I am determined not merely to survive as a Christian, but to overcome. Too often my life has been a “hanging in there” kind of thing, when actually God has called me to be an overcomer. Do I get into one scrape after another and then saw “Thank God I got out of that one alive”? Is that all there is, getting out of things alive?
The secret of overcoming is adequate resources, and the secret of adequate resources is tapping the infinite supply of God. I have been struck with the poor widow’s plight (2 Kings 4). She had a little oil, nothing more. Creditors were pressing her to sell her sons as slaves. Elisha advised her to procure all the empty jars she could lay hands on, then pour what little oil she had into them one by one until each was full Then it happened! By some wondrous power the oil kept flowing until every jar was full.
Where did the oil come from? Where else but the same place as the loaves, the fish, the wine, the manna, and the thousand other things God sent His poverty-stricken people! God was simply supplying out of His storehouse that which was perfectly visible to Him but not to them. If only we could see God’s infinite supply! I am not an overcomer because I am not a taker. God’s enormous quantities are at my disposal If only I will claim them. The lack is not with God; it is with me. I can grit it out with sheer determination and scant faith, but I will never overcome that way. God, let me believe You, really believe You, for therein lies my ability to fight and overcome, not merely exist It is “according to [Your] riches in glory” (Philippians 4:19). You measure Your supply; and according to our faith, You allow that supply to be tapped.
“And the lord said to Abraham, ‘Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?” Is anything too difficult for the Lord’” (Genesis 18:13–14).
Daily with the King 