The Church Determines the World's Future

Yesterday, I explained how perceptions have become the deciding factor over how we view things. Bringing the story of the six blind men who touched an elephant to give their perceptions on what felt individually. No matter what they perceived, whether it was in line with what the elephant truly was or wasn't, it didn't change what the elephant was.

I then made it clear that Jesus doesn't want us to perceive Him using our ways of thinking. If that happens, we will arrive at different perceptions that are far from the truth. And remember, our perception is what we take as the truth even if it isn't.

Jesus also made it clear our perception of Him, comes from Him rather than us using our senses to arrive at conflicting understanding of who He is.

Sadly, today we see diversity in the body of Christ. The reason is simple, human perception of who Christ is.

Jesus told Peter when he said that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, that the revelation came from His Father. The revelation of Christ comes from Christ Himself. And it is not in our place to interpret, because that is the job of the Holy Spirit, who interprets the revelation we receive from Christ.

Jesus told His disciples that they should not go into the world until the Holy Spirit had come upon them. The reason was and still is simple, and that is to prevent different human perceptions of the purpose of Christ's coming.

But what we have today is that the world has crept into the church making the church lose her focus.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 says, "²⁶ Brothers and sisters, consider who you were when God called you to salvation. Not many of you were wise scholars by human standards, nor were many of you in positions of power. Not many of you were considered the elite when you answered God’s call. ²⁷ But God chose those whom the world considers foolish to shame those who think they are wise, and God chose the puny and powerless to shame the high and mighty. ²⁸ He chose the lowly, the laughable in the world’s eyes—nobodies—so that he would shame the somebodies. For he chose what is regarded as insignificant in order to supersede what is regarded as prominent, ²⁹ so that there would be no place for prideful boasting in God’s presence. ³⁰ For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now he is our God-given wisdom, our virtue, our holiness, and our redemption. ³¹ And this fulfills what is written: If anyone boasts, let him only boast in all that the Lord has done!" TPT.

God chose those whom the world considered as nobodies, or unwise to shame the so-called wise and those who claim they have power. Why? Look at verse 29, which says, "so that there would be no place for prideful boasting in God’s presence." TPT. This is the issue we have in this world.

Verse 30 also says, "For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now he is our God-given wisdom, our virtue, our holiness, and our redemption." TPT.

It is clear in verse 30 that it is not in man that we draw our life but from God, because the moment we become born again, we are joined to Jesus who is NOW OUR WISDOM! I cannot over-emphasise this.

Even Apostle Paul with all his studies counted all as dung, why? For the wisdom we seek is found in Jesus alone. And when the church submits to her first love, then we see ourselves becoming one again, because we then become humble to receive from Him. It is no longer our perception, but His perception, and the interpretation by the Holy Spirit.

Until this is done, the future of the world is at stake, because the world is headed for destruction, but the soldiers to rescue the people are distracted by those they are to save.

The church has lost her focus. There is no pride in degrees. Our boasting should be on all the Lord has done. Don't be ignorant of the devil's devices of distractions.

Who do you say that He is? It is not of your deduction or perception, of the Lord who ALONE reveals Himself more and more to His Sons and Daughters, the His Spirit who lives in everyone born again interprets.

The creation earnestly waits for the manifestation of the Sons and Daughters of God, so give them that hope (ref.: Romans 8:19).

God bless you.

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Who Do You Say That He Is?

Have you heard of the story where six blind men gave different perceptions of what an elephant is? If you haven’t, let me give a summary.

The first felt the tail and said it was a long rope. The second felt the body and said it was a wall. The third held the ear and said it was a big fan. The fourth felt the leg and said it was a tree. The fifth felt the tusk and said it was a spear. And the sixth felt the trunk and said it was a snake.

The moral of the story is that no matter what they perceived, it never changed what the elephant was.

There is the truth of a thing, and there is the perception of that thing. And this is where we all need to be careful. Our perception of a thing may fall in line with the truth, and then again it could fall outside the truth. And whatever we perceive, we consider as the truth.

Jesus asked His disciples who people said that He was. After all answers they gave, Jesus then asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" This question was very important because this would show who they perceived Jesus to be.

If they perceived Him as just a teacher it would reflect in their relationship with Him. If they perceived Him as a false prophet, it would reflect in their relationship with Him. But if they perceived Him as "the Christ, the Son of the living God", it would reflect on their relationship with Him, and the last answer was the answer Peter gave Jesus (ref.: Matthew 16:13-17; Mark 8:27-30; Luke 9:18-20).

Jesus on the other hand told Peter that the answer didn't come from his thinking, but it was His Father who revealed that to Him. What does that tell us? It means that the truth of who Jesus truly is can only come from Himself, through revelation by the Holy Spirit.

We cannot know Jesus of our self but by the divine revelation through the Holy Spirit. So, when we are born again, we must sit at the Lord's feet to receive from Him.

Our perception of who Christ Jesus is would determine how we speak to people about Him. How we expect Him to treat us. As we have noticed, there are several perceptions of who Jesus is, especially who He is to us as Sons and Daughters of God.

The reason for all these is that many have mixed their understanding with the truth, and that isn't a divine revelation from the Holy Spirit.

There is no end in love for us, (ref.: Romans 8:35, 38&39). We are to ask Him to reveal Himself to us as we go through His word, rather than using our understanding which would lead to a wrong perception of who He is. Only the Spirit of Jesus (i.e. the Holy Spirit), can reveal this to us.

So, who do you say that He is? Meditate on His word and ask Him to reveal Himself to you, and He will.

God bless you.

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 Unlimited

What do you think happens to you when you become born again? Let's take a look a Ephesians 1:19-20. It says, "I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power ²⁰that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm!" TPT.

These verses made it clear that the immeasurable power of God has been made available to us. This was done at the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

Now, the verses say we gain access to this immeasurable power by faith! Like, that's it?

As Sons and Daughters of God, God has released His unlimited power by faith in the authority of the name of Jesus. Faith then is the belief in all that God offered the world. And what He offered us is Jesus.

Now, the moment we became born again, we received the fullness of Christ Jesus as our life. He became our nature. I'm sure all these sound like elementary knowledge for any Son or Daughter of God reading. However, this isn't why I'm really taking you down these foundation classes. It is calling your attention to what you have received for it to reflect in your day-to-day actions.

To release this unlimited authority is by knowing that is all of Jesus and nothing of you. But sadly we keep referring ourselves to the life that has been crucified with Christ Jesus on the cross.

The more we remind ourselves that any time we meditate on the word of God, we are to meditate on Jesus who is now our life. So, as we Jesus raise someone from the dead, we are to put ourselves as the one who raised the person from the dead. The same should be done in the opening of the blind eyes, the feeding of the 5,000, and others. With this we allow the nature of Christ Jesus to become reflected as natural for us.

So, what is that condition you're going through, remember fulness of Christ Jesus lives on the inside of you. Speak to that condition and command it to leave. The reason why it would leave is because the condition saw Jesus and not you. And it is because you released the unlimited authority of Jesus by faith.

The only person who limits the authority of Jesus is ourselves. I can never stop emphasising the importance of meditation on the word of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Also, know that the Jesus we study and meditate on has now become our life, and no one else.

So, release the unlimited power of Christ Jesus now.

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

                                          

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What Exactly is Prayer?

There is so much noise about prayer. The popular 1 Thessalonians 5:17 which says, "pray without ceasing" is always the basis of the emphasis on prayer.

Yes, prayer is important, but a proper understanding of what prayer is is very important. This understanding would allow us to know how we are to pray. And the noise of prayer would be channelled properly.

Prayer is a relationship, just as a Father and his Son sit to talk. Prayer as I have said in a previous write-up is a dialogue. Just as you speak, allow the Lord to speak. But many times I've seen some Sons and Daughters talk too much, and at the end of the day, they don't get anything from God, just because they didn't listen. And they lacked one key ingredient, which is communion.

To pray without ceasing implies, we are to commune with the Father at every point in time.

The "making out time to pray" isn't what 1 Thessalonians 5:17 refers to. The reason is that as Sons and Daughters of God, we become prayer, as prayer is communion and our way of living.

1 Corinthians 3:16 says, "Don’t you realize that together you have become God’s inner sanctuary and that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?" TPT. You are always in His presence because he dwells in you.

In the layman's understanding, prayer is when we ask things from God. But as Sons and Daughters of God, we do not "pray" (from the layman's point). Prayer expresses faith based on who we are in Christ Jesus. It is a place where we sit to receive and to release. And this was what Jesus did whenever He was here on earth.

Now, we understand that Jesus is our perfection. And being Sons and Daughters of God we are to commune with Him where we sit to receive more of who we are [in Him] to release His life as our way of living.

The reason is that we are to be conscious of His purpose for us here on earth, and His leading through the Holy Spirit.

This means there should be no separation in your actions and His thoughts towards you, which you have keyed into through the constant communion with Him known as prayer.

Thus, our lives express Him here on earth, for we are one in Spirit. So, prayer is the flowing in His thoughts at every point in time, showing that He knows our thoughts and as we ask, He leads, shows, and guides us wherever He wants to.

It is an ever-present state of our existence through relationship and communion with Him. It is not a realm we need to enter because we are always in that realm, as long as we are born again.

God bless you and have a blessed day.

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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In All Things Give Thanks

Give thanks.

When was the last time you were grateful to God? True, God is our heavenly Father we pray to Him for our needs, but really, when last did you give thanks?

Giving thanks for some is just a cliché when praying, sort of like following a praying format. But the question we need to ask is why we are to give God thanks. Really, have you ever asked yourself why we are to give God thanks?

Let's take a look at 1 Thessalonians 5:18. It says, "in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." To give thanks is the will of God in Jesus for us.

We understand that it is when a person gives you something or does you a favour, then what comes next is to thank the person. To thank is the effect of a cause. We cannot just thank without a reason.

Now, God won't want us to give Him thanks always if He hasn't offered us something, but this time it is someone.

God gave us His best gift--Jesus, and to accept Jesus is to accept the answer to our prayers, the answer to our hope. There is nothing that we will ever need in this life that Jesus hasn't answered.

Once every issue comes from sin, and Jesus has put an end to the sin issue, it is a strong reason to always give God thanks. But that is one reason.

God offered us His best, we are to receive Him (Jesus) as our new life. It is left to activate the Jesus in us through the meditation and the leading of the Holy Spirit. And to give God thanks reminds us of what God has ALREADY done, and not what He is yet to do. This is very important to note.

We are to live and walk by faith, and not by sight, (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:7). And whatever case may pop up in the future, thanksgiving to God reminds us that He, through Christ Jesus has sorted it out. All we need to do is believe. Of course, we must meditate on His word day and night, and be led by the Holy Spirit, who reminds us of what Jesus has done, and we give thanks.

Thanksgiving helps to strengthen our faith because if we don't remember what Jesus did for us we won't give thanks. And if we give thanks just for the sake of it, without knowing why, we will offer an empty Thanksgiving.

So, let us always give God thanks to strengthen our faith, and allow Christ Jesus to manifest more and more in our lives.

God bless you.

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 Five Senses of Faith

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hold on, I'm getting close. 

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

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

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

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

God bless you and have a blessed day ahead.

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

                                          

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Dreams, Visions and Goals

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!!!

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

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

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

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

So, how do we get this very important vision?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                          

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