YOU ARE BLESSED OF GOD
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
A WOMAN THAT REVERENTIALLY FEARS THE LORD SHALL BE PRAISE
A WOMAN THAT REVERENTIALLY FEARS THE LORD SHALL BE PRAISE: I FOUND THAT WOMAN IN NKEMDILIM [MY WIFE] IN LIFE AND GRACE!
“SAY [GRACIOUS WORDS] ye to the RIGHTEOUS, that it shall be WELL [WHOLE] with him: for they shall eat the FRUIT of their DOINGS” Isaiah 3:10.
Dear holy and righteous beloved brother in Christ Jesus, when last did you take time to write a note about the darlyn Sister that turned into a friend and then turned into a wife in your life without regretting it? I attended a dear family friend wife birthday years ago where the dear brother was telling us he loves his wife as part of the closing; and end up the closing by saying “till next year” again. And we were all puzzled and stunned when he said it’s once in a year so that it doesn’t go into her head as he’s doing loving things and don’t need to say it often. And I wondered how many are in such state of not being able to express daily their love to their spouse vocally apart from the doings.
Then I recall the scripture says, I am paraphrasing – “Say to the righteous it shall be well with them” Isaiah 3:10; and the righteous includes your spouse’s and in this context your wife, which indicates saying gracious words of wellness and wholeness and loveliness and liveliness and such like to the righteous in all circumstances, and irrespective – of which I see my wife in that picture and context too, hence I am very mindful of gracious words to being spoken in life and grace, as I found in the Lord Jesus, that made the people wondered and amazed to asked questions, if He wasn’t the Son of Joseph. It simply because the gracious words was to counter the distorted words and adulterated words and demeaning words and polluted words and probably cursing and swearing words being spoken about in His days in humanity as about us today, that ought not to be to our fellow being for any reason and irrespective.
“And all bare Him [JESUS] witness and wondered at the GRACIOUS WORDS which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?” Luke 4:22.
Hence, I am not just saying but writing to wake you up from your once in a while sayings or writing’s about your dear lovely Sister turned into a friend and then turned into a wife as I do about mine today. Indeed, the scripture was right to say expressly that:
“Charm and grace are deceptive, and [superficial] beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord [reverently worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting Him with awe-filled respect], she shall be praised and admired” [Proverbs 31:30].
“Live JOYFULLY with the wife whom thou LOVEST all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy PORTION in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun” Ecclesiastes 9:9.
And I found the scriptural context above so, in my NKEMDILIM, my wife, the daughter of Zion as she earnestly endeavours daily to live meaningfully and to fulfill God’s given purpose scripturally; and endeavouring to ensure that she’s equally renewing her days as the eagle effortlessly in life and grace. I never knew that someone else outside us was observing untill when I heard this phrase spoken to me in her absence:
“It takes Faith to get FAITH” – Rev Pete Davis.
The statement above was the phrase said to me by Rev Pete Davis while travelling with him and others from a Hillsong Minister Conference, London, some years ago. I have not forgotten it. He was teasing me in a good way on how I got my beautiful wife. That I took faith to get FAITH. Initially I couldn’t get his logic until a while in course of the journey and we all laughed at the gracious words spoken. And I said in response that, “It takes Faith to keep FAITH” also. And I can’t help but to PRAISE this Beautiful Daughter of Zion – Nkemdilim Faith MORSI [my Wife], for the gracious walks together, through the years – the good and the challenging times. She is just loving, adorable, fabulous, sweet, gorgeous and blessed indeed.
And more recently, I have come to discover a new her, more and again after all these years of her being around me – She just keep renewing her days and our days as the Eagle. Simply because, she is fashioned in the similitude of God’s gracious and graceful palace; and crafted wonderfully and fearfully in God’s reverential image and likeness as if I never knew before but knowing to refresh, rejuvenate, rekindle and to keep glowing and glittering again and again [Psalms 144:12; Psalms 139:13-18].
I have been away and busy for a week only to return and find out that she and God has renewed her days again and again and again and . . . Now all things have become so lovely, lively, refreshing and rejuvenating.
I have come to know in grace that beauty is gracious and not vain when you reverentially fear the Lord. For it’s an inside out trajectory and not just a mere outwardly display with emptiness. And my wife had shown as she keeps showing that God MADE her so and it’s marvellous live in such graciousnesss and gracefulness. I BELIEVE it! That SETTLES it!! And I therefore confirm this message irrespective.
Blessed regards.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
“Many daughters have done nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], BUT YOU EXCEL THEM ALL” 30 Charm and grace are deceptive, and [superficial] beauty is vain, BUT A WOMAN WHO FEARS THE LORD [reverently worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting Him with awe-filled respect], SHE SHALL BE PRAISED. 31 Give her of the product of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates [of the city]” Proverbs 31:29-31/Amplified.
“He has made everything BEAUTIFUL and APPROPRIATE in its time. He has also planted ETERNITY [a sense of DIVINE PURPOSE] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end” Ecclesiastes 3:11/Amplified.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” Psalms 103:1-5.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
MARITAL BLESSEDNESS – A CALL OF GOD TO INHERIT A BLESSING
MARITAL BLESSEDNESS – A CALL OF GOD TO INHERIT A BLESSING: AND GOD BLESSED THEM AND YOURS IS BLESSED!
“Likewise, ye WIVES, be in SUBJECTION [SUBMISSIVE] to your OWN husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be WON by the CONVERSATION [CONDUCT] of the wives . . . 7 Likewise, ye HUSBANDS, DWELL WITH THEM ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving HONOUR unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being HEIRS together of the GRACE of life; that your PRAYERS be NOT HINDERED. 8 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 . . . 12 For the EYES of the Lord are over the RIGHTEOUS, and his EARS are open unto their PRAYERS: but the FACE of the Lord is AGAINST them that do EVIL” 1 Peter 3:1-12.
I don’t know how you see marriage or your marriage – whether you see it as BLESSED and a BLESSING or CURSED or a CURSE or a MISTAKE; but I wants you to know that MARRIAGE is a marital BLESSEDNESS irrespective of the challenges and difficult times you have or may be going through right now in your relationship. Marriage in God’s design and perspective is BLESSED and a BLESSING and yours is BLESSED, and not CURSED or a CURSE and neither a MISTAKE in any context of your perception. And you must know and understand that to being BLESSED, means to be EMPOWERED to – succeed, achieve, enrich, thrive, become, prosper and such like. And you have an inherent DNA of God’s gracious empowerment to make your marriage fulfil purpose meaningfully by God, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“THE BLESSING of the Lord BRINGS [true] RICHES, And He ADDS NO SORROW to it [for it comes as a BLESSING from God]” Proverbs 10:22/Amplified.
“BLESSED and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HAS BLESSED us with EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING in the heavenly realms in Christ” Ephesians 1:3/Amplified.
Marriage in God’s eye is BLESSED and a BLESSING in His BLESSEDNESS; and it is considered as a special CALL of God for all who choose to get involved into it by FAITH in Him, in order to INHERIT the marital BLESSING of His BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. For God BLESSED them – [male and female] – Adam and Eve, in His first marital BLESSEDNESS to set out His intent to all of mankind. And His intent is for all to enjoy the same-like BLESSEDNESS as we do life and live godly to fulfil His call [commission] and assignment [purpose] in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“So God created MAN in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created he them. 28 And God BLESSED THEM, and God said unto THEM, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” Genesis 1:27-28.
And if you want God to become a part of you and your marital journey, you must as a matter of principle, see marriage the way God’s sees it in His context – as a calling to INHERIT a BLESSING – that’s as PURE and SIMPLE. It’s either you agreed to see it in God’s perception and perspective or stay in your own self-made and world-made and the man-made delusion. For God CREATED and MADE marriage, and it’s His way and path it shall be for now and tomorrow for all who believes in His context in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
And you have to live to by FAITH in order to blossom, refresh and rejuvenate in this marital BLESSEDNESS; and if you must be victorious and triumphant in every way of doing life and living godly, in order to ensure that God’s enabling grace it’s at work to enable you overcome the challenging and difficult times that comes along with marriage, you must set your default to faith in God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. It’s by faith that you can ensure the practicality and activities to overcome the state of things in this present depraved world system.
“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH” Habakkuk 2:4 (Romans 1:16-17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).
“For whatsoever is born of God OVERCOMETH the world: and this is the VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH. 5 Who is he that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:4-5.
