How to Live as a Victor, Not a Victim!Sample

Essential Steps to Developing a More-Than-A-Conqueror Mentality

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” – Romans 8:37, MEV

The Bible calls us more than conquerors (Rom. 8:37). The Complete Jewish Bible uses the term “superconquerors.” We need God’s grace to step into those tights and put on that cape because the enemy’s kryptonite is real.

When Moses sent the twelve Israelite spies into the Promised Land to have a look-see, ten of them came back with a victim mentality. The vision of the giant caused them to become “like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight” (Num. 13:33, NASB). When we take on the victim mentality, it draws more victimization into our lives.

Thankfully, Joshua and Caleb modeled the right mindset—the conquering mindset. “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” (Num. 13:30). A generation of victim-minded Israelites died in the wilderness. But Joshua and Caleb entered the Promised Land.

Caleb never lost his conquering mindset. When it was time for him to claim his inheritance in the Promised Land, he was eighty-five years old. But he told Joshua, “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in” (Josh. 14:11, KJV). And Caleb took the mountains despite the enemies in the land opposing him.

How Do We Actually Assume This More-Than-A-Conqueror Mindset?

Developing a conquering mentality is a matter of perspective. Are you going to see yourself as victorious in Christ or a victim of the giants in the land? Will you see yourself as more than a conqueror or as a grasshopper?

It’s your choice—and only you can make it.

We overcome a victim mentality by developing faith in the Word of God, what it says about who we are in Christ, and what we can do in His strength. It may take time to renew your mind, but it’s never too early to start. First John 5:4 puts it this way, “This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith” (KJV).