The Five Senses of Faith

Have you ever thought of the scariest thing if none of your senses functioned? It's just as if one could run crazy. No ability to see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. It is when you think of this that you know how important these senses are. One could say these senses are what connect a person from the spiritual world to the physical world.

As Sons and Daughters of God, we have Spiritual senses too, which we use to function as one having the Spirit of Jesus and living it too.

It is these senses that we are to use to live, right here on earth. I call them the five senses of faith.

I have heard people say we have six natural senses, and the sixth one is faith. But I say the sense of faith stands alone, and they are five in number.

The moment you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and you believe with your heart that God raised Him from the dead, then you are saved, (ref.: Romans 10:9). And you become a new creation, (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:17), and the life you live is by the faith of Jesus, (ref.: Galatians 2:20). In other words Jesus becomes your life and life source, (ref.: Colossians 3:4).

As a result of this, just as Jesus is right now, so are we right here on earth, (ref.: 1 John 4:17). This also means that we are to function in His authority that He has given to us, because we are His body, (ref.: Ephesians 1:19-23).

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So, faith is the acceptance of all that God gave to us. And what God gave to us is Jesus, (ref.: John 3:16). And we are to live and walk by faith, and not by sight, (ref.: Habakkuk 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:7). And this should not be mere talk alone, but our action should portray what we believe, which is our faith, (ref.: James 2:26).

Now, through the meditation on Jesus on the word of God, this helps us bring out the ability of Jesus. In other words, we can see, hear, smell, taste, feel, just as Christ Jesus Himself.

We believe and then we function through His senses. This is where we see a healed person whereas to the physical person, he is sick. But because we see the person healed, we lay our hands on the person and the Spirit of Jesus flows through us to the person and the person receives it and gets healed. All because we believe and function in the senses of Christ Jesus.

This is the life of the Sons and Daughters of God, the life of Christ Jesus. We walk by the senses of Christ Jesus and not by the senses of the fallen world. By this, we show that we truly rest on Jesus.

God bless you and have a blessed day ahead.

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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Dreams, Visions and Goals

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!!!

It's a new year again, and the so-called New Year resolutions stuff has begun on people's minds. But I have some things you'd want to know to help you keep your resolutions beyond the 31st of December this year. So, what are they?

We all have dreams, big dreams. We all want to be great in life, but as they are called, they are just dreams.

Now, before you become downcast, let's take a look at Habakkuk 2:2, which says, "Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it."

The key line everyone takes from the verse is that we are to write the vision and make it plain, this time from pen to book. But if you noticed, the verse says we should write the vision, not the dream, which means, we are to have the vision first before we can write them down.

So, how do we get this very important vision?

Even though this applies to everyone on earth, Sons and Daughters should not be ignorant of the truth, that God designed each of us for a specific purpose. Just like a hammer cannot do the job of a saw, and vice versa, we also cannot do the job we are not called for, or else we could get frustrated or find it strenuous to get the job done. So, where do we get what we were designed for?

We get what we are designed for from our designed Himself, Our Lord Jesus (ref.: Colossians 1:16), He alone knows our purpose in life. And by asking Him, He let us know through the Holy Spirit's leading and guidance. This is where we get our vision.

Our vision has a purpose, unlike dreams that aren't specific until they become vision, just as Joseph made Pharaoh's dream become, in Genesis 41.

Now, the moment we put our vision on paper, it becomes goals. As Habakkuk 2:2b says "...That he may run who reads it."

You can't run with a vision unless the vision becomes goals.

In 2024, you are to turn your vision to goals, by writing it down. Then ask the Holy Spirit to guide you on how to accomplish the goals. This is where He shows you how to plan, prepare, practice (when the need arises), and accomplish your purpose.

This is very important. And Sons and Daughters of God, the Holy Spirit should always be our guide, of course in line with the word of God, because you are to meditate on the word of God day and night to allow the Holy Spirit to give you the guidance you seek.

