Living for Christ is to live free from sin.How?

Text:Micah 7:18-19, Philippians 2:13 Many of us believers are struggling to live for Christ daily all to no avail.Integrity or freedom from sin is the key to abundant life and prosperity.I've tried to pray this besetting sin out and I have failed!I've tried to read the Bible,but my mind keeps wandering away!I've tried to get rid of this evil or bad habits, but it keeps coming back!If this describes you, you are not alone, and do not feel condemn.Jesus has the solution for you today. A servant of God asked the Lord; what can I do to please you?The Lord answered, My greatest pleasure is when you allow me to do the work.(Philippians 2:13). So to please God , He wants us to pray the prayer He wants to hear on this matter:Lord, I can't do it, You will have to do the work."Paul's solution to his struggle wth sin in Romans 7:14,18,24-25 was to turn it over to Christ.Turn that struggle with sin, sickness,family turmoil, debt to Jesus, because He is the only One Who can subdue it.(Micah 7:18-19).You will never be able to solve your problems; quit trying and surrender to the Spirit of Christ, your Comforter and Helper,alleluia. If you do this, you will be transformed and will discover how easy it is to live for Christ. Jesus is inviting the habitual sinner or carnal believer still in adultery, drug use, strife, complaining, murmuring or any other besetting sin :"Come unto me, give the sins, iniquities to me and let me subdue them and exchange them for my burden which is light and my yoke which is easy. I paid for them with My precious blood.(Matthew 11:28-30,Ephesians 1:7) As soon as the motion of sin comes to you, give them to Jesus and give Him thanks for taking them from you.Do it as often as it comes, and the unclean seducing spirits behind the sins will have to go forever.Also Also violently resist and cast out the devils luring and deceiving you into sinning, and the Egyptian you saw a moment ago , you will not find them anymore. Alleluia , glory to God and praises and honor to our Lord Jesus Christ and our precious Holy Spirit, our senior Partner in the journey of life. God bless you richly as you do what the Lord says to enjoy the abundant life which is rightfully yours. yours.

Mountain Moving faith: Speak to the Mountain

Text: 2 Corinthians 4:13,  Mark 11:23

There is life and death in the power of our tongue (Proverbs 18:20-21). Our words are powerful. With our words we can release life, and with our words, we can release death. There is power in our words-both positive and negative power. If you are fighting some type of challenge, you need to start speaking faith-filled words against that challenge. Speak what the word of God says about you concerning the challenge and speak it in faith.You cannot keep a thought from coming, but you can keep from taking that thought as your own(Matthew 6:31).You haven’t really taken a thought until you begin to speak it out.  How do we then operate on the word of God to receive our blessings from God? Speak to the mountain and call forth your blessings from the spirit realm in Jesus Name.!Alleluia

1.What is a mountain: Luke 17:6

What is a mountain in a believer's life? The mountain is the problem in your life. A mountain is anything that is a barrier to you completing God's Will. A mountain is anything that is slowing down or impeding your progress in the Kingdom of God. Many believers spend time praying to God about their mountain. They cry to God about what a hindrance or impossibility the mountain is in their life. Some people make up doctrines and traditions about God, to justify why the mountain is still in their life.

2.Who is responsible to speak to the mountain? Matthew  21:21, Isaiah 45:11
Many believers will pray to God for Him to speak to their mountain. God will never do what he has commanded you to do. You pray to God to receive what Jesus has made available to you (Mark 11:24).It is your responsibility to speak to the mountain in your life. Jesus didn't tell us to pray to God about our mountain. He said for us to speak to the mountain; speak to the mountain in His Name. Jesus didn't tell us to ignore or deny the mountain or problem. We are not to say, "I don't have a mountain" or "what problem?" We are not to practice positive thinking. A positive attitude is always good. But a positive attitude is not what Jesus said to do with mountains. Jesus said to speak to the mountain or problem and tell it to be moved .Jesus said that any believer can tell a mountain, "You be lifted up and thrown into the sea" (NLT), or "Go, throw yourself into the sea" (NIV), or "Go jump in the lake -no shuffling or shilly-shallying-and it's as good as done"(Message) .Jesus says, "if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you"  from our text.

3.What is the role of prayer and fasting in speaking to the mountain? Matthew 17:20

Praying and fasting will not move a mountain. Prayer and fasting deals with unbelief or lack of confidence in God's Word .Many people get into natural unbelief by what they see, hear, touch, smell, taste or even feel. You must not allow natural unbelief to be a counter weight to faith(Matthew 17:20) Your spirit man must not be dominated by your unregenerated fallen flesh .Prayer is about your relationship with God through Jesus Christ and will increase your confidence about your relationship with God. God becomes your total source. Prayer and fasting will move you into a more confident [faithful] position to speak to the mountain .

