Really, Why Am On This Planet? (Part 1)

Hello everyone,

You wake up one day and find yourself here on this planet, well that doesn’t fall upon us all of a sudden, but as we gain consciousness of our environment we ask the question why we were born. Well, Ephesians 4:11-13 said something that I feel is quite interesting, and it says,

“And His [God’s] were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers. His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ’s body (the church), [that it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.” AMP.

In understanding these verses which Apostle Paul wrote, God’s intention is for us to be one with Him in Christ Jesus, this is why He has ordained some the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers, who would guide those born of God towards attaining the mature manhood which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection. In other words, as Christ is the firstborn in the new covenant, thus having the life, Spirit and nature of God, we also are expected to have the exact life of God, just as Christ does.

Many of us tend to look unto to God as unworthy people, like a maggot, worms before God. True we didn’t deserve God’s mercy and Grace, but God made us righteous, and as you are now righteous, your life is not a maggot anymore, you are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!

So, what were you born to do here on earth? To answer this question is to first know who you are, which is that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, in other words, as Christ is exactly, so are you here on earth, because you carry the same Spirit of Christ which is the Spirit of God, in other words, you are now one with God. The question now is, now that you know that you have the Spirit of Christ, what am I to do here on earth? Log on next time as I break this down.

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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It's All A Mirage !

Hi everyone,

Going by what I wrote last time, we now understand that the moment we received Christ as Lord we became righteous, and it didn’t come by works, but as a gift through faith, likewise we cannot be unrighteous through our works, but by renouncing Christ as Lord. There is a new level you have been placed that makes you “immune” to the sinful nature. As the Bible says in Ephesians 2:6 that we seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places. If we were unrighteous we won’t and would never sit with the righteous One who is Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He [God] made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

Now that you who are righteous in Christ know that you have Christ living in you literarily, the question now is, why do those born of God still giving the devil power? What do I mean by this?

Many of us think we get attacked by the devil. I used to think that way too until I studied the scriptures better with the Holy Spirit opening my eyes to deeper insights. So today, I will show you how powerless the devil is, and how he doesn’t any power. I’m sure it is dawning on many of us at the moment that the devil doesn’t have any power, but still, I must break this down to us.

Now, where should I start? In John 8 Jesus spoke of the devil where He said in verse 44, “…He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources [in other words, his native dialect], for he is a liar and the father of it.” There is nothing the devil would say or do that is the truth, because he can never stand in the truth, which implies that all that we call attacks from the devil have all been fake. This may not be convincing enough, let me go further.

Let’s look at Colossians 2:15, Apostle Paul wrote on what God did when Jesus went to hell when He died, “He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.” Message. The devil lost his powers because the powers he possessed were given to him by Adam which was what God disarmed him.

Jesus said in Mark 16:17-18 when He rose from the dead, “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

The truth is that just as we see a pond on the water in the desert and as we get close it disappears, likewise, the devil’s attack is to us. What the devil wants us to do is to acknowledge that we are attacked because our tongue carries power, so the devil speaks to our thoughts and it is left for us to believe his lies or rebuke them using the Word of God as the sword and shield of faith.

Unless the devil is as powerful as Christ [GOD FORBID!!!] then you can be attacked, or don’t you get it? You cannot protect yourself, Jesus is our protection because we are in Him and live in Him.

Remember this, “We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” 1 John 5:18.

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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Know Who You Are

Hello everyone,

In my last two write-up, I gave a closer look at what salvation really means, of which I believe I was able to break it down enough for further enlightenment. As we now know, we weren’t given a second chance because the old man who was in us died, so there was no one to give a second chance [if you don’t know, read my write-up of April 1^st and 2^nd]. The new life in us is the life of Christ, in other words, Christ is the one living in us, which is why we can’t sin, and if we sin, it is because we are ignorant of our new life, thinking we still have our old life and we need to work hard to please God. Well, here’s the breaking news, you cannot please God through your actions, and you can only please God through your faith in Christ, (Hebrews 11:6). And the faith in Christ is to believe in Christ and that we are joint heirs with Him.

Colossians 3:1-3 says, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” As we received Christ, Christ became our life. In other words, when God looks at those born of God, He sees Christ and not them anymore, because their old life was crucified.

Galatians 5:24 says, “And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.” AMP. This further emphasises the fact that we cannot sin anymore because the sinful nature has been crucified. Apostle Paul said in Romans 6:1-4,

“WHAT SHALL we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favour and mercy) may multiply and overflow? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.” AMP

Apostle Paul went further in verse 6 and said, “We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be slaves of sin.”

