He is Risen!

Resurrection Day - the day at death met its end in the person of Jesus Christ!

Jesus came, conquered death and rose again. He brought forth a new creation. Old things have passed away and all things have become new. He has reversed the curse in our lives. No more curse!

This is the day that the curse is reversed in your life. Death has been abolished. Death is an enemy to God. Sin is an enemy to God. It is never God's plan that man should die. The last enemy that would be put under the feet of Jesus is death. We wait for that day. Jesus conquered death and brought eternal life. Our life is one that has swallowed up death.

It is not the loving plan of our Father God that there be death. But God gave man a free choice. God did not bring death. The devil is the one who exercises the power if death. Jesus has settled that for us.

God told man that the wages of sin is death. Man is free to choose. Although you can choose freely, you cannot choose the result/effect of your choice. The day that Adam partook of the fruit, he died spiritually that day. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our God. Eternal life is not living forever. Eternal life is zoe life - it is the quality of life that God lives by. It is the life that swallows up death. Death is the end of natural life for man. Resurrection is the end of death. Death has received its just desserts. His life swallows up death. When Jesus rose from the dead, it is death for death.

Jesus did it all for us. He came down so that whatever He did, He can include us in it. When He died and rose again, His victory over death is our victory over death. Death is in our history. Death is behind us. Now, we are walking in resurrection life.

Many people fear death. The fear of death is causing us to be subject to bondage and causing us to lose the good life. Jesus came to release us who through the fear of death are subject to bondage. Death is no respecter of persons. Death is a tyrant. The fear of death is behind every bondage. Wrong emotions are indicators of wrong believing. When you have fears, you have wrong thinking somewhere. We do not know that we have wrong believing. One indicator is whether we experience fear on a constant basis. Are we depressed? Do we experience worries? Wrong believing is often because of wrong hearing, which is because of wrong preaching. If we preach the Word of God, it will set us free from every fear.

Our blessings and security depend on Jesus and we can rest. This rest transforms us into a holy, powerful and overcoming life. Through death, Jesus destroyed the devil (who has power of death because of what he borrows). The law is the knowledge of good and evil. When God first gave the, 3000 people died at the foot of Mount Sinai. The ministry of death is written and engraved on stones. This is referring to the Ten Commandments, ie. the law. The other laws are written on scrolls and parchments.

The devil flashes before us the Ten Commandments and keeps trying to remind us of it. There is no grace to memorise the Ten Commandments. But even little children can memorise John 3:16. Because of the law, people fear death. Conscience is the knowledge of good and evil. Conscience will always tell us when we are doing wrong. Conscience always says that somebody has got to pay. Many a time, we cause our loved ones or ourselves to pay the price.

Do not have the "I do not deserve" mentality. Your conscience creates that fearful expectation of judgment. Jesus became human flesh so that He can die the death that will set us free. The devil uses the law to bring about death. The devil accuses and if we accept the condemnation, the devil has us. The devil cannot bring about death per se - it is only if we accept the accusation by the devil. Through death, Jesus has released us from the fear of death.

Through death, Jesus has released us. Through death, He destroyed the devil and deprived the devil of the power to accuse us and cause us to fall under condemnation. It is not all about us. It is all about Christ. It is about us only in Him. Jesus used death to put an end to death. The law must be met. God's law is holy but cannot make us holy. It is perfect but cannot make us perfect. It is the devil's master achievement to use something holy (the law) so that we did not expect it is the devil.

When Jesus was born, he placed in swaddling cloth and placed in a stone manger. He was the only baby born to die. God's law must be met. Sin must be paid. Punishment must be executed. God is righteous, just and holy. But God does not want to punish sin in our body. God knew that the only way for sin to be punished is that it must be paid. God in His love sent His Son. He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Jesus has freedom from death and judgment. Jesus said that no man takes His life from Him. He has power to lay down His life and He has power to take it up again. The devil tried to kill Jesus several times but it was not time for Him to die. When the time came, at the Cross, He absorbed all the punishment for us, He bowed His head and dismissed His spirit. That is power. And He did not do that until all our sins are paid for and then He cried out, "It is finished!".

Jesus swear blood at the Garden. Why? Because of the very thought of becoming our sin. He had no sin of His own to die for. He did no sin, He knew no sin and in Him is no sin. Pilate found no fault in Him. Even Judas said that he has betrayed innocent blood. When He carried our sins, there was such a violence that went through His body. A holy God became a perfect man who never knew any sin. to receive our sin into His system was such a violent shock. Being a holy person, even the though of becoming sin, caused Him to sweat blood in the Garden. We will never know what happened fully. It is all about God and the sacrifice. 

God loved Jesus always and He gave up His Son for us. God loved Jesus because Jesus lay down His life for us. Jesus was never more pleasing to God. As God, He turned His back on the sin offering but as Father, God was heartbroken because Jesus was never more pleasing. When Jesus hung on the Cross, mid day became midnight. Jesus cried out, "Why have You forsaken me?". So that we can cry out, "Why have You so blessed me?". God is our Father. 

Jesus finished everything when He absorbed every condemnation and punishment in His body and then He cried out, "Finished!".

The resurrection is a proclamation that the work is finished. Jesus coming out of the grave is the divine receipt that it is paid. If Christ is not risen, we are still in our sins. Christ is risen and therefore, we are no longer in our sins. It is all finished at the Cross. He rose from the death without our sins - He did a perfect work.

For us to expect punishment for our future is negating the work of Jesus. When we are sin conscious, we are saying that God did not accept what Jesus did. Jesus has paid for our sins. The payment that Jesus gave on our behalf to a holy God is an overpayment. That is why God is more than satisfied. That is why we have much more. He overpaid our sins because of who He is. His victory is effective in the lives of those who believe in Him. God wants us to experience the devil's defeat.

Christ is risen from the dead. By Jesus came the resurrection of the dead. If you put your trust in Christ, you are made alive. Christ must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy is the enemy of death. When Jesus rose from the dead, death has been abolished. Before Jesus' comes back, the body of Christ has power over death.

Death, for the believer, is falling asleep. For the believer, death has been deprived of its sting. We who are alive and remain shall always be with the Lord. Before Jesus come again, we will remain alive and have power over death. We do not need to suffer any more. All the enemies, one by one, through the years, have been put under His feet. The experience of the Church is now. He must reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.

When you look at Jesus, you are transformed from glory to glory. He is our answer. Behold the Lamb of God! See Him in the scriptures. Let us unveil Christ. We are transformed into the same image.

The body of Christ will put the enemies under them. God will make our enemies our footstool. Today, we are seated with Christ at God's right hand. The only thing that God wants us to do is sit and rest. Our enemies are coming every way but God says, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.". Sit and thank the Lord that our enemies have been defeated. Let us thank God. We pray in faith and our victory will manifest. When we sit, God gets up and does something about our situation.

Let His resurrection life flow through our lives. When we let go, God holds on and does something about it. Have the throne attitude and sit. God will make our enemies our footstool. God, I cannot and I thank You that You have done it all.

Psalm 91 - the promises of God. Let us confess that all the time. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. No evil will befall us and no plague will come near our dwelling. It shall not come near us. We are the people that Christ has redeemed. Jesus died young so that we might live long. We have protection from all dangers and disease.

Where is this secret place of the Most High and the shadow of the Almighty? Believe in the Lord and He counts it to us for righteousness. Justification by faith. We are justified based on our faith in what Christ has done. God wrote His love story in the stars. It is about us. It is about Him. The heavens declare the story of the Lord. We have the Bible - the perfect revelation has come. Our own righteousness is from the law. We want the righteousness which is from faith in Christ. Let us know Him and the power of His resurrection. Do not live in self-condemnation anymore. God is bringing about a grace revolution and from there, the revelation of faith becomes real and death has no more power over us. We rest in Christ who has overcome it all for us. We rest in Jesus and His righteousness and we will be flanked by the Most High. We have divine protection that only God can give. When God protects, we are protected. We are as safe as the ark is safe. We are in Him and all because when Jesus hung on the Cross, He took our place and bore the fullness of God's anger. He absorbed all the sin and condemnation. It is not a matter of getting angry with the Jews. It was our sins that placed Him on the Cross.

