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