“14 So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, 15 the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth. 16 And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.
17 Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.
18–19 Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!
20 Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
21 Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. Amen!”
Victory Walkers: Our Testimony Journey is powerful! Go share today. Bible verses about testimony
“Sharing your testimony with others is a must for all Christians. “When giving your testimony you tell how you came to trust in Christ alone as your Lord and Savior. You tell how God opened your eyes on how you were a sinner in need of a Savior.” ““Your story is the key that can unlock someone else’s prison.”
“Only God can turn mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into a triumph, a victim into a victory.” “Your testimony is the story of your encounter with God and what role He has played throughout your life.”
“What God is bringing you through at this very moment will be the testimony that will bring someone else through. No mess, no message.”
“If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.”
“The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.” -Billy Graham (Biblereasons.com/testimony/).
Acts 1:8(NLT) “8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
“6 For God, who said, Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,”
is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.”
Treasure in Clay Jars
7 We are like common clay jars that carry this glorious treasure within, so that this immeasurable power will be seen as God’s, not ours.
Carry His Presence- We Win🏆
Take Your Victory Harvest- He’s Given You Your Town & Region Keep Marching/ Carry His Presence- Joshua 6 (NLT) “Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in. 2 But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. 3 You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days. 4 Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. 5 When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town.”
6 So Joshua called together the priests and said, “Take up the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, and assign seven priests to walk in front of it, each carrying a ram’s horn.” 7 Then he gave orders to the people: “March around the town, and the armed men will lead the way in front of the Ark of the Lord.” 8 After Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests with the rams’ horns started marching in the presence of the Lord, blowing the horns as they marched. And the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant followed behind them.
9 Some of the armed men marched in front of the priests with the horns and some behind the Ark, with the priests continually blowing the horns. 10 “Do not shout; do not even talk,” Joshua commanded. “Not a single word from any of you until I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11 So the Ark of the Lord was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp.
12 Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests again carried the Ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests with the rams’ horns marched in front of the Ark of the Lord, blowing their horns. Again the armed men marched both in front of the priests with the horns and behind the Ark of the Lord. All this time the priests were blowing their horns. 14 On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for six days.
15 On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times. 16 The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their horns, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the town…”
“10 After this, the Lord Jesus formed thirty-five teams among the other disciples. Each team was two disciples, seventy in all,[a] and he commissioned them to go ahead of him into every town he was about to visit. 2 He released them with these instructions:
“The harvest is huge. But there are not enough harvesters to bring it in. As you go, plead with the Owner of the Harvest to send out[b] many more workers into his harvest fields. 3 Now, off you go! I am sending you out even though you feel as vulnerable as lambs going into a pack of wolves. 4 You won’t need to take anything[c] with you—trust in God alone. And don’t get distracted from my purpose by anyone you might meet along the way.
5 “Once you enter a house, speak to the people there and say, ‘God’s blessing of peace be upon this house!’ 6 If a lover of peace[d] resides there, your peace will rest upon that household.[e] But if you are rejected, your blessing of peace will come back upon you. 7 Don’t shift from one house to another, but stay in one home during your time in that city. Eat and drink whatever they serve you. Receive their hospitality, for you are my harvester, and you deserve to be cared for.
8 “When you enter into a new town, and you have been welcomed by its people, follow these rules: Eat[f] what is served you. 9 Heal the sick, and tell them all, ‘God’s kingdom has arrived and is now within your reach!’ 10 But when you enter a city and they do not receive you, say to them publicly, 11 ‘We wipe from our feet the very dust of your streets as a testimony before you![g] Understand this: God’s kingdom came within your reach and yet you have rejected God’s invitation!’ ”Read full chapter“ (Biblegateway).
Footnotes
10:1 A few Greek manuscripts have “seventy-two.” The number seventy is a key numerical symbol in the Bible. Seventy nations are listed in Gen. 10, seventy of Jacob’s clan went into Egypt (Ex. 1:5), seventy palm trees refreshed God’s people at Elim (Ex. 15:27), seventy elders served with Moses (Ex. 24:1), seventy princes are mentioned in Judg. 9:56, seventy men sat on the council of the Sanhedrin, and Jesus sent out seventy apostles to preach the message of the kingdom.
10:2 This is the term used many times in the Gospels for driving out or casting out demons. The Lord of the Harvest must cast them forth. The Holy Spirit is the Director of the Harvest.
