The disciplined worker

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 

2 Timothy 2: 1-3 KJV

If we want our works to outlive us into the next and many other generations, we must be disciplined. We must be mindful of the fact that our life is not our own but is given to us each day for a purpose.
We must empower ourselves with the tools to finish our race and win the war with life. The Word says we wrestle not against flesh and blood; that the weapon of our warfare is not carnal. Therefore, it is important for us to stay the course, maintain a disciplined mindset ensuring that our purpose is achieved.

As leaders either in our home, church, place of work, community gathering we must not fail to commit unto others that which we have heard from Christ, ensuring that they too are empowered to teach this to others.

We are not to wait for others to tell us to do the right thing, even when others are not there we must be always walk on the path of truth. Let’s try to make our life an example to those in our circle.
Give everybody the respect that they deserve. We should remember that as leaders we live in a glass house, people are looking at us and watching how we live and what we do. They would take their cue from what they see us do and how we do it.

In spite of whatever battle of life we face, we must not let this affect living a right and disciplined life. A life that is a good example and reflection of who God is.

What does your dream tell you?

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. Genesis 37: 5-6, 9 KJV

Do you have dreams? What do you dream about? How often does your dream reoccur? Joseph was known as the dreamer in the bible and his dreams put him in a bad spot with his brothers, but at the end the dreams became reality.

God has a way He reaches out to us through dreams, so dreams should not be taken for granted because they act as the secrets to the spiritual. Our dreams are a show of identification and speaks of our uniqueness that we need to not belittle. The spiritual manifestation of who we are and even the works of the enemy to limit our greatness is seen in our dreams.

The word of God says, “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can move mountains”. The same way that God can use our dreams to lift you up is the same way the enemy tries to use dreams to pull people down. While we sleep our spirit goes to work and so we need to commend our sleeping hours to God.

A lot of people get the revelation of their life’s purpose in their dreams. Some of us have strange destinies which requires that we should be very mindful of our dreams.

Standing at the cutting edge pt.3

And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 2 Samuel 5: 19

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3: 10-11

When we say I AM the grace of God goes into work. Apostle Paul said “I AM WHO I AM by the grace of God” To be on the cutting edge we must believe who we are in Christ and as a creation of God. When we know Christ, we know who we are and become strong and bold to do exploits. Strength and the ability to do exploits is given to us from God through Christ who has brought us to the throne of grace.

We need revelation. We need to have an understanding of life before the birth of Christ and life after the resurrection of Christ. If we know him as a savior, then He will relate with us as a savior. We must know Him is all that He is. When God said “I AM” he means “I AM your healer, your deliverer, your savior, your prosperity, your home builder, and every other I AM that we can think of.

We cannot reign when we do not understand that we are righteous. For the bible says that the righteous shall live by faith. When we accept we are accept the gift of righteousness from God, then everything in our life adjusts to the believe that we are righteous and we begin to live that life. This puts us right at the top, with access to all that God has said concerning us.

Study the word of God and you will find out that all those negatives and superstitious believes is not what God has said concerning you. To stand on the cutting edge, we must accept and appreciate God’s love and the sacrifice that he made on our behalf. In our appreciation then we must then love others just as God loves us. In the same way that God has forgiven you we must also forgive others.
We must live to fulfill God’s purpose concerning us as children born of resurrection. The secret of standing on the cutting-edge boils down to one thing, putting God first. The bible says that David inquired of the Lord. Before he took a step to go into battle He inquired of the Lord and asked if he should go and if he would overcome. Most times we do not bother to inquire of God before we take that step. We just move and expect God to follow us. This is not the order of things; it must always be God first. Always go back to God, never be tired of going back to God every day.

We must put on the mind of Christ; this is the mind of victory. Accepting and thanking God for victory in all things that pertains to us no matter what the circumstances may seems like to the world. We are standing on the cutting edge because in Christ there is therefore no condemnation. This gives us the boldness to come before God and to His throne of grace!

Standing at the cutting edge pt.2

And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 2 Samuel 5: 19 

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3: 10-11 

We live in an information age and if care is not taken we will receive the wrong information. For as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Therefore, what we think and what we believe determines our future.
If God has said it he will do it, if He has spoken it then it shall come to pass. In Christ there can be no more defeat, no matter what the enemy tries we would always come out on top.  Why is this? God knows you personally. None of us is an accident.

It is an insult to the finished work of Christ for you to write yourself off as a failure. When somebody says that the bad occurrence is a family thing; it is wrong. The fact it happens in your family does not mean it will happen to you. The day you surrender your life to Christ, your case becomes different because the power that raised Christ from the dead now works in you.  We must understand that in this day of information we must filter what we hear. The only thing that is infallible is the Word of God. John 1: 1-5. You cannot separate Jesus from His word. Every word of God has a return ticket and before it returns it must be fulfilled.

Of all the kings of Israel, King David is still being celebrated today. He was a king of whom God gave a testimony that he was a man after God’s own heart. David thought us that is awesome and mighty in His power. He taught us that once we are God’s choice He will pick us out from where we have been forgotten.  There is a position we put ourselves in. Cutting edge means we stand out among our contemporaries. What do we mean by cutting edge?

One that excels in the place of prominence. God has placed us there in a place of prominence at the top of the mountain where our light can shine brightly for all to see. When you begin to feel you have figured God out, he will show you another side. Therefore, we must be mindful of what we call into our lives. God told Moses, “tell them that I AM sent you”. When we say I am what does it mean? It means that we have power in what we pronounce with our own mouth.

Standing at the cutting edge pt.1

And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 2 Samuel 5: 19

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3: 10-11

There is none of you that reads today this post that is here by mistake. Nothing about us as a person is a mistake. God has earmarked and ordained many great things to happen in our lives and through us. Jeremiah 1:4 tells us that even before we were formed God had mapped out the path of our life but we must be willing to accept God’s will to be perfected in us.

What end do you expect in your life; your health, marriage, business, place of employ? Every promise of God to us is Him telling us what He has perfected and not what He is about to do. As far as God is concerned everything about us and our life is concluded. Our part is to respond positively. In fact, the believer’s journey starts from “It is finished”. Everything is sorted out in Christ. When Christ is involved the journey is a fixed fight because Jesus has already won the battle on our behalf.
Even when the devil points that you have made a mistake, God is saying that His grace covers you because He has decided not to see it. For all of us who are in Christ in spirit and in truth have this grace.

When we function with understanding as believers, the struggle will be over. Often times we do not have an understanding of who we are in Christ. When God sees you, who is in Christ he sees a holy child. (if any man be in Christ he is a new creature.) A child of God is not under curse; for the word says that he who God has blessed no man can curse.

A NEW SEASON IS HERE!

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. Luke 24: 1-3 KJV

Like we have said in the last post, the story of our Lord Jesus Christ is true, because everything about Jesus worked exactly to perfection. The timing was perfect, the environment was beautiful and everything went according to plan.

Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes as would a lamb set aside for sacrifice. The second thing was that where Jesus was born was Bethlehem in a place where Lambs are reared mostly for sacrifice.  The Shepherds went in to see Jesus and saw him wrapped like a lamb set aside for slaughter. Then He was born in a place where lambs are kept.

Jesus went through all the stages that the lamb, unblemished, goes through before it is sacrificed. Our believe in Christ and all that He went through to connect us back to God the father sets us on that part that leads to life eternal. It also means that we as the new testament of the death and resurrection do not need to perform animal sacrifice because Christ has done it once and finished the work at Calvary!

On the day of resurrection, it was the start of a new season. The women went to the tomb where Jesus was buried expecting to see a dead body but they saw there a risen Jesus. And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?   He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. Luke 24: 5-7. 

They met the stone that covered the tomb rolled away and an angel waiting to tell them the good news of Christ’s resurrection. This news they took to the Disciples of Jesus Christ.

Who paid the price?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. John 12: 24-25 KJV

Jesus was saying to His disciples that for something to be great and bring out much fruit, that thing/person must be ready to pay the price. Fruitfulness means to be productive and is not just about bringing out so much flower. It means to add value, to improve things, and be able to make things works. There is a price for productivity and fruitfulness. John 12: 21-32.  He that has no consideration for his life will keep it and he that thinks to preserve it will lose it. He says there is a price to pay for eternal life, lose your life and gain eternity. Loosing your life is surrendering to Christ the life you live.

Let it be known that everything in life has a price. One of the greatest problem of mankind is the feeling of entitlement. The feeling of getting returns without putting in the effort. The charlatans take advantage of people because those people are not ready to pay the price that they need to get the reward. If you see any man that is prospering or succeeding in life it means he has paid the price or somebody has paid the price for him.

Life’s success comes from paying the price, hard work, thinking right, having a plan, looking ahead and meeting goals. The successful have a life plan, a plan for marriage, an employability plan, a business plan and a general plan that is in sync with God’s plan for our life.
Jesus outlined the plan for his life on earth to make Him a success and He paid the price to get that success. Luke 4: 16-21. Joseph had a business/life plan for himself. Jesus was able to go to the cross and die because He had a clear vision of the direction on where His life was going.

What is the cost of what you want to become in life? Mark 10:32-34. Jesus outlines the cost of His perfect sacrifice that would result in the victory over death and the enslavement of sin. He knew that this had a price.

What price did Jesus have to pay for us to have salvation? Christ has already paid the price for your salvation. Why not take up that account and make good on it?