“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 11:6.
I want you to know full well, that God will always COMMEND what He COMMANDS. He won’t break His WORD that He has taken an OATH to authenticate on the IMMUTABILITY of His counsel. For He BLESSED them – male and female – that they might share in His GRACE and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus.
“Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL, CONFIRMED it by an OATH: 18 that by two IMMUTABLE things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil” Hebrews 6:17-19.
Your marriage is BLESSED – knowingly and unknowingly. And it’s not about you, but about Him, who had MADE MARRIAGE; and it’s by Him only also that it works, irrespective of any of your feelings and sentiments and prejudice about marriage and God, in all perspectives. I do pray that your marriage will enjoy God’s BLESSEDNESS in the grace and become a living blessing to others in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“The Lord BLESS thee, and keep thee: 25 the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace” Numbers 6:24-26.
It’s my utmost wishes that you stay married and that your marriage being BLESSED may flourish, rejuvenate and blossom as in God’s BLESSEDNESS, in life and grace, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“So God created MAN in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created he them. 28 And God BLESSED THEM, and God said unto THEM, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” Genesis 1:27-28.
“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM; AND BLESSED THEM, and CALLED THEIR NAME ADAM, in the day when they were created” Genesis 5:1-2.
“Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise BLESSING; knowing that ye are thereunto CALLED, that ye should INHERIT A BLESSING. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil” 1 Peter 3:9-12.
“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to THE WORD of his grace, which is able to BUILD you up, and to give you an INHERITANCE among all them which are SANCTIFIED” Acts 20:32.
“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 6:11-12.
“Now thanks be unto God, which ALWAYS CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in EVERY PLACE” 2 Corinthians 2:14.
“But thanks be to God, which GIVETH US THE VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 15:57.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
YOU ARE CROWNED AND BLESSED – TO BE A BLESSING
YOU ARE CROWNED AND BLESSED – TO BE A BLESSING: DON’T LIVE LESS IN CHRIST JESUS!
“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” Psalms 65:11-13. NKJV
“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has BLESSED us with every spiritual BLESSING in the heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3 NKJV.
To being BLESSED in God’s BLESSEDNESS, is to be EMPOWERED by God’s grace to SUCCEED, ACHIEVE, THRIVE, BECOME and such like the MORE, in every venture and endeavour of doing life and living godly, ensuring FULFILMENT through a gracious PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT.
I want you to know full well, that in Christ Jesus, you are CROWNED AND BLESSED of God to be a BLESSING. And unlike the OLD TESTAMENT BLESSEDNESS that was woven UNDER an “IF” CONDITIONALITY as by the holy writ of Deuteronomy 28:1-15 and in other same like Scriptures of the OLD TESTAMENT, the NEW CREATION BLESSEDNESS of the NEW TESTAMENT in Christ Jesus, is not based on CONDITIONALITY “IF”, but on Christ Jesus stead IN US, as per Ephesians 1:3 and such like Scriptures of the epistles.
“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HATH BLESSED us with all spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3.
“And it shall come to pass, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 and ALL THESE BLESSINGS shall come on thee, and overtake thee, IF THOU SHALT hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. . .” Deuteronomy 28:1-15.
Herein are some of the reasons but not limited for your BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus, as the NEW CREATION of the NEW TESTAMENT:
** It is a DONE promised blessing of God in our redemption in Christ Jesus. Hence the New Creation Blessing is UNCONDITIONAL. Unlike the Old Testament wherein you are CONDITIONED to fulfil certain obligations to attain it or have it. Hence let no man ask you to pay some charges or fulfil some obligations before you can ascertain God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
** It’s the blessing that’s free of fear, sorrow, pain, envy, jealousy and anguish, but always enriching, assuring and ensuring. So, there’s no reason to be afraid of God’s BLESSEDNESS. And nobody should then threaten you of God’s promises to you beside them. Ephesians 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1-4; 3 John 2.
** God’s BLESSING is not a FEELING; it is in the KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING – that’s the only way you can BE a BLESSING too. And its always INTENTIONAL choice plan to have us BLESSED in His BLESSEDNESS.
