Why Do We Sin After Being Born Again?

Hello everyone,

Yes, we had a sinful nature which was completely against who God is, and as a result of the sinful nature, we portrayed the works of the flesh such as adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness and many more. This was normal because we were not in right standing with God, but then we accepted Jesus into our lives, it felt like heaven on earth, we were on fire for Jesus, it happened we didn’t have any form of works of the flesh. But after several months passed, all of a sudden we weren’t on fire as we felt when we received Jesus into our lives, not only that, we started seeing the works of the flesh raising its ugly head in our lives. We could see things like jealousy, lust, envy, and even fornication rearing its heads in our lives. I thought we were saved from these acts of sin when we received Jesus into our lives? So why all these sinful acts? Does that mean we are no longer righteous or holy any longer? Is it going right back to the beginning of having a sinful nature all over again? Today, I’ll look into all these questions that bother us in our Christian lives.

The very first thing we should know is that while we were still in the very act of sin, not ready to change, Jesus died for us and made us righteous, (ref.: Romans 5:8). This was how God demonstrated His love towards us. What this means is that it wasn’t because we chose to change our lifestyle that Jesus then decided to die for us, in other words, it wasn’t by what we did that God made us righteous, but because of what Jesus did. In the same vein, it wasn’t because of what we did that we had the sinful nature, we were born with it because of what Adam did. In the real sense it was never because of what we did, but because of the sin nature, we found ourselves in. So, is that it? I’m not done yet.

God’s love for Man was so much that rather than wiping us away, He found a way of saving us while He kills the sin spirit in us. In other words, we had to die in order to live, and in living, we were resurrected into a brand new life, not under the first Adam, but under the new and last Adam—Jesus. But that’s not all.

We are Spirit beings, we possess a soul, and live in a body, (ref.: 1 Thessalonians 5:23). The Spirit in us which is the most important, in other words, the Spirit is our life and this life was a spirit of sin, but this spirit died and a new Spirit was given in order for us to live, and this Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Truth, which is the same Spirit of God. In other words, we were reconnected back to God. Now, that this is clear, why do we still fall into sin?

The acts of sin don’t come from our new Spirit, but from our soul which is a combination of our mind, will, and emotion. It is also the place where our consciousness dwells. The most important to God is our Spirit, which is why we are righteous in God’s eyes now because we have the exact Spirit of Jesus Christ. The Spirit is meant to be the grand commander which the soul is meant to obey, and the soul is that which the body is meant to obey. In other words, the soul is the link between the Spirit and the body. The question now is, are our souls obeying the Spirit? And if not, what is causing the disobedience? Log on tomorrow, same time as I address this 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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Free Justification 2

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Last time I explained that the law wasn’t designed to make us righteous but to bring us to the need of a saviour, which we would attain in Christ Jesus, thus having a brand new life. I then posed a question which was that now that we have attained the true righteousness in Christ Jesus, did God forget our sins? And my answer was “Yes” and “No”, and today, I’ll tell you why both answers were given.

Romans 3:23-24 says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ₂₄being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” but it didn’t end there, verse 25 and 26 says, “whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, ₂₆to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” So, the question of yesterday if God forgot our sins, I said “Yes” and “No”, looking at verse 25 and 26 of Romans 3, it says Jesus became a propitiation for our sins, in other words, God forgot our sins because the sin itself was handed over to Jesus. He Himself bore our sins, which is the spirit which Adam obtained which wasn’t from God, which the entire world was cursed with, that was what was placed on Jesus, as God gave us His righteousness, (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:21).

So, yes, God forgot our sins as Hebrews 10:12 says, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” This was a quoted from the Prophecy of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31-34. The reason why God said He would not remember our sins again, is because someone had to pay the price for the sin committed in order for the sin to be cleared, and this was what Jesus did by dying on the cross and His pure blood standing as a remission for all our sin, (ref.: Hebrews 9:22). And this is why I also said “No” to the question that God didn’t forget our sins. His words are ye and amen, which implies that whatever He says must come to pass or be fulfilled, thus, as Man carried the sinful spirit, someone had to pay for the sin in order for mankind as a whole to become clean or which is what Jesus did on our behalf. So, God didn’t forget the sins.

