Grace Of God Beautifies You!

‘And of His fullness we have all received, grace for grace.  For the Law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ’ ( John 1:16-17).

We are saved by Grace and through faith.  Grace of God is more than ‘unmerited favor’.  About Jesus we read in the Gospel Book of Luke 2:52, ‘Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.’  Understanding what ‘Grace’ is very important.  Paul used this Word ‘Grace’ in His letters to the saints; to greet and end the letter by ‘the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all’. Amen. 

Grace brings acceptability in our life.  We are accepted by God as we are.  This Grace brings acceptability where we were once rejected.  Grace manifests in the times of challenges and sustains us.  Grace brings divine favors in our lives. As a child of God we are born with divine favor.  Whether it is your interview or getting a contract, this Grace brings favor in your way.  Grace brings promotion!  We may not be qualified but Grace elevates you where in the natural you can never attain or achieve that position.  Grace works beyond human comprehensions!

Paul wrote in 1 Cor 15:10, ‘but by Grace of God I am what I am, and His Grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, YET NOT I, BUT THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS WITH ME.’   He related ‘Grace’ as : ‘by Grace’, ‘Grace toward him’  ‘Grace which was with him.  We understood from his writings that he had deeper insights in the things of God.  He understood what Grace is and grew in the knowledge of Grace and took advantage of that Grace in his daily life.  He realized the power of Grace that enabled him to labor more abundantly than others.  That made him outstanding from other apostles and believers.

Peter in his epistle wrote in 2 Peter 3:18, ‘..grow in Grace’.  Grow in the knowledge of the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ which works towards you and by its power you live everyday.  Grace enables you to do what you can not do in the natural.  Walk in this consciousness everyday.  Grace has come and we are the product of His Grace.  His Grace is sufficient for us!  Grace is not a word you quote as a formula in your prayer, but relate with it and walk in the revelation knowledge of its power working in you. Grace enables you to flow and glow! Grace relieves you from struggles and whining! Grace beautifies you and makes you unique among the crowd!  Let us grow in the knowledge of this Grace! Grace is the Person Jesus Christ Himself and it is one of His Virtue!

Pray with me:

Dear Heavenly Father, We thank You for Your Grace.  We are where we are by Your Grace.  Help us grow in the knowledge of Your Grace everyday and walk in the consciousness of its power working in us and through us.  We are highly favored, accepted and enjoy the blessings of Grace for we have received grace for grace of Your fullness. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study:  Col 1: 1,6,18;  2 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 5:5; 2 Cor 8:9

Get Rid Off That Poverty Mentality!

‘for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for  your sake He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich’ (2 Cor 8:9).

The Bible says, ‘as a man thinks in his heart so is he’ (Prov 23:7).  We are rich in Christ because He was rich yet for our sake He became poor that through His poverty we might become rich.  The Amplified version says, ‘..He became (so very) poor, in order that by His poverty you might become ENRICHED (ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED).  First change your thinking no matter what your situation is; lack or financial crisis you are facing.  You are motivated by your crisis to speak lack and poverty.  Your poverty mentality keeps you poor and broke.

In Christ, we lack nothing.  Start to believe and speak it regardless of what you see or feel.  Because what you believe is what you say, and what you say is what you get.  This is a Spiritual Law.  Jesus explained that in Mark 11: 22-23, ‘so Jesus answered and said, to them, ‘Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever SAYS to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS.’   Your heart and your mouth are connected here.  What you believe and say is what you get. 

Rise above your situation and start to believe the reality of what God’s Word is saying.  Believe that you are abundantly supplied and you  want nothing.  Believe and receive them by saying what God has said.  God’s blessings are received by faith but activated by our words.  What you say is what you get!  Your words can keep you in poverty or in abundance!  Reject poverty and refuse to be poor! God will supply all your need ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY by Christ Jesus.

CONFESS WITH ME

I AM WHO GOD’S WORD SAYS I AM IN CHRIST!

I AM RICH AND LIVE IN GOD’S ABUNDANCE!

I LACK NO GOOD THING!  IN HIS SUPPLY I ALWAYS HAVE AN

ABUNDANCE FOR EVERY GOOD WORK! IN JESUS’ NAME. AMEN.

Further Study :  Psalm 23; 2 Peter 1:3; 1 Tim 6:17; 2 Cor 9:8; Phil 4:19

No Impotency Or Failure In Your Body!

‘but if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you’ (Romans 8:11).

Our spirit is alive because of the righteousness of God.  Our opening verse is talking about our physical body.  The Spirit of God works in our mortal bodies.  Our bodies are daily renewed and vitalized.  Reject any sickness, infirmities in your body since we have the Eternal Life in us.  In the Old Testament, God lead His people Israel in the wilderness.  In the wilderness they saw God’s great works, ate Mannah and tasted His goodness and mercy.  Although, they provoked God so many times we see the presence of God in their midst kept them from all sickness and lead them supernaturally!

In the book of Deut 8:4 say, ‘Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.’  Deut 29: 5, ‘And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.’  In the book of Psalm 105:37, ‘He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes.’  We are more privileged than the people in the Old Testament.  We have the Eternal Life in us.  We are born of God and alive to God in Christ. There is no sickness in this Life.  It will not give you sickness but bring wholeness in your body.

The Life-giving Spirit is working in us.  Therefore, our body organs functions the way it should function; there are no failure or sickness in our body.  The Holy Spirit is working in our body and vitalizes it.  God lead supernaturally the people of Israel in the wilderness.  How much more we will be as a ‘New Creation’ in Christ!   We are as ‘New Creation’ superior to satan, sickness, sin and poverty.  The Spirit of God is working in us and vitalizing our mortal body.  Believe it and reject sickness or failure in your body.  There is no heart failure or kidney failure when the Life-giving Spirit is at work in our body.

God’s Word is true and it is our current hour possession.  This is the New Creation’s reality! Divine healing is our birth right.  Speak to those organs failing to function to function in the Name of Jesus Christ.  Speak to those growths to wither away; those tumors to be uprooted from your body in Jesus’ mighty Name.  They have no right to stay in your body!  So why do you carry them?  Jesus Christ has carried them on His body 2000 years back so you don’t need to carry them. Never accept sickness for it belongs to the kingdom of darkness.  But we are not in the kingdom of darkness but in the Kingdom of His dear Son.  There is no sickness in the Kingdom of Light.

CONFESS WITH ME

I HAVE THE LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT WORKING IN ME –

IN EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING, EVERY BONE OF MY BODY &

EVERY CELL OF MY BLOOD.  THEREFORE NO FAILURE OR

SICKNESS IN MY BODY.  I WALK IN DIVINE HEALTH EVERYDAY.

I REJECT SICKNESS, GROWTHS IN MY BODY.

WITH THE WORD OF GOD IN MY MOUTH I CUT THEM

OFF AND CANCEL THE PLANTATION OF THE ENEMY. 

IN JESUS’ MIGHTY NAME.  AMEN.

Further study:  1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53: 4-5; Col 1: 12-13

We Are The Fruit Of His Travail!

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 ‘He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many and make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God), for He shall bear their iniquities and their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord]’ (Isa 53:11).

Jesus endured the cross; the shame, ridicules, pain and sorrow for you and me.  He thought of you and me! The Bible says in Heb 12: 2, ‘looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God’.  We were His joy that was set before Him! 

Jesus paid the price for everyone in this world!  He took the place of you and me!  We are today enjoying this great salvation, this great Eternal Life and live as a brand new person in Christ.  There are people out there in this world who were legally saved because Jesus met the requirements of the Heavenly Father for the world to be saved.  God gave His Only begotten Son for the world!  1 John 2:2 says, ‘And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world’.  We believed what Christ has done for us and inherit this great Salvation!  Jesus said, ‘IT IS FINISHED’  No other name, but in the Name of Jesus Christ comes the salvation.  No more sacrifices or good works God requires from this world; nor He expects us to clean ourself and come to Him; nor He condemn or accuse you!  All He is telling the world is to ‘believe what Christ has done on your behalf; He took your place condemnation and eternal death. You are not a sinner saved from sins but through His resurrection you become a brand new person!  You become the righteousness of God in Christ!  What a privilege!

Dear reader, if you are not sure whether you inherit this salvation then this is a gloden opportunity to welcome Him in your life as your Lord and Savior.  You are legally saved; but by saying this prayer below, you make this legal Truth your present hour possession! Amen! Would you please say this prayer with me?

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 consiciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus.  Hallelujah!”

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Look And Be Changed!

‘but we all, with the unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the SAME IMAGE from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord’ (2 Cor 3:18).

As a New Creation in Christ, we are given the ‘glory mirror’, which is the Word of God, ‘the perfect Law of Liberty’ to imitate yourself.  This is what meditation is all about.  This mirror shows who you are in Christ.  As you look at it, you are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.

James explained it this way, ‘but be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror, for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forget what kind of man he was.  But he who looks (meditate God’s Word) into the perfect Law of Liberty and Continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a Doer of the Word, this one will be blessed in what he does.’    You are not who others describe you but you are the one what God described you who you are in His Word.

For example, 2 Cor 5:17 says, ‘therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he IS a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away; BEHOLD (SEE), ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW.’  This is how God sees you - a New Creation in Him.  Take time everyday and quietly ponder over this Scripture.  Reflect and contemplate yourself and start to say what you see and declare who you are in Christ.  How will you live as a New Creation if you don’t know what God has described in His Word?  Old life, habits, lifestyle, and sickness have passed away; see yourself that you are no longer that old man but you are a New Creation in CHRIST.  All things have become new!  Your history begins with Christ.  You have come to the place called CHRIST.   You program your mind according to God’s way of thinking.  You look and act like it. 

God’s Word says in 1 John 5:4, ‘for whatever is born of God (whatever proceeds from God) overcomes the world.  And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith’.  See yourself in this word as an over-comer of the world for you are born of God.  Start your day spending at least 15 minutes meditating His Word and act as what it says!  You walk in this consciousness all day and the Holy Spirit will help you to live this life.  God’s Word transforms you into the same image.

CONFESS WITH ME

I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM!

AS I LOOK INTO THIS GLORY MIRROR BEING

TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE

FROM GLORY TO GLORY!

GOD’S WORD IS WORKING IN ME MIGHTILY AND

TRANSFORMING ME DAILY.

IN JESUS NAME.  AMEN.

Further Study:  1 Peter 2:9;  Eph 4: 20-24;  Eph 1: 3-4

Don’t Be Snared By Your Own Words!

‘A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; from the produce of his lips he shall be filled.  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit’ (Prov 18:20-21).

Our mouth produces the fruit of what we say whether they are careless words or death or life if we are not careful.  Jesus said in Mat 12: 35-37, ‘a good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth the evil things.  But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.  For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned’.  This explains us how careful we should be with our words.  Also, remember, you speak out of the abundance of your heart.  If you have treasured the words of Life, then you will speak words of grace seasoned with salt (Col 5:4). 

In the Bible we see a man, who was upright and blameless in the sight of God, snared by his own words.  His name is Job.  He had seven sons and three daughters.  Job 1:4-5, ‘his sons used to go and feast in the house of each on his day, and they invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.  And when the days of their feasting were over; Job sent for them to purify and hallow, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all.  For Job SAID, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed or disowned God in their hearts.  Thus did Job at all times.’   Job was motivated by fear not that his sons actually committed sins but feared that they might have sinned and cursed God.

Now go with me to Job 3: 25 and see what Job said: ‘for the thing which I greatly feared comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me.’  Job was snared by his own words.  He ate the fruit of his lips.  The Bible never said ‘death and life are in the power of the next door neighbor or your enemy who curses you; but it is in the power of your tongue.  You will surely eat the fruit of it. 

God’s Word ministers grace, strength, courage, comfort, hope and peace to our lives.  You retain them in your heart to ponder and speak over you and others.  Let your conversation be seasoned with the Word of Life.  Eph 4:29 says, ‘let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.’   

