Tuesday, February 28, 2012

God counts the number of hair on your head III

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. - Luke 12:7

God counts the number of hair on your head. He is a detailed God. No details, big or small, shall escape His watchful eyes. He sees your every struggle, every fear, every shortcoming, every worry, and every lack and He has the Answer to all these negative things in your life. He is the Answer!

Jesus is the Answer to our every problem or challenge.

At the cross, Jesus died as us so that we can live the victorious life He came to give, a life full of His righteousness, a life full of Him in the center! Jesus was tempted at all points by the devil and yet He did not sin. Only three temptations were mentioned in the bible when Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness. With each temptation, His answer is always to point to the word of God.

Jesus went through all the human sufferings while He was on earth, so that as Man, He was able to empathize and sympathize with all our sufferings. He knows what we are going through and He has the answer to our every need. He will always meet us at the point of our need. He is a good God and His timing is always perfect!

Jesus loves it when we go to Him for everything, small or big. Be it as simple as a pimple on the face or something more serious like a cancerous tumor that is spreading like wild fire in the body, Jesus has the answer. He is the Answer. When we see Jesus in the word, our hearts will be warmed. When we see the completeness of His finished work at the cross, our being shall be made whole.

The bible tells us how everyone who came to Jesus was healed. Even the dead was raised from the grave like Lazarus. Even Jairus' daughter was raised from the dead as well. Even when we think there is no hope for the predicament we are in, Jesus is right there working behind the scene to turn things around for our good. He is a careful God and He sees the struggles we go through in this earthly live.

When you think the mountain of debt in front of you is too tall for you to overcome, look to Jesus. The bible tells us that Zerubbabel shall see his mountain of problems no more when he shouts "Grace grace" to it! For it is the work of the Lord and not our might or strength that will accomplish what we want to see at the end of the day.

Jesus is still healing today. He is still the Providence today. The bible tells us Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So, casts all your cares upon His feets for He cares. He burden is light and His yoke is easy. Jesus wants and loves to see us abundantly well taken of with blessings overflowing in our lives so that we can be a blessing to those around us! Hallelujah!

Friday, February 17, 2012

We can come to Abba Father anytime

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." - Romans 8:15

The word adoption in the above passage in Greek is: huiothesia. It implies a stronger word than just the English word: adoption. It literally means to be part of, in this case, a family. To be set as sons, as if born of the same family.

When we accept the gift of salvation through the finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross, we are literally born into the kingdom of God. We are now sons and daughters of God. We are not adopted but "born" into the family. We are in Christ as Christ is in us and greater is He who is in me than he who is of the world.

As a result of this intimate relationship with God, we can come to the throne of grace anytime of the day. There isn't a special time of the day when we communicate with God the Father. We can commune with Him anytime and anywhere! That's the privilege of those in Christ. regardless of the occasion, we can draw close to the almighty God.

In the seasons when we are strong, we can praise and worship God for all the good He has done in our lives. Yet it ain't us who are strong but Christ who lives in us that is The strong one. He strengthens us from within and sometimes He uses people around us to encourage and strengthen us from without. He loves to see us been reminded of His presence all the time for He loves us very dearly and deeply and He only wants the best for us.

At the cross some, Jesus gave Himself to take our place of sin and borne all the punishment of sins upon His own body so that we, today, can declare we the righteousness of God in Christ. With it, we can declare robust health. With it, we can claim all prosperity. With it, all relationships are mended.

Yet we know not all things may be good at the moment. But the bible says all things will turn out for good for those in Christ. In the days when we are weak, we can praise and worship God for all the things He is doing to turn things for our good. We give thanks for He is good in our lives. He will never allow the righteous soul to famish! That's His promise and He will see to it that His word will not return to Him void!

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord for He is good and His mercy endures forever. Draw near to Abba Father at all times. Be it we are enjoying His abundant blessings in our lives or going through the valley of the shadow of death, be conscious of Jesus Christ and His finished work at the cross at al times. For all things have been completed at the cross!

When the presence of God is strong in our lives, no weapons formed against us shall prosper. No evil shall befall us. No sickness shall take root in our bodies. When we know how much God loves us, there shall be no fear in our lives for His perfect love casts out all fears! The word tells us for God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. Hallelujah!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

I am blessed and it is irrevocable

Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. - Numbers 23:20

When king Balak asked Balaam to curse the children of Israel while they were camping in the plains of Moab, Balaam was not able to curse them but instead blessed them three times. As a side note, Balaam was the only one recorded in the bible to have a conversation with his donkey.

Each time king Balak asked Balaam to curse the children of Israel, Balaam would bless them according to the word God had put in his mouth. Most importantly, those blessings are irrevocable! No one can put a curse on a person who God has blessed! That's the promise of God.

Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him— and indeed he shall be blessed." - Genesis 27:33. In this passage, whoever is blessed can never be cursed again!

Now at the cross some two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ was crucified on our behalf and He took all our curses upon His own body so that no curse can land on us today. For cursed is him who hang on a tree. At the same time, all the blessings in the bible are ours to proclaim for Christ did not redeem us from the blessings. Instead, He has blessed us with every spiritual blessings. He has blessed us and we shall be blessed!

We shall be blessed coming in and going out. We are blessed to be the head and not the tail. We are favored in our every endeavor. We have the blessings of Abraham upon our lives! When King Melchizedek met Abraham after his victory over three kings, His first word was "Blessed". We are blessed to be fruitful in our lives, every aspect of it! We are blessed with robust health and material blessings.

Today, God only wants to shower us with His blessings. And whoever God has blessed, he shall be blessed and the blessing is irrevocable! Receive His blessings with thanksgiving and gladness for they are undeserved, unmerited and unearned. They are ours for Christ has been crucified on our behalf at the cross some two thousand years ago! It is His finished work that qualifies us to receive God's blessings.

We don't have to work for God's blessings. We just simply receive them into our lives. No toilsome labor can qualify us for God blessings. For the blessings are paid for by the precious blood of Jesus at the cross! it is God's grace that we can be blessed.

Stop cursing ourselves for the wrongs that we have done. Look to the cross and be conscious of the finished work of Jesus at the cross for at the cross, all our sins, past, present and future, have been forgiven. Receive the blessings from God and stay blessed all the times. Hallelujah!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Grace story

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. By the sixth day, He had created all that were to be created and He said they were very good. The word tells us all things are created for Jesus and through Him all things are created.

When God created man, both male and female, He gave them the authority to have dominion over the earth. God gave them the freedom of choice as well. That's why even though God knew Adam and Eve would sin against Him, He doesn't step in to prevent them from sinning against Him. That will be an injustice to a righteous God!

God wants man to partake of the fruit of the tree of life and not of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. After man had partaken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God had to drove them away from the garden of Eden to prevent them from partaking of the fruit of the tree of life. This is the grace of God for He doesn't want man to live eternally in a state of condemnation!

So God will have to redeem the sin in a judicial manner. That's why it must be a Man to redeem man from this sin. This Man must be sinless and perfect in order to redeem man. Else God will not accept this sacrificial lamb. Hence the story of the virgin birth. Jesus cannot inherit his earthly father's blood for Joseph was also a sinner.

Even so, God has provided a sacrificial lamb for Adam and Eve after they had sinned against Him. That's the grace of God in display. He killed the first sacrificial lamb to clothe Adam and Eve and provided a way for man to offer animal sacrifice to atone for his sins. When Adam and Eve were deceived by the devil, God prophesied that the Seed of a woman shall crush his head.

Since then, the devil tried all ways to bring about the corruption of the human seed so that the Redeemer will never come. He brought about the mating of fallen angels with the women of earth to produce creatures which are not of the humankind totally, i.e. the blood is not pure human blood.

It came to a point where God had to flood the earth in order to preserve the human race. That the love of God for the human race. Hence the story of Noah and the ark. Only Noah and his wife and his three sons and his three daughters-in-law were the only "perfect" human being on earth at that time. Their blood was not tainted by the fallen angels.

The devil is not omniscient. He doesn't know when the Redeemer will come. That's why he is always killing people who he thinks is the Messiah. He was not aware the Messiah has come even though Jesus has already come to earth in a manger. He only knew that the Messiah has come when the shepherds acquired about Him in Herod's presence. He then went about killing all the young boys in Jerusalem that were between two to three years old thinking that would kill the Messiah in the process.

Oh, how stupid can the devil be. About thirty years later after that terrible massacre, he knew the true Messiah has come when God openly declared that Jesus is His beloved Son and in Him He is well pleased at the Jordan river. And three and a half years later, Jesus overcame death and take back the key of dominion from the devil. God is well pleased with Jesus' sacrificial act at the cross for the process of redemption is completed at the cross!

It is the grace of God to send His only begotten Son to die on our behalf so that we can now be reconciled with God and come to the throne of grace in times of need to cry out Abba Father. What a grace-mazing story! Hallelujah!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Lean on Jesus' love for you

Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. - John 13:23

In the book of John, the "disciple whom Jesus loved" was mentioned more times than in the books of Matthew, Mark and Luke. This is because John is constantly aware of Jesus' love for him than his love for the Lord. He is more conscious of Jesus' love for him and he made mentioned of it throughout his epistle.

Contrast this to Peter's proclamation of his love for the Lord. When Jesus was brought captive by the men of the High Priest, Peter actually denied Jesus three times before he broke down and cried. At the foot of the cross where Jesus was crucified, it was the disciple John who was there. Peter was nowhere to be found.

John always practiced the Lord's love for him. His trust is not in his love for the Lord but the Lord's love for him. We love for He first loves us. How is this Godly love been expressed? At the cross, the love of God was fully exhibited! Jesus Christ who knew no sin, did no sin and in Him is no sin, was crucified at the cross to divinely exchange His position of righteousness with our position of sin!

That one completely complete work at the cross by Jesus Christ suffices for all mankind. Whosoever believes in that finished work and acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior shall be saved. And his whole household shall be saved as well. That's not to say the whole household is automatically saved. They have to accept the gift of salvation personally. When one is saved, the good Lord will open the door of Heaven wide for the rest of his household to be saved. We just believe, Jesus does the rest.

Now, when we are conscious of Jesus' love for us, we are assured all things will turn out for our good. Not all things are good, but ALL things will turn out for good for those in Christ. That's a promise for those in Christ. We just believe in his grace and mercy.

When something bad happens, don't dwell in that bad situation all the time and lament the absence of God in that situation. Instead, give thanks to God that that bad thing happened for a reason for Him to show His grace for us. For where there is sin, grace super abounds. See the grace of God working all things for our good.

Trust in God's love. His love will never fail. And His grace will see us through. Rest in the complete work of Christ Jesus at the cross. For at the cross, all our sins are forgiven and whoever accepts the gift of salvation is saved, is sozoed. We are being made whole in every area of our lives. Where there is a need, grace will flow abundantly in that area. That is not to say we purposely create a need for God to meet. When a need arises, God's grace will be there to meet it, with exceedingly abundantly more than we think or ask for!

Lean "hard" on Jesus' love for us. See his unfailing love reaching out to us. See His grace flowing in and through our lives and see the manifestation of our miracles. Hallelujah!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Tithe your time to God

Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. - Proverbs 3:9-10

While these verses speak about tithing your possessions, we can infer we can tithe our time to God as well. The word of God tells us our days can be prolonged. One principle I know is that when we tithe our time to God, our days are lengthened. It seems like we have more than twenty hours in a day or more things are been accomplished before the end of a day.

There is no specific length of time with respect to tithing our time to God. Personally, I would spend time in the word before I start my day. For some of us, it may be just a few minutes when we are seated on our "great white throne" going about our daily routing. For some of us, it may be that few minutes while we are making our way to the office. Some of us may be spending time in the word when there are pockets of time when we are free. Or it may just be reading the daily devotional when you start your day.

Regardless of the timings and the amount of time we spend to tithe to God, just tithe your time to God, be it spending time in His presence or in His word. When we spend time with God, our souls are being nourished. We experience His love for us all over again. We feel His embrace once again. We are made conscious of the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ at the cross and see the perfection of that work at the cross.

With one single act by Christ Jesus at the cross, all our sins are forgiven. We are made the righteousness of God in Christ. All our needs and wants shall be met by Christ Jesus. When the presence of God is strong in our lives, we know He is doing mighty thing behind the scene to turn all things for our good. Our lives are been redeemed by Christ Jesus.

This redemption includes redemption of our time, including the time from the past. God is able to turn our past for our good. We may not be able to understand and comprehend how God is able to do that but can just simply believe Him and put our trust in Him! The bible tells us to believe God while the understanding may come later.

Spend time in the word and meditate on your rhema word for the day and see good success in your every endeavor. That's the promise of God for His word will never come back to Him void. Hallelujah!