As Jesus became the propitiation for our sins, the sinful spirit is gone for good, but not all the job was done by God, we also need to complete the equation. We need to receive or accept what God has done for us through Jesus, in other words, just the way you were given a gift that you need, and it is left to us to receive it or reject it, because God cannot force a thing anything into our lives because He has given us free moral agency. But the good thing about God is that He gives us the question with the answer, still, it is left to us to receive His offer or try another path.

What Jesus for us on the cross is very deep and cannot be finished even in a year’s write-up, because it is as a result of what He did for us that we are alive today. With all that has been written, why do we still have issues of sin despite being born again, doesn’t that make us unholy and unacceptable before God, in other words going back to how we were before? I answered this question before, but I’ll elaborate further in tomorrow’s write-up same time.

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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Free Justification

Happy New Week everyone,

Yesterday, I explained that the law was meant for a purpose which it had fulfilled, therefore, we are not to rely on it any longer, rather we are to move from the law to what the law fulfilled. In other words, our focus shouldn’t be on the law any longer, because it had fulfilled its purpose. We are to focus on what the law fulfilled. Also, I explained that our righteousness doesn’t come from the law, as Romans 3:21 says that there the righteousness apart from the law, which I would start explaining from today.

Romans 3:20 says, “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” There could be some who could argue that they had been keeping the law faithfully, but what they failed to understand is that the keeping of the law was a physical exercise and not a Spiritual exercise, and sin originates from the spirit which was gotten from the first Adam. The entire world was born into sin, in other words, everyone on earth carried a spirit which was not the Spirit of God, and if it is not the Spirit of God, then it is a sinful spirit. Thus, the spirit had to be corrected first for progress to be made. In other words, man needed another life to survive which has been provided which Romans 3:21 speaks of.

Man on his own is compelled to follow what the law says, it is not in the nature of man to do what God wants us to do if this were not so the law wouldn’t have been given. It was because man did what was wrong, God pegged us by providing the law in order for us to see that we have been sinning, and not for us to keep because it is impossible to keep the law whose job was only to show us that we need a saviour and another life to survive which Romans 3:20b says, “…for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Since this is so, our righteousness has to come from another source.

Romans 3:21-23 says, “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ₂₂even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ­₂₃for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” These verses explain how the Law and the Prophets were speaking about the true righteousness from the onset, which everybody is expected to receive through faith in Jesus Christ. There is no one who can say he is not part those who needs a new life of righteousness to stand before God, because the law did not bring righteousness, it only showed us that what we called righteousness is as a filthy rag before God, which is why Romans 3:23 affirms this by saying all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, in other words, we need this true righteousness.

As Romans 3:23 tells us that we all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, verse 24 continues saying, “being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Jesus redeemed us freely, does that mean God forgot our sins? The answer is “Yes” and “No”, and I’ll tell you why when you log on tomorrow same time.

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 Law And True Righteousness

Happy Sunday everyone,

In some of my last write-ups, I emphasised that we are righteous not by our effort but by what Jesus did, which is very important. The question now would be, ‘what was the essence of the law, wasn’t it important?’ The law was important, but only for an era. The law was meant to reveal something very important which has been done. And since it has been fulfilled, you don’t rest on it anymore, what you now rest on is what it revealed. To buttress my point further, Prophet Isaiah prophesied about a virgin who would conceive. Before the virgin’s conception, it was important to rest on that prophecy, but the moment it has manifested or come to pass, you don’t rest on it any longer, instead, you move to what had manifested.

Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 that He didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill; fulfill could also mean to complete, that is to say, that the law purpose ends with Jesus. This also applies to the Prophets before Jesus. Romans 10:4 says Jesus is the end of the law. But what was the law talking about?

The law itself is perfect, but those were to keep or follow it couldn’t keep it. In other words, the purpose of the law was to show us that we can’t meet up to God’s standard and that we need a saviour, which was why Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 3:21 which says, “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.” This verse came after verse 20 which says, “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:20 was saying that in our keeping of the law we found out that we are not justified in the sight of God, verse 21 tells us that there is now the righteousness apart from the law which has been revealed to us, in other words, this source of righteousness does not require you to keep the law in order to attain it. So what is this new source? Log on tomorrow same time to find out.

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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HIS Thoughts Towards You Are Perfect

Happy Weekend everyone,

Have you ever tried to navigate your way in a pitch dark area without any source of light? I’m guessing it was very difficult for you to move about. You may be able to navigate your way with care in an environment you are familiar with, but in a completely new place, the best thing for you to do is stay where you are or wait for someone who is very much familiar with the environment to lead you, or better still, wait for light in order to find your way around. Why did I bring this up? Man since the fall of Adam has been walking in darkness, in an area, they have no idea of, but have long been deceiving themselves to think they can find their way around. This is why we see errors upon errors here on earth, a mistake is now a normal thing. But if they know the plans for their lives and how to live it, by having a guide, then they won’t be blind.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” How wonderful does that sound? Our maker and creator who is our Father is the only one who knows what we were sent here on earth to do; we weren’t sent here to follow the routine that we see in the world, that which Jesus spoke of in Matthew 6:31-32. We were sent here individually for a purpose no other person can fulfill, and this is in line with what Jeremiah 29:11 is saying.

In order to know the thoughts and plans God has for us, we need to walk with Him, embrace Him, receive Him into our lives, and have His mind, (ref.: 1 Corinthians 2:16). Romans 8:19 talks of how there is an earnest expectation by the world to see the manifestation of the Sons of God, and this manifestation can only happen by falling in line with what Jeremiah 29:11 says, and that would be yielding yourself to Jesus through the Holy Spirit’s guidance.

You may wonder how to gain access to the Holy Spirit, it’s very simple, once you are born again, He lives in you already. All you have to do is to pray to God, which really is speaking to God for Him to open your eyes and ears to perceive the Holy Spirit’s guidance. This is important because the Holy Spirit has always been speaking to us, but because we are always distracted by things around us, we don’t get to hear Him. This is why it is important for you to tell God to open your heart to receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit, in other words, to hear Him when He speaks.

Another thing is that the Holy Spirit communicates in different mediums, but He picks that which would be striking to you. God the Father, has a plan for us, and it is only when we yield ourselves to Him through the guidance of the Holy Spirit that we would fall into the perfect will and plan of God for our lives.

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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Be Still, God Is In Control

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There are times in our lives where we engage in certain projects which would generate profit at the end in the long run. This project of yours is being guided by a person whom you know has been the brain behind every success you’ve ever had, and has never failed to deliver. But it happened that you saw some guys who went into a business you had no idea of and before you knew it started driving porch cars and flaunting their riches here and there. All of a sudden you wish you were like them, thinking about what you are doing is taking a long time. But these guys aren’t clean, still, you envy them, why?

Psalms 37:7 from the Amplified says, “Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.” We shouldn’t be impatient by envying people around us who flaunt their riches especially after you being guided by Holy Spirit. God cannot lead you to a dead end. The Bible says, the Lord is our Shepherd, and because of that, we shall not want, (ref.: Psalm 23:1). Just the way the sheep entrust their lives unto the Shepherd, likewise, we should entrust our lives to the Lord, and be patient with Him as He leads us.

The Lord created time for us and knows the perfect time for us to enter in certain blessings. He said He will never leave us nor forsake us, (ref.: Deuteronomy 31:6, 8; Joshua 1:5; Hebrews 13:5) and this is true. King David wrote that, since he was born he has never seen the righteous forsaken, nor beg for bread, (ref.: Psalm 37:25). Walking with the Lord is walking in the path of perfection, where everything manifests at the right and perfect time, not too early and not too late.

Many of the people we envy get what they call prosperity through shady means, and it always comes with a price. But the Lord God Almighty gives us the power to get wealth without any price to pay, but by grace (ref.: Deuteronomy 8:18).

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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Our Righteousness and Justice In The Light

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Yesterday, I wrote on why commitment and trust is key, which has to do with getting the desires of your heart. But one we must know is that we don’t serve a God who just gives the desires of our heart because we were committed to Him and put our trust in Him, no; we serve a God who takes good care of us as His children, of which we actually are His children. When we put our lives in the hands of God, we allow the best come to us, because it is always the best God offers. Psalm 37:6 says, “He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.”

Now, Psalms 37:6 says, the Lord would bring forth our righteousness, but we understand that our righteousness before God is like a filthy rag. So, what righteousness was David referring to? He was referring to God’s righteousness, who is Jesus. Psalms 37:5 talks of us committing our ways to the Lord and trusting also in Him, which would imply giving ourselves to Him. And by giving ourselves to Him we receive His righteousness who becomes our life and lifestyle. So, our life which is righteous, not by our effort, but as a gift is brought forth as the light, and justice as the noonday. This also goes to show that for God to do this implies you are now in right standing with Him.

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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Commitment and Trust are Key

Hello everyone,

When traveling to a place for the first time, it is important to get a guide or a help who would direct your steps. It is better when you have a map which the guide uses to direct you, this makes things easy for you. By using the map, it shows that you trust it, and by following the interpretations of the guide, it implies your commitment to him. Likewise, in manifesting the desires of our heart, we need to commit ourselves to God, because He is the only One who knows the end from the beginning, and knows what is best for you also. Psalms 37:5 says, “Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” The key word here is ‘commit’. It is when you have been able to commit where you are going to the LORD that you would then be able to trust also in Him.

To trust in the LORD after committing your ways to Him by allowing Him to take complete control of your decisions, thus, His plans become your plans. You won’t have anything which is outside what He wants you to do, this could sound like a risk by entrusting your life in the hands of the LORD. But the LORD God time and time again has proven Himself worthy by staying faithful and He is not a man that would lie or change His ways.

We have no choice but to entrust our lives to someone, but who is worthy of it? Only Jesus is, which is why Psalms 37:5 says, after committing your ways to the LORD and trusting Him, that the LORD brings our heart desires to pass. Commit your ways to Him and also trust Him, and Psalm 37:4 won’t be just mere words, but a reality in your life.

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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This Is Why You Are Righteous

Hello everyone,

If I ask you if you are righteous, I could guess your possible answer, which would be “No” or “I’m not”. But do you know that you are righteous? Now, when I say do you know, I’m referring to every one of you on earth. It sounds strange or incorrect, right? Wrong, now let me tell you why everyone is righteous.

When Jesus died on the cross, He didn’t die for only a selected few or a set of people. Jesus died for the whole world, (ref.: John 3:16). The Amplified Bible puts 2 Corinthians 5:21 thus, “For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].”

Jesus Himself was the only One who was perfect before God, no matter how much we tried to be perfect before God we couldn’t attain perfection, in other words, we were not righteous, only Jesus was. Now, because we needed another life to survive, and righteousness to stand before God, Jesus had to become the lamb without blemish for the whole world, in exchange for His righteousness. This was how we got His righteousness. But one thing we must understand is that God gives, and it is left for us to take. In other words, it is our choice to receive what God has offered us, which is why in attaining the righteousness of God is to believe in the One who gave it to you because the righteousness of God is Jesus Himself. You cannot receive or use what you don’t believe in; Jesus and righteousness are one and the same. Which is why John 3:18 says, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

God made everyone on earth righteous, but it is left to us to receive this righteousness or to reject it, and it is as simple as confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead that you receive the righteousness of God, (ref.: Romans 10:9). This is the way because that was how Jesus gave us His righteousness in exchange for our sins. Therefore, confessing and believing what is in Romans 10:9 is an attestation and an acknowledgment of what Jesus did by giving you His righteousness, which is actually Himself.

We must know that we are not righteous by what we did, but by what He did, which is by grace lest any man should boast, (ref.: Ephesians 2:8).

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 Desire And His Delight

Happy New Week everyone,

Yesterday, my focus was on trust and how hard it to find someone who is trustworthy. God/Jesus throughout the scriptures and in our daily lives have proven to us that He is a person you can always trust at all times. So as we trust in Him, we would then be able to feed on His faithfulness and be fed. So, how does our trusting in Him really affect our being fed? Psalms 37:4 answers that question.

Psalms 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.” AMP. Verse 3 talks about trust, which makes you dwell on His faithfulness, which in turn you get fed. And verse 4 says we should delight in the Lord and He would give us the desires of our hearts. First things first, you cannot delight yourself in a person whom you don’t trust. We need to properly trust in Him, and then experience His faithfulness first hand, this is what allows us to then delight in Him, and then how do we delight in Him?

Hebrews 4:12 speaks of the word of God being the discerner of the thoughts and intents of our hearts. When we get to know who Jesus is by study who He is, His presence, being so pure cleanses our hearts and we reason in purity, as He is, thus our delight in always about Him, because we have come to trust Him and experience His faithfulness. In doing so, we see the desires of our hearts manifest. The desires of our hearts become that which is not selfish, but that which allows us to give glory and praise back to Him, because, when we got to know Him more, He cleansed our heart, by allowing His fullness which we received when we became born-again manifest in our mind, will, and emotions, which is our soul, and with that we see Him manifest in our body, as you are now the righteousness of God, (2 Corinthians 5:21). This is a great experience which God Himself has destined for all of us, it is left to you to receive it or reject it. The choice is yours.

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 Power Behind Trust

Happy Sunday everyone,

Really, is it easy to trust a person in this world that we live in? Well, it isn’t, but that doesn’t mean it is impossible to trust. For you to trust a person, that person must have proven himself worthy in many cases for another person to trust him. And you need to be close to a person to find out how much you can trust the person. To trust could also mean to rely on, lean on, and be confident in a person, and as I said, it is not easy to find a person who you can always count at any and every time.

Psalms 37:3 says, “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” How do we know God is faithful? We know this because He has always proven Himself worthy of trust at every moment. Every time He tells a person to trust Him, that person never gets forsaken, and this gives good reason to trust God, (ref. Psalms 37:25). He has done this and He keeps and will always show Himself worthy of trust.

The God is not a man that He would lie, nor a son of man that would need to repent. He also said He is the Truth, not just that He says the truth, He Himself is the Truth personified, (ref. Numbers 23:19; John 14:6). Psalm 37:3b from the Amplified Bible says, “so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed.” When you come to understand how trustworthy God/Jesus is then you would then be able to feed on His faithfulness, and truly you will be fed, and why is that so? It is because you trust Him. So how does my trusting in Him really affect my life? Log on tomorrow to find out.

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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Beyond Authority

Happy Weekend everyone,

Going through the Bible especially the heroes of Bible, such as Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and others, there is something that was used by each of the heroes which made them stand out or which they are known for, what do I mean by that? God gave Jacob a ladder, He gave Moses a rod, He gave Joshua a shout, He gave David a stone, He gave Elijah a mantle, God gave every hero something which displayed the power of God’s presence. Let’s take a look a Moses.

Moses was given a rod which he took to go and free the children of Israel from the most powerful nation [Egypt] in the world at that time. With the rod, Moses sent plagues to Egypt; he sent split the red sea into two; he gave the children of Israel food and water with the rod and many more. The power of God was in the rod of Moses because God Himself told Moses to use the rod to lead the people. We could see the similar power of God in the stone David used to strike Goliath dead, and also the mantle of Elijah which carried the power of God in it. We read these stories and we are filled with awe. The truth we need to understand is that none of these tools used by these heroes had that which God has given those who are born again today. In other words, if we were filled with awe over the heroes that I mentioned above, the world should be filled with greater awe on what those who are born again have been given, and the early church displayed a bit of this power. So what is this power which God has given us?

If God gave Moses a rod, David a stone, Joshua a shout, Elijah a mantle, what has God given us which is more and even the most powerful ever? It is the NAME OF JESUS! Jesus said when He resurrected to the disciples that all authority in heaven and earth has been given to Him. With the use of the term ‘all’, it symbolises the use of universal affirmation, which implies that nothing is left out; Jesus has authority over all things. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord in heaven, earth, and under the earth. This is the power that has been given to us by God, to all those who are born again, all we need to do is use it by being guided by the Holy Spirit.

We must believe in the authority of Jesus as we move about and live our lives. Remember, the authority is not us but Jesus, all we need to do is to believe in it, the earnest expectation of the Sons of God which the world is waiting for would be manifested.

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 Truth Is Not A Lie

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Do you know that whatever you believe affects your body, because that’s what mind rests on? That most likely wouldn’t be news, but what you must understand is that whatever you rest on is either true or false and this affects your body or your reality. So, how do you identify what is true or false? This is my focus in today’s write-up.

Both Joshua 1:8 and Psalms 1:1-3 talks of that person who focuses and meditates on the word of God day and night. Psalms 1 especially says the man who does this is blessed, which would also mean happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable, and this is what everyone would want right? Now, let’s go into how to identify truth and false, and link all these things up.

Jesus in the Gospel of John 8:44b spoke of the devil, “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 a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Now it is clear that whatever the devil says or does is a lie and is false in every way. Jesus, on the other hand, said in the Gospel of John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus didn’t just say He says the truth, He said He is the truth personified. In other words, truth proceeds out from Him.

Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and God the Father are the same, but in three persons. Thus, when you study the word of God that says by the stripes of Jesus you were healed; you have the fullness of Christ in you; you have the mind of Christ, and many more, and the Holy Spirit strengthens you that these are in you being born again, are these true or false? They are true, but why do we not believe this? When a born-again person has cancer, cancer is not part of the body of Christ, therefore, you are not meant to have cancer. The Holy Spirit through the word of God makes you understand that you can’t have cancer, so anyone who tells you that you have cancer is telling a lie, but why do we believe the lie. This is what we need to remind ourselves every time, but why does it feel hard to believe what we know is true?

The reason why it appears as though the truth is not believed even though we know that it is the truth, is simply that we haven’t gotten to know the Truth Himself properly. We have been so engrossed on what the lie says than what the truth says and who He is, the more we meditate on the word of God says about who Jesus is right now, seated at the right hand of God, the more we understand who we are in Christ, just the way the more you know a person, the more you get closer to a person, and your level of trust increases, that’s for someone as Jesus. God is not a man that should lie, so the more you get close to Him, the more you manifest the fullness of Christ in you, and then you become the man Psalms 1 and Joshua 1:8 are talking about.

The world has its foundation on a lie, this is why it is expedient for us to know who the Truth is more and more, so as to shift focus from lies to truth, which would allow us to live the perfect life God ordained for us.

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 Complete REST

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The matter of entering into God’s rest is something that is deeper than you could ever think, and it is important we fully understand it. So, today is a continuation from my last write-up.

Now, Jesus is the only Man who fulfilled everything God wanted from Man, that which no other Man can achieve on their own unless they are under Jesus. Now, while under Jesus what are we to do? Live Jesus!

I said “live Jesus” and not “live like Jesus”, there is a big difference between the two of them, by living like Jesus would imply that you watch Jesus closely, study His life and do everything just Him, but you aren’t Him. But to live Jesus which is the true way to rest in His rest is to become Jesus Himself, thus understanding that your new Spirit who is the real you is the exact Spirit with Jesus and God makes you Jesus, and this because you are of the body of Christ, for without you the body of Christ is not complete. Now, what does this mean?

Healing, blessings, favour, success, the wisdom of God, knowledge, and many more are in Jesus, and they are now in you on a platter of gold, just because you believed in Jesus and now understand who He is and what you have become. Just the way you have a first aid box which contains, bandages, antiseptics, cotton wool, and other stuff in the box making up the first aid box, likewise, healing, favour, discernment of Spirit, wisdom of God, knowledge, good success, miracles, the Holy Spirit and many more are all embodied in Jesus who is the total package. In other words, to live Jesus means He is now your life, you manifest Him in your going out and coming in. As Jesus said to the disciples in John 14, that anyone who sees Him has seen the Father, likewise, anyone who sees you has seen Jesus, and since God lives in you, you don’t get anything wrong, because you’ve decided to yield to the Father and Jesus lives in you through the Holy Spirit who is your direction.

Now, since God directs your every step because you have His Spirit, who has given you the mind of Christ, (1 Corinthians 2:16), all you’ve got to do is to rest in His REST, because He has done everything for you, He has done every thinking for you, yours is to follow what He has given you, and it is now easy because you have His Spirit, unlike when you had the old spirit, following the Lord God was too difficult to bear because that wasn’t your Spirit, but you have the Spirit of God, therefore, you can live Jesus and rest in His REST, and see the world transform to the glory of God as you transform the lives of others.

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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Rest in His REST 2

Happy Sunday everyone,

Last time, in my first write-up on Rest in His REST, where I wrote on how through Jesus, being our new life, our new Adam, we receive a brand new Spirit, who is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who knows all things, and He lives in everyone who is born of God, having Jesus as their new life, and the Holy Spirit then directs our lives according to the way God our Father ordained us to live as we yield to Him. And in doing so, we allow rest in His REST! But as I said last time, that’s not the full expression of what the rest is all about, which is why today I’ll go further in part two of Rest in His REST.

In entering into the true rest, receiving Jesus is actually the major thing. But do you understand what receiving Jesus as your life really mean? Understanding this would allow you to receive the deal of a lifetime you signed up for. Man in trying to get back to God went through moral training, followed laws, but that didn’t change their spirit, so they became a new Spirit in Christ Jesus right? Right. So, now that Man has a new Spirit, they started working hard to please God, as some would come early to church, clean the seats, greet the brethren, visit people, keep the laws, be good a man or woman in everything they did, but with all these that they did, they still had diseases, attacking them, they were still hit negatively financially, they had addictions, in short, they still had several things they were battling with, but they had given their lives to Jesus and received the Holy Spirit, so what was wrong?

The number one mistake some Sons of God make is that they feel God uses our self-effort to receive His blessings or to receive healings, and many other benefits, this is the mistake. One thing we need to and must understand is that we are not by our self-effort that we are qualified, rather it is by His [Jesus] effort and what He did that we are now and will always be qualified. Just as through the first Adam everyone born under him were cursed with the spirit of sin, which wasn’t through what we did, but what Adam did, likewise, because Jesus, being the last Adam was accepted as the only Man perfect before God’s sight, therefore, all those who are born of Him are justified before God as righteous, not because of what we did, but what He did, this is the true Grace and the true rest, (ref. 2 Corinthians 5:21).

Furthermore, every form of diseases, poverty, depression, and every form of the unfortunate thing that came from the first Adam has been wiped out from you. Your Spirit, being the exact Spirit with Jesus is perfect, your soul which consist of your mind, will, and emotions, needs to know who Jesus really is, in other words, your soul needs to know who your new Spirit is, which has to do with the finished works of Jesus on the cross, and the grace you have received, which when understood allows you to receive the grace through faith and then you start to see it function in your going out and in your coming in.

In the last two paragraph, you’ll see when I underlined the word “our” in the first line. The mistake as I said Sons of God make is the feel, God uses our self-effort to receive His blessings, which I said is wrong because it is through Jesus that we receive His blessings. The truth is that in every sense of our true way of life as Sons of God, receiving the grace of God, thus entering that rest is not by our self-effort at all, which is the use of our carnal mind, but with the use of Holy Spirit, thus resting on Jesus. The Bible says in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” God alone has a perfect plan for everyone here on earth, thus, a purpose to fulfill here on earth. But Man has tried to achieve his purpose [which he very well didn’t know, but thought he did] here earth but failed and has caused a lot of chaos. It is only the Holy Spirit that can tell us and teach us how to live.

Now, Jesus is the only Man who fulfilled everything God wanted from Man, that which no other Man can achieve on their own unless they are under Jesus. Now, while under Jesus what are we to do? Live Jesus!

...to be continued.

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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