10:4 The text states literally “Take no money, no knapsack, no sandals.” The implication is that they were to trust in God alone for all their needs to be met.
10:6 Literally “son of peace,” which is a way of saying, “a godly man.”
10:6 Or as translated from the Aramaic, “Let him rest upon your peace.”
10:8 This instruction to “eat what is served” was given twice, for the Jewish dietary laws were not meant to be a hindrance in their ministry, nor were the disciples to demand certain foods.
Father God, by the power of your Holy Spirit give us insightful strategic prayers, powerful proclamations of the kingdom, partners of peace in precise places. In Jesus name, Amen!!!
College Ave, The Crossroads, The Club, The Court, and The Corner
On the journey there will be times where you can only look forward with tenacity, but there will also be times when we will have to reflect on the good past to remind us why we should always remain humble and thankful.
With this blog prep to my next podcast episode I want to share some of my most memorable places where I can remember having some real thoughts and revelation encounters with God. These seed moments unknowingly at the time of experience would later be revealed as Victory” “Steps that God was using to reveal Himself to me at particular moments in time. I just didn’t know it at the time.
As I said before, I wasn’t saved in a church. I didn’t really grow up as a consistant church goer. I can recall a few times of being in a service, but God knows how to use everybit for His advantage and our good. One of those little bit moments in my life took place during a space of time after I was 5 years old. I remember exactly where I lived and some specific words I that I heard that triggered specific thoughts of curiousity about God. Now mind you; like a lot of people I grew up with family and around family friends that had mixtures of beliefs and lifestyles.
This mixture that I’ve seen growing up consisted of some religious spirits, superstition mindsets, sinful life styles, fighting spirits, substance abuse, mixed with a family bond that we called love when it came to sticking together against the world, but weren’t always the kindest to each other. Praise be to God that I have moved on from the past vivid details that once shaped the old life that has been crucified with Christ Jesus, on to where He makes everything new, Amen (2 Corinthians 5:17).
College Ave
Moving on to the pics below (College Ave). The lot is a revelation memorial to me. I used to live here during my early elementary years. I am reflecting in this former residence location because, I can remember a few moments during these years where my little mind was triggered by events, words, or thoughts that caused my little heart on the inside to search out answers about God. For instance, I remember one day, while at my relatives that lived in one of the apartments in the rear of us I heard the name, “the Lord” being used. I can’t remember the context, whether it was out of sincerety or used religiously.
All I know is this. My mind couldn’t stop trying to figure out who or what was “the Lord”. Since, I didn’t have an environment of dialogue or real connection, I would often try to reason it out for myself. For instance I remember during a time of loss when life was very confusing to me. I was in kindergaten when my dad passed away; it seemed suddenly to me. I didn’t understand or know anything. I do howerever; recall at times when I felt hurt or confused, I would to sit behind this one door in the hallway steps and release my what and why questions to this “Lord”. I still had know clue who Lord was, but I will now jump a little forward on this memorial journey. (I will return to this memorial location later to share a very signficant 2018 dream I had between my old residence and the still current church yard that I used to play at).
The Crossroads is a picture of two alley ways that crossed between two major streets and two side streets. This is so significant to me because God sent the pure Gospel to me for the first time. It was the summer after my last year of elementary school. I remember walking with some cousins and friends through the neighborhood acting like we were a little gang group. At the same moment we reached that crossroad of two alley ways when a women approached us and began to talk to us about God, the last days, heaven, and Jesus as the way. She was very thorough and shared with such a unique love.
As she was sharing how to come to God through the love and life of Jesus, something on the inside of me shifted. Then she shared with us how to deal with sin through repentance. I believe she was responding to a question that one of us brought up. However; between that moment and her teaching us how to pray, I remembered she looked at me and said she would see me there (heaven)one day. I didn’t have the words then, but I realize now that I felt a sense of calling that I was destined for heaven. I never forget that moment of divine encounter. That experience was so signifiant to me because, it spoke again to me later on while I was in despair and helped me walk away from the wrong tracks (railroad) and perseved my life for another precious encounter that I recently shared from my “Journey Series File” in the “Testimony Intro” post. For now, let’s keep reflecting and see what the “The Club is all about.
