Who is he who conquers the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
(1 John 5: 5)
I often hear people say: The important thing is not to win or lose, the important thing is to play well. What nonsense! If you play well, you will win!
Any coach will tell you that playing well implies having a winning attitude. That is what God wants us to have as believers: that our faith in Him be such that we can have the confidence to break down every obstacle that the devil throws at us. He wants us to have the confidence to win in the game of life.
That attitude is not always easily acquired. We are so used to losing that it is necessary that we totally change our thinking if we want to have a winning attitude. In Ephesians, the apostle Paul tells believers to renew their way of thinking. Like us, those believers needed to change their attitude and renew their understanding of the fact that Jesus had defeated the world.
If you haven't done that, you need to do it too. He needs to have a glorious sense of trust so he can say: I am going to be victorious because there is nothing that can avoid God's plan for my life.
In 1 John 5: 5 he describes it thus: Who is he who overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Do you know what that verse means?
It means that if you are a born again believer, you have the absolute right to be a victor to overcome every aspect of this evil world. Think and meditate on that. Start cultivating a winning attitude today.
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The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
2 Pedro 3:9
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This is the verse in it's proper context:
(1 John 5:3-5 NIV) This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, {4} for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. {5} Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/1-john-5/
"Overcomers overcome because the blood of Jesus overcomes Satan’s accusations, the word of their testimony overcomes Satan’s deceptions, and loving not their lives overcomes Satan’s violence (Revelation 12:11)."
That's the victory that God promises. Not a victory in business or in some kind of success.
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Meditate day and night the book of this law always keeping it on your lips; If you work in everything according to what is prescribed in it, you will prosper and succeed in everything you undertake. 9 I have sent you seas that strong and brave. Do not be afraid or coward, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1: 8-10
Luke 6:38: “Den, and you will be given a good measure, even tight, shaken and overflowing. Because with the same measure with which you measure, they will be measured ».
Proverbs 3: 9-10: “Honor the Lord with your goods and with the firstfruits of your crops. Your barns will be saturated with wheat, and your vats will overflow with wine ».
Deuteronomy 16:17: "Each one will present his offering, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given him."
Luke 21: 1-4: «Jesus was observing the rich who deposited their offerings in the ark of the temple, and saw that a very poor widow deposited two little coins of little value there. Then he said: «Truly, I say to you, that this poor widow has cast more than all. Because all those offered to God what they have left over, but she put, in her poverty, everything she had for her livelihood »
2 Corinthians 9: 8: "And God is powerful enough to abound in you all grace, so that always and in all circumstances have all that is necessary, and abound in you all good work."
Jeremiah 17: 7-8: “But blessed is the man who trusts in me, that I am the Lord, and who puts his trust in me. That man is like a tree planted by the streams; it takes its roots by the currents, and does not realize when the heat arrives; its leaves are always green, and in the years of drought it does not wilt or fail to bear fruit ».
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