Sin itself is not by action but by nature. We sinned before because Adam sinned, because we got the nature of sin from him, so no matter how many good deeds you do, you were still a sinner just because of Adam. But now when you are now in Christ, you are righteous because of Christ and you got the nature of righteousness from Him, so no matter the wrong you do, it doesn’t make you unrighteous because righteousness is not of works, but it is a gift. Righteousness is a Spirit because when you receive it, you grow in it, remember you don’t have your old nature, so your Spirit is prone to do what is righteous because IT IS YOUR NATURE! Your old nature wears out because it died the moment you received Christ, so if you see a sinful action, they are the residues of the old nature which are wearing out quickly as the new nature of Christ is being established in your soul. Do not be carried away by word of deception, you can never be unrighteous through your action unless you renounce Christ as Lord of your life.

So I say, “…grow in grace (undeserved favour, spiritual strength) and recognition and knowledge and understanding of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the Messiah). To Him [be] glory (honour, majesty, and splendour) both now and to the day of eternity. Amen (so be it)!” 2 Peter 3:18 AMP.

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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What Exactly Is Salvation? (Part 2)

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I looked at what salvation really means, because it appears many of us have limited the true meaning of what salvation really means through our human mind. As I concluded yesterday, I said, “What God did was that He eliminated and destroyed our old man immediately we decided to receive Christ. We died! What we fear would happen in future happened when we received Christ. The new man in us is Christ and not our old man who was given a second chance. How else would it make any sense for the scripture to say “as He is so are we in this world” (ref. 1 John 4:17), if it was He Himself who dwells in us.” So, what is the essence of all these?

Philip in John 14:8 said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” This is what Jesus has established through us, that if anyone sees a person born of God, then they’ve seen Jesus, why is this so? It is so because we carry the exact, same Spirit. For Apostle Paul established that in Ephesians 4:4, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling”. The ‘you’ that you knew doesn’t exist anymore, it is Christ who lives in you now, this is why you need to study and meditate on who you are. The more you study about Jesus, you’re studying about yourself. This is why we are no longer to conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind (ref. Romans 12:2).

Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 7:2 said he has wronged no one, but how could this be true when he was once the chief persecutor of the church before Jesus appeared to him on the way to Damascus. Paul was saying the truth in 2 Corinthians 7:2, because the Paul (Saul) who persecuted the church and the Paul after Jesus appeared to him are two different people. It is not an opportunity to camouflage under Christ, no! It is the truth, the moment Paul received Jesus as Lord of his life, his old spirit died, and Jesus replaced that Spirit. And in heaven God holds no record of our old life because the old life is dead. So, Paul was referring to his new man.

Now, what is salvation and grace here? Philippians 2:9 says, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him [Jesus] and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Now, what does this have to do with me? Apostle Paul in the Ephesians prayer, Ephesians 1:19 and 20 said, “And [so that you can know and understand] what is that immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in heavenly [places].” AMP.

Everything that God bestowed on Jesus has been bestowed upon us exactly, nothing left. This is the salvation and grace, that He gave us His life in its entirety, in the real sense because He lives in us, this is the true salvation. It is not of works so no man should boast, as Ephesians 2:8-9 says,

“For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favour) that you are saved (delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; not because of works [not the fulfilment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]” AMP.

Let us get this into our minds, because remember we were never good enough, and if it is by works still, after giving ourselves to Christ, we are still not good enough this is why it is a FREE GIFT.

Get this straight, God did not give you a second chance, you are Jesus in the flesh and you need to know that, or else the power God cannot flow through you, because it only flows through the Spirit of Jesus. Know who you are by studying and meditating on Jesus who is the Word, and the Holy Spirit will guide, counsel and interpret the scriptures to you, and as He is so you would be here on earth. Remember, whatever He possesses are what you also possess, just believe that.

“…so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have (everlasting) life.” John 3:16b AMP.

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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What Exactly Is Salvation? (Part 1)

It’s Easter everyone,

Today is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ which happened about 2,000 years ago. A person who has no idea about what Easter celebration is all about might ask what Easter was meant for, and many might answer saying something like, “it is the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”. And the person might ask what we were saved from, and the answer might be something like, “from our sins”, quotation such as Romans 5:8 could be given, which says, “But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.” AMP. All these are true, but the person could ask, “what is the benefit of all these?” Yeah, many might say things like “we would go to heaven and be with Jesus on the last day or when we die”. But are answers like these or even saying Jesus gave us salvation really answering the questions or convincing enough for a person to jump up and say, “I get it now”. Yeah, of course, we would probably justify our statement by saying, “It is the Holy Spirit who convicts”. My write up today is most likely not for babies, but for the mature. My question today is “What Exactly Is Salvation?”

We often say we received Grace through faith in Christ Jesus when we received Christ into our lives, this is the benefit of our salvation in Christ, but do we really understand the word salvation. I’m not going to start showing you the etymological meaning of the word salvation, that’s not my point, my point is to give us further enlightenment on salvation and grace, for it appears we have limited our understanding on what salvation really mean.

