How to Reach Victory!
By Believing God!
By Riqui Ricón*
For God has not given us the spirit
of fear, but of power,
and of love, and of a
sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV)
Beloved, according to the Bible—the Word of
God, which never lies—when you accepted Jesus as the Lord and Savior of your life, all your sins were paid
for; therefore, you were justified, forgiven, and sanctified.
God did all this out of love for you, with
the sole purpose that you might receive the gift of Eternal
Life by being Born Again as a son or daughter of the
King.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creature:
old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (2
Corinthians 5:17, KJV)
It is through
this wonderful act of the New Birth that you have been made into a new kind of being—one that never
existed before—and you have not received a spirit of fear. Instead, God has
equipped your new nature with a spirit of power, of love, and of self-control.
You are a child of the King!
However,
there are believers who, when they hear this revelation, respond
by thinking, “Well, if I’m honest, I do love God with all my heart, but
I don’t feel holy, or righteous, and I don’t notice any kind of power or love
in my life. I’m still fighting against my old nature.”
So pay close attention
to this short reflection from today’s readings, because
here lies the key to success in living a life of power, love, and self-control!
For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God—not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians
2:8–9, NIV)
The New Nature, just like salvation, is
received by faith—by believing God, by believing His Word. You don’t receive
it because of what
you’ve done or what
you will do, nor because of how you feel about yourself; you receive it when
you believe it simply because
God says so. And if God says it, then you believe it, accept it, and receive it.
For example, no matter how you see yourself or how you feel today, the only Truth is this:
• You are God’s beloved.
God loves you so much that He chose to give His own
Son rather than lose you!
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
• By your faith—by believing God and believing
His Word—you have been born of God. You are a true and legitimate
child of God, born again.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
is born of God.
(1 John 5:1a, NIV)
• You were born again not from a corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible
seed—the Word of God, which lives and remains forever.
You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of
God. (1 Peter 1:23, NIV)
So then, what really matters
is not what you feel, experience, or show through your actions, because that’s
not the Truth.
The Truth is what God has declared about you in His Word, for all
His Word is Truth.
So we are always
confident, knowing that as long as we are at home in the
body we are away from the Lord—for we
walk by faith [by believing God, believing His Word], not by sight. (2
Corinthians 5:6–7, KJV)
Therefore, the key to success
is to know and believe
that what God says in the
Bible about you is the Truth, and that it is completely fulfilled—because
heaven and earth would pass away before
God’s Word could
ever fail.
That’s why without
faith—without believing God and believing
His Word—it is impossible to please Him.
For in the gospel
the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is
written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (Romans
1:17, NIV)
Therefore, I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the
body, I live by faith in the Son of God [just as Jesus lived, by believing God
and believing His Word], who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians
2:20, NIV)
Your old sinful
nature is dead—it
was nailed to the cross—and
if you try to
fight against it, you won’t win, because
it’s already defeated!
It’s dead! Do you
understand?
The problem is that the devil will try, at
all costs, to convince you that you’re still the same person you used to be.
And if you believe him instead of believing your heavenly
Father, Satan will make you feel like a failure
and drag you into the
territory of condemnation, giving you a sense of guilt instead of the awareness
of righteousness in Christ Jesus.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your
adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone
to devour. Resist him, standing
firm in the faith.
(1 Peter 5:8–9a, NIV)
Remember,
the only weapon
Satan can use against you is the lie—and it only
gains power when you start believing it.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one
who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1
John 4:4, NIV)
You are a born-again child of God, and the only way Satan can defeat someone as strong, powerful, and
formidable as you is by deceiving you—by convincing you to believe, with all
your heart, that you are weak and insignificant compared to him.
For though we live in the world, we
do not wage war as the world does. The weapons
we fight with are not the weapons
of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of
God, and we take captive every thought
to make it obedient to Christ.
(2 Corinthians 10:3–5,
NIV)
Your faith in the Word of God—believing that
what He says is true—is the powerful weapon by which you can overcome
the spirit of fear and unbelief
that tries to deceive you.
For everyone born of God overcomes
the world. This is the victory that has
overcome the world, even our faith. (1 John
5:4, NIV)
You are a born-again child of God, and you overcome this world of evil, gaining victory through your faith—by
believing God and believing His Word.
