The Power of Diligence

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We all have jobs or businesses that we do, some started through the development of skills or talents, but there are some who stand out from other as a result of their exception, the ones whom many people sort after, what exactly makes them different from others who are involved in similar jobs of theirs? The Amplified Bible puts Proverbs 22:29 thus, “Do you see a man diligent and skilful in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.” The Message puts this same verse thus, “Observe people who are good at their work—skilled workers are always in demand and admired; they don’t take the back seat to anyone.” Diligence is key at anything you put your hands to do, and this is what people are looking out for. The amount of diligence you put in a thing determines the result of your finishing.

An actor I admire—Denzel Washington said this, “Without commitment, you’ll never start. And without consistency, you’ll never finish.” This is very true even for a Son of God. Every Son of God is given a duty to perform here on earth if he is not committed to the work, he will never start, and even when he starts after being committed, if he is not consistent, he will never finish and move to the next stage with God. I never really had an issue being committed when working with God, but the issue I had was being consistent. You see this the time where we are always under attack from different angles from the devil, but the level of consistency you put to a thing is as a result of the amount of commitment to reaching the end that you put in the very first place.

You cannot escape attacks or distractions, they will always come, and they must come to determine how strong we are and who is fooling who. A person who is diligent and walking with God is likened to the house on the rock and the house on the sand. Both houses were built exactly the same, they both faced the same attack and disturbances, but one crashed while the other stood very strong. What was the difference? It was their foundation. One stood on the rock [which didn’t crash], while the other stood on the sand [which crashed]. Jesus said we are to listen to His words and put them into practice [referring to the house on the rock], while those who listened to His words but didn’t put them into practice [referring to the house on the sand]. And this requires diligence.

Meditation on the word requires diligence because it is through this that you commune better with the Holy Spirit, Who would tell you what you’re to do here on earth and how to do it; it takes commitment to start and diligence with consistency to finish. It is because of this that you’re noticed and looked for. Jesus was committed and consistent with His work here on earth. He was also very diligent which was why everyone looked for Him and was why He was able to finish the work His Father sent Him to do.

I had issues with consistency, but after communing with the Holy Spirit, He showed me a way of being consistent easily. Walking with the Holy Spirit helps you to attain perfection. Do not be discouraged if it appears nobody noticed you at the beginning, it is only the beginning, this is where consistency plays its game. It is the consistent and diligent one that gets an excellent result.

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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Your Body Is Important To Your Spirit

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Still on our body, [following yesterday’s write-up], is very important to God. Some think the body is not important to God since we would drop this body here on earth and pick up a brand new one. But let me give you a surprise, we won’t get any brand new body with the old one, because it is the old one that is transformed into a brand new body (ref.: 1 Thessalonians 4:16), just the way a butterfly metamorphoses into a full-grown butterfly. This implies that we are to take good care of our bodies.

The Amplified Bible puts 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 thus, “Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, ₂₀ you were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So, then, honour God and bring to Him in your body.” The Holy Spirit dwells in our bodies which is to serve as a sanctuary to the Lord God Almighty. This happened the moment you receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit into your life; this goes to show that the Holy Spirit is meant to be present in our body. And for the Holy Spirit to be present in our body implies He is also very present in our soul: our mind, will and emotions.

Another thing we are to understand about our body, as a Son of God is that God doesn’t dwell in inferior things, which implies that for God to dwell in our body as Holy Spirit, His perfection has taken place in the body, thus no sickness, cancer, depression, immorality acts [which was what led to the verse in the first place], old age, death and others from the first Adam. It is only that which pertains to the finished work of Jesus on the cross, which was established through His resurrection that is meant to dwell in our body.

Do not treat your body anyhow, also do not be over conscious of it, we are to understand that God owns our body and we are to honour Him as we dwell in it. We cannot live however we please. And just as the Message Bible puts verse 20 of 1 Corinthians 6, “The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.”

We are to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us on how we are to treat our body, this is very important. And the truth of the whole matter is that our Spirit, soul and body all belongs to God.

