Victory for REAL LIFE - What does it look like? 2/13/26 Frame Your Week with the Word

Victory and Overcoming! God has empowered us to walk in Victory through every situation. Key ideas: Today we look at how the power of the Word and Holy Spirit allows us to be human with emotions and real-life struggles, but still live in FAITH and IN VICTORY as we go through challenges. Victory comes from the spirit realm, Heaven, and the finished work of Jesus. We are seated in Victory in Christ. But because God loves us, He does not shame us for emotions, nor does He dismiss them or try to 'faith them away for us.' This is not healthy behavior as humans. Jesus wept over Jerusalem, He was moved with compassion. We are made in His image which is human with a soul. Mind, will and emotions. Faith is not a tool to shortcut the process of growth or healing from interior wounds. No pastor or minister should shame people for emotions saying they have a lack of faith. True faith looks like someone who is emotionally aware and articulate and can manage them without being overwhelmed by them. It looks like someone who walks with the Holy Spirit through them with the Lord. You can not be intimate with someone without sharing your deep thoughts or emotions with them. We are designed for intimacy with Jesus. When we pray in the spirit, we are speaking directly to Him deep to deep and allowing Him to strengthen us and comfort us from the inside. Men/males perhaps need to be given permission and encouraged to be aware of their emotions and be able to recognize, articulate and regulate them by the Word and Spirit. Pastoral care looks like tending the spirit and soul needs of God's sheep and not 'faith awaying' everything they are going through. The gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation are not a substitute for developing as mature men and women of God with mastery of living as three parts beings. If people do not trust you, if they can't trust you to respect their own thoughts and emotions, there might be a spirit of unity and bond of peace, but there will not be true intimacy. Jesus had an inner three, Peter, James and John. They did not just share signs, wonders and miracles, they shared daily life, emotions, fails and successes. Faith people carry joy, peace and love and are designed to be some of the most healthy, well balanced people that exist, not 'escapists' or people that have to always have their ducks in a row. Ducks don't typically sit in a row. They fly around and go in a multitude of directions if they are alive. Need more help? We have books and classes and you are invited! H2:2 Ministries: https://h2two.org/bookstore-and-partners #Jesus #CovenantGod #covenantofIncrease #covenantofrecompense #recompense #divinerecompense #double #doubleforyourtrouble #SaraShallenberger #h2two