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Making A Marital Choice

October 20, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

The Scripture of James 3:13-15 speaks of the various choices that people can make to respond to life. It also speaks of ways of living well and living wisely as its written:

“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from ABOVE, but is EARTHY, SENSUAL, DEVILISH. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from ABOVE is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace”.

The wisdom from above as in James 3:13-15 speaks of ways of living well and living wisely. In order to be wise one needs to be humble. Those who are envious and self-seeking and twist the truth to suit their doings have the kind of wisdom that is said to be earthly, unspiritual, sensual and even demonic. With envy and strife come confusion and evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those that make peace. The only wisdom of great choice that is gracious and heart-felt is results orientated.

Details to this guidance in marital choice is by a click of the link below:

Marital Choice of Life Partner

August 2011 Theme

August 1, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

Shalom & Kingdom greetings in the precious name of our Lord & Saviour King – Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. With awesome privilege, I gladly welcome all visitors and existing browsers into this MONTH of AUGUST 2011 Themed: “Envision to Reign in Life”.

Jeremiah 17:12 “¹² A glorious high throne from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary“.

May I begin by saying that you are redeemed of God to reign in life through Christ Jesus our Lord. This is absolutely certain, a fact and truth to all areas of our life. It’s not limited to certain group, class, gender or colour of people. But its a choice of life for all in Christ Jesus our Lord. God wants you to reign in life hence Christ paid for your liberty and freedom to reign in life. To reign over Sickness, Poverty and Spiritual death. Much more, over all the effects that these three elements have cause to humanity in all aspect of livelihood, be it in Business, Marriage, Family, Politics, Career, Leadership, Community Cohesion and National Unity. Hence to reign in this context is much more about being able to predominate, take charge, to govern, to rule, to prevail, to triumph, to achieve, to bring under control, to direct and to lead etc.

Revelation 5:9-10 “⁹ And they sang a new song, saying: “ You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall REIGN on the earth.“

Romans 5:17 “¹⁷ For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will REIGN in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)”

To Envision is to imagine possible, conceive of, see of ones mind, envisage, ideate, picture to oneself, visualize, figure, image, see etc of the plan, purpose, and pursuit of God in your life to succeed, triumph, overcome, win and achieve greatness. Ignorance of these will hinder you to august (inspire, grand, noble, honour, admire) your life to reign as in these Scriptures:

Proverb 21:16 “¹⁶ A man who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.”

Proverb 13:15 “¹⁵Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard (difficult).”

More importantly your inability to envision will not only cost you dearly, but will make you be a murmurer, complainer and a proverb as in Ecclesiastes 10:6-7:

“⁶ Folly is set in great dignity, While the rich (*) sit in a lowly place. ⁷ I have seen servants on horses, While princes (**) walk on the ground like servants.”

(* 2 Cor. 8:9; Eph. 1:7;, 2:4, 7; 3:8; Phil 4;19; Col 1;27; 2:2) (** Rev. 1:5-6; 5:9-12)

This is the exact event that happened to the man describe in the Bible Scripture of Mark 8:22-26:

“²² Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. ²³ So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything. ²⁴ And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.” ²⁵ Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. ²⁶ Then He sent him away to his house, saying, “Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town.”

When Jesus spit into the blind man eye that he may see (envision) his sight to greatness, the man failed the first test when Jesus asked him what do you see (envision). He said he saw men like trees walking. That’s how some people in the kingdom are today. They can see fully the television of life but can’t envision or perceive the light of the scripture in their life, hence can’t achieve, win, and triumph by the scripture in most of their life battles. Thank God for Jesus, gave the man another opportunity. He needed to do it again for the blind man to see (envision) his life clearly. If you are in this state, this theme is made or assigned for you as a wake up call for you to arise and envision so that both you and those that you could have affected positively can now at least one more time begin to experience the glorious changes needed to reign in life.

Jeremiah was limiting himself in Jeremiah 1:6. He claimed to be a child or novice in spiritual leadership and probably things that pertains to life and godliness in the kingdom. However, in Jeremiah 1:7-10, the Lord spoke into him the words of grace and asked him a question as in Jeremiah 1:11-12 “What do you see”. In other words, what do you envision. The Lord knows that his power to see (envision) will grant him insight and foresight in all that pertains to God’s plan, purpose and pursuit for him to reign and achieve in life as he did eventually, being one of the major Prophets of the bible days. The envision answers to the Lords quest to him was the turning point of the fear and obscure man into a glorious location as in Jeremiah 17:12.

This is the same statement of life that the Lord brought before our father of faith – Abraham in Genesis 13:14-18. The Lord God said to Abraham that as far as he can see (envision) so can he possess for an inheritance – Genesis 13:15.

Until prophet Isaiah – King Uzziah – died (Isaiah 6:1-9), he could not see (envision) the glorious positioning of his life and ministry. When the flesh died out of him, Isaiah for the first time saw (envision) the fullness of His destiny in God. The rest are history today!

There is hope for you today for the Porter’s second touch, that you may picture clearly, the path of life for you and you to reign in life. For a clear cut envision of and in life will help you do life without stress, sweat, struggle and pain.

However, more of this theme will be expanded in course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the month. I gladly welcome you, friend and family if you have one to be with us in Fellowship and Worship. I promise you that you can never be the same again as you ponder over the truth of these unadulterated, inspiring, revealing and empowering living word of God.

Until then, have an amazing, majestic and awesome MONTH of gracious opportunity to AUGUST your life and REIGN according to the Scriptures.

In Christ Love,

Pst Chukie.

July 2011 Theme

July 2, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

REDEEMED BEYOND BORDERS!

Under God, and with awesome privilege, I gladly welcome all visitors and existing browsers into this JULY 2011 awesome MONTH of gracious Liberty themed – REDEEMED Beyond Borders. I Pray that the following Scriptures will give you some matters to think about in regards to your Faith and Liberty in Christ Jesus, Amen.

Philemon 3-6

“³Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, ⁵Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; ⁶That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”

Revelation 5:9-10

“⁹ And they sang a new song, saying: “ You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.“

Psalm 49:6-9

“⁶ Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches, ⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him— ⁸ For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forever— ⁹ That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.”

Ephesians 2:11-22

“¹¹ Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— ¹² that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, ¹⁵ having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. ¹⁷ And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.“

Colossians 2:9-23

“⁹ For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰ and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. ¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴ having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵ Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. ¹⁶ So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. ²⁰ Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— ²¹ “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” ²² which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? ²³ These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

Galatians 1:1-9

“¹ Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), ² and all the brethren who are with me, ³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. ⁶ I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, ⁷ which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.“

Hebrews 2:14-15

“¹⁴ Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵ and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

Luke 1:68-75

“⁶⁸ “ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people, ⁶⁹ And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David, ⁷⁰ As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, ⁷¹ That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, ⁷² To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, ⁷³ The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: ⁷⁴ To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, ⁷⁵ In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

Galatians 3:3-29

“³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? ⁴ Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ⁵ Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— ⁶ just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” ⁷ Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. ¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” ¹¹ But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” ¹² Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. ¹⁵ Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. ¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,”who is Christ. ¹⁷ And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ,that it should make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. ¹⁹ What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. ²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. ²² But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. ²⁴ Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. ²⁶ For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Romans 10:1-4

“¹ Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. ² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.“

1 Corinthians 1:30

“³⁰ But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—“

2 Corinthians 2:14

“¹⁴ Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.”

Galatians 5:1, 13

“¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. ¹³ For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. “

Finally, during the course of worship and fellowship in the Church services and times, the Presiding Pastor will expatiate in details the gracious truth about the theme to all. Hence, you are welcome to this acknowledgement that you are:

Redeemed (Re-owned) by God through the done work of Christ, beyond Culture, Religion, Race, Tongue, Gender, Creed, Structural or listed Building, Monuments, Ornaments, Legacy, Doctrine, Economy, Politics, facts and figures etc. Know this day that Jesus blood speaks for you and for all. Don’t ever limit yourself again.

I pray that you receive – Inspiration, Revelation and Empowerment to God’s awesome grace as you prayerfully meditate on the scriptural verses above.

Amazing Grace,

Pst Chukie

(Presiding)

February 2011 theme

February 1, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

Invading Darkness – Establishing The Light

John 1:5 . . . And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Where Jesus Christ is, there is no darkness. For He is the light, enlightening our life as the scriptures say:

Jn. 8:12:

“. . . I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life”.

Psalm 36:8-10:

“. . . 9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light”.

Believers in Christ are the light of the World, and it’s in this light that darkness for all it represents can be dispel as in the scripture:

Matthew 5:14-16:

“¹⁴Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

¹⁵Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

¹⁶Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”

Much more details of the theme will be expanded in course of the pastoral ministry in chu rch services. However, you can obtain much more understanding in our Scripture Search Study themed “Daily Transformation” of category search menu.

Proverbs 4: 18, 20- 22

“. . . ¹⁸But the path of the just is like the shining sun,That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. . . ²⁰Incline your ear to my sayings. My son, give attention to my words; ²¹Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; ²²For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh”.

Malachi 4: 2

” . . . But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves”.

Psalm 84: 11

” . . . For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly”.

Acts 26:13

” . . .¹³ At midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me”.

Further Resource:

www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com

www.redemptionlifeinternational.org

January 2011 Theme

January 1, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

The theme we have chosen for January is Incline to Shine. Much more details of the theme will be expanded in course of the pastoral ministry in church services. However, you can obtain much more understanding in our Scripture Search Study themed “Daily Transformation” of category search menu.

Proverbs 4: 18, 20- 22 . . . ¹⁸But the path of the just is like the shining sun,That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. . . ²⁰Incline your ear to my sayings. My son, give attention to my words; ²¹Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; ²²For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

Malachi 4: 2 . . . But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

Psalm 84: 11 . . . For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.

Acts 26:13 . . .¹³ At midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

Further Resource:

www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com

www.redemptionlifeinternational.org

Yearly 2011 Theme

January 1, 2011 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

Brightening Your Life With God’s Goodness!

The good Lord intend to crown our year and flourish our life with His goodness, and to cause our paths to drop with His Abundance. This He will do as we allow Him to brighten our life with His life. More of this will be expanded in course of the pastoral ministry in Church services by our dear pastor, Revd Chukie MORSI. There is a study outline themed “Daily Transformation” on the Scripture Search Study category to assist you also.

However the following scriptures may be a guide for you. Blessed reading and understanding:

Psalm 65:11-13 “¹¹ You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance. ¹² They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, And the little hills rejoice on every side. ¹³ The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.”

