Thursday, July 6, 2017

Shalom,

Today I want to share from Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations" devotional. 

FREELY RECEIVE WHAT GOD FREELY GIVES

Romans 4:13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

God promised that you would be the heir of the world. It is the same promise that He made to Abraham. And because you are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s seed and an heir “according to the promise”. (Galatians 3:29)

When God made this promise to you, He made it so easy for you to receive—“through the righteousness of faith”. All you have to do is believe that as the heir of the world every blessing is righteously yours because Jesus died to give them to you. He also rose from the dead to enforce them in your life.

So don’t try to earn your blessings “through the law”—through your efforts or performance. Freely receive what God freely gives to you through Christ and His finished work at the cross.
When a church member was retrenched at 41 years of age, he refused to fret or think that he had to jostle with the rest of the people in the job market. Instead, he believed that by God’s grace, he would get a better job with a higher pay. Indeed, through a mutual acquaintance, a new job came along with a pay packet that was 60 per cent more than his previous one!

Another man was experiencing a strained relationship with his wife to the point that divorce was imminent. When he started attending our church, he realized that a happy marriage could be his, not by his trying to keep the marriage going or earning the love of his wife, but by believing that although he could see his own weaknesses, he was still the righteousness of God in Christ because of the blood of Jesus. Today, he and his wife are reconciled, and enjoying a blessed marriage.

Don’t let the devil disqualify you by bringing you the law and saying, “How can you receive this blessing when just last night, you broke God’s law?” or “Are you sure you deserve this?” Instead, say, “Father, I thank You that I receive everything freely by Your grace, Your unmerited favor in my life, because of the blood of Jesus!”

Thought For The Day: Freely receive what God freely gives to you through Christ and His finished work at the cross.

I LOVE this!  So many times people of faith, born again believers who know that we are to live by faith and not by sight, will begin in faith, but then they gradually begin to try to "move" God by their actions, instead of REALLY knowing who they are - IN HIM - and trusting His Word as their final authority! That is why we must LIVE in the Word and allow the Word to LIVE in us! John 15:7 tells us this:

If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

 1 John 5:14-15 tells us this:
14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. 15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.

His Word IS His will! His Word tell us that we are heirs of God and joint (EQUAL) heirs with JESUS Himself (Romans 8:16-17)! Every promise in the Word belongs to the born again child of the Living God, but ONLY those who will dare to believe and expect will ever receive! So, work on your believing by living in the Word! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Your Word":


Shalom in Him!