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ALWAYS BEGIN YOUR DAY WITH GOD

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ALWAYS BEGIN YOUR DAY WITH GOD: HE SEES THE END FROM THE BEGINNING!

“And in the MORNING, rising up a great while BEFORE day, he went out, and departed into a SOLITARY PLACE, and there PRAYED” Mark 1:35.

Make your MORNINGS a DELIGHT – beginning in and with God’s abiding presence. You will never have any reason to regret it. I know it quite well. Give it a go TODAY, and even NOW.

When you BEGIN your day with God, He will make you BECOME on the DAWN day by the DAY Star, before it’s a DAWN day. For in God is the ASSURED WORD of prophecy to fulfil purpose. Amen.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“And in the MORNING, rising up a great while BEFORE day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed” Mark 1:35.

“We have also a more SURE WORD of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, UNTIL THE DAY DAWN, and the DAY STAR arise in your hearts: 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” 2 Peter 1:19-21.

“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy PRESENCE is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” Psalms 16:11.

“Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the MORNING, O Lord; in the MORNING will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up” Psalms 5:1-3.

“One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may DWELL in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to ENQUIRE in his temple” Psalms 27:4.

“I have more UNDERSTANDING than all my TEACHERS: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I UNDERSTAND more than the ANCIENTS, because I keep thy precepts. 101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast TAUGHT me. 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy PRECEPTS I get UNDERSTANDING: therefore I hate every FALSE way. 105 Thy word is a LAMP unto my feet, and a LIGHT unto my path . . . 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple” Psalms 119:99-105, 130.

“Not FORSAKING the assembling of ourselves together, as THE MANNER OF SOME is; but EXHORTING one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” Hebrews 10:25.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE: Craving For WISDOM

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SPIRITUAL EXERCISE: Craving For WISDOM – The MYSTERY of God To BECOME!

“If ANY of you LACK WISDOM, let him ASK of God, that GIVETH to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it SHALL be GIVEN him. 6 But let him ASK in FAITH, nothing WAVERING. For he that WAVERETH is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man THINK that he shall RECEIVE any thing of the Lord. 8 A DOUBLE minded man is UNSTABLE in all his ways” James 1:5-8.

Are YOU CRAVING For the WISDOM of God To BECOME in doing life and godliness? If YES, then take time to ponder meditatively in the Scriptural reading exercise in the few context reference made available here though not limited – for Wisdom is the application of knowledge, and what you scripturally know of God in context guarantees your victory, triumph and your more than conqueror as an overcomer in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SCRIPTURAL READING WISDOM CONTEXT:

[a]. In REDEMPTION we RECEIVED the BLESSEDNESS of WISDOM and Jesus Christ has become our WISDOM of God in Redemption.

“But unto them which are called, BOTH Jews and Greeks, Christ the POWER of God, and the WISDOM of God . . .30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us WISDOM, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption . . .” 1 Corinthians 1:24-31.

“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast REDEEMED us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 and hast MADE us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall REIGN on the earth . . .12 saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to RECEIVE power, and riches, and WISDOM, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing” Revelation 5:9-12.

[b]. Wisdom makes a man’s face to shine. It’s the principal thing to hold unto because it’s a defence and it gives life, creates an answer to the past, present and future definition for wholesome living.

“WISDOM is the PRINCIPAL thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” Proverbs 4:7.

“Who is as the WISE man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s WISDOM maketh his FACE to shine, and the BOLDNESS of his face shall be changed . . . 5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart DISCERNETH both TIME and JUDGMENT” Ecclesiastes 8:1, 5.

“For WISDOM is a DEFENCE, and MONEY is a DEFENCE: but the EXCELLENCY of KNOWLEDGE is, that WISDOM giveth LIFE to them that have it” Ecclesiastes 7:12

[c]. Are you truly craving for the WISDOM mystery to turn your life around? Then examine YOURSELF in this scriptural wisdom nugget for knowledge and understanding in the illumination and enlightenment of the Holy Writ of this proverbial Scripture [Proverbs 8:1-36] for your perusal:

PROVERBS 8:1-36

1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

8  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

21 that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

28 when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

29 when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

30 then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT – THE HOW TO DAILY OVERCOME, TRIUMPH AND BE THE VICTOR

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POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT – THE HOW TO DAILY OVERCOME, TRIUMPH AND BE THE VICTOR: YOU NEED TO COMMUNICATE YOUR POSSIBILITY FAITH TO MATTERS OF LIFE AND GODLINESS!

“That the COMMUNICATION of thy FAITH may become EFFECTUAL by the ACKNOWLEDGING of every GOOD THING which is IN you IN Christ Jesus” Philemon 1:6.

The New Creation life is expressed by our steady act of the CONFESSION [DECLARATION] of our FAITH in God, in Christ Jesus. The act of CONFESSION [DECLARATION] is the COMMUNICATION of your FAITH in Christ Jesus to matters of LIFE and GODLINESS irrespective of your circumstances. Suffix to know that the NEW CREATION Believers was and are called or regarded in early times as the people of GREAT PROFESSION or GREAT CONFESSION or GREAT TESTIMONY TESTIFIERS – whose FAITH are in Christ Jesus – their Saviour and Lord.

This act of FAITH CONFESSION [DECLARATION] is only productive, result oriented, that is effectual, when we are able to COMMUNICATE our FAITH by the ACKNOWLEDGING of the GOOD DID of God by Christ Jesus IN us. It’s not about the CONFESSION of SIN as unto BEING BORN AGAIN in Christ Jesus, but about the AFFIRMATION of our FAITH in the now as NEW CREATION in the GOOD of God IN Christ Jesus to all about us IN Him, to matters of LIFE and GODLINESS. This is what keeps us as RIGHTEOUSNESS CONSCIOUS or CONSCIOUSNESS Believers’ rather than SIN CONSCIOUS or CONSCIOUSNESS Believers in Christ Jesus toward God.

