Author's Note: On 1 October 2016, We Celebrated Nigeria's Independence. My Pastor's Wife Inspires This. To Swimmerninja13, You Have Given Me A Very Sweet Challenge. What You Want Me To Talk About Is Broad But The Holy Spirit Has Taught Me How To Speak About It. An Answer Can Be Found In There If You Seek It.

THEME 4: BENEFITS IN CHRIST (SWEET VICTORY)

DEFINITION OF TERMS:

Victory: the fact of winning a competition or battle or an occasion when someone wins

Win: to achieve victory in a war, battle or competition.

Strength: the ability to achieve something even in a difficult situation or something that someone does very well.

Recession: a situation when trade and industry is not successful and there is a lot of unemployment.

MESSAGE

Life's view:

In life we, it is very easy to look on the bad side of things and not see the good side of things. Nigeria is a country where that is a habit. We see the bad things in our nation and none of the good. Considering that in our country we are in recession, there is terrorism, Nigeria is dividing itself into about four groups, and the military of southern Nigeria is rebelling. There are people who displaced in this country, about 300 girls were kidnapped and Islamized, there is a lot of bombing, loss of life, unemployment, no food, sickness and the funniest are the strange attacks of cattle rearers with weapons that are more sophisticated than the militaries. I could go on and on about all the bad things that are happening.

It is because I have a habit of looking at the bad side of things and not on the good. I just presume that there is no good in it. Then I realized it is a sin. The sin of presuming things. You do not look through things and you just presume that is it. You only look at it in only your view and do not consider another person's view.

I realized that God has a reason for putting him on that seat of power. In addition, that at the end, when we are all judged, anyone on a seat of position would give an account of how they ruled their countries, so I learned that I should not judge him but let the lord judge him. Our pastor's wife told us today; if we want good things to happen in our country or lives, we need to utter it. Do not dwell on the present situation but talk about where you want God to lead you next.

This is where our theme comes in

SWEET VICTORY:

As I listened to her message, this message began to form in my mind. I realized that in life we could choose to get two victories; a victory in Christ or a victory over problems in this world. The better of the two is the victory in Christ. When you have this victory, you already have the other.

Victory over problems

There are people in this world who are always weak. Maybe it is a sickness or stress but they are always tired. They need help to do thing.

-Or-

Countries that are in difficult times and they want to help in improving the economy.

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They are having family or relationship problems, job problems, or educational problems.

This victory is the one that we overcome the challenges that we place to be very important to our flesh. If you go to a doctor because of an illness, it is because you believe or think that he has the ability to help you and once that is done, the problem is solved. This victory is actually also, a victory given to man by God but it is not as vital or important as:

VICTORY IN CHRIST:

It is possible you do not win what you love in your life, treatment for you disease or empowerment of your country, but with Jesus, we have the greatest victory. With Jesus, you partake in the sweetest victory that you can ever think of. It is well known that when this world ends those for Christ will be given a mansion in God's house, in his beautiful house made of zillions of precious stones like gold, silver etc. If Only Those People After Money Would Actually Chase This More Valuable Investment Plan.

This earth has a very limited amount of gems and gold but heaven is actually made of it. That is when you realize that some people are just being foolish. You want to enjoy this world doing evil things only for you to end up in hell suffering, instead of suffering in this life and then enjoying all the riches in heaven. Consider the tower that our ancestors built in the hopes of seeing God, was it really to see him or to try to enjoy heaven and its riches.

Theme 1 and 2 are two major components of how to partake of this victory. In theme1, if you read it well you Can see traces of it .Theme 2 is very vital; we each have talents and skills that we can use to praise the lord. No matter the ability, it has a way of pleasing God. In the matter of activities that you know how to do very well; if you want to please God, all you need to do is to praise God.

I am sure it is a very surprising and confusing answer but it is the truth. If you have a skill or talent in an activity, all you do is to praise God when you win and even when you do not win. You give glory to the lord and that way you show your appreciation to him. The lord will be very sad and angry when you do not appreciate him and there can be consequences for your actions.

IF GOD DID NOT GIVE US HIS ONLY SON?

This question is one of those questions that you cannot easily imagine or answer. The answer is very complicated. Without Christ there would be, Physical and spiritual lack

Physical lack:

1. The bible would not be completed; there would be only one testament. I wonder what would be put into the bible.

2. We would live be living by the Law of Moses, sacrificing animals to cover our sins not for cleansing of sins

3. We would probably be dead because I am sure by now God would be very angry with us and would destroy the world because it would be filled with evil.

Spiritual lack:

1. We would not have the Holy Spirit.

2. We would not have access to God

3. We would have to wait for the end of the world before judgment

There will be so many more than just these. Bad things would be happening to us daily, we would not care about God. That is why we should be grateful that Jesus died for us. Without him, we would not be here reading and writing, breathing and alive.

Prayer:

1. Lord God, thank you for Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross for my salvation. Help me not let it be in vain

2. Jesus help me to be a partaker of your sweet victory

3. Lord thank you for those in authority, bless them and give them wisdom and understanding to lead us well.

4. If there is any evil or demonic institution affecting our government, lord help us.

Bible reading: John 3:16

AUTHOR'S NOTE; I love picking random things and putting them together. Sorry, that I did not update earlier: my school has been piling work on the students in my grade. Sorry. Guess the Theme of next time:

Will it be?

Jesus Christ the way, the truth and the life ( truth)

Cash or Christ (discernment of important things)

God is enough

Fear

In Christ alone