Superação
Superar desafios, dificuldades e tentações faz parte da caminhada cristã. A Bíblia nos garante que, em Cristo, somos mais que vencedores em todas as circunstâncias.
Vitória em Cristo
Jesus já venceu o mundo. Nele temos coragem, paz e a certeza de que nenhuma adversidade poderá nos derrotar definitivamente.
These things I have spoken to you, that ye have peace in me; in the world ye shall have dis-ease, [or have pressing, or over-laying], but trust ye, I have overcome the world.
These things I have spoken to you, that ye have peace in me; in the world ye shall have dis-ease, [or have pressing, or over-laying], but trust ye, I have overcome the world.
But in all these things we overcome, for him that loved us.
But do we thankings to God, that gave to us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.
But do we thankings to God, that gave to us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.
For all thing that is born of God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith.
For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments be not heavy [or grievous].
For all thing that is born of God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith.
And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
And they overcame him for the blood of the lamb, and for the word of his witnessing; and they loved not their lives [or their souls] till to the death.
Superando o mal com o bem
O cristão vence o mal não com violência, mas com o bem. O amor, a fé e a perseverança são as armas da superação.
Do not thou be overcome of evil, but overcome thou evil by good.
Do not thou be overcome of evil, but overcome thou evil by good.
and the light shineth in darknesses, and [the] darknesses comprehended not it.
And I do thankings to God, that evermore maketh us to have victory in Christ Jesus, and showeth by us the odour, [or savour, or sweetness], of his knowing in each place;
For to whom ye have forgiven anything, also I have forgiven. For I, that that I forgave, if I forgave anything, have forgiven for you in the person of Christ,
that we be not deceived of Satan; for we know his thoughts.
And I shall give to him that shall overcome, to sit with me in my throne, as also I overcame, and sat with my Father in his throne.
And I shall give to him that shall overcome, to sit with me in my throne, as also I overcame, and sat with my Father in his throne.
He that overcometh, shall be clothed thus with white clothes; and I shall not do away his name from the book of life, and I shall acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Força e coragem divina
Deus é nosso escudo e fortaleza. Quando o medo tenta nos paralisar, a presença do Senhor nos fortalece e nos encoraja a prosseguir.
The holy prayer of David. The Lord is my lightening, and mine health; whom shall I dread? The Lord is defender of my life; for whom shall I tremble [or quake]?
But thou, Lord, art mine up-taker; my glory, and enhancing mine head.
For I shall not hope in my bow; and my sword shall not save me.
For thou hast saved us from men tormenting us; and thou hast shamed men hating us.
We shall be pleased in God all day; and in thy name we shall acknowledge to thee into the world.
O! Lord, make thou me safe, O! Lord, make thou well prosperity;
blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We blessed you of the house of the Lord;
see thou, Israel, the land that the Lord God shall give to thee; go thou up, and wield it, as our Lord God spake to thy fathers; dread thou not, neither in thine heart be thou anything aghast.
for your Lord God is in the midst of you, and he shall fight for you against your adversaries, that he deliver you from peril.
The eld [or old] error is gone away; thou shalt keep peace, peace, for thou, Lord, we hoped in thee.
I may all things in him that comforteth me.
Ye, little sons, be of God, and ye have overcome him; for he that is in you is more, than he that is in the world.
Ye, little sons, be of God, and ye have overcome him; for he that is in you is more, than he that is in the world.
Resistindo a tentação
A armadura de Deus nos protege contra as investidas do mal. Resistir ao diabo, vigiar e orar são essenciais para a superação espiritual.
Here afterward, brethren, be ye comforted in the Lord, and in the might of his virtue.
Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the ambushings, [or assailings], of the devil.
For why striving [or battle] is not to us against flesh and blood, but against [the] princes and potentates, against governors of the world of these darknesses, against spiritual things of wickedness, in heavenly things.
Therefore take ye the armour of God, that ye may against-stand in the evil day; and in all things stand perfect.
Therefore stand ye, and be girded about your loins in soothfastness, and clothed with the habergeon of rightwiseness,
and your feet shod in making ready of the gospel of peace.
In all things take ye the shield of faith, in which ye may quench all the fiery darts of him that is most wicked or the worst.
