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DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to all mighty man and women who want to grow spiritual
and experience the love of God in their lives. I salute you all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My gratitude to everyone who took part in this book. I love you all. May God
continue using you to impact lives through his word. Thanks to my Pastor Rev
Chris Oyakhilome for your inspiration. It‘s nothing new but all which you taught
me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
oitsemodimo Elijah Nkwena is a young vibrant Christian whom encountered
Jesus Christ and never looked back again. For what I saw in Jesus Christ is more
than a mere human life its heaven here on earth. I have written this book to all
people who want to have intimate relationship with God. This book is clear and
uses very simple terminology to make the truth more clear. It has got all aspects
of a full Christian life. This book is a living testimony its self it has answered all
the questions you have asked yourself some years back. Christ Embassy is my
new home and family I belong there I can‘t explain how much influence I got
from there it‘s more than a church real its God vision. Thanks God for Pastor
Chris and his soul stirring teachings full of revelation, your ministry is from
above and nothing can stop us from reaching to the world with all that we have
indeed we are taking the divine presence of God to the nations of the world and
demonstrating the character of the Holy Spirit. In your ministry the word of God
is taught, lived and believed.
When God called me to write this book I knew that it is him who will give me
what to write. I will just sit down and listen to the spirit for what to write and
where. This is God himself telling us what THIS GOSPEL is all about. The
gospel that I am bringing to people is the one of Jesus Christ, the gospel of grace
that has abundant life and when that life is in you, you are not subject to the
elements of this world. God want us to live supernatural lives and prosper in
everything we do. The world must see this God kind of life in us. The Power in
You has got everything you need for your Christian life. In our series of this book
we will continue to learn more about God and establish a permanent closer
relationship with him and continue to impact lives around the world as the spirit
of God lead us. If you know what everything means you will find it in this book.
It‘s time for people to realize that God has given us everything we need and we
don‘t lack anything. If you have never experienced this life hey turn back to the
lord it‘s never too late he is seating on his mercy seat just waiting for you. There
is nothing simple like this book which natures us spiritual to become like God. I
have made every aspect of this book simpler and in details just for you. God has
chosen you and he is willing to raise you spiritual to become a strong and
responsible person in the kingdom.
G
INTRODUCTION
reetings to you all brethrens in the house of our lord Jesus Christ I am
happy to introduce to you this wonderful incredible first series of The
Power In You. God is so much considerate about how we live our lives,
the things we do, how we pray, how we act and react towards Good‘s word. It‘s
time now for us to come to full understanding of how God want us to live the
God kind of life here on earth. In this series of The Power In You we will focus
on those things that will help you real live up to God‘s standard. As God has
created us its him again who gives us this God kind of life. God didn‘t create man
and brought him to earth to experience a life full of disasters, sufferings, sickness,
failure, hopeless situations. He created us as super beings to live a prosperous,
successful life, vibrant, and always winning in whatever we do. It‘s time now we
have to recognize that everything that we need in life God has already provided
it, just take a big step of faith and possess it. He has predestined us before we
were there and generations to come that we should live a meaningful life, hopeful
and full of joy. If you want your life to change this book has got it all. It brings
the presence of God right in your place. If you want that hopeless situation
(sickness in your body, dead business, poverty, failure, debt, divorce, etc) to
change right now this the time of your encounter with the Holy Spirit you have
been waiting for and your life will never be the same again.
This book is life transforming focusing on the mindset of people and they will
never be the same again, change has come to you and you are being transformed
from one level of glory to glory. I have never experienced a glorious life like now
in Christ Jesus it‘s just awesome, incredible always ups no downs and what God
does for one does it for all. I have come to full recognition of what God real want
in us and how he wants us to function in this earth. Thanks be unto God who has
given us Jesus Christ to this world for whosoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. Its free you don‘t need to pay anything. In this series of The
Power In you God is equipping you with his knowledge, wisdom and how to live
higher life and supernatural in this world. May god bless you through this book
as he opens your spiritual understanding and as you receive from him his
blessings and many more.
G
CHAPTER 1 RECREATE YOUR OWN WORLD
Before this Christianity came we believed what we thought was true God but we
were lost Galatians 4:8-But then indeed, when you did not know God, you served
those which by nature are not gods. People lived according to their cultures
which in some way have some dimmed practices which were against God
standards. God himself created man to live life in abundance and this could only
be fulfilled when people are in Consciousness that we are God‘s beloved, the
righteousness of God and Christ has satisfied all the requirements of the law.
Now we live by the finished work of Jesus Christ who did it for us. When God
want his people to change He always send a man (God‘s principles manifest in a
person) with his credentials that bears that he is the sent one. With the need to
save the world God could not destroy his wonderful creation because of their
failure-disobedience. In the Old Testament People had to live according to the
laws or the old covenant but this book is all about the new covenant of grace, by
Jesus Christ dying on the cross and by his bloodshed he established the new
covenant thus fulfilling the law and making the latter obsolute, simple meaning
that he abolished it and let‘s keep in mind that the law was given to the Israelites
not us. We are a generation which exists after Jesus Christ has come. The
Israelites failed the first covenant of God which was solemnly based on
observance and man‘s sufficiency. Understand that during those times the Holy
Spirit was not leaving on earth he will come then disappears. This book brings us
to complete discovering of what God has done for us and live by that it‘s just
simple like this where we know that Christ took our position and he is seating
right now with the father, and if we believe this truth we will be saved. I am
already saved I belong to this glorious kingdom I don‘t know about you.
Everyone in this world wants to live a successful, prosperous life, have some
happier times with their family but things don‘t always become like that. Many
people are living a miserable life, full of trouble, defeat, sickness poverty,
heartbreak, divorce, passion killings etc. Who is the master of all this? Joh 8:44 ye
are of your father the devil and the lusts (epithumia- a longing especially for what
is forbidden, concupiscence, desire, lust after) of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and
the father of it. We have to choose the success we want to possess in life. Brothers
and sisters you have to know that your experience of life is not the interpretation
of truth. The bases of every good life come from the bible. We have to
differentiate between worldly success (fame, elite, fancy, etc.) and the success that
we inherent from God which do not perish. Does this means that Christians have
to be poor? Absolutely no. Christianity is to know/discover what has been
already done for you and make it yours. You start to see things‘ happening in the
spirit before it comes to the natural. The bible tells us that Jos 1:8 This book of
the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for
then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Life is not all that we see with our physical eyes. In this book you will find the
whole truth and life that God has given us and once you have that life the spirit of
God will catapult you from one level of glory to glory. Praise the name of our
lord Jesus Christ.
Natural knowledge is driven by ignorance of God‘s word. A natural man just
thinks at the surface, he has a limitation; he cannot comprehend the things of the
spirit for they seem to be foolish to him. These means that for a natural man to
understand the things of God it is the spirit who brings forth. It is unwise for a
natural man to attempt the understanding of that which is beyond his conception,
for there lies the road to disbelief and madness. Yet man is man and ever fated to
reach out beyond himself, striving to attain things which always just elude his
grasp. So in his frustration he replaces the dimly seen incomprehensible with
things within his understanding. Before the beginning there was only one
consciousness, that of The Eternal One whose nature cannot be expressed in
words. It was The One Sole Spirit, the Self Generator which cannot diminish.
The Unknown, Unknowable One in his own existence. The name which is uttered
cannot be that of this Great Being who, remaining nameless, is the beginning and
the end, beyond time, beyond the reach of mortals, and in our simplicity call him
God. He who preceded all existed alone in His abode. In these series of The power
in you we bring the understanding of who real God is and how the man he
created ought to relate with him. Get ready we are just getting started.
AS the man thinketh so is he….as he is so are we in this world [Prov 6:23,1john
4:17]
We are what we are today because of the thoughts, actions that we engaged in
and this has formed some character of which we are in this world. By his thoughts
man can either build or destroy himself. By the right choices and true application
of thoughts we can recreate our own world. If there is anything we ought to
improve it‘s our thoughts not the circumstances. The outward expression of our
thoughts. Thought (right thinking) and purpose is linked and there is no
intelligent which can be accomplished without this. You are doing what you do
because you have thought about it and you want it to take you from where you
are to the next level so today start to mark out a straight pathway to your
achievement. When fear, doubt comes in, energy, purpose, power to do and
all strong thought cease. Refuse fear and doubt today don‘t give room for
insecure untrue things into your mind, develop an abundant mindset and think
big things, dream big dreams(the dreamers are the sustainers of the world, as the
visible world is controlled by the invisible) and before you know it all things are
flowing towards that which you want-the law of attraction. As he continues to
think so he becomes. All which man achieves and all that he fails he the result of
his own thoughts.
One inner power guide us
[1Jn 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater
is he that is in you, than he that is in the world].
There is only one secret you must know about. We have inside of us an inherent
ability, dynamic power to cause a change, that‘s the power that we received when
we accepted our lord Jesus Christ.
One great man who studied the law of attraction states that everything which
comes in your life you attract it into your life-by the virtue of the images you are
holding in your mind. Let me tell you that your imaginative ability is the power
of creation. You can begin creating your life the way you want it to be. Hold on to
the thoughts of who you want to be. Make it clear in the mind what you want.
You become what you think about most but you also attract what you think about
most. If you see it in the mind then you will have it. Thoughts becomes-have.
Thinking activates our thoughts-respond (attraction).if you think more of how
bad it is you are just creating more of it. Focusing on what you don‘t want
(predominant thoughts) will just bring more of it. If you think thoughts of fear,
poverty, sickness what real do you expect-more of it and it will seem real to you
though it‘s a lie because only the word of God is real and true. Think about what
the word of God says about you, hagah it and know that the person you see
talking about it most he has it. I always speaks
about,prosperity,success,peace,joy,love because that‘s what I have I live there
where all things flourish and overflows-Zion.
[Whatever you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of
becoming]
You can begin to feel the love of God for you, feel prosperity and all shall be
yours. What you think and what you feel and what manifests is always a
correlation. There is no limit to the wishes.
The creative process
What is that you want in life?
Answer-see the abundance within you
Receive-Bring yourself to alignment with what you want in life {God‘s word-our
provision and guidance to our path of life}
Don‘t delay, don‘t hesistate, don‘t second guess-act, pay attention[the word of
God is for doing]. No matter how big you want to be in life, no matter what you
want to possess in life, don‘t doubt yourself. You can start with nothing and no
way and out of nothing and no way a way can be made. Joseph never knew what
will happen next after being sold at a slavery market but see what happened at
the end-its just supernatural indeed a natural man cannot do like this. Even you
today you don‘t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step in faith and
as you move on the next will keeping unfolding for you. The question here is not
how am I going to achieve all these? God doesn‘t want you to worry about
tomorrow; it has its own problems. Most people offer the majority of their
thoughts to what they are observing in the natural-Joseph didn‘t even have a
shirt on his body, no friends, no family just alone but he never listened to that
because he knew that he is carrying the presence of God, all power is within him.
Today I want to give you a word of knowledge of whom you are-don‘t live life by
your current status(that‘s who you were)-this is a total residual outcome of your
past thoughts and actions, all that we are is the result of what we thought. Today
know that you are the righteousness of God, God‘s beloved, a citizen of Zion our
new spiritual world, a new creation without a past but only present and future.
What other people achieved in 20 years period because of who you are God will
cause you to achieve it in 2 years time. You are unique just on your own and you
don‘t operate by the laws of this world. we live by our heavenly principles. You
are a miracle going to happen somewhere, people when they see you they must
see the very Jesus who is yet to come. What we think about we bring about. God
created man to function like him in full capacity. As God created the world we
also have power in us to recreate our own world.
The powerful process
Gratitude-shift your thinking. Do you know who you are in Christ Jesus? You
cannot operate and think at the base like an ordinary man. There is a higher
power and that‘s the secret, and this power is in you. Start to think the thoughts
of God and operate from the realm above humanity. God want you to live life
beyond this world in abundance as he has given us.
Visualize-when you visualize then you materialize. Dwell upon the end results.
You already have it you are not trying to get it or pretending to have it hey God
doesn‘t want us to pretend it‘s a present reality, it‘s true. Say what you want,
believe you have it? Focus on what is grateful, whatever the mind of man
conceives it can achieve. When you have an inspired thought you have to trust it
and you have to act on it. Wealth is a mindset.
LIFE IS A RACE
The world has become fast, everybody want fast life everything is speed indeed
life is a race. Pastor once taught me that because of all these things people also
want to put God in the same fast lifestyle but that‘s not how God operate. People
want fast prayers, quick responses, quick healing formulas, success formulas. One
big problem that many people have is that people are lazy to pray, they only pray
when something bad has happened that‘s when they seek God and in this
experience they demand that God hears them and answers them quickly oh!!! No
let‘s be serious with our life people. Pastor gave an example of a man who came
running to churching because his wife was in maternity ward experiencing some
complications and he said pray for my wife but sadly he had the whole nine
months to pray for his wife now he is putting pressure on himself instead of
having put pressure on the devil long time ago. Today I want you to have a
prayer life. When you pray you are actually praying maybe for something that
will happen some years to come. Now because of your prayers that you had
prayed you are always protected.Dont wait for the devil to find you at your dining
table it will be late by then. Always be ready and learn to live from the throne of
victory, success, prosperity, divine health. With prayer you can get things done.
Let me ask you a question- How many times do you pray in a day?
Do you have a special time dedicated for prayer?
Do you only pray when something bad has happened to you?
[1Th 5:17 pray without ceasing].
This emphasize that we have to pray always it‘s not about how long you spend
praying. With prayer we can build a strong relationship with God, we can
enhance anything to happen in our lives. The reason why God want us to pray is
because he has already provided an answer for it.
For that purpose that God has put before you it‘s you to discover it and run the
race to fulfill you destination that God has predestined for you. It will be unwise
to leave your race and join a three quarter race which you know you are not good
at and you fail dismal. God has made us unique and each with their own purpose
in life to fulfill and we work together helping each other to fulfill our destinations.
The bible says we are of one body but different parts functions so don‘t leave
yours behind, run your race to win the prize. Jesus Christ our perfect example,
sacrifice, lamb has set for us the race of life we should run. know that we run with
a purpose and fulfilment.we know were we are going and what we are doing, we
are always on track on our race and we are rest assured of the prize we are to win
when we accomplish our race in Christ Jesus. Sadly some fellow Christians just
run their race without necessarily knowing or having expectations of the
outcomes. Life is a race like an athlete before going for competitions they prepare
themselves-training; exercise etc even us we ought to have our spiritual
undertakings which makes us winners at the end. As a child of God in a race be
ready always, don‘t be hunted or find missing in the race show-up everytime.its
your responsibility to make sure you avail your self, position yourself (Eze
22:30).The question is how do we run this race such that at the end we are all
successful runners and winners? Meditation Josh 1:8, Phil 2:16 holding forth the
word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not
run in vain neither labor in vain. Be filled with the spirit-it will transform, teach
you how to do things in the kingdom. Live day by day by grace-it‘s a divine
enablement upon life. You will do things that are supernatural because you are
divinely enabled. Be patient, have hope, live by faith, and endure till the end-Heb
6:15.winners don‘t quit on the way. It will be useless to be the fastest runner then
you trip yourself along the way and the other person wins the prize. When you
fall rise up quickly and press on.
CHAPTER 2 MINDSETCHANGE
―Whatever the mind of man conceives, it can achieve‖
PROSPERITY
[―If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a
compromise‖].
Success and prosperity are two words which are always used interchangeable and
simultaneously .Success is not how much you have accumulated materialistic but
its about whom you have or carry. If you have Jesus Christ or carry the presence
of God then definitely you are a successfully.Prosperity is the state of being
prosperous, is a quality state of mind. Attainment of something desired. The
nature of God that we have inherited makes us successful and prosperous. Jer
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace(prosperity, rest) and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
If you rest on the lord He will work on you and enables you to perform the
supernatural. God‘s grace is the essential and sufficient cause to bring about this
desired work of godliness. Grace gives us strength. Grace and faith are two
related realities. God want us to walk by faith because faith access grace.
[Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if
we faint not].
Don't Give Up-To reach success, you have to persevere. Even Thomas Edison
had to learn this. When he was creating the incandescent light bulb, it took him
more than 10,000 times to get it right. Keep striving even when it becomes
challenging.What so beautiful about us Christians is that God has empowered us
to do his work. As much as God is concerned about your prosperity he even want
you to extend your hand and reach unreachable. In our opening scripture we are
encouraged to help others and not to giveup.its wise to start something and finish
it.many people help others expecting something back and if things don‘t happen
to be they giveup.Does God loose hope on us when we do bad?Its not by power
nor might but by the spirit of God. He is working in us and causing us to go out
and help others. He has equipped us and richly supplied us with all things such
that we can turn the world into what we are.God‘s nature-love, kindness, giving
righteousness is in us and we are the representative of God here on earth.
„‟Love will never be love until you give it away‟‟.
By uplifting others you are uplifted too. Your promotion comes when making
someone realize their dreams.Giving its our nature so we ought to give and give
generously and cheerfully. God gave us his only and last begotten son.Giving is a
biblical principle that our lord Jesus Christ demonstrated to us. We have to give
in all areas we are expected to give. Start to take this activity seriously and
partake of it(Heb3:14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the
beginning of our confidence firm unto the end).
