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THE FAITH THAT WORKS

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THE FAITH THAT WORKS: IT’S ONLY EXPRESSED BY ABIDING IN GOD’S LOVE THROUGH HIS WORD! 

Do you want your Faith in God to be activated, expressed and working for your good in every way and everywhere daily? The ‘FAITH THAT WORKS’ is only functional, effectual and productive as it ABIDES in God’s Love in Christ Jesus. And ABIDING in God’s LOVE in Christ Jesus, is in ABIDING and ABOUNDING in THE WORD! 

Have you ever wondered what it means to listen when someone says, ‘I’m in LOVE,’ while their personal life isn’t ABIDING and ABOUNDING in THE WORD? 

I am not sure you need an engineering degree or background to know that driving a keyless or a keying vehicle requires obeying the principles or rules by the manufacturer of such vehicle if you must enjoy and pleasure in it and stay safe within the warranty or and in the guarantee of a safe drive as in many other science of life. 

In the same scenario for one to enjoy the unlimited warranty of grace in abounding Love, you MUST as a matter of principle ABIDE in the WORD. That’s what the MANUFACTURER of the human life demands. It makes one’s Faith Works with ease and grace. 

Genuine LOVE is not cheap and it’s of the Holy Spirit in human spirit. Faith on His WORD to enhance and engraft His LOVE in your being, ensures you a winner any day and anywhere. 

Do you want a healthy and continuous flow of God’s LOVE with His unlimited, assured and insured warranty or guarantee? Then stay on and ABIDE in the WORD. This will cause your FAITH to Work for your good I earnestly assure and guarantee you in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“If ye ABIDE in me, and my WORDS abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so, shall ye be my disciples. 9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall ABIDE in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and ABIDE in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your JOY MIGHT BE FULL” (John 15:7-11) 

“For this is the LOVE of God, that we KEEP his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous (Burdensome, irksome, taskmaster)” 1 John 5:3 (Emphasis Mine). 

“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE” Galatians 5:6 -NKJV. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

GOD’S LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD 

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GOD’S LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD: THE MOMENT-DRIVEN LOVE-BASED Vs THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LOVE-BASED PERSONALITIES! 

“Now before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that His hour had come [and it was time] for Him to leave this world and return to the Father. Having [greatly] LOVED His OWN who were in the world, He LOVED them [and CONTINUOUSLY LOVES them with His PERFECT LOVE] to the END (eternally) . . . 34 I am giving you a NEW COMMANDMENT, that you LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Just as I have LOVED you, so you too are to LOVE one another. 35. By this everyone will know that you ARE My DISCIPLES, if you have LOVE and UNSELFISH concern for one another” John 13:1, 34-35/Amplified. 

We live today in a world where LOVE is tested daily, and people are becoming impatient with each other in many aspects of life and respect. Every relationship is being tested daily by the circumstances of life, and many in some cases can’t even give a chance for the other to process or let even process refine, refresh, rejuvenate and rekindle that relationship; it’s so bad in some cases that what they once believed and trusted to becoming that was substantial for greatness and goodness and happiness, is now let into the dish without a sense of remorse. 

You can x-ray and see pains and hurts in business partnership or marital relationship or even friendship, that lots of once a love integration are falling apart in such measures that the level of hatred, anger, wrath, bitterness and such like that’s been exhibited and following the fallout will make you wonder if there was  anything worthwhile at all in the beginning. But when you dissect and spiritually x-ray by the word through the Holy Spirit, you notice gracious signals but because of the lack of understanding of purpose and process by either or both parties, it has given rise to bringing down the house, irrespective. 

And while the enemy and cohorts celebrate over the happened and happenings, the individuals are at depressed state of being, questioning the other person genuine faith and love instead of looking within the mirror of God’s Word and God’s love in Christ Jesus stead that ought to have helped them, but it wasn’t given the chance to make the respective become in their supposed becoming in the grace as set for them.  

“LOVE is to be SINCERE and ACTIVE [the real thing—without GUILE and HYPOCRISY (SENTIMENTS, DISSIMULATION)]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another with [authentic] BROTHERLY affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor; 11 never lagging behind in DILIGENCE; aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord” Romans 12:9-11/Amplified. 

“The Moment-driven Love-based” personality is the one who is timed-based Believer’s in Christ Jesus; that’s the one that’s consumed to always have an immediate answer and nothing else. And when something isn’t working for their only desired immediate results, he/she will start looking for an alternative solution or escape route from the bonds that’s been established and requires a process to be matured for stability. As such one can’t build anything with such a person. Such a person hates process. Such person does not want to cultivate and wait for the results through preparation, tilling, cultivating, and harvesting. It’s all about immediate results and nothing else. Such a person is always in a haste and when there’s nothing for them at their desired moment, they will shut off the other and shut down whatever obligations they are committed to and break all rules to achieve their wants of trinity: I, ME, MYSELF only. 

“He who CULTIVATES his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows worthless people and frivolous pursuits will have plenty of poverty. 20 A faithful (right-minded) man will abound with blessings, but he who HURRIES to be rich WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED [THE RESULT OF BREAKING THE LAW]. 21 To have regard for one person over another and to show favoritism is not good, because for a PIECE OF BREAD A MAN WILL TRANSGRESS. 22 He who has an EVIL and ENVIOUS eye HURRIES to be rich And does not know that poverty will come upon him” Proverbs 28:19-22/Amplified/Emphasis Mine. 

Unlike the “The Moment-driven Love-based” personality, “The Purpose-driven Love-based” personality is all out for longevity, willingness to walk and work through patience and give the processes time with all the needed environmental cultures to nature and nurture until the desired essence begins to materialise “The Purpose-driven Love-based” person will not get into short cuts or scam or fraud to get to the end results, because it’s intentional, pragmatic, resolved, knowing that to achieve that desired greatness and heights, it’s at a cost which is worthwhile the processing to get there. Such a Believer believed strongly that the PROCESS defines the outcome and not the outcome that defines its wholeness as the “The Moment-driven Love-based”. 

The Purpose-driven Love-based” personality it’s the act of faith standing in the grace, on the God’s love in Christ Jesus stead, as themed for Month February to be our onward and upward trajectory in the grace. For its written in the Holy writ, that at the fulness of God’s process timeline for human redemption, Christ Jesus came into reality to fulfill purpose accordingly. It wasn’t an automatic quick fix microwave making for our redemption to become a reality as written. For through faith and patience, built on diligence, that’s how a godly result for a lasting effect is made possible in the grace in Christ Jesus stead. And it’s now time to restructure your faith in God’s love in Christ Jesus to be “The Purpose-driven Love-based”. 

“. . . 4 but when the FULNESS OF THE TIME was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 to REDEEM them that were under the law, that we might Receive the adoption of sons” Galatians 4:1-55. 

“But, beloved, we are PERSUADED better things of you, and things that ACCOMPANY SALVATION, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not UNRIGHTEOUS [UNFAITHFUL, UNGRATEFUL] 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 6:9-12. 

When you take time to read the book of Isaiah 9:6-7 and Isaiah 7:14, you will see and understand how God’s purpose and intent were planned for human redemption. His plan was for a Child to be BORN and to process that Child to become a Son, then to be GIVEN otherwise MADE ready, therein to die the sacrificial worthy death, that’s worthwhile for mankind redemption, in respects of the sin and sin effects. It took years of prophetic process for the Father’s LOVE for us to come to fruition, and yet it did, and today we celebrate daily His love that was at a cost.  

“For unto us a CHILD IS BORN, unto us A SON IS GIVEN: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this” Isaiah 9:6-7. 

“Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a SON, and shall call his name Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14. 

“For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” John 3:16-18. 

And God’s driven purposeful love is empowered by the Holy Spirit of love that’s given to us to do life and live godly in Him in Christ Jesus stead. This is to indicate that a believer in God in Christ Jesus is inexcusable for living and being a personality that’s Moment-driven Love-based in terms, instead of being a personality that’s Purpose-driven Love-based in terms as God did in Christ Jesus to extend His loving fellowship to us to enhance our relationship with Him. 

“If ye LOVE me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; 17 even the Spirit of TRUTH; whom the WORLD CANNOT receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth WITH you, and shall be IN you” John 14:15-17. 

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is SHED abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet SINNERS, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8. 

“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. 

“In Him also we have RECEIVED an INHERITANCE [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the PURPOSE of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will” Ephesians 1:11/Amplified. 

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, Neither have entered into the heart of man, The things which God hath PREPARED for them that LOVE him. 10 But God hath REVEALED them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit SEARCHETH all things, yea, the DEEP THINGS of God” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10. 

Unfortunately today, in many acts of Marriages [marital relationships] or Business partnerships, Ministerial relationships and Other relationships of all sorts today, people are in real life confrontation and are cut ups with mixed partnerships, wherein one person comes into the marital/relationship by a “Moment-driven Love-based” terms while the other comes with a “Purpose-driven Love-based” concept. And in a twinkling of time, there’s already a dissolution, a very big rift and drift by one while the other is willing to patiently work things through the process in order to blend and together gets to the expected results; and while one is not prepared to give that relationship a chance to stand, the other is doing all possible means for them to weather through the challenges times in order to become the becoming in terms. And except there’s a mutual understanding, it becomes impossible to get a headway to achieve the God’s LOVE in Christ Jesus stead as it’s written: 

“Can TWO WALK TOGETHER, except they be AGREED? 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?” Amos 3:3-4. 

Beloved in Christ Jesus that’s desiring to live by God’s Love in Christ Jesus, it’s important today that you think through with your partner in any forms of relationships you are into or about to embark into, if the he/she is of a “Purpose-driven Love-based” personality or the he/she is of a “Moment-driven Love-based” personality in terms. The earlier you resolve, then you can begin to run in your set purpose in the grace, otherwise, not reading the handwriting on the wall with utmost knowledge and understanding before running, will give the room to failure on the long run and it’s side effects may be very difficult to bear along with in time. 

“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, WRITE THE VISION, and MAKE IT PLAIN UPON TABLES, that HE MAY RUN THAT READETH IT. 3 For the VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME, but AT THE END IT SHALL SPEAK, and NOT LIE: THOUGH IT TARRY, WAIT FOR IT; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: BUT THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH” Habakkuk 2:1-4. 

Let God’s purpose driven love rule your being today by the Holy Spirit, so that you can become, and in becoming you can be fulfilled in doing life and living godly in the grace in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

Be a Purpose-driven, Love-based Believer, in Christ Jesus, no matter the process to becoming, for therein you can receive the blessedness of God in grace and be fulfilled in life and godly living. 

Be blessed in the grace. Amen. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“For God so LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” John 3:16-17/NKJV. 

“Now hope does not disappoint, because the LOVE of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us . . . 8 But God demonstrates His own LOVE toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8/NKJV.  

“John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the FIRSTBORN on from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who LOVED us and WASHED us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has MADE us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” Revelation 1:4-6. 

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being ROOTED and GROUNDED in LOVE , 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the WIDTH and LENGTH and DEPTH and HEIGHT — 19 to KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST which passes knowledge; that you may be FILLED with all the FULLNESS of God” Ephesians 3:17-19/NKJV. 

“A new commandment I give to you, that you LOVE one another; as I have LOVED you, that you also LOVE one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have LOVE for one another” John 13:34-35. 

“As the Father LOVED Me, I also have loved you; abide in My LOVE. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My LOVE, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His LOVE. [11] “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you LOVE one another as I have LOVED you. 13 Greater LOVES has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you LOVE one another” John 15:9-17. 

“Let LOVE be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly LOVE; in honour preferring one another” Romans 12:9-10. 

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not LOVE, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not LOVE, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; LOVE does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8. LOVE never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.13 And now abide faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is love” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13/NKJV. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

GOD’S BATTLE AXE: The BATTLE of The MIND!

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GOD’S BATTLE AXE: The BATTLE of The MIND! – Mark 5:1-20. 

“For God DID NOT GIVE us a spirit of TIMIDITY [of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning FEAR], but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of LOVE and of CALM and WELL-BALANCED MIND and DISCIPLINE and SELF-CONTROL” 2 Timothy 1:7/Amplified. 

Knowingly or unknowingly, there’s a battle and warfare that is ongoing in our minds twenty-four-seven. Unfortunately, the Church has sat on SPIRITUAL WARFARE for so long that we have lost a major BATTLE which I called – MENTAL WARFARE. 

For its ones PICTURE that determines ones FUTURE. It is what you picture in the spirit of your MIND that determines what awaits you in the future. And the vitality for SOUND MIND can NEVER be over-emphasised at all. 

This is simply for these: 

  • Your mind is certainly a gateway to your life, for every event of your life is determined in the mind. 
  • Every captive is first arrested in the mind. And your Liberty (freedom) is established or lost in the MIND. 
  • Your mind is the controller of your destiny. Until you are able to keep your mind under control, your life is out of control. 
  • As terrible as sin is, Jesus established that sin begins with a seed of thought (Matthew 5:27-30). All the devil does is to sell the thought. When you buy the thought, you become a victim of the act. 
  • Nobody succeeds by chance; success begins with a thought. Nobody prospers just by effort. Every act of prosperity and advancement in life has its source in the hearted mind. 
  • Until you begin to think differently things will not be different. Every GRACIOUS imagination establishes you, but every human philosophy that one falls for, makes a captive of you. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR THOUGHT LIFE. For as you THINK, so you BECOME. 
  • Every EVIL that came upon Job began with his imagination of it (Job 3:25). Every EVIL IMAGINATION is an express access for EVIL. 
  • Right living begins with right thinking. Great living begins with great thinking and great success begins with great success thought. Hence, you don’t reply THOUGHTS with THOUGHTS but with WORDS. 

FINALLY – Foreknowing the above and such likes, one can say that – until your mentality is corrected, your destiny is not secured. Satan has no access to your spirit, knowing it is in relationship and fellowship with the Father God; but he has access to your mind. It is the gateway to your life. Therefore, give no place to the devil or else he will give you a direction. 

You are GOD’S BATTLE AXE AND WEAPON OF WAR, do something – RENEWING the spirit of your mind by the WORD to remain SOUND-MINDED. That is the HOW to BATTLE in your MIND. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the RENEWING of your MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God“ Romans 12:2. 

“And be RENEWED in the spirit of your MIND” Ephesians 4:23. 

“For God hath not given us the spirit of FEAR; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND“ 2 Timothy 1:7. 

“For as he THINKS in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]” Proverbs 23:7. 

“For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the WEAPONS of man. 4 The WEAPONS of our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking EVERY THOUGHT and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (Amplified). 

Further Scriptural Reading: Mark 5:1-20 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

MONTH FEBRUARY – TRIUMPHING BY LOVE: THE LOVE THAT GIVES AND SERVES!

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MONTH FEBRUARY – TRIUMPHING BY LOVE: THE LOVE THAT GIVES AND SERVES! 

“For God so LOVED the world, that he GAVE his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” John 3:16-18. 

Our God is LOVE. He’s LOVE in definition, which indicates, you can’t talk of LOVE outside the person who is LOVE personified and had lavishly showed His love to us by the Holy Spirit that He had given to us by virtue of our redemption in Christ Jesus. Amen. [1 John 4:8,16; Romans 5:5, 8; John 14:16-17; John 3:16]. 

When I heard decades ago, the Gospel of Christ that brought about my salvation in God, in Christ Jesus, in redemption, the first thing that crossed my mind then and now, by the Gospel I heard was this – that God LOVES me. That sticks and have never gone off me for any reason or matters irrespective of the ups and downs in the onward and upward trajectory of the Christian walk of faith in Christ Jesus. 

“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE . . . 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, BUT BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER” Galatians 5:6, 13. 

And more so, to know that God in His terms to ensure and authenticate the love, He GAVE up Christ Jesus for my salvation in redemption, that I might be able to be JUSTIFIED and QUALIFIED, to receive the needed FREEDOM – LIBERTY, from the grips and bandages of SIN and its effects which are: POVERTY, SICKNESS and SPIRITUAL DEATH; the freedom – liberty, from which I was denied because of the subjugates rule of the devil and cohorts, that makes me then, to be without God in this world. [Ephesians 2:1-22]. 

Reflecting now and then that the simple Gospel I heard to get saved by God in Christ Jesus, thus indicates that God LOVES me and GAVE up Jesus Christ for my salvation in redemption; and this knowing and understanding, have left a lasting effects on my life for over 50yrs plus by God’s enabling grace. Then and now and always, I know that genuinely pure love of God means a GIVING love, and not a love that goes demanding for the love in order to do life and live godly in Christ Jesus stead. And it thus means that one can’t live the genuinely pure love life in grace and godliness, beyond the knowledge and understanding you know and have received of God in Christ Jesus on His personified nature of LOVE as He is LOVE. 

“And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles EXERCISE LORDSHIP OVER THEM, and those who EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER THEM are called ‘BENEFACTORS.’ 26 But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is GREATEST among you, let him be as the YOUNGER, and he who GOVERNS as he who SERVES. 27 For who is GREATER, he who sits at the TABLE, or he who SERVES? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am AMONG YOU as the One who SERVES” Luke 22:25-27/NKJV [Matthew 20:25-28; Mark 10:35-45]. 

And when I began to embark on the journey to grow in grace and in the knowledge of God through Christ Jesus (2 Peter 3:18), and for me to personally personify the knowing of Him as my Saviour and Lord – Jesus Christ, and to make Him known by same mutual knowledge and understanding, I then discovered that His entire coming to take the humanity nature [Hebrews 2:14-15; 1 Timothy 3:16; John 1:14], to work out my salvation in my redemption and yours and for all mankind, was simply through this – to SERVE – through the passionate acts of LOVE which He lives and demonstrated for us all to follow after Him. [John 13:1-17, 34-35; Luke 22:25-27 (Matthew 20:25-28; Mark 10:35-45); John 15:9-16]. And to do this act of our redemption, the scripture says; He LOVED us. Meaning, He didn’t serve outside love to REDEEM us, He LOVED us as written: 

“John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the FAITHFUL witness, and THE FIRST BEGOTTEN of the dead, and THE PRINCE OF THE KINGS of the earth. Unto him that LOVED us, and WASHED us from our sins in his own blood, 6 and hath MADE us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” Revelation 1:4-6. 

And for our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ to ensure and authenticate that the GOSPEL being PREACHED remains same as He live in it and through it, He charged that the Believer’s in Him, should continue first and foremostly, to walk in His love with same Gospel love that loves through GIVING and SERVING others in His name – for by such many will turn toward the Father God in His name. [Ephesians 5:1-2; John 13:34-35; John 15:8-16; John 8:30-32]. 

Apostle Paul, with the gracious insights and foresights into the revelation of the Gospel of God in Christ Jesus, do charged the Ephesians Church in the Holy writ of [Acts 20:35], of the need to know that – it’s more of BLESSEDNESS to GIVE (be a GIVER) than to RECEIVE (be a RECEIVER); and Apostle Paul also wrote to the Galatians Church in the Holy writ in the context of – [Galatians 5:1, 6, 13], of the necessity to see that they don’t take their freedom – liberty in God in Christ Jesus for granted, but to ensure it and be assured that their faith in God in Christ Jesus is lubricated through LOVE and not by legalities of the religious dogmas and tradition and denominational indoctrination as per circumcision or no circumcision – and more importantly, to SERVE one another BY LOVE as in the Gospel that they have received of him in Christ Jesus stead. 

In redemption, we’ve obtained a glorious triumph on the cross by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For our Redemption is a done did as expressed in the Holy writs of [2 Corinthians 2:14 and Colossians 2:8-15]; this thus indicates an act of TRIUMPHING BY LOVE as expressed in GIVING His life for our justification, and in SERVING to ensure and assure that we can live TRIUMPHANTLY as we do live in humanity and live godly for the cause of advancing God’s kingdom and in keeping the enemy and cohorts at bay. 

I therefore challenge you and I today to be genuine follower of God in Christ Jesus, and WALK IN LOVE as He did for our example, through the act of GIVING and SERVING, and not of demanding and receiving or as an entitlement, if we must meaningfully fulfil purpose as enjoined in the Holy writ. [Ephesians 5:1-2; Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:11-12]. 

I do pray that you might be awaken in this writ for a gracious and graceful you in Christ Jesus stead. Hence, I sincerely welcome you to Month February, the month of TRIUMPHING BY LOVE that GIVES and SERVES without prejudice, sentiments and dissimulation. [Romans 12:9-21; Proverbs 25:21-22; Matthew 5:38-48; Proverbs 16:7/Hebrews 11:6]. 

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!  

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION], having TRIUMPHED over them through the cross” Colossians 2:15. 

“But THANKS be to God, who always LEADS us in TRIUMPH in Christ, and through us SPREADS and makes evident everywhere the SWEET FRAGRANCE of the KNOWLEDGE of Him” 2 Corinthians 2:14/Amplified. 

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being ROOTED and GROUNDED IN LOVE, 18 may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the BREADTH, and LENGTH, and DEPTH, and HEIGHT; 19 and TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, that ye might be FILLED with all the FULNESS of God” Ephesians 3:17-19. 

“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE . . . 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, BUT BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER” Galatians 5:6, 13. 

“Be on guard; stand firm in your faith [in God, respecting His precepts and keeping your doctrine sound]. Act like [mature] men and be courageous; be strong. 14 LET EVERYTHING YOU DO BE DONE IN LOVE [motivated and inspired by God’s love for us]” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14/Amp. 

“Be ye therefore FOLLOWERS of God, as dear children; 2 and WALK IN LOVE, as Christ also hath LOVED us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” Ephesians 5:1-2. 

“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE” Acts 20:35. 

“And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles EXERCISE LORDSHIP OVER THEM; and they that EXERCISE AUTHORITY upon them are called BENEFACTORS. 26 But ye shall NOT BE SO: but he that is GREATEST among you, let him be as the YOUNGER; and he that is CHIEF, as he that doth SERVE. 27. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that SERVETH? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that SERVETH” Luke 22:25-27 [Matthew 20:25-28; Mark 10:35-45]. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

GOD’S BATTLE AXE: DEALING WITH THE BATTLE OF THE MIND! 

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GOD’S BATTLE AXE: DEALING WITH THE BATTLE OF THE MIND! 

“And be RENEWED in the spirit of your MIND” Ephesians 4:23. 

Knowingly or unknowingly, there’s a battle and warfare that is ongoing in our minds and in thoughts twenty-four-seven. Unfortunately, the Church has sat so much on SPIRITUAL WARFARE for so long that we have lost a major BATTLE which I called – MENTAL WARFARE – The BATTLE [WARFARE] of the mind. And it is the RENEWING of the spirit of the mind [the soul section of intellect (think), reasoning, perception and will feel] by THE WORD that effect the spirit to make whole to experience the good, acceptable and perfect will of God in the grace. 

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may prove what is that GOOD, and ACCEPTABLE, and PERFECT, will of God“. Romans 12:1-2. 

For it’s what one PICTURE [IMAGINE] that determines ones FUTURE [DEFINITION], hence, Jeremiah could be ask by God – WHAT DO YOU SEE? meaning, “WHAT DO YOU PICTURE? Or rather put IMAGINE? And that was what eventually defined him in life and ministry [purpose] – Jeremiah 1:11-12. Remember Abraham in a similar encounter in Genesis 13:14-18. It is what you PICTURE [IMAGINE] in the spirit of your MIND that determines and defines what awaits you in the future. And the vitality for SOUND MIND can NEVER be over-emphasised at all phases of doing life and living godly in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. 

“For as he THINKS in his heart, so is he [in BEHAVIOR—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]” Proverbs 23:7. 

And there are reasons for the MIND BATTLEFIELD when you look at the Scriptural context of Mark 5:1-20. And you can deduce this for the following reasons, though not limited: 

  • Your mind is certainly a gateway to your life, for every event of your life is determined and defined in the mind. 
  • Every captive is first arrested in the mind. And your Liberty (freedom) is established or lost in the MIND. 
  • Your mind is the controller of your destiny. Until you are able to keep your mind under control, your life is out of control. 
  • As terrible as sin is, Jesus established that sin begins with a seed of thought (Matthew 5:27-30). All the devil does is to sell the thought. When you buy the thought, you become a victim of the act. 
  • Nobody succeeds by chance; success begins with a thought. Nobody prospers just by effort. Every act of prosperity and advancement in life has its source in the hearted mind. 
  • Until you begin to think differently things will not be different. Every GRACIOUS imagination establishes you, but every human philosophy that one falls for makes a captive of you. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR THOUGHT LIFE. For as you THINK, so you BECOME. 
  • Every EVIL that came upon Job began with his imagination of it – Job 3:25. Every EVIL IMAGINATION is an express ACCESS for EVIL. 
  • Right living begins with right thinking. Great living begins with great thinking and great success begins with great success thought. Hence you don’t reply to THOUGHTS with THOUGHTS but with WORDS. 

FINALLY – Foreknowing the above and such like, one can say that – until your sense of reasoning and mentality is corrected, your destiny is not secured. For Satan has no access to your spirit, knowing it is in relationship and fellowship with the Father God; but he has access to your mind. It is the gateway to your life. Therefore, give no place to the devil or else he will give you a direction. 

“For though we WALK IN THE FLESH, we do NOT WAR AFTER THE FLESH: 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 casting down IMAGINATIONS, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. 

You are GOD’S BATTLE AXE AND WEAPON OF WAR, do something by RENEWING the spirit of your mind by the WORD to remain SOUND-MINDED. That is the HOW to BATTLE in your MIND. 

SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may prove what is that GOOD, and ACCEPTABLE, and PERFECT, will of God“ Romans 12:2. 

“For God hath not given us the spirit of FEAR; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND“ 2 Timothy 1:7. 

“For though we WALK in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the WEAPONS of man. 4 The WEAPONS of our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our WEAPONS are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking EVERY THOUGHT and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (Amplified). 

#Mind, #SpiritMind, #Battle, #Warfare, #BattleAxe, #WinningWays, #Liberty, #Freedom, #RenewingTheMind, #Renew, #Word, #Captive, #Thought, #Thinking 

Further Scriptural Reading In Context: Mark 5:1-20 

FOR MORE ON MONTH FEBRUARY 2026 THEME – FOLLOW LINK: 

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REV. CHUKIE MORSI

MONTH FEBRUARY: THE FAITH THAT WORKS: EXPRESSES THROUGH LOVE! 

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MONTH FEBRUARY: THE FAITH THAT WORKS: EXPRESSES THROUGH LOVE! 

There’s no geographical location or situation that can stop your position and altitude in life when your Faith Works By Love. 

I know Faith as the mystery, the vital & legal currency, and the medium of exchange to access the heavens and to give the heavenly permission in one’s earthly affairs. Yet you can only genuinely blossom and colour your worlds anywhere and any day with God when your ‘Faith Works By Love’. 

Be it in relationship, family, ministry, charitable causes, career, business, marital and governance, the Faith That Works By Love is inevitable and inescapable. For love is the ultimate, a most and more excellent way to express spiritual grace and endowment. Hence expressing ‘The Faith That Works By Love’, you can thrive and blossom in any weather of life: Winter, Autumn, Spring or Summer. 

This I saw in God through Christ, that’s why I am assured and now recommend it to you and for you. I have come to know and understand today more than ever before of the graciousness and gracefulness and speed in motion when one exercises and expresses life through ‘The Faith That Works By Love’. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but FAITH which WORKETH by LOVE” (Galatians 5:6). 

“While the EARTH remaineth, SEEDTIME and HARVEST, and COLD and HEAT, and SUMMER and Winter, and DAY and NIGHT shall not CEASE” Genesis 8:22. 

“This is my commandment, That ye LOVE one another, as I have LOVED you. 13 Greater LOVE hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” John 15:13-15. 

“A NEW commandment I give unto you, That ye LOVE one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also LOVE one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have LOVE one to another” John 13:34-35. 

“Let LOVE be without HYPOCRISY. ABHOR what is EVIL. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly LOVE, in honour giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head.” 21. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” Romans 12:9-21. NKJV. 

“If thine ENEMY be hungry, GIVE him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, GIVE him water to drink: 22 for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee” Proverbs 25:21-22. 

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt LOVE thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, LOVE your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” Matthew 5:43-48. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

BEING CHRISTLIKE [BEING CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR] IN LOVE

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BEING CHRISTLIKE [BEING CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR] IN LOVE: LOVING THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN THE EYES OF CHRIST JESUS! 

“And [that you may come] to KNOW [practically, through personal experience] the LOVE of Christ which far SURPASSES and TRANSCENDS [mere] SENSE knowledge [without experience], that you may be FILLED up [throughout your being] to all the FULLNESS of God [so that you may have the RICHEST experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely FILLED and FLOODED with God Himself]” Ephesians 3:19/AMP. 

Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE in our lives, should be every believer’s earnest desired intent and expectations to live along in the grace; this is very important for our whole being. And the question that comes to mind in Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE would be – how have you being applying the love of Christ in your day to day living thus far? How would you start to do the love of God in Christ Jesus now? And how can you go about doing God’s love, in order to sustain it, in an onward and upward trajectory without a stop? Is the love of God through the eyes of your DENOMINATIONAL and DOCTRINAL Church sectarianism and religious by-laws and creeds? or your kind of love in action, is it as being done in the World’s sense of definition? Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, means doing life through the EYES and FACE of Christ Jesus, in the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of God as in the Holy Scripture. 

“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has SHONE in our hearts to give us the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the FACE of Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6 Amplified. 

Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE is the life of LOVING through KNOWLEDGE of God, in the EYES and FACE of JESUS by the Holy Spirit that’s GIVEN to us; this is the essence of FULFILLING scriptures and to being FULFILLED in God, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is SHED abroad in our HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were YET sinners, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5-8. 

If you live assured by being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, you can then actualise your essence of being a carrier of God’s love in order to do life both near and far and beyond the eyes of limitations that the DENOMINATIONAL and DOCTRINAL Church can create. 

“And [that you may come] to KNOW [practically, through personal experience] the LOVE of Christ which far SURPASSES and TRANSCENDS [mere] SENSE knowledge [without experience], that you may be FILLED up [throughout your being] to all the FULLNESS of God [so that you may have the RICHEST experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely FILLED and FLOODED with God Himself]” Ephesians 3:19/AMP. 

For when you take the step to being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, you then allow God’s eternal love to captivate you through the KNOWLEDGE that’s on the eyes and face of Christ Jesus. The essence is to enable one to do life and live godly. Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, helps one to go about LIBERATING many from all forms of bondage and captivity; and it thus gives one the assurance to eventually experience the WHOLENESS of God in one’s triune-being: spirit, soul and body; Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE causes God’s love in Christ Jesus to take hold of you in every way, in order to do life and live blessedly, thereby fulfilling the Scripture meaningfully and purposefully as written: 

“Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing—without guile and hypocrisy]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor; 11 never lagging behind in diligence; aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord; 12 constantly rejoicing in hope [because of our confidence in Christ], steadfast and patient in distress, devoted to prayer [continually seeking wisdom, guidance, and strength], 13 contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing [the practice of] hospitality . . .” Romans 12:9-21 Amplified. 

Genuine freedom is seeing God’s love from the eyes of Christ Jesus if you dare desire to genuinely live free in GRACE and in God’s KNOWLEDGE – wholesomely, purposefully and meaningfully. And living through being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE makes one unique in every way. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING ON CONTEXT: 

“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” 2 Corinthians 5:20. 

“A WICKED MESSENGER falleth into mischief: but a FAITHFUL AMBASSADOR is HEALTH” Proverbs 13:17. 

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” Ephesians 3:17-19. 

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have LOVE one to another” John 13: 34-35. 

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have LOVED you. 13 Greater LOVE hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” John 15: 12-14. 

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us . . . 8 But God commendeth his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8. 

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of LOVE, and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7. 

“Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the LOVE of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me” Romans 15:30. 

“But the fruit of the Spirit is LOVE, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith” Galatians 5:22. 

“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any COMFORT OF LOVE, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies” Philippians 2:1. 

“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” 1 Peter 1:22-23. 

“For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in LOVE, and in the spirit of meekness?” 1 Corinthians 4:20-21. 

“Who shall separate us from the LOVE of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the LOVE of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 8:35-40. 

“Though I speak with the TONGUES OF MEN and OF ANGELS, but have NOT LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1/NKJV. 

“Beloved, let us LOVE one another, for LOVE is of God; and everyone who LOVES is born of God and knows God. 8 He who DOES NOT LOVE does not know God, for GOD IS LOVE. 9 In this the LOVE of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON into the world, that we might LIVE THROUGH HIM. 10 In this is LOVE, not that we LOVED God, but that He LOVED us and sent His Son to be the PROPITIATION for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so LOVED us, we also ought to LOVE one another” 1 John 4:7-11. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

MONTH FEBRUARY: DOING LIFE DIFFERENTLY – AS CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR! 

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MONTH FEBRUARY: DOING LIFE DIFFERENTLY – AS CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR! 

Do something different this month. Break through that fear of boredom and set patterns and methods. Ensure your life on principles, for our God is not of methods, but of PRINCIPLES. Therefore, do something differently from the set usual that hasn’t made anything refreshing, rejuvenating and blossoming in you, by doing it in this wise, but not limited: 

  • Close the kitchen and take time out to have a special meal with family and possibly friends outside home or the usual. Take your spouse out for a different kind of date than the usual. Drive through a different route to and from Church, work or places of interest. Make new and different kinds of friends and interests along. Mark 6:39-32; 1 John 3:16-17; James 2:14-18.  
  • Break through the usual pattern of settings in order to refresh and rejuvenate your laugh. As a Pastor close the church for a week and take members for a picnic or places of interest and have leisure as Jesus did, you won’t lose them. Go for a sporting, boat ride or ship cruise were possible. Go worship in a different Church outside your denomination or setting or go to another branch of your denomination setting and live free to learn of others beyond your usual. In heaven we crave after, there’s no DENOMINATION but BRETHREN, therefore learn now to fellowship with others beyond your settings. 1 Corinthians 1:9; Mark 6:30-32; Galatians 3:6-9, 26-29; James 1:26-27; Acts 15:35-36. 
  • Feed your enemy, give them a drink, for when a man’s way please the Lord, He makes his enemy to be at peace with him. Do you believe it, and can you do it? Proverbs 25:21-22; Romans 12:19-21; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:38-48; 1 John 3:14-15. 
  • Take someone new to the grocery store for shopping and pay the bills. Where possible give someone a home or shelter, mobility and suchlike. Galatians 6:9-10. 
  • Live your life outside the box this month. Make peace, relate with those that hurt you, even when they are wrong, give God something to work with. Matthew 5:38-48; Romans 12:18-19. 
  • Resolve not to murmur, complain, nag and blame but take responsibility for once at least this month. It’s time to speak well and whole to all about you again and again. 1 Corinthians 10:10; Proverbs 6:2; Proverbs 18:20-21; Luke 4:22: Hebrews 10:23. 
  • Dare to be different this month! Set aside an hour, a day, or even a couple of days to lend a helping hand to someone in need. Share your skills, trade, or expertise with those who are less fortunate or limited by various factors – and do it without expecting payment or reward. 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12; Galatians 5:13; Ephesians 6:5-9; Luke 2:46, 52. 
  • You are of the New Testament, live your life beyond borders, hence visit your Unchurch friends and share love, hope and faith with them. For once, be of earthly good in your heavenly mindedness. Colossians 4:5-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13; Galatians 5:6; Galatians 3:6-9, 26-29. 

BREAK THROUGH YOUR FEARS – ESPECIALLY YOURSELF THIS MONTH: BE A DIFFERENT AMBASSADOR FROM THE USUAL. 

Do all things in grace, surely you will be blessed. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Finally, brethren, WHATSOEVER things are true, WHATSOEVER things are honest, WHATSOEVER things are just, whatsoever things are pure, WHATSOEVER things are lovely, WHATSOEVER things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK on these things” Philippine 4:8. 

“And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him ALL THINGS, both what they HAD DONE, and what they HAD TAUGHT. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves APART into a DESERT PLACE, and REST A WHILE: for there were MANY COMING AND GOING, AND THEY HAD NO LEISURE SO MUCH AS TO EAT. 32 And they DEPARTED into a DESERT PLACE by ship PRIVATELY” Mark 6:30-32. 

“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” 2 Corinthians 5:20. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

MONTH FEBRUARY: MONTH OF ENSURING THAT YOU PROSPER BY – “PROSPERING THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS 

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MONTH FEBRUARY: MONTH OF ENSURING THAT YOU PROSPER BY – “PROSPERING THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS” 

“Beloved, I pray that in every way you may SUCCEED and PROSPER and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul PROSPERS [spiritually]” 3 John 1:2 Amplified. 

A JOB is what you are employed and tutored to do and you can be suspended, sacked, retrenched, dismissed and retired even against your will; but A WORK is what you ARE made of, an IN-BUILT in you to do and no man can suspend, sack, dismiss, retrench, retire you except you and you alone and not someone else. It is the DISCOVERY of the WORK and the IN-BUILT work IN you, that makes the difference to make you do things and life differently; and that enables you to be creative, innovative and initiative, in exploring better ways of prospering the work to prosper the you in life and grace without stress and anxiety, murmuring and complaining. When you know and understand your WORTH, purpose, and what drives you, you will realise that you’re designed to THRIVE, not just SURVIVE. This knowledge ignites an upward trajectory within you, fuelling your growth and propelling you forward. It’s not just about existing; It’s about living a life of purpose and fulfillment, where you’re empowered to reach your full potential. THINK ABOUT IT! 

“WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS TO DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT; for there is NO ACTIVITY or PLANNING or KNOWLEDGE or WISDOM in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going” Ecclesiastes 9:10/Amplified. 

When you understand your work and its value, the wisdom to prosper in it comes naturally.  Faithfulness, diligence, prudence, responsibility, and accountability become second nature, rooted in principles that guide you. Knowing your worth and your work transforms your perspective, freeing you from the blame game and finger-pointing that plagues so many. In a world where it’s easy to create narratives and rise up by tearing others down, understanding your work empowers you to stay focused and undeterred, even in the face of challenges and setbacks. You’re able to rise above the noise, unshaken by the opinions of others, and driven by your purpose. 

GIVING UP IS NOT AN OPTION, NEITHER IS DANCING TO THE COMMONLY ACCEPTABLE WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR WORK AND WORTH. 

If you want to prosper, do diligence in self-discovery of your work and ensure you do all it takes to prosper the work, that you may prosper along. Your prosperity is in your hand and not in another. The scripture says in Joshua 1:8, it is you that will make your way PROSPEROUS with GOOD SUCCESS, indicating that they are BAD SUCCESS as it’s written: 

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from YOUR mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that YOU may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then YOU WILL MAKE YOUR WAY PROSPEROUS, and then YOU WILL have GOOD SUCCESS” Joshua 1:8 NKJV. 

When you consider your work as a business under God as Jesus Christ consider His work, a business under God, you will prosper and increase with wisdom, physique and in favour with God and man. 

“And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s BUSINESS? . . . 52 And Jesus INCREASED in WISDOM and STATURE, and in FAVOUR with God and man” Luke 2:49, 52. 

“I must WORK THE WORKS of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can WORK” John 9:4. 

“Seest thou a man DILIGENT in his BUSINESS? he shall STAND before KINGS (HONOUR, DIGNITY, INTEGRITY); he shall not STAND before MEAN (UNPRODUCTIVE, OBSCURED) men” Proverbs 22:29. 

And to do business with your work, you have to as a matter of principle be DILIGENT. And DILIGENCE is not just about hardworking, but about being smart, steadily steady and consistent in FAITH, with a set PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT in focus, THRIVING to obtain an effectual and productive result. The otherwise is to be slacked of the work to attract failings and failures instead of prosperity and good success as written: 

“He BECOMETH POOR THAT DEALETH WITH A SLACK HAND: but the HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKETH RICH. 5 He that GATHERETH IN SUMMER is a WISE son: but he that SLEEPETH IN HARVEST is a son that CAUSETH SHAME” Proverbs 10:4-5. 

When you DILIGENTLY TILL YOUR LAND – WORKING through innovation, exploration, creation, and initiative – there will be PLENTY of bread to set you up for life and make you a vessel of blessings to others. To TILL is to CULTIVATE – which means, to PLOUGH, SOW or PLANT and RAISE or PRODUCE. And to ensure that you till the work – you cultivate by plowing on the work and planting a SEED or CROP or investing your TIME, FINANCE, EFFORT (mental and or physical exertion) and other necessary material to NURTURE that endeavour until there’s a product – effect or result. 

“He that TILLETH HIS LAND shall be satisfied with bread: but he that FOLLOWETH VAIN persons is void of understanding” Proverbs 12:11. 

When you are consistently consistent in a steady spirit and faith in that which you set your hearts to do, you will never be disappointed. That’s the spirit of DILIGENCE. It’s REWARDING and EMPOWERING. 

“But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE him: for he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that he is, and that he is a REWARDER of them that DILIGENTLY seek him” Hebrews 11:6. 

It’s too early to PLAY the LAZY, SLOTHFUL and SLUGGARD card as a fool. It’s time to INITIATE, CREATE, INNOVATE and EXPLORE all the necessary possibilities in the work set plan, purpose, and pursuit. And DILIGENCE makes it all POSSIBLE. 

SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that FAVOUR my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be MAGNIFIED, which hath PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY of his servant” Psalms 35:27 (Galatians 5:13). 

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from YOUR mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that YOU may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then YOU WILL MAKE YOUR WAY PROSPEROUS, and then YOU WILL have GOOD SUCCESS” Joshua 1:8 NKJV. (Psalms 19:14; Romans 10:8-10; Luke 4:22). 

“Beloved, I pray that in every way you may SUCCEED and PROSPER and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul PROSPERS [spiritually]” 3 John 1:2 Amplified. 

“I must WORK THE WORKS of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can WORK” John 9:4. 

“He that is FAITHFUL in that which is LEAST is FAITHFUL also in MUCH: and he that is UNJUST in the LEAST is UNJUST also in MUCH. 11 If therefore ye have NOT BEEN FAITHFUL in the unrighteous mammon, who will COMMIT to your TRUST THE TRUE RICHES? 12 And if ye have NOT BEEN FAITHFUL in that which is ANOTHER MAN’S, who shall GIVE you that WHICH IS YOUR OWN?” Luke 16:10-12. 

“Seest thou a man DILIGENT in his business? he shall STAND before KINGS (HONOUR, DIGNITY, INTEGRITY); he shall not STAND before MEAN (UNPRODUCTIVE, OBSCURED) men” Proverbs 22:29. 

“He that TILLETH HIS LAND shall be satisfied with bread: but he that FOLLOWETH VAIN persons is void of understanding” Proverbs 12:11. 

“He that TILLETH HIS LAND shall have PLENTY of bread: but he that FOLLOWETH AFTER VAIN persons shall have POVERTY ENOUGH. 20 A FAITHFUL man shall ABOUND with blessings: but he that MAKETH HASTE to be rich shall NOT be INNOCENT. 21 To have RESPECT of PERSONS is not good: for a PIECE of bread that man will TRANSGRESS. 22 He that HASTETH to be rich hath an EVIL eye, and CONSIDERETH not that POVERTY shall come UPON him” Proverbs 28:19-22. 

“He BECOMETH POOR THAT DEALETH WITH A SLACK HAND: but the HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKETH RICH. 5 He that GATHERETH IN SUMMER is a WISE son: but he that SLEEPETH IN HARVEST is a son that CAUSETH SHAME” Proverbs 10:4-5. 

“But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE him: for he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that he is, and that he is a REWARDER of them that DILIGENTLY seek him” Hebrews 11:6. 

“While the EARTH remaineth, SEEDTIME and HARVEST, and COLD and HEAT, and SUMMER and WINTER, and DAY and NIGHT shall not cease” Genesis 8:22. 

“The SLUGGARD will not PLOW by reason of the COLD; therefore shall he BEG in harvest, and have NOTHING” Proverbs 20:4. 

“I went by the FIELD of the SLOTHFUL, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 and, lo, it was ALL GROWN OVER WITH THORNS, and NETTLES had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a LITTLE SLUMBER, a LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP: 34 so shall thy POVERTY come as one that travelleth; and thy WANT as an armed man” Proverbs 24:30-34. 

“GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 provideth her meat in the summer, and GATHERETH her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little SLEEP, a little SLUMBER, a little FOLDING of the hands to sleep: 11 so shall thy POVERTY come as one that TRAVELLETH, and thy WANT as an armed man” Proverbs 6:6-11. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI