Welcome to the month of July 2018: Our Month of Excellence

Welcome to the month of July 2018: Our Month of Excellence

“Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.” Dan.5:12

As we enter into the second half of the year, many would currently be taking inventory of this year from the beginning to the end of its first half today. Some would be very satisfied with their reports and others would not be depending on their results and attitudes. However, there is one truth we must all bear in mind and that is that we did not begin this year and get to this point of the year by our own power or ability. We all got here by the grace of God; thus whether we feel we have succeeded or failed, we must always remember the God factor and remember that the best attitude we can have at a time like this is one of gratitude.

So far in life I have learnt to be thankful for what God has given to me rather than being disturbed about what I think I should have but don’t because I learnt from God’s word that godliness with contentment is great gain. Further, I have also come to an awareness that true excellence is impossible without intimacy with the Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of excellence and therefore to demonstrate true excellence is impossible without being associated with Him. From our text above, we see the example of Daniel who was acclaimed by royalty in Babylon in his lifetime as being one with an excellent spirit because according to them, the spirit of the Holy God with him.

Another person who demonstrated excellence in the word of God was Joseph. Concerning him, this is what Pharaoh had to say of him:

“… can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?

… in as much as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. You shall be over my house and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.” Gen.41:38-41 nkjv

Also, about the Lord Jesus Christ, we read that he increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and men when he was still only twelve years old because of the life of intimacy he had with God as was later disclosed to us in his statement in John 5:19-20, 30 etc. that he does nothing except what He sees the father doing and that He says nothing except what the father tells Him to say. We also lean from his daily prayer habit disclosed to us in Mark 1:35 that he did not take His intimate relationship with God lightly. Why was He like this? He knew that He could only stay connected to God by sticking closely to Him. It is only then that the life of God could flow through Him in this wicked world even though He was God’s Son. See Lk.2:52

Everyone who is born of God in this world is faced with the constant challenge of remaining connected to their source of salvation – Jesus Christ. God saw ahead that this would be the case so He promised to and sent us the Holy Spirit to help us on behalf of Christ to stay connected to Him. This is because if we are not so positioned, the wicked will try to wrest our salvation from us through fruitlessness.

To protect us from this adversity, the Lord declared the way to freedom from this world and its ways in John 8:31-32; He said:

“… If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

Further, in John 15:1-5 He makes us understand that the importance of abiding in him cannot be over flogged because it is only when we abide in Him that we can be fruitful. When we realize this, we are motivated to do everything we have to do to stay connected because indeed, without him we cannot bear any fruit. Meanwhile, it is God’s will for us not only to bear fruit but to bear much fruit. See John 15:8 – He said that when we bear much fruit, it qualifies us as His disciples.

In light of the importance of being a disciple to be able to bear much fruit, we can see that the spirit of excellence would flow freely through a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. The people we looked at their examples in the Old Testament both show that they were disciples of some greater ones before them and it helped them become the excellent men they were. Joseph was discipled by his father Jacob. Daniel was an ardent follower of Jeremiah and he was able to leave behind an excellent legacy like the wise men from the east who visited the baby Jesus hundreds of years later.

This month, we shall thus be learning discipleship with the aim of knowing how we can be led by the Holy Spirit and God’s word to see how we can become true Disciples of Christ while still in submission to His true disciples. Theme: understanding the Privileges of being a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is my heart felt prayer that at the end of this month each of us would have learnt how to enlist and walk in this great boat called Discipleship and started living the life of one.

Meanwhile discipleship is only for the believer in Christ; all who are not yet born again cannot enter this boat. Thus if you are reading this blog now and you are not yet born again and you desire to take on the responsibility of becoming a disciple, you can get saved right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be saved:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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