No wonder the bible tells us that ;1CO 15;58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be
ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.God is so good that He can‘t
forget your good labour you did. Out of every good labour God rewards us. He
want you to continue doing his work so He will supply you abundantly and his
blessings will overflow in your life.
AFFIRMATIONS
AFFIRMATIONS are positive statements that describe in positive
words a desired situation,event,habbit or a goal and which are repeated
mentally or aloud.
These statements which are actually autosuggestions are repeated often until
they take root in the subconscious mind and influence it.If they are repeated with
faith, earnestness and attention they change the thinking patterns of the
subconscious mind which in consequence develops new habits, attitudes and skills
and also create better circumstances.
Affirmations express desires in words. The words automatically create mental
images of the desires of the mind, they resemble creative visualizations and are
accepted by the mind as truth.Accumulated power of the repeated affirmations
pushes and drives out of the subconscious mind thoughts, attitudes ,habits that
are not in harmony with the affirmations and changes the contents of the
subconscious mind from negative and restrictive thoughts to positive and
constructive ones.
The new contents of the mind affect, change and improve the person and attract
corresponding situations events circumstances and people into his life.
―Money is now flowing into my life‖
―My mind is open to receive ideas to make money‖
―I have a lot of money and much more is flowing to me each day‖.
DECLARATIVE STATEMENTS
[Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee:
and the light shall shine upon thy ways].
[Ecc 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power:]
A Declarative Statement is basically a positive expression targeted to that which
you wish to attractMost of the time, failure in people is basically a subconscious
acceptance of negative Declarative Statements. For example, saying things like,
"My money always goes out faster than it comes in", or, "Business is good only
around special occasions," are negative statements. Anything that makes you feel
bad or say something negative about yourself or your business is a negative
Declarative Statement.
“Higher achievers have bigger visions. The greater danger for most of us is
not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we
reach it”.
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
[Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;]
The kind of life you live, the character you have, the possessions you have, the
family that you have it‘s all a total reflection of what we have thought about and
acted. It‘s all about the mindset management and let me tell you that by constant
infilling by the spirit of God your mind will be renewed {Eph 5:18 and be not
drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit ;}.
Success is a kingdom principle which as God‘s children we have to know how to
become successfully and how to live by the kingdom principles. Success it is a
mindset state which when tuned to the right things your life will begin to flow
with a supernatural stream of miraculous. Mind management is very important
because you have to practice to live by kingdom principles for you to become
successful. It will never come because God said so in his word that he has given
you all things but you have to work out your own success. In this book I am
going to help you learn and live by kingdom principles and get the success that
God has given you. Indeed there is nothing we cannot do or achieve-I can do all
things through Christ which strengthens me. We can go far, think big get what
we want anytime, and be what God has called us to be.
How to use your mind effectively
If you want to be successful then you have to take totally in charge of everything
that happens in your life-develop a strong mindset-strong minded people take
control of everything.
Strong minded people are not easily angered, accept criticism in a good way,
remain calm despite what happens, not easily shaken, and accept correction, not
defensive. Some people are just easily irritated by small things but mature adults
in the things of the lord are grounded, rooted like palm trees in Lebanon-they are
never surprised they are always ready and alert. These are people who are at rest
in God-they have peace, tranquility, joy in their heart. They are still. [Php 4:7
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus].
Many people around the world have wondered why things are going the way
they are and in their wondering and in their midst of frustrations when things go
wrong they blame themselves and whilst others have succeeded in the same
circumstances, provisions and situations many think that they engaged in some
risky, fraud systems to become successful. It all brings a clause in your life to
move from where you are to where you want yourself to be.
Everybody want to live a greater life and sadly many has not experienced this yet
and some will die without having lived their purpose am sure about myself that
whatever I am engaged in now will take me to my ultimate destination and will
live the life that God has pre destined for me and I have discovered that purpose
of my life that I was called for. I will make sure that I will not live this earth in a
better way but in the best that I can. Change is a process and it involves risk and
that‘s also some vital principles of success. Anyway let‘s get bigger now and hit
the truth of the matter which will take you from where you are to where you
want to be. Everyone has dreams, visions, ideas in life and only a few achieve
them along the way and some end up giving up for something‘s they didn‘t want
in life.
TIPS OF SUCCESS
The outmost thing as Christians which we can do is to control our lives from
the spirit realm because that‘s where we live, we belong there.Dont look to the
outward appearance of your situations but rather look unto Jesus, see the
abundance within you. In the midst of your lack or situation see the abundance
from what ever you are going through. Jesus Christ never looked at the natural
he always saw the abundance while in the physical there is a lack this is a
supernatural experience. Remember 5 loaves and 2fish to feed 5 thousand man
not counting women and little children. Even you today release the power within
you and do a supernatural touch that will change your destiny for good. We see
things in the spirit before they comes to the natural. Jesus and you equal success.
Because you carry the presence of God no matter what the situation in the natural
seems to be, he will cause you to be successful, prosperous and live abundant life.
Associate with successful people. I believe that God will cause you to meet the
right people to help you at the right time. The bible says God will restore the
wasted years, don‘t frustrate yourself trust and believe his word. I am set on the
course that I must follow. Many still wonder what does true success entails. I am
not just talking about material possession .The bible defines success as a complete
mindset of believing what God says who you are & that you have everything you
need. When you have Jesus Christ you are successful in life because in him God
was satisfied and he gave him everything. To the same extent that God is
satisfied with Jesus so he is with you today. What you want someone already
possess it. Fill your mind with good thoughts, positive thinking, behavior change
and this will create an atmosphere of overflow of ideas and new thoughts,
perceptions. You will think something and dream dreams that nobody ever had.
Right believing right living. Believe right you will make wise and decisive
decisions. Don‘t change or compromise who you are to suit the world around
you.Ask questions. Many people will rather keep quiet or use their own
intelligence while there are already people available who can help them. Write
down what you want in life your own purpose statement, ideas, visions and share
them with a trusted friend. They can either help you pursue the idea or refer you
to people who can help you. Remove the fear that they will steal your idea. If s/he
is aligned or agrees with you it means you can both work together because you
share some basic principles or fundamentals your success comes as making
someone successfully. Successful people don‘t work alone, form mastermind
groups, and discuss what you can do and come up with a strategic plan and new
ideas.
The world has its own definition of success and Christians have their own
definition of success. Based on the system of the world success is based on merit,
achievements etc while us Christians operate by our given spiritual ability-
dunamis, divine enablement-grace to get things done. When God created us he
gave us the sole responsibility to control what happens on earth. We are the
custodians of it. He gave us the right to dominate-take control,lead,reign. I want
Christians to understand that even though we have the grace we still have the
power that comes from each one of us and both of this can be beneficiary to us
since we can do what it cannot be done with one alone. Let me tell you that for
some certain things to happen here on earth you have to do something don‘t be
like a farmer who plant the field and looks back. Many people always says I did
what the word says I must do, I have faith but why all these is happening to me.
Its all good to me you will go through what nobody has ever gone through you
will be blessed like nobody has ever been blessed. But if I tell you what Jesus has
done for you, accomplished for you your faith will raise, now faith is a response to
knowing what God says he will do for you not you doing for God. The greatest
doing you can do in this new covenant is to believe in Jesus and his finished work.
What does the bible says about our success
Success is a mindset of investing what you have, your identity into someone else.
Your success comes from making other people successfully too.Thats what Jesus
Christ did for us for the bible declares that he was rich for our sake he became
poor-what a beautiful exchange. While step by step I unfold this truth to you pay
attention relax and clear up your mind to receive more and more we are just
getting started.
Good success has been given to you-speak it
[Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night… For then you will make your way prosperous, and
then you will have good success].
The word ―meditate‖ in English means to ponder. But in Hebrew, it is the word
hagah, which means to utter or mutter under your breath. In other words, when
you meditate on God‘s Word, you speak forth or confess His Word instead of just
giving it mental assent. hagah God‘s Word by confessing verses in the areas that
you are believing God for breakthroughs. when you hagah God‘s Word, you will
have good success that does not destroy you. Speak it in all areas of your life that
you want God to intervene.
Now, confessing God‘s Word does not move God to do things for you. It is not a
formula. God had already moved when He gave up Jesus to die for you. However,
when you confess His Word, it moves you from a position of doubt to faith. It
moves your heart from a position of ―Is it true?‖ to ―I believe it!‖ When that
happens, ―you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good
success‖!
Jesus and you equal success
The truth is this-if you have Jesus you are already successfully. No matter what
the situation could be in the physical but in the spirit realm where you belong you
have everything. Be awake that you carry the presence of God all the times and
that all source of everything that you need in your life comes from within you. See
the abundance from the inside. Joseph was sold at the slave market, where
photphar bought him, he had no friends to look to,no family members to look to
all people are against him but he never loosed the consciousness that where ever
he is he is carrying God‘s presence-he was awake to righteousness. God will allow
you go through certain things not to test you no to prove you that indeed you are
his, you are already his when you accepted him and your obedience today is not
yours but Christ obedience. Though he went through this entire God blessed him,
everything that Joseph touched was super perfect, excellence because God
intervened. He was promoted and he became the overseer of the whole Egypt
second after pharaoh. Even today God has sanctified you from the rest and he
established a connection with you so that he can use you for his work. He has
blessed you with every blessings and he has given you all things. He has
distinguished you from the rest of the world so that what ever you touch shall
propser,become a success, people will want to associate with you, some will want
to be named after you because you are heavens best, you have the life of God in
you. From now onwards live with this consciousness that you are the
righteousness of God and learn to hagah God‘s word your not talking about it
will not help you but deprive you from what has already been given to you.
You are the custodian of your own life.
Its surprising that many people longs/want to live a good life but they have
never taken what it takes to make them successful, they don‘t want to go through
what it takes to get were they want to be. People are waiting for God to do
something in their lives but God has already done something, he gave us the
word-Jesus. What have you done with the word that you have? Freely receive
freely give. They have been sitting down and watching things happen in their
lives. If there is someone to make you successful then you are the very person to
wakeup from where you are and start to do something. Take 100% responsibility
of your life. Be concerned about what‘s happening then you can account for things
you do without doing so you will say I don‘t know why things are like these, its
not me who did these, it doesn‘t matter whatever comes to me I am ready. Let me
tell you that if you are like this it shows me that you are neglecting and ignoring
things that happen in your life. You passively allow things without recognizing.
Never say do I know, I don‘t have but you know that as a child of God you have
the name of Jesus to use, yes I meaning using it to acquire anything that you want
even material things. Starting from today you must know always. You must take
personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the
wind, but you can change yourself. Take responsibility for everything.
You have to give up all your excuses
The place where you are now is the result of the events that happened to you in
the past. Someone either your parents or whoever might have been the
responsible person to what happened to you in your early childhood. Maybe you
didn‘t go to school because it was not important by then or there was no school
uniform maybe your parents we very poor to provide you with the basic needs,
well it all sound reasonable but ‗‘from where you are now to where you want
yourself to be‘‘ its your sole responsibility to move from that point.I have never
allowed my situations or circumstances to determine my destination in life. I
remember very well I will write down that when I finished my high school and go
for tertiary get a job and do ABC. I was young by then and didn‘t have any
revelation I can tell. Even now many people still think of getting a job, when are
you going to start creating one? You know what you are good at go for it.One
great successful man derived this equation to make things easier.
E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome)
You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).if the events that
happened in the past and happening now doesn‘t work or cannot produce an
outcome that you want. No doubt all these factors do exist, but if they were the
deciding factor, nobody would ever succeed. The truth is some people succeeded
in the same factors, same situations as you and they made it. Instead of dwelling
in that you can simply change your responses (R) to the events (E)—the way
things are—until you get the outcomes (O) you want. If you don‘t like your
outcomes, change your responses. If you hate that place you come from or where
you are staying nobody will change it for you, you are the same person to change
it and make it look the way you like. Learn to see with the eyes of God, see what
God sees. The only thing you can use to change your life is the word of God-the
word has power.
What have you done during the situation?
The economic world mimic that a major recession might take place this 2012.All
this bad things that happens in today‘s world truly I can tell you someone
somewhere is responsible for causing all this believe me somebody made a wrong
decisions, thought a thought of destruction and deficit. The earth has everything
we need to sustain us but how come we are fighting over nature-someone wants
to take control of the whole things which benefits the whole world. If the world
was run according to the principles of God all these should not be happening but
I am alerting you children of God rejoice your father in heaven has abundant
provisions and he will make you successfully during the times of drought. If
things are not working because of economic meltdown change your strategies
too, to suit the current situation. Why will you ride a bakkie while there is a car
which is quiker, technology changes and our standard of living changes too.
Everything you experience today is the result of choices you have made in the
past.
Stop blaming other people for your own life-if you are still complaining you
have not risen you are sitting down
[Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen
upon thee].
Have you seen those people who cannot live without other people? They have
completely given their lives to other people instead of being the custodians of
their own life they say mum or dad will do it for me, whatever he chooses for me
is occur. They never take effort. What if mum or dad is not there? You are the
one who allowed all sorts of incumbents in your life. You have to give up
complaining. Some people want to experience bad things in life that‘s when they
will know how to take a good care but that‘s not how things are to be. With the
word of God you can learn to deal with situations before they come. Reach out for
help. Ask others to assist you. Take a self-development class.successfull people
don‘t compromise its either you face it or you don‘t. Shying away from your
situations doesn‘t solve them you will find them when you come back. God
declared that don‘t fear I will never leave you nor forsake you. Jesus Christ said I
will not leave you alone but with a helper-you will not go through all this alone.
You either create or allow everything that happens to you
You can recreate your own world by your thoughts today. The creative power
starts in the mind. Creative process involves visualization, imagination and
receiving. By your thoughts you attract certain things into your life. The more
you think about it know that it‘s in the process of beginning. To be powerful, you
need to take the position that you create or allow everything that happens to you.
By create, I mean that you directly cause something to happen by your actions or
inactions. Many of our times we passively let things happen to us and we will
only realize after the disaster has happened, don‘t be a watchman be the creator
too.
Life has become too busy and if you are not carefully you will loose some
important things of your life while tying to acquire more. Do you have a balanced
schedule of your life on how you do your daily things? This can help you manage
your busy day. You are working in a busy company where you are even forced to
work on weekends. During the week you come very tired and you just have a
shower and watch TV then go to bed. Your wife all asks you to talk to her and
you don‘t tell bedtime stories to your children, ohu! What a miserable Dad. Three
years later the wife leaves you and took all the children. You just realize that it‘s
because of the things you allowed to happen and you didn‘t change them.Dont be
surprised always be prepared, carry all you need with you-bible, rhapsody, audio
they will build you up during your busy day.
Don‟t be ignorant watch for clues, alerts.
Many things are happening in your life but if you can closely and total take
control of things happening to you slowly but surely they are dropping some
clues about something to happen.dont ignore these things, it might be something
promising or something bad to happen, take action before its too late. Alerts give
you time to change your response (R) in the E + R = O equation. However, too
many people ignore the alerts because paying attention to them would require
them to do something that is uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable to tell someone
you don‘t trust them. Life becomes much easier if you are real and true to
yourself. When it comes to your life there is no one you can rob but truly
yourself, no shortcuts face situations real, and don‘t waste time, don‘t postpone,
don‘t ignore them otherwise they will haunt you for the rest of your life. One
thing I have learnt from successfully people in the outer world there is that those
people have discovered a secret of life and that there is power which attracts
things they want, though they cannot describe the power but they are aware that
something supernatural is there and is the drive to get things done. There are
many faithful successfully people who are not Christians because God created
human beings with an inner guidance system and if you can discover the secret
that your inner ability gives you and walk in that the universe will correspond to
your thoughts and attract things to you. What more if you have the Holy Spirit?
Successful people, on the other hand, face facts squarely. They do the uncom-
fortable and take steps to create their desired outcomes. Successful people don‘t
wait for disasters to occur and then blame something or someone else for their
problems.
Life is the simplest of all
The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The
life you currently live is the result of all of your past thoughts and actions. You
are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings. You are in
charge of what you say and what you do. You are also in charge of what goes into
your mind—the books and magazines you read, the movies and television shows
you watch, and the people you hang out with. Every action is under your control.
To be more successful, all you have to do is act in ways that produce more of
what you want. That‘s it. It‘s that simple. Simple isn‘t necessarily easy .Though
this principle is simple; it is not necessarily easy to implement. It requires
concentrated awareness, dedicated discipline, and a willingness to experiment and
take risks. You have to be willing to pay attention to what you are doing and to
the results you are producing. You have to ask yourself, your family, your friends,
your colleagues, your managers, your teachers, your coaches, and your clients for
feedback. ―Is what I‘m doing working?
Look back to what you have produced-what does it tell you. Your results don‘t lie;
it‘s the perfect reflection of what you have done. Then if you have done nothing
expect nothing, you reap what you saw. The easiest, fastest, and best way to find
out what is or isn‘t working is to pay attention to the results you are currently
producing. You are either rich or you are not. So start paying attention to what is
so. Look around at your life and the people in it
Be clear why you‟re here
Have you asked yourself why you are living the life you are living right now; the
question is why not how? Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose. I believe each of us is born with a
life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps
the most important action successful person take. They take the time to
understand what they‘re here to do—and then they pursue that with passion and
enthusiasm.
Discover your purpose in life
God didn‘t create you and bring you to earth and above all this allowed you to
live for nothing but there is something hidden in you that if you can discover that
your life will be exactly that which you have dreamt of. But with a purpose,
everything in life seems to fall into place. To be ―on purpose‖ means you‘re doing
what you love to do, doing what you‘re good at and accomplishing what‘s
important to you. When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and
opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you. The world benefits, too,
because when you act in alignment with your true life purpose, all of your actions
automatically serve others. Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and
then organize all your activities around it.
What‘s the ―why‖ behind everything you do? Without purpose as the compass to
guide you, your goals and action plans may not ultimately fulfill you. You don‘t
want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against
the wrong wall.
Lean onto your inner guidance. It is the soul‘s duty to be loyal to its own desires.
It must abandon itself to its master passion. You were born with an inner
guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of
joy you are experiencing [the joy of the lord is my strength]. The things that
bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.
Stay on your purpose, stick to the plan.
Make sure they are aligned with and serve to fulfill your purpose. Another
approach to clarifying your purpose is to set aside some time for quiet
reflection—time for a period of meditation. Decide what you want. It‘s funny to
find someone dreaming for big things but they cannot tell you exactly what they
want in life. Be clear with yourself state, list those things that you want and align
your self towards your destiny.The indispensable first step to getting the things
you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Once you have decided why you
are here, you have to decide what you want to do, be, and have. What do you
want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? And what possessions do
you want to acquire? In the journey from where you are to where you want to be,
you have to decide where you want to be. In other words, what does success look
like to you? One of the main reasons why most people don‘t get what they want is
they haven‘t decided what they want. They haven‘t defined their desires in clear
and compelling detail.
[Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.]
Early childhood programming often gets in the way of what you want .Inside of
every one of us is that tiny seed of the ―you‖ that you were meant to become. The
seed of greatness is in you, Unfortunately, you may have buried this seed in
response to your parents, teachers, coaches, and other adult role models as you
were growing up. You started out as a baby knowing exactly what you wanted.
You knew when you were hungry. You spit out the foods you didn‘t like and
avidly devoured the ones you did. You had no trouble expressing your needs and
wants. You simply cried loudly—with no inhibitions or holding back—until you
got what you wanted. You had everything inside of you that you needed to get
fed, changed, held, and rocked. As you got older, you crawled around and moved
toward whatever held the most interest for you. You were clear about what you
wanted, and you headed straight toward it with no fear. So what happened?
Somewhere along the way, someone said . . .
Don‘t touch that! Stay away from there. Keep your hands off that. …You can‘t
have everything you want simply because you want it. Money doesn‘t grow on
trees. Can‘t you think of anybody but yourself?! Stop being so selfish! Stop doing
what you are doing and come do what I want you to do! Today I want to tell you
that you can still discover the real you and follow your heart and what the Holy
Spirit ministers to for.I want to challenge parents right now that those desirable
behavior that you need from your child should not just be assumed but taught.
You are the only you
[2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new [kainos/kahee-nos'] creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new].
This means that what God has created was never been there during creation of
the heavens and earth, you never existed before, you are just a new, fresh breed
you are the only you and no one else is like you and none will ever be like you.
God is so proud of who you are and what he has made you to be. Who will then
live your dream if you abandon it and follow the desires of other people? Don‘t
live someone else‘s dreams. After many years of these kinds of sanctions, most of
us eventually lost touch with the needs of our bodies and the desires of our hearts
and somehow got stuck trying to figure out what other people wanted us to do.
We learned how to act and how to be to get their approval. As a result, we now
do a lot of things we don‘t want to do but that please a lot of other people:
We go to medical school because that is what Dad wanted for us. We get
married to please our mother. We get a ―real job‖ instead of pursuing our dream
career in our hearts. In the name of being sensible, we end up becoming numb to
our own desires. It‘s no wonder that when we ask many teenagers what they
want to do or be, they honestly answer, ―I don‘t know.‖ So how do you reclaim
yourself and your true desires? How do you get back to what you really want
with no fear, shame, or inhibition? How do you reconnect with your real passion?
You start on the smallest level by honoring your preferences in every situation—
no matter how large or small. Don‘t think of them as petty. They might be
inconsequential to someone else, but they are not to you.
Don‟t settle for less than what you want
If you are going to reown your power and get what you really want out of life,
you will have to stop saying, ―I don‘t know; I don‘t care; it doesn‘t matter to
me‖—or the current favorite of teenagers, ―Whatever.‖ When you are confronted
with a choice, no matter how small or insignificant, act as if you have a
preference. Ask yourself, if I did know, what would it be? If I did care, which
would I prefer? If it did matter, what would I rather do? Not being clear about
what you want and making other people‘s needs and desires more important than
your own is simply a habit. You can break it by practicing the opposite habit.
What is it that you want in life? Make an ―I want‖ list
One of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make a list
of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want
to be before you die. This is a great way to get the ball rolling. ―I want people to
love me. I want to express myself. I want to make a difference. I want to feel
powerful‖ ...wants that are true expressions of your core values.
Is worrying about making a living stopping you? What often stops people from
expressing their true desire is they don‘t think they can make a living doing what
they love to do. Some people make a living from drawing arts, some maintaining
lawns because they love landscape, some talking‖
Clarify your vision of your ideal life
To accomplish this, you have to know two things—where you are and where you
want to get to. Your vision is a detailed description of where you want to get to.
It describes in detail what your destination looks like and feels like. Earlier on I
talked about some powerful creative process and one of them is visualization. See
it in the spirit realm, take some time visualize your destiny everyday or make a
dream board and put it in your home see it everyday it will remind you of your
dream and keep you on track. At this point you know you have the things you
want though you cannot touch them feel it, feel yourself driving that car, act like
you have it. You can start with nothing and no way and out of nothing and no
way a way can be made, what I mean is that don‘t worry about the how part, as
you concretely direct your thoughts on that a way will be made, opportunities
will be created, always be in a position to receive.
Success in life works the same way. All you have to do is decide where you want
to go by clarifying your vision, lock in the destination through goal-setting,
affirmations, and visualization, and start moving in the right direction. Your
inner man will keep unfolding your route as you continue to move forward. In
other words, once you clarify and stay focused on your vision the exact steps will
keep appearing along the way. Once you are clear about what you want and keep
your mind constantly focused on it, the how will keep showing up—sometimes
just when you need it and not a moment earlier.
High achievers have bigger visions
Wishes make a man.I have realized that truly everything we need, want begins in
our mindset. Constant focus on something will bring more of that thing. If you
hear a man talking about prosperity know that he is prosperus,if you talk poverty
then you are poor. Have you ever seen how sick people behave? They always
think about their sickness just to find that more diseases are coming now because
they are constantly creating them in the man.I hope and believe that from today
onwards create those things which are positive have hope in the midst of what
you are going through because its not true only the word of God its true. There is
nothing like a difficult situation then if it looks like its difficult just speak in
tongues you will see what a divine intervention will happen in your life.
[The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it. MICHEL ANGELO]
I want to encourage you not to limit your vision in any way. Let it be as big as it
is. ―I always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.‖ ―It doesn‘t take
any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one. One of
the few differences between the superachievers and the rest of the world is that
the superachievers simply dream bigger. John F. Kennedy dreamed of putting a
man on the moon. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice
and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer
that is connected to the Internet. Buckminster Fuller dreamed of a world where
everybody had access to electrical power.
These high achievers see the world from a whole different perspective—as a place
where amazing things can happen, where billions of lives can be improved, where
new technology can change the way we live, and where the world‘s resources can
be leveraged for the greatest possible mutual gain. They believe anything is
possible, and they believe they have an integral part in creating it. You too play
you part.
[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
ROBERT FRITZ Author of The Path of Least Resistance]
Stay on your vision, refuse obstruction
There are people who will try to talk you out of your vision. They will tell you
that you are crazy and that it can‘t be done. There will be those who will laugh at
you and try to bring you down to their level. Monty Roberts, the author of the
Man Who Listens to Horses, calls these people dream-stealers. Don‘t listen to
them. When Monty was in high school, his teacher gave the class the assignment
to write about what they wanted to do when they grew up. Monty wrote that he
wanted to own his own 200-acre ranch and raise Thoroughbred racehorses. His
teacher gave him an F and explained that the grade reflected that he deemed his
dream unrealistic. No boy who was living in a camper on the back of a pickup
truck would ever be able to amass enough money to buy a ranch, purchase
breeding stock, and pay the necessary salaries for ranch hands. When he offered
Monty the chance of rewriting his paper for a higher grade, Monty told him,
―You keep the F; I‘m keeping my dream.‖ Today Monty‘s 154-acre Flag Is Up
Farms in Solvang, California, raises Thoroughbred racehorses and trains
hundreds of horse trainers in a more humane way to ―join up‖ with and train
horses (Jack canfield Author of success principles).
CHAPTER 3
DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE THAT GOD HAS
CALLED YOU FOR AND LIVING LIFE FROM THE
FINISH
Double restoration for your trouble
[Zechariah 9:12Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I
declare that I will restore double to you].
You cannot escape this but to believe what God says about you. I have said earlier
on that don‘t be concerned about what or how the worlds defines you or say who
you are but what God says about you. God sees you as his wonderful fearfully
made creation ever. Is there anyone like you? Nobody will ever be made or
created to become like you so be happy of who you are in Christ Jesus
When trouble comes sees it as an opportunity that God will bless you by
restoring double to you. Instead of grieving and crying celebrate and worship
God for he has declared that he will do it, notice that this is truth it‘s a complete
declaration made by God. Look at the situation of Job, David it was all doubled
back to them it was more than a restoration. The bible says that God grant us
more than what we can think, imagine, comprehend he does it big(Eph 3:20). In
the midst of your trouble have hope that he will restore. If he has declared that I
am telling you there is no other way but just a double restoration. No wonder the
bible says we are prisoners of hope it has been shared abroad into our hearts by
the Holy Spirit and this hope of God doesn‘t disssappoint[Rom 5:5 And hope
maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost which is given unto us].
PURPOSE FUFILMENT
For each one of us there is a purpose that God has put in front of us and it‘s up to
us to walk towards that purpose and discover what is it that God has called you
to do in this world and it is God‘s pleasure, will that you live your purpose, he
want you to become what he says you are so when you are under his word your
purpose of life will be unleashed to you [for the bible declares that Psa 119:105
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path]. Many people
are still wondering if real what they are doing is what God has destined them for.
Did I do the thing that God has called me to do? How do I know that I have
reached or accomplished my purpose? How do I fit in your plan (God) for me to
accomplish my purpose?
The bible says the steps of a righteous man are ordered by God, all things works
together for my good, I am set on the course that I must follow. The father loves
the son and the son loves the father. He has come so that we can have life in
abundance. As the father has life he has given that life unto me and I pass it unto
you. If the father has demonstrated his greatest love towards us by sending his
only begotten son and then he holds back your blessings, your purpose, your
healing, your posperity,your success then it means that all these things are
greater than Jesus but that‘s not the case. The bible mentions to us that he has
given us all things pertaining to life and godliness so that ye may prosper. He has
predestined us and he has made us heirs of the kingdom of God. What belongs to
Christ belongs to me. Purpose is very important and it‘s up to us to discover what
my purpose on this world is. How long will it take for me to discover my
purpose? Many people haven‘t yet known what their purpose in life is.
The word of God has your purpose of life and has the will of the father. The
word tells us what God has done for us, what should we expect, how God
functions, who are we, how can we get what we want. Is this not God‘s will? God
has expressed himself- who he is in his word, what more do you want? Take the
word and go with it.
Our God is a good God and he does all things according to his plan. Consider
your situation as a way to your destination. Being on your purpose will make you
get what you want in life and you have to go all what it takes for you to become
what you want to become. Fear and doubt will bring a meaningless and
unpurposeful life. Standstill in the lord holds strong the word of God and sees the
power of the resurrected Christ upon your life. If we abound in him his grace will
overflow into our lives and as we continue to drink from his undepleted storages
our lives will be transcendent throughout. Flank the switch and let the Holy
Spirit takes over. He will leave some clues that indeed you are walking on your
purpose. Jesus Christ fighted his battle till the end and he won the crown of glory
that indeed he is the king of kings, lord of hosts. He conquered the devil. This is
the time to exercise your faith. Talk what you believe-the word of God not what
you see. God‘s in control of all things. He has ordered your steps from the very
beginning allowing and creating things to happen preparing you for the future.
Apostle Paul was gifted but he went through a lot to become what he became.
You cannot understand why I do what I do. He will change you for the situation.
[As he is so are we in this world, because greater is he that is in me than he that
is in the world]
No one ought to defeat the devil, he has already been defeated. When he
challenges you with a fight just relax you don‘t have to fight. Devil you know
what you can‘t make it. Fight the good fight of faith when a problem arises. Learn
to operate from the throne room, the finished point. Jesus Christ said it is
finished. He has overcome and conquered on your behalf. The bible says we are a
chosen, peculiar generation. We are generation not of curses but a blessed one
were all things are given unto us. If then you cannot get what you want it means
that God has something bigger than that for you. He will give you the best more
than what you desire; indeed he is a God of blessings.
RIGHT BELIEVING RIGHT LIVING
[Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting
life].
Is what you believe in which will make you whom you are. If you choose to
believe right you will live right and if you choose to believe wrong you will live a
miserable life. A believer is someone who has the authority of Jesus Christ and
can exercise it in all areas of life. Christianity is about discovering what has
already been done and making it yours. Jesus here is emphasizing on right
believing which brings right living. We believe on the finished work of Jesus
Christ. Jesus Christ came so that we can have life and life in abundance. If Jesus
Christ came to liberate sinners from sin should the sinner remain a sinner? NO if
yes it means that Jesus failed to fulfill his sent mission. A right believing principle
entails a mindset transformation which will position you to receive the things of
the spirit which Jesus long gave them to you. I do believe Jesus fulfilled his
mission I don‘t know about you. People often believe that when they do wrong
they think that God will distance from them and the Holy Spirit will leave them
and in that wondering situation they are expectant of some form of punishment
because of their wrong doings, let me tell you to stop think along those lines. It is
wrong believing which brings wrong living. And also when they do well they
expect some form of good things in return but that‘s not always the case of many.
The bible tells us that Jesus Christ was bruised, punished for our transgressions
this means that he took all the burden of our sins, wrong doings, fallings, failure
and nailed them on the cross, if you believe that he did these all for you then
righteousness will be credited onto your account for your right believing and you
will leave a victorious live without the devil accusing you and pointing out one by
one your sins just to make you fill guilt, unclean and undeserving his unmerited
favor. God made it in such a way that we have hope in Christ that even if when
we sin there is power which will make us sin no more.
The standards of the world are entirely dependent on your achievements, work
hard, go to school, do business and at the end many people along the way
compromise their health for their wealth and you know what will happen all that
they have accumulated will be spent back to regain their health. Be a good
investor and don‘t fall unto such traps. God has the right success for you. Believe
right and you will live right. The bible tells us that the people of the world, a
natural man can not understand the things of God, he cannot explain them, and
he does not have revelation. Say I have revelation of God‘s word today.1Co 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.
Right believing, right living; Believing in Jesus and his finished work at
Calvary
There is no more Calvary which is yet to come again or no other Jesus to be
crucified, bruised, for our sins it is the same Jesus who was crucified 2000 years
ago for me and you and generations to come. He did it once and for all that we
can live free liberated life‘s here on earth. If you believe on Jesus and his finished
work by our faith you will be justified and it is this faith carrying you through
this journey. What does the finished work of Jesus Christ Say? It is simple but it‘s
big and supernatural. Only if you believe have hope and live by faith all things are
yours. When Jesus [said Luk 23:46 and when Jesus had cried with a loud voice,
he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he
gave up the ghost…..Joh 19:30 when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he
said, it is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost].
The greatest doing in the new covenant is to believe what Jesus has done
for you.
In this new covenant notice how God does things in his own new style. All thou
shall not which were in the old covenant becomes „‟I will‟‟.
[Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in
their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And
they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more].
When you are awake to what God says he will do for you your faith will rise and
be strong. Before you knew that you need a saviour God has already sent Jesus to
die for you and what more can God hold for us if he has given us Heaven best-
Jesus. Daddy is willing to do us more than we can ask, comprehend or imagine.
Now faith is the response of knowing what God says he will do for you and your
knowledge in that certain area will strengthen you. He has already done it. Jesus
said it is finished and there comes a pronouncement from heaven a voice saying it
is done and us today Christians we say it is mine, make it yours, possess it and
live by it day by day no one will get it back from you its yours.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
‗‘Sin confession is not the license to forgiveness of sin‘‘.
[1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we
make him a liar, and his word is not in us.‘‘]
This letter was written to unbelievers who by that time infiltrated the early
church of Christ and for them they did not believe in sin existence and
consequently ignored sin and sin dwelleth in them. The bible tells us that 1Jn 1:8
if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
This was to make them acknowledge that sin exists and indeed everyone has
fallen short of glory and that they must come to Christ and stop living a denial
life. In our today ministries many people still confess their sins time and again.
Let‘s look again on the bible on how it defines sin
[Rom 14:23 and he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of
faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin].
Have you confessed all your sins today? Have you confessed anything not of
faith? Did you confess your sins that you have done in the last 2 minutes? Many
people around the world still confess their sins time and again. How many times
should we confess our sins? If you can search your heart right now you will find
something not of faith and the more we become sin consciousness we loose God
consciousness. Jesus Christ HAS forgiven us all on the cross. When we accepted
Christ through salvation we were made the righteousness of God through
justification and forgiving grace.Jesus Christ washed away all our inequities with
his blood as white as snow and sin should not trouble us anymore. Forgiveness of
sin comes once and forever. Jesus forgave you all your sins the past, present and
future and he did this not only for you but for the whole world and the generation
to come, then how can you who is born again come back and confess your sins?
There is no power in confessing your sins the power is in confessing your
righteousness in Jesus Christ who gave us unmerited favor.
God is not looking at you he is looking at Jesus Christ who suffered your position
and overcome sin at the cross so that I and you the devil will no longer accuse us
of our fallings. The bible tells us that [1Jn 2:1 my little children, these things
write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with
the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous]:
Forgiveness of sin is our God ordained right and he is willing to forgive us. You
don‘t ask for your rights they are yours you just get them and it is through
unmerited favor. Having an advocate with the father means that Jesus is fighting
for us not with the father trying to convincing the father but showing the devil
what he has done on the cross, he nailed the power of sin (law) on the cross and
gave us his righteousness, now the devil has no power to accuse us and hold us
guilt of our fallings. Instead of looking on your failures turn away and look at
Jesus.be righteousness conscious and you will receive his unmerited favor the
power to make you step out of sin and enjoy every minute of life in Christ. When
we talked about ongoing grace previously this is the grace that we access through
his word by our faith that though I fall short of glory by his abundant grace I am
the righteousness of God. When God looks at me he sees a super being, a success
not a failure. Have this mentality that as he is so are we in this world(1 john
4:17).Its sad that many ministers of the gospel of Christ still endorse confession of
sins,ok let me tell you that there is no bigger or smaller sin and when Christ
forgave us he didn‘t forgave others little or much, he all forgave us muchly and if
you sees it from this dimension you will love Jesus much and experience his lavish
grace and unmerited favor in forgiving you of all sins-present, past and future. It
is grace which brings this closeness, oneness with Christ and Christ loves us
much.
GOD IS NOT LOOKING AT YOUR PERFOMANCE
‗‘To the same extent that God is satisfied with Jesus he is satisfied with you’’.
Does God assess us or evaluate us based on our performance, achievements, and
failures? Absolutely no. God is not looking at you he is looking at Jesus who did
it for you. Jesus fulfilled the requirement of the law so that all that that the law
required in him is met. What is it that God sees when he looks at you, does he
sees you as a failure? God sees you as a successor, victor even in the midst of your
problem, situation or falling he made you the righteousness of God, and he
justified you so that you can never leave a life of setbacks. God demonstrated his
love towards us by sending his only begotten son Jesus Christ to die for our sins
not only ours but for generations to come.
The whole summary of the law was, love God with all your heart, soul, mind, be
perfect, be holy and yet no one has achieved this under the law. By Jesus Christ
dying on the cross he was saying „‟I will love you with all my heart, soul and
strength‟‟ and he stretched his arms wide open and declared us not guilt, and
made us the righteousness of God. It‘s not our love it is his love for us. Jesus said
‗‘greater love hath no man lay down his life for his friends‘‘, (John 15:13).we didn‘t
choose him but he choose us and definitely he knew that all provisions has been
provided, equipped us to make it to the end. When God‘s love is richly abundant
in us you will effortlessly fulfill the law.1Jn 4:17 …as he is, so are we in this
world.
HOPELESS PRISONERS OF HOPE
[Zech 9:12 turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I
declare that I will render double unto thee;]
Hope is the positive, confident, joyful expectation of good. This means that this
hope is not the worldly hope but of God. Have hope as much as you can. If you
don‘t have hope expect nothing because you are hoping for nothing. We are
hopeless prisoners of hope-meaning that you cannot escape it it‘s our nature we
live by hoping. By our hopes we see (casaar) things happening in the spirit before
they come to the natural. Hope it‘s real and faith comes after hope (Heb 11:1 Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen).if you
cannot see it in the spirit you will not have it, for that thing that you are hoping
for start to have it in the spirit. The bible teaches us that hope does not disappoint
for what we hope for the father will give it to us for the love of God is supplied
into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Rom 5:5 and hope maketh not ashamed;
because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is
given unto us.
For what you already see is not hope. Hope is unseen, intangible but yet it will
manifest into something we can see with our physical eyes. Rom 8:24 for we are
saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth
he yet hope for? Abraham had hope that he will be the father of many nations and
he will have a child with Sarah though the situation seemed untrue in the physical
because they we both old. But he started to make it real, he saw it in the spirit
world happening and it became real. The bible tells us that the hope of the wicked
perishes but of God leads to gladness Pro 11:7 When a wicked man dieth, his
expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Hope for only good things even in a situation which seems dead whether you are
experiencing death just hope that you are alive but if you see yourself dead how
do you expect life because in the spirit you have possessed death? See yourself
rich,married.Tell yourself that you can do all things and you can own all the good
things big luxurious house, see yourself driving that Astorn martin.i know that I
am owning one of the most exclusive houses in the city and that beautiful range
rover. If you don‘t say it you will not see it and you will not have it and they will
say you are not. Don‘t forget this wonderful saying. We are still going to focus
more about hope, faith, love these three principles that God gave us. God doesn‘t
think small he thinks big, he want us to live prosperous lives full of joy. He gives
us double the blessings in everything we ask Psa 60:7 Gilead is mine, and
Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my
lawgiver; In Greek Ephraim means ephrayim -double fruit. Start hoping for big
things today. The bible tells to put on the helmet of God for a change (1Th 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and
love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.)
PRAYER PRINCIPLES
God is concerned about the way we pray and he expect us to have a prayer live, a
strong relationship with him. Praying as a spiritual exercise its part of our nature
since it brings us into deep fellowship with the Holy Spirit and the father. As we
communicate with the father through prayer he gives us answers to our prayers,
though it‘s not the experience of many because some people believes that God
delays some answers but to me that‘s not the case our God is a master
communicate he answers us while in prayer. The problem is with you and your
language, many people still pray the wrong way and some don‘t real understand
this ministry of prayer how important it is in our Christian life. When we pray we
there has to be an end result and that‘s your expectation or answer. You have to
go through all the stages of prayer-the gate, the inner core and holy of holies.
Let‘s start by finding out how the bible tells us how we should pray. When you
pray, pray with an assurance that God hears your prayer and he is willing to
answer you. The bible tells us that Jesus is the way the truth and life. By passing
through the gate that‘s the way and when you arrive into deep presence of the
lord you in the inner core. God has a pattern for us on how to pray and we must
follow that pattern so that our prayers don‘t go unanswered just because we
prayed amiss.
[Joh 14:13 and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will
do it]
When we pray we pray to God the father in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. By
now you understand what this name means to us and we have been given this
name to use it. By Jesus talking about asking he is referring to prayer that if we
pray to the father making requests to the father not Jesus in his name the father
will grant us whatsoever we ask. What have you asked the father in the name of
Jesus? This includes what you desire right now.
When you accepted Christ you prayed the salvation prayer that father I come to
you in the name of my lord Jesus Christ. This means that you in now and no more
going out and coming in again. We come once and forever and now we are in him
and he is in us. Asking the father is not the same as making a demand to the
father in the name of Jesus Christ. Making a demand is the same as commanding
something to be done right there and in this situation you are using the name of
Jesus Christ as an instrument and its not prayer that‘s why sometimes a minister
of God can pray wrongly and you get healed this means that he is operating from
the gift of healing and this does not require his pray he is just making commands
in the name of jesus.No wonder the bible tells us that these signs shall follow
them that believes and in my name they shall cast out devils…it didn‘t mention
anything about praying it‘s just using the name of Jesus Christ to get things done.
Pray according to the word of God. Say that thing that agrees with the word of
God. Quote scriptures. When we pray God already knows what‘s troubling us,
what situation you are going through so we don‘t confess our situations but we
speak the word of God against them.
Pray in the spirit first then in understanding
[1Co 14:14 for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
understanding is unfruitful. 15 what is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I
will pray with the understanding also..]
By speaking in tongues you are actually communicating in the spirit and sending
commands, signals, positioning yourself in the spirit realm and this the greatest
communication with God because God is spirit.Thats why he gave us this spirit
to fully come into his presence always.
[Luk 18:1 and he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to
pray, and not to faint;]
When we praying avoid any external factors that can disturb you. Concentrate
and focus on praying. Pray with power and strength without ceasing. I have
observed that when I pray in understanding I can just pray for a while but when I
pray in the spirit I get driven to pray without ceasing. We cannot stay in the
natural light for so long we are just passing into the inner core and when you are
in the spirit realm the spirit will prays for so long.
FAITH BASED PRAYER
[Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.]
Many people are still wondering if God will ever answer their prayers and some
have given up on praying, some have called many to pray for them but sadly the
situation or the frustration they are in hasn‘t changed its even getting worse. Let
me tell you that the problem is with you and your praying style. Have you ever
wonder and listened to the way you pray I believe you will realize that it‘s all
total wrong. You have to know that the power to change your situation is not in
praying but in the word of God because the word of God has power.
[Jas 5:14 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let
them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.]
This verse teaches us that it‘s not prayer which is healing or changing your
situation it‘s your faith.just take a giant step of faith. If you have prayed for your
situation start rejoicing and believing that it has happened it has changed don‘t
start looking for signs and symptoms that real it is gone keep rejoicing that it has
gone everything is allright.The bible tells us that when we pray and believes that
it has happened then it shall be like that. Mat 21:22 and all things, whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive
CHAPTER 4 THE SPIRIT MAN
In my training years as a health professional we had this subject called anatomy
and physiology were we were equipped about how the human body is made up of
and how it functions and what challenges can come to the body thereof, and I
came to realize that human beings are very complex creations God has ever made.
I really appreciated that but that was in the natural what more about the spiritual
man? This is wonderful.
[Gen 1:26 And God said; Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…..27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them.]
God is one but manifests in three dimensions or persons some may call. God the
father, God the Holy Spirit, God the son. By saying let us he referred to all this
three dimensions being involved. Life begins in the spirit. It is the spirit man who
influences the natural. When God said let us create man in our own image after
our likeness this was happening in the spirit realm. The power of creation is in
the imagination, what I mean about this brothers and sisters is that for instance,
when you want to build a house firstly you create in your mind in the spirit what
type of house do you want, design, pattern, style, decoriations, and all this it‘s just
your thoughts and you have to put your thoughts or ideas into something that is
tangible, physical seen by our natural eyes.
The word creation in Greek (Bara) means using non existing material, it is
intangible resources (Rom 1:20 for the invisible things of him from the creation of
the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse). The creation was
projected in the spirit realm. God using his spirit (Holy Ghost) he created man.
Man is spirit you cannot touch a spirit but you can come to full awareness that
indeed he is living inside me, by his actions, characteristics that are superpower
above the natural mind. As the spirit dominates it is the one who dictates to the
body how it should live and the body will comply. Now that we are born again by
the word of God our human spirit has been supplanted or recreated by God‘s
spirit the Holy Spirit who lives inside us. It‘s sad that many people in the world
are not experiencing this wonderful gift that God has given unto us. Without the
Holy Spirit your life will always be at surface-fear, persecution, failing, poverty,
sickness, etc.God made life in such a way that we enjoy every moment of it in this
earth and this can only happen when you have Christ dwelling in you-Holy Spirit.
If kids at home are sick is your joy full? If you lack employment is your joy full?
God doesn‘t want us to lack in any place. The life that he gave us is complete and
eternal. Start to live your; life victoriously and miraculously in Jesus Christ our
savior.
When God formed man in his own image (meaning that man in the physical
appearance must look like God. I am talking about the phenotype (physical
expressions of the genes) this is marvelous, incredible. In his likeness (meaning
that man must function like God, thinking, mental capability).The genetic
makeup of man is the same as that of God. He made us exactly look like him in
every aspect. Explaining it scientifically I could say he (God) genetically
engineered us, we are his copy cats. Now that we have came to full recognition of
who the spirit man is just like God is that‘s how we should function in this world.
We know that God is spirit and as our father he gave birth to the spirit man now
for this spirit man to live,survve here on earth and to cause significant changes
the spirit man that God has created he developed a container, to house it.
THE NATURAL MAN
[Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul].
To form is the same as make meaning using raw materials (tangible-Dust of the
ground) to produce something into a desired shape. Using dust from the ground
God formed man in his own image and to the man he formed God breathed the
breathe of life into his nostrils. This is the living being God created and formed
according to his likeness and image. And this mortal man is subject to death. Here
death meaning the return of raw materials (dust) to its natural state or cessation
of life. This is the physical death. This is the physical man that we see with our
naked eyes with organs,parts,systems,cells,etc and the spirit man that God has
created in him he breathed him into the mortal man and man became a living soul
by the breathe of life.
A human being is complete spiritual and natural man together living as a single
unit. The dictionary defines a human being as any living or extinct member of the
family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and
erect carriage.To me I don‘t support this definition because I know I am a super
being I cannot be classified to hominidae or mammals because human beings are
incomparable to any creature on earth we have the power of creation, imagination
to recreate our own world. With the spirit that we have received we can do
anything that we want and change situations that seemed to be deadly
It is this natural, tangible man who is made up of body spirit and soul (thinking,
emotions).just like every creature human beings got needs, nourishments for daily
living. The physical body has got its own requirements for it to survive (water,
food, rest, air, clothing, shelter etc) and also the spirit man need to feed also to
grow from one level to another. Just as the baby is young you feed the baby
cereal,nustum and at this stage the baby cannot perform certain tasks until she
has full grown into a mature being who feed on solid food now you can send
him/her there and that. In the spiritual life the spirit consistently needs to feed
too. How many times do you feed your natural body yet you forget the most
composition of you body? Let me introduce to you the transformation of the
natural man into the spiritual realm.
TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATURAL MAN, METARMOPHOSES
[2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord].
The word of God is the mirror of God. The more we look the more we are
changed/metamorphosed and become like the mirror. You cannot know Jesus
without discovering who you are, to know you; you look at Jesus for he is the
mirror of God-word.fix your eyes unto Jesus-word.
James 1:25 but he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty (the mirror
of God), and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that
worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing (looking).
The bible in many scriptures reveals to us how this spirit man has been changed
to a super being. The man that God has created and formed and put in the garden
of Eden and he gave him rules to follow (Gen2:16 And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in
the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die).And Adam was lonely and
God brought him a helper to work out the garden and this the woman Eve. (Gen
2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it.).
Sin first entered the world as people that God‘s has created broke the rules in the
garden and by one man Jesus Christ he brought salvation[Rom5:12.Therefore, as
through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death
passed unto all men, for that all sinned and through one man salvation was
brought to all people by Jesus Christ].The tree of life in the Garden of Eden was
God‘s provision of grace for Adam and Eve. The tree represents the law and the
law kills but the spirit gives life.fix your eyes on the tree of life-Jesus Christ. The
serpent deceived eve first and eve gave his husband the fruit to it.God wanted
man to live life according to his provisions and recognize that God is above us. By
making human beings superior or same like God these does not make man subject
to worship. When they disobeyed God they completely disconnected themselves
from God and his attributes and started to operate on their natural senses which
is happening now, man cannot explain some things which are above his
understanding he has a limitation.
Now as you receive Christ through salvation your natural spirit is supplanted by
a divine spirit of God. It is this spirit which gives us a new creation (2cor 5:17)
and when we talk of being born again it means the first birth was a natural birth
from your parents now this one is a spiritual birth which transforms or
metamorphose our spirit and he- the Holy Spirit who dwelleth in us brings the
God kind of life in us and we no longer live our natural lives but the life of God
that is in us. And when you have this life in you these means that you are not
subject to this world, meaning that the spirit that is in you is great than the devil
who is in this world.(1John 4:4).Now that you have received Christ our opening
scripture tells us that the word of God transforms us to become like God.
Studying the word of God, meditating on it day and night builds or strengthens
these inner man and we grow from one level of glory to glory 1Pe 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth forever..
Prayer of salvation
If by this time you have not accepted Christ as you personal savior here is the
chance to become the child of God and join our big family of Christ Say this
prayer aloud with your hands raised up. By saying this prayer it‘s not just the
words it‘s a spiritual process which brings transformation in you life. You might
look the same physical or may not feel anything yes its true the bible does not
mention anything about feeling it or change in appearance you will look the same
but hey your natural spirit has been immensely changed, supplanted by God‘s
divine spirit the author and finisher of Gods work.
OH LORD GOD I COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
YOUR WORD SAYS, WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD
SHALL BE SAVED. I ASK JESUS TO COME INTO MY HEART
TO BE THE LORD OF MY LIFE. I RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE INTO MY SPIRIT,
I DECLARE THAT I AM BORN AGAIN; I AM A CHILD OF GOD
I NOW HAVE CHRIST DWELLING IN ME.I AM A NEW CREATION. AMEN
THANK YOU WELL COME TO GOD’S FAMILY YOU ARE NOW A CHILD OF GOD.
CHAPTER 5 THE HOLY GHOST
The bible records that the spirit lives inside us and he is the source for all godly
principles. You have to recognize that he is in you today and stir him up you will
experience a miraculous life than you have ever been.
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God that does the work of the father. The bible
records that during creation God the father using the word (JESUS) and the Holy
Spirit will create. If you are born again it‘s not an option whether to receive the
Holy Spirit or not. It will come and finds its place inside you and he will never
leave you. He whom the spirit of God is pleased to settles in him he is clean. The
reason why some Christians are more powerful than others is their ability to
recognize the inner man inside them and activate him. This man is living, more
powerful, vigorous, explosive powers, the author of the God kind of life. It‘s sad
that some Christians after receiving Christ want to stay in that level forever.
Receiving Christ only is not enough God want us to grow from being children‘s
and become adults who are responsible and can handle responsibility in the
kingdom. Without the Holy Ghost you will never leave to the fullest life of Christ
that God has given onto us. Jesus Christ made a statement of fact that the father
will send the Holy Spirit in his name and will come and live in us forever and will
never leave us.Your body is the house for the spirit of God to dwell inside of you.
To communicate with God in the spirit realm you need to be in spirit. When you
got born again the spirit of God came and abode inside you. John 6: 63- it is the
spirit who gives live, the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak to you are
spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you do not believe. (The flesh reacts
according to emotions what it sees, feels. senses).God is spirit (Rom 8:9 But ye are
not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.
But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.) And all his godly
works are spiritual but with our own efforts, struggling we won‘t manage. We
need a helper who can make us live and experience the life of Christ in us. God
promised us the Holy Spirit that will come and dwell in us forever.
This tells us that the source is inside us. (1John 4:4 ye are of God, my little
children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he
that is in the world.) For anything that we need in life the Holy Spirit can deliver
us from all sorts of incumbents that we are suffering from Joh 14:26 But the
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he
shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever
I have said unto you.
Activating the Holy Spirit
Speaking in tongues is a spiritual language in our heavenly kingdom to
communicate with God. Some don‘t believe in speaking in tongues, to me its
compulsory that every Christian receive the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues.
Your not believing in speaking in tongues doesn‘t make it wrong you are just
ignoring or denying your self the ability and gift that God gives us. Tongues
come from the spirit and your not understanding what you say makes it a proof
positive that it doesn‘t pass through the mind.
Speaking in tongues always. Utter those wonderful words time and again by
doing these you are communicating with the spirit even though you don‘t
understand what you are saying it‘s surely a reason that it‘s a new language that
you have just received from God and it comes from the spirit which is residing in
you not your mind that‘s why you cannot understand. Your mouth is just an
utterance point.
Pray in the spirit first then in understanding
[1Co 14:14 for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
understanding is unfruitful. 15 what is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I
will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing
with the understanding also.] By speaking in tongues you are actually
communicating in the spirit and sending commands, signals, positioning yourself
in the spirit realm and this the greatest communication with God because God is
spirit.Thats why he gave us this spirit to fully come into his presence always.
Meditate on God‟s word.
Mental putting together the scriptures the mind perceives, the spirit receives and
the body comforms.The word of God strengthens the inner man. As you put in
the word of God it changes you and you become what it says. Jesus Christ said
you are clean by the word which I have spoken onto you.(john 15:3).when the
word of God enters into you darkness gives way and light become present now
and forever more in your life.(psalms 119:130).It‘s the word of God that
strengthens the inner man and when it‘s time to face the odds you just gives out
what you have for you can only give what you have.( Acts 3:6 But Peter said,
Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk).
IMPACT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOUR PHYSICAL BODY
Power and strength
[Acts 1:8 but ye shall receive power in Greek means (dunamis-force, explosive),
when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the
earth]. This means that the power you have received works on it‘s on and it does
not need help from anyway. This power does not stop meaning that its inherent-
independent from anything and recedes in you. John5:28 for as the Father hath
life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life (Zoe) in himself: 27 and
he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man‘s a child of
God who has received the Holy Spirit.
You have that power-dynamic inherent ability to make a change. Jesus said ―The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good tidings to
the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,‖ The same power that
Jesus carried is inside you today. We have to recognize the power that is inside us
and live according to it.When God talks he speaks absolute reality No matter the
situation you were in or your mother, relative is going through whether is stroke
or cancer you have that power to cause a dynamic change.
In the book of [2 Cor 2:14 But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in
triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in
every place.15 For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish; 16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the
other a savor from life unto life] Do you know what this scripture mean? It‘s
talking to you right now, that heavenly scent, that aroma you are carrying. This
aroma brings or attracts sinners to you and when they come in contact with you
they gain life they are transformed from death to life. To those who are saved it
brings light to them exceedingly glory.
The Holy Ghost is the aroma he brings that heavenly life or treasures to us no
wonder the bible tells us that we are earthen vessels with heavenly treasures
inside. We are containers and as contents we are purposeful made just to contain
the Holy Ghost now know that your body is the house of the spirit of God who
dwells in you amen.
Signs & wonders
[ Mar 16:17 and these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they
cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents;
and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on
the sick, and they shall recover]. In my name they will cast out devils and shall
speak in new tongues. It didn‘t say if you pray harder, shake heaven or do the best
or being a pastor nor a prophet. It means everyone who has accepted Christ as his
or her personal saviour and Christ is the lord of his/her life. It‘s a fact and truth if
you believe these things you have that identity that you can use the name of Jesus
as an instrument to control situations because greater is he who is in you than the
one who is in the world. The name of Jesus has authority and as a child of God
you have that right to use it and the Holy Spirit who is in you will work out
miracles.
CHAPTER 6 A KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD
[Col 1:12 giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 who hath delivered us from
the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins]:
Let‘s define what a kingdom means. KING-DOM (kings +dominion) – So
rendered Basileia in Greek- It‘s a realm where kings reign, a properly royalty,
dominion of king‘s simple meaning to rule. This means that it‘s a special
kingdom, superior to the one of this world and when you are in this kingdom you
control this world because you are not just an ordinary being. But where do we
exercise our domination? In everything- That situation that you are going
through exercise your power dominate it, whether its diseases or poverty you are
superior than that so it cannot stay in your body command it to leave you right
now in the name of Jesus. Whether you desire that beautiful house, or car or you
want money exercise your power and ye shall have what you say.
Look at the tenses of this verse God is not trying to deliver us he has already
done it claim it and make it yours. We are the kingdom right now. Never think
that you will experience heaven someday long to come its start here on earth Luk
17:21 neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of
God is within you... The bible tells us that …until now the kingdom of heaven
suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Mat 11:12 take what belongs
to you by force, refuse negative things in life. The moment you accepted Christ as
the lord of your life and personal saviour automatically you were translated,
brought into a new kingdom not of this world by the spirit of God. Now that we
have a new identity in Christ by the new nature that we have received, we no
longer belong to this world or the things it offers us for we are the heirs of God.
This is a spiritual kingdom and this kingdom is greater than the one in this word.
This world belongs to you, you own it. Being made partakers of the inheritance
means that God want us to own everything that belongs to him, for whatever
belongs to him belongs to Christ and Christ is the first Abrahams seed and ye
therefore are Abraham seeds whatever belongs to Christ belongs
to…………………………….(insert your name).
Our identity in Christ makes us superior in this world and gives us power and
authority to exercise our dominion over everything either in this world or in the
spirit realm. Areas in which you can exercise your dominion right like in your
situations. What is that you are facing now you have God ordained right to
declare things you want them to be. Speak over it (money, marriage, success,
prosperity, education, kids, sickness, business, poverty, work etc).The ability that
makes us to exercise dominion is because greater is he who is inside me than the
one in the world. The bible tells us that the devil has been cast out to earth. (Rev
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him).
RESPONSIBILITY IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
You belong to a kingdom not of this world. When you accepted Christ you were
made a new Christian and automatically translated, welcomed into the new family
of God. God‘s children are organized just like our father. Just imagine God does
his things haphazardly without order, coordination, communication things will be
miserable. As he is so are we in this world. As God‘s children we have the mind of
Christ (1 cor 2:16) and God has created us in his own image (physical appearance)
and likeness (mental capability, performance, ability, thinking.Gen 1:26) so we
become like him because he has made us heirs this means that we are in charge.
Whatever belongs to Christ belongs to us and we have to manage it. As we are in
the kingdom we have been given responsibility, made in charge of it, to manage it
according to the will of the father and through the Holy Spirit he gave to us he
definitely knew that we are equipped to do his work in this world and nothing can
hinder us because we are peculiar, supernatural.
Brothers and sisters it‘s very important that were ever the house of the lord you
belong to you have to take responsibility in the house. Going to church every
Sunday it‘s not enough hey stop being a child and be transformed by the spirit to
be a mature adult who can handle responsibility in the kingdom. Don‘t worry
what will I say nor do, you are equipped with everything you need it‘s just a
matter of positioning yourself. For a church to grow it has to be relevant with its
knowledge what it offers to the world but not to accommodate the world for the
world belongs to us but to influence it so that our kingdom can grow from glory
to glory.
We have creative minds to make the word of God on the move forever. There are
many activities in the church that are done, new ideas coming in to make the
gospel of Christ available to all. With all technology that we have it is God who
gave it to us to use it for his work. Just imagine updating your status in yookos,
facebook, and twitter and in less than a minute the whole world is looking at it.its
so wonderful. Start taking part in those wonderful activities in your church. If its
partnership join one, if its outreach organize one, giving etc.be available in the
things that can easily spread the gospel we are advanced remember we are
capable of creating and penetrating everything in the world.
CHAPTER 7 LIFE IN CHRIST THE NEW SUPERMAN
Now that you are born again you are the new superman. The bible tells us that
everyone who comes to Christ is a new creation behold the old has passed away.
IICor 5:17Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things
are passed away; behold, they are become new. This mans that this is something
that was not created from the very beginning of the world. You are unique only
one of this kind and nothing or none is like you and will ever be created to
become like you.A new creation without a past but a present and future.When
you came to Jesus Christ He was willing to give you his righteousness and took
away your sins. Jesus Christ did not come for the righteous people, he come for
the poor, discontented all worst sins you can imagine and changed your life
forever. For God long loved us not for the good things we have done. [Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5
not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his
mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the
Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our
Saviour; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to
the hope of eternal life].
God want us to live life in abundance (more than adequate, richly supplied,
plentiful [John 10:10].A life of access to untold divine resources, the provision
God has made for us to live whole, healthy and hopeful lives. Unless we come to
recognize, understand how God means for us to live we will wonder and ponder
like wind while the untouched banquet of God has laid out for us goes to waste.
[Rom 8:15 for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption…. 17 And if children, then heirs
(kleronomos-inheritance); heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together]. Being a joint heir is
not the same as a co-heir(it could be 50%each or 80:20)but a joint heir is the one
who have full inheritance meaning that all that Christ owns, possess its ours. In
the book of Ephesians 1:5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
(uihothesia) by Jesus Christ to him, according to the good pleasure of his will.
Heirs-people who are raised of God and put into authority. They are adopted
sons of God by the spirit, they have been placed. The spirit is raising people
spiritual to handle things. This means that whatever belongs to Christ belongs to
you. In the book of Galatians 4:1 But I say that as long as the heir is a child
(nepios-a child in understanding, communication, immature Christian, simple
minded), he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all. 2 but is
under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.3 So we also,
when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world
(elements of this world-diseases-HIV, Diabetes, cancer, poverty, frustration etc).
How to live an abundant life
Like our natural life we human beings like any other creature in earth requires
some elements of life to survive without those we will all shrink and die.
Ingredients like water, food, nutrients, air etc. Our spiritual life is the most
important part of life we should focus on. The bible is our nourishment for us to
live abundant life. The bible tells us that II Tim 3:16 every scripture inspired of
God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
which is in righteousness.17 that the man of God may be complete, furnished
completely unto every good work. The fullness of life, joy, success prosperity
comes from the Bible. Have one bible which belongs to you. This word you must
not separate with it, it is our daily guidance, director, master of all, protector,
provider everything in life that you may think of. This is a training having the
information is not enough living abundant live also include putting it into action
then it will produce results for you. We have to exercises ourselves into
godliness. The bible is our instruction manual of life.
CHAPTER 8 WORD EXPLORATION
Let‘s take a closer look unto this word in the bible. We have to understand who
exactly the word is, and what is the purpose of this word in our lives, and what
will happen when we carry this word inside us. In my Christian life I have come
to full perception that this is not an ordinary word there is something behind it
and if you can come to that point of understanding the word I‘m telling you your
life will never be the same again. Many people across the globe still wonder and
dispute this word, there is nothing like this, yes its true a natural man with his
natural understanding he cannot understand, perceive the truth inside, to him it
might seem foolisheness.your not believing in the bible doesn‘t make it wrong,
you are just depriving yourself to have a glorious life that‘s free of charge. I don‘t
dispute their thoughts let them have one touch with the word they will never
leave it.This book is more than a book its life and if you need abundant,complete
life this one belongs to you.Thanks God for he has given us a wonderful free gift
the book of life the bible.
The word in Greek manuscript means logos that is something said (including the
thought); also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a
computation. The Divine Expression (that is, Christ): - account, cause,
communication. During creation God using the word Jesus Christ he made
everything through him and nothing was made without him. This shows us the
power and authority God has invested upon the name, word Jesus Christ. The
Holy Spirit is the empowering spirit of God that empowers Jesus and everything
that God has created the Holy Spirit was the creator and he is still the creator
now and forever in our lives and he will continue empowering us. In this chapter
we are to explore many aspects about the word-Jesus Christ.
Who is the word?
[John 1:1in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.2 The same was in the beginning with God.3 all things were
made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been
made.4 in him was life; and the life was the light of men.] This verse means that
God pre-existed creation. He was there before the creation of the heavens and the
earth. There are three persons involved during creation. God the father, God the
son (Jesus Christ), God the Holy Spirit. For us to understand more about who is
the word let‘s take a closer look at some examples in the bible.
[Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2 And the
earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness].
This tells us that through/using the word-Jesus God made light and the Holy
Spirit come forth and made it to pass/be. In Saint John‘s gospel the bible tells us
that in HIM (the word-Jesus) were life and the life was the light of men. We all
know that light is visible and shines, bright. Say this loudly I am the light of this
world. Remember that God‘s principles manifest in a person. This light becomes a
person (14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us and we beheld his
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and
truth…..The word-Jesus (spirit) entered into Mary‘s womb and developed into a
normal embryo that we know until he is born physical. He existed before in the
spirit world for him to accomplish the mission of bring people to God he has to
appear to us in the physical realm. Jesus Christ is 100% son of man (flesh and
blood), and 100% son of God (spirit).
Understanding the word
Now that we know who the word is and we have to understand more about Jesus
and how he can be beneficiary to us who have accepted him. If accepting Jesus
Christ could not change our daily living then it is of no use to us. Until we
understand how Jesus works and how the father want us to use these name of
Jesus in our daily life situations we will have a miraculous life. Understanding
who Jesus is it‘s a spiritual process; it‘s training where we heirs of the kingdom
are to function. God‘s children are to function according to his word. We cannot
use or apply worldly principles in our kingdom for the word of God is the
principle of life in our kingdom. Christianity is discovering what God has already
provided and receiving it and becomes real to you .for the natural man cannot
understand God‘s word with the natural mind. 1Co 2:14 But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Hearing the
word of God is not only enough take time to see it with your eyes in the bible.
Joshua 1:8-This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but ye shall
meditate in it day and night that to all may observe to do according to all that is
written in it, For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have
good success.
This means that the bible should be part of us our daily living. Meditation means
preaching to own self into your spirit. True meditation means uttering, roaring
the word of God to you. Singing spiritual hymns and psalms to you. As much as
we understand that man is spirit and God is spirit it takes this spiritual language
to communicate, meditate to our selves by so doing the spirit man is strengthened
and we are building a more powerful relationship with God. In the book of,
[Proverbs 4:20 My son give attention to my words, incline your ear to my
sayings, do not let them depart from your eyes, keep them in the midst of your
heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh]. The
bible tells us that when we meditate on the word of God the word changes us we
are cleansed from our inequities. (John 15:3 already ye are clean because of the
word which I have spoken unto you).In the beginning of this chapter we learnt
that this word is living, has authority and it is spirit by meditating on it our
natural spirit is supplanted with God divine spirit hence changing us, causing us
to be clean and pure before the eyes of God. When meditating upon God‘s word
its best to find a secluded area look deeply into the word with understanding and
as God gives you revelation on it your knowledge, wisdom is increased. You can
also be in a group, cell, at home with your family and make it a routine to
meditate upon God‘s word.
Power of meditation
The word of God is a strong foundation for every Christian. We have learnt how
to meditate on God‘s word and with this knowledge at this level our lives are
already at a higher level. At some point Jesus Christ once said (Mat 16:18 And I
say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.)Upon this rock I will build my
church. The bible compares peter to a small rock and Jesus is the base. If we lean
on the rock base-Jesus we will be empowered. When you have the word of God
inside you it‘s like a house built upon a rock and when the floods come (situations,
circumstances) you will stand still/firm because the foundation is right. Today I
want to tell you that you are the chosen rock of God.1Timothy 4:16-take heeds to
you self and the doctrine. Continue in them, for doing so this will save both
yourself and those who hear you. Remember that being a Christian you are not
only doing it for yourself but also for saving others. The life that you live now is
not yours you are living it for the one who bought you with a price.
Revelation and Understanding the word of God
Have you ever heard people saying I can read the bible and not understand it or I
just get bored when reading the bible? This book is not just stories there is life in
it.its either you lack the Holy Spirit to help you or teach how to study and gives
you revelation or you are those type of Christians who just touch the bible on the
day of worship don‘t understand how some Christians live without studying and
doing the word to me its impossible, I depend on it. There are many types of
understanding but in this context we are talking about a higher level of
understanding that the word is rendered Sunesis in Greek which means A mental
process of putting together, that is, intelligence or (concretely) the intellect: -
knowledge, understanding. Be content, declare, diligently, discern, give ear,
listen, make a noise, be obedient, obey, perceive, and make a proclamation,
Jesus talked about a labourer of high stature (understanding)Mat 9: 37 Then saith
he unto his disciples, the harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.38
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his
harvest. Few in Greek mean (oligos) a labourer who is short of stature. This
means that many people are there but with little understanding of God‘s word.
When you study the word of God the words forms in you. Now light represent
the words, voice, sound, triumphant and all this become a person-Jesus Christ.
Now that Jesus Christ is in you and you are in him, when you say out this words
you enlighten someone(illumination) and when people hear this words they
become one with the message(fellowship).God want serious people who can
handle responsibility in the kingdom. As time goes on he wants us to develop
from being children‘s to mature adults.
Now that we have the understanding of God‘s word our knowledge on the things
of God increases also. Knowledge also as a broader word in English in Greek
manuscripts it doesn‘t mean the same thing. Knowledge varies. Let‘s look at some
few types of knowledge rendered Gnosis-General, scientific, abstract knowledge.
Based on intellectual ability. Careful, alerts, awareness, oppositions of science.
Life cannot be based on this knowledge. When we look at this type of knowledge
it surely assures us that we cannot base our life in this type of knowledge because
it is limited, it is based on one man‘s finding. Why should life be based on the final
failure of one‘s mans finding. The truth doesn‘t need to be defended it stands for
itself. What the bible says it‘s clear and true. Tell someone next to you that this
book cannot lie. In the field of science there many incurable diseases ranging from
cellular distortion, muscle dystrophy, HIV AIDS, Cancer etc because someone did
several scientific experiments and failed terrible and concluded that there is no
cure because him he failed.bretherens I know science is vital because its prolongs
life but it cannot save life, the power of giving life is in the father. Thanks to
medical science many people who are being terrorized by sickness will be whole
again by the power of Jesus Christ. The bible tells us that by his stripes we are
healed. There is nothing that need to be done it‘s just a matter of discovery. Jesus
came for me to have life, successful, health, prosperus living. Its true knowledge is
power but if you have Godly knowledge take advantage of it and get things done.
It‘s sad that many people poses worldly knowledge but lacks heavenly knowledge.
Why should your experience be the interpretation of truth?
Ginosko- Experiential knowledge, esoteric knowledge. They have been taught
for life.[1john 2:20And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all
the things. 1John 1:27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that anyone teach you; but as his anointing
teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught
you, ye abide in him.1cor2: 13 which things also we speak, not in words which
man‘s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things
with spiritual words]. Its Revelation knowledge, complete package delivered to
you by the Holy Spirit. You just know and believe. Love of Christ surpasses
science (intellectual knowledge).you can explain natural things through
revelation imparted to you.Eido/oida-Absolute knowledge requires no
revelation. Knowledge in the scope of his knowing. A person that has the son has
Zoe. This means that no more failure, sickness.
Godly wisdom
Is something that every child of God can wisely pray for? Wisdom is measure in
which we apply our knowledge. We are not obtaining knowledge to keep it to
ourselves we have to impact lives, change situations. Godly wisdom is better than
worldly wisdom that God once said I will destroy this wisdom. Worldly wisdom
means evil, corrupt, boastful, destructive, 1cor:19 for it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I bring to
nought.A natural man possess a natural wisdom the one that he got from school
and this wisdom cannot explain God‘s principles for such it is limited. - The trait
of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. God‘s
wisdom is available to every believer when they ask for it.God‘s keep his
promises. It is not ambiguous, not unclean. It is pure and mature. Jam 1: 5 But if
any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.3:17 But the wisdom that is from above
is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good
fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. Spiritual gift of wisdom also is an
extra measure of wisdom of the Holy Spirit, accurately; correctly.1cor 12: 8 for to
one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of
knowledge, according to the same Spirit. Eph 1: 17 that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him.
Living according to the word
[Psalm 119:65Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Jehovah, according unto
thy word].
According to your word have two implications.
Living in line with God‘s word & Living by the provisions of God‘s word. If you
live according to God‘s word you don‘t only find direction in your life, the word
of God is the provider of our resources for our needs there as well. The Holy
Spirit is the ultimate author he depicts all inclusive nature of living according to
the word.
This means living by grace (divine influence upon the heart/divine enablement
upon life and its reflections on life. Meaning that if you have grace it will show
into the natural. Remember the spirit man that we have influences the natural so
life begins in the spirit and understand that grace is a spiritual gift. Spiritual
exercises that we engage (meditation, praying, fasting, and preaching) in will lead
us to obtaining more grace because grace has been already provided to us now it‘s
for us to discover that and possess it. The bible says Jesus Christ has the fullness
of grace and when we believed that Jesus Christ died in the cross for my sins and
God raised him from the dead we were granted faith, by our faith we begot grace.
Now you have to cultivate that grace. Living by grace means completely
depending on lord to work in your life, trusting in the word of God.
The word of his grace, As God‘s word is taken into our lives, its capabilities are
unleashed, demonstrating that it is able to build you up and give you an
inheritance. The word of his grace impact us, works within us, nurture us,
produce fruitfulness and as we study the word of God faith a vital element of
living by grace strengthen us.
Earthen vessels with heavenly treasures
[I Cor 4:7 but we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding
greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; we are earthly
vessels (we are frail, lack, inadequate) with heavenly treasures (Christ himself
manifested into our mortal bodies II cor4:11]
God want Christ to be the master of our lives. Like flower pots our function is to
house the flower and let the flower bloom in the pot. In the book of [Esther 1:7
and they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from
another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king]. Gold
represents God‘s glory. The royal wine in Hebrew culture is the wine of the
kingdom and in this context it‘s the Holy Spirit. The bible tells that be drink not
with wine but with the Holy Ghost [Eph 5:18 and be not drunk with wine,
wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit]. We are all golden vessels but
each has its own uniqueness. Today start being a container of its intended use. If
you can recognize what you are caring and being in a position to use it your live
will move from one level of glory to glory. Then if we know what we are carrying
it‘s a mandate from God that we take care of what we have. Just like the potter he
makes his clay pots and put them on the sun to dry and become strong and pass
them through fire to concentrate its strength and with his hands he mould them
to a desired shape. Our bodies as containers of the Holy Spirit we have to make
sure that our inner man is strengthened,moulded to the things of God by the
exercises‘ we engage in our day to day like meditation,prayer,singing in the spirit,
speaking in tongues.
This word is living and powerful
[Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-
edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints
and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart].
The word of God addresses all my life circumstances. It doesn‘t mean that when
we are God‘s children we won‘t be tempted or troubled, yes they will come to us
but the important thing is as a child of God how do you react to such? It doesn‘t
matter what you are going through right now the end result is the best thing you
definitely know that greater is he who is inside you than the one who is in the
world. I have come to understand that whenever I am faced with trials, light
afflictions I don‘t waste time, immediately I start to speak in tongues to change
that situation. When they give you a letter of retrenchment at work don‘t argue
with them, when you get home lock the door and start to speak in tongues, you
cannot retrench a king, you don‘t need that organization that organization is the
one which needs you. This is wonderful. Don‘t focus on that situation but rather
put your focus on the word it‘s my refuge, comforter, healer, it mends every
broken heart. Whatever you can think of the word of God is the remedy to all.
If you love Jesus you love the father and if you love Jesus you will keep his word.
One thing I have come to realize though not a challenge to me is the mindset of
people. If we can set our mind/consciousness to the things of God definitely we
will become like him. Brothers and sisters if you don‘t say you are you will not see
it and they will say you are not. It‘s time we have to change the way we react to
the word of God. In the world they will tell you practice makes perfect, no pain
no gain hey in this world of ours in the kingdom of Our Father we are at rest. It
is a kingdom not of this world, God is working in us.
How many times do you study the bible? The bible tells me that the devil moves
around roaring like a lion to take away the truth you have. [Mat 15:19 when any
one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the
evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he
that was sown by the way side].starting taking care of what you have already.
Don‘t stop yet we are yet to go another mile together.
CHAPTER 9 JESUS FULFILLING THE LAW
The law came through Moses
Law tells us that He (God) desires holiness
to characterize the way we live
Law tells us that he want christlike love to
permeate our attitudes and relationships
Law tells us that he desires the perfections
of the father to be growing in us.
The law is the what-
Law of God reveals sin
Law indicates man’s problems
The law of God is the standard
The law of God is the spiritual measuring
rod that evaluates lives
Law is the effect God want to see.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ
Only God’s grace can provide such
righteousness in our lives
Only grace can develop such love in us
Only grace is sufficient to carryout such a
process of transformation
The grace of God is the how
Grace of God forgives sin
Grace provides remedy
Grace offers provision from God.
Grace is the means
Grace of God is the nurturing resource that
produces spiritual life. Grace reproduces
that character in us
Grace is the cause that brings forth that
effect
NEW WAY OF LIVING
[heb 10:19 having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of jesus, 20 by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; john 1:16 and of his fullness have all we
received, and grace for grace.]
When a person truly lives by the grace of god, righteousness results and
ungodliness diminishes. Increasingly learning to draw upon the grace of god for
daily living, christlike develops not worldiness, sin diminishes rom
6:14.temptation results when you rely upon the law of god in order to generate
godliness. We think that by hearing, repeating or depending upon this demand
THE NEW COVENANT OF GRACE
[Joh 1:17 for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ].
God saw that the Israelites not us failed terrible to live by the Law of Moses and
Jesus Christ was to come. Jesus Christ came in the world to redeem sinners from
the guilty penalty of sin. For in the Mosaic Law breaking one law is failure of
them all and punishment was by stoning to death this is so painful. Remember the
law was given to the Israelites not us. We are a generation after Jesus came to
earth and he has come so that the Law of Moses could be fulfilled. If then Jesus
came for sinners should the sinner remain a sinner? Absolutely NO. The problem
of sin has been long dealt with and it‘s not a problem to us infact we don‘t have
problems we are always there, up.The new covenant of grace was instituted when
Christ came to this world. Should we still live according to the requirements of
the law or should we focus on the new covenant of grace a better one with better
promises. If you can closely observe you will find out that in this book that it‘s all
about these grace and God want people to understand the grace that Jesus Christ
brought and preach it to the nations without mixing it with the law but mixing it
with faith. Christ satisfied the requirement of the law and then after that he
abolished it (doctrine of substitution) and by his blood he established the new
covenant of grace (Luke 22:20).
Brethrens it‘s over with the law it‘s sad that some still uphold the standards of the
law of Moses then by so doing you are actually denying yourself the fullness of
God‘s presence to work in your life and you are simple denying the fact that Jesus
came and died for my sins so that I can be saved and by his dying he made me the
righteousness of Good.I am bring in people to the new covenant of grace, but
firstly we have to understand where we come from and where we are going is far
much better than before.
Now the righteous man will be justified by faith not by law. Observing the law
you are simply saying Christ is of no value in your life. The bible tells us that for
those who have accepted Christ and are living by the new covenant of grace such
that there is no law above them. If you believe that Jesus Christ died in the cross
for your sins and you died with him, and you were buried with him, and you
resurrected with him and you ascended with him, and you are seated in heavenly
places in the holy throne with him then you will be saved. It is by our faith that
we believed and grace was granted to us. What did we do to attain it? Nothing,
we didn‘t qualify for it.its unmerited favor from God. The term new covenant
means relating to God by grace that‘s why it‘s called the covenant of grace and its
Jesus who brought this grace abundantly to us now the gospel that we are
preaching is the gospel of grace. Grace means Divine favor from God. It‘s an
enablement upon life and its reflection therein. Divine influence upon the heart
and its reflection on life. Complete dependence on the lord to work on your life.
And Grace is not by chance is our God ordained gift that whosoever believes in
Jesus and accepts him grace will be granted to him.
Justifying and forgiving grace of God (Jer 31:34).This is the initial grace that
impacted our lives forever. When we gicried out to Jesus to save us and gave
away our sins we were forgiven and justified and declared not guilt and righteous
in his sight. The bible tells us that by grace we have been saved through faith
(Eph 1:7).
Ongoing grace indicates progressive sanctification that is growth in godliness is
by grace. It is from within the heart that the development of practical
righteousness must proceed. (Prov 4:23)In order to develop in us an increasingly
mature, christlike walk, our heart must be established. The bibles tells us (Mat
12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.) that the heart must be
established either by good or bad. The law of God is not designed to change mens
hearts. God‘s grace is the essential and sufficient cause to bring about this desired
work of godliness. Grace gives us strength. Grace and faith are two related
realities. God want us to walk by faith because faith access grace. (John
1:16).Abundant grace is available for every step we are to take. This grace is
partaken by faith whenever we trust in Jesus concerning our issues of life we are
reaching by faith into God‘s unlimited resources of grace by which we are enabled
to live effectively. Faith alone is compatible with grace and any other approach
will not fit with grace. Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of
the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us
all, This truth is comprehensive it applies to every aspect of our lives.God want
us to use his word to impact us with his grace. God explains his grace in his word
as we nurtured in his word his grace works in us. Act 20:32
Under grace God provides righteousness. The law kills but the spirit gives life.
People have become conscious of doing good get good do bad get beat. How can
you receive good that you don‘t receive? Nothing you do can change God‘s love
for you. His love is much and constant all the time.fix your eyes on what is
constant and unchanging. You were undeserving and unworthy before you were
born again. Now that you are a new creation you deserve and worthy before God
to receive his blessings and righteousness. In this gospel of grace the
righteousness of God is revealed. When you are awake to righteousness you will
sin not.its grace that has saved us and it is grace that will bring us home. Grace is
the only thing that will bring a sinful man and holy God together therefore Grace
is the greatest holiness there is. Standstill and fix your eyes on Jesus
God‟s principles manifest in a person
[John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.17
for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
This verse shows us that grace, truth, mercy, peace, etc. became a person. Jesus
has the fullness of grace us have the portion of measure of grace].
When God want to manifest his principles he always sends a man of God. There
are several passages in the bible which reveals this. God sent Moses to deliver the
children of Israel from Egypt. JESUS CHRIST has to come to earth to redeem
humanity from the death penalty of sin. Jesus Christ became a living human being
walked on earth and through him the world was reconciled back to God. Now
that God is working in us he has enabled us to do his work and he has sent me
and you to preach the good news to the nations and through us the world will be
saved. The light that we are carrying, the voice, triumphant, the truth became a
living being and all this is in us today. The Holy Spirit who dwells in us supplies
us with the reach knowledge of Heavenly treasures.
OUR PART IN THE NEW COVENANT OF GRACE
Since in this new covenant of grace were everything has already been done for us
what is it that we have to do as believers? This covenant is not based on our
standards of merit, performance, achievements or good things we have done.
Does this means that God is not looking at what we are doing or our performance
is not important? NO. When you tell someone to stop doing something you
might get result there but there are those habits that will stay dormant for some
time and will reoccur after some period and these tells me that the person acted
out of fear that if I don‘t stop doing this I will not be blessed or I will get
punished. At the beginning you form the habit but at the end the habit controls
you watch out for this. Do bad get beat, do good get good. If Christians‘ can have
these type of mindset I am telling you we are raising a fearful generation not
founded on the royal laws and lacks grace-unmerited favor and you know what
will happen they will never experience the benefits or fruits of living completely
by the grace of our lord Jesus Christ that God gave it to us. The bible tells us that
it is good for the heart to be established by grace-divine influence upon the heart
and its reflection on life. I believe that it is best to give a person the solution to
their problem rather than pointing out what exactly is it that they are doing they
already know that they are living a miserable life deep in sin and grace is the
remedy to that and the bible clearly tells that his grace is found in his word. This
brings us to our daily lifestyle of meditation of God‘s word. Grace builds the
inner man but the law activates sin.
People sometimes just make their lives difficult and have fallen back to the law,
they have total forgotten about the same power that lead them to salvation is the
same power that will change their situations to happier moments. They believed
in Jesus Christ as their lord and personal savior and had hope, faith in Christ that
indeed he is the son of man and he will restore their lives whole again but sadly as
time goes on when trails, light afflictions comes they neglect the power that they
have received and start to run around looking for a bigger power to escape them
from their situations. Let me tell you that there is no more bigger power you need
than the one that is in you right now (1John 4:4).This power is the source of all
godliness, success, prosperity, divine health, I mean you can do anything with
these power what you need to do start activating it remember we have talked how
to activate the power that is residing in you check it out. Believe in Jesus Christ;
fix your eyes on what is constant and true.
CHAPTER 10
AMAZING LOVE
Love will never be love until you give it away.
[1Jn 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to
be the propitiation for our sins].
Nothing you do can change God‘s love for you; the father‘s acceptance for their
sons empowers them to do well. [Mat 3:17 and lo a voice from heaven, saying,
this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased], Do you loves me when I fail
or do bad?, My righteousness is a gift I cannot loose it when I do bad. No
temptation can be successfully against you when you have a sense that you God‘s
beloved. God‘s love makes you stable. Now I know you love me because you have
not withheld your son you love just for me. Faith works when you sense God‘s
love for you and for those who believe. "Right believing right living‘‘.
[Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world
through him might be saved].
God loved us first by sending Jesus into the world he demonstrated his greatest
love towards humanity so that whosoever accepts him will perish but has eternal
life. God showed us the greatest love by sending His only begotten son Jesus
Christ to come and redeem the world from their sinful nature. Jesus Christ
brought salvation to people. God was working in Jesus Christ busy reconciling
the world back to him, Jesus Christ has given us the ministry of reconciliation to
reconcile the world therefore me and you are ambassadors of Jesus Christ
(Corinthians 5: 18-21).Long time ago in the old testament this word salvation was
used meaning deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land.
In the context of the New Testament us Christians of today we use salvation
meaning deliverance from the guilt and pollution of sin brought out by Jesus
Christ. Let‘s take a closer look at some few words to help us understand more
about salvation which was brought by Jesus Christ.
Reconciliation-Salvation is a change from enmity to friendship. It is mutual, i.e.,
it is a change wrought in both parties who have been at enmity. (1.) In Col. 1:21,
22, the word there used refers to a change wrought in the personal character of
the sinner who ceases to be an enemy to God by wicked works, and yields up to
him his full confidence and love. This reconciliation makes God our friend, and
enables him to pardon and save us.
Redemption-Is the purchase back of something that had been lost, by the
payment of a ransom (1Ti 2:5 for there is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time). The Greek word so rendered is _apolutrosis the idea of a
ransom or price paid, i.e., redemption
Regeneration- Regeneration means a "new birth." The Greek word so rendered
(palingenesia). In Matt. 19:28 the word is equivalent to the "restitution of all
things" (Acts 3:21).becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17); being
born again (John 3:5); a renewal of the mind (Rom. 12:2); a resurrection from the
dead. As to the nature of the change, it consists in the implanting of a new
principle or disposition in the soul; the impartation of spiritual life to those who
are by nature "dead in trespasses and sins." The necessity of such a change is
emphatically affirmed in Scripture (John 3:3; Rom. 7:18; 8:7-9; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph.
2:1; 4:21-24).
Why men need forgiveness of sins? [Romans 3: 23: For all have sinned and fall
short if glory]. Every man who is born is born spiritual dead. Sin entered the
whole world through one man. Jesus Christ satisfied that by dying on the cross he
was freeing us from the death penalty of sin. As we continue in this book we are
going to go deep into what the death of Jesus Christ in the cross means to us. By
Jesus Christ dying on the cross with His bloodshed he established the new
covenant of grace and the latter becomes obsolete (vanishes away).For everyone
who believes and confesses with thy mouth that Jesus Christ died on the cross for
my sins and God raised Him from the dead you will be saved/made right with
God.
Doctrine of substitution
[Hebrews 8:8 for finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah; 9 …I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will
I write them].
If real the first covenant was without fault God could not have thought of
bringing in the 2nd into place. People failed to attain the perfect holy standards of
God. Since God is God of love he gave us amazing love by sending Jesus Christ to
earth in the form of flesh like me and you. For Jesus Christ to achieve his sent
mission he had to undergo it in the physical realm, for the prophesy to be fulfilled.
God is concerned about the way we live our life and how we relate with him. Just
like as parents want their children to prosper in life and secure them, gives them
love, then what about God who created both of us, therefore if we can discover
that purpose that God has in our life we will be energized in doing what he has
put before us. As the Israelites have failed God through his prophets he foretold
the new covenant of grace before Jesus came o earth. In book of Ezekiel God tells
about the new covenant of grace (Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a
new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do
them).
CHAPTER 11 FROM RELIGION TO RELATIONSHIP
[Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh
by the blood of Christ].
I am overwhelmed by your intimate relationship now that I am united with you
lord I want to depend on you as my vine, follow you as my head and love you as
my bridegroom.
Religion is a phenomenon of the pattern of man‘s heart after God in which case he
arranges his mind, plans his activities towards pleasing that personality which he
has created in his imagination as God and goes forth pleasing that thing he has
created. Religion is completely on mans sufficiency because the Holy Spirit cannot
manifests in their lives or lays dormant. In the Old Testament God presence was
only seen at the most holiest place the holy of holies and that place has become
you-God principles manifest in a person. His shining glory is now seen in you.
The old testament folks had rules of worship-check Hebrews chapter 9.unlike in
the long ago Christ has become the high priest by entering the greater tabernacle
in heaven (Heb 9:11) once and forver.He entered the most holiest place and
secured our redemption forever unlike in the old testament where the priest will
enter the holy of holies once in a year. By Jesus Christ coming to this world he
established a relationship whereby we are always in the presence of the father.
Christianity is the living pulsating life of God in the human body. It is God at
home in the human body, its divinity at work in humanity.christ in you. A
relationship between human beings and the real God. Relationship changes us,
the more we behold him the more we become we are metarmophosed,
transfiguration-a change of state and become like him. God want us to establish
an intimate relationship and be in his presence all the times. This union of
intimacy in our lives means that we can depend upon him to guide us daily in our
families, work, and as the head he coordinates every part of the body-we are
joined to him into oneness or closeness which is inseparable. This relationship has
become our new life under the new covenant of grace. The newness of grace is its
every day freshness and vitality. Day by day by the grace of God fresh measures
of life are abundantly available to those who look to the lord as their supply. This
makes life with God fresh and new every day.
Why then was the law given?
[Galatians 3:19-22 it was given alongside the promise to show people their sins.
But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was
promised (Jesus Christ].
It was a shadow, dim preview of the good things to come. (Heb10:1) .The law was
our tutor/guardian, schoolmaster to lead us to Christ (Gal 3:24). The proper use
of the law is to lead people to the grace of God found in Jesus Christ. The law was
our tutor to bring us to Christ‘‘.For us we are not leaving according to the Law of
Moses but the grace of Jesus Christ.2Cor 3.For what relationship can man have
with two tablets of stones. With man‘s sufficiency we cannot fulfill only God‘s
sufficiency will do. During the Mosaic Law the people of Israel promised that
they will leave according to all the law requires but they failed terrible. This
shows us that with our own effort we cannot accomplish any good thing that the
father want us to do. ―Then he took the book of the covenant and read in the
hearing of the people. And they said, ―all that the lord has said we will do and be
obedient‖…exodus 24:7.Immediately after the law was given to them they start to
be disobedient and rebelled against God.
We are a peculiar people, choosen generation, the priests and leaders in the order
of Jesus Christ. What matters to us is what Jesus has done for us and starts living
by it. The bible tells us that as he is so are we in this world. This tells us that as
we behold on the grace and glory of Jesus Christ we are made the righteousness
of God. We imitate Christ in everything we do and we have accepted Christ and
now Christ is seated in heavenly places for me and by your believing this will be
credited into your account. Now the father is not looking at us he is looking at
Christ. If Christ is accepted then iam accepted too, if Christ is holy and blameless
then iam holy too. Christ is our advocate to the father not that he is convoking
the father on our behalf, he has taken our place so that we no longer be at enmity
to God. Gal 3:24 wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith. This is incredible, remarkable we don‘t need
the law any more for the new generation who knows what we are carrying inside
us for the testament folks didn‘t carry anything in them and from time they will
come to a tablet of stone and look and ―say what does law number IV say?
The old covenant demand of obedience
[Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 26:16]
God was not calling the Israelites to an external religious behaviorism but to
wholeheartedly obedience. From deep within their innermost being the children
of Israel were to truly obey the lord. They were to truly and sincerely observe all
that the lord had commanded. There were to be no inner reservations or
hesitations. What the law demand was good. (Romans 7:12) yet the resources
were lacking (the Holy Spirit).Man could not measure up on his own (Romans
3:23).Therefore this perfect law offered no help to change man into what it
required. (Hebrews 7:19).
Obedience by God‟s grace
[Romans 6:14, 8:4]
Anyone who is ruled by sin is living a disobedient life. Grace is the path of
deliverance from disobedience. ‗For you are not under the law but under grace.
Sin is transgression of the law of God. The law can call us to the holy standards
of God but the law cannot help us to obey those perfect standards. For the law,
made nothing perfect (Hebrews 7:19).Grace is God‘s resources for us to find
forgiveness of sin (thus rescuing us from the dominating penalty of sin).In him we
have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7).Grace is also God‘s strength for living daily in
victory over sin (thereby rescuing us from the dominating influence of sin) is
strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus (2Tim 2:1)
In the Old Testament sin is the transgression of the law. Now let‘s look it in the
New Testament view. In the New Testament sin is defined as anything against
faith. Then sin can be committed in the mind by your thoughts, and actions. (Rom
14:23 and he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for
whatsoever is not of faith is sin.).
WHY Christ died on the cross? Rom 8:3-4 That the righteous
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us‘‘. Now by means of all that Christ
has provided for us, obedience is available to us. Who is it that experiences this
available obedience? Those who do not walk according to the flesh but according
to the spirit.chrstians who access each day by the flesh only access the carnal
resources of natural man.
We are a new generation which exists after Jesus Christ. What matter to us is
what Christ brought for us to live abundant life? When you want to live be ready
to give a life. This calls for sacrifice, determination and believing in the one who
sent you. Just like Jesus Christ he showed this till the end. The bible tells us to
endure hardship till the end. Does this mean that Christianity is difficulty?
No.Jesus Christ suffered your position what you need to do is to get what is
yours, get a life and start to enjoy a happy fulfilling life. When you have a debt at
the bank then you finish paying the monthly installments it means you have
fulfilled the debt meaning that it‘s over now with it.Jesus Christ was born on the
law, became a human flesh for him to fulfil the promise he has to physically go
through the crufixion, death, burial, resurrection. By being crucified on the cross
he made a fulfilment/requirement of the law and brought new life. Now I am
talking of the resurrected man who is seated on the throne. This is what we call
doctrine of substitution. He allowed himself to death because he believed in the
father and knew that he has been given all powers in his hands.
Our sufficiency is from God
2Co 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God;
God want us to firstly acknowledge that in our own we don‘t have anything to
give an eternal life.And also appreciate that it is him who has the sufficiency
meaning that God has empowered us to produce a meaningful life. This verse
remind us that we (Christians) we are not the source of any Godliness that is to
develop in their lives. This would include obedience. We do not have within our
own resources what it takes to produce an obedient life, yet we do have available
to us daily all that we need to grow in pleasing God and doing His will. God is to
be our source always for all things spiritual. How do we draw upon him His
comprehensive sufficiency? Humble depend upon Him. God pours grace into the
humble heart (jam 4:6), and faith accesses grace (Rom 5:2).Our beginning with
God was brought about by the work of his spirit. (Titus 3:5).we humbly admitted
our sins, casting ourselves upon the mercy of God. The Holy Spirit brought us
new birth, new life. This work of the spirit is linked to the grace of God. (Titus
3:7) thus starting out with God is related to His spirit applying His grace to our
need. The only way that the spiritual growth can follow spiritual birth is by the
work of the Holy Spirit (that is by the grace of god continuing to impact our lives.
These only terms are the only explanation for the development of obedience in
the life of a child of God. It must come from the spirit applying grace to our
hearts. It is good that the heart be established by grace‘‘. (Hebrews 13:9)
For those who have accepted Christ there is no condemnation on them, what I
mean brethren‘s is this Christ is the glory of God us human beings we are the
sons of God. We are joint-heirs with HIM and God the father. (Rom 8:17) .we are
adopted sons through the lordship of Jesus Christ. 1cor 3:16-Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Praise be to the
lord what this verse means is this, God is working in us, he equip us to do his
will. Equip means to supply his heavenly resources into us.―Without Him we
cannot, without us He will not‘ ‘this means that we have to work out our
salvation, Jesus Christ cannot force his grace unto us we have to position
ourselves to possess it.God need our action first stop wasting time today it‘s your
day for salvation…..When you received Christ as your personal savior you were
granted grace into your spirit. You were granted the Holy Spirit (1John 4:4).This
means that were at rest we are not using our strength or effort to make things
done.
The Holy Spirit is supplying us and making us to obedience to Gods
commandments. Now you can boldly look unto Jesus whom you are siting within
the throne in heavenly places and say this, [1John 4:17 ‗‘as he is so are we in this
world‖]. This statement means that behold on the glory of Jesus Christ. God
gave us grace, mercy not of the good things we have done for him. [Titus 3:4 But
when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not
by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his
mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the
Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our
Saviour; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to
the hope of eternal life].
CHAPTER 12 YOU ARE A LEADER IN THE ORDER OF JESUS CHRIST
When we talk of a leader we simple mean a ruler, chief, priest who conducts,
guide a group of people or followers. When we were young we used to play this
game called follow the leader. The leader will choose you and you do all kinds of
things and you will have to follow suit. Brethrens I am introducing you to the
leadership that our master Jesus Christ portrayed on earth and he left it for us to
follow. If we could look on the way Jesus Christ lead his people to me it‘s
incredible I don‘t know about you?
[Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that
ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you].
It was not your choice that you want to be a Christian, its God who chooses you
but not because of the good things you have done nor you are superior to others.
He loves us, he trusts us, and he has dignity on us. God want all his riches to
belong to us. when God choose Abraham he did not do anything good for God or
when he delegated authority to Abraham that you will work out the garden of
Eden and naming of all creatures according to what you name it shall be so it
doesn‘t mean that God was busy with something in heaven, he wanted man to
have, own, possess what belongs to him, he was establishing a relationship which
will last forever.
Jesus Christ ruled by example. When you are a leader you lead by example.jesus
Christ guided his disciples, followers, he gave them hope in their situations, he
restored their life‘s, and he taught them the word of God. He feed them he just
did everything that demonstrate god kind of love, he brought peace. When you
are a leader you don‘t force people to follow you but people case to follow you
because of what you are carrying.
[1Jn 2:27 but the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye
need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in
him.]
Leadership is a spiritual process was a person is ordained by God into that
position and he is raised spiritual to become a complete mature leader in the
house of the lord. In the book of Galatians Paul tells us that as long as the heir is
a child he differeth nothing with a slave. This means that by the time you get
born again automatically you became a leader, for God created us not to be the
tail but the head. It‘s up to us now we cultivate our leadership skills, abilities
infact it‘s our nature as God‘s children that we lead others to Christ and continue
build each other in the word of God.
God has made us kings according to the order of Jesus Christ. If you read the
story in the book of Hebrews about the priests of the Old Testament who
represented the Law of Moses they were not permanent in the office for death
prevented them not to be kings and the next one will take over. Now
melchezedek like Jesus Christ he was the high priest without a beginning nor
ending, these represented the priesthood of Jesus Christ with eternity.jesus Christ
is the high priest sown with an oath that he will never dies again but lives
forever. Now we are priests according to the order of Jesus Christ, we don‘t die
we have that Zoe in us Ecc 8:4 where the word of a king is, there is power: and
who may say unto him, what does thou? If you don‘t say it you will see it and if
you can‘t see it you will never have it and they will say you are not. In our
kingdom we make things happen just the way we declare them. Tell them that
you are like God, you have the mind of Christ, you are peculiar, you smell wealth,
I can do all things in Christ, iam loaded, I cannot be sick, I cannot be
disadvantaged and that‘s our nature because we are the heirs. As a king whatever
you say it comes to pass, you say to the other do this, go there and it will be so
Learn to exercise you authority and stop trying what you already are.
The command line
[Mat 8:9 for I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to
this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my
servant, Do this, and he doeth it.]
In the worldly system like in the force the word of the commander is the ultimate
and the subordinates quickly respond to that without excuses. In our Godly
kingdom God the father is the first line commander and by the way there is no
democracy in our kingdom we don‘t debate or negotiate with him for what he
says is final true, and real no mistakes and us the soldiers act upon God‘s word
quickly. Some people can hear the word of God and neither decide to listen to
their feelings nor are thoughts for the flesh always against the spirit. Be that
soldier who endures hardship and does the work of his master sincerely without
failure.
The same authority that Jesus had it‘s in you today. Thank you father for causing
me to recognize the authority in me.Jesus Christ exercised his authority over
everything, he talked to water, storm, waves, tree, fish blind eyes, lame legs,
hemophilia etc and each responded because all authority in heaven and in earth
has been given to him and as Abraham‘s seed by faith we inherited all that
belongs to Jesus and it is ours today. Make use of the authority that you have
been given. A name it‘s not just the pronounsation of it it‘s the authority backing
it up. The bible records that that name of Jesus every creature shall bow, this
incredible to me it shows that this name is above everything in all places even
beneath the ground in hell. Jesus Christ gave commands and they listened to him
and some demons mentioned in the bible when they saw him they cried loudly
saying we know you Jesus what have you come to do in our land, you have come
to trouble us. The devil surely knows that this one you don‘t mess around with
you dies and he will flee away. As we will talk more about the authority about the
name of Jesus and how to effectively use the name of Jesus Christ to produce
results for you.
