humility

Humility is such a profound trait that I don’t think is spoken about often. One thing I have come to identify is that those who grow in God and advance in their pursuit of Him are humble. To relate with God and properly be intimate with Him, one must be fully humble and delivered from the spirit of self-sufficiency. You must identify your uselessness without God. From there, He reveals His capacity to transform you, make you whole and elevate you.

You will never submit to the purposes of God without humility. You need humility to know God. God doesn’t deal with prideful people. The first step to knowing God is becoming born again (John 3:3), which is essentially accepting Christ as your Lord and personal saviour. To do this, there must be a sense of humility because you identify your inability to save yourself.

Sometimes, we get stuck in our walk with God because we have become proud. Having a humble spirit leads to advancement in your pursuit of God. May the Lord give you a humble spirit and may you desire to always stay humble.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

2 Chronicles 33:12

Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

the blood of Jesus

A few years ago, someone reposted a tweet on their Instagram story. The tweet said something along the lines of Christ has already died and paid the price so I might as well sin.

I mean how can somebody even think of this? Don’t you fear God? Or maybe you don’t know who this Christ is?

Romans 6:6 'We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.'

Romans 6:1-2 'What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?'

There is a lot this tweet portrays but one thing I’ve noticed is that many people do not understand what the blood of Jesus is. They are ignorant of the power in the blood. Many people, even Christians, have no true knowledge of the saving power of the blood and what having access to the blood does for a mere mortal.

And before I go on, I want everyone reading this to never ever take the blood of Jesus for granted. Ignorance is not cute and makes you look silly.

There is so much I can say about the blood of Jesus but I will present to you four statements about the blood.

1. By the blood of Christ, our sins are forgiven (Hebrews 9:12, 1 John 1:7).

2. By the blood of Christ, an everlasting covenant between God and man is established (1 Corinthians 11:25-26). This covenant is laid out throughout scripture (Jeremiah 31:31-34). In this covenant, we can have intimacy with God and He dwells with us and not necessarily, in a set space. With this covenant, you do not work your way to God, He has done all the work through Christ, His Son. Our job is to believe and then walk on a journey of seeking His face and holiness.

3. By the blood of Christ, we overcome the enemy (Revelation 12:11). The blood of Christ reminds the devil that he has been defeated.

4. By the blood of Christ, our adoption into the family of God is established. Through Christ, God reconciled us back to Himself and therefore we are now children of God. (Ephesians 1:5, Romans 8:15-16)

receiving from God

I am a strong believer in the fact that God wants to bless His people (Isaiah 30:18). It is in His nature to bless us. I am a strong advocate for living an elevated life, not necessarily by the measure of materialism but that the impossible always finds a way to manifest in your life. That is the type of elevation I am talking about.

The type of life that men marvel at when they hear your story of grass to grace. But, a little too many Christians believe in grace but have succumbed to the ideology that somehow God blesses emptiness.

The Word of God is my final destination when it comes to backing any hypotheses and one thing I have come to identify is that all men whom God blessed were diligent (for example Joseph: Genesis 39-41). They worked and God blessed their efforts. This whole idea of grace will locate me and sleeping all day is not Biblical.

You cannot expect God to multiply 'nothing' because even 0 times 100 will still give you 0.

The more I rely on the Lord Jesus Christ, the more I see that truly, beyond the sky is the limit (Ephesians 3:20). When I begin to think of the awesomeness of God, I just want to scream and shout because WHAT A GOD WE SERVE! Job 38 kind of gives us a glimpse of the extravagant nature of Elohim!

As I grow in the Lord and apply these few tips I am about to share with you, I have seen the power of God move in my life like never before and I want you to employ them. You have not been called to mediocrity, rise and be excellent!

1. The Word of God is your template for life. Stop looking at social media and allowing fake, planned-out lives to be the template you desire to mimic. God has made His Word clear and understandable. If the Word says so, it must happen in your life. Take God’s Word as your reality and pray on it until it begins to manifest in your life.

2. Live a holy life. Yes, Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins so we have attained righteousness through Christ. Righteousness is right standing with God. However, to maintain this right standing with God, you must be HOLY. HOLINESS is not a suggestion, it is a command! You have to be holy! Please, be holy! You will not see God if you are not Holy. You can cry and scream all you want, if you are not holy, you have just wasted energy.

3. Consistent prayer. We must go back to God until we receive what we have asked for. In Luke 18:1-8, we are told of the persistent widow. She made her case known to the judge until he granted her request. That is the same with God. We must ask continuously and not stop until we see and receive what we have been asking for.

Let’s be what God has ordained us to be