Victim to Victor Part 8 - It Aint Over Part 2

Send us Fan MailClick here to support Talk About It!For more information or booking details, visit www.donmsmith.comWe've reached the season finale of Victim to Victor, and we're ending exactly where we need to be: standing face to face with the stone that says "The End. Hopeless. It's Over."In this episode, we return to Lazarus in John 11. He's dead. Four days dead. Mary and Martha have rolled the victimhood gravestone over the door of their faith. They met Jesus not as victors, but as victims: "If you had been here, our brother wouldn't have died."But Jesus doesn't rebuke them. He speaks to their faith. "Did I not say that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" The first resurrection that day wasn't Lazarus—it was the faith of Mary and Martha.Maybe you're looking at your own victimhood gravestone today:A marriage hanging by a thread, no spark left.A relationship with your child that feels dead.Sickness that has ruled the day.Financial struggle with no way out.A walk with God so cold you don't even feel His presence anymore.The devil wants you to call it done. Pull the plug. Roll the stone and walk away.But this is the moment for Holy Ghost paddles. You've been praying and seeing nothing but flatline. Don't quit. One more shock, and you could have conversion—from sickness to health, sorrow to joy, bound to free. You're on the verge of a breakthrough. On the edge of a miracle.When Jesus finally said, "Take away the stone," Martha wavered: "Lord, by this time he stinks." Translation: We've moved on. We don't want to be victims again. But Jesus jolted them back: I'm not afraid of the stink of victimhood.Then He cried out, "Lazarus, come forth!" And the dead man came out, still wrapped in grave clothes. Jesus gave the final command: "Loose him, and let him go."That's what God is saying to you today: Victimhood, loose him and let him go.We close with the rest of the story—Lazarus sitting at the table with Jesus, and people coming not just to see Jesus, but the man who was dead and raised. They couldn't dispute the miracle. And they believed.Psalm 126 says, "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing." God is about to do something so magnificent, you'll say, "Somebody pinch me—this is too good to be true." No, it's not too good to be true. It's because we serve a too big God, a too much God. Not just the God of enough—the God of too much.I prophesy: You're next in line.Say it with me one last time:I don't believe it's over.I am not a victim.I am a victor.Key Scriptures: John 11:38-44, John 12:1-2, 9-11; Psalm 126:1-3Support the show