OVERCOMERS

OVERCOMERS

Our churches are made up of TWO COMPANIES of people-- one within the other. Like an expectant mother, there is a smaller body within the one which is presently carrying it.

This SMALLER group are the OVERCOMERS of the seven churches in the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

They are INDIVIDUALS within the corporate body who are meeting God's requirements for their lives in the day they are living. They have made Jesus their LORD. They are more concerned with what His Word requires of them than they are about church buildings, ceremonies, programs and social activities connected with the present set up.

The corporate body is NOT MEETING those requirements-- never has-- never will. It has a huge "machine" running, and it requires so much energy (money, time, maintenance, etc.) to keep it going-- there is very little being accomplished other than fueling and maintaining machinery.

Personal consecration to the Will and Nature of God in the life of the individual has fallen by the wayside. (Whatever happened to prayer meetings where people "consecrated" themselves to the Will of God? That energy is now required to fuel a "machine".) We must now sign petitions, march in a demonstration, and write our congressman, instead of "praying through" to personal victory.

Run-of-the-mill Christianity will never attain to becoming an *Overcomer*, and there are very few promises given to this class of believers. The promises are to the *Overcomers*. *Overcoming* is not as easy as it sounds, and we can certainly not do it in our own strength. We must have the Spirit of God actively working in our lives, guiding, strengthening, energizing us.

*Overcomers* are usually outside the camp of organized religion-- because they simply do not fit into the modus operandi. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God-- "

"And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels--