Grace Daily by Joseph Prince… JESUS IS YOUR QUALIFICATION FOR GOD’S BLESSINGS
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God loves to bless you. He has even declared that “blessings shall come upon you and overtake you”. This means that you can’t run fast enough to escape them! When you turn one corner, there is a blessing waiting for you. When you turn another corner, you run smack into another blessing!
Now, you may think that you don’t qualify for God’s blessings because of the preceding verse which says that these blessings will come to pass only if you diligently obey God’s voice and keep all of His commandments. You know that no matter how hard you try, you just cannot keep all of God’s commandments. In fact, the Bible says that if you fail to keep just one commandment, you fail to keep all. (James 2:10)
My friend, I have good news for you: Jesus is the one who qualifies us for every single blessing because He has kept all of God’s commandments. When He died for us on the cross, He not only fulfilled all of God’s commandments, He also redeemed us from the curse of the law. (Galatians 3:13) Note that He did not redeem us from the blessings of the law, so the blessings are still ours today!
As you read the list of blessings in Deuteronomy 28, starting with “Blessed shall you be in the city…in the country…the fruit of your body…your basket…when you come in…when you go out…” (Deuteronomy 28:3–13), I believe that Jesus is saying to you, “Like the blessings? Then take them by faith!”
You may say, “But I don’t deserve them.” Yes, you don’t deserve them, but you still get them because of Jesus. That is God’s grace! The law says, “You must deserve the blessings.” But the law is no longer here. Grace is here. So take the blessings by grace through faith. Believe God for the blessings.
Today, it is no longer a question of how much or how well you have kept God’s commandments. It is a question of how much you can believe God for His blessings. All the promises of God in Christ are “Yes”, and because you are in Christ, you can say “Amen!” to His blessings! (2 Corinthians 1:20)
Thought For The Day
Jesus is the one who qualifies us for every single blessing because He has kept all of God’s commandments.
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Reignite Your Prayer Life
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How’s your prayer life?
Hardly any question — unless perhaps if someone asks about your evangelistic efforts — can cause more chin-dropping, foot-shuffling embarrassment for Christians than asking about their prayer life.
Why is that? Why do so many followers of Jesus suffer with such unsatisfying prayer lives and consider themselves hopelessly second-rate Christians because of it?
Method Is Our Madness
For almost all followers of Jesus, I believe the problem in prayer is not with the quality of the Christian, but with the method of their prayer.
Of course, no change in method will make prayer consistently meaningful to someone who is spiritually dead. But it’s different for those who are spiritually alive. They are born again through faith in Christ and indwelled by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit’s presence causes them as God’s children to cry, “Abba, Father!” (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6), giving them a Godward orientation they didn’t have before.
In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really do want to pray. And if an individual Christian sincerely seeks to live for Christ, and has no specific sin issue that he or she refuses to confess and fight against, then the basic problem in prayer is not with sin or failure, but with method.
And what is the method of prayer for most Christians? It’s this: When we pray, we tend to say the same old things about the same old things. Sooner or later, that kind of prayer is boring. When prayer is boring, you don’t feel like praying. And when you don’t feel like praying, you don’t pray — at least with any fervency or consistency. Prayer feels much more like duty than delight.
The problem is not that we pray aboutthe same old things. To pray about the same things most of the time is normal. That’s because our lives tend to consist of the same things from one day to the next. Thankfully, dramatic changes in our lives usually don’t occur very often.
No, the problem isn’t that we pray about the same old things; the problem is that we tend to say the same old things about the same old things. The result is that we can be talking to the most fascinating Person in the universe about the most important things in our lives — and be bored to death.
So we can experience boredom in prayer, not because we don’t love God, and not because we don’t love who or what we’re praying about, but because of our method.
Solution in the Spirit
What is the solution? Well, whatever it is, it must be simple. God has children all over the planet, and they represent the widest imaginable diversity in language, culture, age, IQ, education, and Christian privilege (such as access to a Bible preaching church, Christian books, Christian content online, and more). If all these believers, despite the various and dramatic differences among them, are invited to pray, then prayer must be doable by all God’s children.
The simple solution to the seemingly universal problem of saying the same old things about the same old things in prayer is this: Pray the Bible. In other words, slowly read a passage of Scripture and pray about all that comes to mind as you read.
Do this, and you’ll never again be left to say the same old things in prayer.
Simple, Powerful, Biblical
Praying the Bible isn’t complicated. Read through a few verses of Scripture, pause at the end of each phrase or verse, and pray about what the words suggest to you.