Psalm 16:11 “¹¹ You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Ezekiel 47:12 “¹² Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

Proverbs 4: 18 ^“18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun (light), That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.”

John 8: 12 “¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

John 1: 1 – 5, 9 “¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend (overcome) it. ⁹ That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.”

Proverbs 4:20-22 “²⁰ My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. ²¹ Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; ²² For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.”

Malachi 4:2 “² But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.”

Psalm 84:11 “¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.“

Acts 26:13 “¹³ at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.“

Luke 9:28-29^“²⁸ Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹ As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening.”

Romans 12:1-2 “¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

2 Corinthians 4:18 “¹⁸ while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Further Resource centre:

www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com

and

www.redemptionlifeinternational.org

Saying The WORD . . . is . . . Sowing The WORD

October 1, 2010 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.”

Mark 11:23 “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

Mark4:14, 20 “The sower soweth the word. . . . And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.”

2 Corinthians 9:10 “Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)“

Your destiny is being fashion daily by the daily acts of what you Say. By SAYING the Word of God which I called Word of Faith and Life, you are taking an act of SOWING the Word that creates and shapens the atmosphere you want to enjoy.

Mark 4:14-20 concludes the acts of what BECOME of the SOWER who went sowing seed. The seed, which Christ called the Word of God eventually produces diverse folds of results – Thirtyfold, Sixtyfold and Hundredfold. The good seed sown germinated and eventually reproduces after its kind.

Like every good plant seed, same is the Word of God. When sown by the act of Sayings of Faith just as the hearing of Faith, it produces a tree, which then goes to make a forest or woodlands, that is, the gracious atmosphere you want to enjoy. The reason been that plant seed, same as the Word of God possesses the potential within it to become viable in life. That makes the acts of saying liken to the act of planting and watering to produce eventual results very crucial in our daily life as in Proverbs 18:20-21 and Proverbs 15:23.

Proverbs 18:20-21: “A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof”.

Proverbs 15:23: “A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!”.

You become what you are by the abundance of the gracious WORDS of Faith and Life that you daily sow by the acts of your sayings. Therefore, Saying the Word is Sowing the Word and the Word sown will then create and shape the atmosphere and lifestyle which you either hate or enjoy.

(Other Scriptural check-list: Psalms 126:5-6; Proverbs 15:23; Mark 4:1-20)

AFD EASTER 2010 SPECIAL EDITION

April 1, 2010 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

IT’S NOT AN EASTER – IT’S YOUR PASSOVER! HE’S ALIVE!! HE’S RISEN & ENTHRONED!!!

Achievers’ Daring Essence To Living A Resurrected Life

Acts 12:1-4 “Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of UNLEAVENED BREAD.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after EASTER to bring him forth to the people” KJV/AKJV.

Acts 12:1-4 “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. ²Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. ³And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of UNLEAVENED BREAD. ⁴So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four ^[a]squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after PASSOVER“ NKJV.

Luke 22:1-20 “Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people . . . Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the PASSOVER, that we may eat . . . And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the PASSOVER with my disciples? And he shall show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this PASSOVER with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

REDEMPTION GREETINGS:

Hosanna! Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD, hosanna in the highest – Matthew 21:9. Shalom! I bring you REDEMPTION greetings in the redeeming name of our PASSOVER LAMB – Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, trust that all thing will be under your feet at the point of receiving this edition of the Special AFD of EASTER 2010. Amen.

Exodus 12:1-14 “And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with alter, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a MEMORIAL; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ORDINANCE forever”.

EASTER 2010 SPECIAL TEACHING EDITION

It gives me great pleasure to convey this Special TEACHING Edition – Easter 2010 – as we celebrate and commemorate the death, burial and resurrection of our beloved Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you will tap into the revelation of all that happened from the cross to the throne wherein you can live a resurrected life style daily. I therefore welcome you into this special edition as we rekindle our spirit and faith in Christ Jesus by His resurrection power conferred upon us to live as VICTORS, WINNERS, OVERCOMERS, ACHIEVERS, and MORE THAN CONQUERORS and in DOMINION over all satanic forces of darkness and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly and earthly places named and yet to be name. It’s your PASSOVER from death to life in Christ Jesus. Amen.

IT’S EITHER EASTER . . . OR . . . PASSOVER

Acts 12:1-4 “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. ²Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. ³And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of UNLEAVENED BREAD. ⁴So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after PASSOVER“ NKJV – NEW KING JAMES VERSION.

Acts 12:1-4 ’’That’s when King Herod got it into his head to go after some of the church members. He murdered James, John’s brother. When he saw how much it raised his popularity ratings with the Jews, he arrested Peter–all this during PASSOVER Week, mind you– and had him thrown in jail, putting four squads of four soldiers each to guard him. He was planning a public lynching after PASSOVER’’ (MSG – THE MESSAGE BIBLE)

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are UNLEAVENED. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the UNLEAVENED BREAD of sincerity and truth.”

**Luke 22:1-20 “Please see main text scripture”

The word EASTER only appears once in the Bible as in the scripture context – Acts 12:4 – above and used only in the King James Version of the Bible. Other Bible translations use the word Passover. The Greek word for Easter is – PASCHA – translated PASSOVER: the meal, the day, the festival or special sacrifices connected to it. This is an unfortunate and absurd translation, as Easter was a pagan festival observed long before Christ. It’s not a Christian name, but derived from ‘ISHTAR’, one of the Babylonian titles of an idol goddess – the Queen of Heaven. The Saxon goddess ‘EASTRE’ is the same as the ‘ASTARTE’, the Syrian Venus called – ‘ASHTORETH’. It was the worship of the woman by Israel that was such an abomination to God as found in the following scriptures – 1 Samuel 7:3; I Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 7:18; 44:18. Round cakes, imprinted with sign of the cross were made at this festival, the sign being, in the Babylonian mysteries, a sign of life.

The Easter eggs which play a great part in this day’s celebration were common in all heathen nations. The fable of the eggs declares that ‘‘an egg of wondrous size fell from heaven into the river Euphrates, the fish rolled it to the bank, where doves settled upon it and hatched it; and out came ‘ASTARTE’, or ‘ISHTAR’, the goddess of Easter’’. None of this has anything to Christ, Christianity or Believers’ Faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Easter period however fall in time with the Passover – feast of unleavened bread. For the Israelites’ Jews it is more than a ceremony but a memorial enacting of their deliverance and redemption in Egypt bondage while for the Christian Faith it’s the celebration and commemoration of the death, burial, resurrection and enthronement of our Lord Jesus Christ, for our deliverance, redemption and restoration.

THE PASSOVER – THE UNLEAVENED BREAD

Acts 12:3-4 ‘’And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of UNLEAVENED BREAD.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after EASTER to bring him forth to the people”.

Acts 12:3-4 “Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. ²Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. ³And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of UNLEAVENED BREAD. ⁴So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after PASSOVER“.

I Corinthians 10:16 -18 ‘’The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?’’

Exodus 12:7-8, 11, 17 “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it . . . And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s Passover . . . And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.”

Leviticus 23:1-7 ‘’And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts . . . These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s PASSOVER. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”

The Passover feast was instituted by God, but first celebrated or observed in Egypt. And it’s done as an act of faith and faithfulness towards God for the deliverance of Israelites – Hebrews 11:24-29; Exodus 12:1-36.

Passover was a divine contact and ordinance for deliverance, victory, protection, peace, restoration and covenant to set His people free from Egypt – a place of bondage, suffering, death, torture, rigour and absolute hopelessness – Exodus 1:1-22.

Passover marks and means the end of suffering, bondages, setbacks, oppression, racism, defeat, and death. It also marks the dawn of a new beginning – living as winner, champion, victor, leader, freedom, achiever and covenant etc.

The feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD – PASSOVER – was a shadow of the type of Christ. The Passover requires a lamb, the death of the lamb, legs unbroken and sprinkling or shedding of blood. The lamb was their substitute; this is what the PASSOVER LAMB was to the children of Israel.

They are six or seven Jewish feasts. The feast of PASSOVER – The UNLEAVENED BREAD – is one of them. It is held on the 14^th of the 1^st month – NISAN, or ABIB (April) in Jewish calendar to commemorate the deliverance – EXODUS – from Egypt as found in the following scriptures: Leviticus 23:1-7; Number 9:5; Joshua 5:10; 2 Kings 23:22; 2 Chronicle 35:1; Matthew 26:17; Luke 2:41; 22:15; Hebrews 11:28.

THE PASSOVER LAMB – A TYPE OF CHRIST

Isaiah 53:1-12 “. . . He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a LAMB to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. ’’

Exodus 12:3-5, 12-14, 46 “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a LAMB, according to the house of their fathers, a LAMB for a house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats . . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever . . . ⁴⁶In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones”.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

Jesus our Lord and saviour was our Passover lamb. He was and is our Passover from bondage of sin in disobedience to God unto freedom. The Passover lamb was the substitute to enact the deliverance of God’s people – Israelites – as Egypt was a place of absolute bondage – Exodus 1:1-22. And for freedom and triumph, a lamb – male, without spot, wrinkle and blemish – was needed 1 Peter 1:18-21. And His bone was not broken in fulfilment of the scriptures as it’s written – John 19.34-37; Exodus 12:46.

The PASSOVER LAMB was to be killed, and the blood sprinkled on the door and window post for the angel of judgement to see and PASS-OVER God’s people. By the blood, the children of Israel will obtain their redemption and deliverance to be free to serve their God, live in freedom and triumph from the hostility of Egypt. Theirs was an OUTWARD redemption and deliverance.

The book of Isaiah 53:1-12 indicates how in the same manner Jesus took the place of a sacrificial and substitution lamb for our deliverance and redemption. Ours is more than outward, it’s WHOLESOME: Spirit, Soul and Body deliverance and redemption – Revelation 7:10, 14, 17; Revelation 12:11; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 5:12; John 1:29, 36, Hebrews 2:14-15; 9:11-15; 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

The Passover connotes Jesus as sacrificial lamb as 1 Corinthians 5:7b typified in His crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection. Exodus 12:11 indicates the PASSOVER a type of our REDEEMER.

The Passover lamb was characterised in these forms:

Be without Blemish – Exodus 12:5-6; John 1:29; Revelation 5:6-10; 1 Peter 1:19-20.
Must be killed – Exodus 12:6; John 12:24; Hebrews 9:22; Revelation 13:8
The blood must be applied – Exodus12:7; Hebrews 11:24-28.
The blood is to deliver and redeem – Exodus 12:13; Hebrews 10:10, 14; 1 John 1:7.
The feast typified Christ the bread of life answering to the Memorial Supper – Exodus 12:14, 46; Matthew 26:26-28; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 19:34-37.

The Passover and the Passover lamb were a divine ordinance and means of contact for redemption and restoration of God’s people. It was a divine arrangement. It wasn’t an act of man or political campaign setting or special pressure group. It’s God who saw His people’s bondages and made the way for their freedom – Acts 7:34-36 – as found in these act:

God Commands sacrifice of Passover lamb – Exodus 12:1-11.
God commands Redemption by blood – Exodus 12:12-13.
God commands Passover – A Memorial of Redemption – Exodus 12:14-28.

The substitute act of Jesus as our Passover lamb was divinely arranged by God, hence it could not be fathomed by the devil and his cohorts as indicated in the following scriptures – 1 Corinthians 2:8; 5:6-7; John 1:29, 36; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 9:11-15.

JESUS CRICIFIXION-DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

1 Peter 1:18-21 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

1 Corinthians 15:19-23 “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”

John 11:25-26 “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?’’

The experiences of deliverance in the Old Testament as in Exodus was a shadow of God’s redemption plan for mankind as fulfilled in New Testament by Christ Jesus. The scriptures of Luke 22 and 23; Matthew 27:1-66 and John 19:28-42 give a relative summary of all that took place in the fulfilment of Christ crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection for all mankind. John 19:30 concludes that it is FINISHED OR ACCOMPLISHED, meaning He had fully paid for our redemption and can live justified from all the bondages of satan and his cohorts.

Jesus’ death as the substitute lamb and by His shed blood has redeemed, re-owned us back to our creator and maker. A complete redemption and restoration for us to live a justified life before in all that Adam lost to the devil – Revelation 5:9-12; Galatian 3:6-9, 13-14, 26-29; Galatian 6:14-16; Colossian 1:10-14; Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:11-18; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Peter 2:9-10.

The Passover to the Jews was much more than a mere feast but a holy convocation, a memorial of deliverance from bondage.

Salvation from sin, deliverance from satanic bondages and enacting of freedom, liberty, victory, triumph and such like
Christ as our redemption and Passover lamb
Restoration of God’s kind of love to us and the hope of eternal life
A new covenant established in the eternal blood of Christ Jesus
. . . and many more such like

Therefore the PASSOVER in the context of EASTER – Greek Pascha – typifies to the Christian Faith believer the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Passover Sunday being a resurrection morning, I believe it to be the most vital and important day in a Christian Faith calendar to authenticate the eternal redemption plan of God since the fall. Everything in Christian faith hinges on the reality of the resurrection. If the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ is not a literal fact and truth, then the Christian faith is nothing but a mere religion as in others in the world today. Thanks to God that Christ resurrected.

The scriptures of Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-25, Matthew 28:1-16, 1 Corinthian 15:1-23 and John 11:25-26 had detailed explanations to authenticate that Christ both died, was buried and resurrected from the dead.

PASSAOVER – A MEMORIAL OF REDEMPTION

Exodus 12:14-28 ”And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever . . . And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever . . .’’

Matthew 28:19-20 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

Romans 6:1-14 “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin . . . ”

Matthew 26:26-29 “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Passover can only be meaningful if a memorial of the deliverance from Egypt was enacted. God willing to keep His covenant with His people and for posterity He required that the children of Moses keep a memorial of their deliverance from Egypt as in Exodus 12:14.

God also willing to keep the immutability of His counsel in our deliverance and salvation has in our Christian faith enacted two ordinances in respect of our redemption.

The two ordinances or memorial given to us are:

The water baptism
The Lord’s Supper or Holy communion

These ordinances need to be observed by every believer in Christ Jesus. The Baptism indicates our act of identification with Christ in His crucifixion-death, burial, and resurrection unto newness of life – Romans 6:1-14.

The Lord’s Supper signifies a continual reminder of the efficacy of the shed blood and broken body of Christ in our redemption and in the wholeness of the body of Christ in Christ Jesus. Hence we are asked to discern the body and examine ourselves – 1 Corinthians 11:17-34; 10:1-22; John 6:22-65; Luke 22:1-20. Upon these the faith covenant is enacted, insured and assured. Hence, we are all commanded and called to partake in the communion of the Lord’s blood and body through discerning the body ministry in Christ less it becomes a mere religious duty with no definite impart upon our life for the good of true services to God in Christ Jesus. Hence many are sick in faith and body today in spite of partaking in the Lord’s Table.

When you come to actualise the essence of Romans 6:1-4 as regards to baptism, you can then live in the abundant grace of God’s freedom and newness of life. This we need to live and enjoy in the Lord. In Baptism death is the mark of baptism, while the burial and resurrection ushers us into a new life of victory over sinful living and the habits that accompany it. A believer that is not living above the knowledge of sin and sinful habits is merely observing the funeral without the actual death to sin that is easily besetting such and the need to live a resurrection life as a new creation in Christ Jesus – Hebrews 6:1-2; 12:1-2.

HE IS RISEN – YOU CAN LIVE A RESSURRECTED LIFE

Luke 24:1-8 “. . . And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words”

John 20:1-17 “. . . And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”

Matthew 27:50-53 ’’Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”

1 Peter 3:18-22 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”

Matthew 28:11-15 “Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.”

Jesus died, was buried and resurrected according to the scriptures – Matthew 27:1-66; Luke 22 and 23; John 19, 20, and 21. Jesus fulfilled the scriptures for mankind’s redemption from the bondage of sin and its effect. His death, burial and resurrection are the final blow of God’s wisdom against satan for our redemption – 1 Corinthians 2:8.

In spite of all the fortified forces put in place and the bribery given to the Soldiers on guard of Christ burial tomb, death could not have held Jesus from resurrection. He is RISEN from the grave! The scriptures indicate that when He was buried He went and ministered to the spirits in prison, those who were dead in faith since the days of NOAH who have been held captive by satan and his cohorts while waiting for the redemption of their soul as in the scriptures – 1 Peter 3:18-22; Matthew 27:50-56; Ephesians 4:7-10. He ministered to them and resurrected with them and they all appeared before many in that day of His resurrection according to the scriptures before He left to present himself to the Father God.

Jesus is Risen! He is no longer in the grave and we can’t seek him and live our life as if He is dead and still in the grave. It’s time for us to live a resurrected life in our Christ walk of faith. Let’s come out of the dead work of religion and live in the resurrected life of Jesus which He has given us. The days of living as dead in mediocrity, failure mentality, blame factor mentality, a never do good or do well and I can’t always make it in life attitude is over.

No matter your circumstances today and human limitations by every standard of life, I make bold to say to you to arise for Christ is risen! Put on a new look of faith and life. Give a fresh smile to your face for your redemption is come and you can become in life again. Lift your head and shoulder high for Jesus has given us beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that we might be trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord – Isaiah 63:1-3. The power and grip of sin and satan are broken and rendered powerless; we can live a justified life and live free today. Forgiveness is possible, mercy, healing and prosperity are within reach for us today, for Christ is RISEN!

You have no right to live a defeated, bruised and battered life anymore. You have a right to the resurrected life no matter the circumstances you find yourself today. You are redeemed, a winner, victor any day, any where. Praise God!

HE IS ENTHRONED – THEREFORE, GO DOING EXPLOITS IN HIS NAME

Daniel 11:32 “. . . but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.”

John 20:15-17 ’’Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”

Ephesians 1:17-23 “. . . Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.”

Ephesians 2:6-7 ’’And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus”

Ephesians 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ“.

In the book of John 20:15-17 we are scripturally informed how Jesus was to go to the Father God as soon as He resurrected having accomplished divine purposes during the period He was in the grave by the visit to those in prison and His resurrection with them according to the holy writ – 1 Peter 3:18-22, Matthew 27:50-56; Psalm 24:7-10; Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. Mary Magdalene was immediately denied the opportunity of touching the Lord as soon as He resurrected, for His mission for human redemption was not yet accomplished until the Father God had received and accepted and authenticate and enact the accomplished redemption work of Christ for mankind’s redemption – John 20:15-18; Revelation 4 and 5. Christ did not want any Adamic nature from Mary to nullify the blood of our REDEMPTION.

The book of Revelation 4 and 5 gives a summary of the heavenly events on how Jesus redemption works was received and He was enthroned as He has always been. Jesus stripped satan of the keys and authority which Adam lost to him and restored them back to humanity, much more to His Church having led captivity captive and received gifts for men – Ephesians. 4:7-19; Psalm 68:18; Revelation 1:5 , 18; 5:9-12; Matthew 28:16-20; 16:18-19; Mark 16:15-20.

Afterwards, Jesus presented His done deed to the Father God as in the context scripture of John 20:15-18 and Ephesians 4:7-10, He appeared to many as well as the disciples for another 40days before His ascension –Luke 24:13-53; John 20:11 – 21:25; Acts 1:1-11; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. Today, Jesus is enthroned, seated in the heavenly places with God the FATHER. At His enthronement He lifted us all to be seated up with Him at the right hand of the Father over principalities, powers and dominions – Ephesians 1:17-23; 2:6-7. We have been made to triumph, live a victorious and a more than conquerors life in His name which He has bestowed to us according to the scriptures – Philippians 2:9-11; 2 Corinthian 2:14; 1 Corinthian 15:54-57; and Romans 8:34.

By Jesus’ resurrection and enthronement we can access all His powers to do life according to the scriptures as in the following below:

1. Living by the resurrection concept – John 11:25-26.

2. Death to sin, living in dominion and newness of life – Roman 6:8-11, 14.

3. All power submits to His name. Living in Christ given authority – Revelation 1:18; Matthew 28:18.

4. By His anointing, doing wonders over Adamic limitations – Acts 10:38; Luke 4:18.

5. Delivered from the spirit of fear and death and timidity and inferiority complex – Hebrews 2:14-15; 2 Timothy 1:7.

6. Power to subdue all things under our feet in Christ Jesus name – Philippians 3:20-21.

7. Power over all things. Taking charge and control over our circumstances – John 13:3.

8. Power over all flesh. Never again to submit to bullying of men but to reign in life – John 17:2.

9. All powers bow their knees and confess before His name. Awesome to serve – Philippians 2:9-11.

10. . . . and many such like.

ARISE and SHINE! You can live a resurrected life today for Jesus has given you His name. That’s the essence of the PASSOVER. At His name sicknesses are healed, deliverance comes to the captives, wisdom to do life comes, salvation comes to men, forgiveness and mercies come to men, doors of opportunities and prosperity come to men and many others. Take advantage of knowing this today and live an exciting free life in His name. You’ve passed from death to life in Christ Jesus, amen.

FINALLY – IT’S YOUR PASSOVER!

Galatians 6:14-16 ‘’But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.’’

Philippians 3:10 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”

Romans 8:9-11 “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you”

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

Romans 5:17, 21 “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord”

Beloved, I wish I could be able to have explained in earnest in more detail about the Passover and all that happened from the cross to the throne in all that Christ is and has accomplished for us on the cross when He purchased our Redemption by His life in His blood as our – PASSOVER LAMB.

The Believer in Christ is saved by the blood of “the lamb slain from the foundation of the world – Revelation 13:8; and is strengthened daily by feasting on the word – the living Word, Christ, and the written word, the Holy Scriptures. 1 John 5:7; John 1:1-5, 14.

Take advantage of the knowledge made available to you today in this AFD Special Edition. It’s time to begin to live a resurrected life and not a defeated, fearful, failure, hopeless and aimless mentality consciousness. Your redemption is fully paid for and it’s your PASSOVER from all sorts of bondages and setbacks. Jesus has fulfilled all that God requires of Him, it’s now ours to appropriate them into reality for they are true.

You can boldly approach God’s presence today and obtain grace to meet all your various needs, desires and aspirations in faith. The Israelites applied the blood by faith, they were delivered and redeemed into their promise redemption, in the same way, apply Jesus’ blood by faith and enjoy it for your good.

It’s your PASSOVER! He is RISEN & Enthroned!! He is ALIVE!!! Go living a resurrected life. I pray that our God delivers you from all human limitations and grants you His abundant mercies and blessings, as you have passed from death to life, live it to the full in Jesus name, amen. May you daily enjoy an Amazing Grace, Awesome Redemption and Blessed PASSOVER until the Lord returns – MARANATHA!

It’s Your PASSOVER . . . Dare To ACHIEVE . . . And steadfastly Live The RESURRECTED LIFE

In His Kingdom Business & World Exploit For His Glory.

Blessed Regard,

Rev Chukie MORSI

AFD APRIL 2010 EDITION

April 1, 2010 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

THE EFFICACIOUS POWER OF THE CROSS OF CRUCIFIXION

“Achievers’ Act of Audacity in Celebrating & Commemorating The Crucifixion, Death, Burial, Resurrection & Enthronement of our King, Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ”

Galatians 6:14-16 “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”

Revelation 5:9-13 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to RECEIVE Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, and Strength, and Honour, and Glory, and Blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”

1 Corinthian 1:17-25 “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

1 Corinthian 2:1-8 “And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.“

** Matthew 27:27-53 (A must read before proceeding further)

CALVARY GREETINGS

Shalom & Redemption greetings! Hosanna! Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest – Luke 19:38. I bring you special Calvary Greetings in the REDEMPTIVE names of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. I earnestly pray and trust that at the receipt of this April 2010 AFD Edition, all things shall be under your feet and you would be able to lay hold of your redemptive rights, privileges and position in Christ Jesus because of the efficacious power of the Cross of Calvary, Amen!

APRIL 2010 EDITION

I lift up my hands to thank God for His grace that is available for me to make this month’s AFD come your way again. For all my prayer chariots, I thank God for their heartfelt prayers that God’s word through AFD would prevail in all circumstances. Thank you all very much, just keep on keeping on, together we advanced the kingdom of our God by publishing the word, we keep the enemy at bay and we populate the heavens.

In preparing for this edition’s topic which I promised you in the MARCH 2010 publication, my spirit perceived two forces to deal with as I laid out the preamble to this edition. Firstly, it’s the beginning of a new financial year in the United Kingdom in April where I live. Decisions made by the government conveyed in the recent pre-budget speech will shape the economic, political structure and course of the country. Individuals, families, educational institutions, government agencies, entrepreneurs and various aspects of businesses both in the private and public sectors of the nation will find that their lifestyles and mode of operations will be affected by some decisions.

Secondly, the National Elections are coming up in May in the United Kingdom. Whichever Party that wins they will change some decisions in line with the promise that they made while campaigning. Things might change for a lot of people. Nations all over the world have to go through such governance in their own way and in turn affect global forces.

While I appreciate all these efforts being made by various governments and leaders of nations either to – combating terrorism, secure the economy, provide security, improve health services etc – the question that comes to mind is whether the Christian FAITH believer knows full well and has been able to come to terms with the decision of God towards any of the man made decisions, not only for the immediate problems, but in all times in which we live till eternity.

Jeremiah 29:11 (amplified) “For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in and a future (in your final outcome)”

3 John 2 “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers”.

John 10:10 “The thief come not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

And it’s my great privilege to announce to you that the deed for your ever fulfilling life has been enacted for the rest of your life by the efficacious power on the cross of Calvary. BE WARNED: Understanding the mystery of the word in this Digest will transform and reposition the way you do life. Hence, kindly read the introductory texts meditatively before you begin this journey with me.

The Cross – The WISDOM of God

1 Corinthians 2:7-8 “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”.

Ephesians 3:9-12 “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”

Isaiah 55:8-11 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. ”

**Matthew 27:26-53 (A must read before proceeding)

When humanity fell as result of the treason of Adam in Genesis, the scriptures made us understand that man (Adam & Eve – mankind) was cursed along with the perpetrator – the serpent (satan) – of the sinful disobedience to the audacity of God’s laid out way of doing life for mankind. The serpent was not only cursed, God made a very profound prophetic announcement or statement of His plan to redeem man back as found in Genesis 3:15 “And I (God) will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel”

Ever since that very day, the serpent – the devil – has been working overtime to figure out the very seed of the woman. The seed that was to be the very vessel and avenue of God’s eternal plan, purposes and pursuit to end all his satanic and devilish cohorts devices and robbery against mankind. Hence you could see that from Genesis until Christ came, major generations and individuals that appear to be in God’s channel of human redemption were in one way or the other polluted either by sin or disobedience to the heavenly plan of God. Some individuals and groups like the Pharisees, Kings, Pilate’s, Herod’s, Scribes, Lawyers, Philosophers etc were all assisting the devil knowingly or unknowingly to fathom the wisdom of God in His eternal arrangements for human redemption.

And when Christ came to the limelight like others who came before and God made the pronouncement in the course of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist – “. . . This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” as recorded in Matthew 3:16- 17; And John the baptist making his declaration concerning Christ prior to the baptism as in John 1:29 “. . . Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”. Satan heard it. He knew then that this was that seed of the woman but lacked the wisdom of God to fathom God divine strategy to make it happen.

The Scriptures recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13 respectively shows how that the devil then tempted Jesus. He does this act of temptation by using the same three ways trickery that he had tried on Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:1-19 wherein they fell and sold their birthright and entire mankind to the devil; the same trick and craftiness which is very active till this day as recorded in 1 John 2:15-17 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

The scriptures state in verses 13 of Luke chapter 4, that the devil foreseeing that his tricks did not work as planned, he left Christ for a while, then began his gimmicks by using the humans like kings – Herod, Pharisees, Lawyers etc thinking that by their human wisdom they could fathom God’s divine plan and then messed it up. Of course neither satan nor the humans he intended to use could by their wisdom fathom God’s divine wisdom plans, purpose and pursuit for mankind’s redemption.

1 Corinthian 2:8, finally and boldly declares that had the princes of this world known that by the rugged CROSS which looks foolish that mankind REDEMPTION would be accomplished, they would not have crucified Jesus as recorded in the book of Matthew (** Matthew 27:27-53 – A must read before proceeding further). The Cross was and is still today the wisdom of God to end the deed of satan against humanity. The devil, satan was judged on the cross and condemned on the cross to eternal bliss so that you will live in the freedom in Christ Jesus forever. Sin was nailed and judged on the cross. The Scriptures declares that in 2 Corinthian 5:19 ”That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” You can see how strategically that God was in Christ in the whole process and by His infinite wisdom He uses the least expected – The CROSS – to be The WISDOM of God to save mankind. If Christ had not been crucified on the cross – the wisdom of God – humanity would have lived without hope and assurance till this day. But thanks to God, His infinite wisdom – The CROSS – Prevailed, Triumphed and won the Victory for us all, Amen!

Beloved, we can’t by our human wisdom fathom God in His manifold wisdom. For his ways and thoughts are far higher than ours. Infact, they are incomparable as in Isaiah 55:8-11. But by the virtue of Redemption, Christ being the wisdom of God and in you, you can put the devil where he belongs and at a flight. That’s what the book of Ephesians 3:9-12 speaks about. You can by the cross – the wisdom of God rule and reign in life today. That means, that by the many-sided and manifold wisdom of God, we can overcome, triumph and win in life as we allow the efficacious done work of the cross to take its place in our daily live. This is the right of the Church – Praise God, Hallelujah, Amen!

The Cross – The Manifestation Acts of Sons

Romans 8:19-23 “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. ”

Galatians 4:1-7 “Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Therefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”

Isaiah 53:8-11 “He was taken from prison and from judgement: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”

Psalms 22:30-31 “A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.”

**Matthew 27:26-53 (A must read before proceeding)

Way before Christ came to deliver us, mankind longed to see their Redemption. Hence the Jews were mad with John the baptist and Christ, considering them per se as political deliverer or a special leader to emancipate them from the oppression of the Roman Empire in the bible days. The scripture records in Romans 8:19-21 the earnest of the groaning and great expectations of creation for the manifestation of Sons of God. Son-ship position indicates a place of knowing and exercising authority in the kingdom. A place of knowing your rights, benefits, taking responsibility and actualising them to make life worth living. God’s plan is not to make babies or keep people as children, lest the devil will take them for a right and THERE ARE TOO MANY BABIES AND CHILDREN IN THE KINGDOM TODAY – see Hebrews 5:11-14.

Galatians 4:1-7 helps to indicates that as long as we are children we will be unskillful in the words of grace as in Hebrews 5:11-14. But that Son-ship makes us mature and is the place and position of reigning and ruling in life. This is what Adam was until he committed treason by selling our birth-right to the devil. That’s why Jesus is acclaimed son of God – that is the place or position of being in charge of your life, not – government’s, career etc or the devil determining your destiny.