** God’s BLESSING is not a car, property, family, money, empire of business and more; but the ENABLING ENDOWMENTS of God that MAKES and ENABLES to become a reality, the things you need like – car, house, business, money, family health, and more; the BLESSED ENABLER makes the things you need to come into reality WITHOUT SWEAT, EFFORTLESS, GRACEFULLY and GRACIOUSLY. It is such to note so that you are not limited by the things you need or have but you are GOVERNED by the enabler. The BLESSED enabler, MAKES you ABOVE ONLY otherwise you will go down south or downhill, when the alternative is your enabler.
** And God’s BLESSING KEEPS you in His CHURCH or PRESENCE and enables one to go from strength unto strength. Meaning, God’s BLESSING doesn’t take you away from His presence or Church as we’ve seen many BACKSLIDE from FAITH for having some little tokens of money or car or property and more which they considered to be a blessing, which unfortunately for them are the results of the BLESSEDNESS and not the BLESSEDNESS.
** God’s BLESSING for us in His BLESSEDNESS does not fade, deteriorate or go valueless and worthless and in any such like degradation, hence it’s not treasured as Car, landed property, house, material and such like that wear out with time. So when you have any material items as Car, house and such like for example, it is the ENABLING ENDOWMENTS called the BLESSEDNESS of God that is the Blessing and not the car. God’s BLESSEDNESS upon you provides you the car as a tool to achieve purpose on earth. And because God’s BLESSEDNESS is in the HEAVENLY PLACES, meaning spiritual endowment, thieves, robbers and such like enemy and cohorts, can’t break-in because there are kept in the heavenly places where Christ Jesus is seated, you and I are seated at the safe and secured right hand of God. Ephesians 1:3, 20; Ephesians 2:6; Matthew 6:19-21.
** Do you know that you are BLESSED? If yes, then stop running around as one without KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING. I am Blessed – I know It. You are Blessed – I know It quite well too.
** And much more importantly, your marriage is BLESSED and not a CURSE. You can now stop this unfavourable notion of holding and looking at your spouse as agent of CURSE and to know give up the worry syndrome knowing that being BLESSED maritally by God, you cannot be externally curse to make you live in fear. Hence you need to stop all those notions that someone else is there cursing your marriage and such is more supreme than the BLESSEDNESS of God upon your marriage. Always know that you will become what you believe – either God’s BLESSEDNESS or Man-Made make belief or your make up dogmas to suit sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. 1 Peter 3:8-12.
Having now known some of the reasons above, therefore, go on in grace, speaking FORTH who you ARE as being BLESSED of God and not CURSE; and going forth in such might in Christ Jesus stead to do the needful in PRINCIPLE and DILIGENCE, as God begins to actualise and unveil into reality your BLESSEDNESS in Him in Christ Jesus.
THEREFORE, IN POSSIBILITIES WITH – THE TIMELESS GOD – KNOW FULL WELL THAT YOU ARE CROWN BLESSED – TO BE A BLESSING – DON’T LIVE LESS IN CHRIST JESUS. AMEN.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH MEDITATING IN CONTEXT:
“. . . 5 BLESSED is the man whose STRENGTH is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6 Who passing through the VALLEY of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from STRENGTH to STRENGTH, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. . .” (Psalms 84).
“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HATH BLESSED us with all spiritual blessings in HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ . . 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own RIGHT HAND in the HEAVENLY PLACES . . . ” Ephesians 1:3, 15-23.
“. . . 6 and hath RAISED us up together, and made us SIT together in HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ Jesus . . .” Ephesians 2:1-10.
“Lay not up for yourselves TREASURES upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where THIEVES break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves TREASURES in HEAVEN, where NEITHER moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where THIEVES do not break through nor steal: 21 for where your TREASURE is, there will your heart be also” Matthew 6:19-21.
“The BLESSING of the Lord, it MAKES RICH, and he ADDS NO SORROW with it” Proverbs 10:22.
“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” Genesis 12:1-3.
“Even as Abraham BELIEVED God, and it was ACCOUNTED to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore THAT THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH, the same are the CHILDREN of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, PREACHED BEFORE THE GOSPEL unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED. 9 So then they WHICH BE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED with faithful Abraham . . . 13 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: 14 that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE THE PROMISE of the Spirit through faith . . . 26 For ye ARE ALL THE CHILDREN of God BY FAITH in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 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. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s SEED, and HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE” Galatians 3:6-9, 13-14, 26-29.
