What if you could operate in complete freedom even in the midst of digging yourself out of debt? What if your story on debt was victorious before you saw full restoration of your finances? And what if your financial debt didn’t weigh you down, hold you hostage and rob you of your joy?
Most people wait to experience victory OVER financial debt without realizing the fruit of TRUE victory IN financial debt. I believe God is speaking to us in this season,
Her Name is Victory
If you’ve read our mission, you know that Her Name is Victory is about just that.
- True kingdom prosperity starts from the inside out. We always manifest in our external environment what we experience in our internal environment.
- Jesus died so we can be one with God and experience His abundance in every aspect our lives. This abundance is out of the massive love He has for His kids, for the purpose of manifesting His glory on the earth through our lives.
- We manifest the glory of Jesus by introducing Him to the world as the answer to every problem we face. Jesus is the true and only representation of perfect kingdom wealth.
Scripturally we see this outlined in the life of Jesus, who is perfect theology. While Jesus didn’t bring the wealth of heaven (Rev. 21) to earth when He chose to surrender His life for our sake, He manifested the eternal glory that He carried within during His earthly ministry. Did He live in constant extravagance? No. But He did manifest earthly riches in the form of wine, food and money on multiple occasions. And He came to earth so we could receive and experience the same abundant life only He deserved (John 10:10). This abundance is first eternal and then natural. We know this because the gift of salvation offered to us is all-encompassing – it actually means saved, healed, delivered and indicates complete restoration for the entire being – spirit, soul & body.
The Sin-Bearer Servant
So how does this apply to our financial debt?
When I got myself into a massive amount of debt, it was after I came to the Lord. It was when I knew I was hearing His voice and that his absolute desire was to love and lead me in all my choices. So I either deliberately chose something different than his direction or deliberately tuned Him out. Either way, the result was the same: “a wayward sheep that wandered astray.”
For a long time, I felt the order of events disqualified me from the freedom and victory Jesus died to give me, because the sin was intentional and it happened after I had tasted of God’s goodness. It wasn’t just “a mistake.” But Jesus’ victory is not conditional, it’s complete. He died for it all— intentional and unintentional—past, present, and future.
Take Isaiah 53 for example:
“Yet he was the one who carried our sicknesses
and endured the torment of our sufferings.
We viewed him as one who was being punished
for something he himself had done,
as one who was struck down by God and brought low.
But it was because of our rebellious deeds that he was pierced
and because of our sins that was he was crushed.
He endured the punishment that made us completely whole,
and in his wounding we found our healing.
Like wayward sheep, we have all wandered astray.
Each of us has turned from God’s paths and chosen our own way;
even so, Yahweh laid the guilt of our every sin upon him.”
Isaiah 53:4-6 [emphasis added] (The Passion Translation)
If you want a New Testament example, check out Colossians 2:
“having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.”
Colossians 2:12-15 [emphasis added]
And I think an even better way to drive this verse home is from The Passion Translation:
So as we see in the above verses, Jesus died FOR OUR SINS AND TRESPASSES. They are included, erased, deleted – never to be retrieved by God. So why would you choose to still live in them?
This is what I hear the Lord saying:
Our Responsibility
Now, this is not to say that your debt will magically disappear when you grab ahold of this truth. This is meant to recalibrate your concept of victory. The victory Jesus won for us on the cross is the ultimate victory, superior to every earthly victory (i.e. physical, natural, etc.). It is eternal, unchanging and all-encompassing. This means you ALREADY HAVE VICTORY over this in heaven. And our job – our privilege – as believers is to manifest this victory on earth.
The application for you in this starts with knowing that you are working FROM victory, not FOR victory. So you can come confidently to God knowing these things:
- He doesn’t see you as the wayward child, wanting to scold you for the choices you’ve made.
- He wants to see your heavenly victory manifest in earthly victory MORE than you do. After all, His only son died to give this to you.
- He already has a solution for every single problem you face, including those of your own creating.
- The heavy burden that the enemy wants you to feel in this process was already carried by Jesus on the cross. It is not yours to bear unless you choose to pick it up again.
So ask the Lord for His solutions, be diligent to stand in His Victory (which is now yours) and co-labor with Him here and now to manifest heaven on earth through your life!
What questions do you have about living FROM victory instead of FOR victory?
