Unconquerable is that which cannot be defeated or overtaken... it is an impenetrable fortress.
I have said before that most of my teachings are the result of personal experiences that became a message. I began this study as a result of my dealings with my new boss who loves to use me as a pawn in his leadership chess game.
There are several people reporting to him, but he does not like confrontation. So he uses me as his go-between in order to avoid confronting them. I have confronted him about his behavior but he continues to do it anyway. And the way he goes about it has the potential for destroying my relationships with my co-workers. He comes off looking like the good guy and I look like the stupid-bad guy.
After searching Scripture (and my soul) about this, there is one Bible verse that stuck with me... "He always causes me to triumph." Jesus said, "In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage because I have overcome the world."
Some years back there was a minister in my church that was always giving me a hard time. The Lord had been ministering through me in a great way, during that season, and he developed animosity toward me as a result. He couldn't stand me and made no bones about it. He made life so hard for me while I was there that eventually, I stopped going. The Lord gave him a warning to stop this behavior but he did not heed God's warning. One day he woke up and didn't feel well all day. That evening he had a heart attack and passed away. I was able to go back to church and continue to be used by the Lord in ministry.
The apostle Paul said that he was in labors more abundantly and beaten above measure and in prison more frequently than his counter-parts. He received 40 lashes by the Jews five times. He was beaten with rods three times. He was stoned once. He was shipwrecked three times, in peril on the sea, in peril of robbers, in peril of his own countrymen, in peril of sinners, in peril in the city and in the desert and in peril of false teachers that were constantly antagonizing Paul's ministry. He was often weary, and tired, couldn't sleep, hungry and thirsty, and freezing with no coat to put on his back. But Paul's testimony to young Timothy was, "Out of them all, the Lord delivered me." In all he endured, Paul was an unconquerable soul. At the end he said, "I fought a good fight and finished my course."
Y'all... Satan is a defeated foe! Jesus said, "Behold, I give you authority over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you." He has given us power and authority over the enemy. All we have to do is open our mouths and command the mountain to be removed from here to yonder place. If we believe and not doubt, we can have whatsoever we say.
There is a song I love that says, "Before you let the devil win, go back and pray again."
I feel sorry for people that are working against God's purpose. God is long suffering and patient, but if the antagonizers are determined to be stumbling blocks, God will crush them and move them out of the way.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us out of them all. We are unconquerable souls. "If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men," the apostle Paul said, because God has the final say and He will not always strive with the evil doer.
On a previous job, there were three women that meant to do me harm, but God protected me. Long story short, one-by-one all three were fired and left the company in disgrace. God will not put up with folk messing with His children. If He allows us to endure it for a while (like the minister at my church), He has a greater purpose.
I used to work with a lady named Leslie who seemed to love giving me a hard time. I had prayed many-a-prayer concerning this woman. At long-last, she had gotten into a heated argument with our boss and she terminated her employment. I was rejoicing all the way home from work. Hallelujah!! God had answered my prayers! I arrived for work the next morning only to find that Leslie had rescinded her resignation. I was Devastated with a capital D. How could the Lord toy with me in such a way? As it turns out, they took her off our team. She said we would never make it without her. The Lord put Leslie far enough, away from me, that I hardly ever saw her, but she was close enough to see that we were thriving quite well without her. The Lord turned on His favor for our team and we began to excel. Every month our statistics was better than the previous month's. The psalmist David said, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies." If she had left the company, she would not have seen first hand, how well we were coping without her, despite her prophecy to the contrary.
I feel sorry for people who attack God's children because I know eventually, it will not turn out well for them. Do not be deceived friends, God will not be mocked, for whatever a man sows, that same he will also reap. They are seeds in his own ground and he will reap his own harvest.
Haman the Agagite, was an enemy of the Jews and had it in for them. He devised a scheme to annihilate them but his plan returned on his own head. The gallows he built to hang Mordecai, was the exact same one on which he himself was killed.
As I was leaving work on Friday, I prayed to the Lord for a refreshing for my soul because I was beginning to feel discouraged about my new job. A few minutes later, Joel Osteen came on my radio with a message that spoke right to my situation. The Lord recharged my battery.
The apostle Paul said, "We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." And He still loves us, so we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me?" We walk in victory and we are over comers. We are not under achievers but we are over comers.
The song says,
I shall not,
I shall not be moved.
I shall not,
I shall not be moved
just like a tree
planted by the water,
I shall not be moved.
2 Cor. 2:14 - Now thanks be to God who always leads us to triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place (especially in the work place).
Col. 2:15 - Having disarmed principalities and powers, Christ made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Ps. 41:11 - By this I know that You are well pleased with me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
Mark 10:27 - Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
Jer 32:17 - ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
Rom. 8:31 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
2 Cor. 9:8 - God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
Phil. 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Zech 4:6 - So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel (and to us): ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.
Rom. 8:37 - Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Numb. 13:30 - Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
1 John 4:4 - You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you, is greater than he who is in the world.
Go in peace... with your unconquerable soul.
We are soldiers in the army of the Lord.
To God be the glory.
Dee Richardson, Voice of the Dove