The Secrets of Victory

UV 4282/10000 The Secrets of Victory He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes ( the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God), to him I will give ( the privilege of eating) some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name engraved on the stone which no one knows except the one who receives it. Revelation 2 v 17 The manna or word of God gives the believer victory in this world. We have to open our hearts and ears to hear and heed the word the Spirit speaks to us as the rhema word or specific communication from God. When we hear the specific word from the Lord we become pacific, not passive, or full of the abundance of peace -the sign of victory over this world. We believe the Word to overcome and we receive the hidden manna when we overcome. The hidden manna are the treasures, the keys to life and eternal life that are encrypted in the word. With these keys of faith, we open many portals in heaven. The portal of healing and deliverance is one of the chief portals. The Lord healed, helped and delivered us, The Lord heals, helps and delivers us now, the Lord will heal, will help and deliver us in the days to come for He is the Lord who was, is and is to come. Having received the hidden manna, we need to eat of it or apply it to our lives, intensively and extensively. When we delight in the hidden meanings revealed to us by the Spirit of God, it delights the Lord and He is moved to give us a new identity in Him. It is a secret identity or new power, grace and authority the Lord grants us, symbolized by the white stone. White symbolizes salvation, purity, peace. The stone as the medium on which our new names are carved by God is symbolic of new strength, new vigour, new fruitfulness that the Lord will manifest in our lives. What the Lord does in and through us will endure and neither end nor bend to the world and its forces of evil and compromise. The reference to the new name on stone is a symbol of the contrast that our thoughts, words, deeds will be to the people who trust only in what they see and hear or their own limited sensory perceptions. Theirs would be like dust while we would resemble the stone that is indestructible. The secret identity or new name the Lord gives us is known only to us, implying only we know and trust the call and purpose the Lord has for each of us. Even our closest and dearest will neither know, understand the call of God on our lives. It remains a secret shared by two lovers, God and each of us. It makes us confident of victory in the here and now and in the hereafter. In this sense, we are more than conquerors who never know how the battle will end, how their lives will end, whether they will be victorious.