Our word for the week: CONQUEROR
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God’s WORD for US this week:
“No, in all these things you are more than [a] conqueror through Him who loved you.” Romans 8:37
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I’m beginning to trust more in the fact that God can use me no matter what my past is and….that He can use me anytime and anywhere!! <3
Highlighted for me is: God still loves (me) and He forgives (me). God’s spirit will convict (me), but His heart will never condemn (me), And that God uses conviction lovingly, to show (me) my sin and to lead (me) to repentance. He does this to draw (me) away from destructive behavior that hinders (my) relationship with Him and others. I have seen many times, after looking at the event that this is what and how it worked in my life. I do tend to be very hard on myself but I must continue to remind my self that I am not where I was and that each day I continue to build my relationship with God. Reading your book, Renee, helping more than you can imagine in my life, and for that I thank God for your testimony and ability to write and relate to me.
To all my sisters in Christ, have a blessed day with love.
Well, it is the end of the week and i still haven’t qiute finished chp 7, mainly because i have been carefully working through all of the treasured words of wisdom and encouragement you have so abley written.
Thankyou for beginning the week with the praying God’s Promises, this helped me to walk strong over these last days. The heading’ Failure doesn’t have to be Fatal’ was really significant for me, because it brought back words that I believe the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart many years ago at a difficult time in my life – ‘ I am the golden thread in your life , I am your constant theme’….. Your words about God being the gold miner ressured me that there is gold deposited in my life already and that i only have to allow the work of the Holy spirit in my life to draw it up and out, not just for myself but for others. My family of four is all grown up now, I pray for them all constantly and I now have the privelege of playing a big part in my 6 grandchildren’s lives. This is where I can put into practice seeing the gold in their lives and encouraging them as little people to become all that they can be and not least praying for them and sharing Jesus with them too.
At the moment I don’t want the Study and the book to end , as I am learning so much, yet i know the time will come and then I will have to continue to put it all into practice and encourage others to as well. That is my challenge.
The first few pages of this chapter really hit home. I struggle so much with my children! I get angry and frustrated and yell and then feel guilty and cry…I want to be supermom but I feel like a super mess.
Life is happening and I am just finishing the chapter, but it is so rewarding,it has brought to light so many eye opening things in my life that are going on that I need to become more aware of and turn to the light and not the darkness. I have underlined A LOT! one is that accusation does not come from God, it comes from our accuser, so when feeling that way we need to go to God and let HIm have the final say. Also that we may try to make up for our sins, but we can’t and we don’t have to. Also, and I talked of this to a friend, we are all wrecked up and God still loves us, we may be rejected by man but we are accepted and adored by our Maker. To feel rejected and not loved and have a bad day at work or hear someone say something about you or just even thinking things of yourself that you are fixated on like: I’m fat, or old, or not kind enough or don’t do enough good things for people or I should be doing this or that or I should not have done or said that, and the list could go on and on, it all makes you feel so wrecked and rejected but to turn it around and know really know that no matter how wrecked you are Jesus died ~gave His life for every one of us so He could have us with Him yes, with HIm in heaven for all eternity~~~~~all He really wants is US~~wrecked up and everything, HE WANTS US~~~He wants our neighbor, He wants our boss, He wants the cashier at the grocery store, He wants the person who cut us off in traffic, He wants the person you sit next to on the train, He wants all of us to come to HIm. I also underlined the part on pg 124 that Jesus did not condemn the woman, but He did tell her to go and to leave her life of sin. Sometimes I think we need to accept the fact that what we did was a sin and we do need to confess and be sorry and turn to the light, and realize God does not look on our sin~~~He gives us so much grace and mercy~~~He loves us! and because he shows us grace we need to practice showing grace to others~~~that is hard but the more you do it, the little whisper comes into your head, GRACE and you do it and don’t look back.
The discussion about condemnation versus conviction was great. I have struggled with the two throughout my life. I think by telling us that condemnation is very general and conviction is specific opens eyes. I feel that by being able to tell the difference allows us to be more confident. We will not fall for another one of the enemy’s schemes. Thank for you also providing examples of the two. Thank you for also showing us how that failure can be a positive and benefical experience in our lives. I have always viewed failure as something to avoid, even to the point of not trying new things, so by seeing it as a positive makes it seem worth the risk, Thank you, Renee.
