, abandonment, and every obstacle in the Christian race. You need to declare - Don't even try to hinder me now because God has written my name on His agenda, signed in the blood of Jesus, and no weapon formed, and I mean no weapon, whatever it is, and I mean whatever, can ever possibly prosper!!
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