The worth of our service for Christ can never go beyond our personal experience of Him. Countless Christians are daily fighting a losing battle. Without the energy of the Spirit, they are constantly at grips with impossible odds; and from the conflict they emerge scarred, broken, and almost despairing.

Is that true of you? I am here to say that no man or woman need suffer defeat. We can have victory all along the way, and against the greatest odds, until we see our Master face to face. There is no need for any of us to be overcome, for we are called to be overcomers.

"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our FAITH" (1 John 5:4).

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