“Thou CROWNEST THE YEAR with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon 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 over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-13.
“And it shall come to pass, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 and ALL THESE BLESSINGS shall come on thee, and overtake thee, IF THOU SHALT hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. 3 BLESSED shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 BLESSED shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 BLESSED shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 BLESSED shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out . . .15 But it shall come to pass, IF THOU WILT not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee” Deuteronomy 28:1-15.
“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: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 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: 4 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” 2 Peter 1:1-4.
“. . . 8 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. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil” 1 Peter 3:1-12.
Further Scriptural Reading Text: Deuteronomy 28:1-15.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
MARRIAGE – A COVENANT OF GRACE AND BLESSEDNESS
MARRIAGE – A COVENANT OF GRACE AND BLESSEDNESS: A CALLING TO INHERIT A BLESSING AND FULFIL GOD’S PURPOSE!
“Whoso FINDETH a wife FINDETH A GOOD THING, and obtaineth FAVOUR of the Lord” Proverbs 18:22
Your MARRIAGE is BLESSED and not CURSE – when you see it from the EYES of the SCRIPTURES and not from the EYES of MAN-MADE TRADITION, SECTARIANISM and DENOMINATIONALISM and such like. For the Scripture says from the beginning that God intentionally BLESSED them – male and female. Marriage is BLESSED and EMPOWERED, and none in the marital Scriptural stand of God is cursed. It’s your choice to believe God’s word or to allow circumstances and society and others define your stand in marriage – knowingly and unknowingly.
“And God said, Let us MAKE MAN in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God CREATED he him; MALE and FEMALE created he them. 28 And God BLESSED THEM, and God SAID unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and REPLENISH the earth, and SUBDUE it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” Genesis 1:26-28.
For marriage it’s a covenant of grace; and much more, a CALLING of God in Christ Jesus stead to INHERIT the BLESSING of God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus – as heirs who shares in the common grace of life and godliness; and whose PRAYERS are and can be effectual without obstruction and unhindered by any means as they live unreservedly and intentionally in scriptural consciousness.
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to KNOWLEDGE, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being HEIRS together of the grace of life; that your PRAYERS be not HINDERED . . . 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 3:7, 9.
God MADE marriage, as such, only by Him through His WORD it does work to the fulness in life and grace. In God, your marriage is good and blessed and not curse. Get your marriage CONNECTED and SYNCHRONIZED with God in Christ Jesus stead and not to religion sectarianism and denominationalism and such like. Begin now to see your marriage and marital relationship from the perspective of God in order to obtain and actualised your promised favour and to inherit your blessed BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus. Amen.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“. . . 7 As being HEIRS together of the GRACE of LIFE; that your PRAYERS be not HINDERED. 8 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. 10 For he that will LOVE life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the EYES of the Lord are over the righteous, and his EARS are open unto their prayers: but the FACE of the Lord is against them that do evil” 1 Peter 3:1-12.
“SUBMITTING yourselves one to another in the FEAR of God. 22 Wives, SUBMIT yourselves unto your OWN husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, LOVE your wives, even as Christ also LOVED the church, and GAVE himself for it; 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he might present it to himself a GLORIOUS church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband” Ephesians 5:21-33.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
GOD IS FAITHFUL: LIVING BLESSED
GOD IS FAITHFUL: LIVING BLESSED – TO BE A BLESSING – IS PART OF OUR HIGHER CALLING!
“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” Genesis 12:1-3.
To be BLESSED and living a BLESSED life in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead, is to be EMPOWERED in God’s grace to SUCCEED, ACHIEVE, THRIVE, BECOME and such like; and more so, it’s to live MEANINGFULLY and PURPOSEFULLY in every venture and endeavour of life with FULFILMENT, through a gracious and graceful plan, purpose and pursuit in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HATH BLESSED us with all spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3.
“The BLESSING of the Lord, it MAKES RICH, and he ADDS NO SORROW with it” Proverbs 10:22.
Be assured for certainty, that is – knowingly and unknowingly – that you are – BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING, and it’s for the following but not limited REASONS in being BLESSED in the BLESSEDNESS of God are you in these contextual regards:
** It is a DONE promised blessing of God in our REDEMPTION in Christ Jesus.
** It’s THE BLESSING that’s always enriching, assuring and ensuring – that’s free of fear, sorrow, pain, envy, jealousy, anguish and such like.