You may be thinking that you have spoken words carelessly; but you can begin again.  Ask God for His forgiveness and His help to control your tongue.  Renounce those words of death spoken over you or you spoken over others.  Loose yourself from its impact and nullify its effect by declaring God’s Word. 

Pray with me:  Dear Heavenly Father, Your Word says that the tongue of the Righteous is wholesome and it is a Tree of Life.  Please forgive me for speaking words of death and destruction over others and myself.  Help me to retain Your Words in my heart.  My tongue is wholesome and it feeds many.  Your Word in my mouth is Life and minister grace and bring healing to my world.  Thank You for Your Word which rests and abide in my heart.  In Jesus mighty Name.  Amen.

For Further Study:  Prov 4: 23-24; Psalm 141: 3; Psalm 119: 23-24; James 3: 5-10

Christian Life Is Living Beyond Feelings!

‘but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit; if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His’ (Rom 8:9).

The reality is, man is a spirit, and he has a soul and he lives in a body.  Our real man is the spirit.  It was dead because of sin and was quickened and made alive to God when we received Jesus in our life.  Now, the Spirit of Christ dwells in you.  You are not in the flesh but you relate your life from your spirit where the Spirit of Christ dwells to lead you and guide you.   Christian life is not carnal but spiritual because you are alive to God; alive to righteousness.  You are dead to sin and alive unto God. 

Being ignorant of this Truth, you will live your New Life in Christ by your feelings.  But you have the Life of God in you and the Holy Spirit to help you live this supernatural life in this world.  Yes, the Bible says in 1 John 4:4, ‘you are of God, little children and have overcome them, because, He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world’.  Colossians 3:4 says, ‘when Christ who is our Life..’.   No wonder why Paul wrote in Gal 2:20, ‘I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.’  

We live beyond the lower natural life; live by the Spirit who empowers us to live in the spirit by the faith of the Son of God Jesus Christ who loved and gave Himself up for us.  Search the Scriptures and study the New Creation realities.  Christ, the perfect sacrificed Lamb paid the perfect price for us to live a life above every adversity and challenge. We are more than conquerors in Christ.  We are in this world but we live above this world.  We reign over the elements of this world, sin, sickness, poverty and the devil. 

Jesus has given us the authority to trample the serpents and scorpions and overall the power of the enemy; nothing shall by any means hurt us.  We are superior to satan to cast him out and to demolish his schemes and plots! Go beyond your feelings and live by faith!  Know who you are, what you have and what you can do in Christ.  Live as a New Creation He has described you in His Word and made you to be.  

The Righteous is bold as a lion (Prov 28:1).  Fear is not his nature!  He functions in the Spirit of Love, Power and of a Sound Mind.  We are Kings and Royal Priests in Christ.  The Bible says, Ecclesiastes 8:4, ‘for the word of a king is authority and power, and who can say to him, what are you doing?’  We are called to use the authority and power Christ has endorsed us with and do great things for His glory!

Rise up to who you are in Christ and fulfill His destiny for you!  Romans 5:17, ‘for if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of GRACE and of the GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.’

CONFESS WITH ME:

I AM A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST!  I HAVE THE LIFE OF GOD IN ME.  I LIVE ABOVE EVERY ADVERSITY AND CHALLENGE; I REIGN OVER SICKNESS, SIN AND POVERTY.  I REFUSED TO COMPROMISE WITH ANYTHING CONTRARY TO WHAT CHRIST HAS MADE ME TO BE!  IN CHRIST I AM VICTORIOUS AND NOT A VICTIM.  I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR THROUGH CHRIST WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.

Further Study:  Galatians 5: 25; Romans 8: 1-10; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Peter 4: 1-2

The Word of God Is A Weapon!

 ‘And take the helmet of salvation and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF GOD’ (Ephesians 6:17).

The Word of God is a weapon to use in our lives.  Use against the devil, against sickness and over all negative situations contrary to the Word of God.  Heb 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.’  God’s Word in your mouth is living and active; it is powerful and life; it is like a sword or like a knife to cut things off. 

It is a weapon you use against sickness.  How can you use God’s Word as a weapon over sickness?  First see what God’s Word says about your sickness and agree with God and say it.  Confess and declare over your body.  God’s Word works as a weapon to uproot, remove or cut anything God has not planted in your body.  1 Peter 2:24 says, ‘who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – BY WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED.’  Jesus has already borne your sickness, infirmities and diseases on His body.  It is by His stripes comes the healing to your body.  But how can you put this to work or activate this legal Truth to vitalize your mortal body?  Christianity begins with confession of our faith.  How do you get saved? 

The Bible says in Romans 10:9,10, ‘ 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.’  The Law to receive Salvation is to believe the Son of God and confess Him as the Lord over Your life and you will be saved.  If you believe what God has said about your sickness in His Word, then you declare that Word in agreement. 

The Bible says in Mark 11:22-23, ‘so Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says this mountain, ‘be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS.’  You will get what you say is the Spiritual Law here.  Search the Scriptures and treasure and retain them in your heart.  If it is not in your heart then it will not come out of your mouth.

It is a weapon of warfare against the devil. 2 Cor 10: 3-5 says, ‘ for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high things that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.’  You use the Word of God as a weapon against the devil.  When he brings thoughts, pictures of fear, doubt, death or any negative things contrary to the Word of God, you reject those thoughts, renouncing them and speak the Word against those thoughts and images.  You uproot those negative thoughts against the knowledge of God and bring them to the obedience of Christ.

It is a shield of faith!  Ephesians 6:16 says, ‘above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.’  You use the Word as your shield to quench his plots to undermine your faith.  It is your faith that overcomes the world.  Refuse to cower under pressure! Fight a good fight of faith every day You hold the shield of faith by speaking God’s Word of faith.   The Weapon is in your mouth.  Use it by faith! Put it to work in your life by declaring them over any negative situation or challenge you may face in your life. 

Any weapon not used will be rusty and become blunt.  Meditate God’s Word and the Holy Spirit will appropriate them at the right time for you to speak.  Glory to God!  Hallelujah! Amen.  Our fight is spiritual and the weapon we use for the fight also spiritual.  God’s Word is that Weapon!

Confess With me:

God’s Word in my mouth works like a weapon to quench the fiery darts of the enemy throws against me.  By the Word of God I uproot and cancel the plantation of the enemy.  I reign over every negative circumstance.  I am victorious and more than a conqueror in Christ.  In Jesus’ mighty Name.  Amen.

Further Study: Revelation 12:11; Ephesians 6:10-18; 

Trust God With Your Temptations!

‘No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it’ (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Temptation comes to everyone and nobody is exempted from it.  The Bible never says that you will not be tempted.  Our opening verse in the Amplified version explained it so well : ‘for no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin, no matter how it comes or where it leads) has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man (that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear).  But God is FAITHFUL (to HIS WORD and to His compassionate nature), and He (can BE TRUSTED) not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will (ALWAYS) also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.’  Wow!  It is explained so beautifully.

Temptations are to be resisted regardless of the intensity of them.  In the Bible Apostle James wrote in 1:12-15, ‘blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.  Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’, for God can not be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.  Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.’  We have to endure when temptations come.  God is proving us through temptations and once we are approved, we receive the crown of life which the Lord has promise to those who love Him.

Don’t be surprised when temptation hits you.  It may come in any form and through anyone or through anything.  But Jesus said in Mat 26:41, ‘watch and pray, lest you ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.  The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.’  Before you start your day, pray that you will be cautious and sober against every temptation comes your way.  Ask the Holy Spirit to sustain you to endure.  This is the very vital responsibility of every child of God.  

Paul wrote in Phil 2: 12-13 (AMP), ‘therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed (my suggestions), so now, not only (with the enthusiasm you would show) in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling  (self-distrust with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, WATCHFULNESS AGAINST TEMPTATION, TIMIDLY SHRINKING FROM WHATEVER MIGHT OFFEND GOD AND DISCREDIT THE NAME OF CHRIST).  Not in your own strength for it is God who IS ALL THE WHILE EFFECTUALLY AT WORK IN YOU (ENERGIZING AND CREATING IN YOU THE POWER AND DESIRE) both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.

