Victory!
By Riqui Ricón*
And I heard what sounded like the
roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting:
“Hallelujah! For our Lord
God Almighty reigns! Let us
rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding
of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen,
bright and clean, was given her to wear.”
Then the angel said to me, “Write: Blessed
are those who are invited
to the wedding supper of the
Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.” Then I saw heaven
opened, and there before me was a white horse,
whose rider is called Faithful and
True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and
on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word
of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding
on white horses
and dressed in fine linen,
white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp
sword with which to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron
scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On
his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
LORDS. (Rev 19:6-8, 9, 11-16 NIV)
Oh, how wonderful it is to say straight
to Satan’s face: “I’ve read the end of the
book—we win!”
Unfortunately, far too many born-again Sons and Daughters of God live their
lives hoping only to see and enjoy the day of victory at the very end of time.
What a huge mistake! No wonder the Bible, which is God’s Word and never lies,
teaches that:
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because
they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with
thirst. (Isa 5:13 KJV)
Beloved believer, victory
is not something you get only at the final
day—the victory was already obtained when Jesus gave His Life and His
Spirit on that cross, crying: “It is
finished!”
You are a Son/Daughter of the King of kings
and Lord of lords, and you are here
on earth to establish God’s kingdom. Your Father left you in this world to
manifest the kingdom that our Lord Jesus Christ already obtained, and now you,
His beloved Son/Daughter, are to make it visible here on earth.
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.” (Ro 1:17 NIV)
It’s not about creating something you don’t
have; it’s about believing, receiving, and then manifesting (living) everything
you already are. And you are, without exaggeration, exactly who God says you
are in His Word, the Bible: righteous, holy, perfect in every way, more than a conqueror, and able to do all
things.
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe,
all things are possible to him who believes.” (Mar 9:23 KJV)
The
sword that comes from Jesus’ mouth is His Word, the Bible. It’s your
responsibility to put God’s Word into your mind, mouth, and heart so that, like
the widow told Elijah, everyone around you will say: “Now we see that you are a Son/Daughter of God, and that God’s Word is true in your mouth.” (1 Ki 17:24 KJV)
Making God’s Word the ultimate standard of
your life was the command and guidance Joshua received
from the Lord,
so that he could fulfill
God’s purpose of leading
the people of Israel into the Promised
Land. Without following this, he would never have succeeded.
In the same way, you have a mission and
purpose to fulfill in this world, and you can only accomplish it by following the same advice.
So make the Bible the ultimate standard for your
life—meditate on it day and night, learn it, and speak it out as the answer and
declaration of victory over all your problems,
illnesses,
and needs. God Himself guarantees that your path will prosper
and everything you do will succeed. Just do it!
Then you will stop doubting
and fearing, and rise up with joy, authority, and power to manifest what Christ Jesus
has already obtained for you: Victory!
Victory over sickness
and death! Victory
over sin! Victory
over loneliness and sadness! Victory over every
depression! Victory over failure! Victory over poverty and lack!
So, do not fear! You already
know the end of the story: we
win!
I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.
(Jn 16:33 CST)
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, I am so grateful
for the great love with which You have loved me, giving me life together with
Christ Jesus. I believe and receive this overwhelming victory
that You, Jesus,
purchased for me with Your Blood. I resist the spirit of fear that tries to
make me fail through sickness, poverty, depression, or any other affliction. I
have not received a spirit of fear to fall back into slavery, but the Spirit
of adoption, and today I cry out, Abba! Father! Thank You, Lord Jesus, I am
born again to triumph, and I can do all things through You. With Your help,
Holy Spirit, I am determined to rise up and live this victorious life that You
won for me. I am healthy! I am free! I am prosperous! I am joyful! I am a Child
of God! In the name of 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.
October 19 Revelation 19 / Isaiah
5-6 / Psalm 109.20-31 Revelation
19 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in
heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our
God:
2 For true and
righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt
the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged
the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again
they said, Alleluia
And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders
and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne,
saying, Amen; Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne,
saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both
small and great.
6 And I heard as it
were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour
to him: for the marriage
of the Lamb is come, and his
wife hath made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white: for the fine
linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he saith unto
me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper
of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These
are the true sayings
of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship
him. And he said unto me, See thou do it
not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven
opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful
and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he
had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed
with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed
him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth
a sharp sword,
that with it he should
smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture
and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 And I saw an angel standing
in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather
yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh
of captains, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the
flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw
the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies, gathered
together to make war against
him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was
taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before
him, with which he deceived
them that had received the mark
of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,
which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with
their flesh.
Isaiah
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered
out the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge,
I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could
have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I
will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall
be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste:
it shall not be pruned,
nor digged; but there shall come
up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain
upon it.
7 For the vineyard
of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold
a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field,
till there be no place, that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts,
Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer
shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol,
the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work
of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his
hands.
13 Therefore my
people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished,
and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell
hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory,
and their multitude, and their pomp,
and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty
shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts
shall be exalted
in judgment, and God that is holy shall
be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner,
and the waste places of the
fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed,
and hasten his work, that we may see it: and
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know
it!
20 Woe unto them
that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty
to drink wine,
and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify
the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, so their
root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because
they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts,
and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the
anger of the LORD kindled against his people,
and he hath stretched forth his hand against
them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did
tremble, and their carcases
were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations
from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and,
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be
weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither
shall the girdle
of their loins be loosed,
nor the latchet
of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall
be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring
shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall
deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall
roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and
if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
6 In the year that king Uzziah
died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain he covered
his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his
glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
and the house was filled with
smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine
eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having
a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from
off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go
for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed,
but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed.
11 Then said I, Lord,
how long? And he answered, Until the cities
be wasted without inhabitant,
and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away,
and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return,
and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance
is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the
substance thereof.
Psalm
109.20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's
sake: because thy mercy
is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within
me.
23 I am gone like the shadow
when it declineth: I am tossed
up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became
also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as
with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise
the LORD
with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among
the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that
condemn his soul.
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