Righteous Through Faith In Christ!

‘as it is written, ‘there is none righteous, no not one’ (Romans 3:10).

To the world’s stand-point, a righteous is one who does right or good things.  The Bible says, ‘…let God be true and every man be a liar..’(Rom 3:4).  Also in the Gospel book Luke 16:15 says, ‘and He (Jesus) said to them, you are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts.  For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.’ 

God gave the commandments to the Israelite to obey them.  But the Law could not justify anybody but brought the knowledge of sin.  Rom 3:20-21 says, ‘therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified by the Law in His sight, for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.  But NOW the righteousness of God apart from the Law is revealed..’  Right living is the outcome of the righteousness in you according to God.  Righteousness of God in you gives you the ability to live right.  So how can you obtain this righteousness?

Romans 3: 22-24 give us the answer for that question.  ‘even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe, for there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified FREELY by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.’  It is rather accepted by God than men; it is rather approved by God than men.  This ‘righteousness of God  is imputed in your spirit when you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him in your heart.  you don’t earn this righteousness because it is THE GIFT OF GOD as it is written in Rom 5:17, ‘but if by one man’s (Adam’s) offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of Grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.’  God gives His righteousness as a gift to all those who believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God. You then become the righteousness of God in Christ.  What a privileged life it is! Thank You Father for Your gift of righteousness.

CONFESSION:

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus; I have the rightness of God working in me to live right.  And my prayer (prayer of the righteous) avails much,  Thank You For the great privilege to live right. 

True Prosperity & True Success

‘The Book of the Law (God’s Word) shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it.  FOR THEN YOU SHALL MAKE YOUR WAY PROSPEROUS, AND THEN YOU SHALL DEAL WISELY AND HAVE GOOD SUCCESS’ (Joshua 1:8 AMP).

The world gives a different definition for success and prosperity.  But God’s wise instruction is to meditate His Word; let it not depart out of your mouth so that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.  God’s Word is His Wisdom.  His wisdom silence and confound the wise of this world.  Although we have this instruction, we do everything else to prosper and to be successful except this simple instruction of God.

God sees success and prosperity differently.  You can be successful and an addict to alcohol or drugs.  You are rich and have all the luxuries of this world and have no peace.  Jesus said in Luke 9:25, ‘for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?’ Your soul is more important than the riches of this world, name and fame.  Jesus knew the exact value of a soul.  So He left heaven and all the angels.  He came to this world to die for the whole world.  Jesus gave value for your soul; His blood, His Life!  A man without Christ is a great looser!  He may be a successful and prosperous man to this world but not before God. God wants you to be prosperous in your soul first and be blessed in every area of your life.  2 John 1: 2, ‘beloved I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers’.  I take this opportunity to plead you to reconcile with God!  You need JESUS CHRIST IN YOUR LIFE.  If you would like to receive Jesus Christ in your life please say this prayer from your heart:

PRAYER OF SALVATION

‘O Lord God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ.  Your Word says, ‘whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21).   I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord of my life.  I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10:9, that If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in  your heart that God has raised Him the from the dead, you shall be saved.’  I declare that I am saved; I am born-again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)! I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus.  Hallelujah!”

Congratulations! You are now a child of God.  To receive more information on how you can grow as a Christian, please get in touch with me through my mail id apostolic.gloryministries@gmail.com

Agree With God!

‘Do two walk together except they make an appointment have agreed? (Amos 3:3).

How can two walk together without being agreed?  Agree with God means, agree with what He has said in His Word.  We can not say I am walking with God or loving God and talk contrary to His Word.  Never take God’s Word lightly. 

Psalm 12:6 says, ‘The Words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth; purified seven times.’  Psalm 19:8 says, ‘The statutes (Word) of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.’  In the New Testament Hebrews 4:12 says, ‘for the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.’  Jesus said in John 6:63, ‘The Words that I speak to you are spirit and life.’

Agree with what He said in His Word about your life, about your finance, about your situation or your relationship.  What His Word says about you is true.  He said in Philippians 4:19, ‘and my God shall supply ALL your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.’  If you agree with Him what He said about your need, then believe it, receive it and say, ‘my God shall supply ALL my needs according to His riches in glory (not according to my bank balance, not according to my salary) by Christ Jesus.  God is able to supply out of these sources!  FOR GOD IS YOUR ETERNAL SOURCE.  So don’t panic that you lost your job; God can provide you another job.  Don’t agree with negative things around you but agree with God’s Word and speak life and not death!

CONFESSION: I agree with what God has said about me and my situation.  I believe it and receive it with all my heart.  I refuse to agree with the negative things going around me.  I refuse to fear. As I agree with His Word, I walk with Him today. In Jesus Name Amen.

Further Study: Hebrews 13:5,6;  Joshua 1:8; 2 Cor 4:13

God Wants You Well

‘How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him’ (Acts 10:38).

It is God’s will for you to be healed and walk in divine health!  Because the Bible says in Isaiah 53:5 (AMP), ‘but He (Jesus) was wounded for our transgressions.  He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement (needful to obtain) peace and well-being for us was upon Him and with the stripes (that wounded) Him we HEALED AND MADE WHOLE.’  What a powerful Word this is!  

Jesus was wounded for our sins, bruised for our transgressions; the requirement to obtain peace and our well-being was upon Him.  So you don’t need to carry sickness, infirmities in your body.  He carried already on His body.  By the STRIPES that wounded Him we are healed and made whole.  Amen! Hallelujah!

Some people say, God is punishing people through sickness!  God doesn’t want to use devil’s tools to teach His children.  James 1:17 (AMP) says, ‘every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above, it comes down from the Father of all (that gives) light, in the (shining of ) whom there can be no variation (rising or setting) or shadow cast by His turning.’

God placed healing in the nature.  For example if you take a plant called, ‘Aloe Vera’.  It is used for inflammation, wounds, for hair growth etc.  This is one of the thousands and thousands of examples.  Even in the Old Testament God said in Exodus 15:26, ‘and He said, if you will diligently heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, for I am THE LORD THAT HEALS YOU.’

In the New Testament Jesus already borne our sickness, diseases and infirmities on His body and crucified them.  You don’t need to carry them for He has carried them already.  1 Peter 2:24 says, ‘who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, have died to sins, might live for righteousness – BY WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED.’

It is time for your healing.  Don’t believe the lies of the devil.  God punished His own Son Jesus Christ to be died on our behalf so that we may enjoy the divine health.  So take advantage today.  If you are sick, look at the cross and the wounds on the body of Jesus Christ.  You can receive healing in your body by believing what He did for you and me.  Because of the  FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS  we can enjoy divine health.

CONFESSION:  God wants me well!  I refuse to accommodate sickness or anything contrary in my body.  The Lord Jesus paid in full for my health and well-being; therefore, I declare that I enjoy a life of perfect health and peace always, in Jesus Name. Amen!

 

Further Study: Isaiah 53^: 1-5; Psalm 91:6,10, Psalm 121:6; Proverbs 4:20-22

Forgiveness!

‘If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:9).

God is Love (Divine Love) and it is His nature to forgive us.  The above verse says, He is faithful and just to forgive us.  Also He cleanses us from ALL our unrighteousness.  1 John 1: 7 says, ‘but if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from ALL SIN.’   Accept His forgiveness and walk in the assurance of His forgiveness.

You often hear people say, ‘I hate myself because I hurt someone badly.’  Some people say, ‘even God can not forgive me.’  Never believe the lies of satan. You should also forgive yourself when God is faithful to forgive you and cleanse you from all your wrongs. His blood is sufficient to cleanse us from all our sins, our unrighteousness.  God and His Word is True.  Just take advantage of His His grace and get cleansed by His blood and walk in the assurance of His forgiveness. Never walk in guilt and condemnation.

Show also mercy to those who wronged you since you have tasted His mercy and love.  Don’t hold theirs wrongs against them.  The bible says in 2 Corinthians 5: 19, ‘That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.’  God is neither holding your trespasses against you nor the world’s.  God said in Rom 12: 19-21, ‘beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ‘vengeance is Mine, I will repay.’ Says the Lord.  Therefore if your enemy is hungry feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.’

·         Accept God’s Forgiveness to you

·         You Forgive yourself

·         Forgive others who wronged you since you are forgiven and received mercy of God.

Further Study:  Matthew 5: 7, 22-24; 1 Peter 2: 1-3; Col 3: 12-13.

You Are Branded As God’s Own!

‘and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God (do not offend or vex or sadden Him), by whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin)’ (Eph 4:30 AMP).

We are born of God.  Jesus purchased us by His precious blood.  The Bible says in 1 Cor 6:20, ‘you were bought with a price (purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own). So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body’(AMP).  Now days, most people are going for branded stuffs from the make-ups, accessories, cloths and the shoes they wear.  They are expensive too.  World love and go after its own.  Be proud that you are branded as His own.

We are marked as a child of God and branded by the Holy Spirit.  1 John 3:1 says, ‘behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us because it did not know Him.’  I am writing here the ‘New Creation Realities’ written in 2 Cor 5:17, ‘therefore, if anyone is IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; old things have passed away; behold ALL things have become new.’ 

See yourself from the perspective of God’s Word.  You are branded as His own.  Conduct yourself as you are and walk in the light of this Truth.  Never let anyone put you down.  He has valued you as His Own!  You are branded and made as HIS OWN.  God called this ‘new creation breed’ in 1 Peter 2: 9, ‘you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, (God’s) own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfection of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light’ (AMP).

Confess:  I am a God-kind breed.  I am sealed by His Spirit and branded as His own.  I am a royal priest, peculiar and wonder to my world.  I am His own branded property! In Jesus Name.  Amen.

Further Study:  1 John 5: 4,5,12-13;  1 Cor 3:23; 1 Cor 6:19,20; Isaiah 43:1

Who Is A Christian?

‘He who has the Son has Life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have Life’ (1 John 5:12).

The world’s perspective of Christian is different from God’s perspective.  World calls Christianity as a religion.  But from God’s point of view it is a ‘relationship with God’.  We may go to church every Sunday, participate in every activity, give offerings and give tithes regularly; we may even read the Bible daily and pray! They are part of our relationship with God. It is merely a religion if you have no relationship but only these outward activities. That is not Christianity.

These outward religious activities are approved by men. But the requirement of God to be a Christian is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ, who died for the whole world to save them. Jesus came to this world to meet the requirements of God to save the mankind and die on their behalf so that you and I can enjoy this Great Salvation of God and have relationship with Him.

The Bible is very clear about it, Romans 8:9, ‘..now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.’  John 3: 36, ‘he who believes in the Son has Everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see Life, but the wrath of God abides on him.’  Jesus paid the price for our sins once for all! Hebrews 10:12 says, ‘but Jesus, after He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins FOREVER, sat down at the right hand of God.’

He is the eternal sacrifice Lamb of God for the whole world.  1 John 2: 2, ‘ and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.’   All you have to do is to believe what He did on your behalf and receive Him in your life as your Lord and Savior.

God is not mad at you because Jesus took our place to carry our sins, sickness, infirmities, and sorrows on His Body.  He was condemned, judged and crucified on our behalf.  The Bible says, in 1 Thessalonians 5: 9-10, ‘For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, we should live together with Him.’

Today is the day of salvation!  This is an invitation coming to you from God:  if you have no assurance of the experience of salvation, please join with me and pray the prayer below:

PRAYER OF SALVATION

‘O Lord God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ.  Your Word says, ‘whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21).   I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord of my life.  I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10:9, that If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in  your heart that God has raised Him the from the dead, you shall be saved.’  I declare that I am saved; I am born-again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)! I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus.  Hallelujah!”

Congratulations! You are now a child of God.  To receive more information on how you can grow as a Christian, please mail me on apostolic.gloryministries@gmail.com

Faith In You!

‘that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ’ (1 Peter 1:7).

Faith has come in our hearts when we heard the Good News of Jesus Christ!  The Bibles says, this faith is the God-kind of faith, genuine, more precious than gold, imperishable and most holy faith which overcomes the world.  Faith is given to us to live by.  Galatians 3:11 says, ‘..for the just shall live by faith.’  Without faith we can not please God!  What are we doing with faith given to us, since we possess such a gift in our life? Are we using the faith? Are we exercising it? No wonder why Jesus told His disciples in the midst of the stormy and raging waves,’where is your faith? God is expecting us to use the faith in the times of storms we face in our lives.

Stand The Test! The opening verse says, our faith will be tested through the fire of trials and challenges.  Our faith is tested and purified.  Paul exhorts the believers in his book, Eph 6:16, ‘..above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one..’   The fiery darts are those thoughts of fear, doubts, negative images he throw against us.  God’s Word is our shield to hold against these fiery darts to quench them or frustrate them.  God has given us the weapon and showed us how to respond so don’t give up or give in. 

Build Up Your Faith!  Jude 1:20 says, ‘but you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.’ While we pray in the spirit our faith is built, declaring God’s Word and decreeing God’s victory over you and your family and your loved ones.  Thus you hold the shield of faith!

Contend For the Faith! Jude 1:3 says, ‘beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith  which was once for all delivered to saints.’ The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:7, ‘I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.’  Regardless your challenges and the trials you are going through, remember! The God of ALL GRACE who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, PERFECT, ESTABLISH, STRENGTHEN AND SETTLE YOU’ (1 Peter 5:10).

Confess:  I refuse to give up or give in under pressure! My faith is alive and produces result in and for me! I refuse to quit! My faith is the victory that overcomes the world!

Further Study : Heb 11:6, Rom 12: 3; Acts 14: 22

The Vine & The Branch Relationship

‘I am The (True) Vine; you are the branches.  Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit.  However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me) you can do nothing’ (John 15:5 AMP).

Our relationship with Christ is like ‘Vine & The Branch’.  This shows our union and fellowship with Christ.  Paul wrote in 1 Cor 6: 17, ‘but he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.’  We are one spirit with Him! Awesome! Jesus said in Mat 12:33, ‘either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.’ 

Our relationship with Him is a living and abiding relationship to be fruitful.  We become the partakers of His Life.  As Jesus said in the parable about the prodigal son’s story, ‘and he said to him, ‘Son you are ALWAYS with me, and all that I HAVE IS YOURS’ (Luke 15:31).  All that Christ has is ours! We are partakers of All that He has.

In Rom 11: 16 says, ‘for if the first-fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.’ As branches we enjoy the fatness of the Vine.  We are holy because the root is holy!  We are partakers of the Divine Life!

Just be a branch in the abiding relationship with Christ.  Continue in His Word, the sound doctrines of Christ.  We are fruitful and productive because we share the richness of the Vine. Richness of the Vine is seen in the fruit the branch produce.  What a privilege to be a branch in the True Vine Jesus Christ!

Don’t strive or struggle, just abide in Him!

Confession:  I am energized and nourished to be productive and be fruitful in my union with Christ. 

Further Study:  John 15: 1-8; Colossians 2: 3,6,9,10; 2 Pet 1: 3,4

Faith Is A Higher Law!

‘To demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.  Where is boasting then? It is excluded.  But what law?  Of works? No, but BY THE LAW OF FAITH’ (Rom 3: 26-27.

There are natural Laws and there are spiritual Laws as well.  Faith is a spiritual Law and a higher law functions above the natural laws.  Law is a rule of action.  Natural laws exist because the universe has a Creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe (Genesis 1:1). The Law of Nature is the will of God as "to human conduct, founded on the moral difference of things, and" discoverable by natural light (Rom. 1:20; 2:14, 15).

Jesus in His earthly ministry functioned above the natural laws.  He walked on the water, talked to the tree, commanded to storms and raging wind to be still, raised the dead, multiplied the 5 loaves and 2 fishes, healed the leaper and so on.  Even the believing disciples of Jesus Christ functioned in the higher laws as well before and after the death of Jesus Christ.  Peter walked on the water too.  Even the disciples were sent by Jesus to preach the Good News; cast out devils in the very Name of Jesus.  We read the Acts of the Apostles who were the disciples of Jesus in the book of Acts.  Jesus said in John 14: 12, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.’

As natural laws, spiritual laws also function.  Paul is exhorting us in his book 2 Cor 5:7, ‘for we walk by faith, not by sight.’  As children of God, who are born of God; we are called to walk by faith which is a higher law.  1 Cor 2: 5 says, ‘that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.’  Faith doesn’t work in your commonsense but in the spirit-realm.  Faith is given to the re-generated human spirit to live by faith, stand by faith, to walk by faith, and to pray and receive answer by faith.

Faith always works because Jesus said so.  If it is not working then it is not faith.  Natural Laws work whether you believe or work against it.  In the same way Faith works too! But understand the principle of faith and act accordingly to see the result.

NOW, FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things (we) hope for, being the proof of things (we) do not see (in the natural) and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses) (Heb 11:1 AMP).

Function by the Higher Law – The Law of Faith!

Further Study: Mark 11: 22-24; Genesis 1^st chapter, Genesis 8:22

Live By The Word!

‘but He (Jesus) replied, it has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God’ (Mat 4:4).

God’s Word is our life and we live by it because it has the Life!  We need to feed our spirit man with the Word of God.  Our spirit is bornagain through the incorruptible seed of the Word of God.  The Word of God sustains us.  Proverbs 4: 20-22 says, ‘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.’ 

Jesus said in John 6:63, ‘it is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.  The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.’  God’s Word in our mouth is spirit and life.  We speak God’s Word over our spirit, soul and body.  We speak over our circumstances and effect changes. God’s Word will never return back to us void but will produce results. Isaiah 55: 10,11 says, ‘For as rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth and make it bring-forth and bud; that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.  So shall My Word be that goes forth shall not return to Me void; but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.’

We live by the Word by walking in the Light of the Truth.  God’s Word is our standard and final authority.  God’s Word is available to use at any time for any situation.  Whatever your challenges may be, take God’s Word for it is trustworthy.  Determine to live by it; not just reading the Word, but studying it, memorizing them and meditate them.  Joshua 1:8 says, ‘this Book of the Law (The Word) shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.  For then you will make your way prosperous and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.’

Confess : God’s Word is my life.  God’s Word is exalted in my heart, above every thought, desire and belief.  My success is unstoppable because I made God’s Word my meditation.  Amen!  Hallelujah!

Further Study: John 15:15; Romans 10:8; James 1: 22-25

Faith or Fear?

Faith or Fear?

‘Now faith is the substance of the things hoped for and the evidence of the things not seen’ (Heb 11:1).

The above verse is explained well in the Amplified translation. ‘now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things (we) hope for, being the proof of things (we) do not see and the conviction of their reality (faith, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses).’  Faith is the respond of the spirit to the Word of God.  God never reveals to your senses but to your spirit.  When he reveals get hold of it.

For example we read in the Bible the response of Peter in a troubled situation.  We read that in Matthew 14: 25-31, ‘Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.  But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.”  And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”  So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”  And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 

Peter walked on the water by faith which is above the Law of Gravity. But he began to sink when he looked at the boisterous wind and responded with fear, ‘Lord save me.’ Faith is believing in the power of God and fear believes in the power of the devil.  How do you respond to your problems depends on the level of your faith.

Build your faith everyday! Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Listen to faith stirring messages and exercise your faith.  Faith was given when we were bornagain.  Our life is a life of faith.  We are spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body.  You walk in the spirit.  Walking in faith is a lifestyle of the Christian.  God has not given us the spirit of fear but the spirit of faith! Function from there.

Confess:  ‘I walk by faith not by sight.   My faith is the victory that overcomes the world!

Further study:  Hebrew 11^th chapter (read the Amplified translation); Romans 4: 17-24

Reign In Life!

‘for if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE JESUS CHRIST.’ (Rom 5:17)

The opening verse is not talking about the child of God who receives abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in heaven but in this world through the One Jesus Christ!  The Name of Jesus is named upon us.  Jesus said, Luke 10: 19, behold (see) I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.’  Take authority over anything binding, hurting or frustrating you in the Name of Jesus. 

Take authority over habitual sins!  Rom 6: 14 says, ‘for sin shall not have dominion over you, for we are not under Law but under grace.’  Declare boldly : I am dead to sin and alive unto righteousness.  The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death. Sin shall not have dominion over me.  I loose myself in the Name of Jesus Christ from anything hurting, binding and frustrating.’

Attack the enemy with the Word of God.  Take authority over your thought life and feed your spirit man with the Word of God.  Capture the wrong thoughts and bring them to the obedience to His Word.  Be consistent, steadfast and stand your ground.  Reign over fear, worries, anxieties, sickness and poverty in your life; don’t let them reign over  you!

Don’t accommodate sickness or allow worries or fear in your life.  They bind you, hurt you, torment you and frustrate your life.  Rise above them and live out the Life of Christ in you.  We are overcomers and more than conquerors in Christ.  This is who we are in Christ!  Because of the Finished work of Christ you reign not whine!

Confess Loudly: I refuse to worry, fear or be anxious about anything! I refuse to accommodate sickness or infirmities in my body! I reign over them in Christ! I live above every adversity and challenge of this world for greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world. Amen and Hallelujah!

Further study: Mark 16: 17,18; 1 Cor 15:57

Walk In The Light!

‘for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.  Walk as children of light.’ (Eph 5:8)

Once we were in darkness but NOW you are light in the Lord.  We are the children of Light.  So, how can you walk in the Light?

The Bible says, in 1 John 1:6, ‘if we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the Truth.’  Walking in the Light is simply walking in His Truth.  The Bible says in John 1:9, ‘that was the True Light which gives light to every man coming into the World.’ The Word of God is the True Light! As the children of Light, we have fellowship with Him when we practice the Truth. We are born of God. We are born of the incorruptible seed – The Word of God.

For example, 2 Cor 5:17 says, ‘therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he IS a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away, behold, all things have BECOME NEW.’  This is the description of a child of God, bornagain believer.  You are walking in the Light, when you believe what God has said about you in His Word and How He sees you through His Word and started to walk in the light of this Truth. 

Another example is, The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5: 21, ‘for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.’  We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.  This is who you are! This is how God sees you.  You believe what He said about you in His Word and started to walk in the Light of this Truth!  As children of God we need to know who we are in Christ, what we have in Christ and what we can do in Christ.

Ignorance of His Word can keep you bound for life! It is the revelation knowledge of His Word brings that liberty.  God said, My people perish lack of the knowledge.  If we walk in the Light then we have fellowship with Him. Amen.

Further study: 1 Peter 2: 1-2; James 1:21-25

God Is Not Holding Against Men Their Trespasses!

‘It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against (men) their trespasses (but cancelling them), and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration favor)’ 2 Corinthians 5:19 (AMP).

This is the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! God is not holding against the trespasses of the world but restoring, reconciling the world to favor with Himself! The Bible says in 1 John 2:2, ‘And Jesus Himself is the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins, and not for ours alone but also FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.’   All we have to do is to preach this Good News to the world! ‘For God did not send His Son into this world to condemn the world but that the world through Jesus Christ might be saved’ (John 3:18).

Jesus Christ is not only the God of Christian but HE IS THE GOD OF THIS WORLD!  JESUS SAID, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND LIFE’ (John 14:6).  ‘Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12). There is no salvation apart from the Name of Jesus Christ!  He died for the whole world.  He carried the sins of the whole world.  Rom 10:10-11 says, ‘that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Dear Reader, God is inviting you and pleading through me to reconcile with Him.  If you believe, please say this prayer.  Receive the salvation He has purchased for you on the cross and receive the New Life He offers through His Resurrection.

PRAYER OF SALVATION

‘O Lord God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ.  Your Word says, ‘whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21).   I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord of my life.  I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10:9, that If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in  your heart that God has raised Him the from the dead, you shall be saved.’  I declare that I am saved; I am born-again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)! I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus.  Hallelujah!”

Congratulations! You are now a child of God.  To receive more information on how you can grow as a Christian, please get in touch with me through my mail id apostolic.gloryministries@gmail.com

If you don’t have a Bible get one or go online and read the four Gospel books for understanding the birth, death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  

I would like to hear from you and answer any question if you have as a New Christian. I love to pray for any concerns you want me to pray for you. I am doing a Bible class on Skype if you and your friends like to join.  My Skype id is: higherlife71.

God bless!

No Condemnation In Christ!

‘therefore, (there is) now, no condemnation who are in Christ  (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.’ (Rom 8:1 AMP)

Jesus was condemned in our place.  You may ask how? The Bible says in Romans 8: 3, ‘for God has done what the Law could not do, (its power) being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as and offering for sin. (God) condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice)’ (AMP). Jesus took our sin on His body and thus condemned sin in the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says, ‘for our sake He made Christ (virtually) to be sin who knew no sin so that in and through Him we might become (endued with, viewed as being in and examples of) the righteousness of God (what we out to be approved and acceptable and right relationship with Him, by His goodness) (AMP).’

The one who condemns you is the devil.  Refuse to walk in condemnation and guilt.  Confess your sins to Jesus and be washed by His blood if you have committed sin.  His blood is sufficient to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 

1 John 1:9 says, ‘if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from All unrighteousness.’  Cheer up my friend!  Don’t  allow thoughts of condemnation in your heart.  Guard your heart from the lies of satan. 

Walk in the assurance of His love for you is so deeper, unfailing and unconditional!  The Bibles says, ‘When we were yet sinners Christ died for us’ (Romans 5:8).

Walk in the light of this Truth!

Further study: Rom 5:18; Rev 12: 10; Mat 7: 1-2