“The Crossroads” of two alley ways. 1 minute away from “The Corner”
The Club (700)
This memorial pic represents a very sensitive encounter I had one day at this locatoin in my bedroom. As I turned on that old black and white television, and before I turned that radio style nob on the side, I found myself watching a station that I had never watched before. I couldn’t understand how the dial got adjustd to that channel; however there I was watching a Easter time movie about Jesus that the 700 Club was playing. I remember watching the scenes play out leading up to Him being crucified. I was in tears as I couldn’t understand why this had to happen that way.
I was even more touched as the program ended and that host Pat R. was bringing more clarity about the love of God and how Jesus came to lay down His life for us. Even more, I felt the presence of God as the preacher led the viewers in a prayer for salvation. Though I didn’t have a follow up plan or yet a dialogue connection, I know now that God was drawing me closer to Him (John 6:44). Though I was not yet walking with Him, I still was being drawn to Him, as I will briefly share concerning “The Court.
Former residence of the “Club” experience
The Court
This location represents a God seeking moment that hit me one day at my best friends house during my middle school years. I spent a lot of time there. It’s interesting because, there was a season when my friend would go to Church with one our former basketball coaches. He was a great man and I greatly appreciate him till this day. So eventually I started to join them once in a while. However; I can honestly say that in those days we really really enjoyed the meals after church. But one Sunday after service that changed for me. after we returned back to my friends house it was common for us to head out his back door down to the basketball “Court”. That Sunday my friend and some of the other kids went down as we always did, but without me.
I stayed back that day and without anyone else’s knowledge, I had this unusual desire to look through the Bible in his room. I can’t remember all the details, but I do remember reading through the Beatitudes. As they were playing at the court, I was learning how important being a peacemaker was to Jesus. All these things, I desired to be, but didn’t know how. I’m grateful that the “Lord” was revealing Himself to me more and more while getting my attention with these early experiences that I now know were just part of the journey toward moving into the place of my earliest days of fuller surrender. Lastly, for this part 1 section, I want to share about “The Corner”.
My Friends former residence location
Former School/ Playground was in rear
“The Court” was located down behind the vehicles on Depot St and behind my former elementary school on W. Pittsburgh St.
The Corner
It was at the beginning of my high school experience. At that time we were (my crew of friends) stepping into new levels of sports, perspectives, and experiences. Some were good, okay, and bad. But I want to focus on this one experience I had with God. I remember at that time, I had a friend whose familiy began to attend a certain denomination that that certain things about the end times. Though I now don’t agree with everything from their teaching, I was moved at that time to seek God further after listening to some of the things that my friend was sharing.
This was the kicker for me. I decided to ask God some specific things that I needed to know the truth about. I asked Him to send someone that I could dialogue with. Not quite in those words, but that was my heart. A couple of days later a group of us were standing outside my friends house on the corner of Division St. and Otterman St. Then suddenly we saw someone from a distance walking towards us. It took a good minute to figure out who it was. Then I recognized him. The last time I’ve seen him (this is dawning on me as I’m writing this) was years ago on “College Ave” where his group use to hang out near a house between my residence and “the Church” that I will share about at a later time.
Someone in the group heard he became a preacher. So as he approached us we asked him some questions. He shared a little about his journey and answered some things that were on my heart. I knew immediately that God heard and answered my prayer. I was amazed and I was gradully getting closer to that place God was drawing me to. Also, this same preacher became my pastor down the road on my journey walk, but I’ll share more in the near future. That particular work of God was such an important lesson for me. I discovered that if one truly wants to know the truth, all he has to do is sincerely seek and ask God. He will not dissapoint or deny (James 1:5-6). I still had some processing though to go through before I reached that place God was leading me, but I will share more in Part 2. I praise Him for His patience, and thank you for stopping by here at “Victory Walkers”. Look out for, and listen to the next podcast episode.
Hear this my Friends, Father, I am thankful for the grace of God that has appeared to me through the precious gospel of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for all those others that have also received the grace of God as well as those who still need to know Your amazing grace. Your death, burial, and resurrection means so much to me! Your precious shed blood and bruised body has brought me so much life, healing, peace, and victory even to this day. I am so grateful to be a part of the Body of Christ, and I love seeing the whole body from the weakest to the greatest flow in harmony, walk in honor, unity, power, and in the love of our God. I love seeing us loving one another through the power of the Holy Spirit. I thank you for the life transforming power of Forgiveness and mercy. As I reflect and remember, I am truly humbled and reminded to share this with others, and to examine my life that I may be careful to not walk in pride. As I ponder on what it is like to have eternal life, my childlike heart is still so mesmerized with great awe, because it cannot comprehend how and why you are who you are (I Am That I Am). You are the first and the last, the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, and the life source of all life!