I am a little bit late posting here because I have been on a road trip literally conquering my fears and being blessed by how much God revealed Himself. The word Conqueror is so important for me to conquer my fear of confrontation and interestingly, the fear of the fear of confrontation. The dread of the possibility of being unfairly accused, confronted, and blame.
“You know your fear is not from God,” my friend David assured me as I drove with shaky hands to a funeral of a dear soul. I had to conquer the fear of the possibility of voices from the past, all too eager to believe unfair accusations. And in the fear, in the possibility of fear was His Grace.
“Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world”
And in accepting this fact, in welcoming my fear as a vehicle for His grace to be revealed, my soul quieted.
And so did the voices of the accusers. The accusers were primarily of my own making, in my own head.
And, at the funeral, hugs replaced fears. They far out-numbered the couple of people who tried to feed my fears. Because of Grace, a soul named Wanna, who we honored at her funeral trumped the frowns of fear.
I love this chapter and it really was like you were talking about me when you were talking about how you dont want to reveal the real parts of yourself. I too have taught bible school, womens study,vbs, volunteering just active in any way I can to do what I wanted but not what God was asking because I didnt want to show that hurt part of myself to others afraid that they may judge me or think different of me. Thank you so much for making me see I wasnt being truly faithful and understanding that God will love me no matter what and he will take care of me and it will be okay. Thanks for making me realize I need and He needs us to step out of our comfort zone in order to be a Conquerer and teach others about his grace.
I really needed this chapter and the Word for the Week, because this week I’m feeling like such a failure, and so less-than-a-conqueror on so many fronts.
I’ve been in constant prayer. I don’t talk to my friends about my struggles, because, well, let’s just say that I seem to have the same friends that Job had. (LOL…at least I can find some humor in my situation.) I know that worrying solves nothing, but that has been a constant pattern for me throughout my life, one that I’m trying earnestly to change.
What I need are some prayer warriors. Please pray that I become victorious in plowing through my difficulties with an attitude of a conqueror.
Thank you, ladies!
Thank you for this chapter and the verses. I haven’t been able to keep up with every chapter of this study, but I am glad that I hav been able to read this chapter. I have been feeling trapped in sin and feeling like I will never be able to overcome it. I use to believe satan’s lies to lure me to the sin and then after sinning I have felt overwhelmed by guilt and shame. I believed I wasn’t good enough and that I will never change. I was letting the sin define me. But reading this chapter a second time has helped m see that I am IN Christ. There is no condemnation for those IN Christ Romans 8:1. I am convicted and I pray the Holy Spirit direct me to find ways to overcome this sin because I have tried so hard without success. Please pray that God would show me how to overcome this sin but also not let myself be defined by this. I pray that God can use this pain to some good use, just like Renee was able to change and help her children grow in Christ.
My mistakes aren’t what define me. I am forgiven, redeemed, set free! Amen!!!
Cheryl – when I read your post, I felt like I had written it for it expresses what I am going through right now to a tee. I too am struggling with a sin that I have left overcome me and define me. Thank you for bringing to light some of the lessons from this chapter that God wants us to learn. I am praying for your deliverance from your sin. Please pray for me as well. In Christ we are more than conquerers. Let’s claim this promise as our own.
Cheryl and Michelle,
I think most everyone has a sin that Satan keeps throwing back in our face. I too have one that I have asked God to forgive, but I keep condemning myself. I think God has forgiven me ( I’ve only asked 1000 times) but I have not forgiven myself. We must confess our sin, and I just don’t want to. The pain would be unbearable. But I think it’s at the point that if I don’t, I won’t be set free. God has forgiven me because He doesn’t want to have anything more to do with it. { Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.}. I really don’t want to talk with the person involved, but I think i must to grow in Him and make atonement(?)
Thank you Michelle for sharing. I am definitely praying for you and your struggles. Indeed, we are more than Conquerers through Him who loves us!
Thank you Suzy for sharing our struggles too. I too keep condemning myself. I agree that bringing sin to the surface can be so scary and painful. I pray that we remind ourselves that there is no condemnation because we are In Christ. We have a God who does not remember our sins. I am praying for you as you try to talk to the person involve and make atonement. May the spirit of Our Lord be upon you each moment.
Renee, So many words that you have put into print form, are speaking directly to my heart and apparently, many other hearts as well. God is using this book and study to reach many women’s lives for change. We are all a work in progress but God always wants the best for us, yet we allow the world to creep into the thoughts we think and then the conquering part of us gets smaller and smaller. God Bless You