When we pray the Holy Spirit energizes us the desire to please God. He prompts us, warning us and reminding us to be watchful against temptations.  He empowers you to endure and shrink from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ.  Hallelujah! Amen. 

Above all, God is Faithful and Compassionate in His nature will not let you tempted more than you can bear and He will show you a way out too.  So trust God with your temptations.  The Bible says in the book of Hebrews 4:15-16, ‘for we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are YET WITHOUT SIN.  Let us therefore COME BOLDLY to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.’

God’s Word in your heart will keep you from the evil one from yielding to his enticements.  But you have to meditate God’s Word in order to say while you are tempted.  Regardless of how many times you failed God, remember! He will not leave you nor forsake you till you gain the strength to resist every temptation.  He is faithful and He always will be because that is His nature.  He will teach you and guide you by His Spirit in you and enable you to endure till you are approved by Him.  Amen.

Pray with me now:  Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for the power of God that is working within me.  I am designed to resist the enemy and not to give in to his enticements.  I am an overcomer and overcome the world, flesh and the devil by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of my testimony.  I trust You with my life Oh Lord, for You are faithful to preserve my soul and keep me from the evil one.  You are my sure confidence and keep my foot from being caught.  In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study : Heb 2:18; Psalm 119: 11, 97; Prov 4:23

Don’t Be Limited!

‘That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God’ (1 Cor 2: 5).

‘In the Bible we read Jesus using terms like: ‘O you little faith’, ‘great is your   faith’, ‘according to your faith’, ‘do you believe I can do this?.  Our asking should not be based on the limited circumstances we are in or based on the wisdom of men.  Our God is ‘Omnipotent’ (He is Almighty); our God is ‘Omniscient’ (He knows everything); and our God is ‘Omnipresent’ (He is present everywhere).  He named every star on the sky, He numbered our hairs; He created all what we see by His WORD and upholding all things by the word of His power (Heb 1:3). 

We are happy and rest assured everything is alright when we have a secured job, a good bank balance etc.  But when you loose your job or when you face a financial crisis, you feel like you world has come to an end. Our security and confidence are built on these earthly resources. We are so limited by these sources although God alone is the One who provides those for us. 

The bible says in Psalm 78: 19-29, ‘yes, they spoke against God; they said, ‘can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed.  Can He give bread also? Can He provide meat for His people?’  They crossed the Red Sea like they crossed a dry land yet they forgotten the God who did that so quickly.  Instead of thinking how great our God is who did those miracles will surely provide now also; they were limited by their surroundings.  Psalm 78: 41 says, ‘yes, again and again they tempted God, and LIMITED the Holy One of Israel.’

You trust God without limitations on the basis of your relationship with God and not on the basis of the information you have about God.   No strings attached! You will not put your trust and confidence on the temporary resources because God is OUR ETERNAL RESOURCE!  He is unlimited.  Your faith level is as high as the revelation knowledge you gain in your walk with God. 

Paul wrote in 2 Cor 4:13, ‘and since we have the same Spirit of Faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak’.  Our God is not limited by our thinking or estimations because HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS IN HIS WORD.  But don’t limit God by your thinking.  He works beyond your thinking and beyond your comprehensions.  WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE; and ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE ALL POSSIBLE GOD!  Let your faith be in the power of God and not on mere wisdom of men!

Study how God lead the people of Israel in the wilderness.  They saw with their own naked eyes the ‘glory cloud of God’ guided them by day and the ‘glory fire of pillar’ by night.  Can you believe they ate the food of the angels (Manah)?  Yet they forgot His works so quickly.  They got what they asked but they lived without the knowledge of God so they perished in the wilderness.  So God showed His acts to His people and His ways to Moses! Hallelujah!

Ignorance keeps you in the wilderness; unbelief stops God’s hand; lack of knowledge leads you to destruction. Get to know God and focus on what He can do.  Don’t approach Him with your limitations but with your spiritual understanding of who He is! 

Program your mind for ‘all things are possible’.  Meditate His Word and keep declare: ‘all things are possible with me who believe in the all possible God.’

Confess With Me :

I refuse to be limited by what I see, hear or feel!

I have the Spirit of Faith. 

My faith rest in the power of God!

All things are possible with God and

Possible with me who believe in The All possible God!

I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

In Jesus Name. Amen.

Further Study:  Psalm 78; Mat 17:17-20; Mark 16: 17-18; Mat 19: 24-26;

Father Seeks True Worshipers!

‘But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.  God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth’ (John 4:23-24).

Worship is the life-style of every child of God.  We are born of God and we are born to worship Him in spirit and truth.  We are spirit, and we have a soul and we live in a body.  Our spirit man is alive to God now; unto righteousness.  Worship is not only just singing with all instruments or without; you worship anyhow because it is the posture of your spirit.

We worship because we are ‘royal priests’, minister to God through our worship.  ‘We are chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people; that you may proclaim the praises of Him who call you out of darkness into His marvelous light’ (1 Peter 2:9).  We are not just worshiping in the church but our worship begins in our closet.  We recognize our Great High Priest – Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior and our King of kings and worship Him.  We are the temple of God; our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6: 19).  We can lift up our hands and worship Him and give Him all the glory, honor, power and praises due to Him. Take a pause from all your busy schedules, to worship Him.

We are bought at a price, by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.  The Bible says in 1 Cor 6:20, ‘for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit; which ARE GOD’S’.  As we worship God in spirit and in truth we glorify God in our body and spirit which belongs to God. 

There is no worship without relating with God from our heart.  In other words, there is no worship without relationship.  We can be in the church or any public meetings lifting up our hands and singing praises to Him.  We can worship God without having any relationship with God.  We can give Him our lip-service as well.  That is religion! We worship and adore Him because of who HE WAS, WHO HE IS AND WHO HE WILL BE! We worship and adore Him because of His great love for us! He gave Himself for us, a perfect and eternal sacrifice on the cross.  Now, we are righteous in Christ, we are sons and daughters of God; we are the product of His Grace.  He has crowned us with glory, honor, beauty and favor!  We are not just forgiven sinners but we are justified; we are declared righteous because to God we have committed no sins!  We have received the Eternal Life!  His Name is named upon us! We are the New Creations in Christ.  Our history begins with God for we are born of God!  Superior to satan, sin, sickness, poverty and death!  What a privileged life this is.  He stood in our place of condemnation, accusation, guilt and shame.  We are in Christ, seated with Him in the heavenlies.  Christ in us THE HOPE OF GLORY!  Amen! Hallelujah!

Our revelation of the One in us changes our perspective of worship. True worship goes beyond the earthly realms and any empty words!  I have attached a worship video by Bro Eben, along with this blog.  click this link :

http://youtu.be/BQDb0VfLX7o

As you read this I invite you to  worship with me and EXALT THE KING OF kings WHO DESERVE ALL PRAISES, HONOR, GLORY AND POWER..  YOU WILL BE REFRESHED, ENERGIZED and STRENGTHENED AS YOU WORSHIP HIM.

If you have lost that ‘love song’ you once used to sing to Him; you can begin again.  God is restoring that True worship lifestyle in you!   Passionately follow Him, He is so Faithful, True, Genuine, Holy Lover of your soul!  Don’t stop!  Keep worshiping and sing unto Him.  You are rising above every challenge and adversity you may face in your life! 

Join With Me in this prayer:

Abba! Father, I am yours and I am born to worship You!  I lost that new song I once used to sing to You.. I belong to You alone!  As I worship You now, I am rising above every fear, anxieties and adversities!  I am restored to my priestly ministry!  I Love You Abba, Father! You Are my everything! I breathe Your very air! Your Love so holy and unfailing reaching me and lifting me up and causing me to worship You! Be exalted and be glorified in my life Abba! Father!  I love You Father!  I trust in Your Divine Power to enable everyday this priestly ministry through me to Jesus, the slain Lamb of God! In Jesus Name. Amen.

If you have no relationship with God then this is your divine appointment with God.  I invite you and plead with you to reconcile with God.  Say this prayer after me:

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.