About Becoming Whom & What You Believe
Welcome To Month June2018: HAVE FAITH IN GOD – Dare To Become What You Believe According To your Faith!
“And Jesus answering saith unto them, HAVE FAITH IN GOD” Mark 11:22 (Emphasis Mine)
“Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your FAITH become what you BELIEVE accordingly” Matthew 9:29. (Paraphrased)
Rev Chukie MORSI
FEBRUARY2018: YOU ARE – God’s Battle Axe & Weapons of War – BE EMBOLDENED & DARE TO BE!
“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers” Jeremiah 51:20-23.
It’s your TIMELESS TIME to CREATE and COLOUR your WORLDS with the Atmosphere you love to SEE, ENJOY and BE FULLFILLED in it.
Creating Your World of of LIFE and GRACE, it’s all
about being EMBOLDEN and DARING to BECOME in any or all of these:
** Dare to BE a VOICE not an ECHO
** Dare to BE a DANIEL
** Dare to BE a MESHACH, SHADRACH & ABEDNEGO
** Dare to BE a DEBORAH
** Dare to BE a PASTOR & GOSPEL Minister
** Dare to BE GREAT and MAKE a DIFFERENCE
** Dare to BE selfless in LOVE, FAITH and HOPE
** Dare to BE a PASTOR’S Wife
** Dare to BE a PASTOR’S Husband
** Dare to Be a STUDENT & the very BEST
** Dare to BE an ENTREPRENEUR
** Dare to BE a BUSINESS creator & Magnate
** Dare to Be an INVESTOR of TIME, EFFORT & FINANCE in life endeavours
** Dare To BE DILIGENT & PRUDENT
** Dare to BE the very BEST in your PROFESSION for humanity sake
** Dare to BE a POLITICIAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
** Dare To BE a POLITICAL Leader with selfless HEART of PUBLIC SERVICE
** Dare to BE an INNOVATOR
** Dare to BEGIN AGAIN – Make a New Start
** Dare to BE DISCIPLED & DISCIPLINE
** Dare to BE a LEARNER before LEADING
** Dare to BE a FAITHFUL HUSBAND
** Dare to BE a VIRTEOUS WIFE
** Dare to Be MENTORED and DISCIPLED
** Dare to Be the ANSWER to problems and not the Question CREATOR.
** Dare to BE CREATIVE and not DESTRUCTIVE
****DARE TO BE WHATSOEVER YOU WANTS & DESIRE TO BE . . . BE EMBOLDEN TO BE I SAY ***
“For God did not give us a SPIRIT OF TIMIDITY OR COWARDICE OR FEAR, but [He has given us a spirit] of POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF SOUND JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL DISCIPLINE [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]” 2 Timothy 1:7 (Amplified).
Rev Chukie MORSI
SID2018: Possess (Possessing) Your Possession – Your REDEMPTION Right In Zion – The Church!
The Church, the city of God, the mount Zion, is your major life wire to possessing your possessions in the kingdom of our God.
There’s an inheritance for ALL in the kingdom as we soar in grace as Christ has made us be.
In Possessing your Kingdom rights possession in Christ Jesus, your best place to start is the Church – the assembly gathering of God’s precious and redeemed people. For as goes the Church, so goes you and the nation, otherwise it’s catastrophic when this order is overlooked and misappropriated.
For this reason, you must as a matter of responsibility and accountability, endeavour to BELIEVE, BELONG and to BECOME a part. The reason been that in the Church or Churches of Christ, which is the mount Zion, three things are assured if this order is followed in grace:
* Deliverance from all sorts (you name it).
* Holiness – God’s nature, accessible to all in order to obtain God’s grace and blessings.
* Possessing your possessions – all that Christ had obtained for you in REDEMPTION made Possible with the ease of His grace.
Your POSSIBILITIES can start now. However, envision yourself with a great start to possess your possessions in Christ Jesus by being in Church – that is – Believe, Belong and Become.
“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience INHERIT the promises” Hebrews 6:10-12.
“Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should INHERIT a blessing” 1 Peter 3:8-9.
“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall POSSESS their POSSESSIONS” (Obadiah 1:17)
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Hebrews 12:22-24).
Rev Chukie MORSI
BEING RAISED TO BECOME IN GROWTH: THAT’S THE PATH OF MATURE HEARTED LIFE!
You are either RAISED to be in GROWTH or you only just GREW and GROWN to be; that’s what makes life difference. A MATURE HEARTED person is the consequence of being raised in growth. It cause for HUMILITY that bring about EXALTATION. Otherwise pride, arrogance, immaturity and such like traces. Hence you can see a grown adult lacking the adulthood principled ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY in places of expectations, because positions test or bring forth CHARACTER MATURITY. You see the effect in – Places Of Governance, Marital Relationship, Career Opportunities, Work Place Positions And Inter Job Relationship, Leadership Positions, Ministerial Conducts, Family Relationship And Such More.
Jesus as a CHILD was BORN, but as a SON He was MADE to be. He did not just grew, He submitted Himself to be raised through learning and obedience to the necessary guidance for His EXALTATION. Being raised He was made. Being made as a son, he was given for our redemption, fulfilling the cause and purpose for which He came into the world. That’s what stands Him out from all. Trace His path on earth with God, His natural parents and dealings with others in Ministry. For thirty years He submitted Himself to be raised in order to grow mature for the called purpose; and being made and ready to be, He was given for the undeniable gracious and graceful three and half years Ministry, fulfilling His cause and purpose on the earth.
There’s no great person that have lasted history that just grew only without being RAISED along to be in GROWTH. They were raised by many factors of life that came their way to make them become the envy of others, epitome of trust, confidence and history; hence you can see in them humility, diligence, faithfulness, service, responsible, accountable and dedication to their causes and purposes. Unlike some who lack the mature hearted growth of being raised that are full of arrogance, pride, selfishness, wickedness, immaturity, controversy and such likes immature childish behaviour.
Are you raised in growth? Are you being raised to be in growth? or did you just grew or grown to be without being raised in growth? You need to take a purse and think through which and where you belong momentarily. You need to watch your track and path of life, that will tell you what you are and where you are and what you may likely be or had become. It’s WORTH being raised. It’s wise to submit for guidance to be raise as you grow in grace. It will pay up greater dividend if you are HUMBLE enough in it. Being raised save from pride that goes before a fall and stupidity – 1 Peter 5:5-6; James 4:7-10.
BE BLESSED.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING:
“But the PATH of the JUST (RIGHTEOUS) is as the shining light, that SHINES MORE AND MORE unto the PERFECT (DAWN) day.” Proverbs 4:18 (Emphasis Mine).
“Likewise you YOUNGER people, submit yourselves to your ELDERS. Yes, all of you be SUBMISSIVE to one another, and be clothed with HUMILITY, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. 6 HUMBLE yourselves therefore UNDER the mighty hand of God, that he may EXALT you in due time” 1 Peter 5:5-6.
“Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 but MADE himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a SERVANT, and was MADE in the likeness of men: 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he HUMBLED himself, and became OBEDIENT unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath HIGHLY EXALTED him, and GIVEN him a name which is ABOVE every name: 10 that at the NAME of Jesus every KNEE should BOW, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 and that every TONGUE should CONFESS that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:5-11.
“Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are DULL of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye OUGHT to be teachers, ye have need that one TEACH you again which be the FIRST PRINCIPLES of the oracles of God; and are BECOME such as have NEED of milk, and not of STRONG meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is UNSKILFUL in the WORD of righteousness: for he is a BABE. 14 But STRONG MEAT belongeth to them that are of FULL age (MATURE, GROWN), even those who by reason of use have their SENSES exercised to DISCERN both good and evil” Hebrews 5:11-14 (Emphasis Mine).
Further Scriptural Reading: Luke 1:41-52.
Rev Chukie MORSI
Good News Plus WAGONS – Is Better And Best: It Revives The FAINTING Hearts!
It is good to have a job and or business but better if the accompanying wages or returns can keep your spirit being, the temple of the Holy Spirit alive to meet your day-to-day living matters.
Being BLESSED – that is, being empowered to succeed in grace – is the ability to have beyond enough and to reach to somebody else – For prosperity that withhold is poverty in disguise. Until you can have and give without complain and murmuring, you are still poverty strickened in disguise.
There was prosperity in the first civilised world – Egypt – while others were poor and hunger stricken. Jacob the patriarch was fainting and fading off with time and in poverty also in the poverty strickened world of his time. And when he was told that Joseph, the Premier of Egypt, his son was alive, he felt good but in doubt, due to the time lapes and evidences given in forensics of his death by his other children years before. BUT when he SAW the WAGONS – trail of camels with loads of goods accompany with cash (money), I can hear ooh goodness, his DYING and FAINTING spirit was made alive, that is, revived instantly. The power of WAGONS.
I pray for you today, that every good news that comes to you will be accompanied with loads of wagons. Wagons, are good, for it thus comes with other goods that meet needs; wagons makes all the difference in ones life; you may not appreciate or understand it until it happens to you. To have your debt or dire needs paid and with extra relief to do and live life in such a way to never be in debt again and dire need, is far better than just having your debt only paid and still be in needs. There’s a miracle for you today, receive it & be blessed in Jesus name, Amen.
I pray that the Lord God El-Shaddai – the all sufficient Father, meet you today at the point of your need and to turn you fainting heart into overflowing joy, reviving your dying spirit that you might live again and worry no more in all that pertains to life and living godly.
“. . . And Jacob’s heart FAINTED; for he BELIEVED them not . . . And when he SAW the WAGONS . . . the spirit of Jacob . . . REVIVED” (Genesis 45:25-28).
Every grace & blessings.
Rev Chukie MORSI
Shalom & Kingdom greetings! I welcome you into this month of APRIL in the name of our Redeemer, the King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. I pray that His grace, peace, love and mercy might be with you and take hold of you, bringing all things under your feet and control; and that you might lay hold to your redemptive rights, privileges and position in Christ Jesus to enable you accomplished your divine given, purposes and pursuit.
I welcome all visitors and existing browsers into this month AFD JUNE 2014 EDITION, which is Entitled: DARE TO BELIEVE & BECOME! “The Achievers Tenacity to Dream, Believe & Become”
Further Scriptural Reading To This Theme:
I do know that a man’s ignorance is his own mountain and the knowledge of the truth will set him free. Hence I am leaving you with the undermentioned scriptures to read, to give you a line of food for thought as a way to indicate how the theme of the month will be approach. I therefore commend you to take time to ponder and meditate on them in prayers (Acts 20:32).
Genesis 12:1-3 “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.“
Matthew 9:27-29 “And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. 31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.“
Genesis 26:1-6, 12-14 “And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: . . . Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.“
Romans 4:17-25 “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: 20 he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.“
However, this month theme will be expanded in course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the year in “Scripture Pasture” Study and “Pastoral Messages & Ministrations”.
I gladly welcome you, your friends and family 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. I pray that God revitalize and rejuvenates you and all that is about you, so that you may become the very best of which God has created you to be in your daily journey of Destiny Molding, Life Transformation, Dignity Restoration and Kingdom Faith Establishment, Community Social Enrichment and Development and Readily Prepared, Awaiting The Lord’s Return.
Until then, have an amazing, majestic and awesome Month of “DARE TO BELIEVE & BECOME” in JUNE 2014.
In Christ Love,
Revd. Chukie.
Shalom & Kingdom greetings! I welcome you into this month of APRIL in the name of our Redeemer, the King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. I pray that His grace, peace, love and mercy might be with you and take hold of you, bringing all things under your feet and control; and that you might lay hold to your redemptive rights, privileges and position in Christ Jesus to enable you accomplished your divine given, purposes and pursuit.
I welcome all visitors and existing browsers into this month AFD JUNE 2014 EDITION, which is Entitled: DARE TO BELIEVE & BECOME! “The Achievers Tenacity to Dream, Believe & Become”
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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)
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.“
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 10:30, 34-35 “I and my Father are one . . . Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If He called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken“
Psalms 82:6 “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are the children of the most High “
Genesis 26:12-14 “. . . And the man Became great, and went forward, and grew until he Became very great . . .“
The Act of Believing is made available to all mankind. It is an integral default in men. Man’s existence today has a lot to do with whom and what He believes in. Whom and What you believe in determines how your destiny is being shaped and moulded. It’s for this cause people of all races, nations, genders and generations are in one conflict or the other, either on personal levels or general levels. God wants us to exercise Faith in whatsoever we Believe Him for. Believing God is a characteristic of Faithfulness, but exercising Faith on what you believe Him for, it is your human spirit responding on your belief on the word of God. That is, your human spirit acting on the word of God.
FAITH: Is acting on the Belief
BELIEVE: Is the characteristics of Faithfulness
Faith must be acted. God’s blessings upon your life depend on your Faith. Fear is a demon spirit and is the opposite of faith and the devil’s instrument to paralyse your Faith in God.
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
By Faith, you become whom and what you Believe. Abraham believed God and it was counted or reckoned unto him for righteousness, he became what he believed of himself in God. Faith is the seeing eye of the act of Believing – Galatians 3:6-9 (Romans 4:17-25). The two blind men believed the Word of Christ, they become (had) what they believed in Faith for – Matthew 9:29 (27-31). The act to believe and exercise faith is spiritual – Take time to Think or Ponder or Meditate on these things (Philippians 4:8).