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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Your Body Should Reflect Your Spiritual Stand

Happy New Week everyone,

Yesterday, I wrote on the Sons of God having the mind of Christ which also implies having the fullness of God in us, and as we submit to the Spirit of Truth/Christ through the meditation of the word, we get transformed and His lifestyle which includes His mind, will, and emotions becomes our mind, will, and emotion, which allows the Spirit way of life, or the fullness of Christ, manifest in our body. My focus today is on the fullness of Christ in our body.

Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.” Many of us believe, it is only when Jesus returns that our bodies would then be transformed, but that doesn’t correspond with Jesus living inside of us. Jesus living inside of us if for the total transformation of our soul which would affect our bodies. Whatever the soul stands on, that is what the body follows. The fullness of Christ has been given to us and is meant to be manifested in our daily lives, but it is only that which our soul allows that gets manifested through our body.

When you want to lay hands on a person to get healing, your Spirit already has the fullness of Christ which contains healing, it is when you believe, which is the job of your soul that is activated in your body when you lay hands on the sick and the fullness of Christ comes straight from the Spirit through the soul, to the body and into the person sick. If the body wasn’t important, why do we get healed when we declare the power of Christ on our body? It is the perfection of Christ that enters into the body and restores the sick person. It is the same when you raise the dead, casting out demons and so on. It is Christ in you who flows through you and enters the recipient.

Our bodies are meant to manifest the life that we carry as long as we believe, which is what our soul must achieve by being transformed daily. In other words, we are not meant to grow old or fall sick, this is because we manifest the life we carry, as Jesus is, so are we here on earth, (ref.: 1 John 4:17).

Romans 8:11 says, if the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead dwells in you, that same Spirit will also restore to life your mortal bodies. The transformation starts the moment you receive the Holy Spirit, and also because we are no longer under the first Adam. Under the first Adam, we were bound to die. Sickness, old age, wrinkles on the face are all signs of death which we got from the first Adam. But now that we are in life Who is Jesus Christ, we are to manifest His life. The level Christ meets us when He returns is He makes complete, but the transformation won’t start when Jesus returns, it has started, and we are to believe and confess Life to our bodies and see the transformation take place as our soul gets transformed day after day.

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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HE Is Complete In You

Happy Sunday everyone,

Growing up in Christ Jesus is an amazing experience as you are not growing up the way the world is but in a supernatural way. The moment you received Jesus into you, you received His Spirit, in other words, your Spirit was replaced with the new Spirit which is His very Spirit. Yes, you’ve heard this several times, but that’s not where I’m going. As we now know, we are Spirit beings who possess a soul and live in a body. The Spirit was the only part which was changed, which is the most important part of our transformation. It is then left to us to groom our soul where our mind, will, and emotions dwell to conform to the new Spirit, which in turn would affect our body. Thus, the more our soul submit to the Spirit, the more the Spirit gain access to the body by manifesting His presence there. But today, let’s focus a little at the Spirit of Truth we have received, shall we?

1 Corinthians 2:16 says, “For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.” AMP. No one before the coming of Jesus had ever understood the purposes or counsel of God, just as the prophet said, His ways are not our ways, neither are His thoughts our thoughts. But the moment we receive Jesus who is God into us, it was God who we received into us, and as such we have Him living in us, (I don’t think you got that), let me elaborate further.

The Spirit we received as we may think is just occupying the Spiritual space that was there before, but the Spirit we receive is a whole person we received, in other words, we received the Godhead as a whole, His mindset, what His thoughts are, His feelings and purpose, all these in the Spirit. This implies that our Spirit is so loaded that we haven’t even scratched the surface yet in manifesting Him here on earth. Colossians 2:9-10 says, “For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. ₁₀ And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].” AMP. This is deep, I’m jumping on my seat right now with so much excitement.

We have our own mind which dwells in our soul, but this is very much different from the mind of Christ found in His Spirit. As we walk with Him, we get transformed as our soul starts to submit to Him then His mind starts to become our mind, His will starts to become ours, and His emotions starts to become our emotion, and this affects our body directly as we see His fullness start manifesting in our bodies. This is where the transformation of the last day begins, and not when Jesus comes back alone, the reason for this is because we now have His very existence, we have no life but His. Our bodies start to reflect Him as we live. This is the truth and we must believe to express His presence here on earth.

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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Escape The Moment You See a Way Out

Happy Weekend everyone,

We face challenges as we walk with God because we are still growing stronger in Christ. We face temptations some of which we fall for. Sometimes we cry to God over why we keep falling for a specific temptation. But 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

God knows the strength of every one of His children so He would not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear. But why do we still fall for some temptation sometimes? The answer is still in 1 Corinthians 10:13; even as we are tempted, God always provides a way of escape. What happens is that we either see the way of escape and ignore it or we don’t see the way out because we don’t expect to see a way out, but there is always a way out.

1 Corinthians 10:12 says, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” We are in a battle, there is always a battle, but through the victory of Jesus Christ, a way out is always provided. You cannot boast by thinking you have a steadfast mind and standing firm, therefore no temptation can overtake you? The scripture asks you who think this way to be careful or else you could fall.

We would always be tempted at whatever level you attain in your growth in Christ Jesus, it is God and not you who provides the way of escape. Your job is to recognise the way out and escape!

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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Spiritual Examination Is Important

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Evaluation is very important in every job anyone undergoes, it helps to let you understand where you were and where you are now, thus showing you your strengths, weaknesses, and progresses made so far. Evaluation is also important in the life of a Son of God, and when I say evaluation, I don’t mean religious self-righteousness appraisal, I mean Spiritual check-up especially in your soul [mind, will, and emotions].

The Amplified Bible puts 2 Corinthians 13:5 thus, “Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realise and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasingly experience] that Jesus Christ is in you-unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?” It is important for us to check how far well we are growing, and this has to do with what we have been feeding ourselves with. Meditation on the word of God day and night is very important as it allows us to get transformed into the fullness of Christ given to us, however, our expression of faith is also very important as we are to observe where we still have work to do. This won’t be done physically, but a time we would ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, as He is always there to guide.

The Message Bible puts the same 2 Corinthians 13:5 thus, “Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups.” There are things we do which don’t reflect the image of Christ, but we feel it’s nothing serious, but it is because we are not to take anything for granted. We are to present our bodies to God for continuous cleansing, by being transformed by the renewal of our minds.

As Sons of God, we are expected to see an increased level of Christ in our way of doing things. How much do we trust Jesus and believe in Him and His word; how well is our soul opened to receiving what our Spirit stands for. Anything that tends to slow us down or feed us negatively should be noted and stayed away, and we are to replace that with what makes us grow, this is where the gathering of the church is important as we feed our minds with the word of God. But we should also beware of false teachings which aren’t centred on Jesus alone and not materialism focus camouflaging in the name of Jesus (this is common). That is why examining yourself is important, because you will see yourself growing in Christ if you are in the right gathering.

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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Building Your Most Holy Faith

Happy Weekend everyone,

There are abilities we possess as humans which we never knew we had until there was a need for that thing and we were surprised we possessed such abilities. It is good to discover yourself in order to bring out the best in you. Likewise, as Sons of God having the fullness of God in you, it is important to bring out the righteousness of God or the fullness of Christ without holding back, as our soul is still being transformed. There is a reason why every Son of God should strive to manifest the fullness of Christ, and that is my focus today.

Jude 1:17-19 Message Bible says, “But remember, dear friends, that the apostles of our Master, Jesus Christ, told us this would happen: “In the last days there will be people who don’t take these things seriously anymore. They’ll treat them like a joke, and make a religion of their own whims and lusts.” These are the ones who split churches, thinking only of themselves. There’s nothing to them, no sign of the Spirit!” There are people in these last days who make a mockery of the things of God. They would be everywhere that if care isn’t taken they would cause division among the Sons of God, which implies that they are tricky fellows, and we all need to watch.

But Apostle Jude went ahead in verses 20-21 of Jude 1 which says, “But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the centre of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life!” MESSAGE. Now, knowing that there are people whose intention isn’t godly and are causes of division among Sons of God, Apostle Jude said we should build up our most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, which edifies our Spirit-man, just as Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14:4 that he who speaks in tongues edifies himself, and this is praying in the Holy Spirit. But what is most important is staying in the love of God, this is what allows us to stay focused and identify anything that is shady and without love. And as the Holy Spirit guides us in the love of Christ we are strengthened as we pray in the Spirit.

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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