I believe 2024 is your best year yet, just ask the Lord to reveal to you purpose (through meditation of course), and write it down when you have received it, then allow the Holy Spirit, through the word of God to lead and guide you. And you will be prosperous and you shall have good success, (ref.: Joshua 1:8)

God bless you and have a wonderful, testimony-filled year ahead, IN JESUS' NAME. 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 Pregnant Woman

One of the beautiful joys of life is the joy of birth. But before giving birth, the mother of the baby will have to carry the unborn child in her womb for nine months.

Now, while she carries the unborn child, no one knows what the baby looks like, if the baby is a male or female. However, we know that today scans can be taken to get the sex of the unborn child while in the womb. But even with that, the baby is still in the womb.

The woman carrying the baby could be likened to the Sons and Daughters of God, who carry the promises and fullness of Christ within them. Those outside cannot see the fullness of Christ at the moment, but just like the pregnant woman, she knows she is carrying a baby. She believes in what she carries, but others have yet to see it.

Like faith, you have received all that God gave in Christ Jesus. But there are things which God has given you that are yet to manifest physically. You know you have it, but others are yet to see it physically, just as the pregnant woman. Eventually, she will give birth, and all will see the baby she said she was carrying. Eventually, everyone will see the manifestation of what you said you have all the while.

Do not lose hope or be carried away from the promises of God for your life. Keep your focus on the Lord, and you will see all that He said manifest in due season. The Lord is not a man that would lie. If He has said it, He would do it. And He is not slow in fulfilling His promises, His not  (ref.: Numbers 23:19; 2 Peter 3:9). So, like the pregnant woman who cares for the unborn child, and believes she carries the life of a child inside her, do likewise, by holding on the words and promises of the Lord till it manifests.

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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Like Seeds

Fruits are amazing. You get a harvest and the ability to invest all in one. The substance, which is what we eat or use, is the harvest, while the seed or seeds inside of the fruit are used to invest in acquiring more harvest in the future.

Now, when the seed is planted, the aim of the seed is to become a tree or a plant that bears many fruits. But the seed does not become fully grown overnight. If the planter doesn't believe in the seed, he or she tarnishes the seed from ever becoming fully grown, unless it is planted and taken care of.

Where am I going with this?

Our words are like seeds. When tap into God's plan for us on what we are to do, or what our future looks like, or something, as long as it is from God, it is always the end of the journey or the purpose of what we are to achieve at the end, is what God puts forward to us, and wants us to focus on.

Let us note that all these have to do with the manifestation of what God has given us because all that God wants us to achieve in our lives as needs have been given to us. For instance, the mango seed has the potential of a mango within it even though it is just a seed. In other words, there are mangoes within it, all the seed needs to do is to manifest the mangoes within it by being planted and watered to grow on the path to becoming a full-grown fruitful tree, which is what the seed aims to achieve, the fullness and complete stage that any mango seed can ever get to.

We who are Sons and Daughters of God also need to speak or confess what God has revealed to us as the finish line and achievement of what God said. So, all we are to do is just to confess. At the end of the line, we have no business with the journey. To focus on the journey can be discouraging at times, but when we remember what we intend to achieve at the end, we are strengthened the more to push forward.

To confess our purpose, that which we are to achieve at the end of our journey, which could be in health, work, finances, life in general or anything, is an act of faith. Look at Jesus when He calmed the storm in Matthew 8:23-27; Mark 4:35-41: Luke 8:22-25. He told His disciples, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." (ref.: Mark 4:35; Luke 8:22). Jesus had said in John 5:19 that He does nothing of Himself, but only what He sees His Father do, that He does. This would imply that when He told His disciples to cross over to the other side of the lake, He was being led by the Holy Spirit. And on Jesus' mind, He was already on the other side.

Now, Jesus slept off on the boat at the most dangerous side of the boat. When His disciples cried out in panic by waking Him up after He had rebuked the storm, He said, "Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?" (ref.: Mark 4:40). What Jesus meant was that they didn't see themselves at the other side of the lake, but Jesus did by faith.

Our words are like seeds, and for us to release the full potential of what it would become eventually, we must cherish and nurture our words, which is confessing what God has spoken to us, and meditating on the word of God. And we know that the word of God is Jesus Himself. We are to focus on His life, which has become ours, to receive revelations from time to time in the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, our strengthener, helper, comforter, and the one that points us to Jesus.

Like seeds, never take your words for granted, for what you sow, you will reap; what you say, you will get.

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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As Though We Lost Our Memories

As a Son or Daughter of God, you must have come to the understanding that you are a new creation, (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:17), and you live by the faith of Jesus (ref.: Galatians 2:20). What this means is that you have the life of Christ Jesus. And by having the life of Christ Jesus, the you that lives in your body is the very essence of Christ Jesus. But why doesn't it appear to us as that?

Jesus who is God was born as a man. He had to be equipped to know that He and the Father are one. In other words, He had to learn that He was God. As He said in John 10:30; 14:9-11, He is in the Father and the Father is in Him, and He and the Father are one, all this shows that Jesus is God Himself. This is the same for us, the moment we become born again, filled with the Holy Spirit. We become all that Jesus is. But why is it that in many cases we don't function as the Jesus we know?

The reason we don't function as Jesus is because of ignorance. We need to be better grounded in the fact that we are in Jesus, and Jesus is in us. So, how do we go about this?

As we study and meditate on the word of God, we are to see Jesus in all that is in the scriptures. As we know, the Old Testament is Jesus concealed, while the New Testament is Jesus revealed.

Also, as we study the scriptures we see ourselves in it as Jesus! Why? It is as though we lost our memories and we need to remember and know who we are. By studying who Jesus is, are also studying ourselves. The more we connect into all that Jesus is, we manifest Jesus as ourselves, in our actions. Just as Jesus said in John 14:12, "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."

To do greater works than what Jesus did is as Jesus performing signs after His resurrection. This was why Jesus said, "...because I go to My Father." in order to send the Holy Spirit, which is His Spirit.

If we don't see ourselves as Him, then we cannot see greater works than what Jesus did cannot be made manifest. It is just a journal of memories of who we are when we meditate on the word of God.

Whatever we do is led by the Holy Spirit, who is His Spirit. We must be humble if we want to allow Him to flow through us, as us, because we are in Him, and He is in us. And humility is to focus on Jesus ONLY, and not on ourselves, whom the devil forces us to focus on.

And don't forget that the area the devil wants us to focus us has been crucified, in simple terms, it is dead and gone. The life in us is the very life of Jesus. So, if we focus on Him, we reveal Him, who is us, but if we listen to the devil, we act as the person we are not.

Focus on Jesus, and you'll remember who you are, because as He is, so are you in this world, (ref.: 1 John 4:17).

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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A Son or an Orphan?

In one of my write-ups, I wrote about why we should not grow up, why? The reason is that when we were children, God placed our parents as custodians, thus representing Him here on earth. As children, we depended on our parents for everything, we never had to worry about what to eat, drink, clothes to wear, or any other need, because our parents in many ways knew what we needed even before we asked them.

Now, the whole idea for God doing this was for us to learn how to rest on Him completely since we had learnt to rest on our parents for our living, which had become our way of life. As we grow, we then switch from our parents to Him [God our heavenly Father] for everything, He is our true Father, our parent. But what we find today is that as children grow up, they switch from their parents to themselves, thus living as orphans.

As children when we needed food, we ran to our parents, who in many ways already had food prepared for us, or had planned on what we were to eat, the same was for every other need we had. Thinking or worrying about food, drink, clothes, and every other need was our design or purpose as to why we were created. But when we take up these responsibilities as adults, we then bring stress upon ourselves because that isn't why we were created.

So, what did Jesus mean in Matthew 6:33?

Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." 

Jesus said we should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. So, what does the kingdom of God mean? The kingdom of God means simply means a home! What home? The home of our Lord God Almighty. And His righteousness means the life we adopted when we became born again, which is the life of a Son or Daughter of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." We became righteous because of Christ Jesus who took our sin and gave us His righteousness. This righteousness is a redemption between us and God, and it is the life of Christ Himself, which has made us Sons and Daughters of God.

Orphans worry about what to eat, drink, and wear because they don't know where the next one will come from. But a Son or Daughter doesn't live a life of worry, because they know that their needs are already met.

A Son or Daughter at home wakes up in the morning and has his food sorted out, this is the same for his clothing, and every other need he or she has. It is not the place for Sons or Daughters at home to worry about their need. So, what do the Sons and Daughters do at home?

The Sons and Daughters have chores at home. First, the Sons and Daughters are beneficiaries of all that the Father owns. This is why they have no business getting worried. Their focus is on their chores.

As Sons and Daughters of God, we are led by the Holy Spirit to know what chore we carry out for our Father, which is to manage all that He has, by expanding His kingdom. And all this isn't to get our needs met.

An orphan does everything to earn food to eat, clothes to wear, or any other need. It's a life of hustle and desperation. But this is not the same with the Son and Daughter of God. They have their needs already sorted out by grace through faith. All they do is meditate on the word of God, in order to know and receive revelation from God and the leading of the Holy Spirit, who shows them the path they are to take as Sons and Daughters of God.

Occupy till I come, means to expand the kingdom of God by bringing more people into the kingdom, and this comes in many ways, the kingdom business ways. But the most important thing is that NOTHING is done without the leading of the Holy Spirit. There is no guesswork, you are sure of what you are to do as a Son to Daughter of God.

You are a Son or Daughter of God in Christ Jesus and not an orphan. God adopted you as His Son or Daughter the moment you received His hands when He stretched them towards you, and this is the receiving Jesus as your life, the one who saved you. This is why He is your Lord and Saviour, because He took you from the life of an orphan and made you a Son, thus, giving you a brand new life. Live like a Son or Daughter that you are, and see that Christ's inheritance is your inheritance.

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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Miraculous Power Through Praise

Everyone in one way or another needs a miracle, which could be in the form of healing, financial breakthrough, family bonding, marriage intervention, and more. So, many times we pray, or even cry when these issues seem to have gotten out of hand. Well, one may say you can't blame them. But my question which is directed to the Sons and Daughters of God is this, are you doing all these in faith?

Before you jump at me saying I don't understand what they are going through, I understand because I also have had my share of frustrations in life, with tears. But what the Bible says we should live and walk by faith and not by sight, (ref.: Romans 1:17; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38). 

So, what is my point here?

My point here is that miracles can only be accessed through praise and thanksgiving. When we bring our concerns to the Lord, the Lord God on the other hand reminds us through the scriptures that all our concerns have been answered through the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ. So, our focus won't be on asking, because we are now Sons and Daughters of God, and being a Son or Daughter of God implies that you have the fullness of Christ Jesus as an inheritance as the free gift of salvation. But in many cases, we don't see our prayers being answered despite knowing that we have received them in Christ Jesus. So, what are we to do, praise and thank God.

Thanksgiving is an act of faith that you stand on and have received what Jesus has done for you. Praise, on the other hand, shifts our focus from the distractions of this world onto God/Jesus. And as we keep on focusing on Jesus, we without knowing it, strengthen our faith in Jesus. and we eventually see the physical manifestation of what Jesus has done for us because we eventually align ourselves with the grace of God.

The absence of continuous praise and thanksgiving is to give room for the distractions of this world.

As Sons and Daughters of God, what we receive from God are miracles, but divine favour, because of His grace. He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness (ref.: 2 Peter 1:2-3), so it is left to us to activate through the positive acceptance of His grace (all that He has given to us as an inheritance of the free gift of salvation in Christ Jesus). And we must always remember this.

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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