Resilience Part 2 | To All The Martyrs

<p>As we continue with the series on Resilience, Pastor Tammy takes us through a thought provoking sermon on perseverance, overcoming obstacles and martyrdom. </p><p><br></p><p>We are taught to be resilient so that we can overcome, but how can we do that when we are faced with so much adversary? Revelation 12 gives us some clues about how overcomers are RESILIENT.</p><p> </p><p>Revelation 12:10-11 NKJV </p><p>‘Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accused them before our God, day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.’</p><p> </p><p>First way that we become resilient is to be:</p><p> </p><p>1. CONSISTENT:</p><p>Satan will accuse us and make us feel guilty and this in turn makes us STOP. He is an accuser, and that's what he is always doing, so it's important that we don’t try to fight him with our own strength. We don’t fight accusations with good works, because accusations will keep coming. The key is understanding the BLOOD OF THE LAMB. </p><p><br></p><p>We need to stand firm on what Jesus did for us and focus on His works and not our own. We cannot overcome it by ourselves. Scripture teaches us that ‘They overcame him by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.’ V11. That is how we overcome. We don’t fight with good works, we fight it with our identity in God. When we fight with our IDENTITY, instead of stopping we become CONSISTENT. Therefore, it's important that we don’t let ACCUSATIONS STOP us. Instead, we must live in the victory that what the devil is accusing us of is forgiven.</p><p><br></p><p>Too many we mess up or fall into sin, and then we struggle to get up again, we struggle with being resilient because we allow the accusations to make us stop instead of understanding that we are still the Children of God because of the Blood of the Lamb, we are a