Suppose you are praying your way through Psalm 23. After reading verse one — “The Lord is my shepherd” — you might begin by thanking Jesus for being your Shepherd. Next you might ask him to shepherd your family, making your children or grandchildren his sheep, causing them to love him as their great Shepherd too. After that you might pray for your undershepherds at the church, that Jesus would shepherd them as they shepherd you.
Then, when nothing else comes to mind, you go to the next line, “I shall not want.” You might thank him that you’ve never been in real want, or pray for someone — perhaps someone you know, or for a Christian in a place of persecution — who is in want.
You would continue through the psalm until you run out of time. You wouldn’t run out of anything to say (if you did, you could just go to another psalm), and best of all, that prayer would be unlike any you’ve ever prayed in your life.
That means if you’ll pray the Bible, you’ll never again say the same old things about the same old things. You don’t need any notes or books or any plan to remember. Simply talk to God about what comes to mind as you go line-by-line through his word.
As John Piper puts it, “Open the Bible, start reading it, and pause at every verse and turn it into a prayer.”
If nothing comes to mind, go to the next verse. If you don’t understand that verse, go to the next one. If the following verse is crystal clear, but doesn’t prompt anything to pray about, read on. If you want to linger long over a single verse, pray from and about that verse as long as you want.
By this method, your prayers will be guided and shaped by Scripture, and be far more in conformity to the word and will of God than they will if you always make up your own prayers.
Jesus prayed the Bible in Matthew 27:46and Luke 23:46, and the early church prayed the Bible in Acts 4:23–26, and so can you.
Grace Devotional by Joseph Prince .. PRONOUNCE YOURSELF CLEAN!
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Most of us are familiar with the healing of the leper in Matthew 8. It is a beautiful account of God’s willingness to touch and heal the sick, no matter how unclean they may be. Whenever we doubt God’s willingness to heal us, we should listen to the words of Jesus again: “I am willing; be cleansed.” He is the same yesterday, today and forever!
Since the Bible is clear about God’s willingness to heal, why do we still have problems with our health? Why do we still experience symptoms in our bodies?
I believe that the answer is found in what Jesus told the leper to do next. He told him to go and show himself to the priest. (Matthew 8:4) This was the law then for lepers who were healed. (Leviticus 14:2–3) And he was to hear the priest pronounce the word “clean” over him. (Leviticus 14:7)
You see, as believers, when we received Jesus, His blood cleansed us from sin as well as sickness. (Isaiah 53:4–5) But we keep hearing people pronounce sin, sickness, poverty and death over us. We keep hearing people tell us that we are unclean, undeserving, poor, weak, and that it is only natural that we grow old and sickly, and die.
God is waiting for a priesthood that will rise up and pronounce His people clean!
“But Pastor Prince, where can I find such priests?”
Who are the priests today? You and I! In fact, we have more authority to pronounce good things than the Levitical priests of the Old Testament. They were just priests. But we are king-priests by the blood of Jesus! (Revelation 1:5–6) Where the word of the king is, there is power. (Ecclesiastes 8:4) And by the word of a priest, every controversy and every assault shall be settled. (Deuteronomy 21:5)
Beloved, God has cleansed you, so pronounce yourself clean! Right now, put your hand on your heart and pronounce good things over yourself. Say, “I pronounce myself clean, righteous, healed, whole and abundantly supplied by the blood of Jesus!” By your word as a king-priest, every assault against you shall be settled!
Thought For The Day
Because you are a king-priest by the blood of Jesus, you can pronounce good things over yourself and see them come to pass!
Open Heavens today 10th, October 2015. By Pastor E.A Adeboye
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WHY CHILDREN ARE USEFUL
Memorise: Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 18:10
Read: Matthew 18:1-5, 18 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Bible in one year: Numbers 10:11-11:35, 2ndCorinthians 5:11-6:13
MESSAGE!
Children are not just God’s property; they are also God’s weapons of war. This is why you must be very careful in the way you handle or treat them. Jesus gave us a fascinating revelation about children in Matthew 18:10, where He said:
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angles do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”
For the revelation, we understand that every child has at least one angel guiding him or her. Have you seen an angel before? By His grace I have seen them a couple of times and I can say that they can be fearfully huge, particularly some of the mighty angels. If you were to meet one of such angels, the first thing he will likely say to you is “Fear not!” Why? Nobody will see an angel for the first time without being terrified. Speaking of the size of some of the mighty angels: although one of the world’s largest airplanes is an Airbus A380, do you know that one mighty angel can carry this airplane on the palm of his hand? God says that every child has an angel and every one of such angels has direct access to God. Attaching a powerful angel to a child is what makes children a terrific weapon. If you mess around with a child, you are inviting an angel of God to deal with you.
Moreover, children are weapons in God’s hands because we the older ones are so preoccupied with the hustle and bustle of life that our ears have become dull of hearing. When God speaks, we often don’t hear, but the ears of children are open to God. They do not worry as we do. In fact, children believe that all they need will be provided for by their parents. So time after time, when God wants to send a message, He could send it through a child. This is one reason why parents must adhere strictly to God’s word in raising their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. A child that is brought up to love and fear the Lord will be a great asset and tool in God’s hands. Such a family, as busy as the parents may be, will not lack divine direction, as the children will be able to hear from God. How often does God speak to your children? Are you raising them in the ways of God?
Key Point
God may have been speaking to your godly children. If they have not told you, it could be that you have not created a conducive atmosphere for them to do so.
“WHERE TO FOCUS IS JESUS”
WHY SIT WE HERE TILL WE DIE? – 7
“WHERE TO FOCUS IS JESUS”
There are situations that threaten to wreck your life as a person, the church, the Body of Christ or the nation. For God to intervene, He needs a man who is willing to arise, who is willing to risk his life. Those great things and eternal things that took place in the past had always taken place because someone somewhere decided to believe God, and to arise. Most men that God ever used were not men that had great resources in themselves. But there is one thing they did: they believed God and arose. They refused to sit where the devil was putting them. They refused to agree to dwell in the place of their predicament.
“And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians…”
2 Kings 7:3-5 KJV
They arose and God stood with them.
One of the things that keep men lower than what God wants them to be is the fear of death, the fear of failure, the fear of losing out, the fear of the unknown, the fear of the unfamiliar ground. Any man that is not willing to take a step of faith will never experience divine intervention. A step of faith is often a step of risk. Many times your intellect, your human sense tells you that what you are doing is unreasonable and very risky. People who discover the ability and the provision of God for their lives were those that were not going to allow themselves to be glued to their familiar experiences. They were men who were willing to say, “Lord, if it is you I will come.”
Peter took such a step of faith in Matthew 14:24-33. The Bible says they were in the boat and a great storm was blowing and there was nothing they could do to calm the storm. They tried all their expertise and some of them must have felt that the end had come. Even if you know how to swim, how do you swim in turbulent water, in a stormy and confused situation? Suddenly that night, the Lord Jesus began to walk on the water towards them. As He was approaching them, they began to fear again, thinking He was a ghost. But the Lord Jesus said, “Be of good cheer, it is I.”
Peter, right inside that confusion, spoke, “Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the water.” Thomas Didymus must have been shivering and saying “Peter, Peter, Peter you are too daring. You like to take useless and unreasonable risks. We said that thing that is coming is a ghost; you want to compare yourself with a ghost? And you are married; you want to die for nothing? Andrew must have said, “Peter, we are from the same family; what do you want me to go and tell our father at home?” But Peter said, “If it is you bid me to come.” The Master said, ‘Come’. As long as it was the Master who told Peter to come, Peter had every reason to arise, to arise from that confusion, from that gloom, to arise from that storm and to step out in faith. Others were calling, others were shivering, some were saying their last prayer because they knew that any moment, they could perish. But Peter seemed to have said, “even if that boat is going to capsize, it is not going to meet me there. Since the Master says, come, I will go to meet Him.”
The man took the first step, not on a bridge and remembers that by the time he arose, the storm had not stopped. The wind was still blowing. But he heard only one word from the mouth of the Master, which kept him going: that word, “come.” Others might be shouting ‘Peter! Peter!! Peter!!!’ Peter could have said, “Leave me alone. The Master has said ‘come’ and I go to meet Him.” He took the second; the third step and he did not sink because he was acting on the word from the Master. He must have been repeating that word in his heart, and as he was doing that he was focusing on Jesus. As long as he focused on what the Master said, even if the storm became twenty times stronger and the wind more boisterous, it could not overcome the word of command from the Master.
The moment you learn to walk by the word of God and not by your feelings, not by environmental conditions, you are bound to prevail. Others must have wished they followed Peter when they saw the confidence with which he went especially as the storm had not subsided in the boat. But when Peter decided no more to look at the Master, the Author and the Finisher of our faith, he began to sink.
A great lesson God must teach us is never to shift our focus from Jesus as soon as we take steps to arise from our present situation. One thing is certain: that we can also arise. We can refuse to sit here yet, without being presumptuous. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will particularly speak to your heart. He will speak to your spirit and cause you personally to arise. As you arise things will change concerning you, your family, your business, the work of God, the Body of Christ and concerning our nation in the name of Jesus Christ (Amen).