The Chapel at Fishhawk
God Won. You Win. // Romans 8:37
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1. What “More Than Conquerors” Does Not Mean
Let’s tear down the Instagram version of this verse. This is not about living your best life or achieving personal greatness. Paul is not handing you a self-esteem boost. He is handing you a wartime identity.
Read the verses right before it.
Romans 8:35–36
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’”
This is not victory in spite of suffering. This is victory in the middle of it.
You’re not promised a painless life. You’re promised that pain cannot separate you from love.
2. How We Conquer: Through Him Who Loved Us
If you miss this part, you’ll think the win depends on you.
It does not say, “You are more than conquerors because you tried harder, prayed longer, or cleaned yourself up.” It says, “through him who loved us.”
This is the Gospel.
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
We are not strong enough, holy enough, or faithful enough to win these battles. But Jesus is. He already bled and rose, and He does not lose what He paid for.
3. What It Actually Means to Be More Than a Conqueror
Conquering means you win the fight.
Being more than a conqueror means you walk out of the battle with more than you had going in.
It means what was meant to crush you ends up building you.
It means what Satan meant for harm gets folded into your story of grace.
It means that the pain does not just end. It transforms.
[David at Ziklag, 1 Samuel 30:1-6;18-20]
4. Strengthen Yourself in the Lord
What does that mean practically?
It means stop scrolling and start seeking.
It means turn down the noise and lift up His name.
It means tell your soul the truth, even when your emotions want to quit.
Isaiah 40:29–31
“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Waiting is not weakness. It is how conquerors breathe.
5. The War Is Over. You Win.
2 Corinthians 4:8–10
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.”
You are not destroyed. You are not alone. You are not forgotten.
You are more than a conqueror.
Not because of how hard you fight, but because of how deep He loves.
1. What “More Than Conquerors” Does Not Mean
Let’s tear down the Instagram version of this verse. This is not about living your best life or achieving personal greatness. Paul is not handing you a self-esteem boost. He is handing you a wartime identity.
Read the verses right before it.
Romans 8:35–36
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’”
This is not victory in spite of suffering. This is victory in the middle of it.
You’re not promised a painless life. You’re promised that pain cannot separate you from love.
2. How We Conquer: Through Him Who Loved Us
If you miss this part, you’ll think the win depends on you.
It does not say, “You are more than conquerors because you tried harder, prayed longer, or cleaned yourself up.” It says, “through him who loved us.”
This is the Gospel.
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
We are not strong enough, holy enough, or faithful enough to win these battles. But Jesus is. He already bled and rose, and He does not lose what He paid for.
3. What It Actually Means to Be More Than a Conqueror
Conquering means you win the fight.
Being more than a conqueror means you walk out of the battle with more than you had going in.
It means what was meant to crush you ends up building you.
It means what Satan meant for harm gets folded into your story of grace.
It means that the pain does not just end. It transforms.
[David at Ziklag, 1 Samuel 30:1-6;18-20]
4. Strengthen Yourself in the Lord
What does that mean practically?
It means stop scrolling and start seeking.
It means turn down the noise and lift up His name.
It means tell your soul the truth, even when your emotions want to quit.
Isaiah 40:29–31
“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Waiting is not weakness. It is how conquerors breathe.
5. The War Is Over. You Win.
2 Corinthians 4:8–10
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.”
You are not destroyed. You are not alone. You are not forgotten.
You are more than a conqueror.
Not because of how hard you fight, but because of how deep He loves.
