More Than Conquerors

What does it mean to be more than a conqueror in today's world? On this heartfelt episode of "They Call Me Mr. Yu," we journey from our humble beginnings during the pandemic’s peak in fall 2020 to our current evolution, expressing immense gratitude for the unwavering support from our incredible listeners. We reflect on our progress and the diverse array of topics we've embraced, from sports and gardening to mental health and family life. Our renewed focus is on nurturing the whole person—spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally.

This episode dives deep into the empowering concept of being more than a conqueror, inspired by the Greek term "Nikao." We explore the significance of personal power and control in overcoming challenges, drawing from John 10:10 to contrast the enemy’s destructive aims with Jesus’ offer of abundant life. We dispel misconceptions about status symbols like the Nike swoosh and discuss the vital importance of addressing and conqueri

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Speaker 1: 0:49

Thank you, welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to, they Call Me Mr you, the podcast. Thanks again for making us a part of your morning, your day and your week with your weekly mirror check before you go change the world. You can find us on all our socials at TheyCallMeMrU, linkedin, facebook, twitter, instagram, tiktok and, of course, our YouTube channel at the same name at TheyCallMeMrU M-I-S-T-A-Y-U. We thank you again for all the support. The show is definitely growing. We thank you again for all support. The show is definitely growing.

Speaker 1: 1:27

If you have any aspirations to be a gardener or to exercise your ability to use your green thumb, you'll notice that when you plant seed, you don't always see an immediate harvest. It takes a little time, it's away from the public eye, but growth is happening. You've got to believe that. That's where we are as a show A lot of things that we are trying to accomplish goals-wise, numbers-wise, but I really believe that we are growing. I'm hearing a lot from you guys on all of our platforms about what is ministering to you, what you're getting from the content that we're putting out on a weekly basis. It's really encouraging. So we thank you for continuing to do that. We thank you for continuing to stick with us, and I want to kind of stop there for a second.

Speaker 1: 2:15

One of the things that really was a blessing for me this past week was just kind of going back and through where we started off, and it's really good. I mean, as a general rule, you don't want to live in the past. It's not a smart idea. It can definitely hamper your future, for sure. But what's awesome is when you can look back and see all the miraculous things that have taken place, see where you've grown and developed as a person, see where you have faced mountains and were able to climb them and overcome them. Those are the kind of things that you can carry into your next journey, into your next experience. So it's good at times to look back on some of those memories, and I've done that recently with how we started this show. We started our podcast in the midst of a pandemic. It was pretty much at its highest point. We started our podcast in the midst of a pandemic. It was pretty much at its highest point. The whole world was going back crazy and people were in fear. People didn't know the next meal was going to come from People, were panicking about being around people that they loved and wondering what it meant to be separate from them and to kind of be disassociated. In a lot of ways, a lot was going on in our world when we started this podcast in the fall of 2020.

Speaker 1: 3:31

What I love about this is I went back to look at some of the old episodes from our first couple of seasons just to see what we've done and where we were kind of going, and I got overwhelmed, to be honest about it. Something that we were talking about were just, they were next level, and I didn't even realize that it was even coming out of my mouth. I didn't even realize that we were at that place where there was so much to give, especially in a time where the emphasis was on taking and so being in survival mode and the things that were coming out of my mouth not to point a finger at me, I'm pointing a finger at God in this and saying that there was so much that was coming out that I was like, wow, it was impactful. I looked back at the numbers and did the analysis. I can see how impacted you guys were in your listening and in your listening to our show. We were all audio the first couple of seasons. We didn't have any YouTube channel going at that time and you guys were just reaching out. You have your comments, your personal messages, your comments on our social media platforms. It was evidence that it was doing something for you and for that I just want to say thank you. I really appreciate what you've been touched by that's been coming out of this.

Speaker 1: 4:50

I know our show has changed a lot. We've gone into the realm of sports and gardening and we're getting deeper into mental health. We're touching a lot of different areas. We're talking about family and life a lot more than we have when we first started. But at the core, the Cormorant Mystery Youth Podcast is the same. We are still invested in every aspect of the whole person spiritual, physical, emotional, mental and in every other way. That's what we're doing. So it was really good to go back and look at this.

Speaker 1: 5:21

But I want to talk to you a little bit about being more than a conqueror. See, I know that we hear this kind of stuff in the religious vernacular and we don't really always understand what it actually means. We kind of say it flippantly or we say it as a way of boasting or perhaps putting ourselves publicly in light that we don't feel like we're in privately, or maybe perhaps putting ourselves publicly in light that we don't feel like we're in privately, just to be honest about it, if you can just be honest there. But being more than a conqueror has some significant meaning and it should have that for you, and I want to kind of talk about that a little bit as we get back to this. Now, the reason why I brought up everything from the first two seasons because it was heavy on teaching first two seasons. Because it was heavy on teaching and it's something that I enjoy, something that I believe helps me as much as it may be helping you guys that are listening. So I'm getting back to that. We're going to go ahead and start doing that a lot more frequently, like we used to do, and it's a part of the Call Me Mr Uter podcast and I do not want it to become something that disappears under the weight of all the other things that we're doing, all the area that we're touching the lives of other people and interest in interest, in things of that nature. So I want to make sure we get back to that and here is the beginning of that again, but being more than a conqueror.

Speaker 1: 6:41

What does that mean? What does a conqueror mean? Comes from the word Nikao. We've been pronouncing that correctly. It's a Greek word, where the word Nike comes from. Now, you don't Nike to be a logo that you see on sneakers and on commercials and sportswear, sports apparel. You know that swoosh sign.

Speaker 1: 7:01

But that means conqueror. The word conqueror means to conquer, to carry off the victory, to come off victorious. In those times, in war times, you not only won the war but you also took the spoils as well. A conqueror is one that subdues to go a little further and brings into subjection or possession. A conqueror does this by force or by influence.

Speaker 1: 7:31

I think at the core, all of us would love to be considered a conqueror. It doesn't sound like somebody that's weak. It doesn't sound like somebody that takes junk off other people. It doesn't sound like somebody who lets somebody walk all over them like a doormat. Nobody wants to be the opposite of a conqueror. Nobody wants to be the conquered.

Speaker 1: 7:53

I think I can safely say everybody that's listening to this show doesn't want to be conquered. They want to be the conqueror, they want to be in control. Many of us are listening today and if we're honest about that, I think we can all agree that a lot of times we don't feel like we're in control of our own lives. We don't feel like we're in control of what's going on around us, what's happening to us and through us and in us. We all want to have that sense of personal power to say I have the right to say yes or no in a situation. I have some level of control. A lot of times we don't have that, do we?

Speaker 1: 8:31

To be a conqueror literally means that whatever the purpose of the enemy is against you, whatever the adversary is against you, your stance nullifies whatever his position is or her position is in your life. Hopefully we don't have any enemies out here that are in physical form, but no matter what, we do have an adversary who is seeking to see our downfall as a human race. But you being a conqueror, you standing in the stance of a conqueror, nullifies his position, nullifies his purpose, whatever he's trying to do. We know John 10 and 10 tells you about your adversary and he says that his goal, his primary aim, is to kill, steal and destroy. I love the part that comes after that Nobody talks about that much when it says but Jesus came that you might have life and have it more abundantly. He's giving you the opposite of what the enemy has for you, what the adversary has for you. He wants to kill, steal and destroy, but Jesus came to bring life and life more abundantly.

Speaker 1: 9:40

You being a conqueror and walking in that fact nullifies the purpose of the enemy. It doesn't matter what bad people want for you, what goals they have for you, where they see you. It matters what you think about you and where you are and what strength you operate in and what authority and power you function in. And I was sharing with him that the thing that he looks at at his ceiling, or that there have been expectations put on him by other people that those things are the floor. There's so much more in store for him and I hope I was being encouraging to that young man. But I really believe that in a lot of areas, the things that are considered a ceiling in your life expectations people have put on you saying this is the best that you can accomplish, this is the most you will do. I really believe that it's your floor, it's the lowest of what you're going to be able to accomplish. There's great things in store for you, beyond what people said about you. But you've got to step into your calling. You've got to step into your position as conqueror or even, in this case, as more than a conqueror. You got to believe that. You got to step into that.

Speaker 1: 11:02

People want to do that by wearing the switch sign on their clothes and think that they have elevated to some kind of status because they're wearing a status symbol or a switch sign. It means conqueror, but it doesn't mean that you're one because they're wearing a status symbol or a swoosh sign. It means conqueror, but it doesn't mean that you're one because you're wearing it. It could even mean the company has conquered you because you're buying all of this stuff ad nauseum and there's no benefit for you except the fact that you're wearing their clothes and they're seeing all the financial benefit from you. So who's being conquered in that situation? There's an old mentor of ours and we love her dearly and she made a point that still sticks with me. It's been 18 years and I can still hear it. I still think about it from time to time and I'll just paraphrase. But basically what our old mentor was saying was that if you don't confront it, you can conquer it. If you don't confront it, you can conquer it.

Speaker 1: 11:59

We talk about being more than a conqueror. A conqueror takes territory. A conqueror operates from a position of strength. They're not out trying to find strength to put upon themselves. They're operating from a place of strength. Their currency is victory. They know they already have it before they even go into battle. They know it's already theirs already. They don't know how big the enemy is, they don't know what the enemy has at their disposal, but what they know for a fact is that they have victory in their hands already. Before they blow a trumpet, before they wave a flag, before they fire a weapon, before they lift their swords, they already have the victory already. You got to ask yourself a question that I think we need to be talking about right now, because in order to be a conqueror, you really have to know where your victory is coming from.

Speaker 1: 12:55

We've been having a lot of conversations with young people a lot lately. Matter of fact, not even young people, it's not even about age at all. It's really about just kind of where conversations seem to be taking us. I can't really explain it without going into a lot of personal detail, but the bottom line is that it's been going into a lot of places where we're having to talk about real life issues and dealing with where people are. People are crying and they're complaining and they're hurting, and we got to talk about why that's happening. It's not all because of what my boss did to me or what my family didn't support me in, or whatever, or my friends let me down or my friends that let me down. It's not that.

Speaker 1: 13:42

What it really boils down to is what are you doing? What's your daily discipline look like? What are you putting into yourself? What are you putting to you? What are your eyes and ears seeing and listening to? What are you doing to build up that thick skin, that toughness, that mental fortitude and the intestinal fortitude to be able to be one who takes territory, that, wherever they go, they're successful? They're walking in being more than a conqueror? See, most people can say that they're conquerors. They believe they have their victory in every area of their life. But more than a conqueror means so much more and we'll get into that shortly. It means so much more. What it's saying is that you know what I have, more than just my ability to go out and conquer. I got more than my ability to go out and fight into war. I have something greater than that. I got a victory that's already been attained even before I fight. It's a victory already won, a battle already won before I step onto the battlefield, and that's something I think we need to remember. That part. We don't remember anything else. We need to remember that part.

Speaker 1: 14:59

I was reading in the book of Judges, specifically the second chapter, and it was talking about why the children of Israel were not able to remove foreign nations from their lands. It was mandated that the land, that real estate, was given to them already given. You don't need to sign a document or do any kind of paperwork and triplicate, it was already done. That area, that land, that vast amount of land, all that acreage and real estate was already belonging to the children, but they couldn't take hold of it. That's a sad situation. If you're in real estate right now and you have, or if you have real estate and you have land and you can't get your hands on it, you can't build on it, you can't grow crops on it, you can't build a house on it. That's sad. It's a sad situation because it's yours, right. You should be able to do that right. It belongs to you by right. Why can't you take a hold of the real estate? Why can't you take a hold of what belongs to you?

Speaker 1: 16:05

That's what was the plight of the children of Israel, plight of the children of Israel. They had access to real estate, vast amount of land I don't even know how many acres it is, but I'm sure it was vast, literally almost an entire country. But they couldn't take hold of it because they didn't obey the instructions of the Lord and every time they tried to battle or go into war they would lose because God wasn't with them, because they didn't obey his instructions. So it's one thing to be a conqueror. It's one thing to be more than a conqueror. It's another thing to be obedient to what God says. You conquer when you are in alignment with what the ultimate conqueror wants and where he wants you to be in your life. If he says, destroy the altars in your life, you destroy those altars and you don't hesitate.

Speaker 1: 16:54

Many leaders in the children of israel and in that realm didn't do that and it cost them. It cost them real estate. It cost them generations of people who would die prematurely. It cost them wealth. It cost them the peace of knowing that if anybody came against them, that they would be safe, that their families would be safe and not taken into slavery and captivity. They didn't have any of those benefits because they wouldn't obey the Lord and destroy the altars that were offering up worship to false gods. Apply that to your life right now. Can you see any area where there's an altar that you did not destroy that you should have?

Speaker 1: 17:39

People are wondering, like I said, they're crying and they're complaining and they're lashing out and they're wondering why am I not able to get breakthrough? Why am I not able to get from this point to that point? Why? Just a big gap between where I know I'm supposed to be and where I am right now? And there could be a lot of different reasons for that, but one huge reason that I believe is definitely on the discussion table is that there are altars that haven't been destroyed.

Speaker 1: 18:06

We notice even from our Bible school days. All the way back in Sunday school, when we were little kids, we knew that God was considered a jealous God. He wouldn't share his glory with anybody. So when you have authors in your life that offer up this strange aroma, this strange worship that is not centered toward the God of Israel. You know for sure that you've already gotten God's attention in a not so good way. Generations were dying and not knowing who the Lord was, not acknowledging him or remembering the mighty things that he's done in Israel, because it wasn't taught, it wasn't transferred, it wasn't duplicated, and that's because of the presence of these altars, the presence of these influences, these images, these idols that were continually in your face.

Speaker 1: 18:58

It's really hard. This is something that's just a side and a side. It's really hard to be healed in a place that made you sick in the first place. It's really hard to be healed and to be whole in a place where you've been made sick in the first place. You can't stay where you were and try to retain healing and wholeness and spiritual growth. Sometimes you got to change your environment. You got to remove things out of your environment that have caused you to change in a not so good way.

Speaker 1: 19:37

The children of Israel had this plight and they couldn't or would not remove the altars. They would never move the people that it was supposed to remove to take full hold of all the real estate, what they end up doing, what they have had real estate and land. They end up doing what they have. They have real estate and land in pockets, but not the entire land.

Speaker 1: 19:58

Some folks are content with just having a little bit of what God says, a little bit about what God said. They can have they cool with living right above the poverty line and in the spirit realm, so to speak. But if God says he wants you to have more, he wants you to be more than a conqueror. Think about why you wouldn't want that. What inside of you, what voice would you listen to? Instead, when you're being offered more than what you have, when you're being offered more than what you have, when you're offered land and acreage and country, why would you not want to take hold of that? When God says it's yours, it's something to think about. If you don't confront it, you can't conquer it.

Speaker 1: 20:49

The children of Israel wouldn't confront the other foreign nations that were involved in idol worship. They wouldn't confront it and it cost them and they would end up conquered by it. They weren't conquered by the people, but in their minds they were already conquered, because they couldn't obtain the fullness of the promise that was given to them. My question is really simple. My question is really simple. We talk about being more than a conqueror, and we're talking about this because I believe we're at a time where we need to take hold of what is ours. A good friend taught this a while back that I can't get it out of my mind. You know that often we take what's valuable and we sell it off for cheap. Right, we take what's valuable and we sell it off for cheap.

Speaker 1: 21:38

What have you devalued in your life that should have been more valuable than what it is? What have you devalued in your life? Have you devalued family? Have you devalued personal relationships? Have you developed, have you devalued your relationship with God himself? Not going to church every Sunday? I don't mean that's. That's religion. I don't mean that that's religion. I don't mean that. Have you devalued the idea of having a personal, fulfilled relationship with the creator of heaven and earth? Have you devalued that idea in your mind? Have you devalued the Bible itself? Have you felt as though that the word of God is invalid for you? What have you devalued? Have you devalued the idea that you have purpose in this world and that you were made in fashion for a reason to do a specific thing, to make a certain impact while you're here?

Speaker 1: 22:30

Have you devalued the idea that there's certain things that we have, valuable, that's in our hands, treasures, if you will that we've looked at like they were less than or don't mean as much, not as important, not as meaningful. And we've done that. Why doesn't it bother us that we come to a place where we don't hate what God hates and we don't love what God loves? Why doesn't it bother us that we're cool with being like the children of Israel and living amongst areas that or things in our area that we should be in conflict with, in direct opposition to? Why doesn't it bother us that we see the stuff around us and we don't do anything about it? Why does that make us want to do more? Why are we not convicted by that? Here's the question.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Just ask yourself we got into the place in life and I really believe this is true where we have dropped our guard, we've got relaxed, we're sitting on spiritual couches, we've become content and complacent with what we have. We don't even think about taking territory. One of the biggest mandates that we got from God himself, in his word from the very beginning, is to occupy until I come. I mean to do business, to do commerce, to take territory. We got to the point we don't want to do anything. I will go in to church on a Sunday morning for a couple of hours is the very best that we can offer and that's sad. It's the most that we want to do and that's pitiful. We got a purpose inside of us. We got a destiny in us. Why is that destiny being sold for cheap? Are you for sale? I'm just asking because somebody got to ask why isn't this bothering you? Why did not outweigh for this?

Speaker 1: 25:08

We outweighed about entertainers and people, people in the sports world, who we don't even know. They don't move neither in our personal lives whatsoever, they don't pay your bills, but we're outraged by what they do. But we watch in our own neighborhoods everything going wild. And you got all these Christians, all these believers in our neighborhood. You're supposed to be conquerors According to Romans 8 and 37, even more than conquerors. Because of Christ, who loved us, we got a power and authority that we wouldn't have otherwise had it not been for his sacrifice. And we're watching our neighbors neighborhood go to hell, in a handbasket, basically, and we won't do anything. We watch it passively, we won't change anything. We watch it passively, we won't change anything.

Speaker 1: 26:03

And our comments, our responses to this, as opposed to pulling our swords out, grabbing our weapons and putting in that work. Rather than doing that, our response is it's not that bad. It could be worse If this is not like so-and-so. This situation is really rough, so we should be thankful for what we have right here. That's a passive approach. It's not the approach of a conqueror.

Speaker 1: 26:39

And that approach is exactly the same approach that the children of Israel had in Judges, chapter 2, and you can look at it All those things that they decided not to confront, all those foreign nations that were bringing in idol worship and flooding the land with it and passing it on to make generations and generation and generation. They became a thorn in the children of Israel's sides. They became a means of destruction for the children of Israel Because, rather than address it and confront those areas, they were conquered by it. Now ask yourself are you more than a conqueror? There's generations that don't even know about any of this. They don't know the word of God, they know video games and they know fashion and they know cool trends, but they don't know Jesus.

Speaker 1: 27:42

Some may say why do I even have to know Jesus? Why is that important? What does that even mean? Why should it matter to me? Why should it matter to me? Excuse me, it does matter. It matters because, at the end of the day, we'd be given the option for life and death. And even though it looks like you've chosen life, you've actually chosen the opposite. Doing stuff, partying, vacationing, going to cool parties and cool events and making seven figures in the corporate world and spearheading big movements. That's not life in that sense, because if you don't feed your spirit, your flesh is going to die anyway. Because that's what happens to flesh it decays, it gets older, you start seeing wrinkles and skin sagging. That's what happens. But the spirit what does that look like? All the things you've done don't feed that, and that's the whole point. That's where Jesus comes in. Those things like video games and fashion and cool trends they don't change your spiritual trajectory in a positive way. You're more than a conqueror. That's the mandate, that's the instruction, that's the benefit. You're more than a conqueror.

Speaker 1: 29:24

I'm going to read a little passage to you really quickly, so you can kind of see what it's talking about. I want you to catch this and we're going to show out with this. Romans, chapter 8, verse 35 to 39,. It reads who shall separate us from the love of Christ, chapter 8, verse 35 to 39. It reads who shall separate us from the love of christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword, as it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. May in all these things we are more than conquerors. Through him that loved us, for I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. We're conquerors because of that love. We're more than conquerors.

Speaker 1: 30:15

Because of that love, he conquered death and hell in the grave by the sacrifice he made of his own life. And when he was resurrected, we were too. We were risen with all power and authority. Not to get too deep with it, but the bottom line is that he gave us some keys. He gave us some authority, the same authority he had to change this world, to change the trajectory of our life. He gave us that. It's in our hands, we have possession of it. Now have we devalued it and sold it for cheap, or do we still have it in our hands? Do we still know that we have the victory and that we are more than conquerors?

Speaker 1: 31:03

Right now, man, hearts are growing cold out here and people are not caring about anything that has to do with morality and a strong value system, family relationships, people. People are starting to care less and less, but there's some of you that still care, some of you who want to be more than a conqueror, some of you that recognize that your destiny can't be sold for cheap. Some of you that are outraged and bothered by what you see around you and you want to do something about it. We have options. We have people who want to do the same thing that are with you. You're not by yourself. You're not a conqueror all by yourself. You're not more than a conqueror by yourself. There are many more that believe the same and they're here. You can touch base offline and talk a little bit more about what that looks like and how. Perhaps maybe we can help, offer some advice, make some connections for you.

Speaker 1: 31:59

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