OVERCOMERS,
VICTORY OF

GOVERNOR George Wallace on June 11, 1963, defied the federal court by standing in front of the doors of the University of Alabama to keep two black students from entering in. He said, “You’ll enter in over my dead body.” He was maintaining a system of segregation in the University of Alabama.

The only problem was that the U.S. government sent down U.S. marshals to escort the two students. They said, “Governor Wallace, you have two choices. You can remove yourself from in front of these doors, or we can remove you. But one thing is going to be the case: you’re not going to block the law of the United States, which says that you must not maintain segregation at this University. Things are going to change today. Now, you decide whether you’re going to get out of the way, or whether we’re going to get you out of the way, but you need to know you will be out of the way.”

When God joins you in the lions’ den, and Satan has taken his stand against you, and he’s gotten your boss to stand against you, your friends to stand against you, your family to stand against you, and everybody is standing up against you, God wants you to know that’s not the final decision. There is another court up in heaven, and when that court sends in the marshals, this court can overrule whatever system is holding you down.653

[God, Power of; God’s Deliverance; Victory]

Deut. 20:4; Ps. 18:35; 1 Cor. 15:57