Under law, the judgment was greater than the sacrifice. Under grace, Jesus absorbed all the condemnation and when it was over, He was still alive. When the judgment was all gone, He called, "Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit!" and He dismissed His spirit and died.

See what happened in the spirit. Christianity is not a religion. He came to give us life and life more abundantly. He came to make us righteous. He loves us. All that He has done will be in vain if we do not receive it. God will never force us but He loves us and He says "Come home to love and to victory".

Let us put our trust in Christ and what He has done for us.

Thank You, Father, for the gift of Your Son. The devil is defeated. You are my Lord, Jesus... now and forever. Amen.

Rejoice in our redemption

Believers never walk in darkness. Going to Church per se does not make you a Christian. Have you accepted Him in your heart?

The Church is the house of God. We have eternal life through His name.

The Bible doesn't deal with uncertain things. Joy and peace coexist with the certainty that He has obtained for us eternal redemption.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Whoever who believes in Him will have eternal life.

Many of us have been or will be challenged in our belief in the Word of Grace. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Don't turn your back on Him. Jesus is the final sacrifice. My hand cannot give me nor maintain my redemption. The truth is in us because we have Christ in us.

1 John 1:9 - was this written to believers? "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.". The problem is not confessing our sins. The problem is believing that we must confess our sins to receive forgiveness. Once you know that you are forgiven completely, you know that your sins "are forgiven you for His name's sake". One action executed which needs no repetition. Our sins are forgiven - past, present and future.

If you go to Jesus, acknowledging that you are a sinner, God says, "No problem. I am a Saviour.". Know that you are saved. We are sons of God and the light.

If we have no sin, why do we need a Saviour? Either you are forgiven or you are not forgiven.

All true children of God - their sins are forgiven. Know that you are forgiven much. Right believing produces right living. This gives you a sense of gratefulness to God and you can forgive others because you know how much God has forgiven you.

God commanded light to shine out of darkness. Preach Jesus! He is the light, the knowledge and the glory. Who is Christ? Christ is Grace. Grace and truth came by Jesus. The Son of God brought Grace. Jesus sets us free. Those who under Grace - sin will have no dominion over us.

People who are proud give you the most trouble. It is the insecure who are bad tempered or proud. When you are secure in Christ, no one who says anything about you can affect you - their words are nothing.

All our sins are fully punished at Calvary, where a lone figure hung on the Cross. God will never punish us again, if we truly believe in Jesus.

The Bible was written by simple people of the countryside who had the Holy Spirit breathe in them. The same Holy Spirit will guide us.

Rejoice in our redemption.

Have you been blessed?

Will you let Jesus have centreplace in your life? He will hold all things together forever. On the Cross, God's judgment fell on the body of Jesus. There is no more judgment left if we believe in Jesus.

Have you received Him?

You will never know how much God loves you until you know how much He loves His Son. That's how much God loves you.

Today, Jesus is out of reach physically but we can still hear Him through the preaching of the Word.

At the name of Jesus, every knee bows. Cast out the bad things in Jesus' name! Three fourths of Jesus' ministry is casting out devils.

Jesus is greater than all the priests in the temple. He is greater than all the prophets. Jesus is greater than the kings. Don't reject Him in all His three-fold greatness!

Jesus loves us and He keeps loving us. All the power of God goes into rescuing us from the pit of disease. 

Jesus is not about religion. Jesus is a reality. He is the way, the truth and the life.

God said, "I am that I am". We have a blank cheque. If you are ill, He is your healer. If you are poor, He is your financier.