4.How do we speak to the mountain: Mark 11:23, Zechariah 4:6-7

        a)Thank God whose desire is for you to prosper and be in good health, and to have abundant life

       b)Praise who through the finished work of the Cross had paid for us to receive and enjoy His blessings

      c)Command the recipient-the thing , your body, bank account, resume, family to receive and respond to the power of God in the promised word of God

d)Command the mountain to move out of the way and the blessings to come and declare or proclaim God’s favor over the situation, like Zerrubbabel did. Psalm 5:12, Zechariah 4;6-7

       e)If it does not move, continue to speak to it, the mountains may be many! Alleluia. They must bow.

Perfecting our faith: receiving the word of God

Text:Hebrews 4:2,Mark 4:20,24 Text:Hebrews 4:2, Mark 4:20-26 This month ,the Holy Spirit has been teaching us about perfecting our faith. In this blog we wish to learn the missing seed in the faith work. Our text tells us that it is the gospel of grace(Acts 13:43) that mixes with faith to produce profit. Faith is of the heart and the mixing takes place in the heart. In Mark 4:2 we are told the kingdom operates under the principle of seed time and harvest.Faith seed(Luke 17:6) mixed with the Word seed(Luke 8:11) will produce profit. When we became born again, we received the seed of faith into our heart as a component of the fruit of the spirit(Galatians 5:22). Our text tells us in Mark 4:20 that the good ground which produce 30,60 and 100 fold fruit is such as which HEAR the WORD and receive THE WORD.So until you receive the word into your heart ,conception of the fruit cannot take place.The process of receiving the word into your heart is called MEDITATION:constantly speaking the word to yourself,to others and in every situation. The word tells us that there is seed, time and then harvest.The time is a time of watering the seed with the rain of the word. Paul planteth, Apollos watereth, then God gave the increase(1 Corinthians 3:6).The process of watering is called MEDITATION:constantly speaking the word of God to yourself, to others and in every situation until it sparks an inner image or picture of the harvest you are expecting or until you receive the harvests. It is pertinent to say here that as you set out to engage yourself in the growth cycle of the word of grace to produce a harvest, Satan will work hard to take the word sown in your heart by sponsoring affliction,persecution,worries from the cares of this world,deceitfulness,lusts of the eyes(covetousness, pride,strife,contention),lusts of the flesh(adultery,fornication,ego,pride) ,unforgiveness and offences etc. Most of the happenings in the families is Satan's program to steal the word.Be wise.

Perfecting our faith: cultivating biblical hope

Text:Hebrews 6:19 ,2 Peter 2:19, Romans 8:24 , Hebrews 11:1 Bible hope is not a wish which we expect to pass. It is a spiritual seed, a dream, an inner image conceived in the soul of man by the word of God.It is what faith requires to bring the blessings of God into manifestation in the believers life. Meditation by constantly speaking God's word as it relates to the circumstance or situation to yourself, to others and in every situation-calling those things which are not as though they were is one of the ways of cultivating biblical hope. When the word of God enters into your heart, it brings light to the circumstance(2 Peter 1:19)because it enters as light.And As we continue to speak the word of God to ourselves, to others and in every situation, the light gets brighter and brighter. It grows and develops on our inside ultimately giving birth to an inner image of what we are believing to receive from God. First we have a more sure word of prophecy(2 Peter 2:19) and then a more sure and steady hope, the anchor of the soul.( Hebrews 6:19) This was what Abraham, Joshua and Peter did to manifest their destiny in God.Whereas in the past we may have seen ourselves childless like Abraham, lacking money or sick or with one challenge or the other, but once we hear the word of God concerning the situation and receive the seed of the word of God into our hearts by hearing and speaking it continuously to ourselves, to others and in every situation, we begin to see the word inside us as a bright inner image or picture or dream, and then as we declare what we see, we turn our faith loose to produce fruit. Alleluia, glory to God in the highest.

Perfecting our faith: Contrasting Biblical hope from natural hope

Text:Hebrews 11:1 , Romans 8:24 From our text we can see that faith is first and foremost the substance of things hoped for.So understanding the contrasts between biblical ad natural hope is important in perfecting our faith. Natural hope is synonymous with wishing. I am hoping to get a job or a new home.Biblical hope is Holy Spirit inspired,inner image or picture or dreams within us deliberately cultivated based on the promises of God's word and heaven's unfailing and unlimited provisions. Faith gives substance to bible based hopes or inner image or picture in the spirit realm and makes it manifest in the natural realm. Biblical hope is the person of our Lord Jesus Christ-the Living Word of God.(1 Timothy 1:1) Our intense expectation that the inner image or biblical hope will come to pass guarantees that the spiritual seed of hope cultivated will produce fruit in the kingdom and results in the rewards of our inheritance. Alleluia. So when believers do not take time to cultivate biblical hope within their hearts, faith is left with nothing to do or work on and becomes ineffectual. Cultivating biblical hope is very crucial to perfecting our faith and will be the subject of the next blog. Shalom and God bless you richly.