Do You Really Know What Grace Means? (Part 2)

Happy Sunday everyone,

I took a look at what grace is yesterday, explaining why many have often overlooked its meaning and had often underrated the enormous greatness that comes with it using Ephesians 3:20 to give a good idea of what it is. Then today I would look at the questions, “How well do you know the grace of God? Do you believe it?” A proper understanding to the answers to these questions would serve as an excellent foundation in knowing how loving and merciful God is, which would change your misconception of how God operates.

Grace as I gave a quick definition yesterday really is all about giving someone something that he or she didn’t merit, in other words giving an unmerited favour. Now, anyone could give grace, for instance if you are a student and you were to be in class by 8am and you came 8.30am, the teacher or lecturer could just pardon you and allow you inside. This is grace from the lecturer, that which you know you didn’t merit in anyway. But the grace I was referring to yesterday which I intend to continue explaining, is the grace of God or the grace from God. This grace surpasses any grace you could ever imagine that even I the writer cannot even express the depth of the grace God has given us.

God has been so merciful to us that none of us were supposed to be alive today just because of what Adam did, God was supposed to wipe out Adam and Eve because of their costly mistake of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil even as they knew it wasn’t right and Adam watching his wife being deceived by the serpent when he could have stopped him and rescued his wife, he just watched her eat of it and also accepted the fruit and ate of it. But because of the love God had for them he chased them out of the garden when they deserved to have been wiped out because they had polluted their spirit with another and had sold their right to a serpent or the devil in real sense, this was grace on the part of God.

The grace of God was to save the entire human race and saving the human race was not just like God saving us and we shouting, “yippee, we’re save!” it was much more than that. Log on tomorrow as I continue from where I stopped today.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Do You Really Know What Grace Means?

Hello everyone,

Do you know what grace is? Do you understand what it does to you the moment you get a hold of it through faith? Many must have heard of what grace can do in their lives, but have they really sat down to take another look at what they’ve actually heard? These are what I have for you today.

I’ve heard people say things like it was my seed that made me get that car or the house or that job and so on. Those who think like this have belittled what God has offered us. I am not saying God hasn’t provided all these things, but if we really understand what God has given to us as grace through faith in Christ Jesus, then we would know that all what we got were just keeping a strong positive mind which allowed us to get what we got, in other words they were just self-effort.

Let’s take a look at the popular Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” the Message version put it thus, “God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.” What God has given to us cannot be comprehended by our own human mind, but many have unknowingly belittled His ability and get only a fragment of His gift of grace.

What is grace? In very simple terms, it could be referred to as free and undeserved favour from God. An unmerited divine assistance given to us through Christ. We don’t deserve anything God has given to us, it has nothing to do with your degrees or how long you’ve worked. It only has to do with your belief.

Let me make it clearer, all the knowledge, wisdom, and getting the best grades or being the best at what we do are not enough to get this grace which God has offered us, which is why it is called grace. So, it then makes sense that what we do, whether in giving to anyone has nothing to do with the blessings we get from God because they are still not good enough. What God looks at is your belief in the grace which leads to your obedience of faith. Doing the work is not the issue, but obeying to do it and doing it is actually what unleashes the wealth of grace.

What is done might not be done by an expert in the eyes of man normally, but because you just listened to Him by doing it you unleashed the blessing. An example is Simon Peter the fisherman in the book of Luke 5:1-11, he had toiled all night and it was obvious that there were no fish, and here comes Jesus asking him to launch out into the deep. It didn’t make any sense but he obeyed and caught a net breaking, boat sinking catch of fish which wasn’t as a result of his expertise, but just because he obeyed. Peter could not claim that it was his ability that got him the fish. This is how grace operates, glory goes only to God and not a drop to yourself.

You could give seeds, but they have to be out of obedience from God and not because you saw a man doing it then you followed suit, this is not how it works. The obedience of faith would always get you more than what you bargained for and it is not your abilities that got you all these, it is simply knowing what grace is and doing what God told you to do and that unleashes this grace. The question now is, how well do you know grace? And do you truly believe it? When you do it affects your entire lifestyle, how you reason, how you live and everything about you.

How well do you know grace? And do you truly believe it? These questions are very important if we ever want to live and unleash the unlimited power of grace. Log on tomorrow as I take a closer look at these very important questions.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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How To Plant Your Seed (Part 2)

Happy weekend again everyone,

Yesterday, I looked into how God has given every one of us skills whether in form of talent or gift, from the day we were born, and how these skills are seeds in which we have to plant. I also explained how many have planted these skills in the wrong place and have been frustrated by not seeing anything in return. What I then explained was that the very first thing to do the moment you recognise your skill is to ask the very person who put the skill in you in the first place. Ask Him what He designed the skills for and how we are to accomplish His perfect will for us in fulfilling this. The process of walking with God is to know how to plant your seed. Today, I intend to go a little deeper and continue from where I stopped.

I’m sure many of us have heard of sowing seeds, like money in the life of a man of God or a ministry in order to receive a hundredfold in return, that is, the money you invested. Well, I’m here to tell you that you are limiting yourself if in the long run, it is the money that intends to see an increase in your life as the big thing. Do you really know what planting of a seed really means spiritually?

You must have heard of the prophet’s reward or the righteous man’s reward as Jesus said in Matthew 10:40-42, what did He really mean by that? Let’s look verse 41, “He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.”  There was no mention of money here both in the giving and in the receiving, but what is this reward? Let’s look at the verse before 41 which verse 40, “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Him who sent Me.” Everything Jesus said while He was here on earth was just about His mission here on earth which was to restore mankind back to God. Verse 40 talks about the carriers of the message of Jesus, those who receive the person are also receiving Jesus into their life, this is the same with the prophet and the righteous man. The reward of the prophet is the ability to receive the anointing the prophet has on himself which would also flow into you. Which means you could also start prophesying.

To receive Christ as Lord, you receive everything in Him, so as the prophet or the righteous man are also in Christ, your actions which is a sign of giving is being invested in their lives and given back to you as the blessing. So, their anointing help opens up that area in your life that is untapped according to the blessing they hold. So, if you think to give to them has to do with finance alone, think again because as you received Christ as Lord into your life, you also received His life of superabundance. The superabundance is an act of believing. Now as you go about doing that which God has called you to do, the superabundance starts manifesting here and there, this is because God doesn’t call someone without taking care of their needs. So, you need to be careful to follow the Holy Spirit so as not to miss out on the strategic locations He has positioned your blessings.

Our aim in giving out in love through sowing seed to a man of God, for example, is appreciating the God in the man, in return you receive the blessing of God through the man, but do not limit yourself to how much God’s blessing would manifest to finance alone because the authority over earth was yours from the moment you received Christ and scarcity ceased in your lives. So, take care of those that God brings your way even little children. Look into others and not yourself because God has already taken care of you, so follow the Holy Spirit and you’ll find out making other lives better make yours better especially when directed and led by the Holy Spirit. This is how you see your seed grow.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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How To Plant Your Seed (Part 1)

Hi everyone,

For some days, my write-up has been on finance, money and the original establishment of the financial principles laid here on earth and how we can tap into it. The truth is everything laid down by God looks so easy and simple, but it isn’t something someone would just pick up all of a sudden because of what he met here on earth as the norm, the question now is how can I begin my journey to the original principles laid here on earth and how to live that life. This is what I would address today.

The truth of all things by God is that it is so simple and has always been so simple that we have been the ones making things hard for ourselves. As one who intends to begin to live the financial life originally planned by God, the first thing to look at is what’s in your hand. What do I mean by that? Everybody, so far you are a human, have been given something unique, it comes as a gift or talent or skill that you were born with, this is a seed which God has given to you which would satisfy you for the rest of your life, many have discovered this, many haven’t. To those who have discovered theirs, some would have started using these abilities given to you by God but haven’t seen anything remarkable to support their life, the question here is what did you do exactly when you discovered your ability?

As I said earlier, your ability given to you by God is a seed the moment you discover it, and what do you do with seeds, you plant, water and nurture it and watch it grow, actually it is God who makes it grow. So, what is the planting? First of all, you need to know where to plant because there are several seeds needing a particular type of soil and terrain, so, what type of seed are you holding this would determine where to plant it and the terrain. All these are metaphorically spoken, now I would explain it as it is.

Where many have always gotten things wrong is determining where to plant their seed by themselves, take singing, for instance, the moment you discover this gift of singing which God has given you, the first thing to come to your mind is not to start thinking how you could start looking for where to sing or looking for producers or doing anything. The first thing to do is to meet the One who gave you that gift! He is the only One who knows why He gave you the gift and how to make use of it in achieving the right purpose. No matter who you are, God listens, but there is an unlimited advantage when you have Him living inside of you as your life so that when you speak He directs you, which is why you need to accept Jesus into your life because He is the only Way to God.

After receiving Jesus into your life with the Holy Spirit living inside of you which is the Spirit of God/Jesus, you can ask Him to tell you the reason why He gave you the gift of singing. He alone would tell you what to do. Now, planting your gift is to declare the word of God for your life over the gift and then sowing it where God tells you to go and it would be into the lives of exact people God has sent you to. Watering it is to thank God for the success of actions, all these are done by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word and the ability to hear comes from God, so you need to be in tuned with God every second of your life because there are things He would tell you to do that seems unbelievable but the level of dedication you’ve given in meditation on His word.

Your gift is a seed that has the life of God inside of it and when you follow what the Holy Spirit tells you exactly, not trying to analyse it with your human mind, you plant and speak the word of life, which is the word of God over the situation. Now the word of life spoken is the word of faith, the end result, of which you now start thanking God for it, then God Himself gives the increase. He is the one who takes us places beyond our wildest imagination all in achieving His perfect will for our life.

The principles of the earth in having financial success are all hidden in following the Holy Spirit as you walk with Him using your gift. You can’t be broke where God is, because you are a reflection of Him and His wealth cannot be fathomed. He is your consultant, your manager, He is the one who does all the hard work; all you do is to walk in victory. No matter the challenge that may come your way, the more you stick with Him the smaller your challenges become. This is the gospel truth and it would set you free.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Faith and Not Money Moves The Earth

Hello everyone,

I have looked into many people and even men of God and people have asked them what their greatest challenge had been, for the men of God, in particular, it had been financial challenges. The challenge of finance has been great for many. But my question now is, why was finance a challenge in the life of the men of God, although they later got out of it, but why does it always attack everyone? Did I say, everyone? Some people in this world have never been affected by finance, in fact, they control finance and some don’t know God. So, why were the men of God affected or why are we affected by finance, which is, having financial troubles?

There is nothing that I’ve seen that doesn’t involve money, even to the grass around you, they were not there by accident, someone planted them, and it wasn’t for free. So, the world has been shaped that even men of God say “Faith moves the heavens, while money moves the earth.” This is so wrong! Faith and not money moves only the earth, it doesn’t move the heavens, it was designed for only the earth! What we have failed to understand is that as Sons of God or one who is born of God, you answer to the one who sent you. Where many get is wrong is they say since we are Ambassadors, we are in another country, so we don’t use the currency of where we come from but the currency of the earth. And who told you money was the currency from the beginning? This is where we have often gotten it wrong.

When God created the earth, He didn’t create money to be used here, what He established as the currency was love all the while where out of it we then give, which is why I kept saying we’re to give in love which strengthens our faith. But that which we are to give is based on what was originally established and we are to give as providing by meeting people’s needs and money is not a need. Money is only given based on the low level of understanding the receiver has.

What the men of God did not understand was that in order to overcome your financial challenge you need to live and walk in the spirit and not relying on the canal mind where the money comes in. A challenge would only mean it is greater than the person you have given your life to, and God is the person who has control over our lives. We in return have received all authority over the heaven and the earth. So, since you have authority over the heaven and earth, it is just a matter of command and everything listens. The authority over the earth was what Adam before the fall possessed which Jesus displayed everywhere He went while here on earth. Adam gave his authority to the devil which was why the devil when he came to tempt Jesus said in Luke 4:6, “And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.”

The devil understood the use of this power how much you that has been given a greater power of heaven and the earth. This is why we have the Holy Spirit in us because He is our direction, He is the Spirit of truth and would lead us into the will of God for our lives, which is not poverty or suffering or infirmities, but a life flowing with milk and honey full of good success, favour, superabundance, and much more all these if you heed the words of the Holy Spirit.

Do not look at money or your challenges, instead look unto Jesus who is showing you how to live a life a superabundance which was how He lived here on earth. You just have to trust God, He will never leave us nor forsake us [ref. Hebrews 13:5]. Faith and not money moves only the earth for there is no faith in heaven because why put faith in something that already evident to all.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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The Obedience of Faith Leads To Total Domination

Hello everyone,

Today, I’ll take a look at Galatians 5:25 still but a closer view and bring out truths on how we are to live as one who has total dominance on earth, and by total dominance, it includes money.

Galatians 5:25 says, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” The Amplified version says, “If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]” To live by the Spirit is to receive Christ as Lord, that is to be born anew, just as I said yesterday, but to walk by the Spirit has to do with your actions, your way of life, the decisions you take. All these should not be as a mere man thinks but as Jesus acts.

The Amplifies version of Galatians 5:25 talked of being controlled by the Spirit, that is, your thoughts, words, deeds, actions, reactions, words of your mouth and meditation of your heart should not be canal, that is, with the five senses anymore. It is only in this realm that you can fully utilise the authority of Christ which you have access to through Christ. Walking in the Spirit could order wise be known as walking in the obedience of faith, what do I mean?

To receive Christ into your life is an act of faith that is, accepting and receiving the grace which has been offered to you by God. This grace includes the total authority of Christ in heaven and earth and also access to the Holy Spirit. So to live in Spirit is to receive this new life from God which is through faith, but to walk in faith goes beyond just having faith alone but to put that faith to work, that is the things you received through the grace of Jesus, and what do these entail?

Apostle Paul in Colossians 1 from verse 9 wrote to the Colossians how he hasn’t ceased praying for them, and his prayer for them explains further breaks down what walking in the spirit means. He started by writing that he prays that they may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that they may walk worthy of the Lord. These listed explains how to boost one’s ability to walk in Spirit through the obedience of faith. Being filled with the knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and spiritual understanding entails meditation on the word of God of which Holy Spirit would then interpret in order to truly gain access to the full knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Paul continued writing that doing all that is enables one to walk worthy of the Lord, which is pleasing to the Lord and it doesn’t end there, the person would then be fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for that spills over into joy.

This could feel long, but there are a lot of benefits when born of God, but with all these, it is the Holy Spirit who directs your path. And as you have acquired all that has been written, it the obedience of the simple instructions that the Holy Spirit gives you that allows you actually manifest the grace received through faith, because this actually is the obedience of faith.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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How To Live a Life Without Money (Part 2)

Happy new day everyone,

Last time, I wrote on how to live a life without money, using Galatians 5:25 as a head start, therefore understanding what living and walking in the Spirit meant. I also explained how there is power in the mouth of everyone who has the Holy Spirit in them after receiving Christ as Lord of their lives. I ended by saying there are some who haven’t grown so much in faith might not walk completely without the use of money, and this is where I intend to continue.

Now, those who haven’t completely pulled out of the truth that we have total control over this earth simply by commanding it through our word would still need money. But even with the circumstance that they haven’t reached that level of total dominance over money, while they still use money, they need to give in love to those in need, this strengthens their faith because it establishes the principle of giving through love in faith which eventually men would give into their bosom.

To those who have understood the ability of total dominance, is it that they can’t use money ever again? This doesn’t mean that money has control of them anymore, rather they take total control of the resources of the earth including money just as a King would. When a King needs a thing he simply declares and his subjects do everything to ensure the King gets what he declared. But you know the King is human and sometimes it could happen that the King could request beyond the boundaries of what is available, this is not so in the kingdom of God. On the kingdom level, Jesus has fought all the battles and has complete dominance over heaven and earth. We, on the other hand, got this authority for free through grace by faith and a counselor who would guide us in our choices, the Holy Spirit. So, we could declare anything and it manifests because we are using the kingdom power right here on earth.

The first thing everyone born of the Spirit needs to understand is that it is not by our power nor by our might, but by the finished work of Jesus [ref. Zechariah 4:6], all things that you would ever need in your life has been given to you through Jesus, and He has given us this power, it is now left for you to receive this power through faith and then declare it, which is the walking by the Spirit. This was how Jesus lived here on earth. He had total control over everything around Him, the times He used money were just when money was demanded and what did He do, He order money to come forth, which the fish brought to Him as Peter went to pick the first fish in the sea [ref. Matthew 17:24-27]. You need to get out of this world in order to live like this, which is why Apostle Paul said if we live by the Spirit, we ought also to walk by the Spirit, [ref. Galatians 5:25]. Work on your faith through praising God, meditation of the scriptures, speaking in tongues, these are some ways that help strengthen our faith.

You are not bound by the system the world operates on at the moment, you are to define the new and correct system the world is to operate in, get out of this world and stay out, you are to live and walk by the Spirit in order to take charge of everything including money.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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