There’s the need to be readily steady in holding steadfastly your FAITH CONFESSION (DECLARATION, AFFIRMATION, ANNOUNCING, PROCLAMATION) toward that particular needs in your life by you continuous holding forth in God on the good in you as to what Christ Jesus had DONE IN you, DOING FOR you, WILL DO THROUGH you as regards to that particular or intended matter. That’s Faith in the done deed, doing deed and eventual deed of God in Christ Jesus. That’s how the victory, overcoming, triumph and more than conquerors life are enacted and authenticated to life in reality.

FAITH IS ACTIVE. BELIEVE IS PASSIVE. FAITH is acting accordingly on what you BELIEVE of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, it’s NOT ENOUGH to BELIEVE God for something, you MUST act ACCORDINGLY to that believe on what Christ Jesus stead is to that matter, in order to make it happen tangibly in real life. And to act is to communicate along gracious to that intent as Jesus’ deed too in humanity.

“So all bore WITNESS to Him, and marveled at the GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?” Luke 4:22 NKJV.

Hence between when you pray to ASK God for something and when the ANSWER comes, what you communicate in between, that is, CONFESS about that matter you prayed to God to act upon, must be of the FAITH in acknowledgement of the good did of Christ in you, otherwise your expectations will be aborted before arrival.

Genuine HEART BELIEVE and FAITH CONFESS makes you SEE ANSWERS on your cause and course and not to SEE or be seeing same QUESTIONS – which is the FAILED or FAILING CIRCUMSTANCES and SITUATIONS that was and is about you on the subject matter in question.

You need to vigorously develop the spirit in you to COMMUNICATE your FAITH which is born and bathed in and by the WORD by the blessed Holy Spirit, to keep you steadily steadfast in effectual living in LIFE and GODLINESS.

Therefore, I say Go forth and win your day by an aggressive steady COMMUNICATION, which is the CONFESSION, DECLARATION, PROCLAMATION, ANNOUNCEMENT – of your FAITH towards that matter of LIFE and GODLINESS, as you BELIEVE of God, for therein ALL THINGS ARE MADE POSSIBLE in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL TRUTH WORTH MEDITATING IN CONTEXT:

“That the COMMUNICATION of thy faith may become EFFECTUAL by the ACKNOWLEDGING of every GOOD THING which is IN YOU in Christ Jesus” Philemon 1:6.

“Let us HOLD FAST the PROFESSION (CONFESSION, DECLARATION) of our FAITH without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised” Hebrews 10:23 (Emphasis Mine).

“But what saith it? The WORD is nigh thee, even in thy MOUTH, and in thy HEART: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 that if thou shalt CONFESS with thy MOUTH the Lord Jesus, and shalt BELIEVE in thine HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED. 10 For with the HEART man believeth unto righteousness; and with the MOUTH CONFESSION is made unto SALVATION” Romans 10:8-10.

“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” Revelation 12:11.

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the TESTIMONY OF JESUS: worship God: FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY” Revelation 19:10.

“A man’s belly shall be SATISFIED with the FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH; and with the INCREASE OF HIS LIPS SHALL HE BE FILLED. 21 DEATH and LIFE are in the POWER OF THE TONGUE: and they that LOVE it shall eat the FRUIT thereof” Proverbs 18:20-21.

“Thou art SNARED with THE WORDS OF THY MOUTH, thou art TAKEN with THE WORDS OF THY MOUTH” Proverbs 6:2.

“By him therefore let us OFFER THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE to God CONTINUALLY, that is, THE FRUIT OF OUR LIPS giving thanks to his name” Hebrews 13:15.

“To THE LAW and to THE TESTIMONY: if they SPEAK NOT ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them” Isaiah 8:20.

“For whatsoever is born of God OVERCOMETH the world: and this is the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH the world, even OUR FAITH. 5 Who is he that OVERCOMETH the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:4-5.

“So then FAITH COMETH BY HEARING, and HEARING by THE WORD OF GOD” Romans 10:17.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

FEED YOUR SPIRIT-BEING HEALTHILY AND WHOLE

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FEED YOUR SPIRIT-BEING HEALTHILY AND WHOLE: TO KEEP YOUR BEING – SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY – WHOLESOME!

“Now may the God of peace Himself SANCTIFY you through and through [that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you PURE and WHOLE and undamaged—consecrated to Him—set apart for His purpose]; and may your SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be kept COMPLETE and [be found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Amplified.

There’s the need to FEED your SPIRIT-BEING healthily, in order to ensure and be assured that your triune [tripartite] being – SPIRIT, SOUL and BODY – are blamelessly preserved in LIFE and GODLINESS until Christ Jesus Returns.

The battle of life is first on who control your well-being internally: Man is a tripartite being – spirit, soul and body. The spirit being helps us make contact to God while the soul helps us make life decisions of being in reason – intellectual, will and emotion, that’s detailed from either the human spirit or the body [flesh – (senses)], while the body help make contact with the world about us in every aspect. And it is the healthy state of a man that keeps man, the man [spirit being] of the human, that keeps one alive otherwise, we are traumatised and depressed when our spirit being is not connected to God by the WORD.

“The spirit of a man will SUSTAIN his INFIRMITY; but a WOUNDED spirit who can bear?” Proverbs 18:14.

“A merry HEART doeth GOOD like a MEDICINE: but a BROKEN spirit DRIETH the BONES” Proverbs 17:22.

And in the context of our healthy well-being, the soul – that’s the being between our spirit being and body expressing it, must be fully Spirit-Ruled and Spirit-Led, otherwise it will be BODY-RULED AND FLESHLY GOVERNED. The soul is the expression point of whosoever wins daily to be in charge to make it either of God or the ENEMY and COHORTS. Your soul is the hub of the will, emotion, reasoning faculties and such like. When the human spirit is in control of the soul in its inclination toward God by the WORD, every things in life and godliness goes healthily healthy; but if the body, more else called the flesh takes over the soul, all manners of unpleasant and unhealthy fleshy manifestation we see within us and about us are revealed

“My son, Attend to my WORDS; INCLINE thine EAR unto my SAYINGS. 21 Let them not DEPART from thine EYES; keep them in the MIDST of thine HEART. 22 For they are LIFE unto those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy HEART with all DILIGENCE; for out of it are the ISSUES of life” Proverbs 4:20-23.

Therefore, FEED your spirit-being healthily healthy to be Spirit-Ruled by God’s WORD in order to live triumphantly, victoriously, more than conquerors and an overcoming in everyway of doing life and living godly in God’s gracious and graceful BLESSEDNESS, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING – MEDITATING – IN CONTEXT:

“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly” Proverbs 20:27

“And the very God of peace sanctify you WHOLLY; and I pray God your WHOLE spirit and soul and body be PRESERVED blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

“For THE WORD of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of SOUL and SPIRIT, and of the JOINTS AND MARROW, and is a DISCERNER of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do” Hebrews 4:12-13.

“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to THE WORD of his grace, which is able to BUILD YOU UP, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified” Acts 20:32.

“Thy WORD is a LAMP unto my feet, and a light unto my path . . .  Psalms 119:105, 130.

“The spirit of a man will SUSTAIN his INFIRMITY;  but a WOUNDED spirit who can bear?” Proverbs 18:14.

“A merry HEART doeth GOOD like a MEDICINE: but a BROKEN spirit DRIETH the BONES” Proverbs 17:22.

“And the Lord God FORMED man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED into his nostrils the breath of life; and man BECAME a LIVING soul” Genesis 2:7.

“But THERE is a spirit in man: and the INSPIRATION of the Almighty GIVETH them UNDERSTANDING” Job 32:8.

“The Spirit of God hath MADE me, and the BREATH of the Almighty hath GIVEN me LIFE” Job 33:4.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

TO ENSURE THE POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT

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TO ENSURE THE POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT: DON’T GIVE UP OR QUIT ON YOUR FAITH JOURNEY IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD!

“For WHATSOEVER is born of God OVERCOMETH the world: and THIS IS the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, even our FAITH. 5 Who is he that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:4-5.

I learnt early in my Christian Walk in Christ Jesus stead, by the various factors and happenings and challenges that came my way that VICTORY and TRIUMPH is possible in Christ, when I hold on to my FAITH in the context of the Scriptures, because FAITH goes killing GIANTS when all things comes to a HALT. Hence, I am emboldened to say to you emphatically today – DON’T GIVE UP OR QUIT ON YOUR FAITH, NO MATTER WHAT BESIEGE and BETIDE YOU AS ITS CALLED TODAY. For God will give you the enabling assurance in His grace, to ensure you can ABOUND and ABASED in everyway in Christ Jesus stead, in order to ensure you are fulfilled in everyway in His grace and BLESSEDNESS.

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have LEARNED, in whatsoever STATE I am, therewith to be CONTENT. 12 I know both how to be ABASED, and I know how to ABOUND: every where and in all things I am INSTRUCTED both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which STRENGTHENETH me” Philippians 4:11-13.

You need to know that the ENEMY and COHORTS first, final and utmost aim day and night against you is always on your FAITH and nothing else – more or less; for the enemy and cohorts knows the powerful effect of your faith against it’s works and more so, in the knowing that by FAITH you are JUSTIFIED and by FAITH you have ACCESS to God to stand in the grace wherein you can thrive, live and reign in life no matter how many times you fall and fail in things as long as you are steadily steady and keep keeping on, focus on Christ Jesus on your redemption rights and privileges in Him.

“Therefore, being JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have PEACE with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into this GRACE wherein we STAND, and REJOICE in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2.

And all the intent of the enemy and cohorts activities toward you, is nothing else, but ALL about, for you to just GIVE UP on your FAITH on your REDEMPTION rights and privileges in Christ Jesus, and he will then takes over you and by then you are DONE away with, from all the OTHER meaningful, purposeful and colourful things such as your – Relationship, Career, Business, Finance, Health, Family and such like. In essence, the ENEMY and  COHORTS are out to MESS up your FAITH and DISCONNECT you from God in Christ Jesus, in order to give them ACCESS to ruin every other matters about you. Hence you need to be sober, alert , vigilant and steadfast in the FAITH as it’s written in the Holy writ.

“Be SOBER, be VIGILANT; because your ADVERSARY the devil, as a roaring lion, WALKETH about, SEEKING whom he may DEVOUR: 9 whom RESIST STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of ALL GRACE, who hath CALLED us unto his ETERNAL GLORY by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you PERFECT (WHOLE, MATURE, COMPLETE), STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE you” 1 Peter 5:8-10.

And by you taking a FAITH stand in your redemption in Christ Jesus upon the WORD of God, you can turn ANY MESS UP of today into a MESSAGE by ANCHORING and SYNCHRONIZING your FAITH steadfastly in God on every GOOD THING DONE IN YOU by Christ Jesus. Amen.

“That the COMMUNICATION of thy FAITH may become EFFECTUAL by the ACKNOWLEDGING of EVERY GOOD THING which is IN you IN Christ Jesus” Philemon 1:6.

Hence, you must know that your FAITH is PRECIOUS and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for you to guard it jealously and steadfastly. 2 Peter 1:1-2; Proverbs 4:23.

IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT, YOU NEED NOT GIVE UP OR QUIT ON YOUR FAITH JOURNEY – IT’S THE HALLMARK OF LIVING THE EXALTED AND TRIUMPHANT AND THRIVING AND PURPOSEFUL AND MEANINGFUL AND FULFILLING LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD.

The enemy and cohorts Knows that your FAITH is the only PRECIOUS and CHIEF TREASURE to WRITE and REWRITE your story from the state of:

** Disappointment to appointment

** Failure to success

** Sickness to healing and health

** Poverty to prosperity

** Sin to righteousness

** Disgrace to grace

** Mess to Message

** Shame to fame

** Curse to blessing

** . . . And much more such like.

Your FAITH is your VICTORY and TESTIMONY over ALL matters of doing life and living godly for these simple and awesome reason though not limited to these only:

* It’s the MYSTERY of grace to TRIUMPH

* It’s the stirring gear to Living THE GREATER LIFE.

* It pleases God and its reward is AWESOMELY AWESOME.

* It’s your EARTHLY currency to cause the HEAVENLY to answer your EARTHLY demands.

* It’s the Father God recommended CONTACT in Christ Jesus, to reach Him expressly.

* It’s your ARMOURY to put to flight your ENEMY & COHORTS master plans.

* It’s your creative tool to ACHIEVE, THRIVE, REJUVENATE and to define the ATMOSPHERE you loves to see and enjoy.

* For FAITH is NOW, to help ease any earthly transactions with the heavens.

* . . . And many such like acts and doings.

Therefore, TREASURE your FAITH. DON’T GIVE IT UP or GIVE UP ON IT for whatsoever REASON.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING – MEDITATING – IN CONTEXT:

“For WHATSOEVER is born of God OVERCOMETH the world: and THIS IS the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH the world, even our FAITH. 5 Who is he that OVERCOMETH the world, but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:4-5.

“HOLDING the MYSTERY of the FAITH in a PURE conscience” 1 Timothy 3:9.

“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: BUT THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH” Habakkuk 2:4 [Galatians 3:11, Romans 1:17; Hebrews 10:38].

“CAST NOT AWAY THEREFORE YOUR CONFIDENCE, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have NEED OF PATIENCE, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” Hebrews 10:35-39.

“Therefore being JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2.

“Now FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not seen. 2 For by IT the elders OBTAINED a GOOD report. 3 Through FAITH we UNDERSTAND that the WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD of God, so that things which are SEEN were not MADE of things which do APPEAR . . . 6 But WITHOUT FAITH it is impossible to PLEASE Him [God]: for he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that He is, and that He is a REWARDER of them that DILIGENTLY seek him” Hebrews 11:1-3, 6/Emphasis Mine.

“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same DILIGENCE to the full ASSURANCE of hope unto the end: 12 that ye be NOT SLOTHFUL, but FOLLOWERS of them who through FAITH and patience INHERIT the promises” Hebrews 6:10-12.

“So then FAITH cometh by hearing, and hearing by THE WORD of God” Romans 10:17.

“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: FOR WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN” Romans 14:23.

“And Jesus answering saith unto them, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall NOT DOUBT in his heart, but shall BELIEVE that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, BELIEVE that ye RECEIVE them, and ye shall have them” Mark 11:22-24.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

DESIRE AND ENSURE GOD’S POSSIBILITIES AS LIFE DEFAULT

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DESIRE AND ENSURE GOD’S POSSIBILITIES AS LIFE DEFAULT: BEGIN YOUR DAY LIFE BY THE WORD!

If you truly desire to ensure and be assured of the POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT lifestyle, the honest and only TRUTH is for you to begin your day life by THE WORD; this is the sure order to sort out and ensure and be assured that your day and life PUZZLES are  with ease and within scriptural context in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 BEING BORN AGAIN, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by THE WORD of God, which LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 but THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOR EVER. And this is THE WORD which by the gospel is preached unto you” 1 Peter 1:22-25.

WHAT’S LIFE? WHAT’S THIS LIFE? James 4:13-17 did asked and answered these quests in this wise – “. . .LIFE IS LIKE A VAPOUR THAT DO APPEARS FOR A MOMENT THEN VANISHES AWAY . . .”; hence there’s the need to cautiously handle each daily moment wisely by THE WORD in order to CREATE and ENJOY the desired sphere for the day.

And to sort and ensure a WORTH-LIFE for the living, there’s an answer which BLESSEDLY, is only in THE WORD, THE BIBLE – the Holy writ; and which I have term as the – ‘BLESSED INFORMATION BRINGING LIFE ETERNAL.

The Holy BIBLE, the written WORD of God, is both INFORMATIVE and TRANSFORMATIVE; and has the first-hand, final and truthful ANSWER to fix every single questions or quests of anyone in LIFE and GODLINESS; and the AUTHOR  of the Holy Bible, is ever present in all moment to ANSWER every PUZZLE  of LIVING life; and the to give any desiring hearts the enabling on the HOW to do a life to the fullness of God’s grace, as it affects all about mankind and creation.

And in order to make a NEW and FRESH start as the set day work begins, you NEED to get hold of the BIBLE today for your LIVING-WORTH.  More so, there’s the need to get ALL your LIFE information and transformation from the only BOOK, whose AUTHOR, the ever present  HOLY SPIRIT, is ever present at the point of READING and STUDYING. And having the Holy Writ, will help you to know and understand your life puzzle, for the day called today, and your gracious tomorrow.

That LIFE puzzle you need to crack is solvable when you by FAITH and GRACE, do access and get the help and enabling you graciously and gracefully needed from the WORD. Just get CONNECTED and SYNCHRONIZE your day by THE WORD as your DEFAULT, all will be well and good again. And you will then experience God’s POSSIBILITIES, because an effortless and sweat-less default is in Christ Jesus, the WORD himself. Amen.

“Therefore being JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2.

I pray that you be BLESSED and have an awesome and amazing day in everyway today and tomorrow, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“Go to now, ye that say, TO DAY OR TO MORROW we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and BUY and SELL, and get GAIN: 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? It is even a VAPOUR, that APPEARETH for a little time, and then VANISHETH away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that KNOWETH to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” James 4:13-17.

“For THIS IS THE LOVE of God, that we keep his COMMANDMENTS: and his commandments are not GRIEVOUS (BURDENSOME, IRKSOME, TASKMASTER-LIKE). . .11 And this is the record, that God hath GIVEN to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:3, 11-12) (emphasis mine).

“For I know the THOUGHTS that I think toward you, saith the Lord, THOUGHTS of peace, and not of evil, to give you an EXPECTED end” Jeremiah 29:11.

“Being CONFIDENT of this very thing, that he which hath BEGUN a good work in you will PERFORM it until the day of Jesus Christ” Philippians 1:6.

“And we know that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER for good to them that love God, to them who are the CALLED according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he CALLED, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he JUSTIFIED, them he also GLORIFIED . . . 32 He that SPARED not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?” Romans 8:28-30, 32.

“In the beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with God, and THE WORD was God. 2 The SAME was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were MADE by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing MADE that was MADE. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not” John 1:1-5.

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, THE WORD, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” 1 John 5:7.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

PASTORAL SHEPHERDING IN BLESSEDNESS

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PASTORAL SHEPHERDING IN BLESSEDNESS: GOD NEEDS YOUR AVAILABILITY NOT YOUR ABILITY!

“Brothers and sisters, together FOLLOW my example and OBSERVE those who live by the pattern we gave you. 18 For there ARE many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who LIVE as ENEMIES of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation], 19 whose fate is destruction, whose god is their BELLY [their worldly APPETITE, their SENSUALITY, their VANITY], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on EARTHLY and TEMPORAL things” Philippians 3:17-19/Amplified.

God seek for pure, genuine and good-hearted Shepherds over the sheep in these days of crafty, cunning and heiring agents of Satan putting on the cloak as God’s own. It’s imperative that the SHEPHERD of the SHEEP is set to FEED the flocks of God with the WORD, not a hireling who set to feed with adulteration, counterfeit and lies [Jeremiah 3:15; John 21:15-17; Philippians 1:15-18]; and the shepherd is equally set to stay on the PLACE OF CALLING [responsibility and accountability in principle], if you wants to live FULFILLED and not as a NOISE MAKER and SELF SEEKING individual, whose MINISTRY is more of the BELLY and to lure others away in the name of God [Philippians 3:17-19/Amplified.], God is so particular of the flocks [Sheep and Lamb] to be in healthy state, and part of doing that is to be feed them with the Word than giving excuses of misgivings as Jesus rightly instruct Peter not to give but to feed. It’s a DUTY. An INSTRUCTION. It’s not an ADVICE.

“So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, FEED MY LAMBS. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, FEED MY SHEEP. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, FEED MY SHEEP” John 21:15-17.

“Be thou DILIGENT to know the STATE of thy FLOCKS, and LOOK WELL to thy HERDS . . .” Proverbs 27:23-27.

God seeks for VESSELS to use and not ORNAMENTS for museum, in order to fulfill and accomplish His REDEMPTION kingdom cause – plan, purpose and pursuit – on the earth, to keep the enemy and cohorts at bay. Therefore, dear PASTOR – please STOP all the NOISE and be at the DUTY Post, for God seek your AVAILABILITY for His Kingdom causes and not your ABILITY, in order to use you to fulfill His BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus – THAT’S ALL THAT’S NEEDED ALL THE WAY IN THE NOW.

“Nevertheless the FOUNDATION of God STANDETH SURE, having this seal, The Lord KNOWETH them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ DEPART FROM INIQUITY. 20 But in a great house there are not only VESSELS of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and SOME TO HONOUR, AND SOME TO DISHONOUR. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a VESSEL UNTO HONOUR, SANCTIFIED, and MEET [QUALIFIED] for the master’s use, and PREPARED unto every good work” 2 Timothy 2:19-21/Emphasis Mine.

Your AVAILABILITY and not your ABILITY is all that God needs from you to help create and initiate the atmosphere He earnestly intend to happen through you and as He long to see you make the DIFFERENCE in HUMANITY. Therefore, it’s time to make yourself AVAILABLE for God’s SUFFICIENCY to make you BECOME in Him, just as Apostle Paul earnestly labour and craved daily for the good of the Sheep – the Churches of God, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

“Not that we are SUFFICIENT of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our SUFFICIENCY is of God; 6 who also hath MADE US ABLE MINISTERS of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life” 2 Corinthians 3:5-6.

“Beside those things that are WITHOUT, that which COMETH upon me DAILY, the CARE of all the churches” 2 Corinthians 11:28.

Therefore, stop all the NOISE of what you can do that have not taken you any higher than that CIRCUS and CIRCLE you’ve been wandering and wondering around on, all these times. God is not a magician, and He does no magic though He does MIRACLE – and for God, MIRACLES are the consequence of His WORD. Therefore, just REPORT at your DUTY post of CALLING, it’s your AVAILABILITY not your ABILITY that God is interested in, to make things HAPPEN for you today and tomorrow and for the good of all; otherwise, you will become a MAGICIAN trying to get THINGS to happen or done by any and every means in the name of God. PLEASE DON’T and PLEASE STOP – and stay only on your DUTY POST.

“And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED TO THE MINISTRY which thou hast RECEIVED in the Lord, that thou FULFIL it” Colossians 4:17.

Be the SHEPHERD of the SHEEP by the WORD, not a hireling; and stay on your PLACE OF CALLING if you wants to live FULFILLED and not as a NOISE MAKER; but as a Pastoral Shepherd, to feed God’s sheep with knowledge and understanding of His will, and their rights and privileges as a done work for them in REDEMPTION in Christ Jesus.

“And I will GIVE you PASTORS [SHEPHERD] according to mine heart, which shall FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15.

Can YOU make the YOU available today to God in fulfilling His PLAN, PURPOSE AND PURSUIT?

I pray that our God gives you the enabling grace, wisdom and speed in everyway in His BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead to do life and live godly in Him. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to the WORD of his grace, which is ABLE to BUILD you up, and to GIVE you an INHERITANCE among all them which are SANCTIFIED” Acts 20:32.

“And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:  5 not that we are SUFFICIENT of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our SUFFICIENCY is of God;  6 who also hath MADE us ABLE MINISTERS of the NEW TESTAMENT; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”  2 Corinthians 3:4-6.

“And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED TO THE MINISTRY which thou hast RECEIVED in the Lord, that thou FULFIL it” Colossians 4:17.

“. . . 11 I am the GOOD shepherd: the good shepherd GIVETH his life for the sheep. 12 But he that is an HIRELING, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine . . .” John 10:1-18.

“Some indeed PREACH Christ even of ENVY and STRIFE; and some also of GOOD WILL: 16 the one PREACH Christ of CONTENTION, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 but the OTHER of LOVE, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in PRETENCE, or in TRUTH, Christ is PREACHED; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice” Philippians 1:15-18.

“Brethren, be FOLLOWERS together of me, and mark them which WALK so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many WALK, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ENEMIES of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose God is their BELLY, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind EARTHLY things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself” Philippians 3:17-21.

“The Lord is MY SHEPHERD; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters . . .” Psalms 23.

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that GREAT SHEPHERD of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen” Hebrews 13:20-21.

“The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 FEED THE FLOCK of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ENSAMPLES to the flock. 4 And when the CHIEF SHEPHERD shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away” 1 Peter 5:1-4.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

YOU ARE GOD’S BEST: THE MAKING OF YOU

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YOU ARE GOD’S BEST: THE MAKING OF YOU – IT’S A COMPOSITION OF THE GOOD AND THE BAD OVER TIME!

“There will ALWAYS be people in your life who TREAT you WRONG. Be sure to THANK them for MAKING you STRONG” Zig Ziglar.

“And we KNOW that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD to them that LOVE God, to them who are the called ACCORDING to his PURPOSE” Romans 8:28.

Don’t feel SAD when FAILED by most TRUSTED people about you. We are a component of the good and the bad in the making of our uniqueness under the Sun. Together by the good and the bad, we are shaped in life. And if you must SHINE as the STARS, there must be phases of DARKNESS on your life path to make the GLOW greater and higher in FAITH and GRACE.

“For God, who COMMANDED the LIGHT to shine OUT of DARKNESS, hath shined in our hearts, to give the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of God in the FACE of Jesus Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6.

More importantly, it’s NOT WHAT HAPPENED when you meet or experience the good and the bad, but WHAT YOU MAKE OUT of meeting and having an encounter with either – that’s what MAKES WHAT you ARE and BECOME overtime, in God, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

Don’t let your DISAPPOINTMENT get into you to take hold of you. You must HOLD to FAITH and GRACE steadfastly, in that CAUSE in your PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT; for therein you can ENSURE when TRUSTED people changed of behaviour or some person’s failure to be of good anymore towards you, that does not define you; more so, that does not mean God has abandoned you from your meaningful and purposeful life cause in Christ Jesus. You need to see EVERY single DISAPPOINTMENT as the STEPPING GROUND and STONE to your next higher and exalted life in Christ Jesus. That’s how to make the POSSIBILITIES DEFAULT possible in LIFE and GODLY LIVING. Always have it settled within you as a DEFAULT, that no matter what has happened or it’s happening or will even happen, that God is able to accomplish and bring to fruition and fulfillment that GOOD and GOODNESS, that He began in you to do in life and godly living, in Christ Jesus stead. [Philippians 1:3-7; Philemon I:4-6; Romans 8:28-30; Jeremiah 29:11].

Don’t see men as your HELPERS as many have purported to be their DESTINY HELPER’S which is unscriptural and out of biblical context though it had become many people order of the day statement. Know of a truth that your destiny of God in Christ Jesus is within you and not something you have to pursue outside you as many have to fight and pursue about in delusion not knowing that they have been PREDESTINED of God already with the default to succeed, achieve, become and such like [Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:5-12]. Know full well that in your reborn as a Believer of God in Christ Jesus, that your wholesome package is at the default of God’s purpose in your life and only God who puts His purpose in you is the only one who is obligated out His will to make His purpose in you to come to fruition, to be tangible and of course, to reality; and know also that no man that we have already assumed to be the vehicle of use, just because he or she has been used of God at a time to be vessel of BLESSEDNESS toward us is our DESTINY HELPER’S. Only the Father God is our HELPER. He only can use any means to ensure that we fulfill purpose in Him. And as soon as we have it registered in our being that God is our HELPER, we will be conditioned healthily and no longer to be offended by people or any who help or don’t help us, as we might craved to be.

“God is our REFUGE and STRENGTH, a very PRESENT HELP in TROUBLE [CHALLENGING TIMES]. 2 Therefore will NOT we FEAR, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah” Psalms 46:1-3.

What I am so much certainly certain about you, is that today, God will MAKE UP your LOSES for you and turn your challenging and difficult times into that which is all for your GOOD and GOODNESS. Therefore, keep on keeping on in FAITH and GRACE to ALL who BELIEVE or DON’T BELIEVE in you. For FAITHFUL is God that promise – that’s ALL that SHOULD matter. And through patience you definition in God will be onwards and upwards in trajectory in Christ Jesus stead.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“Let us HOLD FAST the profession of our faith without WAVERING; for he is FAITHFUL that promised” Hebrews 10:23.

“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the PRINCE of this world cometh, and hath NOTHING in me” John 14:30.

“And we KNOW that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he CALLED, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he JUSTIFIED, them he also GLORIFIED” Romans 8:28.

“For God, who commanded THE LIGHT TO SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, hath SHINED in our HEARTS, to give the LIGHT of the knowledge of the glory of God in the FACE of Jesus Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6.

“We have also A MORE SURE WORD of prophecy; whereunto ye DO WELL that ye TAKE HEED, as unto a LIGHT that SHINETH in a DARK PLACE, until the DAY DAWN, and the day STAR ARISE in your hearts” 2 Peter 1:19.

“CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM; for he careth for you. 8 Be SOBER, be VIGILANT; because your ADVERSARY the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, SEEKING whom he may DEVOUR: 9 whom RESIST STEDFAST in the faith, knowing that the SAME AFFLICTIONS are accomplished in your BRETHREN that are in the world. 10 But the God of ALL GRACE, who hath CALLED us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have SUFFERED a while, MAKE YOU PERFECT, STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE YOU” 1 Peter 5:7-10.

“CAST NOT AWAY therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have NEED OF PATIENCE, that, after ye have DONE THE WILL of God, ye might RECEIVE the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who DRAW BACK unto perdition; but of them that believe to THE SAVING of the soul” Hebrews 10:35-39.

“For God is NOT UNRIGHTEOUS to FORGET your WORK and LABOUR of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same DILIGENCE to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 that ye be not slothful, but FOLLOWERS of them who through FAITH and PATIENCE inherit the promises” Hebrews 6:10-12.

“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 6 BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS VERY THING, THAT HE WHICH HATH BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL PERFORM IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST: 7 even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace” Philippians 1:3-7.

“I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 5 hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; 6 THAT THE COMMUNICATION OF THY FAITH MAY BECOME EFFECTUAL BY THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF EVERY GOOD THING WHICH IS IN YOU IN CHRIST JESUS” Philemon I:4-6.

“AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he CALLED, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he JUSTIFIED, them he also GLORIFIED” Romans 8:28-30.

“For I know the PLANS and THOUGHTS that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘PLANS FOR PEACE and WELL-BEING and NOT FOR DISASTER, to GIVE you a FUTURE and a HOPE” Jeremiah 29:11 Amplified.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE]

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CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE]: IT’S ABOUT HAVING GOD’S APPROVAL AND NOT MEN’S APPLAUD [HYPER]!

“Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man APPROVED of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it” Acts 2:22-24.

There’s nothing as dangerous as endeavouring to win favour outside the context of anything that has a stand – an ethics and etiquette – that worth priceless. As I have said in some writ, when you take a text out of a context, it becomes a con – and we all know when someone becomes a con person, con artist, conman and such like, we all will naturally distance ourselves from anyone who is already known to be a con in such spheres of doing life except you share in such person acts of behavioural bargains. If we can be able to distance ourselves, how much more when such it’s in conflict with God’s Scriptural CONTEXT and INSTRUCTIONS to our doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. And God does not share His glory with mortal men in their hyper and applaud:

“And Herod was highly DISPLEASED with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with ONE ACCORD to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country. 21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, SAT upon his throne, and made an ORATION unto them. 22 And the people gave a SHOUT [APPLAUSE, HYPER], saying, It is the VOICE of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord SMOTE him, because he GAVE not God the GLORY: and he was EATEN of worms, and gave up the GHOST [DIED]” Acts 12:20-23.

There are many out there who will do anything outside the book to get the applause that men can give them to enable them outdo and undo others – and you can see it in places of doing life – workspaces, factory, business transaction, family circles, Church leadership position, government Offices and other expected civic places that’s – nongovernmental and many such like. For this kind of behaviour, Apostle Paul warned, charged and exhorted young Bishop Timothy, to note that leadership position for example it’s not for self-gains and should not be taken lightly; and people should not for any human reasons on selfish applause be placed in places they are not qualified to be otherwise it will undermine God’s authority and misplaced priority in honouring and magnifying God’s WORD that’s above all things as God had done.

“I CHARGE thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the ELECT angels, that thou OBSERVE these things without PREFERRING one before another, doing nothing by PARTIALITY. 22 LAY HANDS SUDDENLY ON NO MAN, neither be PARTAKER of other MEN’S SINS: keep thyself PURE” 1 Timothy 5:21-22.

“I will worship toward Your holy temple and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have EXALTED above all else Your NAME and Your WORD and You have MAGNIFIED Your WORD above all Your name!” Psalms 138:2/Amplified Classic Edition.

It’s of this emboldened spirit of getting God’s APPROVAL in all things in context and not just on somethings, that Apostle Peter was speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ in Acts 2:22-24. He was giving an admonishment about our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ – who is the author and finisher of our faith [Hebrews 12:2], and who is our God’s given and living example in doing God’s kingdom business in our earthly affairs [Hebrews 1:1-4], and by whom we ARE God’s ambassador on earth – to note how He ensured that He RECEIVED God’s APPROVAL and not men APPLAUSE, to do God’s given purpose and assignments in humanity [Luke 2:1-2, 14, 16-18, 22]. Jesus Christ cause in humanity was always to get God’s APPROVAL [intent] in every step because He knows, it must always be of the FATHER’S WILL to be done and not MEN’S WILL for egotism, self-gratification and self-centeredness and such like.

“. . . 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear WITNESS of me . . . 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him” John 10:22-38.

Apostle Paul had in his keen interest for us to live through God’s approval and signature in all we do to fulfil purpose and life, in CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE. He then charged the Believers of God as you and me and as to Timothy, to endeavour to STUDY, to enable us get God’s APPROVAL [SCRIPTURAL CONTEXT] to a cause, so that we can be able to rightly apply the word of God appropriately in all matters of doing life and living godly. And to be embroidered to stand up against the enemy and cohorts voices when they show up too. For pure wisdom to do life and live godly is the application of knowledge. And where there’s no knowledge of a thing, it’s not only that IGNORANCE WILL PREVAIL, people will ABUSE PURPOSE of the intended. People had abused their relationship [spouses, children, family, friendship] for the lack of knowledge to the cause and context; people had abused position of leadership and authority for lack of knowledge of the context; people do evil and wickedness as abusers to undermine others especially toward the vulnerable and such like because of the lack of the knowledge to the context of the cause; you can name lots of places abuse have taken place or happening right now because of the stupidity and foolishness born out of ignorance to a cause [purpose] – and it’s all for the lack of wisdom – application of knowledge to such cause.

“STUDY to shew thyself APPROVED unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING [APPLYING, HANDLING] the WORD of TRUTH” 2 Timothy 2:15/Emphasis mine.

God wants us to live a life of CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE], to enable us be His true ambassador for Christ. And being God’s representative on earth [Isaiah 45:11-12; Psalms 115:15-18; Psalms 8:4-8; 2 Corinthians 5:20], is not limited to a particular person or nation but to all who intend to do God’s purpose in RIGHTEOUSNESS; meaning those who wants to get on His APPROVED context and not in men trying to use UNRIGHTEOUSNESS to get His APPROVAL for their APPLAUSE. For Gods glory is not to be shared with men. This is the caution and exhortations that Apostle Peter gives of God’s openness to all as He’s not a respecter of men; while Apostle Paul also in a different respective context gave a dire warning to the Believers who wants to be on God’s good book and purpose not to dare God, by using the unrighteousness cause of men to an approval and signature to get God’s righteous approved cause.

“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS: 35 but in EVERY NATION he that FEARETH him, and WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS, is ACCEPTED with Him” Acts 10:34-35.

“For the WRATH of God is REVEALED from heaven AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS and UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN, who hold the TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS . . . 32 who KNOWING the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have PLEASURE in them that do them” Romans 1:18, 32.

Therefore, knowing the danger and wrath of working through men’s crazy approval cause to make you feel important and good while you know you are going to face God’s wrath, why not today, even now, resolved intentionally and pragmatically, to do God’s approved purpose in context unreservedly, by STUDYING the WORD of God like the Berea Christian of Acts 17:10-12 and by taking up Apostle Paul exhortation to Timothy as written in 1 Timothy 4:14-17. These will make you to walk in wisdom – rightly applying the word through knowledge.

“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto BEREA: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more NOBLE than those in Thessalonica, in that they RECEIVED THE WORD with all READINESS of mind, and SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, whether those things were so. 12 Therefore many of them BELIEVED; also of HONOURABLE women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few” Acts 17:10-12.

“But continue thou in the things which thou hast LEARNED and hast been ASSURED of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 and that from a child thou hast KNOWN the holy SCRIPTURES, which are ABLE TO MAKE THEE WISE unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All SCRIPTURE is given by INSPIRATION of God, and is PROFITABLE for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 that the man of God may be PERFECT [MATURE, COMPLETE, WHOLE], throughly FURNISHED unto all good works” 2 Timothy 3:14-17/Emphasis mine.

It’s my PRAYERS that you will not struggle in CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE], as you do life by ensuring and assuring God’s approval is what’s always in your top heartfelt without men’s approval to your being God’s true Ambassador for Christ.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance. 12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, And the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-13/NKJV.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily” Colossians 1:27-29.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ . . . 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain . . . 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” Philippians 1:6, 21, 27.

“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:1-11.

“Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you” Philippians 3:1-15.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” Galatians 2:20-21.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” 2 Corinthians 5:17-21.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

LIVING IN CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE]

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LIVING IN CHRISTLIKENESS [BEING CHRISTLIKE]: YOU MUST INTENTIONALLY DO AWAY WITH UNBELIEF!

“And to whom SWARE He that they should NOT ENTER into His REST, but to them that BELIEVED NOT? 19 So we see that they could NOT ENTER in because of UNBELIEF” Hebrews 3:18-19.

The good and faithful, true and sure God that we claim to serve acceptably and unreservedly and to worship worthily, in spirit and truth, is the same God that searches the hearts and thoughts of men to ensure that their motives are of a contrite and broken hearts [spirit] all the way. [Psalms 51:17; Psalms 34:18; Isaiah 62:2; Revelation 2:23; Jeremiah 17:10].

And because God does not share His glory with any, hence Lucifer that turns Satan the devil with the third stars call demons were all kicked out of heavens for such enabling thoughts and imagination and worse to have attempted to carry such impossible mission in God’s highly sanctified and consecrated throne of holiness and righteousness. [Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14:12-19; Revelation 12:3-5]. God is a jealous God and won’t share His shekinah glory with a mere mortal in the flesh too just as He dealt with devil in the spirit for his complete negligence of the purity and sanctity of the heavenly.

It thus means that the thought of living a life of grace toward God in Christ Jesus with an unbelieving spirit it’s not permissible in the New Creation Church of Christ Jesus as it was not permitted in the Old Creation Church of the wilderness through Moses. [Hebrews 3:18-19; Hebrews 11:6; Romans 4:19-21; Mark 11:20-24]. Unbelief has no place and reckoning in the kingdom of God for any who seeks His heavenly intervention in their earthly affairs in Christ Jesus – it’s always repentance toward God and Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ [Acts 20:20-21]. It thus means that those who wants to have alternative plan A to plan Z as a rescue plan under God as they have an act of UNBELIEF of God’s enabling in all things that pertains to life and godliness [2 Peter 1:2-5; John 1:12], are living in self-deception and lying to themselves and cohorts. And nothing from God will answers to UNBELIEF state for any cause or context within the Kingdom provisions.

You can’t be set to live the CHRISTLIKENESS life of being CHRISTLIKE by the spirit of UNBELIEF toward God in Christ Jesus. The children of Israel of the Church in the wilderness under Moses, didn’t enter their place of rest in fulfilling God’s purpose for them meaningfully, because of UNBELIEF. An UNBELIEF toward God is worst than any measures of describing a cancerous condition. Thus, indicating that God does not accommodate those who live a double-minded attitude towards His WORD in any context. For such does not receive anything from God irrespective.

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, NOTHING WAVERING. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall RECEIVE ANY THING of the Lord. 8 A DOUBLE MINDED man is unstable in all his ways” James 1:5-8.

“And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, but shall BELIEVE that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, BELIEVE that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” Mark 11:20-24.

It’s impossible to receive anything of God through UNBELIEVE. For God only reward only the act of Faith toward Him in Christ Jesus. And Faith is the de facto of God to be victorious on the earth and be heavenly connected without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. For while we may live in the flesh, our life battle are of faith. We fight the fight of faith. God is of Faith and not of the flesh where unbelief dwell [Hebrews 11:6; 1 John 5:4-5; 2 Corinthians 5:7; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 1 Timothy 6:12.].

Do you want a pure rest with God in Christ Jesus in order to obtain your full salvation rights and privileges in redemption? You have to live by the WORD OF FAITH and not that of UNBELIEF. [Romans 10:8-10, 17; Hebrews 6:10-12; Romans 14:23 (Hebrews 10:38; Galatians 3:12; Romans 1:16-17; Habakkuk 2:4)]. Unbelief toward God in Christ Jesus is a self set denial from any good and goodness of God. You can’t serve God with haphazard attitude – you either stick to God fully in His faithfulness or walk away with the default of disappointment that’s set on the place of UNBELIEF [Hebrews 10:23, 35-39].

Therefore, know that in living the CHRISTLIKENESS [being CHRISTLIKE], there’s no place for self-deception and self-gratification through double mindedness toward God in Christ Jesus stead. Any of such that’s contrary to faith toward God is considered an enemy of God which could be any of these:

* The Enemy WITHIN – The Flesh [five senses – hear, see, feel, taste and touch (feel)].

* The Enemy you SEE – The world [and it’s systems].

* The Enemy we KNOW – Satan and cohorts [demons].

* The Enemy we DO – Religion [found through denomination, sectarianism and such like].

It’s my earnest PRAYERS that you walk by faith and not in unbelief toward God [you can search through in many of my writs on faith] to help you learn to walk by faith toward God in Christ Jesus, so that you can find fulfilment and have a meaningful purpose in your doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance. 12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, And the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-13/NKJV.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily” Colossians 1:27-29.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ . . . 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain . . . 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” Philippians 1:6, 21, 27.

“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:1-11.

“Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you” Philippians 3:1-15.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” Galatians 2:20-21.

“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” 2 Corinthians 5:17-21.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI