The benefits of Grace and the right heart to enjoy it

Messages for May 2018: Our Month of Great Grace

Message for Sunday 13^th May, 2018

Theme: Understanding the heart of man in relation to the grace of God

Topic: The benefits of Grace and the right heart to enjoy it

Introduction: Last week we looked at what grace is and what the heart of man is and we saw how the heart of man could influence the extent of grace a man could enjoy from God. Today, continuing along that line, we are going to be seeing some benefits of grace and the right heart to enjoy them.

Some benefits of the graces of God and the right heart for each:

In the book of Psalm 103:7 we learn that while the Lord showed the children of Israel His acts, He revealed His ways to Moses. The reason this was so was that Moses showed interest in knowing and following God more than in getting miracles from God. The children of Israel were more interested in the miraculous acts of God than in Him. See Exod.33:14-17 and Exod.34.

As a result of knowing the ways of God, Moses was able to command His acts. Therefore, the children of Israel relied on Moses to get their needs met instead of going to God straight. We in the New Testament Church are indeed more privileged than them because we now have God living in us and can cultivate intimate relationships with Him to enable us approach Him anytime we desire and learn from Him of His ways and walk in it. The following are therefore some benefits of the grace of God.

1.     Divine Favour:

This is to be treated with preference by God. It is the magnet that attracts blessings in your direction. This is what enables a person to speak a different language in the midst of adversity among others. This is because the person is divinely exempted from whatever evils are around from which others are suffering. When God wants to bless a person, He gives them favour. When God was to take Israel from captivity, He gave them favour for instance. This is because the favour of God is what sets the pace for our liberty from any kind of captivity; no matter how long standing the issue has been. See Ps.5:12; Exod.3:21 and 12:36.

2.     Divine ability to be and do the following:

Get saved and remain saved: I have asked myself several times why it is that everyone is not saved when indeed, God wants everyone to repent and come to the knowledge of the truth? But a closer look at scriptures reveal that God, while desiring that all get saved, makes it optional so that the will of man would not be violated. In John 3:16, we read that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. The “whosoever” included in that verse of scripture shows us that man’s choice is required to complete the process of salvation. In all the texts that addresses man’s need and God’s solution for salvation, man’s will is not violated. This explains why whoever gets saved did so by the grace and faith of God as shown to us in the book of Ephesians 2:8-10. It is also by the grace of God that after we get saved, we remain saved. The Lord orders us to bear fruit that abide; the means by which He keeps our fruit of souls abiding is by His grace because He is the one who keeps us from falling. See Jude 1:24; 2Pet.1:11. To engage the grace of God for whatever reason requires that you come boldly to God to ask for His grace and mercy as you need it. Heb.4:16.

To enjoy the grace of God to get saved and stay saved would require a humble and meek heart. A humble heart for instance would acknowledge they are sinners in need of redemption which they cannot give to themselves. No matter how moralistic such a person is, they would know that only by bowing to the demands of God can they be saved. See Isa.64:6; Rm.3:10 and 1Pet.5:6

However, to stay saved would require that you are meek. A meek person here is someone that is docile to God. It takes meekness to follow God as this is required to receive the word of God that would save the soul to the point where the souls could be saved to follow the spirit. This results in mind renewal that enables you to prove and do the perfect will of God always. See Rm.12:2; Jas1:21; 4:6-7 and Mt.11:28-29.

Grow in faith: Another thing the grace of God helps us to do is to grow in faith. This is because at new birth, every believer receives a measure of faith which God expects us to cultivate until no faith grows to become faith and little faith grows to become great faith and great faith grows to become exceeding great faith. The entire Christian race is known as the faith; thus any failure in faith is a failure indeed because without faith it is impossible to continue with God because He will not be pleased. [Heb.11:6] therefore whatever helps your faith has helped your life. This is why Jesus prayed for Peter that his faith should not fail. When He did, God supplied the grace that enabled Peter to make it. See Lk.22:31; 2Thess.1:3 and Lk.17:6. It is the grace of God that gives you faith for new birth and faith to continue to grow in the faith. We are told to desire the sincere milk of the word of God so that we may grow thereby. For us to desire and then feed on the word of God takes the grace of God. When God’s word is sown, it takes a good and honest heart to receive it and bear fruit with it. The more you hear the word and meditate on it, the more you would conform to it and the more you conform the more you will be able to do it. This is because, the word of God has the inherent ability in itself to fulfill itself. All these boil down to grace because the Lord says in Jn.15:5 that we can do nothing without Him and the means by which He helps us to do all things especially what we cannot do for ourselves is Grace. See Lk.8:15. In the process of growing in obedience to the word of God, we grow in grace as far as obedience to God’s word is concerned. Thus the grace of God would always be sufficient for us.

To be able to enjoy the grace of God to grow in faith, a heart of humility cannot be compromised because anyone who is proud cannot enjoy the grace of God at all not to talk of enjoying the ability to grow in faith. See Jas.4:6 and 1Pet.5:5.   

Grow in grace: Another blessing of grace is to enable you grow in grace. The truth is that the level of grace each believer enjoys varies from person to person. Apostle Paul said that he was what he was by the grace of God and that the grace given to him was not abused as he did not disappoint divine expectations of him because he laboured more abundantly than his peers. See 1Cor.15:9-10. From this text it is clear that another kind of person who can enjoy the grace of God is one who has a diligent attitude. Apostle Paul said God bestowed His grace upon him even though he did not qualify for it but that by the same grace he labored more than the others. This has proven to be true over time because he was instrumental in writing two third of the New Testament to the glory of God.

The means by which we can have access to the grace of God itself demands an attitude of humility and boldness. So to enjoy grace you need both humility and boldness. This is because you will need both to approach the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. See Heb.4:16 and Jas.4:6.  

Walk in the spirit: It is the grace of God that enables us to walk in the spirit. If we walk in the spirit, we would not fulfill the lust of the flesh. This is because the flesh is constantly at war with the spirit for the control of the soul. God wants our souls and He can only get it by us listening to and obeying our spirits. Satan also wants our souls and he can only get it if we keep disobeying our spirits. In Rm.6:16, we learn that whoever we yield our bodies to in obedience becomes our master. It could be to sin which is the flesh or to righteousness which is the spirit. See Gal.4:1. From this text, it is evident that when we walk in the spirit, we would become and get the best God wants us to have out of life. The Holy Spirit only communicates with spiritual people and that makes walking in the spirit absolutely important for the saint.

To be able to walk in the spirit would however demand a meek and quiet spirit which the bible calls priceless before God [1Pet.3:4]. All it takes to do this also is grace. May the promise of great grace to us this month find full expression in the life of everyone here in Jesus’ name.

This grace requires self-denial and to be able to live this way, one must have a heart that is not afraid to make sacrifices for God giving up one’s own interest in favour of God’s interest. See Lk.9:23-26 and Jn.12:24-26.

For want of time and space, I will draw the curtain here today. However someone may he reading this blog who is yet to make any commitment to the Lord and as such may not understand the bulk of what is written here. But I have good news for you; you can make that commitment right away by saying the following prayers out loud in faith and you will be born again and you can immediately believe God for the grace to live for Him:

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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What is grace and what is the heart of man?

Messages for May 2018: Our Month of Great Grace

Message for Sunday 6^th May, 2018

Theme: Understanding the heart of man in relation to the grace of God

Topic: What is grace and what is the heart of man?

Introduction: This is the fifth month of the year and by the divine calendar, the fifth number is the number of grace. This month God has graciously named it our month of great grace which means we are not just going to enjoy the grace of God but we will enjoy grace in abundance because God; for His name’s sake wants to show us mercy. However over time and in scriptures, we have discovered that men have often frustrated the grace of God at different times and the reason had been because of their hearts. Thus we shall be commencing the series named as our theme above today. We will open the floor today by attempting to define grace and the heart of man to enable us understand what we are doing.

What then is grace and what is the heart of man? Grace is God’s gift given to man to enable him fulfill his destiny. Grace can be defined as unmerited favour. It is also defined as the divine ability to do what you cannot do naturally. Whereas favour creates opportunities for you; it is grace that enables you to deliver the demands of your opportunities. The bible tells us that we are saved by grace and not by ourselves; that it is a gift of God and not of any man’s effort lest any man should boast.

When we truly understand that grace is a gift given by God to enable us become the best we can become in the actualization of our divine purpose, we would become genuinely humble. This is because the qualification for increasing in the grace of God is actually humility. See Jas.4:6 and 10; 1Pet.5:6.

The heart of man on the other hand talks about the inner man or the hidden man of the heart as the bible puts it; and the soul. [Eph.3:16 and 1Pet.3:4] The word is used interchangeably in the word of God to refer to the two parts of man that are hidden from the natural eyes. Thus the heart sometimes refers to the spirit of man and at other times, it refers to the soul of man.

To enjoy the grace of God which at first is freely given, man must guard his heart with all diligence so that God would not waste His investments in man. Failure to guard the heart can result in spiritual leakage bringing about disappointments for the man. God is too principled to compromise His standards and He says His ways are not our ways and neither are His thoughts our thoughts. However because of the grace of God we can upgrade our ways to be able to walk in the ways of God.

To walk in the ways of God to enable us enjoy the grace of God, these are the demands:

1.     We must be born again: To get born again is the first requirement we must meet in order to access the grace of God. This is because sinful man without God cannot accommodate the grace of God until he first repents of his sin and becomes a member of the family to God through Jesus Christ the seed of Abraham. Thus every time sinful man is offered salvation through a preacher that is the mercy of God bringing him the grace if he would receive it. This is why we are taught in Eph.2:8-10 that we are saved by grace through faith and that faith not of yourself but it is a gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast. Please understand the grace and faith that saved you was given to you as a gift of God through the preacher who ministers to you for God. When we are born again we become entitled to the grace of God. See Ps.5:12; Jn.3:7 and Gal.3:16.

2.     We cultivate intimacy with God so His life can freely flow through us: When we get born again into God’s kingdom, we are born spiritual babies without a past anymore so we have a responsibility of developing ourselves to grow into spiritual adults who can now relate with God as sons and not just children. See Gal.4:1; 1Pet.2:2 and Jn.8:31-32. When you are intimate with God, He will open you up to an abundance of graces that would set you apart in your generation. Walking in the ways of God is made easier for you and you would find yourself fulfilling divine expectations for your life because that is why we are.

3.     We pray: Every time we pray, we are courting the grace of God by telling Him we cannot help ourselves we need His help. We are told in Hebrews 4:6 to come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. The means with which we do this is prayer. God in answer to our prayer grants us our desires and we in gratitude draw closer to Him so He can also be closer to us.

4.     We meditate on the word and let it control our lives: We read the word, meditate on it day and night so that we would be able to do it. In the course of doing this we would let the word of God dwell richly in us and the result is that we would be able to do it. As we embrace the word this way, our profiting will appear unto all. Jos.1:8; Ps.1:1-3; 1Tim.4:13-15; Rm.12:2 and Col.3:16.

5.     We do the word of God: We cannot get the best of the word of God working in our lives until we conscientiously do the word. If we do not do that word James 1:22-25 says we are deceiving ourselves. The Lord also said in Jn.14:23 that if we love Him; we would do His word and He and His father would love us and make His abode with us. Meditating on the word of God always is what empowers us to enjoy the grace to do the word because doing the word involves exercising your will to choose God’s word over and above any other.

When we live in this way, God will consider us humble and He would bless us with His grace. But if we choose to live for ourselves, He would consider us proud and would resist us.

Truly, attempting to live without the grace of God is suicidal because without the grace of God we are really nothing and can do nothing. See Jn.15:5; James 4:6 and 1Pet.5:5-6.

What Happens when you enjoy the grace of God?

1.     You enjoy the favour of God. Ps. 5:12; Zec.4:7

2.     You receive divine ability to do the right thing for the favour you enjoy to produce for you. 1Cor.15:10; 1Sam,17:43-51

3.     God reveals His secrets to you with which you rule your world. Ps.25:12-14; Job 29:3-6

4.     You can walk in the ways of God without any fear or condemnation. Rm.8:1; Lk.1:74-75.

5.     God tells you what choices you can make. Ps.25:12

6.     You enjoy divine guidance all the time. When God guides you, He goes with you, He goes before you to clear the way for you. He provides for you. He protects you. You will always be under an open heaven. See Exod.13:21-22; Ps.78:53; 106:9; 107:7

However if you are reading this article and you are yet to commit to the Lord Jesus Christ, today is your opportune day to do so. In Hebrews 4:16, we are told to boldly approach the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you’ll 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.

Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.

Welcome to the month of May 2018: Our Month of Great Grace

KINGDOM HEIRS ministries int’l

Welcome to the month of May 2018: Our Month of Great Grace

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus:

and great grace was upon them all. Acts 4:33

Divine visitation greetings family, I welcome you to the month of May 2018 which the Lord had graciously tagged our month of Great Grace. As I was meditating on this word, the Lord gave me the above text of scripture and I saw how timely this word is because we have followed the Lord’s instruction to pray more often than we were doing. In our text scripture above, the preceding verses reveal that the early Church fathers were at this time being persecuted by the Sanhedrin whose desire was to see that they stopped the spread of the gospel.

They came together and prayed for boldness to preach the gospel with power to bring glory to God and God in turn rewarded them with great grace. This was because they walked in love towards each other so that they were of one heart and soul and freely shared what they had with each other.

Since last month we have been praying day and night and we have one recurring theme in our prayers which is that God’s kingdom should come in our midst and His will should be done in our lives on earth as it is in heaven so that we can fulfill the purpose for which He brought us together. This is similar to what the early Church fathers prayed that God visited them with great grace.

What is great grace? When we take the word apart, we can clarify the definition. The word great means large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; opposed to small and little.

Grace on the other hand could be defined as divine favour and the supernatural ability to do what you cannot do naturally. Great grace therefore means to have immense divine favor and ability to do what we cannot naturally do.

Just like any other gift in the Kingdom, grace is first given to us in seed form at new birth, then we are expected to cultivate it until it matures in us to the point where it can increase to become great just like the early Church fathers enjoyed. This month, God is set to release great faith on us like He did with the early Church in answer to our prayers. Thus this month, we are to expect God to give great power to our witness of the resurrection and cause us to walk in love and experience the unity of the brethren like never before.

In light of the foregoing, we have to take advantage of this desire of God by pleasing Him through our obedience to take the gospel out like we have never done as a ministry. [Mk.16:15] This may seem herculean now but when we start, you will find it the most exciting thing to do. Therefore, I am calling on all who have not been a part of the spiritual enlargement exercise to take responsibility and enlist on a suitable day to start to participate in our two hour daily one hour prayer session. Those sessions have proven to be most fruitful and beneficial to us all.

In addition, we have also enlisted everyone to participate in the evangelism plan which would entitle you to reap harvests that would be both temporally and spiritually beneficial to you. See Jn.4:36; Isa.52:7 and Rm.10:15. This is the very reason God releases His grace on us in abundance.

As we commit to this this month, God is going to do what He did before in the early Church and cause his presence to reign in our midst and make His signs and wonders become common place among us.

However if you are reading this article and you are yet to commit to the Lord Jesus Christ, today is your opportune day to do so. In Hebrews 4:16, we are told to boldly approach the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you’ll 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.

• Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.

The Faith of God for our Redemption pt.3 (Redeemed from Poverty)

Messages for April 2018: Our Month of The faith of God
Message for Sunday 29th April, 2018
Theme: Understanding the Faith of God
Topic: The Faith of God for our Redemption pt.3 (Redeemed from Poverty)

Introduction: Since the beginning of this month God has been blessing us big time with His engrafted word and saving our souls daily thereby. We have seen the purpose of the Lord in coming to redeem us. He has redeemed us from death, sickness and now we are going to be seeing His redemption from poverty. Two weeks ago, we established that we can find out from the bible whether we are really born again or not and we looked at seven qualities Apostle John taught in the book of 1John to prove that we are actually born again. The reason is that many just go to Church to observe a religion without actually first establishing a personal relationship with God. What Jesus came to do is give us eternal life and He defines eternal life as know God and Him in Jn.17:3.

Today therefore, we shall be looking at the third heading of redemption we have been examining which is to be redeemed from poverty.

What is poverty? It is interesting to know that each time poverty is mentioned, what comes to the mind of many people is the picture of a lack of money. While a lack of money to meet one’s basic need may be one of the symptoms of poverty, it is not a comprehensive definition of poverty. What then is poverty?

The Oxford Dictionary of current English defines poverty as penury, destitution and indigence. It spells out the following synonyms for poverty – pennilessness, privation, deprivation, beggarly, impoverishment, neediness, want, hardship, beggarly etc.

A second definition given here is a state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. This could also be seen as scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shortage, paucity, insufficiency, inadequacy, absence, lack, want, deficit, meagerness, limitations, restrictions, sparseness, sparsity, inferiority, mediocrity, poorness, bareness, aridity, sterility.

World Bank defines poverty as the lack of multiple resources leading to physical deprivation. Poor people’s definition reveal important psychological aspects of poverty. Poor people are acutely aware of their lack of voice, power and independence which subjects them to exploitation.

A look at the bible would reveal to us that the true wealth of mankind is the ability to be productive. This is why the blessing of God that empowered man to fulfill his purpose of ruling over the earth within the ambit of divine permission is for man to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and have dominion over all within the ambit of his influence. As a matter of fact, when Jesus came to restore what man lost in the Garden of Eden, during His earthly ministry, He taught that it is the will of the father that we bear much fruit and that our fruit should remain. See Gen.1:28; Jn.15:1-5, 8 and 16.

In addition, when he first preached the gospel of the kingdom in the book of Luke, the first beneficiaries of the gospel we see here are the poor. This is further confirmed by Isaiah’s prophecy from which He taught in the synagogue on this occasion. See Lk.4:18 and Isa.61:1

This explains why the word of God also made us see that we are only as prosperous as our souls are. This goes to show that poverty is rooted in the soul of man or their thinking pattern. By the way the soul of man is the part of man containing his mind with which he thinks, his will and emotions. See 3Jn.1:2

What is the cause of Poverty? Simply put, poverty was caused by sin. Since man fell short of the glory of God, one of the aftermaths was poverty because his soul became corrupted and therefore he could no longer reason like God and get God’s results [Isa.55:8-9; Jer.17:9-10 ]. He was now less in value because he had become a child of the devil by the principle of Romans 6:16 that you become owned by the one to whom you yield yourself to obey. Man became lost from the day he sinned because he became cut off from God and became one with Satan who was already corrupt and had the power of death which he now used to afflict man. The afflictions of the devil presented in poverty as well as sickness and death. We already saw how Jesus has redeemed us from both death and sickness. A look at the curse of the Law enumerated by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:16-68 would disclose to us that all the curses could be summed up in poverty, sickness and death. In redemption, Jesus Christ destroyed the one with the power of death; the devil and delivered all who were all their lifetime subjected to bondage through fear of death. See Hebrews 2:14-15

Redeemed from Poverty: Since sin stripped man of all the dignity he had, Jesus Christ came to save us from our sin. See Matthew 1:21; Jn.1:29; 2Cor.5:21 and Rm.3:23-25. When man was stripped of his dignity, his wealth was also taken away from him and he became poor. His poverty was more than material; the worse was the poverty of his soul. The salvation of the soul is not included in the salvation package without the word of God being received by the saved man with meekness on a consistent basis. James tells us in James 1:21 how to cultivate the soul to conform to God’s ways so as to be able to enjoy the benefits of his redemption which includes prosperity. To cultivate the soul to align with the ways of God, redeemed man needs to do the following:

1. Understand that the prosperity you desire is only possible from an understanding of God’s perspective of what prosperity really is. See Isa.55:8-9 and 3Jn.1:2

2. Every material thing you get is never delivered by God to you as material things. He gives you the wisdom to create those things His way if you would take the time to let Him help you renew your mind which He intends to do daily through His word. See Jas.1:21

3. For you to be able to renew your mind, you have to consciously clear off the garbage of the belief system of the world and humble yourself before God so that you can receive His word with meekness. This means that in following God, you have to be docile to Him. See Rm.12:1-2.

4. You have to do the word of God revealed to you all the time. It is in doing the word that you get blessed otherwise you will be deceiving yourself. See Jas.1:22-25 and Jos.1:8

5. To empower you to do the word, you need to meditate on the word thereby allowing the word you read to dwell in you richly. When the word dwells richly in you, it will control what you say all the time. Then you would be able to make the right choices all the time because life will no longer be about you; it will be about God as you would be making choices that honor God all the time then. See Col.3:16; Jos.1:8 and Ps.1:1-3.

