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Keep Expressing Righteousness - Wednesday, September 23rd .

Pastor Chris

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30).

Righteousness is the nature of God in you, producing in you the rightness of God: the ability to do right and fulfil the will of the Father. God is always right; it's His nature to be right. This nature of righteousness is at work in us. So in our Kingdom, we do righteousness; we walk in righteousness and do works of righteousness; we manifest the goodness of God to the world.

It was for the same reason that the Pharisees and Sadducees had a problem with the good works that Jesus did; they misunderstood Him. If in your place of work, for example, you did something you thought was good and required commendation, but instead you found yourself being persecuted for your good works, don't feel bad about it.

Just because you're good and doing the right thing doesn't mean everybody is going to be cheering you on. There might be those that'll resist you, and try to make you swerve from your path; they might even call you evil, in spite of your good works; maintain your composure. Refuse to change. Stay the course with the Word of God in your heart and in your mouth.

Remember, you're the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus; therefore, it's your calling to express His righteousness. See yourself that way, regardless of the pressures and challenges that may tend to provoke you to compromise. See yourself just as the Word says: "...greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4); this means that you're greater than your adversaries, detractors and persecutors. You're a victor forever.

Stay in the Word, and keep manifesting His righteousness, no matter the criticism, and you'll always win. Halleluiah!

Prayer...
Dear Father, I thank you for making me a victor for life, and granting me the grace to reign in life and live for your glory. Righteousness and goodness are the hallmarks of my life; therefore, I express righteousness and walk in your perfect will today, and always, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

Further Study:
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:21
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.

Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Ephesians 1:1-14, Isaiah 11-12

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 24:28-39, 2 Samuel 19-20

Continue In Faith - Monday, September 21st .

Pastor Chris

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:1-3).

As you study the entire book of Galatians, you'd understand why Paul made the statement above, chiding the Galatian Christians: they had strayed from the message of the Gospel, the Word of faith, which they had received. Some false teachers came, teaching them that they had to obey the Law to be justified; as a result, their faith began to waver. Decrying their deviation from the message of faith, Paul asked them, "...having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"

He wanted them to remember how they received the Holy Spirit; it wasn't through obedience to the Law, but by faith. The salvation they had received didn't happen by keeping the Law: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9). Your righteousness and right-standing with God aren't the results of your good works; they're by the faith of Christ, the result of what He did.

Galatians 2:16 says, "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." The righteousness, which is by faith, doesn't rely on the works of the Law, but on faith in the God that justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5).

By faith, you received eternal life, and the Holy Spirit to live in you. By faith, the righteousness of God was imparted to your spirit. Therefore, continue in faith, grounded and settled, and refuse to be moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which you've heard (Colossians 1:23).

Prayer...
I thank you Lord for the righteousness I've received; the righteousness which is by the faith of Jesus Christ, to stand in your presence confidently without fear, inferiority, guilt or condemnation. I have no confidence in the flesh because you are my justifier. Halleluiah!

Further Study:
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Galatians 5:16-26, Isaiah 6-8

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 24:1-12, 2 Samuel 15-16

Look "Away" Unto Jesus! - Sunday, September 20th .

Pastor Chris

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith... (Hebrews 12:2).

In your Christian walk, it's important that you look "away" from every distraction unto the Master. I like the way the Amplified version puts it; it says, "Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus...." What God is telling you here is simple: Turn away from everything else, and fix your gaze on Jesus. Don't get distracted.

Imagine the case of Peter on the sea with the Master; if he had kept his gaze on the Master, he wouldn't have been overwhelmed by the billowing waves and tempest. He was distracted, and then he began to sink. The same thing happens to many today; when they allow themselves to be overwhelmed by the "magnitude" of their problems, instead of focussing on the Word of God, they sink even further. Refuse to be overwhelmed by any problem.

There's no situation you can't handle successfully with the Word of God. Make the Word of God your stay; live in the Word! Learn from Jesus; He lived the Word, though He's the Word! He was focused, and was never distracted from the Word. He looked at the result of His faith; for the joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross, despising the shame. He didn't care what people thought about Him; His focus was to carry out the will of the Father. It should be the same with you.

They may call you names, because of your devotion and dedication to the Lord, but don't let that affect you. If anything, be inspired to love Him more; be challenged to serve Him even more passionately. Don't be moved by hard times and turbulent circumstances; hold on tight, with your focus on Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:12 says, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." Stay in the Word, and don't turn away from it; and the Lord will keep you in the peace of prosperity: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee" (Isaiah 26:3).

Confession...
I'm kept in perfect peace, because I stay in, and live by, God's Word! My eyes are constantly fixed on Jesus, the Captain of my salvation, and Shepherd of my soul! I remain unperturbed irrespective of the tests, trials, and persecution that I may face, because He has made me triumphant. Blessed be God!

Further Study:
Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Galatians 3:6
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Galatians 4:21-5:1-15, Isaiah 3-5

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 23:44-56, 2 Samuel 13-14

Newness In Type And Quality -Saturday, September 19th .

Pastor Chris

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).

The Bible declares in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." The Greek rendering of the phrase, "a new creation", actually means "a new species of being!" It doesn't just refer to a new life in terms of timing; that's to say, a life that has just begun. It means newness in type and quality. A new creation is a new type of man; he's one of a kind that never existed before! He's not subject to Satan, and doesn't need deliverance.

This is who you are, if you're born again. You're not subject to defeat, and can't be disadvantaged. Walk by faith, because you've already been given the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). Romans 6:14
declares, "...sin shall not have dominion over you...." You're a superior being; you're no longer governed by sin or bad habits.

You're not merely someone who has turned a new leaf or has changed from living the bad life to a good life. No! You're born anew, to express the righteousness, excellence, glory, and multifaceted wisdom of God.

Confession...
I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus, holy and sanctified unto the Lord! I'm a partaker of the divine nature, expressing and manifesting the life of Christ in righteousness, excellence, glory, wisdom and power! I reign by grace today, through righteousness, because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death and its debilitating influences. Halleluiah!

Further Study:
Isaiah 61:3
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Daily Scripture Reading

1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Galatians 3:26-4:1-20, Isaiah 1-2

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 23:34-43, 2 Samuel 11-12

Goshen360:
Lol...After naw, you go say you no wan talk about tithes o... You know if we don produce tracts or not. ..Sidon there dey look o....

There was none, for if there was, Nairaland won't have missed the 'epoch making event'.


You guys fall hand. A clean evidence that talk is cheap.

A Reprogramming Through The Word - Friday, September 18th .

Pastor Chris

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).

The Word of God gives you everything you need: health, joy, wealth, prosperity, grace, wisdom and all that the vicarious death of Christ and His triumphant resurrection delivered to us as Christians. That's what salvation encapsulates. With the knowledge of God's Word in your spirit, you have what it takes to create anything you want.

At the well of Samaria, Jesus encountered a woman and asked her for a drink of water. But noticing that He was a Jew, the woman told Him they had nothing in common, and for ethnic reasons declined. Then, Jesus replied, "...Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13-14). The Master knew He could give her something to quench her thirst for ever —the Word. With the Word, she would be able to create anything she desired.

Often times, when people are facing difficult situations, what they need is a Word-therapy or what I may call a "Word-diet."

They'd have to listen to God's Word and study the Scriptures over a period of time, until the Word gets rid of the wrong mind-set, and reprograms them aright for success. If that doesn't happen, no matter what else you do for them, their situation wouldn't change.
Sometimes, when people are sick in their bodies, the real problem is beyond the symptoms that are apparent in their physical bodies. Such pains might stem from their mind. There's a difference between the sickness of the mind, and that of the body. So, even when they're healed in their bodies, the sickness continues, because it was really a problem of the mind. The solution is to reprogram their minds through the Word, for total restoration.

Prayer...
Dear Father, your Word has come to me today to renew my mind, and programme me for the victory-life. My faith in the Word prevails today and always over all circumstances, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

Further Study:
Acts 20:32
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.

Hebrews 4:12
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.

Daily Scripture Reading

1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Galatians 3:15-25, Songs of Solomon 6-8

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 23:26-33, 2 Samuel 9-10

Frosbel deactivated his account without producing a single tract.

Shame. It's getting to the second year running!

Cc
Winsomex aka drummaboy
PastorKun
Goshen360
Boomark
Trustman
Candour

Mogidi:
APC using our corrupt courts to get the mandate they couldn't get from the ballot box.

Hahhahahahahahhazhhzzhhzhz... They're trying to do same in rivers

Not to worry, Lord Bubu will offer them amnesty soon enough!

Hmmm

Buhari told AFP that the Federal Government was talking to Boko Haram’s prisoners and could offer them amnesty [size=18pt]if[/size] the extremist group hands over more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their hostel at the Chibok Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014.

Is it just me? But the above bold is very very annoying.


Oh, those good days of ihejirika? Shey you want to offer them amnesty? And send them to Saudi Arabia for Arabic studies, abi?

These guys have killed almost 20,000 folks and displaced millions.

Hmmm

Buhari told AFP that the [b]Federal Government was talking to Boko Haram’s prisoners and could offer them amnesty if the extremist group hands over more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their hostel [/b]at the Chibok Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014.

