Do you still believe in Jesus when things are going against you?

And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, " This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir." Then He brought him outside and said, " Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, " So shall your descendants be." And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. - Genesis 15:4-6

The scriptures tell us that Abram believed in the story of the Messiah and God accounted him for righteousness. In present context, when we believe in Jesus and His redemptive work at the cross, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ. It is the work of Jesus at the cross which fully qualified and justified us before God. It is His precious blood that keeps on cleansing us and by His strip, we are healed and made whole.

In the natural, Abram was old and quite advance in age when God told him he would have an heir through Sarai. In spite of the fact he was childless and Sarai was barren, he believed God.

The three friends of Daniel didn't want to bow down to king Nebuchadnezzar and steadfastly believed in the almighty God whom would save them even if they were to be thrown in to the fiery furnace. After the three friends were thrown into the fiery furnace, the fourth Man appeared and rescued them from the fiery furnace. They were completely saved and were subsequently promoted by the very king who wanted to kill them!

The bible tells us that Joseph had two dreams and that in one of two dreams he was promoted above all this brothers. The brothers were jealous and plotted to kill him but eventually sold him as slave to an Egyptian captain. Even when Joseph was thrown into the dungeon because he rejected the advances of Potiphar's wife, he didn't stop believing God and after two years in the dungeon, Joseph was promoted to be the second man in command after Pharaoh.

When the children of Israel followed the lead of Moses to go out of Egypt, they were met with the Red Sea in front of them and the furious charge of the Egyptian army hot on their heels. At that very moment, they thought they would die and cried out to Moses why he had brought them out to die. In spite of their murmuring, God opened the Red Sea for them to cross and drown the very Egyptian army that were pursuing them!

When things seem to be going in the exact direction that we envision them to be, do we still believe in Jesus and His finished work at the cross and boldly declare we are the righteousness of God in Christ? When you are in the middle of fiery trial, do you still believe Jesus has a great plan for you and He will deliver you out this predicament? When your life seems to fall apart, do you still put your trust in God whom so loved us in the first place?

What if the the fiery trial is a dreaded disease? What if the challenge is a mountain of debt? What if the persecution comes from a love one in family? What if the devastating hit is the lost of a child? Do we still dare believe in God? Can we still trust God?

The answer is YES! The bible tells us in the book of Jeremiah that God only has good thoughts toward us and He has a master plan to do us good! So, in spite of all the negative circumstances surrounding us, we can still, by faith, believe in the loving God. We can look forward to a future full of hope and light for Jesus is in control and He will turn all things around for our good.

Don't lose hope in God. Keep believing God and declaring victory in our lives for Jesus has already given us the victory at the cross! Hallelujah!

Jesus is fighting your battles

"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. - Deuteronomy 20:1

The bible tells us that the Lord will NEVER leave nor forsake us. He is there when we are going through our valleys and He is there with us when we are at our mountain tops. The word says: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. - Psalm 23:4

After Abraham had defeated four kings who had captured his nephew, he was afraid the four kings would come back to take revenge and take back whatever belonged to them and much more. Yet the word of the Lord came to Abraham to assure him that He is his shield and exceedingly great reward.

When Moses was leading the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in hot pursuit, the good Lord was with them and He opened the Red Sea for the children of Israel to cross and yet caused the Red Sea to drown the whole of the Egyptian army! And when Joshua was leading to children of Israel to conquer the city of Jericho, the Lord just commanded Joshua and his army to shout at the wall of Jericho and the wall of Jericho just collapsed in front of them.

In our daily living, the good Lord is with us all the way, all the times. We may not have felt His presence but rest assured He is there where we are. He is fighting our every battle even though when things seem impossible to overcome. He is there to comfort us even when we think He is miles away. He is right there where we are even though we may be numb to His whisper.

We are the beloveds of the Lord, Jesus Christ. We have a great and mighty savior who willingly die for us at the cross! Because of His great love for us, He is willing and more than capable to handle our every care and concern. We just have to cast them upon the very feet of our lovely Lord and rest in His finihsed work at the cross. For He will complete His work in us for He loves and cares for us.

In spite of what we are going through; be it fighting the dreaded disease that the doctors have no answer for or be it dealing with a mountain of debt that we have no resources to clear or be it a broken relationship which we wish it is mended but isn't or be it simply a question of where to send your children for their continuing education, the good Lord is the Answer and is working behind the scene to turn all things for our good.