Some ways you know you have been redeemed from poverty: When you are redeemed from poverty, it is a total package of redemption that includes your spirit, soul and body. The following are proofs of redemption from poverty:

1. Intimacy with God through his word and consistent communion with the Holy Spirit. 1Cor.6:17; Jn.14:23 and Jn.17:3.

2. Divine guidance every day of your life from when you decide and take the steps required to follow the Lord in an intimate relationship. When God leads you, His presence goes with you, He provides for you so that you never lack any good thing and He protects you and what He gives to you. Jn.16:13; Ps.23:1-3; 32:8 and Isa.58:11.

3. You bear the fruit of the spirit which is the means by which you are identified as a child of God because the Lord said we shall be known by our fruits. Rm.8:5-8; Gal.5:22-23.

4. As a believer, you will seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness first. I consider this a breakthrough because it is one thing that the enemy of our souls hates with a passion because it makes you a laborer in the kingdom of God which is what God has said we should pray for. The quality of your life become so enhanced that you become the answer to people’s prayers. See Mt.6:33 and Jn.4:34

5. In any field of human endeavor you find yourself, God will cause you to be fruitful and multiply. You would always demonstrate the excellent spirit. This is the word of the blessing that makes prosperity possible. Gen.41:37-42 and Dan.1:8, 19-20. 

6. Your health will not be a concern as the wisdom to be in health will be delivered to you by God even your soul prospers. Isa.58:8 and 3Jn.1:2

7. You will be totally whole with nothing missing and nothing broken in your life. All your needs would be met without fail and you will even have more than enough to be instrumental in meeting the needs of others.

We will draw the curtains on this message here today for want of time and space. Please understand that as we have seen so far Redemption from poverty is tied to redemption from sin. This makes it necessary for you to get born again before you can enjoy the following benefits. If you are yet to make this choice and you desire to do so, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will become born again and be ready for your genuine prosperity:

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.

Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.

The Faith of God for our redemption pt2 (Redeemed from sickness)

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Messages for April 2018: Our Month of The faith of God

Message for Sunday 22^nd April, 2018

Theme: Understanding the Faith of God

Topic: The Faith of God for our Redemption pt.2 (Redeemed from sickness)

Introduction: So far we have been looking at understanding the faith of God and I believe the best place to start is the faith of God for our redemption from sin as it is what cost us paradise; because the entire faith of the bible is the story of paradise lost and the regaining of paradise for us by God. The means by which God has caused us to regain paradise is the redemption plan. The plan of redemption brings us into freedom from the three deadly triplets of poverty, sickness and death.

God came in Christ to pay the full price for our sin which was the cause of death resulting in poverty, sickness and death. The work of Jesus Christ from the Cross to the throne room in heaven saw us delivered from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of God where we now have redemption through His blood together with the forgiveness of sin [Col.1:12-14]. The result of this is that we are delivered from death, sickness and poverty. Last week we saw our deliverance from death; this week therefore, we shall be looking at deliverance from sickness.

The origin of Sickness:  Sickness was not provided for at the beginning when God made man because man was not designed to be sick ever. Man had life drawn from his constant connection to God; his source. When man sinned, he was cut off from God and therefore came under the influence of death. Under this influence, man became a victim of the curse which includes sickness and disease and other kinds of mishaps which ultimately results in death. See Gen.2:17; 3:

Redeemed from Sickness: To redeem means to recover ownership of a lost possession by paying the required price for it. The English Dictionary puts it this way: “To gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment”. In our case God gave us redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ because it is the principle of God that the life of the flesh is in the blood and God has given blood on the altar to make atonement for the soul. See Lev.17:11. This is why we are told in Heb.9:22 that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. Thus Jesus Christ went into the Holiest place in Heaven with His own blood to obtain eternal redemption for us. See Heb.9:12. This is how much God values us; we are worth His life!!!

Sickness is an oppression of the devil: After man fell from grace, he came under the influence of the devil and the devil began to oppress him. One of the means by which the devil oppresses man is sickness. Some are more severe than others but they all ultimately lead to death if not arrested. When the Lord came into time, He was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power and He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Then when He finished the plan of redemption, the Holy Spirit was released on the believers and they too can now under the anointing go about doing good and healing all that are oppressed of the devil. See Acts 10:38; 5:16; Mt.4:24; 8:16 and Mk.1:34.

Our current redemptive status: Our current redemptive status as far as health and healing is concerned, is summed up in these text of Scriptures which we would do well to read out loud in faith and claim: Mt.8:17; Gal.3:13-14 and 1Pet.2:24.

Why some people are not healed in spite of claiming faith in the word: I may not be able to claim knowledge of all the answer to this question because as long as we are still in time, we just know in part. However, a major challenge to people getting healed which many are not aware of and have therefore not addressed is the fact that diseases are rooted in the soul and eventually manifest in the body. If the root is not addressed, then the infirmity can only be managed. It would be like plucking fruits off a tree while the root remains; the fruits will come back again and trouble the victim. This explains why Apostle John says that He wishes above all things that we prosper and be in health even as our souls proper. 3Jn.1:2

The place of the souls for real healing and health: As we all know, man is a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body. The spirit is the real man also known as hidden man of the heart or inner man. See Eph.3:16 and 1Pet.3:4. The body is the part of you that is visible for all to see. It is what gives us the ability to live on earth. Apostle Paul calls it our earthly houses of this tabernacle in 2Cor.5:1 and Peter calls it this Tabernacle in 2Pet.1:13-15. The soul is the mid region of man that serves the body and the spirit. It is the part of man that contains his mind, will and emotions. The mind is used to think, reason and create; the will is responsible for decision making. The strength of the will is determined by the extent to which the man is renewed in his mind. The will of man will always make godly decisions even when they have to struggle in areas of weakness when the mind is renewed by the word of God. The emotion is the part of man’s soul that feels or powers his or her zeal and is responsible for driving him in the direction of that feeling or zeal.

We are told to guard our hearts with all diligence because out of it flows the issues of life. The reason is that whatever gets into your mind and stays long enough seeps into your subconscious and begins to control you without your even realizing it. If the contents are God’s word, they would help you to bear the fruit of the spirit but if they are not, they would defile you and even result in bitterness that can really constitute a problem for the soul. Prv.4:20-23; Mt.12:34-35; Rm.12:2.

Out of the abundance of the heart: [Mt.12:33-37; Pr.4:20-24; 18:20-21].  Whatever gets into your soul goes in there to constitute your treasures. If what you have been allowing into your soul are God’s thoughts, they sink down into your subconscious mind to constitute good treasures. If what you have been allowing into your soul is from the world, they sink down and form the tree of good and evil treasures. Thus in your soul, there are trees; some are good trees, planted by God while some are evil trees planted by the devil, the world and the flesh. The trigger for the tree of your life is your tongue and the tongue would help you determine life or death for your own life. When you speak the word of God, you are using your tongue wisely and you will speak life; then the seed of the words you speak will grow into the tree of life [Lk.8:11]. When you speak the words of the world, you are abusing your tongue and therefore speaking evil. The result of this is that you use your tongue to plant the tree of death over your life so doing [Prv.18:21]. This is how sickness is festered in people.  The wrong use of your tongue can bring about the works of the flesh in a believer’s life whereas the right use of the tongue can bring about the bearing of the fruit of the spirit in a believer’s life. What is going to determine how each believer turns out is the choice they make with their will. Some make choices that make them healthy, some make choices that make them sick. You determine with your will to speak life from your heart cultivated with the word of God and you will be healthy. See Ps.63:4; 34:1; Jn.20:25; Dan.3:16-18.

To stay healthy:  Let your soul become filled with the word of God to the overflow; when this happens, you will always produce the good fruit of a healthy life because the word of God is medicine to our bodies. Prv.4:22; Col.3:16; Mt.12:33-35.

The doorway to the soul: Access to the soul is through the five senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and feeling. What your eye sees, will inform your decision to purchase for instance if it is a ware. Also whatever you view long enough, you conform to. Secondly, what you hear often; you tend to believe and when you believe it, it becomes your reality over time. Further you cannot have appetite for a food you have never tasted because there is nothing to inform your brain that you need that food except in special circumstances when after a prolonged fast, you choose to take the meal even though your brain does not inspire you to .

When we are told to guard our hearts with all diligence, it refers to protecting our souls from the information communicated through the five senses that have the ability to influence our levels of faith. This is why we can only be in health to the extent our souls are healthy. Faith comes by hearing and understanding the word, so hear and speak God’s word. See 3Jn.1:2; Rm.10:17 and Jn.6:63.

Soul wounds must be healed: The bible talks about a wounded soul. Souls can be wounded through sins and iniquity. When a soul is wounded, it is described as down cast. It is also referred to as the root of bitterness that defiles many. Roots of bitterness are caused by inherited sins as well as the inability of a person to forgive an offence. The result is that they cause the same affliction on the body and the mind as they caused for the ancestors of the victim when the sin is inherited. This is why certain sicknesses are resident in some families like cancer, diabetes etc. see Deu.28:59; Ps.17:13; 42:5-6; 11 and Ps.43:5.  

How to be healed of soul wounds: Please understand that certain sicknesses would never be healed unless the injury to the soul is first taken care of. These are as a result of the portals created by devils in the souls because of the legal right they had to do so through sins and iniquity. Therefore to get rid of the source of sickness, we have to take the following steps:

1.     Get saved: salvation destroys the curse of the law which includes sickness and disease and grants us access to the Abrahamic blessing which makes you an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ with an inheritance of divine health among other things. See Gal.3:13-14; 1Pet.2:24; Rm.8:16-17.

2.     Receive the engrafted word of God: The engrafted word of God has the capacity to save your soul. Soul salvation includes deliverance and freedom from soul injuries through bitterness that kept the victim in his own prison prior. See Jas.1:22-25;

3.     Meditate on the word of God day and night: When you do this, you will have good success in the area of the healing of soul wounds. See Jos.1:8; Ps.1:1-3 and 1Tim.4:13-15.

4.     Walk in Love: Because love never fails, it will always help to heal your soul because a lover forgives which is the prerequisite for answered prayer when you pray for God to meet any need including healing. Also we are wired for loving and therefore it is our natural habitat to decide to and actually walk in love. See 1Cor.13:4-8; Prv.10:12 and 1Jn.2:9-11.

5.     Trust in God like the Psalmist exhorted: Instead of allowing your soul to be downcast, trust in the Lord and put your hope in Him. Ps.17:13; 43:5.

