that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Everything in this present world will fight our true identities as the called out ones of God. But we must have the resolve that we are not going to allow our identity get compromised. Through the demonstration of our very character, we must become true ambassadors of the coming Kingdom. We have the promise that when we endure these unsettling days, we will obtain salvation. When we obtain this salvation, we will become evidences of God’s power and trophies of our LORD’s conquest when He walked the earth.
The promise was never to assure of a smooth journey in these realms of earth – does not also mean it can’t be – but the end is very sure. We will be glorified if we abide. And the Holy Spirit will strengthen if we allow ourselves benefit from His ministrations.May Grace be multiplied toward us so that we will not loose heart, but rather we will receive of the ministrations of the Holy Ghost and truly become encouraged on this journey, in Jesus’ Name!
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, …
We have been raised and made to sit together with God in Heaven. This is our positional advantage while we walk on earth. From the position of the exalted King is where we have been called live, if we live move and have our beings in Him.
We must do everything in this understanding, that nothing on earth can harm us because the very essence of our being has been sealed and kept in Heaven, untouchable by nothing not allowed by God. Our identities are Christ, not just hid in Christ. And we are hidden in God. Therefore, our living must be with the consciousness of Heaven toward everything else we will do! This is not fanaticism nor fantasy living; it is the reality that our faith beckons on us.
In the Name of Jesus’ may The LORD of Glory multiply Grace toward us in this regard so we can truly represent Him and show forth His victory through our lives!
… even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),…
It is by the mercies of God that we are not consumed. The LORD is living and extremely compassionate towards all His creations, but there is absolutely no doubt about the height, breadth, length and depth of His affection towards humanity. It is unsearchable. This is such a blessed knowledge to possess.
If He did not withhold a precious One as His son from dying a shameful death for us who have become shameful spectacles in the whole of creation, then how could we ever be deceived to believe He will withhold anything from us? There is nothing He withholds from humans. All that seem withheld are withheld from a place of compassion. God’s ‘hidden’ things are for us; in that when we find them, we will also acknowledge His glory at a level where He longs to have us.
Salvation is the foundation for any man to truly come to God. It is entirely free and void of any legal payments or deposits to possess. Get your heart ready and begin to access the true salvation of God unto humanity. Salvation is only through Jesus Christ; He is the way to God Almighty.
In the Name of Jesus, may The LORD continue to strengthen you on the journey of faith, and bring you into your season of depths in His salvation grace.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,…
We must understand to whom we have been called, a God that is rich in mercies in that He sent His only begotten son as an atonement for those who did not deserve it. He does not withhold anything good from us because He ever thinks we do not deserve it. Instead, by His mercies, He vetoes His love into our lives. That’s how much willing and far this God can go for us. There will never be an exaggeration in how much we talk about the love of God toward us. Just imagine, a mighty and all sufficient King and Creator decides just as much to rescue a creature that has decided to go rogue.
The mercies of God are sure to those who will truly turn to Him in heart and indeed. Because His mercies are ever sure, we can boast in the fact that, The LORD God, Creator of the universe loves us. We could never exhaust His loving kindness, but should that be our aim? Should our aim not be to try and reciprocate this lavishly display of vulnerability? Truly, The LORD is not vulnerable, and it is in our interest when we make it our life’s mission to attempt to love Him as He loves us.
May Grace be multiplied toward us all in our affection for The LORD.
Ephesians 2v3 … among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
The greatest enemy of the Believer is not satan, neither are they demons; it is the power of the flesh. The flesh is an instrument of our own destruction if we do not daily have a good grasp on its influence; it daily seeks to become the motivation of our actions, therefore we must daily die to it. Those who are led by the flesh are enemies of God, but the spiritually minded have come a step closer to God – and to be spiritually minded is to walk in the very precepts of The LORD in His Word.
We must know that lusts of the flesh are not limited to sexually immoral tendencies, nor is it summed up in the love of money; it includes all things that move us to action through the power of the physical senses – sight, touch, feel, sight and hearing. We must also be wary of our desires, constantly allowing the Holy Ghost in us to vet them and judge their true origins.
Let’s keep ourselves saved by constantly allowing the work of sanctification to be done in us thoroughly by the Spirit as Apostle Paul declares in Romans 12v1-2
May the power of the Highest come upon each and everyone of us that we will be able to behold Him more and more in His Glory because it is by this indeed we will be changed.
Ephesians 2:2 … in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,…
As Believers, we shouldn\’t be ignorant of where we had been before the Grace of salvation rescued us. We were disobedient, controlled by the lust of our flesh and pawns in the hands of the evils that controlled the air in this world. These are powers that have ruled the earth since the ceding of the authority of man. They are still in operation; dictating the acts of people who don\’t know The LORD and fighting the saints of Christ. But again, as Believers, we need to remain confident of the fact that we are victorious amidst all. No power of the enemy can be able to harm us nor harm our destinies if we remain steadfast in our convictions.
We must strive to remain unshaken in tempest storms, be resolute in our commitments to loving The LORD and stand stable in our profession. We must know that The LORD will save us in the end. I pray peace upon your soul. Even in the tempests of life, May the peace of God that surpasses every human understanding continue to garrison your heart and mind steadfastly, in Jesus\’ Name!
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,…
Indeed we were dead in sins and not worth it when The LORD of Glory came down in the form of a man to save us. The God of all creations risked His very existence when He came down. In the state of mortality, He could have easily lost His own estate in all creation, but He chose to risk it. This act is proof of the very depths of affections The LORD has for every humanity.
In response, those who have believed have been given the life of God as John 1v12 declares, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:” Being called into the life is a call to death to everything mortal. We must be willing to live the life of risk, risking an already perishing estate of mortality to live the life of God – the life to which we have been called. We could never indeed and truly do this entirely by own decisions and power, so again He gifts us the Holy Spirit to keep us strong on this path and on this decision. This shows our frailty and reliance. Indeed, we must come to that point in Galatians 2v20, then boldly, we will stand with the Apostle in declaring, “though we live, yet not us!”
May this power of the Great God manifested through the Holy Spirit’s energizing in our inner man continually wax stronger upon each and everyone of us, in Jesus Name!
…which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
The Church is the Body of Christ. And The LORD fills every member of the Body through the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Just as in the natural, the effectivity of any human is based on the effectivity of every single part, the working of the Spirit through every single member of the Body is what keeps the Body active and strong. Hence, as members of one body, we must be willing and actively partner with the Holy Spirit to discern our true parts in the larger Body. And when we do, we must put in the effort from every quarters to be as effective as we could be, thus striving for a fulfillment of the higher call to which we have been called. While we do so, we can truly begin to behold The LORD’s body on earth as it is Heaven. This is as true for individuals as it is for organized groups within our common faith – local Churches and Christian organizations.
By the power of the Holy Ghost, may The LORD strengthen us on this journey and may He cause us to become more effective on this holy path, in Jesus’ Name!
And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,…
The Church is the called out of God. We are called out to be instruments of the purposes of God. The Church is headed by The LORD Jesus Christ Himself and any earthly figure that seeks to position itself as head of the Church universal is an abomination.
The LORD Jesus is head of all creations. His position and dominion is ordained by the Father Almighty. He became a High Priest for all of creation upon His resurrection. He is head over the Church of the called out ones. Whenever a soul comes to God through Christ Jesus then, he is added to the Church and The LORD Jesus becomes his head. And as members of the Church, we must always seek to be found in Him, then we can indeed be called His own.
May the power of the Holy Ghost continually strengthen us, providing us with encouragements on this path, in Jesus’ Name!
…far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
We have been seated in Christ who is seated in heaven far above every power. Not just literally, this is also symbolically, our position in life, after we have come to an experiential knowledge of Jesus is a position that is beyond any other thing or person.
The power that now works within us is the true power of dominion over all creations. The very power responsible for anything and everything created is not only deposited in us, but we have become ambassadors of that very power. Hallelujah. Do we indeed believe this very truth? Our lives must be lived as an expression of this very truth if we believe indeed. There must be a performance of those things which we believe if indeed we believed.
May the God of Heaven and the Master of our salvation sustain of testimony of belief in this truth by the manifestation of results equal to our faith, in Jesus’ Name!