And take ye the helmet of health, and the sword of the Ghost, that is, the word of God.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;
and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;
and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.
Be ye wroth, and do not do sin [or do not ye sin]; the sun fall not down on your wrath.
Do not ye give stead to the devil.
Therefore be ye subject to God; but withstand ye the devil, and he shall flee from you.
Nigh ye to God, and he shall nigh to you. Ye sinners, cleanse ye the hands, and ye double in soul [or ye double of will], purge ye the hearts.
Be ye meeked in the sight of the Lord, and he shall enhance you.
Blessed is the man, that suffereth temptation; for when he shall be proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which God promised to men that love him.
No man when he is tempted, say, that he is tempted of God; for why God is not a tempter of evil things, for he tempteth no man.
But each man is tempted, drawn and stirred, of his own coveting. [Soothly each man is tempted of his own coveting, drawn from reason, and snared, or deceived.]
Afterward [or Then] coveting, when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin; but sin, when it is [ful] filled, engendereth death.
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
Strive thou a good strife of faith, catch everlasting life, into which thou art called, and hast acknowledged a good acknowledging before many witnesses.
For they that will be made rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable desires and noxious, which drown men into death and perdition.
Perseverança até o fim
A corrida da fé exige perseverança. Devemos lançar fora todo peso e olhar para Jesus, o autor e consumador da nossa fé.
Therefore we that have so great a cloud of witnesses put to [us], do we away all charge, and sin standing about us, and by patience run we to the battle, [or the strife, or fight], purposed to us,
And bethink ye on him that suffered such gainsaying of sinful men against himself, that ye be not made weary, failing in your souls.
For in that thing in which he suffered, and was tempted, he is mighty to help also them that be tempted.
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.
Whom against-stand ye, strong in the faith, witting that the same passion is made to that brotherhood of you, that is in the world.
And God of all grace, that called you into his everlasting glory, you suffering a little [in Christ Jesus], he shall perform, and shall confirm, and shall make firm.
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.
Who then shall part us from the charity of Christ? tribulation, or anguish, or hunger, or nakedness, or persecution, or peril, or sword?
And we know, that to men that love God, all things work together into good, to them that after purpose be called saints.
And the Lord delivered me from all evil work, and shall make me safe into his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.
But the Lord is true, that shall confirm you, and shall keep [us] from evil.
Descanso e renovação
Jesus convida os cansados e sobrecarregados a descansar nele. Sua graça é suficiente para nos renovar em meio às tribulações.
All ye that travail, and be charged, come to me, and I shall fulfill [or shall refresh] you.
Be your manners without covetousness, satisfied with present things; for he said, I shall not leave thee, neither forsake,
for every word shall not be impossible with God.
And he said to them, What, sleep ye? Rise ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation.
And when he came to the place, he said to them, Pray ye, lest ye enter into temptation.
And lo! I have given to you power to tread on serpents, and scorpions, and on all the virtue of the enemy, and nothing shall annoy you.
Wake ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation; for the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick.
Thou daughter of Zion, make joy withoutforth enough; sing, thou daughter of Jerusalem; lo! thy king shall come to thee, he is just, and a saviour; he is poor, and ascending [or going up] on a she-ass, and on a colt or a foal, the son of a she-ass.
He that doeth sin, is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. In this thing the Son of God appeared, that he undo the works of the devil.
Little sons, I write to you, that your sins be forgiven to you for his name.
Fathers, I write to you, for ye have known him, that is from the beginning. Young men, I write to you, for ye have overcome the wicked. I write to you, young children [or infants], for ye have known the Father.
I write to you, brethren, for ye have known him, that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye be strong, and the word of God dwelleth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked.
Do not ye love the world, nor those things that be in the world. If any man loveth the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
Know ye not, that your bodies be members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and shall I make them the members of a whore? God forbid.
Whether ye know not, that he that cleaveth to a whore, is made one body? For he saith, There shall be twain in one flesh.
And he that cleaveth to the Lord, is one Spirit.
Flee ye fornication; all sin what-ever sin a man doeth, is without the body; but he that doeth fornication, sinneth against his body.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?
For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
And I say to you in Christ, walk ye in Spirit, and ye shall not perform the desires of the flesh.
For the flesh coveteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these be adversaries together, that ye do not all things that ye will.