BEING CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR IN LOVE: YOU NEED TO STAY CONNECTED IN FELLOWSHIP [PRAYERS]!
“So we ARE CHRIST’S AMBASSADORS, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal REPRESENTATIVES] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20/Amplified Classic Edition.
I am yet to find any genuine ambassador or even secretary of state on foreign policy, representing his country, that’s not connected and always connected and in communication with the sending country in every decision except such had been declared with a PERSONA NON GRATA by his country. And so ought every Believer of God in Christ Jesus, who by virtue of being a New Creation, are ambassador, representing the heavenly in earthly affairs in love.
“A WICKED MESSENGER [REPRESENTATIVE] falleth into mischief [trouble]: but a FAITHFUL AMBASSADOR is HEALTH” Proverbs 13:17.
And one great hallmark of such BEING CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR IN LOVE, is the act of FELLOWSHIP to enhance that RELATIONSHIP with the sending heavenly. It’s upon this assigned mandate that the Believer in Christ Jesus is CALLED by the heavenly faith into a place of FELLOWSHIP wherein the Believer can fulfil purpose of God in Christ Jesus stead. And this ACT OF FELLOWSHIP is not only toward God in Christ Jesus but to toward fellow Believer’s in the grace of the same-like faith in Christ Jesus, there are Christ’s ambassador. For many have the habit of disregarding the fellowship [communication and connection] with others, and we are admonished and charged not to avoid such act of fellowship. And the act of fellowship in this context is what we mostly generally called – the act of PRAYERS!
“God is FAITHFUL, by whom ye were CALLED unto the FELLOWSHIP of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” 1 Corinthians 1:9.
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the CALLED according to His PURPOSE” Romans 8:28 [Ephesians 1:11-12/Amplified].
“NOT FORSAKING OR NEGLECTING to ASSEMBLE [FELLOWSHIP] together [as Believers], as is the HABIT OF SOME PEOPLE, but ADMONISHING (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more FAITHFULLY as you see the day approaching” Hebrews 10:25/Amplified Classic Edition.
There’s therefore the need to PRAY and keep PRAYING, for it’s a hallmark of the ACT OF FELLOWSHIP for the earthly, to being connected and in communication with the heavenly in order to resolve the earthly affairs: personal, family, community, national and the world; for PRAYER is the path for the Believing one’s as AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, to receive the enabling grace to help fulfil God’s divine purpose and to avoid being declared with a PERSONA NON GRATA.
WHAT THEN IS PRAYER [The Act of Fellowship] – NOT LIMITED:
PRAYER is – the FELLOWSHIP with God to enhance the RELATIONSHIP with God. PRAYER is – the COMMUNION with the heavenly Father God in Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit in God’s WORD. PRAYER is – the avenue of resolving life matters with the heavenly to fulfil the assigned divine PURPOSE in humanity.
PRAYER is – engaging and asking of the HEAVENLY permission into your EARTHLY affairs. PRAYER is – the asking for the heavenly intervention in matters of earnest earthly challenges. PRAYER is – the Believer’s life blood to all about doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. PRAYER and the life of PRAYER and PRAYING, is not just an act but Believer’s life breath from the heavenly into the earthy affairs of God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus. Amen.
PRAYER – is a vitality and necessity for the Believer’s in Christ to be able to thrive by God for an onward and upward trajectory in Christ Jesus stead, Amen. And as PRAYER is the Believer’s inescapable obligation to ensure and assure a safe trail with God in humanity, it’s imperative and prerogative of getting readily ready in the context of our daily, weekly, monthly and yearly – plan, purpose and pursuit – in order to take on and take charge of our path of doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
And with the daily challenges of our faith in Christ Jesus, it’s of great necessity to PRAY. Such act of PRAYER and PRAYING enable one to ask help of the heavenly TIMELESS timeline into our earthly TIMED timeline intervention. DON’T YOU THINK SO? And if Yes – then give PRAYER a GO today and always – meaning, you can start now to ask for the heavenly permission into your earthly affairs intervention. Start now to let the heavenly interfere into your set out PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT – which will in turn count and account for your good and goodness as we do life and live godly in Christ Jesus [Luke 18:1-8; Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18].
PRAYER – is the PATH to have your thoughts and plan ESTABLISHED readily in the spiritual atmosphere with the heavenly realm for an onward, upward trajectory in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. There’s the need to authenticate and enact tangibly into reality your desired yearnings – just as a horse is made readily ready ahead of any battle and challenging time usefulness. May I inform or remind you, it is the spiritual realm of the heavenly, that gives the physical (earthly) world realm the synergy of life – therefore, do yourself a favour to PRAY, so that you FAINT not and live a WORRY free life in the earthly affairs. [Mark 1:35; Luke 6:12-16; Luke 4:1-22; Matthew 6:9-18, 25-34; Hebrews 4:14-16].
PRAYER – is vital because there’s the NEED to HEAR God for yourself and not from someone else’s, especially on that which one intending PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT in Christ Jesus stead; personal of prayers in fellowship saves one from waiting for the prophecy of someone to define you on MATTERS that they can’t carry through life with you especially on your behalf. Know of a truth that God hears and answers PRAYERS, and it’s imperative and your prerogative should be to talk and reason WITH God for yourself and not someone else taking the stage for their ego, knowing that God will answer you irrespective and accordingly. [Psalms 65:2; Psalms 5:1-3; Jeremiah 33:3].
Today, and now, it beholds me to plead with you to please GIVE GOD A CALL TODAY – HE WILL ANSWER WHEN IT RINGS ON HIS THRONE. He wants to hear from you personally irrespective without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation.
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which ARE THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS” Revelation 5:8.
“And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much INCENSE, that he should offer it with THE PRAYERS OF ALL SAINTS upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the SMOKE OF THE INCENSE, which came with the PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS, ASCENDED UP BEFORE GOD out of the angel’s hand” Revelation 8:3-4.
Be BLESSED in your EARTHLY CAUSE to doing LIFE and living GODLY in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, and not to FAINT (GIVE UP, GO WEARY, LOOSE HEART)” Luke 18:1 (Emphasis Mine).
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The HEARTFELT AND PERSISTENT PRAYER of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]” James 5:16 (Amplified).
“PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” Ephesians 6:18.
“O You who HEAR prayer, To You all mankind comes” Psalms 65:2 (Amplified).
“CALL to Me and I will ANSWER you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish” Jeremiah 33:3 (Amplified).
“And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a MOUNTAIN TO PRAY. 29 And AS HE PRAYED, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering” Luke 9:28-29.
“Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left [the house], and went out to a secluded place, and was PRAYING there” Mark 1:35 (Amplified).
REV. CHUKIE MORSI