** The God’s BLESSING is not in a FEELING, it is in the PERCEIVING – that’s of the KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING – and that’s the only way you can BE a BLESSING too.
** The God’s BLESSING is not the car, property, money, empire of business and such like more; The God’s BLESSING is the ENABLING ENDOWMENTS of God that MAKES the things you need possible and to come into reality – effortlessly, gracefully and graciously. Such like needs may be as the car, house, business, money, health, and such like more.
** And the God’s BLESSING keeps one in His Church or Presence; and it enables one to go from strength unto strength. Meaning, God’s BLESSING doesn’t take you away from His presence or His Church as we’ve seen many BACKSLIDE from FAITH, just for having some little tokens of the money or and the car or and the property and such like the more, which they attached earnestly and think intently as BLESSING, which is rather unfortunate.
Therefore, I say as emboldened in Christ Jesus stead, that, I am BLESSED of God – and I know It; I know also that you are BLESSED of God, in Christ Jesus stead, and I hope you know it quite well too as I do now and always in consciousness.
Finally I ask and say – DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLESSED OF GOD’S BLESSEDNESS IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD? If yes, then stop running around as one without KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING. Live and walk in wisdom to ENSURE this ASSURED enabling of God, in Christ Jesus stead becomes tangible and in reality, in your path of doing life and living godly. Amen..
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Brethren, I count not myself to have APPREHENDED: but this one thing I do, FORGETTING those things which are behind, and REACHING FORTH unto those things which are before, 14 I PRESS toward the mark for the PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED: and if in any thing ye be OTHERWISE MINDED, God shall REVEAL even this unto you” Philippians 3:13-15.
“. . . 5 BLESSED is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. . .” (Psalms 84).
“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HATH BLESSED us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3.
“The BLESSING of the Lord, it MAKES RICH, and he ADDS NO SORROW with it” Proverbs 10:22.
“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: 14 that THE BLESSING of ABRAHAM might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE the PROMISE of the Spirit through faith . . .26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 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. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” Galatians 3:13-14, 26-29.
“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” Genesis 12:1-3.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
September2019 – LIVING THE BLESSED LIFE
September2019 – LIVING THE BLESSED LIFE: Living BLESSED – To Be A BLESSING!
To be BLESSED is to be empowered in God’s grace to SUCCEED, ACHIEVE, THRIVE, BECOME and MORE, in every venture and endeavour of LIFE and GODLINESS with FULFILMENT, through a gracious plan, purpose and pursuit.
Living The BLESSED Life:
** It is a DONE promised blessing of God in our redemption in Christ Jesus.
** It’s the blessing that’s free of fear, sorrow, pain, envy, jealousy and anguish, but always enriching, assuring and ensuring.
** God’s BLESSING is not a FEELING, it is in the KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING – that’s the only way you can BE a BLESSING too.
** God’s BLESSING is not car, property, money, empire of business and more; but the enabling endowments of God that makes the things you need like – car, house, business, money, health, and more – come into reality effortless, gracefully and graciously.
** And God’s BLESSING keeps you in His Church or Presence and enables one to go from strenght unto strenght. Meaning, God’s BLESSING doesn’t take you away from His presence or His Church as we’ve seen many BACKSLIDE from FAITH for having some little tokens of money or car or property and more.
** I am Blessed – I know It!
** You are Blessed – I know It quite well too.
** Do you know that you are BLESSED? If yes, then stop running around as one without KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“. . . 5 BLESSED is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. . .” (Psalms 84).
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HATH BLESSED us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3.
“The BLESSING of the Lord, it MAKES RICH, and he ADDS NO sorrow with it” Proverbs 10:22.
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive THE BLESSING from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation” Psalms 24:3-5.
“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” Genesis 12:1-3.
