{"id":9115,"date":"2021-11-05T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:07:00","slug":"excellence-is-pure-envision-it-to-excel%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/excellence-is-pure-envision-it-to-excel%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCELLENCE IS PURE: ENVISION IT TO EXCEL!\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EXCELLENCE IS PURE: ENVISION IT TO EXCEL!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“HOLDING the MYSTERY OF THE FAITH in a PURE CONSCIENCE” <\/em>1 Timothy 3:9.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“And herein do I EXERCISE myself, to have always a CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARD God, AND TOWARD men”<\/em> Acts 24:16<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes when I hear some so called Gospel Ministers and Christian faith believers say this –<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THEY DO AS LONG AS GOD STILL LOVES THEM<\/em>\u201d – I begin to wonder what this life of grace has become in the 21st century. Is it true that God still loves us in faith no matter what we do? Who then will QUESTION the UNSAVED and what right do we have then to preach the Gospel to the unsaved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Know full well that God loves us, and that does not mean He does commend a life being lived outside His WORD. As I have always said time and again that our God will only COMMEND what He COMMAND and ORDERED. All things excellent will work for the good of those who not only love God BUT walk and do according to the course of His Word – Purpose. Romans 8:28-30<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many times, God’s purposes of excellence to us, is so clear before us, but we need to walk and work in the course of that envisioned covenant of His grace; and if one begin to do any act of life outside His Word, we will surely loose out in our place of grace to excel. Apostle Paul says this in Galatians 2:21<\/strong> “I do not FRUSTRATE the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain”<\/em>. Meaning I do not do things that will make the GRACE of\u00a0 God INOPERATIVE and INEFFECTIVE in my life. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n

A living example of frustrating grace is as this: What happened to Reuben the firstborn of Jacob?<\/span><\/p>\n

Though born for envisioned excellence, he lost his place of blessedness to excel to his younger brother Joseph, for sleeping with one of His father’s wives. You can’t eat your cake and have it. Grace for excellence is not cheap or not to be taken for granted and done with despite as Hebrews 10:29<\/strong> warns and enjoins: “of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done DESPITE unto the Spirit of grace?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When you look through the heroes of Faith in the Patriarchal order of HEBREWS CHAPTER ELEVEN, you will notice after Patriarch Jacob, the next name that comes is Patriarch Joseph instead of Patriarch Reuben, though he was his father’s excellency of dignity and firstborn worthy of double honour as the Scripture does recommend – Genesis 49:3<\/strong>; Deuteronomy 21:15-17<\/strong>; Genesis 25:31-33<\/strong>. That’s why you must be on guard on your ENVISIONED EXCELLENCE to avoid derailing in the grace of actualising your place in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS, in Christ Jesus stead, of our REDEMPTION in Him. Acts 20:32<\/strong>; Hebrews 6:10-12<\/strong>; Ephesians 1:7<\/strong> (Colossians 1:13-14<\/strong>; 1 Corinthians 1:30<\/strong>).<\/span><\/p>\n

EXCELLENCE IS PURE! So, if you crave to have God’s good and best, watch your PATH OF LIFE to the ENVISIONED EXCELLENCE. 1 Timothy 3:9<\/strong>; Philippians 4:8<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Moreover THE WORD of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, WHAT SEEST (ENVISION) THOU? And I said, I SEE (ENVISION) a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well SEEN (ENVISION): for I will hasten MY WORD to PERFORM it”<\/em> Jeremiah 1:11-12<\/strong> (Emphasis Mine).<\/span><\/p>\n

“And Jacob CALLED unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art MY FIRSTBORN, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 unstable as water, thou shalt not EXCEL; because thou wentest up to thy father\u2019s bed; then DEFILEDST thou it: he went up to my couch”<\/em> (Genesis 49:1-4<\/strong>).<\/span><\/p>\n

“. . . By FAITH Isaac BLESSED Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.\u00a0 21 By FAITH Jacob, when he was a dying, BLESSED both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.\u00a0 22 By FAITH Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. . .”<\/em> (Hebrews 11:20-22).<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“HOLDING the MYSTERY OF THE FAITH in a PURE CONSCIENCE” 1 Timothy 3:9.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“And herein do I EXERCISE myself, to have always a CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARD God, AND TOWARD men”<\/em> Acts 24:16<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“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”<\/em> Philippians 4:8<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

REV CHUKIE MORSI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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