6.     Offer up sacrifices of praise: At this time in a person’s experience, there is no joy with which to praise God; thus praising God is really a sacrifice and if you praise God in spite of your feeling, God would send His word to heal and restore you. See Ps.107:20; Ps.42:5; 11.

7.     Speak to yourself in Psalms Hymns and spiritual songs: When you do this, it is a most exciting way to speak the word of God back to yourself. The word of God is the sword of the Spirit and with this action you are launching an offensive to the devil responsible for the injury and you can receive speedy healing. See Eph.5:18-19

8.     Go to the Court in heaven and address the matter to God as the greatest judge who judges righteously: As a solicitor, I find this method so appealing that it has produced a huge store of harvest for me. Any case brought before a judge convincingly based on correct interpretation of statutes and the effective use of judicial precedence with binding authority must deliver a verdict in your favour. Please understand that Luke in the gospel of Luke was instrumental to God in revealing three relationships we enjoy with God in the place of prayer. The first is that God is our heavenly father whose pleasure it is to give us good things we ask of him. The second is that God is our friend who would give us things based on the friendship relationship we have cultivated with Him provided we are persistent. Finally, God is the righteous judge who will give us that which we come to His court for should we ask properly. As father, He delightfully gives us our entitlements when we make the request. See Lk.11:1-4; 5-13 and Lk.18:1-8. From the progression in these text, it is clear that if your approach to God as father does not seem to work, you may need to approach him as your friend by your persistence and this shows in midnight prayers. If that too seem to fail, it is time to go to Him as the judge. Now our texts above reveals that the third case has to do with casting out of devils because iniquity is the result of roots of bitterness springing forth that defiles many; to wit subsequent generations. This requires that the Son of man would find faith in the person desiring help to be able to help him. Now let us help your faith here; when you approach God your father as a judge, you cannot return without a verdict in your favour because Jesus Christ our advocate [1Jn.2:1] does not lose a case.  The reason is we became believers through the faith of God [Eph.2:8-10]. Our understanding of this faith shows that we are adopted children of God through the promised seed of Abraham called Jesus Christ. Jesus gave us the gift promised by the Father also known as the Holy Spirit so that we would not be like orphans in the world. The Holy Spirit helps us to read and know the word of God and the right word for any situation we may need to approach God for [Job 6:25 and Ps.107:20].  See Gal.3:16; Col.2:14-15; Jn.14:18 (Amplified) and Jn.16:13. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can always plead our case correctly before God and get the verdict in our favor. A test case is like if you are plagued by what disease is adjudged by men as incurable but manageable like high blood pressure and diabetes, you approach God as the judge of the supreme court of the universe, the Lord would advocate for you as the High Priest and take your words that line up with His for your healing and apply His blood which is the evidence of God’s mercy prevailing over judgement [Jas.2:13 & 3:17] and get the verdict in your favour. At this point, you are due for judgement to be executed in your favour because you have been praying for healing or whatever the need is. So an executor of divine order is sent by heaven to execute the judgement in your favour. Sometimes you may receive the instruction to render high praises to God which will make your answer speedier than any other method of prayer you could apply because Ps.149:6-9 tells us that high praises is used for the execution of the judgement written which is a honor given only to the saints of God. What immediately follows is your healing. God will tell you the life style most suitable to stay healthy as His friend. Please do not misunderstand me God knows better than any doctor the best habits to cultivate to stay healthy because He is your manufacturer. For your healing from God, there can be no guess work. Every incurable disease is a work of the forces of darkness [Eph.6:12] and if they do not leave at new birth, they had a legal ground they are relying on to remain. But we have nothing to fear because we have superior weapons of warfare [2Cor.10:3-6]. The first thing we need to do here is just check out our family history and if we see that pattern repeating itself, we can apply the blood of Jesus all the way up our blood line to Noah or Adam if you want and break every ancestral covenants known or unknown to you that gave the enemy their legality and undo all the curses that came with them and release the blessing all the way from Adam down your blood line to you. I applied this recently and someone with insanity for over thirty years was set free by the verdict of the Lord. You would observe that in our third text, the woman was praying for vengeance over her adversaries. That is what you need now. Use it; it will not fail. This is not based on your good works; it is based on resurrection power. God is able to do exceeding above all you can ask or think according to His power that works in you. The power working in you right now is resurrection power. See Rm.8:11 and Eph.3:20. God is able to do more than you have been asking Him for.      

9.     Be thankful: This helps you to remember the acts of God in your life and gives you access to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help your soul heal fast. Eph.5:20; Heb.4:16 and 1Thess.5:18.

We shall draw the curtain here for today and trust God that whoever has not made the decision for Christ would do so right away because this is the only access to God in prayer to get any need met including your need for healing and divine health need. If you want to decide for Christ now, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you shall 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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How to know from the Bible that you are indeed born again

Messages for April 2018: Our Month of The faith of God

Message for Sunday 15^th April, 2018

Theme: Understanding the Faith of God

Topic: How to know from the Bible that you are indeed born again

Introduction: Today we were supposed to continue in our series with the topic: Redeemed from sickness; but while working on that, God let me know that since we started praying, it is important to let you know that He finds the prayer of a sinner offensive and would therefore not answer them. Prayer is a privilege of the redeemed and as such we ought to be clear from the word of God that we are really redeemed. The Lord gave us a key here when He said that except your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees and scribes, you shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of God.

Bible Evidence that you are truly saved or born again: Apostle Paul challenges the Church at Corinth with these words in 2Cor.13:5: “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” The reason for this challenge is that many in the Church at Corinth were still living like sinners and so he wanted them to get serious and clarify with God that they truly got saved when they claimed they did.

Truth be told; if your faith is just dependent on rituals and religious observances rather than on Christ and looking up to Him alone, it is vain and cannot truly be said to be authentic. This is why the Lord said in Mt.7:21-23 that on the last day many will claim piety on the ground of good works and He would tell them to depart from Him that He never knew them.

The question we are seeking clarification for today is: Do you know God and does God know you? I have two good news for you; first, you can get to know from the Bible where you stand with God and second, if you don’t know Him and He doesn’t know you, He invites you to come to Him today and be saved and it will become your reality. We are therefore going to be looking at these seven keys from the book of 1John that show us what our stand with God is:

1.     Obedience: 1Jn.2:3-4 says: “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandment is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” If you are truly saved, you will always have the desire to want to obey Him. This is not a state of sinless perfection but a state where you have the conscience to always want to live and do right by Him. This truth is further highlighted by James 3:13-18.

2.     A confession of Jesus Christ as the Son of God: In 1Jn.2:22-23, we read: “Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-Christ that denieth the Father and the Son. Whoso ever denieth the Son the same hath not the father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the father also”. All over the world, Jesus Christ is known as many different things by different people. Some call Him a great prophet, some call him master, some call him a great teacher, some call him a great wise man and still others call him grand master but only the believer in Christ know him as the Son of God and God. See Jn.1:1-5, 14 and 1Jn.5:1. This truth is brought our clearly for us to learn by Apostle Paul in Rm.10:8-11 where He teaches that if we believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. Thus the salvation of our spirits is hinged upon this truth.

3.     Ongoing repentance of sin: 1Jn.3:9-10 makes us understand that whoever is born of God does not commit sin because the seed of God abides in him and he cannot sin. The reason is that the purpose of the manifestation of Jesus Christ is to destroy the works of the devil. Therefore, anyone born of God endeavors to live right. Thus the way people live their lives will tell you on whose side they are. Please note that the seed of God that does not sin is the born again human spirit. The conscience of a person is activated by the new birth and they are able to live the way God wants them to even in this crooked and perverse generation. No one born of God relishes sin; they always repent of it when they fall no matter how they struggle with it; they always eventually opt for the life God wants them to live. See 1Jn1:6-10. Really when it comes to sin, true believers will turn away from it. In Lk.13:3, the Lord teaches that except his disciples repent, they would likewise perish with sinners who were perishing. This is why true believers do not carry unconfessed sins around.

4.     The discipline of God your father: Everyone born of God is a Child of God and the proof that God is your father is that He would discipline you should there be need for it. See 1Jn.3:1 and in Heb.12:6-12 – if you experience discipline from God for wrongs done by you, then you are born of God. Fathers only have a right to discipline their own children and not other people’s. This explains why some other people around you may do the same thing that you do and not feel any remorse about it but you become restless and unable to cope with life without first resolving the situation through repentance.

5.     Genuine love for other believers: Everyone born of God is proven by their love for other believers and as they become more mature in their love walk, they even learn to love their perceived enemies or people who do not belong to the family of God as well. This type of love is called the agape love; it is imparted to us at new birth and as we grow in the knowledge of God, we nurture it to perfection. This is the kind of love Apostle Paul described in 1Cor.13:4-8. He also describes it as the fruit of the spirit in Gal.5:22-23. See 1Jn.3:14; Rm.5:5 and Jn.5:24.

6.     The presence of the Holy Spirit in your life: 1Jn.3:24 - Everyone born again is born of God and if you are born of God, He sends His Spirit into your heart as a deposit for you - His purchased possession pending when He would come and take you out of time into eternity. See Eph.1:13-14; Rm.8:15-16. When the spirit of God is in you, you will bear the fruit of the spirit as enumerated in Gal.5:22-23. When the Spirit is in you, He will convict you of sin, righteousness and judgement and would take of the father and Son and reveal it to you. He shall also tell you things to come. When this happens, whatever you hear from the Holy Spirit cannot conflict in principle with the written word of God because the word of God is the means by which you test the authenticity of what you claim to hear from God. See Jn.16:7-13.

7.     Trust in Jesus Christ alone for Salvation: Just yesterday in Church I was privileged to lead one of the contractors we employed to carry out some plumbing work to Christ. When I first asked him if he was saved, his answer was that he goes to Church and he told me which Church he went to. However, on further enquiries, it was revealed that he was not saved. Then I told him what it meant to be saved and told him God was offering him another chance to get saved and asked if he would take advantage of it. He did and got saved. The only way by which we can be saved is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; any claim to salvation by any other means is false. The only foundation for the faith of God is faith in Jesus Christ. 1Jn.5:12.

I will stop here for want of time and space but please let us consider all these seven things to look out for in the word of God to ascertain whether we are actually saved or not. If in your honest opinion, you do not think you are, I have good news for you; you can get saved right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

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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