LUKE 10:19 NKJ “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Jesus defeated the devil for you (Colossians 2:15). According to Matthew 28:18, all authority on Earth now belongs to Jesus. As His earthly representatives, Jesus has delegated His authority to us. All believers have authority to use the Name of Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ Name, or authority, we can cast out devils (Mark 16:17, Luke 10:17). After Jesus’ resurrection, Scripture clearly puts responsibility on the believer to exercise the delegated authority of Jesus to resist the devil, and all his works (Philippians 2:10; Ephesians 4:27; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8-9).  The devil’s plan is to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10a), and one of the ways he carries out this plan is by inflicting people with diseases. Our mandate, through the delegated authority of Jesus Christ, is to stop the devil from carrying out his plan. In Christ, you have authority over the devil, all his forces, all his agents, and all his works.  You can resist the devil and not allow him any place in your life, because you have authority over him, in Christ! As believers we should not be afraid of the devil, although we should be aware and on guard against his schemes (2 Corinthians 2:11). The way to exercise your authority is through words – speaking the words of God with faith in the Name of Jesus Christ!

A blessed 2023 welcome to our extended Victory Royal Church family. This is our first quarter newsletter and our “VRC Theme” for 2023 is “BEHOLD HIM.” We hope the holiday period was abundant with God’s blessings and you are all feeling renewed for the continued journey of “PREACHING THE GOSPEL & PREPARING THE PEOPLE.”

Eternal Purpose

Galatians 2:20 KJV “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

The eternal purpose for every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is to die to self and live for Christ. To die to self is synonymous to self denial (Matthew 16:24). The Lord Jesus Christ said any believer who is not ready to deny himself to follow after Him, is not worthy of Him (Matthew 10:38).

God is constant (Hebrews 13:8). His power has not diminished. What He did yesterday, He can do today, and forever. We humans are the ones who can change and be tossed up and down by our emotions. God wants every true believer to experience the exceeding great and precious promises available through our faith in Christ Jesus.

However, there is one over-riding motive that stands to pollute a Christian’s walk and keep him or her from entering into the fullness of God’s rest and empowerment, and that is serving self above Jesus Christ. Self is standing in God’s way to bless us, to the fullest. If we hope to live a fruitful life, we must die to the self-life.

This will require us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, and to constantly renew our minds with God’s word for transformation (Romans 12:1-2). We must also lay aside every weight and sin that we constantly fall prey to (Hebrews 12:1).

2022 heralded many milestones, one of which was our beloved Pastor Bayo’s 70th Birthday which was commemorated with the publishing of his book “Legacy.” If you don’t have your copy as yet, you can order it at legacy70yr@gmail.com. Or you can email us at vrcministries@gmail.com and we will expedite your copy to you ASAP.

For this 2023 first quarter edition, we will expound on our “Weekly Bible Study Classes”, our interactive social “Family Night” and also explore our aspirations for physical expansion.

Our interactive Bible Study classes are hosted on Wednesdays: 7pm-8pm, Fridays: 7pm-8pm for evangelism discipleship, and Sundays: 9am-9:45am. The ministers who host these classes, go deep into the exploration of the Bible text in order to educate and expand participants functional relationships with their Biblical worldview.

Our essential congregation activity “Family Night” is back. This is an exciting social gathering scheduled to be hosted twice per year, with the first one on February 11. The entire family will be able to come together in a party-like atmosphere and engage in a closer nurturing interaction with the families of fellow church members.

Victory Royal Church is growing. Hence, we are aspiring for a more spacious home so we can more adequately meet the needs of our diverse ever growing congregants, especially for our Youth and Children’s Ministry.

Members are encouraged to prayerfully and financially commit to this worthy project. Let us know if you have any ideas.

Remember, you can now watch our live stream services on mobile devices and big screens on YouTube. Please click on the respective icon below to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you will be notified whenever we are live. Also connect to our other social media portals by clicking on their respective icon below.

1 John 5:21 “Little Children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”

An idol is anything or anyone that takes the place of God in our lives. It is anything that substitutes for the true faith; any human idea that claims to be more authoritative than the Bible; any loyalty that replaces God at the center of our lives. The worship of that thing or person that replaces God at the center of our lives is idolatry. God emphatically commanded us to flee from idolatry (1 Corinthians 10:14). In biblical terms, idolatry is worship of anything other than God. Colossians 3:5 links idolatry with covetousness; when we want something so much that we covet it, the thing has become an idol (Luke 12:15). We seek it rather than God. God instructed His people, “You shall have no other gods before me (Exodus 20:3-5).” That is why idolatry is such a sin. People are possessed by possessions. We put our trust in the “created” rather the Creator. There is nothing wrong in possessions as long as they do not possess us.  Our modern-day idol (object of worship) is money, power, pleasure, prestige, stuff, and even self. These are modern-day parallels to ancient idolatry, and when we understand that fact, Paul’s words “flee from idolatry” in 1 Corinthians 10:14 become much more instructive. It is not wrong to have godly ambition or have things. But the pursuit of the ambition or the things should not take place of God in our lives or be at the expense of losing our souls (Matthew 16:26). The story of the young, rich ruler in Mathew 19:16-23, is an example of man possessed by his many possessions at the expense of losing his soul. We should not follow after the lifestyle of the heathen, whose idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands (Psalm 135:15).