The following are excerpts from each booklet:
Being an Overcomer
Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21).
You are called by God to be a world overcomer. This is the victory that overcomes the world – even our faith. (See 1 John 5:4.) It is by faith that we are able to be an overcomer.
It is by understanding the difference between what is good and what is evil that we are then able to make the right choices in life. By studying God’s Word for ourselves, and through prayer, we come to this understanding. As we meditate on His Word, replacing His thoughts for our own, we become able overcomers of the world and doers of the Word of God.
Overcoming Fear
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. (See 2 Timothy 1:7.)
The Bible is full of the words “fear not.” Someone once said that it says those words 365 times in the Bible, once for each day of the year. As a good Berean (Acts 17:10-11), I checked this out for myself. Although I did not count that exact number of times that these words appear in the Bible, it does say them a lot.
Having constant fear is not God’s will for your life. There are some fears that are healthy ones, such as driving too close to a mountain’s edge, and other things which also prompt immediate action. But, having any fear that has no basis in fact is not God’s will for your life.
Overcoming Anxiety
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and suppli-cation with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God which passes all understanding shall guard your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus. (See Philippians 4:6-7.)
What a wonderful promise this is! God’s peace will guard your heart and your mind when you let your requests be made known to Him with thanksgiving.
In the book of 1 Thessalonians, Paul wrote that in everything we are to give thanks. Some say that since it does not say for everything in this verse in chapter 5, verse 18, we are not to give God thanks for everything. However, if they would look a little further into the other epistles, they would find that Paul did indeed say to give God thanks for everything. (See Ephesians 5:18.)
Overcoming Your Past
Overcoming your past is perhaps the most difficult of all areas of your life to overcome, yet it is necessary to do this so that you are then able to achieve the purpose for which you were created.
The yesterdays and the yester-years of your life are past. They are gone forever. You cannot undo one single thing you have ever done. It’s history. It only lives on in your memory; that is, if you let it. However, you do not have to allow your past thoughts to remain. You are able to overcome them.
You have the ability to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God, and bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (See 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.)
Overcoming Confusion
Where there is bitter envying and strife, there is confusion and every evil work (James 3:16). God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. (See 1 Corinthians 14:33).
A certain minister once told me that he was confused, to which I responded by saying that God was not the author of confusion. With obvious anger in his voice, he asked, “Do you think that every Christian should be free from confusion?
If I said “yes,” I would most likely not be allowed to minister that day. If I said “no,” I would be lying. What I was instead led to say brought peace to this difficult situation. I said, “You can be confused if you want to.” That seemed to alleviate his anger.