“Even as Abraham BELIEVED God, and it was ACCOUNTED to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Know ye therefore that THEY which ARE OF FAITH, the same ARE the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would JUSTIFY the heathen through faith, PREACHED before THE GOSPEL unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all NATIONS be BLESSED. 9 So then they which be of faith are BLESSED with FAITHFUL Abraham . . . 13 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: 14 that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE the PROMISE of the Spirit through FAITH . . . 26 For ye ARE all the children of God by FAITH in Christ Jesus. 27 For as MANY of you as have been BAPTIZED into Christ have put on Christ. 28 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. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then ARE ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the PROMISE” Galatians 3:13-14, 26-29.
“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; 10 and hast MADE us unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS: and we shall REIGN on the earth . . . 12 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” Revelation 5:9-10, 12.
Further Scriptural Reading Text: Psalms 115:9-18.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
A BLESSED DAY – MAKE IT YOURS
A BLESSED DAY – MAKE IT YOURS: YOU ARE BLESSED – ENACT IT AS A WORD DOER!
Are You Doing The WORD Today? Are you a WORD DOER? Know full well that – to be BLESSED is to be EMPOWERED to – THRIVE, SUCCEED, BECOME, ACHIEVE and FULFILLED. It’s not how much eloquently you are or can talk that change your worlds and the worlds about you, but how much you can DO to bring about the DIFFERENCE in you and others by the WORD.
The scriptures of James 1:22-25 indicates that only the DOERS of what they HEAR of the WORD that are BLESSED in their deeds. This is how Jesus in humanity exemplifies it in life and ministry. He will DO then TEACH or TEACH then DO. He knows the effectual power of DOING to exemplify what he’s about to talk and the efficacy of DOING what He has talked about.
It’s time to step into your worlds with the intent to be a DOER of the WORD of God in order to have the enabling to BECOME in LIFE and GODLINESS – 2 Peter 1:2-4. DOING the WORD would create the atmosphere you want to see and enjoy. Jesus DID, He had it. You can also make your worlds a better place today.
Be A DOER Of the WORD – You Will Be BLESSED Indeed.
BE BLESSED AS YOU PONDER OVER IT.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“. . . Jesus began both to DO and TEACH, 2 until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 3 to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” Acts 1:1-3.
“But be ye DOERS of the word, and not HEARERS only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a HEARER of the WORD, and not a DOER, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a DOER of the work, this man shall be BLESSED in his DEED” James 1:22-25.
Further Scriptural Reading: Psalms 1:1-3; 2 Peter 1:1-4.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
AFD JUNE 2024 EDITION
WELCOME TO MONTH JUNE 2024: THE MONTH OF ENACTING – “THE BLESSED LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS!”
“Christ PURCHASED our FREEDOM and REDEEMED us from the CURSE of the Law and its CONDEMNATION by BECOMING a CURSE for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs [crucified] on a tree (cross)”— 14 in order that in Christ Jesus THE BLESSING of Abraham might also come to the Gentiles, so that we would all RECEIVE [the realization of] the PROMISE of the [Holy] Spirit through faith” Galatians 3:13-14/AMP Classic Edition.
The MONTH JUNE, is the sixth [6] month and the end month of the first half of the calendar year, in the Gregorian and Julian calendar Month; and it’s the 2nd of the 4th in number, of the months of thirty [30] days in the twelve [12] months annual calendar.
And as in Month JUNE, the name JUNE, is also a lovely given name to the female gender of the sexes which is of great significance. For the Month JUNE as in the name JUNE, expresses in essence, the FULLNESS of life, and it’s of a profound FULFILMENT of desires and vitality. Thus, it indicate how that God wants us to THRIVE instead of SURVIVE, and to live in His BLESSEDNESS while fulfilling His PURPOSE in us MEANINGFULLY, in all of our life endeavours, as we do life and live godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. And the best place of having the FULNESS of Life and profound FULFILMENT of desires and vitality is by engaging and following in obedience, God’s plan PATH for your life as in the holy writ of the scriptures. (Ephesians 2:10; Psalms 16:11; Proverbs 4:18-23; Colossians 4:17; Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:11; Philippians 2:1-18].
The BLESSED life in Christ Jesus is about GOD’S BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus. And ENACTING the BLESSED life, is about ensuring, living and acting out in the fulness, the blessedness of God’s purpose in our life meaningfully and unreservedly.