ENHANCING your FAITH to BECOME what you BELIEVE
(Matthew 9:27-31; Genesis 26:1-25)
This month is a very crucial month for all who by reasons of grace have been sharing in the Ministry of the AFD. It’s crucial because it is the seventh month of the year and seven signifies maturity, completeness, wholeness, fulfilment etc. God is indicating strongly in my spirit, His intention to make His people ‘BE’. Make them Become what they BELIEVE to ACHIEVE, according to His plans and purposes for their lives.
If we are to ‘BE’, we need to ‘COME’ into His grace in order to ‘BECOME’. My mandate through the AFD is to ensure that you become what you believe; this is God’s great cry for you. Jesus came, died and rose again for your daily triumph and victories (2 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 15:57, Romans 8:37).
You may say, ‘Yea, I have become’, but are you complete and in the fullness of it. How many lives is your ‘becoming’ influencing positively towards God and not self. In this time of famine of the truth of God’s Word, God has also promise the knowledge of His Word to His people (2 Timothy 4:1-4, Amos 8:11-14; Daniel 12:4, Habakkuk 2:14). We need words of grace spoken into our lives so that we can become what we believe. It may be a fact that we are at present in an economic and financial crunch leading to political unrest, family breakdown, career mishaps and business setbacks etc, but by God’s spoken Word, it is possible to BECOME, only believe.
Genesis 26:1-25 ‘’ And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake. And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well’’.
Matthew 9:27-31 ’’And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country’’.
In Genesis 26:1-11, there was famine in the land. One option was to escape and search for greener pastures – as sense knowledge would have led people do in difficult times. The other was to stay against all odds in obedience to God’s Word with the eye of faith and subdue it to become what you are made to BE.
Isaac was almost led astray, but thanks to God’s spoken Word and a reminder of his covenant rights as Abraham seed which we too are through what Christ did for us. (Genesis 26:1-5, Galatians 3:26-29).The famine was so bad that he was about to leave and go down the way of the Egyptians (unbelievers). At some point he presented his wife, Rebecca, as his sister to the Philistines in order to protect himself – according to him – from harm.
God spoke to Isaac reminding him of his covenant rights and privileges. Today we have the Bible, the written word of God –referred to as LOGOS. We also have the revealed or spoken Word of God – referred to as RHEMA. To become great is an attitude of obedience. Isaac obeyed the voice of the Lord, took the instructions in spite of the FACTS of life surrounding him – economic and social breakdown. He made a deliberate choice to obey the TRUTH that came from the Word of God not the fact of what he was experiencing.
In Genesis 26:12-14, we see that Isaac’s obedience helped him to reap a hundred fold and God blessed him: that is, he BECAME great and went FORWARD until he BECAME very great. He enhanced his faith by obeying God’s Word. He chose obedience over sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22-23). Listen, as important as sacrifices of worship, of finances, prayer and fasting are, we cannot use them to get God’s attention. They are only valuable when we walk in obedience to God’s Word. Especially when you know what it is that God has instructed you to do in a particular situation. In that Isaac acted on God’s Word, even in the midst of his prosperity being challenged by the enemy, he found grace in God who had been involved from the start (Genesis 26:15-25).
As an achiever in the Lord, your faith attitude will go a long way to determine your altitude. In Matthew 9:27-31 Jesus spoke to two blind men who need to ‘BE’ in their sight saying vs. 29 “…be it unto you according to your faith.” In other words BECOME what you BELIEVE.
The big issue at the moment is for you to ENHANCE YOUR FAITH to enable you to BE what you want to become, be it health, financial freedom or prosperity, marital fulfilment, entrepreneurship, career stability etc. You have the right to succeed in all areas of life. Jesus paid for the salvation of your total being (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). You can stop focusing on the facts working against you, stop complaining and living in wishful thinking – and rise up in FAITH to become the person that God has purposed you to BE (Romans 8:28-30). This is the choice that we have to make, but my mandate is to see you BECOME by BELIEVING the truth of the Word of God.
Guidelines To Enhance Your Faith
Finally, God has a reason, plan and purpose for your life. You can become if you change what you believe from mere fact to the truth of the Word of God. I prophesy that the grace to BECOME may be with you and that God help you just like He did Isaac in this crucial month and for the rest of your life.
Be completely fulfilled and BECOME in Jesus’ name. AMEN!
Every Blessing,
Pst Chukie MORSI
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Note:All scriptures are in King James Version except otherwise indicated.