Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. (2Corinthians 2:14, AV).

What a powerful Word of God!!! God ALWAYS causes us to triumph!

Not sometime. Half the time. Once in a while. ALWAYS!

Think of it. Total victory. All the time. That is God’s plan for your life.

No, He’s not promising you a trouble free life. But through every trial, He gives victory.

In this message, I share about the trial of my faith when I was in the hospital three times in October, November. and December of last year. It was a very difficult time, but God is bringing us through to victory! Rejoice! He always causes us to triumph in Christ!

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. (2Corinthians 2:14, AV).

MT: No matter what the circumstance, God is always giving victory to the people of God.

Paul did not live a trouble free life:

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2Corinthians 11:24-27, AV).

And yet he proclaimed that God ALWAYS causes us to triumph.

Is this just putting your head in the sand and ignoring problems, or is it something different?

Tom’s testimony. 

For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1:37, AV).

And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. (Luke 18:27, AV).

Maybe you have an impossible situation. 

• A loved one who is away from God, away from you.
  
• A sickness or disease that man says in incurable. 
  
• A deep emotional distress with seemingly no way out.
  
• A financial ditch that you cannot climb out of.
  

Remember, God always, always, always causes us to triumph.

Paul says, “Rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say rejoice!

Absolutely nothing can defeat the child of God. 

Even death cannot defeat us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39, AV).

We have friends and partners who have lost spouses. It hurts. It causes grief. It can seem like total defeat. But for the Christian, death is not a defeat, it is a promotion. In Christ there is a resurrection. Nothing is lost!!!

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (1Corinthians 15:55-58, AV).

Eventually, Paul lost his life on this earth. Tradition says that he was beheaded. But he is not defeated! He is still proclaiming victory today through the words he wrote. We are not defeated. We are more than conquerors through Him that loves us. If you have not, receive Christ today. He will always cause you to triumph in Christ.