In simple terms, the moment we received Christ into our lives, we died, we ceased to exist. Some of us would be like, “yeah right, I knew that”, but the question here is, have you ever calm down to understand what it means to die or cease to exist? Let’s take a look at two popular verses of the Bible shall we? 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creation altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!” AMP; then Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to the reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” AMP.

Both 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 2:20 says, you became a new person when you received Christ into your life. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says you became a brand new person altogether because of your old self-died (ref. Galatians 2:20). Now, who is this new person who lives in you? Jesus! Jesus is the new person who lives in you, or you could say, the Spirit of Jesus lives in you. This is why 1 John 3:9 says, “No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God.” AMP. But why do we see those born of God still sinning even when this verse has been written? The answer is simple, those born of God would still continue to sin because they think their old man is still alive and was given a second chance, so they strive with all their strength and might to be perfect before God, but guess what, God never gave us a second chance. That sounds surprising, right?

What God did was that He eliminated and destroyed our old man immediately we decided to receive Christ. We died! What we fear would happen in future happened when we received Christ. The new man in us is Christ and not our old man who was given a second chance. How else would it make any sense for the scripture to say “as He is so are we in this world” (ref. 1 John 4:17) if it was He Himself who dwells in us.

We haven’t gotten to the heat of the moment. Log on same time tomorrow to continue the unravelling of what our salvation truly mean.

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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Understanding Faith Is Easier Than You Think

Hello everyone,

Many times, we often times have trust issues with the message of faith we receive, but of course, the way out of all these is to understanding the scriptures which we are to study. Understanding is key, but if when we don’t believe what we are told by the Holy Spirit how do we live here on earth without worries and anxiety?

I said that we need to have true understanding of who the Holy Spirit is, and this is by studying the scriptures. The truth is that we cannot have full understanding of who the Holy Spirit is with the Him dwelling in us, but that cannot happen without having the knowledge of the Holy Spirit. We acquire knowledge of who Jesus is, who possesses the Holy Spirit at its fullness, finest, and at its peak.

Often times we need to first believe that the Holy Spirit of God and Jesus can never lie, (ref. Numbers 23:19), this is one truth we need to believe, but if you don’t believe this, how is it that you trust new technologies when they come out, for example, a radio, how are you sure what is transmitted at the broadcasting station is exactly what you hear? We just believe that the person we hear is the person who is at the broadcast station, the same goes for phone calls. Although, this is not the same with faith, but where I’m driving at is that we tend to believe new things just because it is science, but we have doubts over what the scripture says about us?

I saw a quote which made a lot of sense, it says, “Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes.” Deep down in our heart, we know that there is something missing, a void deep down. I saw another quote, it says, “When the Holy Spirit lays something in your heart, move without hesitation. You have no idea who may be depending on your immediate obedience.” The question now is why is having faith so difficult these days, why are people turning away from God these days? Log on next time as I look into these aspects.

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 The Now

Happy Sunday everyone,

Faith, faith, faith, again I’ll take a look at faith, but this just as before, I’ll break it down further. As I explain faith again, I’ll link with my Now theory.

Now, as I said last time that our entire life already exists, this is linked with faith. Albert Einstein discovered how faith works unknowingly when he explained how time functions, but he didn’t know he did. I said yesterday that a message of faith given to us isn’t just a message we should believe by staying positive. The truth is that the message of faith is what already exists. If I may break this further in a layman way, let’s take you standing on a piece of land which is about 80 hectares. Now, you haven’t ever been to this place before, and you have no idea on what exists on the land.

Picture yourself at the beginning of the land, at every 200 metres on the land there is a major landmark, as you were about going in, someone who was had gone in was coming out and told you all the landmarks you would see as you go in; now, the question to ask yourself is, are those landmark existing or going to exist? Of course they already they exist and NOT going to exist! With this, this is what Hebrews 11:1 mean when it says, “…substance of things hoped for…evidence not seen.”

Now, what you hoped for now exist on the land and not going to exist, the evidence is not seen yet because you haven’t gotten there, which doesn’t make those landmarks any less existent. So, let’s get back to our regular self, when you receive a message of faith, as long as it comes from God, it is as though God has looked ahead of you and is now telling you what you would face when you get to that point. Of course, before you got the message of faith, you didn’t know what existed on the land, but someone, who is God at this point is giving a message of faith, because God cannot lie, all you have to do is to trust Him, which is what faith has been all the while.

Another aspect of faith is that there are great treasures on the land which belongs to Jesus and He has decided to own every one of them for free without working for them, all you have to do is to follow His guide on how to find these treasures, because you won’t be able to find these treasures on your own. And just as Psalm 119:105 say, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

Faith and hope are two different things, and the message of faith comes from Grace which may sound too good to be true, but remember the message of Grace didn’t come from your effort but from the effort of Jesus which He has given to you for free. All that you need to do is to follow His footsteps, as simple as A, B, C.

Log on tomorrow as I continue on “The Now” theory and faith story.

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!

Log on next time.

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