Word Of God Purified And Refined

 

In our daily life, we often times find people who speaks falsehood and we find it difficult to trust on people. Even the devil bombards our mind with negative thoughts saying there is no way out from our problems. There is only one place where we can fully place our trust on which is the word of God. His word is pure as silver is refined seven times. In the Old Testament, the promises of God were conditional based on fulfilling the law which man could not due to their sin nature. In the New Testament, when we are born again, we receive a new nature from God which enables us to live righteously. The promises of God are yes finding their fulfillment in Christ which means we are blessed by trusting in the finished work of Jesus not by our good works. Jesus has opened for us a new and living way to God whereby we have full freedom and confidence knowing we have answers to life issues.

We Are Made Righteous In Jesus

And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. (Philippians 3:9)

A divine exchange takes place the moment we trust in the finished work of Jesus namely His crucifixion, His death, His burial, His resurrection and His ascension. Our sins are washed clean with His blood and we are made righteous with the righteousness of Jesus. This righteousness that comes from God purely on the basis of faith not through the righteousness that comes from obeying the law. God sees us righteous in Christ and all the blessings of righteous belongs to us not based on our good works. Our self righteousness apart from faith is not pleasing to God. When we receive the righteousness from God by faith, we are being with filled with fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus manifested as good works in our life.

God Has Forgiven Us

When we are born again, God forgives us and adopts into His family. We consider sin as God does because sin cost His Son Jesus to die cruelsome death on the cross for our sins. He forgives us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness with His own precious blood.We can’t continue in sin because Jesus lives in us through the Holy Spirit dwelling in our human spirit. He helps us to become more like Christ. Even if we fall into temptations it will be only for a time because we can’t keep practicing sin. Let us honour Him with our lives by living uprightly as rely on Him through prayer and word of God.

God Our Father

God promises in His Word to be a helper to the orphans who are being oppressed by setting things right in their life. God becomes our Father when we acknowledge Jesus as our Lord in our life. He is the only way to heaven. He died on our behalf carried our sins and punishment for our sins. We belong to the family of God as children of God calling Him our Abba Father. We have been provided everything for our life and godliness through the finished work of Jesus on the cross. Even when we feel our prayer is delayed, we continue to believe God our Father will meet our needs in His time. All He asks us to do is to cast care on Him and leaving the supplying of our need to Him. May we continue to experience the tender and protecting love of God our Father.

Lord Is Our Refuge

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. (Psalm 9:9-10)

The word refuge means secure height something inaccessibly high. In the Old Testament, we read about David who experienced many oppression but he chose to trust in Lord who will be a refuge to him. He praised God which brought him out from the gates of death to gates of life. David was determined to spoke about the goodness of God to people who had no relationship with Him. When we receive Jesus as our Savior, He never abandons anyone who entered into His blood covenant by faith in His crucifixion, His death, His burial, His resurrection and ascension. In times of sorrow, we are to praise Jesus for things He has done for us that is how we can rejoice in our salvation. For we are fully convinced that Jesus is mighty to save us and our expectation to be honored in life will be fulfilled by Him. As Mike Murdock, a leading preacher states “expectation is acting as if our miracle has already happened. Organize our life around your expected miracle. Plan it. Talk it. Believe it. Expectation qualifies us for receivership. It separates you. It transfers you from the masses who need miracles...to the chosen who receive them. Expectation is proof of faith.” Let us continue in this faith as we daily live our life looking unto Jesus!

Staying Watchful

“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” (Revelation 16:15)

The term watch is interpreted in the Greek as “gregoreo “meaning keeping onself awake, to be spiritually alert or being vigilant. We who are committed to the standards of God are to remain guard against temptations the devil brings against us in order to take away our focus from the Lord. When we go through difficult valleys of life not knowing what will happen next, we are to deliberatly choose to call upon Jesus instead of running away from Him. Jesus our Lord conquered the works of the devil and He is only able to lead us out from the valley. The devil seeks to devour us in trouble to take away our faith in the word of God which brings about the manifestation. We are to resist the devil by speaking the word in faith. Let us be watchful by staying strong in the Lord knowing that we have victory all the time.

Being Thankful Everyday...

 

Day after day, we all go through life experiences which determines how we see things in life. Whatever we focus on life that is what we attract in life. If our focus is on giving thanks in the midst of painful life circumstances, we experience joy emotionally and spiritually. Remember being thankful is expressed attitude of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is basically our hearts response to the goodness, favors and benefits of God to us. We are to be thankful to God for sending His Son Jesus to die for our sins and through Him we enjoy divine blessings. Mac Hammond, a leading preacher states “when you proactively take steps to focus on the good things in your life and give God glory for what He’s done, your attention will naturally swing away from worldly concerns. On the other hand, since your flesh is created to negotiate this world, if left unchecked, it will maintain a negative focus, and ultimately cause you to become an unthankful person.” Every burdens in life, we give to God along with giving thanks that there is deliverance out of this burden. We can develop a habit of thanksgiving by looking daily for reasons to be grateful from simple everyday conveniences to bigger blessings. Today, what are you grateful for?