It is through your faith—by believing God
and believing His Word—that you call things that are not as though they were,
and you begin to receive and establish what God has already
decreed about you from eternity. For example:
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
The Spirit you received
does not make you slaves,
so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received
brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father!” (Romans
8:15, NIV)
So whatever situation, problem, or sickness
you are facing
today—you decide!
Who are you going to believe?
For God has not given us the spirit
of fear, but of power,
and of love, and of a
sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV)
Let us pray out
loud:
Dear Heavenly Father, I know in whom I have
believed, and I am sure that You are powerful to keep what I’ve entrusted to
You until that day. I will never be ashamed
for trusting in Your Word;
on the contrary, blessed and truly happy is
the man or woman who puts
their trust in You. In every situation, I lift my eyes
to the mountains and ask, “Where does my help come from?” My help comes
from You, Lord Jesus, the Maker of heaven
and earth. You will not let me stumble, and You never sleep—you are always
watching over me. The One who guards me never slumbers or sleeps. Father, You
are my protector; You are my shade at my right hand. The sun will
not harm me by day, nor the moon
by night. Lord, You will keep me from all evil; You will guard my soul. God,
You will watch over my coming and my going, now and forever. So right now, I
call forth all the goodness, grace, and mercy You have spoken over my life. I
declare that I am healthy in every cell, tissue, organ, and system of my body.
I am free from debt and will pay everything I owe. I call in the prosperity and
abundance that You, oh God, have
promised me in Your Word. I can live full of joy and peace, because nothing and
no one can separate me from Your great love in Christ Jesus, my Lord. I believe, declare, and receive
that: I am healed! I am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! I am a Born-Again Child of God! Thank You
so very much, Lord Jesus. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 5 2 Timothy 1 / Jeremiah 5-6 / Psalm
121
2 Timothy
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy,
my dearly beloved
son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve
from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers
night and day;
4 Greatly desiring
to see thee, being mindful
of thy tears, that I may be filled
with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith
that is in thee, which dwelt
first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice;
and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my
hands.
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God;
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing
of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle,
and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12 For the which
cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith
and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14 That good thing which was committed
unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me;
of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed
me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
17 But, when he was in Rome,
he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
18 The Lord grant
unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things
he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Jeremiah
5 Run ye to and fro through
the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that
seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have
not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused
to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely
these are poor;
they are foolish:
for they know not
the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their
God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst
the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall
watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are
increased.
7 How shall I pardon
thee for this? thy children
have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by
troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning:
every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls,
and destroy; but make not a full end: take away
her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall
become wind, and the word is not in them: thus
shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD
God
of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood,
and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring
a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it
is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver
is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat
up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees:
they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the
sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with
you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the
LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou
answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me,
and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people,
and without understanding; which have eyes, and
see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not me?
saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which
have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though
the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
24 Neither say they
in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that
giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season:
he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have
withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people
are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their
houses full of deceit: therefore they are become
great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen
fat, they shine: yea, they overpass
the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper;
and the right of the needy do
they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit
for these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests
bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end
thereof?
6 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in
Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely
and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds
with their flocks
shall come unto her; they shall pitch their
tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against
her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
6 For thus hath the
LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount
against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited;
she is wholly oppression in the
midst of her.
7 As a fountain
casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant
of Israel as a vine: turn back
thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I
speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold,
the word of the
LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am
full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding
in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young
men together: for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him
that is full of days.
12 And their houses
shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
the LORD.
13 For from the
least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not
at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall
fall among them that fall:
at the time that I visit
them they shall be cast down,
saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk
therein.
17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations,
and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth:
behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened
unto my words, nor to my
law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh
there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before
this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them;
the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
a people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be
raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay
hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of
Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof:
our hands wax feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of us, and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field,
nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26 O daughter of my people,
gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon
us.
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress
among my people,
that thou mayest know and try
their way.
28 They are all grievous
revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and
iron; they are all corrupters.
29 The bellows
are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked
are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver
shall men call them, because
the LORD hath rejected them.
Psalm
121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2
My help cometh
from the LORD, which made heaven
and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth
thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth
Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper:
the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by
night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve
thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
How to Reach Victory!
