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BE ESTABLISHED IN GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS

06
Mar
Isaiah 54:14
In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Have you ever asked yourself why some Christians are constantly beset with overwhelming challenges, sicknesses and defeat if God’s promise, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17), is true?

Well, this promise comes with a condition—“In righteousness you shall be established”. When you are established in righteousness, you will be far from oppression and terror, and not a single weapon formed against you will prosper!

This condition is not hard to meet. For a start, you already have righteousness! When you received Jesus as your Savior, you received the gift of righteousness which enables you to reign in life. (Romans 5:17) This righteousness does not come from you but the Lord. (Isaiah 54:17) And when you are established in His righteousness, no weapon formed against you will prosper.

But what does being established in righteousness mean? To be established in something is to have that something as your very foundation for security. So God wants you to know, be sure of and grow in the revelation that you are righteous by the blood of Jesus, by His perfect sacrifice at the cross.

When you feel as if you are in a storm, tossed here and there, and you begin to experience worry and fear, remind yourself of who you are in Christ. You are the righteousness of God in Christ and you have His righteousness!

As you do this, you will begin to notice the worry and fear slide off you, for when you are established in righteousness, “you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you”! That is why God wants you to be established in righteousness. He wants you to be free from fear, and far from oppression and terror.

So when the pressure is on, hold fast to the belief that you are the righteousness of God in Christ. That is where no weapon formed against you can prosper. As you keep believing and confessing your righteousness in Christ, revelation will break forth and you will experience the release of God’s miraculous provision, divine protection and blessings into your life!

Thought For The Day
When you are established in His righteousness, no weapon formed against you will prosper!

Lay It on the Altar by Joyce Meyer – posted March 06, 2017

…God tested and proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am. [God] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
—Genesis 22:1-2

Once the Lord said to me, “Joyce, do you love Me? If so, will you still love Me and serve Me even if I don’t do everything just the way you want or just when you think I should?” At the time of the Lord’s visitation, I had been asking God for a huge ministry. He also said, “Joyce, if I asked you to go down to the riverfront here in St. Louis and minister to fifty people for the rest of your life and never be known by anyone, would you do it?” My response was, “But, Lord, surely you can’t really be asking me to do that!”

We always have such grandiose plans for ourselves. If God asks us to do something that isn’t prominent, we aren’t always sure we are hearing Him correctly or that it is His will for us! When God asked me those questions about my ministry, I felt the way I imagined Abraham must have felt when the Lord asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac through whom He had promised to bless him and all nations of the earth (see Genesis 22).

It seemed God was asking me to give up the very work He had given me through which He blessed many others as well as me. But God wasn’t asking me to give up that ministry. He was just asking me to lay it on the altar, just like Abraham laid Isaac on the altar before the Lord.

We must not let anything—even our work for God—become more important to us than God Himself. To keep that from happening, from time to time God calls upon us to lay it all on the altar as proof of our love and commitment. He tests us by asking us to lay down our most treasured blessing as proof of our love for Him.

GOODNEWS DEVOTIONAL : LET HIM DENY HIMSELF || MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017

LET HIM DENY HIMSELF
TEXT: Luke 9:23
And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me (KJV).
Jesus desires to have followers but He wants serious and great followers. He want followers who will be greater than Him. He said to his disciples in John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (KJV). What a great leader with a great mind? In order to achieve this, He blatantly told everyone who wanted to follow him in today’s text “….If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me (KJV). What does it mean to deny oneself? It means to disallow or not to permit. This means that everyone who want to be a true follower of Jesus must be ready to disallow him/herself from certain things. Every genuine follower of Jesus must put his/her five senses under control. You can’t watch what unbelievers watch, taste what unbelievers taste, listen to what unbelievers listen to and you can’t smell what unbelievers smell. This is the truth Apostle Paul was trying to say in the book of 1 Corinthians 6:12 “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any (KJV). This should be the understanding of a true follower of Jesus. Every believer must know that he is free but his freedom is within the scope of the scripture. Self-denial has to do with our connection to the lifting from above. To be a true follower of Jesus, you must pray, give, evangelize and forgive, not because it is convenient but it is commanded. True followers of Jesus must not see God’s commandment as a burden but a blessing. You cannot successfully follow Jesus on your own terms but on His own terms. Not your will, but His will. If you cannot deny yourself, it means you cannot be greater than yourself. You must deny yourself of ungodly practices, unholy alliances and relationships. Jesus said, let him that follow me, deny himself, may the Lord give you the grace in Jesus name.
CONFESSION
Father, I receive grace to deny myself of ungodly choices today. I am a good follower of Jesus. I promise to continue till the end in Jesus name.

MUSIC: Monique – Power Flow ft Barakah (French Version) [@MQmonique @mikeabdulng @Increaseola]

After Releasing the official single which enjoyed massive airplay, Monique really wants the power to flow into our francophone country.
Monique remix the song POWER FLOW with another spirit filled act, Barakah, This song as you know will surely lift your spirit in praise and worship.