Son-ship positioning was and is God’s intention for His people. No room for cowards, the fearful and inferiority complex in the kingdom. For God cause to be, by His wisdom He planned another strategy to stop satan and his cohorts – the demons – by raising a breed of sons to make a generation by the Cross. This generation will be called sons (all gender – male and female). In Matthew 1:1, God staged that a generation shall be born or raised as sons to stop the groaning in Romans 8:19-21 as in other scriptures. Hence it began by the statement as in King James Version – “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the on of Abraham.” See the Word – Generation! Not genealogy as used by some translation and which can delude people from perfect knowledge of the scriptures in some cases. The used of the term Generation indicates a new breed of people – 1 Peter 2:9, who are called in 2 Corinthians 5:17 – New Creation personality. This people we are told in Revelation 5:9-10 are redeemed by the blood of Christ from every kindred, nations tongue and people etc.

This generation are not traceable to Adamic generation anymore but to Jesus generation which I call REDEMPTION generation – Jesus being our redemption. This generation are to be born out of the bosom of Christ stead in God. But a question comes to mind. How can Christ generate a generation of sons unto God if He did not marry, because the law of creation under the sun indicates that it takes two to make a generation. But God has a wisdom plan that the princes of this world cannot fathom – It’s the Cross. God wants to bring forth many sons as Jesus to bruise the head of satan as he bruised their heel while Christ is in glory seated at His right-hand and these sons may be on earth but positioned at the right-hand of Christ with the Father as joint heirs reigning in authority.

The scripture speaks of sons of God in Romans 8:14-17 (see more Galatians 6:14-15; 3:26-29; Colossians 3:10-11; Ephesians 2:14-15. How did they come about – this generation of sons? This was the same question being asked in Isaiah 53:8 “who will declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living . . . “. Besides, Matthew 1:17, tells us about the lineage or genealogy of Jesus and that Jesus was supposedly called the 42^nd generation of that lineage and now wants to raise his own lineage or generation not being married. How then did God plan to declare a generation of Jesus when he never married or Jesus never had a son to continue a lineage for Him.

Am glad to announce to you that the seed of Jesus actually came forth to be when God made His Soul an offering for sin on the cross as the Passover lamb. It was in that act of being pierced and opened, that you and I and every born again believer came forth. Get this, just as God opened the first Adam’s side and brought forth Eve to kick start a human generation, in-same-like-ness God brought a special breed of son-ship generation when he caused the side of Jesus to be pierced and opened while on the cross as in the following scriptures:

John 19:34-37 “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.”

1 John 5:4-8 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.”

Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand”

Psalms 22:30-31 “A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.”

Beloved, a seed shall serve Him and each seed accounted a generation. Know this day that you are a special breed. A generation breed that indeed supersede Adamic nature through the blood of Christ – THE PASSOVER LAMB – for our REDEMPTION! Jesus blood by which you are hewed from have no Adamic nature of cancer and any form of diseases named or to be named. And by this redemptive blood of your salvation is what made you a son. You can arise with authority and put an end to all that craft work of satan against your life. Its time to stop looking for people to console and feel pity for you but arise on your own ground and win the life battle, demanding satan to get his stuff out of your domain. You are a special breed – Praise God, Amen. (See detailed teaching of The 42^nd Generation – the offspring of Christ from the website – www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com or on this blog –www.achieversfaithdigest.com and www.redemptionlifeinternational.org

The Cross – The Efficacious Power of The Crucifixion

John 19:1-2 “Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.”

John 19:16-18 “Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.”

John 19:32-37 “Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.”

**Matthew 27:26-53 (A must read before proceeding)

The scriptures of the book of John chapters 19 and Isaiah chapters 52; 53 and Matthew chapters 27 and others of the Gospel chapter’s show the condition in which Christ died when crucified at the cross. The scripture of John 19:1 speaks of the Scourged which Jesus was subjected to by the then Pilate.

And from the account of Matthew 27:26-28 “A Scourged was a Roman implement for severe bodily punishment. Research indicates that it consists of a handle with about a dozen leather cords with jagged pieces of bone or metal at the end to make the blow more painful and effective. The victim was tied to a post and blows were applied to the bare back, loins and sometimes to the face and bowels. The flesh was cut in several places by each blow. So hideous was the punishment that the victim often fainted and some died under it. It was designed to get confessions and secrets from its victims, but what could they get from an innocent sinless one – Acts 22:24-26? Flogging was permitted by the law up to 40 stripes – Deuteronomy 25:3. Jews reduce it to 39 stripes – 2 Corinthians 11:23-25. Now, if the scourge used on Jesus has 12 thongs and He was hit even 39 times this would make 468 stripes. If some struck in the same place and act deeper each time one can see how his body, because of the intense hatred, back of each blow, He was marred more than any man’s as recorded in Isaiah 52:14 “As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men”.

“Death by crucifixion was one of the most cruel and shameful deaths that could be devised. It is supposed to have been invented by SEMIRAMIS – Queen of NIMROD- who founded Babylonian system of mysteries – Rev.17:5. It was a Roman practice inflicted ONLY upon slaves and the worst criminals. The person was nailed to the cross each hand extended to the utmost stretch. The feet were nailed together, and then the cross was lifted and dropped into the hole with a violent thud which disjointed the whole body. The weight of the body hung on nails through the hands and feet. A victim was left on the cross until he died of pain and untold sufferings”

Jesus was crucified between two robbers to shame him, with crowns of thorns upon his head he bled, nailed on his feet and hands and pierced on the sides of his loins he bled, that he might bring forth REDEMPTION to all mankind as recorded on the following scriptures – Matthew 27:27-36; John 19:16-37; Isaiah 53:1-12 (kindly read them please). The mystery of the crucifixion of Jesus has great significance, and is efficacious for the following reasons:

He bled through His back – To endorse our access to divine healing and health as lost in Eden of Adam– John 19;1; Isaiah 52:14; 1 Peter 2;24; Isaiah 53;4-5, Matthew 8:16-17, Acts 10:38.
He bled through His Head – To endorse our access to be the head, be in charge and crown with authority and not a failure as it was lost in Eden of Adam. John 19:2; Matthew 27:27-31 (original cursed- Genesis 3:17-18); Gal. 3:6-9; 13-14; 26-29; Romans 2:28-29; Ephesians 2:13-14; Numbers 23:23; Colossians 3:3; Psalm 91:1-2; Isaiah 54:14-17; Gen 1:26-28.
He bled through His Hands – To endorse that the works of your hands might prosper which was cursed in Eden of Adam – John 19:16-18; Deut. 28:8, 12; *Genesis 43:12; Deut. 12:7; (*Gen. 3:17-19 original cursed); 2 Cor. 8:9; John 10:10; Deut. 8:18; 3 John 2; Job 36:11; Malachi 3:10; Genesis 8:20-21,
He bled through His feet – To endorse that every where the sole of your feet will tread on you shall have as a possession. Bruising the head of satan as it was before it was lost in Eden of Adam – (Gen. 3:14-15 – original cursed); Josh. 1:3-4; Luke 10;18-19; Heb. 2:14-15; Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 5:17; Rom 16:20.
He bled through His side – To endorse you manifestation as Son to rule and reign in life, and most importantly to access unhindered fellowship with God as your Father now as a son which was lost in Eden of Adam. John 19:32-37; John 20:17b; Zechariah 12:10; Exodus 2:46; Zechariah 13:1. (Son-ship – seed was born as in Isaiah 53:10-11)

By the cross crucifixion experience of Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord, we have access to all that God intended for mankind’s REDEMPTION. Thank you Jesus for taking my place to pay the debt I could not have been able to pay – The Cross crucifixion!

The Cross – Redemption Act: From Curse To Blessing

Galatians 3:13-14 “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. ”

Colossians 1:12-14 “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: “

Ephesians 1:7 “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:”

Genesis 3:1- 19 “. . . And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

I will be grateful to God for all mentors and teachers and books, messages stored in various electronic devices that God has brought my way over the years to sharpen and shape my life in Christ. In all, the most credible is coming to know the Bible for myself that Christ has redeemed me from the curses over my life to His eternal purpose blessings both for the now and for the life to come. This revelation has completely changed my life till date. When I came to know that Christ had redeemed me not precisely only from the curse of the law but from the curse of the fall, my transformation of FAITH in Him completely became translated and revolutionised.

I know that many people know about their redemption from the curse of the law but when it comes to the curse of the fall they can’t fathom it. Hence I have included it in this edition:

1. The Curse of the Fall: (Genesis 3:1-19) – This is when Adam, Eve and the serpent broke the order of God. These three where cursed by God as a result of their action which eventually spread upon humanity until this day. To each was apportioning in this respect:

a. To Adam –

Genesis 3:17:19 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Ever since God spoke to Adam in a cursed term, all generation of mankind have gone through pain to make a living. And with the global economic atmosphere you can have reason to come to terms even now. In Europe they call it working for your bills and the tax man. But be it known to you that with God on what Christ has done for you, there are lots of opportunities today on how to make a living and be stress free. The concept on working and complaining and murmuring should not be for a believer. Stop for a moment! When last did you take stock on the job you do that gives you pains and robs you of your peace in Christ. Or the jobs you do that you think without you nobody else can or will do it hence you must give in to all manner of stress in the name of diligence without an holiday or time off. That’s not of God. There is wisdom from God that enables you to do a work and live free from stress and worries and all manner of anxiety that have held you bound. Ask of God He will give you that wisdom – James 1:5.

Jesus in Mark 6:30-31, had to stop the disciples from work and commission them towards having a holiday or time off in a no job working area or zone to have a rest. This is the wisdom from above. They went with Jesus had some leisure and rest before they cut their life time short all in the name of hard working. I therefore compel you to stop your human wisdom and learn sense from the Redemption Jesus for a restful refreshing life by the Holy Ghost – Isaiah 28:9-12.

b. To Eve –

Gen.3:16 “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee”.

When I spoke to my wife that its possible to deliver safely without undergoing the supposed pain that is mostly attributed to all during delivery, it was another story. But when I took her through the scriptural process of her redemption and the act of Christ in it, the rest is history. Infact, the midwifes in two of the occasions where startled that somebody can come to the hospital relax and before they could finish all the necessary protocol and bed arrangement, babies are on the way to be born. God saved me at a point, I would have become an emergency midwife in the car on one occasion while taking her to the hospital and baby Joel was not ready to wait. Thank God I prayed my way to get there. Baby routine check in Paper work was only done after baby was born and born along with the sack intact then broken afterwards to get baby out at least for the usual cry. Thinking next time that going early to the hospital for baby Zachary for necessary paper work, he was more shocking to the midwife than we thought. The midwife thought we had come too early and it may have been false labour since she could not see any so called proper sign. She went away to only come back and found baby on his way to be born without hitches of any sort. May God be praised for all the great fulfilments we’ve seen Him do in our life in regards to these testimonies. Amen

While am saying all these, because I found it in redemption package that Sarah of Father Abraham in Hebrews 11:6, by her FAITH received strength to CONCEIVE and to DELIVER just like the Hebrew women of Exodus 1:15-22. Not just that, because I found this redemption act in 1 Tim. 2:13-15, that a woman can be saved and safe in child bearing as she lined up her life with the scriptural truth imbedded in that verse context. You can see another redemption act promise in Luke 1:45 and Exodus 23:25-26.

This is not just my notion or personal testimony only, but a countless experience I have seen with pregnant women who attend my Ministry FAITH Surgery. These Pregnant and expectant mothers testify as they get hold of the scriptures been shared with them. For the just shall live by His FAITH – (Habakkuk 2:4b)

c. To The Serpent –

Gen. 3:14-15 ”And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel”.

I shared in my last month episode how by the exercising of my redemption right authority I overcame a conman using charms, spells, hypnotising ability to reap people off of their Joy and finances. Jesus has given us authority over the devil and demons, it is our responsibility to enact or enforce it in any and every circumstances we find ourselves otherwise the devil will take advantage of us in determining our daily life in spite of our REDEMPTION. (Matt. 28:18; Mark 16:16-20; Luke 10:19)

We could see that from all the context of this edition that Christ has nailed and judged satan on the cross. We need not fight in this battle with the devil by any way of having confrontation or contention, but for you to take your place and determine for the devil and his cohorts where they should be. You are too good and too glorious to allow a defeated fool called satan nor his cohorts agents to determine you destiny.

2. The Curse of the law: (Gal. 3:13-14; Col. 1:13; Deut. 28:1-68 kindly read it)

What Jesus did on the Cross by way of crucifixion granted us freedom from the curse of the law. It was a divinely arranged and ordered and was not known to satan nor his agents the eternal purpose of the infinite wisdom of God. A genuine study of the scriptural book of Deuteronomy 28 will show the blessings and the curses. The curses stating from verses 14 to 68 can be summed up in three words: POVERTY, SICKNESS AND SPIRITUAL DEATH. And the announcement of Christ ministry in Luke 4:16-20 on that customary day in Nazareth Synagogue gives you a conclusion that the essence of his death on crucifixion day was to end our POVERTY, SICKNESS AND SPIRITUAL IMPOVERISHMENT through death on the Cross.

Jesus’ redemption act on the cross was to end this IMPOVERISHMENT hence he said in his final word it is “FINISHED” – John 19:30. Poverty is relative. I have seen men in ivory houses poverty stricken spiritually just as some people are physically stricken with poverty of nourishment. In same manner, it applies as to our health and every area of our life. As relative as it seems all of them have been dealt with on the cross and it’s not a kingdom act of redemption or sign of been spiritual or righteous to live and die through poverty like Lazarus then go and stay in Abraham’s Bosom instead of your own bosom – Luke 16:19-31. It’s not spirituality to live in another person’s servant’s quarter instead of your own main house. Now change your thinking and rise up by faith and see God prosper you even as promised in the following scriptures and more – 3 John 2, John 10:10, Jeremiah 29:11; Psalm 35:27; Job 36:11 etc.

I promise you, it’s easier and better to serve God being prosperous, than to be poverty stricken for it hinders the advancement of the Gospel, kills and destroys human life faster than cancer and frustrates good hearted people. Besides, it humiliates and robs you of good and healthy friendships. Read through the scriptures, in the book of Wisdom of Solomon no man makes intimacy with a poverty stricken fellow. They may relate to help but don’t keep you in their inner heart for intimacy. Hence you must keep at bay any sign of indebtedness out of your life and work in the grace of God upwards. For the poor tell more lies than the rich, I promise you. Poverty frustrates and ruins good relationship. Infact, it turns a Pastor’s anointing into announce and start blaming members. I hate it and I don’t want it to be my next door neighbour. Listen, you are worst than poor if you don’t pay your tithe. It shows how impoverished you are, repent and get born again and again. Make no friendship with a Christian who doesn’t pay his or her tithe. If they can rob God’s storehouse against redemption they can rob anybody – Malachi 3:8-12 (special bible teaching for you).

Wake up to be prosperous, be in health, even as your soul prospers spiritually and otherwise, for Christ have done the deed for you and all mankind.

**Matthew 27:26-53 (A must read)

The Cross – Access To The Blessings

Ephesians 4:7-11 “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers”

Psalm 68:18-19 “Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”

Ephesians 1:1-6 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”

Revelation 5:9-12 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.”

2 Peter 1:1-4 “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Looking at the scriptures above, we can conclude that indeed Christ has not only redeemed us but have also given us GIFTS AND BLESSINGS. The Scriptures of Ephesians 4:8 and Psalms 68:18 indicate that by the accomplishment of the father God demands to ransom mankind on the Cross, He gave gifts to them and received blessings on mankind behalf as indicted in Revelations 5:12. (Full details of the protocols that leads to this blessings being received and gifts being given are explained in the Easter special TEACHING Edition accompanying this APRIL edition)

1. HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN: (Psalms 68:18/Eph. 4:7-8, 11 etc)

In His accordance to build His Church as promised in Matthew 16:17-19, He gave both spiritual gifts and ministry gifts to men: The spiritual gifts which are merely spiritual to enable men function in the Church are as found in 1 Corinthians 12:1-26 especially in verses 4-11 and Galatians 5:22-23 and the ministry gifts are men empowered with spiritual gifting and are those He specifically set in the Church for some specific purposes and are called Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers, Evangelist and many other names but a few for the mentioned as found in Ephesians 4:7-16 and 1 Corinthians 12:27-31. Others by names are mentioned for various purposes as found in the scriptures ( see these – Acts 2;38-47; Romans 12:3-8; 1Cor. 14:1-6, 26-31; Eph. 5:18-20; Col. 3:16-17 etc.).

2. HE RECEIVED BLESSINGS FOR MEN: (Rev. 5:12; Ephesians 1:3; Heb. 9:15)

In the same way as in (1) above, Jesus in accomplishing the Father demands for mankind REDEMPTION received blessings for men to enable us to live secured in the rights, privileges and position we lost in Adam on earth. When Jesus led captivity captives – Psalm 68:18, He obtained our redemption – rights and privileges – in the will of God for us to enjoy as His blessings.

These blessings are there for us to actualise or appropriate by Faith into our life by Christ Jesus who is the custodian of them on our behalf. Let’s just consider the major covenanted ones in our REDEMPTION as in Rev. 5:9-12 with special interest on verses 12:

Seven redemptive covenant deeds received on our behalf are summed up in these:

1. Power (Authority) – In place of oppression, fear, intimidation etc. – Luke 10:19; 2 Tim. 1:7. etc.

2. Riches (Prosperity) – In place of poverty, hunger, thirst etc. – 2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 4:19. etc.

3. Wisdom (Mental) – In place of ignorance, foolishness etc – James 1:5, Luke 2:40, 52. etc.

4. Strength (Physique) – In place of weakness, sickness and all ‘ness etc. – Phil. 4:13; Isaiah 40:28-31. etc.

5. Honour (Dignity) – In place of dishonour, disdain, inferiority complex etc. – Col. 1:13-14; Eph. 1:7; 2 Tim. 1:7. etc.

6. Glory (Beauty) – In place of shame, reproach, etc. Isaiah 61:3; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9. etc.

7. Blessings (Grace) – In place of curses, setbacks, stagnation etc. – Eph. 1:3; 2 Pet. 1:3-4; John 10:10. etc

Spend time to ponder over these gracious acts of Christ and pray them into your personal life. I trust God to meet you with His word answering to your dear needs that mere human wisdom cannot fathom.

FINALLY: The Cross – The Audacity to Celebrate & commemorate.

Psalm 110:1-3 “The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.”

Romans 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”

1 John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

Apostle Paul declares in Romans chapter one verses sixteen scriptures as in the above texts that he is not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because he knows full well that there is power in the gospel of the cross – 1 Cor. 1:18. He even said further in Galatians chapter’s six verses fourteen and fifteen that he will make boast of the cross, because it’s by the cross he became what he is and will ever be. All through his writings in the epistles you can fathom same attitude in all time. This act of Apostle Paul in the light of the scriptures compels me to make my boast and celebrate as we commemorate Him all over the world on His Crucifixion Death, Burial, Resurrection and enthronement. I don’t know what constitute your act to boast and celebrate today.

The Scriptures in Psalms 110 1-3, says that God has purposed to send the rod of His strength through Zion, which is the Church and Body of Christ against the enemy of our FAITH and his cohorts – Hebrews 12:22-24; Eph. 3:9-12. And when we take a step of Faith – willingly volunteer – God will pour his dew – anointing– of the morning upon us and renew us with the strength as of a youth. The scriptures went further to say that as He – Christ – is so are we now in this present world – 1 John 4:17b; Ephesians 2:6-10.

Beloved Achiever in Christ, I urge you today, to take out time and meditatively ponder the amount of information being made available to you by this April 2010 AFD edition. You must come to terms to live by the graces that Christ has made available to you in God’s wisdom and stop living within your limited mind or wisdom. It’s time to celebrate through knowledge and not by the old religious mindset of commemorating this season of Easter holidays. I pray earnestly for you that in your celebration and commemoration that you come to terms with three things I am living you with:

1. That you come to behold what Christ has DONE FOR you by the CROSS.

2. That you come to behold what Christ has DONE IN you by the CROSS.

3. That you come to behold what Christ is DOING FOR you now, because of the CROSS.

Until I come your way again, have a blessed celebration of ALL Jesus is to you by the Cross crucifixion through this month of APRIL. Jesus loves you, so do I. MARANATHA!

DARE To Celebrate & Commemorate Your REDEMPTION . . . It’s your Redemption MANDATE . . . You Have The AUDACITY Today . . . For He is Risen & Enthroned!

In His Kingdom Business & World For His Glory,

Rev Chukie MORSI

AFD MARCH 2010 EDITION

March 1, 2010 By Pastor Chukie Leave a Comment

Triumphing By The Blood Of The LAMB

– Achievers’ ANTIDOTE And ONSLAUGHTS To The Enemy Of Our FAITH –

2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

Revelations 12:10-11 “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb; and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

Exodus 12:1-5, 7, 12-13 “And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: . . . And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

Greetings

Shalom & Kingdom greetings! May the grace, peace, joy and love of God possess you in the precious, awesome and redemptive name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. It gives me great pleasure and joy to welcome you into this triumphant month as I present to you this MARCH 2010 AFD edition. I pray and trust that this month’s AFD will bring you to a place of triumph in every circumstance of life that have limited you and questioned the essence of your FAITH TESTIMONY in Christ Jesus, AMEN.

Firstly, I want to thank God for all the testimonies and responses of appreciation that have been coming in as a result of the JANUARY and FEBRUARY 2010 edition. Thus, indicating how much of God’s word through the AFD is reaching out for the good of mankind especially in the household of FAITH. Secondly, may the good Lord be earnestly praised and magnified for all the inspirations, revelations and empowerment attributed to us – to share the word of His grace to all and sundry and to the household of FAITH across nations, races, genders, generations and denominations.

Preamble

I hope that this MARCH Edition – Triumphing by the Blood of the LAMB – will grant you and every achiever the enabling grace to triumph in all that they desire and trust God to bring about in their lives. More especially, in dealing and triumphing over all the set backs and fears of becoming or achieving the set goals and dreams in all that pertains to life and godliness – 2 Peter 1:1-4. The Blood of the Lamb – Christ – is the antidote and onslaught to triumph and endorse your daily victory and triumph in all that be in life for all God’s people and mankind in general.

Triumph is the perception and feeling of great happiness resulting from a victory or major achievement. It also means the act and condition of being victorious. Being raised up in a typical African tradition family and in an environment where the blood spill of animal sacrifice to appease the gods was dominance and a life style until God’s salvation came to my family, I can boldly inform you how powerful the matter of the blood means to life and how efficacious the blood of Christ is to win victorious over all odds of the enemy.

All sorts of covenants and contracts have to be endorsed by the blood, and life is in the blood indeed – Leviticus 17:11, 14 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul . . . For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.” (See also Deuteronomy 12:22-24). This scriptures, indicates and signifies how vital and authentic the issue of triumph in the blood is to our daily life affairs today. The blood is the divine arranged plan to completely smash and render powerless forever the strongholds of satan and his cohorts against us. The efficacious blood of Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour accomplished the deed for our FAITH, to guarantee us eternal victory and triumph. Amen.

Triumphing In Every Place – Your Promised in God’s WORD

2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

Matthew 28:18-20 “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

Mark 16:15-20 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

I have come to know that when people succeed or fail in life, they talk about it. Sometimes so much – like the society I live in – people are more prone to speak negative than positive about issues in life in order to be accepted or to avoid being acclaimed as a fanatic. And I have chosen to achieve and succeed in life and compel all to achieve and succeed because our God is an achiever. Knowing full well that our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ in His triumph over our enemy and cohorts was and is a day to day discussion in betrayal until this day. Christ was spoken of and is still being spoken of by people and enemies alike. They do this while challenging the authenticity of our REDEMPTION – Matthew 28:11-15.

Triumph in every place is the promise of God to all according the holy writ of 2 Corinthians 2:14 and Matthew 28:20b. Jesus gave a command and not advice for great achievement and success. He promised to be there until we surely triumph. We see in the scriptures that as the disciples – which we are by His grace – who later become apostles, walk in obedience to achieve triumphantly. The Lord is with them in every place, where they go, working with them and accompanying their doings with miraculous signs – (Isaiah 1:19; Mark 16:15-20) and Joshua 1:1-4 “. . . the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying . . . now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. . . Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you . . . From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.”

It was this kind of knowledge that apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians Church in 2 Corinthians 2:14, indicated. That TRIUMPH in EVERY PLACE is God’s intention in Christ Jesus for all people of all nations, even as said by Apostle Peter in Acts 10:34-36. When you gave your life to our Lord Jesus Christ, a new DNA default was implanted or engrafted into you – hence you are called a new creation – 2 Corinthian 5:17; Galatians 6:14-15. The old life default of defeat, failure and regret consciousness, mentality and such like was completely washed and cleansed away and a new default of triumph, victory, success and such like was then downloaded and transferred into your being – 1Thesselonians 5:23; Colossians 1:13-14; Ephesians 1:7

I challenge you to consistently run the TRIUMPH browser as your DEFAULT in every aspect of your life. By doing this, you triumph over all that you set your feet on, just like Joshua in Joshua 1:3-4. You activate your FAITH in order to become an ACHIEVER, creating an opportunity and avenue of greatness by the act of enacting a triumph default consciousness. Triumph need not be a wish but a deliberate resolution and defined plan, purpose and pursuit of God from when Adam fell until Christ came for all mankind. Triumph is not a wish but a designed and arranged plan of God for you. But if you are going about browsing failure, defeat, pity and setbacks and such like, you can’t live triumphantly.

Beloved, do you live in the consciousness of being a victor, a winner, and a success. Do you live in the consciousness of yesterday’s failures, mistakes, defeat, setbacks and being an under achiever? Are your conscious acts in all respects as a result of God’s sayings and words or other sources? Is God’s word your default browser or is it the media – television newscast, newspapers publications, internet complexities, family traditions, society norms and self-belief your default. Is it your spouse, parents or children or friends whose browser is your default?

I make bold to declare in Christ Jesus that until one makes God’s word a conscious default browser in their daily life, TRIUMPH in every place will be eluded. It is a choice to live all your life complaining, murmuring and blaming people and circumstances for your limitations. It is also a choice to arise and shine in the awesome, amazing and majestic beauty of the glorious plan of God for you to triumph everyday in everyplace as inscribed in Jeremiah 17:12 “A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.”

You’re DNA IN CHRIST – Gives The Right To Triumph

2 Corinthian 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Galatians 6:14-15 “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”

2 Corinthians 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:”

The word – DNA – speaks of genetics, and is defined as “Deoxyribonucleic Acid. This is the main constituent or component of the chromosomes of all organisms, and is the material that transfers genetic characteristics in all life forms – like for like”.

In life, people will say or make comments like – I am acting or behaving in this way because it’s in my blood or DNA and it runs in the family. Meaning if one is poor, the likelihood is that all will be poor or good percentage are going to be poor in the family or lineage no matter how much they try to make a difference. If one died young or through a deadly disease or by car accident or any other strange happening, that all may likely die in the same ways as it runs in the family. This kind of notion becomes a great worry when you hear a supposedly redeemed born again child of God making similar statements when they are in crisis or facing some challenges.

Beloved, it is irrelevant whether or not you have a family history of divorce, cancer disease, childlessness, late marriages, poverty, never-do-well and many others, the day you gave your life to Jesus, a new you for a new dawn was born and began to come to be. The scriptures say in 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 6:14-15 and 2 Corinthians 2:14 that if any man comes to Christ, such becomes a new personality, the old personality and Adamic family history is gone, a new you is come to be in Christ Jesus. There is a spiritual exchange which is spiritually vital and legal in life that takes place as a result of that simple act of being born of God. It is for this exactness of FAITH that in the epistles writings that the apostles for example will start in their writings in a particular manner as shown in 2 Corinthians 1:1 and Colossians 1:1 and Ephesians 1:1 and Philippians 1:1 and 1 Peter 1:1 and James 1:1 and Jude 1 etc. That is, by using the phrase ‘of Christ’ or ‘of Jesus’ or ‘of Jesus Christ’. The use of the word “of” indicates the done deed of a new DNA as the default at work in their life. Hence they were assured and insured to have triumph in life and ministry. This help to indicate why the apostles refused to reckon their knowledge of Christ in a fleshly – humanly – manner as most people would have love to do religiously as indicated in – 2Corinthians 5:16.

“Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”

In the same spirit as that of the apostles, I want you to know that by coming into the beloved-hood of God, your life was redeemed, translated and transformed into the image of Christ in order to triumph in every place be it in the – valleys, mountains, hills, crooked roads and rough places of life – (Galatians 3:13-14; Colossians 1:13-14; Isaiah 40:3-5).

Beloved friend, it’s irrelevant the history of your life or family. Now that you are born of God, you have a new identity and the power to put an end to the enemy’s intended plan. You need to devolve yourself of the past and develop a new consciousness of triumph mentality and consciousness as a transformed child of God. You need to do a rework in your mind set as in indicated in the scripture:

Romans 12:1-2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

You have to reprogram your life browser into a new default by the word of God. For your FAITH on your new DNA determines your triumph in life as says in 1 John 5:4-5 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our FAITH. Who is he that OVERCOMETH the world, but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God?”

In God’s browser, the default enables you to triumph, live victoriously and overcome in challenges no matter how tense the matter may be. I believe that you can end that family history of set back, fears, limitations, abuse, divorce, poverty, indecent marital relationships and foundations, poverty and laziness etc by inclining to God’s default browser which enables you to win. For you can now do all things through Christ – DNA default – that strengthens you – Philippians 4:13. For your DNA of triumph is in the blood of the Lamb – Lord Christ Jesus – Amen.

The Blood of The LAMB – The DNA of TRIUMPH

Exodus 12:12-13 “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

Psalm 105:37-38 “He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.”

Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

John 1:29-30 “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me”

Thanks to God for the blood of the Lamb! The scriptures tell us that the Lamb of God is Jesus Christ. He is, that was slain and who shed His blood for our triumph and victory in life. The blood of Jesus is the grand finale to answer and to deal with all the life affairs that come our way. It is by the blood of the lamb in a figure that the first Church – the Israelites’ – obtained their deliverance from the bondage and rigour of the land of Egypt. There also, they obtained their prosperity as they obtained their deliverance by the blood of the lamb – Psalm 105:37-38; Exodus 12:29-36. The blood of the lamb is the verdict, antidote and onslaught that can end the perpetrated works and activities of satan and cohorts pursuit in the life of all mankind especially in those where demonic sacrifice and dedications have taken root. (You can order my website study on “Redeeming The Land” Teaching Series)

The blood of the Lamb is the flag bearer, banner and signpost that can thwart, divert and end all the fiery darts and works of the enemy of our joy in our FAITH. The blood of the lamb is the Highway Code and traffic control board to all that wants to get into your life. It indicates red light and diverts all the satanic and cohorts advances and gives green light to all about God concerning you in life and godliness. There is no amber light for stand still; it’s either red to divert or green to welcome in and allow all goodness to go through into your life.

The blood of the Lamb –Christ Jesus – is the DNA of your life of TRIUMPH. Where there is No Blood of Christ – There is No TRIUMPH! For whatever is not of the blood is not of God say the Holy Scriptures. There is power in the blood. The efficacy of the blood is what satan and cohorts can’t fathom. It is the finale cure to his grip on me. The blood has delivered me and set my family free from the grips of satanic bondage. When you daily activate the blood as your default browser, your daily triumph becomes certain. You need to ensure, insure, secure and authenticate the vitality and legality of your life, faith and works of your hand by the blood, if you don’t want the enemy and his cohorts to encroach into all your life plans, purpose and pursuit. The Blood is your DNA of TRIUMPH.

The Efficacious Blood of the LAMB – The Reason for TRIUMPH

HEBREWS 9:11-22 “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”

The Blood of Christ Jesus is EFFICACIOUS! It’s by this act of efficacy that we can boast of triumph. The believer in Christ must come to the understanding that the blood produces – effective and effectual – result no matter the level of the situation and what failures others may have thought of the blood in their human concept. The blood is not just a part of ceremony to be observed religiously as is often done in the act of Holy communion sacrament services but a wonderful tool to live our Faith life on, the FAITH in our Saviour and Lord Christ Jesus, by whom we are victorious and triumphant.

Let’s us now examine some scriptures to authenticate the efficacious and effectual power in the blood of the lamb – Christ Jesus:

1. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its DELIVERANCE Power

Colossians 1:13-14 “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins”.

Exodus 12:7, 12-13 “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

2. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its REDEEMING Power

1 Peter 1:18-21“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

Galatians 3:13-14“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

3. The Blood is efficacious – Because of Its RECONCILIATORY Power

Ephesians 2:11-19 ” Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God”

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

4. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its TRANSCENDING Power

Revelations 5:9-10 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

Galatians 3:26-29 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

5. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its PURCHASING Power

Acts 20:28 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”

1 Peter 1:3-5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

6. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its EMBOLDENING Power

Hebrews 10:19-20 “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh”

Hebrews 4:14-16 “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power (boldness), and of love, and of a sound mind.”

7. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its CLEANSING Power

1 John 1:7-10 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

8. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its ATONING or PACIFYING Power

Romans 3:23-26 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

9. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its OVERCOMING Power

Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

1 John 5:4-5 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

10. The Blood is efficacious – Because of its INSPIRATIONAL Power

Revelation 5:9 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation”

Revelation 5:11-14 “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”

The Blood of The Lamb – Is Your FAITH TESTIMONY To Frame & Shape Your World

1 John 5:4-5 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Hebrews 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

In life we are constantly contending for our FAITH and TESTIMONY with diverse manifestation of the enemy’s craftiness and cunningness in the pursuit of our God given dreams, aspirations and desires. The scriptures of 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Timothy 1:18-19; 1 Timothy 6:12 and 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 indication that we are engaged in life battles and this battle is of the enemy working tirelessly to rob us of the reality of our FAITH and TESTIMONY on the profound work of grace upon our life. Make no mistake, there are problems and challenges in life. For these Jesus assured us to be of good cheer because He has overcome the enemy and the world in its ways of doing life. This is the consciousness we need to live by in our daily life. Jesus has triumphed on our behalf and delivered us in essence while ours is to unlock that deed by faith and live testifying of who we are on what Christ has done.

Galatians 1:3-5 “Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Hebrews 2:14-15 “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

John 16:33 “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The precious blood of Jesus Christ is authentic and efficacious. We can only experience its true significance and great effect in our life and well being, when we unlock it by FAITH and live to declare its power in our life and situation through our TESTIMONY based upon God’s word as in the bible days – Revelation 12:11 Romans 10:6-10. For this is the way of the victory that overcomes the world as the scriptures said. The victory that overcomes the world satanic and his cohort’s influences is our FAITH on the integrity of the Word of God. This faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. For by FAITH the worlds are framed – fashioned, put in order, equipped for their intended purposes, prepared, carefully arranged and organised – by the creative act of God’s word – Hebrews 11:3. By the Word of God we shape and fashion our world for His glory and for our goodness.

It is your Faith in the blood of Christ and your Testimony of declaration, proclamation and demonstration of it, is what it becomes to you – 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. An absolute act of Faith on your belief on the blood of Christ brings about triumph in your daily life. Romans 10:6-10 indicates that with our heart (spirit man) we believe and with our mouth declaration of the efficacious power of the blood based on The Word, our SALVATION –healing, deliverance, security, boldness, forgiveness, peace etc – will come. The blood will do as it has always done what the scriptures – our Covenant and Testament – says it will do. Our Faith in what Christ has done is crucial. We need to demonstrate and proclaim our Faith in our daily life for us to experience triumph daily, knowing full well that our enemies are not asleep at all – 1 Corinthians 2:1-5.

FINALLY: The Blood of the lamb . . . The POSITION for Triumph

Philemon 6 “That the communication (DECLARATION, SHARING, PROCLAMATION FELLOWSHIP) of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 2:6 “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”.

Beloved, the blood of Christ is the antidote and onslaught to all the problems which affect your wellbeing – spiritual, physical, marital, emotional, financial, moral and mental health etc. Our God wants us to live a triumphant life from the place – POSITION – He has made us reign in power and dominion, that is, of what Christ has done in and for us and not from your SITUATION and CIRCUMSTANCES. Our God will make all things beautiful for your situation when you stay in the position wherein Christ has made you free – Psalm 48:1-2.

The heroes of FAITH in the Hebrews chapter eleven book of the Bible, all overcame and triumphed by their Faith Testimony on the precious blood of the lamb which was slain for their redemption as well as ours from the foundation of the world – Revelation 13:8b “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him . . . the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” They triumphed by their steadfast – unwavering – faith on the place or position in which their victory came – The blood of the Lamb.

My FAITH TESTIMONY ON THE REDEMPTIVE BLOOD OF CHRIST

Testimony 1 (Victory): “Once there was Teaching SEMINAR going on in the church that I Pastored. At the end of one of the sessions in the evening, a group of us were walking to a nearby suburb. It was a newly built area surrounded by dense woodland.

As we walked we came across 4 men in a car and they told us to stop. One of them drew a pistol and pointed it at us and asked what we had on us. On realising what was going on, I began to confess in my heart, whispering under my breathe, “The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus…” At this time, I felt no fear and I just told them that I was a local Pastor. Without a word – they just got into the car and drove off.

The next day we heard that in the same area, men with the same description as those that had attempted to rob us had robbed houses and pedestrians in the same area. A few people had even been killed. It dawned on us how God had delivered us”.

Testimony 2 (Defeat): “Another example of how the use of the blood of Jesus in authority can deliver us is from a time when I was a student. On my way from home to college, I made a stop over in Benin City, Nigeria to get another taxi to the campus. There were four of us in the car. Suddenly an argument ensued between the driver and the passenger behind the driver’s seat and the driver was struck. The other passenger, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, angrily asked the man why he had struck the driver. The attacker turned to this man and said, “How dare you question me. Check your privates!” There was a loud scream as the man checked his privates to discover that there was just skin in their place – he was member-less. I saw this with my own eyes. Unfortunately for me, I had not exercise the authority and power I had in Christ to overcome my situation but instead waited for God to do it for me through Christ without me placing an order. And I lost the opportunity then to manifest the fullness of God in me. As if hypnotised we were all told by this man that I now know to be sorcerer or magician, to use our right hands to circle the top of our heads in the form of a halo. We did this and then he gave each of us a brown envelope to put our money inside and gave them back to us. I got off the taxi when I arrived in school, only to find 3 pieces of envelope had replaced my college fees and spending money. It was a challenging semester but God saw me through though and I was blessed with all finances that I needed to save my day”.

Testimony 3 (Triumph): “On my way back on holiday, I made a stop over in Benin City yet again. When I got into this other taxi, there were 3 other passengers. As we were moving, the driver spat out of his window and as if by magic his spit travelled out of the vehicle and came in through the back passenger window and landed on a man’s shoulder. His reflex was to strike the driver as he was sitting behind the driver. At this point I started pleading the blood of Jesus. An argument followed and just as I had seen before, the other passenger asked why the driver had been hit. At this point I took control. I told the driver to stop and he obliged. I got off, took my luggage out and took my money out to make sure that it was all in. It was and I left.

I had taken charge of the situation using the authority of the blood of Jesus. I was no longer a victim – I was a victor. I exercised the power in the blood by pleading the blood of Jesus. This was all because I had learnt how to use the blood of Jesus to be delivered from a situation like this”.

I can give you countless FAITH TESTIMONIES of triumph and victories that I have experienced in the presence of God the Father in life and in ministry. More of these will be in the up coming Digest on the Power of the Cross at Golgotha, this Easter by the grace of God. You can actualise this act of Faith and testimony to triumph in life by adhering to these undermentioned scriptural truths as in 1 Peter 5:7-10; 1 John 5:4-5 and Philemon 6.

1. By casting all (not some) your cares and worries on God.

2. By acknowledging there is an enemy and whose intentions are to work against your FAITH TESTIMONY in order to get to your FINANCES, HEALTH, FAMILY, CAREER, BUSINESS, MINISTRY etc.

3. By acknowledging your victory in what Christ is done in and for all including you.

4. By taking a bold and steadfast resistance in Faith Testimony (declaration) on the blood of Jesus Christ.

5. By giving thanks to God always for all things in Christ Jesus.

Dearly beloved, this is your month to daily eliminate the enemy of your Faith and Testimony in Christ Jesus. Stand tall in the POSITION wherein Christ has made you free and reign triumphantly in all that pertains to life and godliness. Have a great and wonder working month, full of great testimonies because of the blood of the lamb – Christ Jesus – Amen.

Dare To Stay In POSITION . . . By The Blood of The LAMB . . . Triumph In All SITUATIONS

In His World for His Glory

Pst Chukie MORSI

All scripture in King James Version except otherwise indicated