Rest in His great love for us and watch how the Lord fights our every battle. Hallelujah!

I have an awesome God

For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods. - 1 Chronicles 

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God is an awesome God!

He first called forth light and light is still going forth to places beyond our wildest imagination. This light is not the natural sun light that most of us are familiar with for this "Light" is Jesus Himself. Jesus is there in the beginning and in all things He exists and all things exist for Him. All things were made for Him!

Isn't it interesting that God made man on the sixth day after He had created all other things and living creatures for man to have dominion over. If God had created man on the very first day, man would be living in complete darkness. He would have no natural light to see. He would have no land to stand upon. He would have no food to eat as well! Now that would have been a terrible thought.

Yet God made man on the sixth day so that man can enjoy all that God has created. Man was made to enjoy all that God has for him. He is to rest in God and just bask in God's great love. Man is called to have dominion over all created things and to live a long good life without death. He is called to be fruitful and "to bring joy" to God for God has great joy when He sees His wonderfully and awesomely made man enjoying all that He has for him.

Yet man sinned against God by partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. With that single rebellious act against God, man has surrendered his authority on earth to the accuser, satan himself. 

Praised God this act of man didn't catch Him by surprise. He knows man would sin against Him yet He made man with a free will and He doesn't overrule that free will of man even though He has every power to do so. He will not take away that free will for He is a righteous God! God respects man's decisions, even his choice to sin against God.

God has a redemptive plan in place long before man would sin against God. He so loved the world that He IS willing to send His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us at the cross. He will take back the authority that Adam has lost righteously through Christ Jesus, our Lord and great Redeemer.

He sent His Son to redeem all mankind and yet man still, on his own free choice, choose to sin against God. God didn't see how man rebel against Him but only sees the perfection of the redemptive work of His Son, Jesus Christ, at the cross. He sees the precious blood of Jesus being shed at the cross for the sins of man. He sees the sinless body of Jesus being broken for our wholeness. He sees the shalom peace of Jesus being bequeathed to His creations which are made in the perfect image of Him! Hallelujah!

God no longer remembers our sins and our transgressions against Him for all the punishment has been bore by Jesus at the cross. And His single perfect obedience at the cross redeems us from eternal damnation forever! Prase God for He is awesome to be prasied. Hallelujah!  

Sing praises to the Lord and worship God

I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. - Psalm 7:17

Always sing praises to the Lord. Worship God at all times. And something miraculous will happen: the peace and joy of God will fill your heart to overflowing!

When we praise and worship God, we are giving glory to God. We are depending on His goodness and grace to see us through all the days of our lives. When we worship God, we are focusing on the Lord who willingly die as us at the cross some two thousand years ago. We acknowledge there is only true God worthy of our praise and worship.

When we praise and worship God, He fights our battles. Be it a dreaded disease, be it a huge debt, be it a failed marital relationship, be it a depression, He will fight on our behalf.

For at the cross, Jesus bore all the wrath of the punishment of our sins and transgressions by His very own body. By His stripe, we are more than healed, we are made whole. His precious blood washes us clean every moment of our lives. Jesus was made poor at the cross that we through His poverty shall be made rich. For my God shall apply all my needs according to the riches in glory by Christ Jesus. At the cross, He "restore" a "lost" son in John to His earthly mother. Jesus wore a crown of thorns and He shed blood of sweat so that we can live life care-free and fearless.

We sing praises and worship God during church service corporately to usher in the presence of the Lord. There is power and unity when we worship God corporately. God is honoured and exalted above all things.

Give thanks and worship God for He fights our battles. He will turn all things for our good. When we praise and worship Him in the spirit, we speak our future in existence. When we praise and worship God, the angels rejoice together with us and the devil is nowhere to be found!

Sing praises to the Lord for He is good and His mercy endures forever! Hallelujah! 

Jesus loves us unconditionally

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:7-8

The bible tells us for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for the world. There is no "string attached" as to why God would send His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the world but only His unending and unceasing love toward men. The love of God was fully demonstrated at the cross by Christ Jesus some two thousand years ago.

For by one completely complete work of Jesus at cross, all our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled with God through Christ. We can now come boldly to the His throne of grace in times of need to cry out Abba, Father! At the cross, the divine exchange has taken place: our sin for His righteousness.

God wasn't forced or coaxed into sending His Son to the cross. He sent His Son out of His love for us! He didn't want men to live in a state of sin for without Christ, we were all prisoners of sin. Yet with the finished work at the cross, we are no longer prisoners of sin but prisoners of righteousness. We are made the righteousness of God in Christ! We have Christ's righteousness!

And because Jesus died and rose again three days later, we are being justified. We are qualified by the precious blood of Jesus and nothing else. Only the sinless blood of Jesus can atone for all our sins. Only His blood can eternally washed us clean of all our sins and transgressions. Only His precious blood keeps and protects us all the days of our lives.

The bible tells us that perhaps one would die for a good man. But Christ died for all of us while we were still sinners! As sinners, we sin. But now that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, His beloveds, the precious ones that are worth saving, whatever we do are righteousness acts. Don't get me wrong here, we still sin here and there for our bodies have not been perfected yet. But we are as righteousness as Jesus is before God! God sees us in Christ. And in Christ, the full perfection of God.

We are not perfect in our thoughts and deeds yet God sees us perfect in Christ. He sees us in our finished product: the perfect reflection of the every image of Jesus. We have not contributed a tiny bit in the redemptive work of Jesus at the cross. It is all Jesus and it is all about Jesus. We are to enjoy His victory for us. We are called to enjoy His perfect love for us. For He first loves us so that we can love others.

As beloved of the Lord, we simply enjoy His peace and joy and be lead by the Holy Spirit in our daily endeavors. Know this for sure, God will never be angry with His people and He will always take good care of His people. Hallelujah!

Jesus is the over-comer and we are more than conquerors in Him

Jesus is the conqueror and we get to enjoy His victory over satan at the cross some two thousand years ago. We are more than conquerors in Christ for it is Him who has given us the victory and we need not fight the satan ourselves but only to enforce his defeat in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah!

We can reign in this life for the finished work at the cross. For at the cross, the divine exchange had taken place, our sin for His righteousness, His right standing with God for our state of sin. With His shed blood, we are forgiven of all our sins, past, present and future! We are constantly been cleansed by His precious blood for His blood keeps on keeping on cleansing us of all our sins. It is as if we are placed under the waterfall of His precious blood and the constant flow keeps on washing us in every each way.

In the book of revelation of the bible tells us to behold the sacrificial Lamb of God and the Lion of Judah. This is what the apostle John saw when he thought there is no one worthy to un-seal the seven seals on earth. In it, the bible tells us the sacrificial Lamb looked as if It was just been slain! This speaks of the ever cleansing power of the precious blood of Jesus. While the divine exchange took place some two thousand years ago, we are to appropriate it as though it just happened at the Calvary Hill. We are to see that the finished work at the cross is efficacious throughout time for it is out of time.

The work of Jesus at the cross is more than able to save the very first man on earth and the very last man that will come in the future. We can completely rest in His finished work at the cross knowing whatever is needed has been accomplished at the cross! We are first and foremost made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. With it, we are blessed with every spiritual blessing. And by His stripe, we are already made whole, healed. We have the shalom peace of Jesus and we can enjoy His unfailing love towards us. For His perfect love casts out all fears!

The bible tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the things that we will ever need will be added unto us. The bible also defines the Kingdom of God as not about eating and drinking but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit! We are to be at rest knowing without a shadow of doubt regarding our salvation in Christ. It is eternal! For if it is not eternal, we shall never be sure of our redemption in Christ for we will never know which sin or transgression will cause us to lose our salvation in Christ.

The redemptive work of Christ is accomplished by Christ and Christ alone. We have absolutely no part in it except to rest in His finished work and to enjoy what Christ has done for us at the cross! We can rest assured knowing nothing can separate us from God the moment we believe in the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have the speaking power to proclaim victory in every circumstance. We can proclaim favor in our every situation. And we will see the grace of God pulling through for us! O Lord, it is all about His grace in our lives! His grace has see us thus far in our lives and it will continue to see us through in the future.

We can face every adversary in our lives with full confidence that Jesus will see us through. It is not a question of will He but a matter of His perfect timing to make all things beautiful in our lives! This is the kind of assurance we can have when Christ Jesus willingly gave Himself up at the cross on our behalf to bore all the wrath of God's punishments for our sins and transgressions.

Rest in His finished work at the cross and His grace in our lives and see the material manifestation of the miracles we need. Hallelujah!

There is none like Jesus

Jesus is the altogether lovely One. There is none other who can compare
with Him. He is my all in all. With Him, I have everything and I am
prosperous.

The bible says for God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten
Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the world so that whosoever believes in
Him shall not perish but has everlasting life. The loving Father sent
Jesus to die for sinner at the cross. For only the precious blood of
Jesus has the redemptive power to redeem our lives from destruction.
Only His blood can cleanse us of all our sins! And His blood keeps on
keeping on cleansing the believers.

Abba Father did not send an Arch Angel to save the world but the best
that Heavens have to offer, Jesus. He is perfect in every way. His blood
is sinless. He knew no sin and in He there is no sin. Yet at the cross,
Jesus became our sin sacrifice so that we can be made the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus! What a wonderful work of Jesus Christ at the
cross! The divine exchange had taken place some two thousand years ago.

At the cross, the perfect one died for the imperfect ones. His
righteousness for our sin. He is our redeemer at the cross. He is the
over payment for our sin debts to God! He is the perfect offering at the
cross. No one else can satisfy God's judicial demand on men for our sins
and transgressions except Jesus Christ, our Lord and saviour. At the
cross Jesus was made poor so that we through His poverty shall be made
rich. The richness in the context of this verse in the bible speaks of
material abundance. The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall not want.

Jesus always prepares our path way before we ever walk through it. For
the bible tells us that the Lord will always go before us and prepare
the way. He is tirelessly working behind the scene to prosper and to
lift us up. He is the High Priest at Heavenly Father's right hand. He
shear presence speaks of the completely complete and thoroughly thorough
work at the cross! The work is so complete that men will never be able
to comprehend the value that Abba Father sees. There is no way we can
ever fully appreciate the finished work at the cross by Christ Jesus
with our puny minds.

The bible tells us that by Jesus' stripe, we are healed and made whole.
Whosoever believes unto the Lord Jesus is already made whole, complete,
and healed of every illness, disease and pain. It is our part to believe
and His part to perform and He has already perform the hard part at the
cross. It must have brought Jesus untold sufferings at the cross and yet
He saw the complete redemptive work for our sake and bore God's wrath
upon His own body so that God can judicially forgive all our sins and
transgressions.

Jesus has overcome the world and we are more than conquerors in Him. We
are to reign in this lifetime. We have the victory that Jesus paid His
life for at the cross. Jesus is our peace. His peace that surpasses all
understanding of the world He has bequeathed to us. He tells us to cast
all our cares upon Him for He cares very dearly for all our needs. He is
more than able and willing to fulfill exceedingly and abundantly above
all that we can think or ask for!
The beloved shall live each day knowing Jesus is always there for
him/her. Reign in life! Hallelujah!

God of abundance

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! - Matthew 7:11

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32

God is the God of abundance and not a God of lack. God created the Heavens and earth and has His children to have dominion over the universe and to reign in this lifetime. He wants His children to be abundantly supplied for and be lacking in nothing. For the bible tells us the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want (Psalm 23:1). The bible also tells us that God shall supply all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19)

Yet we see Christians living lives thinking they have to fend for themselves. They think God is always demanding from them. They think they will have to behave for God to bless them and supply to them. They think by obeying the Ten Commandments they will merit God's blessings and prosperity will flow into their lives. They have the perception that God is on a sin hunt when God is actually looking at ways to bless us and to prosper us and to lead us to the place where we should go.

For the bibles says Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers (3 John 1:2). God's heart is to see us prospering as our souls prosper. He loves to see us having a BIG revelation of His love for us and the finished work of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, at the cross. He wants us to know without a doubt how much He loves us and wants to provide, with more than enough to be a blessing, us with all sufficiency. 

It is because of the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ at the cross that qualifies us to be right with God. It is His single sacrifice that saves us from eternal demnation. It is His precious blood that was shed for our righteousness. It is His body which bore our diseases and pains and sorrows. It is the Lion of Judah that willingly gave up His life at the cross. It is the sacrificial Lamb of God who took our place at the cross. It is Lord Jesus and Him only at the cross.

We need to repent in our way we see God. God is a loving God. He only has good thoughts toward us and plans to make us a success. He says our future is bright for He has gone ahead of our future and He says it is good. Rest in His unfailing love towards us. Lean "hard" on Jesus' bosom. Feel His very hearbeat of love for us.

The God of all creations has so much to bless that He wishes more of us will take more from Him. His supply is unlimited. He can bless us with more than enough and still have plenty to bless others with. That is our God of abundance! He is El Shaddai! Hallelujah!