Enjoy!!!!

DEVOTIONAL BY CREFLO DOLLAR

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” (James 1:22).
We derive no benefit from listening to God’s Word passively with our intellectual minds only. To get true spiritual illumination in our lives, we must let His Word sink into our hearts, incorporate it into our lives, and live it.

GOD IS NOT JUDGING YOU

05
Mar
Romans 8:33
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Some people see God as a judge who has exacting demands on man. When they fall short or when things go wrong in their lives, they think that God is judging them.

My friend, the truth is that if you are a believer, God does not bring any charge against you. Instead, He justifies you because of the blood of His Son. In fact, God’s Word goes on to say that the One who has the right to condemn you, chose instead to die for you and is risen at the Father’s right hand to be your righteousness! (Romans 8:34)

But what the devil tries to do is to get you to believe that God watches you with a critical eye and punishes you when you do wrong. He has deceived many sincere Christians into believing that if they have done something wrong, bad things have a right to come upon them and their families. And when these things happen, he convinces them that they are suffering God’s judgment because of their wrongdoings. In the meantime, these sincere Christians struggle with condemnation because they think that they are the cause of their problems.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Ever since the cross, where Jesus was judged in your place for every one of your wrong actions, thoughts and words, God no longer judges you, His child. You need not accept condemnation because Jesus took all your punishment at the cross.

So when you start to feel condemned for your actions or when you experience negative circumstances, say, “It is written: It is God who justifies me. I am completely forgiven and made righteous before Him. I refuse to accept any condemnation and I reject every symptom of the curse that I am seeing in my circumstances!”

Then, simply stand on the truth of God’s Word, and watch Him deliver and bless you!

Thought For The Day
Don’t accept condemnation because Jesus took all your punishment at the cross.

Tell God How You Feel by Joyce Meyer – posted March 05, 2017

…Do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down.
—Ephesians 4:26

Anger expressed inappropriately is a problem, but so is repressed anger. Anger that is stuffed inside and not dealt with properly will eventually come out one way or another. It may show up in depression, anxiety, or any of a variety of other negative emotions—but it will come out. It can even manifest in sickness and disease. If we don’t deal with our anger quickly, we will eventually either explode or implode.

The right way to express anger is to talk to God. Tell Him all about the way you feel and ask Him to help you manage the feelings properly. Talk to a professional or a mature friend if necessary, but do not pretend you’re not angry when you are. That’s not managing your emotions—that is ignoring them, and it is dangerous.

One thing that helps me deal properly with anger is to realize that sometimes God permits people to irritate me in order to help me grow in patience and unconditional love. None of the fruit of the Spirit develops without something to make us exercise them. Ouch! I wish I could magically have all these wonderful fruits working full force in my life without any effort on my part, but that is just not the way it works.

The offending person’s bad behavior is not right, but God often uses their behavior as sandpaper in our lives, to polish our rough edges. He is more concerned about changing our character than He is about changing our circumstances.

If I get angry when someone does something to me that’s wrong, is my anger any less wrong than the wrong they committed? I think not. Sometimes their wrongdoing merely exposes my weakness and I am able to repent and ask God to help me overcome it. Be determined to get something good out of every trial you face in life, and don’t let the sun go down on your anger.

Trust in Him: Are you angry about anything or at anyone? If your answer is yes, begin controlling that emotion right now, deal with it properly, and trust God to deliver you from your circumstances in His timing.

Be Consistent Kenneth Copeland

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Hebrews 13:8

Years ago, God spoke a phrase to Gloria’s heart that I’ve never forgotten. She’d been asking Him to teach her to walk in the spirit, to operate more fully in the supernatural power of God.

In consistency lies the power, He said.

That revelation was tough for me. In the natural I’m anything but consistent. My human nature tends to be up one day and down the next. But, praise God, I don’t have to depend on my human nature to get me by. I have Jesus Christ living within me and He’s the same yesterday, today and forever!

Jesus isn’t fickle. He doesn’t change His mind from one day to another. He’s constant, and if you’ll press in to Him, He can cause you to be that way too.

Most believers don’t do that. That’s why there are so many “faith failures” around. They stand on the Word one day and fall off of it the next.

What we need to do is “continue.” Jesus said if we’d continue in His Word, then we’d be His disciples. He said if we’d continue, we would know the truth and that truth would make us free (John 8:31-32). There’s a revelation of God that comes from consistency that the inconsistent person will never see.

Determine today to be consistent. Don’t try to base today on yesterday’s Bible study. Base today on today’s Bible study. Start with the Word today, stay on the Word all day, and end the day with the Word. Then tomorrow get up and do it all again!

There’s power in constant consistency. So don’t be an “off again, on again” Christian. Continue in the Word every day.

Scripture Reading:
Colossians 1:14-23