And ensuring to live the assured BLESSED life and BLESSEDNESS of God in Christ Jesus, indicates in living in God’s EMPOWERING realm of fulfilling His purpose in your life [Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:11-12; 1 Corinthians 2:9-10]. For the BLESSED life of God doesn’t operates in emptiness or vain imagination or in human strength, power and might [Zach 4:6; 1 Samuel 2:9; 2 Corinthians 3:1-6]; it thus operates and authenticate by God’s EMPOWERING us, which is by the Holy Spirit that EMPOWERS us, SEAL us, ANOINTS us, GUARANTEES us and DWELLS within us as GIVEN of God the Father to us as by the redemption default in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. [Acts 1:8; Luke 24:59, Romans 5:5; John 14:16-17; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22].
For to be BLESSED in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus is to be EMPOWERED of God by the Holy Spirit to succeed, to achieve and to become; and more so, to be fulfilled productively, efficiently and effectively [effectually] in the ASSURED WORD of God.
The BLESSEDNESS of God in character [Galatians 5:22-23] and charisma [1 Corinthians 12:7-11] and in ministerial [1 Corinthians 12:28-31; Ephesians 4:7-16; Romans 12:3-8] are all being empowered, synergised and manifested by the Holy Spirit of God. It thus means as I will be laying out through this Month that God’s BLESSEDNESS in the New Creation Testament is only made a REALITY in us, as we do life and live godly, by the Holy Spirit of God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
Welcome to Month June. It’s my earnest PRAYERS that you are able to enact THE BLESSED LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, by the Holy Spirit of promise that makes all things possible by God in Christ Jesus. Amen.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHT WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED US with all spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ: 4 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: 5 having PREDESTINATED US unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath MADE US ACCEPTED in the beloved” Ephesians 1:3-6.
“THE BLESSING of the Lord, it MAKETH RICH, and he ADDETH NO SORROW with it” Proverbs 10:22.
“But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in JERUSALEM, and in all JUDÆA, and in SAMARIA, and unto the UTTERMOST part of the earth” Acts 1:8.
“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be ENDUED with POWER from on high” Luke 24:49.
“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER, that he may ABIDE WITH you for ever; 17 even the Spirit of TRUTH; whom the world CANNOT receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth WITH you, and shall be IN you” John 14:16-17.
“Now it is God who ESTABLISHES and CONFIRMS us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and who has ANOINTED us [EMPOWERING us with the gifts of the Spirit]; 22 it is He who has also put His SEAL on us [that is, He has appropriated us and CERTIFIED us as His] and has GIVEN us the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge [like a security deposit to GUARANTEE the fulfillment of His promise of eternal life]” 2 Corinthians 1:21-22/AMP.
“Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, [as conformity to God’s will and purpose—so it is with you also]. 7 So understand that it is the people who live by faith [with confidence in the power and goodness of God] who are [the true] sons of Abraham. 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news [of the Savior] to Abraham in advance [with this promise], saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then those who are people of faith [whether Jew or Gentile] are blessed and favored by God [and declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with Him] along with Abraham, the believer . . . 13 Christ PURCHASED our FREEDOM and REDEEMED us from the curse of the Law and its condemnation by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs [crucified] on a tree (cross)”— 14 in order that in Christ Jesus THE BLESSING of Abraham might also come to the Gentiles, so that we would all receive [the realization of] the PROMISE of the [Holy] Spirit through faith . . . 26 For you [who are born-again have been reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified and] are all children of God [set apart for His purpose with full rights and privileges] through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union with the Christ, the Anointed] have clothed yourselves with Christ [that is, you have taken on His characteristics and values]. 28 There is [now no distinction in regard to salvation] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you [who believe] are all one in Christ Jesus [no one can claim a spiritual superiority]. 29 And if you belong to Christ [if you are in Him], then you are Abraham’s descendants, and [spiritual] heirs according to [God’s] promise” Galatians 3:13-14/AMP.
“And it shall come to pass, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN DILIGENTLY UNTO THE VOICE of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE of the Lord thy God . . . 9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, IF THOU SHALT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways . . . 13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; IF THAT THOU HEARKEN UNTO THE COMMANDMENTS of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 and thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them” Deuteronomy 28:1-14.
“Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE” Acts 20:34-35.
“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also describeth the BLESSEDNESS of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Cometh this BLESSEDNESS then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness . . . 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (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 . . . 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” Romans 4:1-25.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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