Is it just me? But the above bold is very very annoying.


Oh, those good days of ihejirika? Shey you want to offer them amnesty? And send them to Saudi Arabia for Arabic studies, abi?

These guys have killed almost 20,000 folks and displaced millions.

Is this a political motivated abduction?


If yes... Then let's start with the man who reached world fame because of the lagoon threat.

I no call names o.

Realdeals:
LASAA is killing small businesses in Lagos, their charges are exorbitant!

.... And they said we should not wail!


Anyways, best wishes to him.

The Quality Of Your Personality - Thursday, September 17th .

Pastor Chris

...For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was (James 1:22-24).

Our opening scripture isn't dealing with the image, in terms of the external form or representation of the man who looks at himself in the mirror, but with the "manner" or "kind" of man. A doer of the Word doesn't forget the "manner" of man he is: the quality of his personality.
You'd understand this better if we read from the eighteenth verse; it says, "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures" (James 1:18).
God gave birth to us by the Word of truth; that is, the Gospel of Christ, so that we should be a kind or type of firstfruits of His creatures. That's awesome! What's the meaning of firstfruits? It means the first and the best of God's creatures.

When you were born again, you came up with a new kind and quality of life —the God-life. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "...If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation...." As a new creation in Christ Jesus, you're the perfection of beauty, and the best of everything God made. You're superior to Satan.
Thus, when a Christian says, "I need deliverance from the devil", it's because he has forgotten what "manner" or "type" of man he is. How could you need deliverance from Satan when you're superior to him?

The Bible says you're seated together with Christ in the heavenly realms, far above all principality and power. You occupy the place of the highest authority in Christ Jesus, far above Satan and everything that's connected to him.

Get to know the quality of your personality. It's the reason we bring the Word of God to you every day on different platforms, to enlighten you on who you are in Christ.

Prayer...
Dear Father, I thank you for making me the first and the best of everything you created. I'm the perfection of beauty, fashioned for excellence. My life is the manifestation of your glorious and majestic splendour; I display your perfections and unveil your multifaceted wisdom to the world, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

Further Study:
Romans 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Ephesians 2:10 AMP
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Galatians 3:1-14, Songs of Solomon 3-5

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 23:13-25, 2 Samuel 7-8

Which one is morisblog again?

Summary please!

Quite apt an advice

Hollywood should hire Lord Bubu... Dude be making Kim Kardashian (however the name is spelt) look jealous with pictures of trips and tours.

... What did he bring back? Joe it's not handshake pics like Don Rozzay Rochas did Obama?

Olaadegbu, Come o... Food don done.



Cc
Vooks
Winsomex

dedugbaa:
Guy you dey look for trouble o,so na chelsea fans you dey yab abi,it is okay! Chelsea is coming back.

Wait until arsenal flog them this weekend.

BrBakreez:
If Saraki intends to [size=18pt]controvert[/size] their assertion I do not believe the social media is the right place.

He's not arguing... He's just explaining why he's right!

He can go to court to do that and if he thinks he has better case against them he can sue for defamation of character.

He's not interested in that, but thanks for the suggestion.

We are tired of silly war of words on the social media,

Define "we"?

I can bet my life that majority of informed Kwarans in Kwara will not be surprised,

Is this the definition of " we"? I thought we are in one Nigeria?

I just hope that Code of Conduct Bureau can follow this up to the logical conclusion so that we can have Saraki as a locus classicus case in the circumstance.

Dream on... Not gonna happen, Son!

No more hiding place for looters, forgers, robbers and thieves. Truly Nigeria is moving in the positive direction.

Remind me where Amaechi, Rochas, Fashola, Aregbesola etc should be categorised under?

Noted...

In other news,

No need... They ain't gonna send or post anything.

Cheers

Somebody's Role model

skeletine:
Lagos State Environmental Law 2000.

It states that... ?

juicee1:
if there is no such law, KAI won't be disturbing them as that can amount to them getting sued.

Lalasticlala

What law o!

slimfit1:
There is a place for everything. It is wrong they should find other means of doing business without breaking the law.

Really? In Nigeria?

What law is that again?

keenn:
I may die today, tomorrow or when ever, but that doesn't change the certainty of occurrence of sunrise and sunset. This circle has been since time and no sane person argues/doubt about tomorrows sun.

Nigga, u have no inormation and neither can u remember where u were before earth experience, do u know y? Because there was no existence of before-life and likewise no afterlife.

We'd find out soon enough! .. Don't be in a hurry

modath:
I'm a PMB stan but i love this name, especially don Bubu, .... as for Osun state, Aregbese said he will pay before sallah, we are waiting & watching.

OK na... Shey he asked them to present their FSLC first?