A Victory centered prayer life

​I heard these words in an Aaron Williams song called Abide:

"I depend on you for the victories still in front of me."

Those words reminded me that my God is a God of victory. Yes, he came to help us overcome our wounds and our challenges, but in the end, God came to promise victory.

God came to become a dead man walking out of a grave to give us an everlasting impression of victory.

Only often, when we talk to God, we are talking to him about our defeats. We are seeking his assistance to get through something and not TO something.

To the victories still in front of me.

I'm reminded of a beautiful opportunity that prayer offers us. Maybe the biggest opportunity.

The opportunity to be assured that we are living lives of victory, not defeat. Maybe it's in our moments of feeling defeated, of feeling overwhelmed and overcome, that we need to assure God we are absolutely depending on him for the victories we KNOW are still in front of us.

In this life and beyond.

Yes, God, I know you can get me through this, but I'm even more sure you can get me to that.

To that victory.

Winners mindsets focus on the victories still ahead. God is the greatest victor of them all. So, I'm quite sure he wouldn't mind us setting aside the talk about challenges every now and then to have a chat or two about the victories.

Maybe you don't feel so victorious today. Maybe it's because you're spending more time talking to God about the challenges than the victories.

Take time today to let God know I depend on you.

I depend on you for the victories I KNOW are still in front of me.

Because they surely are.