Respect Your Governing Authorities

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It is right to always respect the authority of the government just we are advised in Romans 13:1-7, but when we look at our government in this present day and age, some things could make you not respect the government. Well, that doesn’t mean Apostle Paul never had things that were issues from the government, so what did he mean by being subject to the governing authorities?

Romans 13:1 says, “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. ₂ Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinances of God, and those who resist will bring judgement on themselves.” The truth of the whole matter is that we are always to be subject to the governing authorities if and only if they are subject to God. This is important because Romans 13:1 emphasised that there is no authority except from God and that all authorities are appointed from God. This is why you cannot be subject to an authority that isn’t subject to God.

God is the supreme authority, which as Sons of God you honour because He lives in you and is your life, so you being subject to any governing authority would be being subject to God because that authority is subject to God, but if the authority isn’t subject to God, you cannot serve two masters, you are either for God or against Him.

With some laws put in place in some countries where homosexuality is seen as normal, this isn’t being subject to God because that isn’t how God made us. God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve, this is already established in the Bible that man and woman He made them, to procreate the earth.

The Holy Spirit establishes what the word of God says, He interprets to us what the word of God says for the transformation of our soul, and He cannot go outside what the word has established. We should be mindful of satan's devices as he is a mastermind in twisting the scriptures to confuse the church and the world as a whole. Anyone who isn’t subject to God is not to be subject to, that doesn’t mean you should rebel against the government. What you are meant to do is to be subject to God as He leads you when you worship and praise Him, and do what He tells you to do, and not you taking laws into your own hands.

Daniel is an example of remaining subject to God when the governing authority is no longer subject to God. The governors and satraps created a plot against Daniel: “₇ All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counsellors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king shall be cast into the den of lions. ₁₀ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” Daniel 6:7 & 10.

Daniel did what he normally does because he feared God and not man. In other words, God’s decree was weightier than any other decree. Peter and John were arrested after they made the crippled man walk. After being arrested and released, the authorities warned them not to speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus. This was Peter and John’s response, “But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:19-20. Peter also said in Acts 5:29, "Then Peter and the apostles replied, We must obey God rather than men." AMP. God is the one we are subject to and not man. We obey God and not man, and we become subject to any authority that is subject to God because that authority was truly placed by 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.

                    

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The Logic by Faith (re-posted)

Happy Sunday everyone,

Do you know that there is logic in faith? The reason why I’m saying this is because most times, faith often times doesn’t make sense, but that is because we really don’t take our time to reason, and when I say reason, I mean reason in believing the One who told you—God. The logic of faith isn’t something that should sound impossible, but something that we can reason with.

Using a simple definition of logic, it is “reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.” So, one thing is clear, reasoning in logic flows with strict principles that are assessed. Many years ago, man couldn’t fathom the possibility of an aeroplane or television, but today following strict principles which can be explained when assessed or conducted through reasoning, have established all what we once called impossible. Something similar is what is happening to man today. They have hardened their heart to believe that what God says He has given us as Grace is impossible to believe through faith, even when evidence has shown and have proven the existence of knowledge, even though they are beyond the understanding of man. So how can faith be understood through logic?

God, has said He never goes against His word (ref.: Isaiah 55:11), in other words, He has laid down certain principles, which He can never go against. This is logic because it implies that everything God does falls within the principles He Himself laid, which is His word. So, nothing God does should catch us by surprise because they fall within the principles He laid.

To make this logic by faith clearer, His principles, are all embedded in His word, and this word as we understand according to John 1:1 is a person, and John 1:14 makes us understand that this word became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. This means, every principle of God is embedded in Jesus Christ, in other words, He cannot function outside of Jesus Christ, (ref.: Colossians 1:16-17), for in Him dwells the treasures of the wisdom of God (ref.: Colossians 2:3).

Now, God said He has given us His principles free of charge, which we really don’t deserve, so why is it hard to believe this, because when we receive Jesus as our life, we then fully understand the logic of God through faith, as our reasoning faculty after receiving Jesus would surpass the limited logic of man. We then understand the logic of how Moses split the red sea; how the wall of Jericho fell down; how Jesus fed the five thousand; how He walked on water and calmed the storm; how Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, cast out demons and so on, all because we have received the principles and logic of God in the person of Jesus. This is why 1 Corinthians 2:16 says, we have the mind of Christ, and the things which God did before the advent of Jesus which were mysteries because of their limited logical reasoning are no longer mysteries to those who have received Jesus (ref.: Colossians 1:26).

