Filled with all the fullness of the spirit of God

FILLED WITH ALL HIS FULLNESS .




_*And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be FILLED WITH ALL THE FULNESS OF GOD (Ephesians 3:19).*_

Real and authentic Christianity is being filled with the fullness of God. Apart from His extraordinary birth, what made Jesus different from every other prophet that came before Him was the Holy Spirit in Him; that made Him the Christ. Some people say that “Christ” merely means the anointed one. Well, there’s a different sense to this. We know the prophets of old were also anointed: Joshua, Moses, David, Elisha, Samuel, Aaron, and several other prophets in the Old Testament. Howbeit, they had the Spirit in a measure.

What made the difference for Jesus is that He had the Spirit without measure; He had the fullness of the Spirit. John 3:34 says, _*“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.”*_ The prophets were all given the Spirit by measure. For instance, the Bible tells us about Joshua: _*“And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him…”*_ (Deuteronomy 34:9). Moses did that because God asked him to lay his hands on Joshua.

However, in the case of Jesus, He was filled with God. He didn’t just have the Spirit of wisdom, He was wisdom personified. The man, Christ Jesus, was filled with the fullness of God, letting us know that we can also be filled with the fullness of God, for as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). The Bible says, _*“For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him permanently”*_ (Colossians 1:19 AMPC).

Colossians 2:10 says, _*“And ye are complete in him….”*_ You’re complete in the One in whom the sum total of the divine perfection, powers and attributes permanently dwells. What a blessed reality! It means Christ has found a resting place in you. Everything you require in life is within you. You carry the maximum load of God! Therefore, face life with the consciousness of a victor. You can do anything. Hallelujah!

*CONFESSION*

*Dear Father, I thank you, for I have received the Spirit without measure, because as Jesus is, so am I in this world. I’m filled with the fullness of God; therefore, nothing is impossible to me. I face life with the consciousness of a victor. I can do anything, because my sufficiency is of God. Hallelujah!*

You Must Control Your Thoughts part 2

Topic: Control Your Thoughts

Control your thoughts to control your life

Letting loose of your thought is letting loose of your life.

Letting any kind of thought in your mind is letting go of your life.

“keep your heart with all diligence…” (Prov 4:23)

He that hath no rule over his own spirit (mind) is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” – Prov 25:28


Control your thought to control your life

Letting loose your thought is letting loose of your life.

Letting any kind of thought in your mind is letting go of your life.

“keep your heart with all diligence…” (Prov 4:23)

He that hath no rule over his own spirit (mind) is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” – Prov 25:28

It's a terrible Thing to waste your Mind

In all that you do, get a stronghold on your mind, for out of it flows the very essence of life.

Today’s Scripture: Matthew 15:17-19

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Jeff Roth tells the following tale: There once was a man who sought fame and fortune. He specifically decided to make his reputation as a spiritual teacher. He began by travelling from retreat to retreat, monastery to monastery. He checked out all the spiritual traditions, old and new. But as the years went by, he became increasingly unhappy. He was no closer to his goal of being a great teacher, and became quite depressed.

One day, on his way to a gathering, he found himself in a beautiful forest. He sat down under a magnificent tree and began to reflect on where his lust had taken him. He began to look around. He noticed the bright colours and the tranquillity that surrounded him. “This is a beautiful place,” he thought to himself. “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just live here forever?” No sooner had he thought this did a house emerge in a clearing not too far from the tree. “Wow!” he thought, pondering the strange occurrence. He sat happily a while longer and naturally he began to get hungry. “Wouldn’t it be great to have a bite to eat?” he thought. Immediately a table appeared in front of his house, filled with his favourite foods. He began to adjust himself to these mysterious occurrences, and started thinking about how nice it would be to have someone serve him the food. Just then a servant came out of the house and piled a tray with the food and brought it over to him. He thought that this was the perfect situation. “All I need now is a partner to share this life with me.” As you might expect, the door of the house opened and out came the perfect gendered person for him, and he instantly fell in love. The man continued to think that this was a strange set of occurrences. Then the thought entered his mind that perhaps all of these experiences had to do with the tree he was sitting under. “What if it’s a magic tree?” he thought. “What if there is a demon in this tree?” Suddenly, a demon jumped out of the tree and landed in front of him. Frightened beyond belief he thought, “What if it eats me up?” And it did. And that is where the story ends.

The story, fictional of course, no less underscores the power of thoughts. The truth is, we are the sum total of our thoughts. And this one truth is too profound to be trivialised by our familiarity with it.

Thoughts are powerful because they influence our actions, and set the course of our lives. Jesus put it this way: “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.  These are the things which defile a man…” (Matthew 15:19-20). In other words, a man who thinks of murder and adultery will eventually commit them. And before a man gives a false testimony or slanders another, he first conceives it in his thoughts.

It was Norman Vincent Peale who said, “Change the thoughts of a man, he will change the world.” Your victory never starts from the outside; it emanates from the inside. No wonder the Bible enjoins us to guard our hearts like our life depends on it, because it does.

Today, consider what you think about. Refuse to allow unwholesome thoughts control your actions. Fill your heart with the Word of God. As you proceed to take active control of your meditations today, God will flood your spirit with instructions and solutions to problems. You will not be controlled by worry, fear or doubt. Stand victorious in every area of life, in Jesus’ name. Keep vigil over your mind.

Memorise & Meditate:

“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23

Prayer/Confession:

Father, I ask You for the grace to keep my heart with all diligence and meditate on Your Word diligently. My thoughts are in alignment with God’s Will at all times, in Jesus’ name.

Power through the Spirit

POWER THROUGH THE SPIRIT.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8).

Some Christians assume and believe that prayer produces power. So, they say, “a prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian,” but that’s not stated anywhere in the Bible.

Notice our theme scripture; Jesus didn’t say you’ll receive power after you’ve prayed. I believe in prayer, but prayer doesn’t bring power. Power comes from the Holy Ghost.

Power is the dynamic ability to cause changes. That means we can effect changes in our lives and that of our loved ones, and even in places where we desire to see changes. We’re not supposed to be victims in the earth, but many Christians live as victims; they’re captives of adverse circumstances. But Jesus said you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Jesus was never a victim, yet many of God’s children have been victims in one way or the other.

1 John 3:2 says, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” When you were born again, you were born as an offspring of God; through the Holy Spirit, you have power. No need to ask Him for power, for the power is already resident in you. All you need to do for the power of God in you to be manifested is to stir it up (2 Timothy 1:6). Glory to God!

PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for the power at work in me, through the Holy Spirit. Nothing is impossible for me, because as I activate the power in me, I bring calmness and order to every situation, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Calming Stormy Seas

CALMING STORMY SEAS
TEXT: MARK 4:39).

BIBLE TEXT:
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm(Mark 4:39).

Tempest or storm stands for heart-breaking and life threatening problem situations. It could be illness, financial and material hardships, temptations or persecutions. When there is an experienced sailor or captain in a ship, the passengers and crew members are at peace. The presence of the Master of all situations in the ship of the disciples changed their stormy situation from calamity to calmness. All you need do is to call on Him. Melancthon said, Troubles and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer driveth away troubles and perplexity. 

What are the stormy situations in your life? Let the Master of the oceans and seas, Jesus Christ, come into your life. He is the one that can bring calmness. He is the one that can turn your sorrow into joy. His presence is indispensable in your life if you want to overcome the stormy seas of life. Lazarus sad funeral ceremonies turned into joyful celebration because Mary and Martha had sent for Jesus. Call on Jesus and He will calm your fears.

Challenge: Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Prayer: I command calmness to every storm in my life in Jesus name!
Quote: Call on Jesus and He will calm your fears

There is power in relationship with God and Man

THERE IS POWER IN RELATIONSHIP

Categories: Daily Meditations on God's Word 

“So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” Romans 12:5

If only we are able to perceive the ability and strength in relationship and not permit the enemy divide our strength and make us dissipate our energy and fireworks, we are going to go terribly far in life. See your life as a life that God needs to use to place smile on somebody’s face. return to church not with the outlook of what am i able to get, but to join forces with God to meet his purpose. the reality is that after you begin to measure that approach, there's no level of blessing that you just cannot attain because God will definitely make sure that you're blessed in each area of your life.

When we mention what you'll offer, it's not solely regarding cash. It may well be a smile, a handshake, a pat on the back or a compliment. “You look very nice wearing this dress of yours. You look stunning.

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I anticipate seeing  you and i am glad to see you” simple statements which will raise up somebody’s religion or motivate healing. merely saying: “I haven't seen you for the past one week, where have you been”? can make individuals recognize that somebody is looking out for them
Relationship is the whole essence of Christianity. He gave some Apostles, some Evangelists, some Prophets, some Pastors, some lecturers, for the maturing of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the enlightening of the body of Christ until we have a tendency to all come back to the unity of religion and therefore the information of the Son of God, unto an ideal man and of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That we have a tendency to hence forth be no longer like  a lot of kids fighting over akara or seat, who is promoted or not, who is complimented or not. who is sitting within the front seat or not. lots of kids, tossed to and fro by each wind of doctrine…. however speaking the reality in love. In other words, if you hurt ME, you hurt yourself. i'm not planning for you to be my trap.


Further Reading: Ephesians 4:1-16

Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Psalms 4-6; Evening- Acts 17:16-34

A DOUBLE LIFE DOUBLES YOUR SORROWS

A DOUBLE LIFE DOUBLES YOUR SORROWS
PSALM 51:1-19
A former British royal Air force employee has returned a history book to the Malta public library 42 years after he borrowed it and he was rewarded with a cup of coffee. Emie Roscouet, a resident of the channel Islands, packed the book when he left Malta in June 1962 and returned it when his wife gave him a holiday to Malta as his 60th birthday present. He said, “My conscience pricked me all the time and I decided to restitute.” He was actually expecting a fine, but instead he was given a cup of coffee to encourage others to return overdue books.

Proverbs 11:1 says “a false balance is an abomination unto God, but a just weight is his delight.” Try and make your life and daily activities just and right. Return whatever does not belong to you. Pay back whatever you owe. Work for your pay. Stop wasting your official hours, pay your employees, your prosperity is tied to your living right. Don’t allow the devil to lay hold on whatever he can to hinder your prayers and the work of God.

Your success is tied to your character, because your enemy the devil is a formidable accuser looking for every loophole to block you from prospering. Living a double life will slow down your progress by half and double your sorrows. Fight to retain a good name. John Morely said, “no man can climb beyond the limitations of his character. Gehazi’s character limited him.


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Pursue good daily wherever you. Evangelize your character before seeking for charisma. Philip Brooks  said, “a man who lives right and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.” Drop that wrong relationship. Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to do so. Do not forget that without holiness, no man can see God. It is hard to climb high when your character is in question.
Prayer
Lord, purge my character to shine as your light as I go out every day of my life, Amen    

WISDOM IS THAT EXTRA EFFORT

WISDOM IS THAT EXTRA EFFORT
GENESIS 26:9-16
There is an anonymous quote I got years ago that has helped my life, it says, “things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.” I will add also that, “hustle with wisdom.”

Proverbs 10:4 says that, “the hand of the diligent makes rich.” Proverbs 13:4 says “the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.” Diligence means hard work. Any extra touch on the job, school, ministry and home for example, will always make a difference. Determine to work a little harder than others.

The bible declares in proverbs 18:9 that “he that is slothful (lazy) in his work is a great waster.” May you not waste your appointed years on earth. That four-worded sentence, “not slothful in business,” in Romans 12:11, has been propelling my life and ministry and it must be your watch statement all through your life. You must resist satanic lies of discouragement, don’t drop your guard now, keep working! Keep putting extra hours into your life’s assignment and as long as God is still on the throne, the results must show, the difference must appear.

If Isaac in Genesis 26:12, whose father was rich could sow by tilling the hard ground in the desert, despite all the promises of prosperity God gave to his family, then we have no excuse to hang  our sickles. Reject slothfulness and things that waste your destiny.

I admire the words used to promote the Peugeot when it was first introduced into the market, it says, “the right choice and success is not always by luck.” Hard work is always involved. No matter how the year has been, cultivate and till your ground extra more and you would be ahead of your peers by extra days.
PRAISE THE LORD.
Prayer
I forbid all demonic powers from causing my family and I from being slothful in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Strange powers are real

STRANGE POWERS ARE REAL
MARK 8:29-38
NUMBERS 23:23
Welcome to this devotional with he that is called Ebenezer, the tear wiper. In this my years with the lord, I have come to realise that I the darkness of this world, there is a strange light.

I have come face to face with Ahabs, Nebuchanezzars and Herods of this world, the wicked rulers of this world. The God that has kept me by his grace will also keep you from their demonic bullets.

Consider this story, sometime ago, in Port-harcourt,, Rivers state of Nigeria, the victim of a fatal road accident turned into a goat which was badly dis-figures and ripped open by the speeding Vehicle. The driver said that as he was hurrying to work, he had hit an old woman who suddenly appeared in the centre of the road, so convinced was the driver that he had hit someone’s grandmother. He cried so bitterly. His tears soon gave way to fear when sympathisers got to the scene, where the supposed victim laid, instead of the lifeless body of an old woman, they saw a dead brown goat. The incident was to assume a new dimension later when a man who drove a car attempted to cover the goat with a piece of white cloth and take it away.
Onlookers challenged him until he confessed that his mother at home that she had cried out that she was naked somewhere and had appealed to him to go and cover the dead animal.

Not impressed with the man’s explanation, the irate bunch burnt the car beyond recognition and beat him to a state of coma. What a world of mysteries and wickedness. Do you still doubt that the spiritual controls the physical? Do you still doubt that the there are strange, unseen powers that don’t want your progress? What would have happened if the accident had claimed the man’s life? Do you still doubt that witches and wizards are real? Come to Africa and see them falling off the skies as if their finished mid-way on a journey. Well that is always the excuse they give.
You need to strengthen your spiritual security and re-affirm your spiritual authority over demons and principalities in high places. Declare Numbers 23:23 every day of your life.
Look up to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

PRAYER
I send lightening and thunder and the hook of the lord against the power of witches and wizards of this world targeted against my life, family and ministry progress in the name of the lord, Amen. This is my year in Jesus, Amen.

The secret of living in Contentment

THE SECRET OF LIVING IN CONTENTMENT

LUKE 12:13-31

Lots of people lose their health trying to become wealthy and later lose their wealth trying to get their health, as a child of God, you must avoid this demonic trap. Heaven is today trying to draw your attention to the power and secret of contentment. Life is an eternal struggle. It is good to have money and the things money can buy, but it is better to regularly make sure that you do not lose the things money cannot buy.
Money is a universal provider of everything except happiness. Be reminded again that money can buy mansion but not peace and security. Money can buy a bed but not sleep. It can also buy delicious foods but not appetite- there are thousands of rich people who are in hospitals but cannot eat. Money can buy medicine but not healing, remember doctors die too.

Pursue contentment at all levels. Learn never to pursue money to the detriment of your daily quiet time, your weekly local church fellowships or your Christian integrity. Luke 12:15 says that “take heed and beware for a man’s life does not consist the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Did you get that? Contentment is when your earning power equals your yearning power. When you can think of your yesterday without regrets and tomorrow without fear or anxiety, then you are near real contentment. Enjoy what you have and refuse to worry about what you don’t have.

John ray did say, “diseases are the prices we pay on uncontrolled pleasures.” This shouldn’t be your portion this year in the name of Jesus, Amen. Dwell in contentment for as long as there is life, there is hope. Godliness with contentment is a secret of successful people. Seek it every day of your life.

Do not forget to look up to Jesus, for the fulfilment of our daily desires

PRAYER
Thank God for your glorious future. Paralyse all demonic forces working against your career.  

A different kind of prayer

A DIFFERENT KIND OF PRAYER

Prayer is a way that we pour out  our heart to God. It is the only way we can go to God since we cannot see him physically. We are constantly tormented by the things of this world, problems and strife and the good book has made it known to us that the battles we face are not canal but spiritual. That is why the apostle told us that we must be battle-ready at all times so we don’t fall victim to the schemes of the enemy.
Has it ever occurred to you how someone would be doing so well in his endeavour and the next minute he is so broke and his debt.

The devil is never sleeping, he is moving on the surface of the earth looking for whom to kill and to destroy. That is why you need a different kind of Prayer to battle him.

Because we are fighting principalities and powers in high places, our weapons shall also be spiritual. For instance, when you are praying for deliverance and say things like, “every witchcraft power fighting against my prosperity, I fire you with the thunder of the most high God.” You position yourself as if with a gun and as a soldier and fire thunders into the spiritual realm and scatter the covens of the devil. This is a battle and there are no rules of engagement. Fire whatever missile into the covens of witchcraft and powers of darkness in high places and belief that you have caused confusion in the world of darkness.

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Remember, there are powers everywhere, and these principalities require a new kind of prayers, pray and keep looking up to Jesus, to sustain your faith.