Prayer:
Father, I am thankful that by the power of the Holy Spirit you are working faithfully and lovingly in, and through our lives, and on the salvation of our loved ones , our families, friends, coworkers, and every person you give us encounters and divine appointments with as we walk out our daily journey which, we now live through Christ who lives in us!!! In Jesus name, amen.
“20 Now may the God who brought us peace by raising from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ so that he would be the Great Shepherd of his flock; and by the power of the blood of the eternal covenant 21 may he work perfection into every part of you giving you all that you need to fulfill your destiny. And may he express through you all that is excellent and pleasing[a] to him through your life-union with Jesus the Anointed One who is to receive all glory forever! Amen!Read full chapter”
Friends, wherever our feet go, we are a sweet smelling testimony of the fragrance of our Beloved. We triumphantly walk in confidence that God’s presence in us is bringing joy or conviction throughout the Harvest fields. Joy to the seekers and conviction to sinners. Stay close to Him. Keep the fragrance sweet and strong. Then walk triumphantly and victoriously in it.
2 Corinthians 2:14-17
2 Corinthians 2:14-17 (TPT)
Apostolic Ministry
“4 God always makes his grace visible[a] in Christ, who includes us as partners of his endless triumph.[b] Through our yielded lives he spreads[c] the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. 15 We[d] have become the unmistakable aroma of the victory of the Anointed One to God[e]—a perfume of life to those being saved and the odor of death[f] to those who are perishing. 16 The unbelievers smell a deadly stench that leads to death, but believers smell the life-giving aroma that leads to abundant life. And who of us can rise to this challenge?[g]17 For unlike so many, we are not peddlers[h] of God’s Word who water down the message. We are those sent from God with pure motives, who speak in the sight of God[i] from our union with Christ.”
We Are Victoriously Blessed!
1 Corinthians 15:57-58 The Passion Translation
“57 But we thank God[a] for giving us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.[b]58 So now, beloved ones,[c] stand firm, stable, and enduring. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord,[d]because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labor productive with fruit that endures.[e]”
“57 But we thank God[a] for giving us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.[b]58 So now, beloved ones,[c] stand firm, stable, and enduring. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord,[d]because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labor productive with fruit that endures.[e]”
When God sends us into His harvest fields the potential for miracles are so great. Beautiful feet they truly are to the poor (and in spirit), to the wounded and brokenhearted, to the prisoners of dark and deceptive systems. How beautiful feet they are to those who are mourning, and have been living in a state of ruin. As the Body of Christ our feet are beautiful because God wants to completely transform every area of human despair all the way to the point where we experience freedom, beauty, mighty power, restoration that brings restoration, and are rooted and grounded as a new unmovable planting of the Lord’s love! Yes, our calling to move our feet and walk into our place of harvest with His anointing flowing out of us is so beautiful, and the gospel’s potential is so, so great!!! Victory Walkers, go today in His presence and pay attention to the harvest. Then watch God as you share the good news.
Romans 10:14-15 (TLV)
“14 How then shall they call on the One in whom they have not trusted? And how shall they trust in the One they have not heard of? And how shall they hear without someone proclaiming? 15 And how shall they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news of good things!”
Isaiah 61:1-4 (TPT)
Messiah’s Mission
“ 1 The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahweh[a] is wrapped around[b] me
“5 Therefore(A) be imitators of God as dear (B)children. 2 And (C)walk in love, (D)as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God (E)for a sweet-smelling aroma.
3 But fornication and all (F)uncleanness or (G)covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 (H)neither filthiness, nor (I)foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, (J)which are not fitting, but rather (K)giving of thanks. 5 For [a]this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any (L)inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be (M)partakers with them.”
Walk in Light
“8 For you were once darkness, but now you are(N)light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for (O)the fruit of the [b]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 (P)finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have (Q)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [c]expose them.12 (R)For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But (S)all things that are [d]exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:
(T)“Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
“15 (U)See then that you walk [e]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 (V)redeeming the time, (W)because the days are evil.
17 (X)Therefore do not be unwise, but (Y)understand (Z)what the will of the Lord is.18 And (AA)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another (AB)in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making (AC)melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 (AD)giving thanks always for all things to God the Father (AE)in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 (AF)submitting to one another in the fear of [f]God.”
