Hello and thanks for stopping by for today's Destined for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

Glad to have you with us. Before we get going with today's message, we'd like to share a conversation I once had with Pastor Paul.

His mission had always been to reach the World for Christ through the Destined for Victory medium ministry,

and it's a mission he hoped would continue

long after his preaching days were over.

So when we had a chance to sit down and talk about it, here's what he had to say.

Well, you know, when I think of victorious, my mind goes back.

I'm a kid growing up watching TV in the 60s, so my mind goes back to the wide world of sports. Oh, yeah.

There was an announcer named James McKay, Jim McKay, something like that. He had this classic line

where he talked about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. And I love just thinking

about how thrilling it is to be victorious. I love, in any game I'm

playing, I want to be victorious. I tell people I don't care whether it's monopoly or something

really serious. I want to win. And in life, we can win in Christ. And that's what the Bible

tells us that we are victorious in him.

And victorious means that we're following his lead, that we're letting the Holy Spirit

take us where he wants us to go in life.

We're saved by his grace, and then we're simply following his direction.

And, of course, the Word of God is so key to following God's direction

because the Word is a lamb to our feet and a light to our pathway. And so those who tune

in to broadcast like Destin for Victory are really supposed to be receiving guidance

so that we can walk in and live in victory. And that's what I

pray is happening as people tune in day by day. Well, we say it every day. In Christ, you are

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