The logic by faith allows us to do all things through the logic of God—Jesus Christ (ref.: Philippians 4:13). Digging deep into Who we have received is what we are to do, because unlike the logic of man which is limited, the logic of God is unlimited, which is why we need another Spirit in order to understand it [Him], for as the Bible says, the words of God cannot be understood by the ordinary man because he is limited (ref.: 1 Corinthians 2:14). So, when God says a thing because we now have the logic of God as our life, we then take His word as ye and amen (ref.: Hebrews 4:12). Therefore, don’t function with the logic of man, rather function with the logic by faith.

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

                    

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

                                          

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Relax, Jesus Didn't Die For Nothing (re-posted)

Hello everyone,

Last time I looked into Romans 8:1-2 which emphasised that there is no longer any condemnation to those who are born of God because of the new Spirit of Christ, the new Spirit of Christ in those born of God have a Spirit to please God which affects how they live and behave. Today, I’ll continue with a look at Romans 8.

Romans 8:3-5 speaks of sin being subdued by Jesus, thus allowing the righteous and just requirement of the Law being met in those who are born of God, thereby not living according to the dictates of the flesh, but being controlled by the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:6 says, “Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].” AMP.

What surprised me is that the mind of the flesh is sense and reason, but without the Holy Spirit. The way man reasons with his senses which seems normal would bring death, and why is that? It is so because the Spirit which the first Adam got from his disobedience was the Spirit of death, and by death, it means everything that comes out of the Spirit, the thought, words, deeds, actions, reactions, and others. This implies that once our Spirit isn’t the Holy Spirit then the result leads to death.

On the other hand, the mind of the Holy Spirit is life and peace which lives forever because it is attached to life who is Jesus, which means that any reason is being guided by the Holy Spirit and it leads to life, the life of the Holy Spirit is a pure life and not a psychological reshaping of the mind without an actual change of the mind, because if there wasn’t a real change of the Spirit, then there was no reason for Jesus to have died, it wouldn’t have made any sense to die for nothing. Jesus simply would have taught us how to work on our mind, and He would have become a philosopher having His own theories of life. so, it remains clear that Jesus’ sole aim was to save the world by giving us a new life, so don’t take this for granted.

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

                    

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

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It's a Mirage! (re-posted)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                    

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

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Sometimes, What You Consider Right Is Actually Wrong (re-posted)

Hello everyone,

Proverbs 16 caught my attention when I saw verses which are of great importance in our day to day activities. Let us not deceive ourselves, if everything you use has an inventor or creator, we shouldn’t then be foolish to say the earth or the universe has no creator or there is no God. The level of chemical balance on the earth, the physiological accuracy cannot just be all by itself unless there was or is someone behind it. He has revealed Himself in many ways and has written a book by giving revelations to over 40 writers, and to as many as have believed in His existence and have received Him as Lord of their lives. I just decided to go down this route before going through what I have today, which as I said is based on verses in Proverbs 16. They may be familiar to you, but the word of God is always new every time we go through it again, and that’s what makes it fun.

Proverbs 16:25 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” I looked at this verse in other rendition of which two caught my attention. The Message Bible puts Proverbs 16:25 thus, “There’s a way that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell.” The second rendition which caught my attention is the Contemporary English Version which puts the same verse thus, “Sometimes what seems right is really a road to death.” It was there and then I wondered what things could appear as right to us, but are actually things leading to hell, in other words, it implies they are things we really don’t know are wrong but we count them as right. Whatever could be of such semblance to this? It was then I remembered Romans 8:6, and what does it say?

Before going to Romans 8:6, verse 5 of Romans 8 say, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.” Then verse 6 says, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” The Amplified Bible puts Romans 8:6 thus, “Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].”

To be carnally minded is that which many considers as right, but it leads to hell or death. What does it mean to be carnally minded or having the mind of flesh? The Amplified Bible says the mind of the flesh is using sense and reason without the Holy Spirit. In other words, living your life without being led by the Holy Spirit/Jesus. Why is this important? This is important because when you live your life without being led by the Holy Spirit, you would eventually do that which is not in line with the ways of God, thus doing what is against the mandate God has for you.

With all these, Proverbs 16:3 say, “Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.” AMP. What this verse means is that plans cross our minds every now and then, but before carrying it out, it is important to present these plans of your before the Lord, He alone would then allow whatever you have as your plans to conform with His thoughts, which would then be agreeable with His will. Now, when you roll your thoughts to the Lord, how exactly to do know if what is committed to the Lord is agreeable to His will? To find out, log on next time as I elaborate more on the question posed.

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.

                    

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The Power Within, and The Power Within? (re-posted)

Hello everyone,

Today’s write-up is just what I would like to call a recap on a write-up in the past, but with a dash of elaboration. The focus today is that the Sons of God weren’t given any power or authority directly, and yet again they were given power and authority Jesus has by God. Now, let me elaborate.

Colossians 3:3-4 says, “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ₄When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” Sons of God no longer have what they call “life” because Christ Jesus is now their life. Colossians 3:3, in particular, is related to Psalms 91:1-2 which says, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ₂I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust.”” The Lord God is now our refuge and fortress, why? This is because, as Sons of God, our lives are now hidden in Christ Jesus which is the secret place. Therefore, if any spiritual force looks at us, they don’t see us, rather, they see Jesus because we are hidden in Him, hidden in His perfection and victory, He is now our life.

To understand why we weren’t given the power and authority directly, we would see this whenever signs and wonders are performed through us. The reason why some Sons of God are bothered that signs and wonders don’t function through them every time is because they feel the power comes from them through their effort in Christ, because they think that’s how it was given to them, but that is wrong, the power comes directly from Jesus and goes through us. We are only a means to the person who needs the miracle. Jesus is the only One who was given the power and authority, which flows through us, and once we understand that it is not by how much scriptures you know, or how well you prayed, but by faith, that is understanding that the fullness of Christ flows through you, then you’ll see God/Christ working and functioning in your life freely. Now, that we understand this, I’ll explain why we were given the power and authority.

As I quoted at the beginning of this write-up, we died and our lives are now hidden in Christ, who is now our life, (ref.: Colossians 3:3-4). Romans 8:17 has explained to us that we are joint heirs with Christ, in other words, we are one with Christ Jesus, just the way Jesus said, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (ref.: John 14:9), likewise, if anyone sees us, then they’ve seen Jesus. Also, as He is, so are you in this world (ref.: 1 John 4:17). The oneness of the church (Sons of God) and Jesus as the same entity was made clear by Jesus Himself to Apostle Paul when he was still known as Saul when he encountered Jesus as Jesus said to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (ref.: Acts 9:4). This goes to show that we and Jesus are one. We are one in Spirit, in other words, our Spirit and that of Jesus are one and the same, just as the Spirit of Jesus is one and the same with God the Father, and this is why we are Sons of God. Now, how did we receive the power and authority Jesus has?

I have explained on several occasion that the moment we received Jesus as Lord of our lives, we received His fullness into our lives as our new life, in other words, the power and authority which God gave Jesus is now living inside everyone who has received Jesus as Lord, because, “the new creation” personality being referred to in 2 Corinthians 5:17 who is now the one living in everyone born of God is Jesus!

So, as Sons of God, we need to understand that we don’t have our old life anymore, the life we now have is the life of Jesus in its fullness. Thus, as we walk with God, we need to understand that it is Jesus living through us, also, we need to study and meditate on Jesus in every sense of it, in order to know the power that is at work in us, so that when we say “in the name of Jesus”, we would know that Jesus Himself is the One and NOT us working.

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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Why Is Evidence Very Important? (re-posted)

Happy New Week everyone,

I observed something which is not really an observation but what is practically obvious, which is that people believe things when there are facts and figures involved to prove what is presented as facts, yes facts because facts are not always true. Now, human beings have been living their lives using facts, but the reason why things go wrong even with the use of these facts is because some of these facts do not rest on the truth. But even though many things presented by God to this corrupt generation may appear not to make sense because it cannot be proven scientifically, He ensures there are facts to prove they are true and real, and who are those to make these happen? Once again, the Sons of God who are popularly called Christians.

In The Acts of Apostles, the third chapter shows us where Peter and John were going to pray when they encountered a man crippled from birth who was a beggar, and looking unto Peter and John, Peter in the process commanded him to rise up and walk using not science, but the name of Jesus, and it worked, the man got up and walked. This was proof that it wasn’t theory that the Apostles were called to do, but practical work with evidence to show for it. Even when the authorities summoned them, Acts 4:13 and 14 says, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marvelled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. ₁₄ And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.” There was so much evidence that the name of Jesus was not theory but practicality and full of evidence.

Apostle Peter and John were unschooled and untrained, which was the first reason to disprove that something that awesome could come out of them, also, there was evidence of the man who was crippled now standing. Peter and John were full of boldness and they found out they had been with Jesus, because only Jesus could do such a powerful thing. This is why Sons of God need to prove to the world that Jesus is real through their actions in their daily lives. The scriptures says in Romans 8:19 which says, “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the Sons of God.” This is not in the future but now, because the moment a person receives Christ as Lord of His life the person become a Son of God having the fullness of God dwelling in his being, what is left is to develop his Spirit man till he has full confidence to express Christ in his daily life.

As Sons of God, you are to live your life which is the life of Christ because this life is miracles to the world. Don’t think you don’t have it in you, because if you say you don’t have it in you then you make God a liar or Christ is fake, but everyone born of God has the gift of God dwelling in his being and he is to express this gift as he lives. This is why there are Spiritual gifts which you are to manifest, so what is your gift? The world is waiting.

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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True Humility Comes From The Holy Spirit (re-posted)

Happy Sunday everyone,

Humility is not as easy a one may think, because, in the world we live in, pride is what rules the world, while humility, on the other hand, is regarded as being foolish. But what many don’t know is that to work with God means you have to be humble, in other words, you cannot have faith without being humble.

As the scriptures explain to us that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, [ref.: James 4:6-7; 1 Peter 5:5-6], and why is this? This is so because pride is the complete dependence on your self-efforts and achievement, which would also imply that you rely on yourself, does that mean that getting degrees and working hard is wrong? No getting degrees and working hard isn’t wrong, but it would become wrong when you are the one guiding yourself.

To elaborate further, the man was designed to be guided or mentored, which is why successful people would advise you have a mentor. Now, the chief purpose of having a mentor is to guide your dreams or ambition till it manifests successfully, but with all these, the knowledge acquired does not come with wisdom, this is why when we study to acquire great knowledge there is this pride that comes in as your then step up what you call ranks of greatness and then sideline those who were your friends before but didn’t step in knowledge or wealth as you. With all these, it is hard to know when God calls you, why? It is so because God’s pattern does not follow that which the world follows, it requires you dropping all that you “laboured” for and then following His ways. Remember, God is wiser than everyone put together even beyond eternity.

To follow God is to follow what He asks you to do with no intrusion with your human logic, because God who asked you to do what He said knows the outcome even before you do it, but the human logic is based on assumptions and probabilities and it would interrupt what God sent you to do. He is the one who would tell you what to what course to study, that is if you are to go to a formal school or what training to get or what to do generally. His aim is for you to live the life He created you to live, it all has to do with total trust in Him. Not everyone is meant to follow the trend the world has created such as the schooling and job pattern, He opens your eyes to see clearly.

Let’s not get things wrong by thinking God is a tyrant that only His way goes without us asking any questions. Nope, we serve a God who is ready to listen to you if what He sent you isn’t clear enough, and is ready to listen to your own suggestions. He explains why He has sent you to do a thing and why your method won’t work. He cares and always listens.

John the Baptists in the Gospel of John was told that Jesus was baptising and many were coming to Jesus, in other words, Jesus was stealing the show, but what did John say in John 3:27-28? “John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’” He went on further in verses 29 and 30, “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.” It takes only a person who has completely surrendered to the will of God to say something like this, because, first of all, John was full of the spirit from birth; had the spirit of Elijah; was greater than every prophet that ever lived before him, [ref.: Luke 1:15, 17; Matthew 11:11]; he had every reason to shine, but his ministry was just till Jesus came which was just six months.