Beyond the odds-In the world, on the cross, and in the grave. Relax and celebrate
the war is over Jesus won it for you. Jesus is indeed the son of man he
demonstrated his true identity of the father; he is a great warrior who conquered
everything. Many we amazed and some never believed the things he did some
said its magic indeed it‘s miraculous. I remember one man who was a roman
emperor when seeing the shaking of the earth, thunder, and lightening people
running all over he bowed down to the cross and said this man is the son of the
living God. Even though Jesus went through great pain he endured hardship, just
like a soldier you must completely commit yourself and believe in the one who
sent you. There is power backing you up. The devil intimidated Jesus Christ from
time to time but Jesus Christ maintained a victorious living he never gave in he
always win all the time.satan will try to show Jesus all the beautiful stuff in the
world and says to Jesus ‗‘you see all this its mine and I give it to whosoever. I
want you to bow down to me and ye shall have it‘‘.Jesus never tolerated it for he
knew his kingdom is not of this world.
By Jesus enduring the cross he disarmared the devil, his rulers and principalities
on earth. Now where can the devil gain power? Jesus has long dealt with him and
finished with him but you know devil is fun he doesn‘t like to be ignored and he
will never give up he will continue to cause havoc, disasters; economic meltdown
etc.have you ever thought why is it so? Does God real want us to live this live?
Absolutely no. When people suffer the first thing that comes to their mind is
punishment from God because we have done badly, what a wrong statement. God
will never be mad at us. He loves sinners but hates sin. It‘s because of the right
thing that we didn‘t do that‘s why things are not right.
It‘s not just an empty tomb there is much more-none of his body remained there
and he wholly ascended to heaven as his disciples watched him being taken up to
heaven engulfed by a cloud. Jesus Christ died, buried on the grave and on the
third day he raised again. He boldly entered beneath the ground and from the
grave he came alive oh what a victory the devil has completely lost his powers,
what a knock down. [Col 2:15 and having spoiled principalities and powers, he
made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.] Never give the devil a
chance; he is a liar he doesn‘t have any powers.Dont empower the devil by what
you say. You see language is very important in our kingdom. Just like as children
we expect them to grow and speak like mature adults this is also the principle in
the kingdom of God he want his children to spiritual grow and speak like mature
adults(man of high stature).
SPEAK LIFE
[Eze 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many
in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of
man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.]
God gave Jesus Christ the eternal life and it is this same life that we have
inherited from Jesus Christ. Now that we have the life of Christ within us we
cannot be subject to the elements of this world. Speaking life means agreeing with
the word of God when you are facing a situation or the so called challenge. God
want us to say only those positive things in our lives, though this is not the
experience of many people because when they face trials they forget the word of
God and focus on their situations. The word of god provide us with everything,
we find resources there as well, direction in how we should live our lives.
The power that God has vested in you is enormous and starts to recognize it and
use it. In our opening scripture God speaks to Ezekiel the prophet in the valley of
dead bones.whatevr situation you are going through right now it might be dead
but the word of God is powerful to bring it to life again. The bible tells us that ye
shall get whatever you say including what you are thinking right now. The
moment you start to confess that situation you are making a legal acquisition that
it belongs to you, you possess it its yours. Rather speak life against that dead
situation. It might be your business,career,work,sickness,poverty or you just want
something big in your life say it according to the word of God for whatever we
hope for God will not disappoint us he will surely give it to us.
What is it that you want in life? If its marriage sees yourself married in the spirit
remember we see things first in the spirit before it comes to the natural. When
Ezekiel prophesied against the dry bones Eze 37:4 Again he said unto me,
Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of
the LORD. Meaning that he spoke the divine word of God-the word with power
and the bible records that there was a reckless movement bone to bone the elbow
calling the almur the femouros looking for the limb head to neck socket to socket,
ligament to ligament and a skeleton was formed. (Eze 37:7).
CHAPTER 13 YOU BELONG IN ZION, YOU LIVE IN ZION-A NEW SPIRITUAL
WORLD
[Isa 33:24 and the inhabitant shall not say I am sick: the people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity].
We are the inhabitants of a new world called zion,a spiritual place where we dwell
forever therefore the inhabitants of Zion don‘t say I am sick for the lord Jesus
Christ has paid the price for our sins. If Christ has been bruised for my sake then
by my believing by his stripes I am healed.christ died for me and you so that we
will never be sinners again once we have accepted him. God is not impressed to
see you lying in the sick bed in great pain and wondering in your poverty because
by Jesus Christ he satisfied our needs so that we will lack no more.jesus Christ
said I was rich and for your sake I become poor so that you can be rich, then how
do we tolerate unbearable burdens in our lives while Christ has redeemed us long
time ago. It‘s just a matter of discovering what Christ has done for us and takes
advantage for that. All the good things in life belongs to us and that‘s what God
has brought us to earth to live a purposeful life full of joy, peace and riches.
God doesn‘t want us to lack anything in anyway because he has provided all
things for us but unless we come to full perception, acknowledgement of what he
has done for us we will wonder without direction in a life full of misery. Some
people believe that when they are sick it‘s a punishment from God for the wrong
things they have done what a big wrong statement don‘t say this anymore. If we
have accepted Christ why God punish us if he loves us? There is a difference
between punishment, discipline and light afflictions. People suffer for nothing
because of the good things they didn‘t do, its true knowledge is power and if it‘s
the one of our kingdom I am telling you have treasures within you.
Let me tell you that God will never punish us even one day. If you can closely
observe you will recognize that the language we speak in this book we are
moulding, building God‘s children to know how to communicate win life and day
by day with God because God is so considerate about how we speak if you make a
wrong statement it‘s just a sign of ignorance of God‘s word. Speak life today;
confess only the good things in life. God is working in us causing us to grow and
be mature by his spirit he has given unto us. If you can grasp these principles
your life will never be the same again. The devil doesn‘t have any powers but he
will always be wondering around checking from time to time don‘t empower him
by what you say refuse failure, sickness.
Preach the gospel to all nations
God doesn‘t want us to become Christians alone he want us to bring others to the
kingdom also. God has sent you and equipped you as his soldier to go to war and
win the battle. When God send a man he gives him all the necessary credentials
to do his work. God sent Jesus Christ to the world and Jesus accomplished his
sent mission-he taught us the word, he healed the sick ,he brought peace between
families he was just a complete package and these are the credentials that God has
given you to do the same. When a man is sent he believes on the one who has sent
him and trust on him and all the powers that you have been given.
God has sent you to preach the Gospel to everybody. To preach the gospel of
grace you don‘t need to be an old Christian, with what you already have share it
with people in your sphere. Now that God has equipped us to do his work he has
given us the Holy Spirit to preach his gospel with wisdom. Approach is very
important when you go out for evangelisim.you will meet different people some
total uninterested to listen to you and some being so difficult to talk to not
meaning that they are difficult to us and some who are too traditional then you
have to be wise enough to tackle them in a way that you will grab their attention
and when they in your hand you can do anything with them.
[Act 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed
by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE
UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto
you].
Paul was having wisdom when he encountered this group of men and definitely
knew that they are idolatry and they are also worshiping this God they call
unknown God he didn‘t make them look like fools for what they are doing he
wisely acknowledged what they are doing and got the chance to preach to them
for being idolaters. As ministers of the word of God be conscious about things in
our kingdom and when you met such people you will be able to penetrate them
and remember our gospel is god news. Its either you are a preacher of the law or
of the gospel of grace that Jesus Christ gave it to us. And when you bring light to
p[people automatically darkness will not prevail it. Dictating to people what they
are doing or what not to do its just making those people look like fools and the
possibility of them becoming defensive is very high and they will reject your
message even though you wanted to give them life.
Global evangelism
When Jesus Christ sent us to preach the gospel to all nations he knew that it will
be possible with all this technology that we have you can have the whole world in
your palm and barriers of geographically location and distance do not matter
anymore. You can have the whole world looking at your status on yookos or
facebook in less than a minute. Take advantage of these Medias in transmitting
the gospel of Christ to all nations.
[Act 20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have
shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, 21
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ].
This is one of the most evangelism that we must do. Some people don‘t like house
to house evangelism-one on one in privacy and publicly –either on the streets or
freedom squres.God want us to carry out this evangelism to people.dont stay back
do something God is never satisfied with how many souls we have brought to
Christ he want the whole world to turn back to Christ. If it means organizing an
outreach have one or partner with one by doing so you making the gospel of
Christ to reach all his people.
CHAPTER 14 THE GREAT CONFESSION
[Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost]:
Jesus Christ was speaking to his disciples and instituted that they may preach the
gospel of grace to all nations and those who believe baptize them in the name of
the father, the son and the holy spirit. Water baptism is symbolically
representation of the work of the spirit. John the Baptist baptized people in the
river Jordan for remission of sins. When Jesus Christ came to the world being
born under the law he has to go through this process and immediately he was
from water he was baptized by the Holy Spirit who descended in the form of dove.
By dying on the cross Jesus Christ took our burdens and gave us righteousness.
Now the sinner will remain sinless. By his blood we were completely washed from
our sins (remission).forgiveness of sins belongs to those who have accepted
Christ, it is our God ordained right to ask for forgiveness as God‘s child so that
we don‘t remain in the guilt of sin and condemnation. God is wiling to forgive us
from our sins and continue to live a sin free life.whe we talk of baptism let us take
a closer look at some few terminologies in the bible.
Baptism (Mat 28:19) and the Lord's Supper are the two symbolical ordinances of
the New Testament. The Supper represents the work of Christ, and Baptism the
work of the Spirit. As in the Supper a small amount of bread and wine used in this
ordinance exhibits in symbol the great work of Christ, so in Baptism the work of
the Holy Spirit is fully seen in the water poured or sprinkled on the person in the
name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Let‘s explain some few aspects of
baptism to help us understand the baptism of water, Holy Spirit or fire and the
word.
Baptism of Christ
Lately we have been discussing of the word becoming flesh.christ is the word of
God made flesh, personified. For him to accomplish his mission he has to undergo
it in the physical/natural realm. Christ had to be formally inaugurated into the
public discharge of his offices. For this purpose he came to John, who was the
representative of the law and the prophets, that by him he might be introduced
into his offices, and thus be publicly recognized as the Messiah of whose coming
the prophecies and types had for many ages borne witness. John refused at first
to confer his baptism on Christ, for he understood not what he had to do with the
"baptism of repentance." But Christ said, "'Suffer it to be so now,' NOW as suited
to my state of humiliation, my state as a substitute in the room of sinners." His
reception of baptism was not necessary on his own account. It was a voluntary
act, the same as his act of becoming incarnate. Yet if the work he had engaged to
accomplish was to be completed, then it became him to take on him the likeness of
a sinner, and to fulfil all righteousness (Matt. 3:15). The official duty of Christ
and the sinless person of Christ are to be distinguished. It was in his official
capacity that he submitted to baptism. In coming to John our Lord virtually said,
"Though sinless, and without any personal taint, yet in my public or official
capacity as the Sent of God, I stand in the room of many, and bring with me the
sin of the world, for which I am the propitiation." Christ was not made under the
law on his own account. It was as surety of his people, a position which he
spontaneously assumed
Baptism, Christian
An ordinance immediately instituted by Christ (Matt. 28:19, 20), and designed to
be observed in the church, like that of the Supper, "till he come." The words
"baptize" and "baptism" are simply Greek words transferred into English. It
means both (1) to dip a thing into an element or liquid, and (2) to put an element
or liquid over or on it. Nothing therefore as to the mode of baptism can be
concluded from the mere word used
Baptism, John‟s
John‘s baptism was not Christian baptism, nor was that which was practised by
the disciples previous to our Lord's crucifixion. Till then the New Testament
economy did not exist. John's baptism bound its subjects to repentance, and not to
the faith of Christ. It was not administered in the name of the father the son and
the Holy Ghost, and those whom John baptized were rebaptized by Paul (Acts
18:24; 19:7).
Baptisim by the Holy Ghost
The apostles of our Lord were baptized with the Holy Ghost (Matt. 3:11) by his
coming upon them (Acts 1:8). The fire also with which they were baptized sat
upon them. The extraordinary event of Pentecost was explained by Peter as a
fulfilment of the ancient promise that the Spirit would be poured out in the last
days (2:17). He uses also with the same reference the expression shed forth as
descriptive of the baptism of the Spirit (33). In the Pentecostal baptism "the
apostles were not dipped into the Spirit, nor plunged into the Spirit; but the Spirit
was shed forth, poured out, fell on them (11:15), came upon them, sat on them."
That was a real and true baptism. We are warranted from such language to
conclude that in like manner when water is poured out, falls, comes upon or rests
upon a person when this ordinance is administered, that person is baptized.
Baptism is a command from our lord Jesus Christ [acts 2:38] and in so doing we
are making a public declaration of Jesus lordship over our lives. We are making
identification with Christ death, burial and resurrection. We have buried our sins
together with our old life and risen in new life with Christ.baptisim declares that
Jesus is lord of lords in your life [rom 6:16].
CHAPTER 15
SPIRITUAL REST
[Heb 4:9 there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.]
I believe now you understand that life begins in the spirit for it to manifests to the
physical world. Spiritual rest is what God has provided for us his children and
this rest shall show in our lives on earth. Rest means to take ease, repose, take,
give.It is by the spirit of God that by our faith grace was granted us. In the old
testament the promised land is a picture of spiritual rest where the Israelites have
ceased from slavery and now going to a land flowing with honey…and it‘s not a
picture of heaven for in heaven there is no failure and the Israelites wondered in
the wilderness for forty years and God poured his wrath upon them when he said
[Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.]
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (shalom- shalom): peace-peace.it
means peace with prosperity. Rest of the arrived man, no more struggling, whose
mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. [Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all
ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light].
Spiritual rest is only entered by those who have believed in Jesus and accepted
him. By his word we will enter his rest and by our faith we will cease from carnal
striving. God created the heavens and earth and on the seventh day he rested
from all his work. On this day God rested and he sanctified it. [Heb 4:4 for he
spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise And God did rest the
seventh day from all his works].
God want his children to enter his rest to and cease from struggling. When we
take a close look on the seventh day this day has become our nature, everyday of
my day it‘s a Sabbath to me. Even the son of God is lord over the Sabbath.
During creation God will end with an evening and begin with morning. On the
seventh day the bible does not mention this meaning that this day represent
eternity it‘s a continuous day so everyday of your life has become the Sabbath
nothing can limit you from doing anything that is Godly and you have unlimited
access to God anytime.
We are not a generation created from dust and ground like the time of Adam and
Eve. When the bible mentions that God sanctified the seventh day meaning that
he separated the day from all other days. These the day that God wanted his
people to dedicate and worship onto him. In the new testament edition us a
peculiar,choosen generation, royal priesthood the generation which existed after
the resurrected Christ and the bible mentions to us that we are a new generation
meaning that this is a new breed which was not created at the time of creation.
God has choosen us and sanctified us for his sacred use.
During the time of Moses people were completely living according to the Ten
Commandments and I want to boldly tell you that we are not living by any
mosaic laws but under grace. The law demands observation and mans sufficiency.
Breaking one law is fault of them all. Now God has brought a better covenant
with the house of Judah not us and in this new covenant Jesus Christ was to come
making the old covenant obsolete meaning that we completely discard or abolish
it. The bible mentions the law was given through Moses but grace and truth
come through Jesus Christ that is Jesus Christ carries grace; grace has become a
person of Jesus Christ. Grace is the remedy to all things no wonder the bible says
the righteous man shall be justified by grace not law because the letter kills but
the spirit gives life. In jesus Christ what the law could not achieve he has satisfied
it[ Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh].Now God has established a permanent close and oneness
relationship with man. We are always under his presence day by day because of
his grace. Many people have been raising arguments about the Sabbath day and
keeping it holy.
―Grace is the only thing which can bring a sinful man and a holy God together
therefore grace is the greatest holiness there is‖.
Religion has gone and reality has come. By the word of his grace we have been
transformed to a transcendent life were we dwell in Zion our new spiritual world
a city of the arrived man. Spiritual rest means also believing on what God says
about you and living by his provisions and walking in his paths. Living by grace
day by day will make us draw from his undepleted resources. Each an everyday of
your life see jesus in the midst of everything you do and this will increase our
awareness and make us awake to righteousness than sin consciousness.
If you say we don‘t live by the Ten Commandments what then are we living
according to? What a question. We are not the people God made a covenant with
but we are the results of the covenant. We are what we are because of what Jesus
Christ did on the cross. He cried with a loud voice and said my God why have you
forsaken me and this was the first time jesus addressed God as my God, he used
to say father...so that you today can cry loudly and say my God why have you
blessed me so much because it is God‘s nature to bless you he will never held back
your blessings. Jesus went through all the tribulations so that you today can have
rest. The bible mentions that birds have nest to rest people have houses to stay
but the son of man has no way to lay his head why? Jesus Christ never found rest
whilst on earth but He final found rest on the cross by paying the price for your
sins, in redeeming you, blessing you.