Jesus gave Himself because His captivity will set us free. They put a crown of thorns on Him and blood fell down. The soldiers kept hitting His head with a reed until the crown of thorns sank into His head. His skin was gone and His bones were all exposed. But the Kingly bearing was still there.

If you justify yourself, you can never see your sin.

Jesus was born King! We are all getting younger and wiser as we look forward to the coming of the King.

He took all our sins and lay it on the Cross. He absorbed all the diseases of the world into His body. He yelled, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing!".

I want Jesus to be my King and Saviour.

It is finished! That is why His Grace can come today. We are forgiven because all our sins are paid in full. Grace is God's unspeakable joy at Christ's expense. Grace is God providing a substitute for our sins. God sent His Son so that sins will be punished in the body of His Son. God forever more will be faithful and just to what Jesus did. Our sins have been punished in the sacrifice of His Son.

He will come again to judge the anti-Christ. 

We have a great future. 

Have you received Him?

How to have health and wealth, God's way

God's Word is visual. It puts faith pictures in you. Incline your ears to His sayings. God's Words are life to all who hear them. There are healing properties in God's Word.

Everything comes from above. If God can bless him, God can bless me too. Don't be jealous of other people's blessings. God wants us to have abundance.

Take heed how we hear God's Word. Take heed what we hear. With what measure we hear, the same measure will be given to us.

God wants to heal us today. It is not true that God wants us sick to teach us a lesson!

If you have a heart to understand God's Word, you will understand. Be hungry and have a heart for God's Word.

The Scripture has authority. Oh, the love of God that He confined Himself to a Covenant so that Man can plead with Him on the ground of a Covenant. As many who touched Jesus were healed.

Blessed are our eyes for we see and blessed are our ears for we hear. And God heals us! God is life to us and health to our flesh.

See His Word, hear His Word and understand His Word... and God has bound Himself to heal us.

When anyone hears the Word of the Kingdom and does not understand (ie refuse to meditate upon and study God's Word), the evil one comes and takes away what he has heard. God won't allow the devil to stop you from hearing God's Word. However, having hear the Word and you do not have a heart for it, then the devil comes to steal the Word. What is the devil afraid of? He knows he cannot make you sick and touch your family until he takes away God's Word from your heart. When you deliberately don't want to understand God's Word, then the devil comes to steal the Word away.

When you receive the Word and choose to understand it (God, open my eyes today! Give me a hearing heart and seeing eyes!), God heals us.

Psalm 110 - God spoke to Jesus. God swore and will not relent. God does not have to swear because His Word is truth but He swore by Himself and it is a double ironclad guarantee. God swore that Jesus is a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Blessed are we and blessed is God. This blessing lasts forever. By so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better Covenant. Jesus' priesthood of blessing lasts forever. The Oath carries us forever.

Jesus has an unchangeable priesthood. We are saved to the uttermost. This is my Jesus! A Priest forever. If you can understand the truth of Melchizedek (a type of Jesus), God should heal you.

Shaloam means wholeness. Jesus ministers health to us. What is bread and wine? The Holy Communion!

In the person of Melchizedek, Jesus brought the Holy Communion to Abraham. He blessed Abraham. Abraham tithed. The tithe is to show the One you are tithing to how great He is. The tithe is a proclamation of how great Jesus is. How great is our High Priest today! When you tithe to Jesus, it indicates the presence of Jesus in your life. The tithe is a testimony that He lives.

Across different Christian denominations, Communion is being practised. It is an integral part. On the other hand, tithing is not being practised as an integral part across different denominations. When Jesus brings something, it is brought. However, Abraham had to respond with the tithe. Man is the weak link. Jesus presently in heaven is actively receiving tithes from those who have the revelation.

This is how to have health and wealth, God's way.

He is watching over us. Our day is coming!

God sees generations. He has a mind to bless generations.

Let's give Jesus all the praise. Amen!