Humility is not being foolish, but letting go and letting God, not because someone just told you to do so, but because you have come to the understanding that the way of God in Christ is the true way God created you to live and to fulfil this is to allow God to take you by the hand and lead you.

Jesus should be our role model and our mentor should be the Holy Spirit, it is only through this that true humility is attained. Jesus in His glory did not even consider Himself equal with God, in showing us how to live, He humbled Himself as a servant to the point of dying on the cross, [ref.: Philippians 2:5-11]. Humility is not as easy as we think, it takes the spirit of God in us to attain true humility and allowing God to use us and unlocking the Grace God has given us through faith.

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

                    

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

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The Truth Is Not A Lie (re-posted)

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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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Stop Searching For What Isn't Lost (re-posted)

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Has this ever happened to you where you’ll be holding a thing, maybe a pen for instance and you start searching for the pen, but you haven’t calmed down understand what you are searching for isn’t lost, but is in your hand? This has happened to me on different occasion, and searching for what isn’t lost could be so stressful, likewise, in our lives we keep on searching for sound health, success, divine favour, breakthrough and many related to this depending on what your life “needs”, whereas the answer has always been with us. I’m sure you guys are guessing I’m referring to Jesus as the One who has always been around us, but no, I’m referring to something else which is related to Jesus though. Let me explain further.

Grace was given to man, and this grace is a brand new life, this new life comes with a lot of goodies attached to it like perfect health, power, love, sound mind, wealth, the wisdom of God, the mind of Christ and a whole lot more. Now, we receive all these when we choose to accept or receive them and they become ours. But because we were born into an extremely corrupt world, these things look too good to be true and we don’t find part of the grace active in our lives, as some could still fall sick, others suffer from poverty, others don’t have the wisdom to handle certain things and more like that. So, what do the sick do, for instance, they start confessing healing scriptures in order to get healed or made whole? This is good, but how it is done have been the issue as many do it wrong. Let me elaborate further.

Once you have accepted Jesus as Lord, the full package of Jesus’ perfect life becomes yours immediately which is the grace God gave everyone born of God, but as I said, because we would need to grow into believing all these, we seem not to experience the full package all at once even though they have been given to us. Now, here is where some get the confessions wrongly. You are not to confess in order to receive that which God has given you, you are to confess the scriptures in order not to be distracted by the way of the world. A sick man for instance who has received Christ is not meant to confess healing scriptures in order to get healed or whole as the case may be, rather he is meant to confess the scriptures to emphasise where he stands or what he has in his hand, which is the grace of God.

The reason why many of us do not experience a certain part of the grace which Christ has given us is that we are distracted. We are not meant to pray for healing because we are already healed, we are not to pray for blessings because we are already blessed, but because the world shouts at us at every corner, on TV, on the street, through conversations, music around us, everything speaks against what God has given us through Christ, so many times we get distracted and the moment your stand or belief at a particular time isn’t on the grace received but is on the distractions of the world, we won’t find the grace functioning. So, the confession of who we are through the scriptures is not to make us healed or blessed or acquire wisdom and so on, rather is a way we fight the distractions, by establishing who we are in Christ Jesus. When you understand this truth that you are already complete in Christ Jesus, in other words, when you find out that you have been made exactly as Christ is, it helps us understand why we are confessing, and our confessions should in form of thanksgiving to God.

Jesus told Peter to come and meet Him by walking on the water, Peter could walk on water but he was distracted by the waves and wind of the sea and he lost focus on Jesus, this was what made him sink, (ref.: Matthew 14:27-41). This is the same challenge we face as Sons of God as we live our daily lives here on earth. What God has given to us is not too good to be true, because what we have received is the truth. The world is full of lies. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers in dark places, (ref.: Ephesians 6:12). We have received the power and authority of Christ which the devil or the principalities of the devil cannot stand, so the only way he can get to us is just by distracting us.

Remember, we confess the word of God with thanksgiving to prevent us from getting distracted by the devil away from the truth, and not to acquire what has already been given to 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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