By Riqui Ricón*
For God has not given us the spirit
of fear, but of power,
and of love, and of a
sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV)
Beloved, according to the Bible—the Word of
God, which never lies—when you accepted Jesus as the Lord and Savior of your life, all your sins were paid
for; therefore, you were justified, forgiven, and sanctified.
God did all this out of love for you, with
the sole purpose that you might receive the gift of Eternal
Life by being Born Again as a son or daughter of the
King.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creature:
old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (2
Corinthians 5:17, KJV)
It is through
this wonderful act of the New Birth that you have been made into a new kind of being—one that never
existed before—and you have not received a spirit of fear. Instead, God has
equipped your new nature with a spirit of power, of love, and of self-control.
You are a child of the King!
However,
there are believers who, when they hear this revelation, respond
by thinking, “Well, if I’m honest, I do love God with all my heart, but
I don’t feel holy, or righteous, and I don’t notice any kind of power or love
in my life. I’m still fighting against my old nature.”
So pay close attention
to this short reflection from today’s readings, because
here lies the key to success in living a life of power, love, and self-control!
For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God—not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians
2:8–9, NIV)
The New Nature, just like salvation, is
received by faith—by believing God, by believing His Word. You don’t receive
it because of what
you’ve done or what
you will do, nor because of how you feel about yourself; you receive it when
you believe it simply because
God says so. And if God says it, then you believe it, accept it, and receive it.
For example, no matter how you see yourself or how you feel today, the only Truth is this:
• You are God’s beloved.
God loves you so much that He chose to give His own
Son rather than lose you!
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
• By your faith—by believing God and believing
His Word—you have been born of God. You are a true and legitimate
child of God, born again.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
is born of God.
(1 John 5:1a, NIV)
• You were born again not from a corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible
seed—the Word of God, which lives and remains forever.
You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of
God. (1 Peter 1:23, NIV)
So then, what really matters
is not what you feel, experience, or show through your actions, because that’s
not the Truth.
The Truth is what God has declared about you in His Word, for all
His Word is Truth.
So we are always
confident, knowing that as long as we are at home in the
body we are away from the Lord—for we
walk by faith [by believing God, believing His Word], not by sight. (2
Corinthians 5:6–7, KJV)
Therefore, the key to success
is to know and believe
that what God says in the
Bible about you is the Truth, and that it is completely fulfilled—because
heaven and earth would pass away before
God’s Word could
ever fail.
That’s why without
faith—without believing God and believing
His Word—it is impossible to please Him.
For in the gospel
the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is
written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (Romans
1:17, NIV)
Therefore, I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the
body, I live by faith in the Son of God [just as Jesus lived, by believing God
and believing His Word], who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians
2:20, NIV)
Your old sinful
nature is dead—it
was nailed to the cross—and
if you try to
fight against it, you won’t win, because
it’s already defeated!
It’s dead! Do you
understand?
The problem is that the devil will try, at
all costs, to convince you that you’re still the same person you used to be.
And if you believe him instead of believing your heavenly
Father, Satan will make you feel like a failure
and drag you into the
territory of condemnation, giving you a sense of guilt instead of the awareness
of righteousness in Christ Jesus.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your
adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone
to devour. Resist him, standing
firm in the faith.
(1 Peter 5:8–9a, NIV)
Remember,
the only weapon
Satan can use against you is the lie—and it only
gains power when you start believing it.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one
who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1
John 4:4, NIV)
You are a born-again child of God, and the only way Satan can defeat someone as strong, powerful, and
formidable as you is by deceiving you—by convincing you to believe, with all
your heart, that you are weak and insignificant compared to him.
For though we live in the world, we
do not wage war as the world does. The weapons
we fight with are not the weapons
of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of
God, and we take captive every thought
to make it obedient to Christ.
(2 Corinthians 10:3–5,
NIV)
Your faith in the Word of God—believing that
what He says is true—is the powerful weapon by which you can overcome
the spirit of fear and unbelief
that tries to deceive you.
For everyone born of God overcomes
the world. This is the victory that has
overcome the world, even our faith. (1 John
5:4, NIV)
You are a born-again child of God, and you overcome this world of evil, gaining victory through your faith—by
believing God and believing His Word.
It is through your faith—by believing God
and believing His Word—that you call things that are not as though they were,
and you begin to receive and establish what God has already
decreed about you from eternity. For example:
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
The Spirit you received
does not make you slaves,
so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received
brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father!” (Romans
8:15, NIV)
So whatever situation, problem, or sickness
you are facing
today—you decide!
Who are you going to believe?
For God has not given us the spirit
of fear, but of power,
and of love, and of a
sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV)
Let us pray out
loud:
Dear Heavenly Father, I know in whom I have
believed, and I am sure that You are powerful to keep what I’ve entrusted to
You until that day. I will never be ashamed
for trusting in Your Word;
on the contrary, blessed and truly happy is
the man or woman who puts
their trust in You. In every situation, I lift my eyes
to the mountains and ask, “Where does my help come from?” My help comes
from You, Lord Jesus, the Maker of heaven
and earth. You will not let me stumble, and You never sleep—you are always
watching over me. The One who guards me never slumbers or sleeps. Father, You
are my protector; You are my shade at my right hand. The sun will
not harm me by day, nor the moon
by night. Lord, You will keep me from all evil; You will guard my soul. God,
You will watch over my coming and my going, now and forever. So right now, I
call forth all the goodness, grace, and mercy You have spoken over my life. I
declare that I am healthy in every cell, tissue, organ, and system of my body.
I am free from debt and will pay everything I owe. I call in the prosperity and
abundance that You, oh God, have
promised me in Your Word. I can live full of joy and peace, because nothing and
no one can separate me from Your great love in Christ Jesus, my Lord. I believe, declare, and receive
that: I am healed! I am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! I am a Born-Again Child of God! Thank You
so very much, Lord Jesus. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 5 2 Timothy 1 / Jeremiah 5-6 / Psalm
121
2 Timothy
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy,
my dearly beloved
son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve
from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers
night and day;
4 Greatly desiring
to see thee, being mindful
of thy tears, that I may be filled
with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith
that is in thee, which dwelt
first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice;
and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my
hands.
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God;
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing
of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle,
and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12 For the which
cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith
and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14 That good thing which was committed
unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me;
of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed
me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
17 But, when he was in Rome,
he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
18 The Lord grant
unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things
he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Jeremiah
5 Run ye to and fro through
the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that
seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have
not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused
to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely
these are poor;
they are foolish:
for they know not
the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their
God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst
the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall
watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are
increased.
7 How shall I pardon
thee for this? thy children
have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by
troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning:
every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls,
and destroy; but make not a full end: take away
her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall
become wind, and the word is not in them: thus
shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD
God
of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood,
and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring
a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it
is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver
is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat
up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees:
they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the
sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with
you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the
LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou
answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me,
and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people,
and without understanding; which have eyes, and
see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not me?
saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which
have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though
the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
24 Neither say they
in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that
giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season:
he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have
withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people
are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their
houses full of deceit: therefore they are become
great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen
fat, they shine: yea, they overpass
the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper;
and the right of the needy do
they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit
for these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests
bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end
thereof?
6 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in
Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely
and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds
with their flocks
shall come unto her; they shall pitch their
tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against
her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
6 For thus hath the
LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount
against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited;
she is wholly oppression in the
midst of her.
7 As a fountain
casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant
of Israel as a vine: turn back
thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I
speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold,
the word of the
LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am
full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding
in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young
men together: for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him
that is full of days.
12 And their houses
shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
the LORD.
13 For from the
least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not
at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall
fall among them that fall:
at the time that I visit
them they shall be cast down,
saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk
therein.
17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations,
and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth:
behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened
unto my words, nor to my
law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh
there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before
this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them;
the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
a people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be
raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay
hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of
Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof:
our hands wax feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of us, and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field,
nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26 O daughter of my people,
gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon
us.
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress
among my people,
that thou mayest know and try
their way.
28 They are all grievous
revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and
iron; they are all corrupters.
29 The bellows
are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked
are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver
shall men call them, because
the LORD hath rejected them.
Psalm
121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2
My help cometh
from the LORD, which made heaven
and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth
thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth
Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper:
the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by
night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve
thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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