God commanded you to overcome. He tells you to overcome the devil, the world or culture, and your sinful flesh.

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God commanded you to overcome. He tells you to overcome the devil, the world or culture, and your sinful flesh.
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The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.~ Revelation 3:12

These words aren’t easy to understand. They may violate our inner ideas about the nature of what God is doing. Of course, our theologies have no authority over the Bible.

God commanded the children of Israel to overcome in the Promised Land. They were overcoming the inhabitants of that Land. They didn’t do it all at once. They did it one battle at a time.

In the same way, God commanded you to overcome. He tells you to overcome the devil, the world or culture, and your sinful flesh. You can’t overcome everything at once. You overcome moment by moment as God leads. Each time God leads you, you fight a battle. Will you listen? Will you yield to His Spirit? Will you acknowledge God? Will you give God the glory and thank Him?

For example, God may ask you to go talk to someone and ask for forgiveness because you did something you shouldn’t have. If you listen and obey in the power of the Holy Spirit, you overcome. If you fail to listen or obey, you fail to overcome. If you take the glory for yourself or are unthankful, you fail to overcome.