This begins the very dynamic and exciting daily Bible study for those who are ready to let Jesus move them forward in their Christian experience and success in life. In “The Victorious Christian Living Spiritual Growth Program” Jesus takes you through six main subjects; they are: The Strategy Courses, The Submission Courses, The Resistance Courses, The Purification Courses, The Prevention Courses, and The Protection Courses. You are about to begin The Strategy studies where Jesus will get you started on your path to major Biblical principles that will help you win over those issues like addiction and with winning at life.

Jesus uses two studies in this “Life Success Level Eight” group. These two studies make up the Strategy Courses; Jesus used the previous Power-Courses to “introduce” you into why you need the power to win over addiction. He also explained many of the benefits and advantages of that power. Then He gave you the “instructions” on how to get, keep, live, and mature in that power available to you. You are now ready for Him to teach you how to use that power to start drawing out a strategy for taking advantage of the power for The Victorious Christian Life.

You and Jesus are now looking at two studies; the first one He will use to give you the steps into how to use that power and where to use it. In the second one, He will start to explain what your rights and privileges are in this power-relationship with God. You need to learn what He allows you to do and how He allows you to do it. This has to do with God’s plan for your life.

In these two studies, Jesus will introduce you into a way of life that provides you with wonderful victories over addiction. He will be using them to build the foundation for you being able to take advantage of your relationship with your heavenly Father. He has great provisions that He has made available to you; and, you must know what they are.

The first study is called, “Living Victoriously Introduction 1.” Jesus will be using it to introduce you into the realm of the spirit. Then Jesus uses the second one to built on the Living Victoriously Introduction 1 course; it is called: “Living Victoriously Introduction 2.” In it, Jesus will show you how He uses the victorious, the miraculous, the blessings, and the benefits of Christianity to crowd out the bad in your life. Let Jesus take you through a quick look at the purpose for both of them.

Most people have no idea what the realm of the spiritual is all about. We have all had bad, unkind, wrong, and unacceptable thoughts and feelings come into our mind and our heart. If we accept these thoughts and feelings as being from us, we would have to have a pretty poor opinion of ourselves. Jesus and the Bible are going to help you understand that these ideas and emotions originate from Satan.

Adam and Eve faced Satan in the person of a serpent; it was a creature that was, at that time, wiser and more capable than all others in the animal kingdom. However, Satan was using this creature to talk through and reason with Adam and Eve. You will notice in Genesis 3:1-7 that Satan couldn’t force them to do wrong things, he had to talk them into it.

Gen 3:1-7 (NIV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

In this study, Jesus will help you become aware of the devices and methods of Satan. He will also empower you be able to win over the temptations and pressures that Satan exerts on you and those around you. Jesus will help you learn that people aren’t the ones who are attacking you, even those who are being used to say and do some very bad things; Satan is speaking and working through them just like he spoke through the serpent. This will change your perspective as to who your enemy or adversary is.

Just like there are negative things you want Jesus to deliver you from such as your struggles with addiction, there are also negative experiences and circumstances that you want Jesus to set you free from as well. However, God doesn’t just want to deliver you from addiction or these negative experiences and circumstances, He wants to replace them with positive, powerful, and wonderful things.

Jesus isn’t going to take you through Living Victoriously just so you can win over all the painful, harmful, and negative things in your life, He is mostly going to get your life filled with positive, happy, and joyous things. In this next study, Jesus will be introducing you into what you can expect from your heavenly Father. He has special plans for you that He wants you to become aware of. He wants you to start heading into a new way of life that fills you with great and wonderful thoughts and feelings.

God has much better things for you, your finances, your emotions, your relationships, your physical condition, and your spiritual experiences. All you need to do is to allow Jesus to teach you how to connect with God and His provisions and how to take advantage of them. In this study, Jesus will help you find out all the great things that are now available to you since you have accepted Him as your Savior, Lord, and King.