Gloria Copeland – Victorious Words From a Victorious Soldier

Posted by admin | Filed under Gloria Copeland, Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Gloria Copeland

Now, in every army there are good soldiers and sloppy soldiers. There are soldiers who win battles and conquer enemy territory, and there are soldiers who fail and lose ground. I want to be a good soldier for the Lord, don’t you? I want to drive the devil back and advance the kingdom of God.

The Apostle Paul was that kind of soldier. He was a man of victory. He triumphed in every circumstance. The devil tried to stop him again and again with persecutions, beatings and trouble of every kind. But Paul kept right on marching in victory, preaching the gospel, healing the sick, working miracles and building the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eventually, Paul was put in prison and in chains. Imagine how terrible the conditions in prison must have been in those days! No doubt, the devil expected that to stop Paul—but it didn’t. Instead of lying down and feeling sorry for himself, Paul used his time in prison to write most of the New Testament. Prison didn’t even slow him down. Just look at the victorious words he wrote when his life on this earth was through:

“The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:6-8).

Aren’t those wonderful words? I want to be able to say words like that when I come to the end of my earthly life. I want to know that I have fought the good fight—and won!

Someone might say, “Well, Gloria, that was the Apostle Paul! He was special. We can’t all be like him.”

Why not? We have the same Savior. We’re filled with the same Holy Spirit. We even have the words he wrote to Timothy, his precious son in the faith, just before Paul departed this life—instructions he knew would enable Timothy to be a victorious soldier of the Cross just as Paul had been.

Gloria Copeland

Share

Tags: , , , , , ,

Permalink | Comments (0) | Jul 14, 2010

Leave a Reply




Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree