Welcome to [music] the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, February 10th. If you’re a Christian, you can rise [music] above your circumstances. Today’s message from Romans chapter 8 will remind you that through Christ, you truly can overcome. When your best plans get halted and you get derailed and set on the highway side over here, when your dreams get shattered and your plans come to a screeching halt, what is your reaction? Is it to blame God? Is it look for someone else to blame? Or do you respond

the way a believer should respond according to the scriptures? Well, the man who wrote this, the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was certainly not a novice to hard times and difficulties and heartaches. For what he’s written in this eighth chapter here, he knew by experience was the truth.

It had been tested and tried. He knew it to be the eternal truth. And so when he wrote in this 37th verse, but in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us, here is a man who is speaking out of the testimony and the witness of his own life. He knows what he’s saying to be true. Now when you and I think about the things that we go through, the difficulties and the hardships that you faced in life and the things that people face every day, what is our response to be? Are we to mature in that situation or to fight

back at our circumstances? Are we to try to remove the circumstances or to ask God, Lord, what are you saying to me in these circumstances? Listen, this is always the proper question. Whatever your circumstance and whatever your situation, the proper question is, God, what are you saying to me? Because I want to tell you, my friend, he never loses an opportunity to teach us something, to stretch us a little bit further, to grow us up a little bit more, to mature us.

He never overlooks a single situation of testing and trial, tribulation and temptation to teach us something that he knows we need to know which will shape us and conform us into his likeness. Now I want us to look for just a moment at that word here conquer because he’s talking about here having looked at the circumstance here is a tremendous comforting promise from God.

Listen what he says. In all these things we are overwhelming conquerors through these things. Look at the word conqueror. It is the word in the Greek nao which means to conquer or to be victorious. But this Greek word here is huper nico which means to overconquer. That word in essence means a superconqueror.

And here’s what Paul is saying. In all of these things, what things? all of our circumstances, tribulations, distresses, persecutions, famine, nakedness, pearl or sword. He said in all of these things we overwhelmingly, that is, we are super conquerors. We do overcome. We are overcomers of all of these things through him that is through the Lord Jesus Christ who loved us.