Seek Sample

Day 7

Mike Bickle

Topic: Victory

Scripture Reference: 1 John 5:4

Devotional:

In seasons of prayer and fasting, we as disciples position ourselves to experience victory and breakthrough in our lives. The Chrisitian life is a victorious life. John the Apostle writes in his first epistle, “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.” How does one experience greater measures of the victory of Christ that is bound up in our faith? I firmly believe that praying the apostolic prayers is the prescription.

I noticed a change in my own life in the early days as I regularly prayed the apostolic prayers with their positive language. Little by little I became more positive in my emotions and developed more mercy and kindness in my heart toward the weaknesses in the church. The positive focus of the apostolic prayers is also essential in helping us to operate in faith. The apostolic prayers in the New Testament provide us with good theology for a victorious church. Praying these prayers builds our faith for revival. A man once asked me, “Why do you believe the church will be victorious at the end of the age?” I told him to look at the prayers of Jesus and the apostles for the church. My theology on a victorious church and revival was formed partially by praying the New Testament prayers repeatedly. These prayers were given by the Holy Spirit, and though they have not yet been fully answered, they surely will be. The church will walk in great victory, power, purity, unity, and love before Jesus returns.

I want to make this practical for you. Here are a few of the apostolic prayers you can pray to experience greater measures of God’s victory in your life: Ephesians 1:17–19, Ephesians 3:16–19, and Philippians 1:9–11. Read these verses out loud, and then pray them in your own words. Below are some examples of what this can look like. Go now, and experience the riches of Christ’s victory as you say to God what He’s said to you through the apostles.

• Ephesians 1:17–19
  • God I ask that You would give me the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You.
  • Holy Spirit, enlighten the eyes of my heart, that I may know the hope to which You have called me.
• Ephesians 3:16–19
  • Father, according to the riches of Your glory, would You strengthen me with power by Your Spirit in my inner being so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith.
  • Jesus, would You help me to know Your love that surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Philippians 1:9–11
  • Lord, would the love in me and the love in my family abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment.
  • Holy Spirit, make me pure and blameless for the day of Christ, and fill me with the fruit of righteousness.