Month: May 2020

  “For when you would have ten thousand teachers in Christ, however, you do not have several fathers, since it was I who begot you in Jesus Christ by the Gospel.” 1Co 4:15

A father according to Paul is the one who generates you in Jesus Christ through the Gospel. One who does not know the gospel cannot be a father in Christ. To beget here comes from gennao which means to bring to life, to convert. This is a conversion that brings you to life by teaching the too good to be true news of God’s love.

Since the word father himself comes from pater which means the one who influences the thought of the other in order to bring him to his lifestyle. Fatherhood according to Paul is achieved at the level of what is known as the mindset. Because it is from this thoughts machine that we draw our concepts, reasonings and ideologies that determine our mode of perception. And we interact with our world as we perceive it.

You therefore understand that a father in Christ is much more than a person who shares with us some biblical verses or advice to get us out of a specific situation. He is the one who brings us to Christic life by the exact doctrine according to the Pauline revelation.

  Affirmation: Father, thank you for this wonderful person whom you used and continue to use to bring me to the life of Christ by the exact doctrine, by presenting Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery. Amen!

Mark 14:36 “And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Although God was referred to as our Father in the Old Testament, Jesus’ frequent use of this title brought a whole new understanding of our relationship with God. Jesus referred to God as His Father, and He spoke of God as being our Father as well. This infuriated the religious Jews of Jesus’ day who considered it blasphemy to call God their Father, because they understood that to mean they were equal with God.

We are instructed to call God our Father, revealing the kind, gentle, loving nature of our God. The term “Abba” is an affectionate term that a young child calls his father, which corresponds to our term “daddy.” It is a term used to express intimacy and affectionate fondness. It removes the idea of God as a strict judge and carries the image of Him as a loving Father who cares, understands, and is our best friend. “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1 Jn. 3:1).

We are sons of God by adoption. Jesus was the Son of God by nature. As Jesus said to the Jews, ye are of your Father the devil (Jn. 8:44; Eph. 2:3).

However, Jesus purchased us and made us adopted sons of God. This is different from our modern definition or concept of adoption where by you choose a child who is not of your lineage and then legally placing him into your family. Adoption means to be placed into a position of Sonship. This is the ancient Oriental understanding of that term.

This position of Sonship implies that we have been placed into a Son. We are sons in the Son. Being located in Christ implies that :

WHAT HE IS , WE HAVE BEEN MADE

WHERE HE IS, WE ARE

WHAT HE HAS, WE HAVE

The word children is the word Teknon which speaks of being issued out of God as your source, as the species of God and this shows us indeed that God is our Father.

We are not just heirs, we are joint-heirs with Christ. To think that we share equally with the one who has inherited everything God is, and has, is beyond comprehension.

Romans 8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

The word, “more than conquerors” in this text means we are more than champions or one who has won a battle. The battle over sin has already been won. This verse describes a final victory.

Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

The Bible calls the devil the accuser of the brethren. He is one who brings opposition against our faith. He does not need to appear to us literally. He rather uses words or wrong information especially from the law. The history of our victory in Christ remains our ever-dependable weapon over his accusations. We are to carry this banner of victory everywhere we go.

Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

The Father’s love has conquered sin and death for us.

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Based on his love for us, he now dwells in us and so we have dominion over sin.

1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have an assurance of the resurrection or transformation of our mortal bodies based on his love for us

The father indeed is for us.

Confession: The father’s love is my victory.

[[2Co 6:16]] KJV And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

You’re now the living ark of testimony and the tabernacle of His presence: “…for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them”

He dwells in you now. His hands are in your hands, and His legs are in your legs. He walks in you and talks through you. Where you go, God goes. You’re in Him and He’s in you! [[Act 17:28]] For in him we live, and move, and have our being;..

Not only are you now in the presence of God, you carry the presence of God. Every time you show up, you come with the presence of God: Christ in you, the hope of glory!: [[Col 1:27]] which is Christ in you, areas hope of glory:

You are now one with Spirit with Christ, you are inseparable. [[1Co 6:17]] But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Wherever you are Christ is there, what a great wonder ? You are the presence of God.

In the Old covenant, the children of Israel transported the presence of God from place to place every time they carried the Tabernacle of Witness, which contained the Ark of the Covenant. In 1 Kings 8:9, the Bible tells us specifically that “There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.” The only thing in the ark was God’s commandments.

Today, your heart is the ark of God; that’s where the Word is. Remember what the Lord said in Jeremiah 31:33 : But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” This was fulfilled in us when we were born again.We were born again by the Word of God, and have become one with the Word;

We are living epistles, “written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God – not in tables of stone – but in fleshy tables of the heart” ( 2 Corinthians 3:3 ).

       *PRAYER*

Dear Father, I thank you for your dark ness presencein my life. Your glory, lives in, and operates from the quarters of my heart. Therefore, sickness, disease, and darkness have no place in me, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:
|| [[Rom 8:10]] KJV And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.||

|| [[2Co 3:3]] KJV Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.||

A righteous man is one who has an unrestrained and unfettered access to God. This is seen in the place of prayer where he has an audience with God anytime he stands to pray.

1st Peter 3:12
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.

Apostle James also harped on this fact. James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

In the place of prayer, the believer makes power available.

Furthermore, based on this right standing with God, he can drive out demons, lay hands on the sick and they recover and undo every work of Satan.

Mark 16:17 -18
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Confession: I always have audience with God in the place of prayer. I can demonstrate the power of God based on my right standing with God. I am righteous!