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The Lord will open to us His good treasure

(sermon notes - 27 January 2013)

This year, you will lend and not borrow!

The system of the world fails us. Lay out for yourselves treasures in heaven. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

If you put the gospel first, you will receive a hundredfold in this time. Prosperity is more than money. God's prosperity is in every dimension of your life. Jesus is opening the treasury of what you have put in and He is giving you a hundredfold return. He always exceeds our expectation. Ask Him for big things! According to your faith, be it unto you!

God allows His words to come down as rain. It will prosper, refresh and nourish. Jesus took our poverty to give us prosperity. Money is a wonderful servant but a lousy master. Prosperity is for service.

Good news produces true morality. Wherever His word goes, prosperity comes. God gives blessing so that we have seed to sow and food to eat.

God is able to make all Grace abound towards us. God will open to us His good treasure. We will have all sufficiency in all things. Grace is always conscious of supply.

God will give us plenty of seed to sow and plenty of food to eat. Father, I am ready. Pour it all on me! God constantly supplies seed to the one who is constantly sowing. God multiplies seed that we sow. 

God calls us by name. God gives us the treasure that was previously hidden from other people. God will open up to us His good treasure in His season. 

When worship goes up, the blessings of God come down like rain.

The Lord will open to us His good treasure. He is the first and He is the last. He has the final word. He makes sure that what we touch prospers. It's coming! Amen!

He opens and He shuts

This will be a year of opened doors. When He shuts doors that are not good to be opened, no one can open them.

There are trials that God will allow us to go through with victory. Thank God for the things we do not know of. God will open the door to a brand new life. When He shuts, no one can open. When He opens, no one can shut.

The key is in His nail pierced hands! Don't be afraid. He has the keys of hell and death. We are saved forever because His blood is forever.

We will live long. This will be our healthiest year yet.

Jesus stands at the door of our lives and knock. It is a door of faith that can be opened. We are so dependent on Him.

God always delivers us out of our troubles.

Lord, open to me a door of utterance, that I may make manifest the words of God.

2013 - The key of David - He can open and He can shut. His hands move the events of this world. When He opens, it is a door of love. Our Lord Jesus is the bearer of Royal Grace.

Our key is to ask Him - pray. Prayer is an expression of Grace. I cannot but He can. We have influence with God.

Do you choose to be changed by God? If you choose to, He puts in the key.

Closed doors may be good for us. Listen to Him.

God can open the doors of our hearts.

Prayer and worship (praise) - these are paramount. They protect us. God will find a way. His heart is kind beyond measure. Thy loving kindness is better than life. When we praise and worship Him, Jesus uses the keys. God opens the doors of liberty. What man shuts, Jesus can open.

There is going to be family joy in our households this year. I have a positive expectation of good this year.

This is going to be the Year of the key of David.

When He is for us, who can be against us?

Someone once told me that when things go according to plan, it is because he (that is, that someone) made it happen.

I beg to differ.  Whilst we can do all we want, at the end of the day, when things fall into place, it is because He had a hand in this.  How else do you explain why sometimes, the harder you try, the worse things become?  And yet, when you rest in Him, things just happen?

I am not advocating laziness nor licentiousness.  What I am saying is that we should do the best we can but leave it to Him to worry about the outcome.  The Lord only wants what is good for us.  When a window closes, it may be because He has bigger plans for us or because He is actually averting danger for us.  How often have we looked back on an incident and felt so thankful that something happened to prevent us from venturing down that path and while we may have been disappointed at that time that things were not going to plan, as it turned out, had we proceeded, we would have headed straight into danger?

I have lost count of the number of times that the Lord has bailed me out.

In Princess Chickadee's school, they are taught to call upon the Lord.  It is quite amusing to see her suddenly stop what she is doing and call out, "Jesus!".  Then she tells Him something.  I am thankful for a little one who loves the Lord so much.

He loves us and he will always want what is best for us.

When the Lord is for us, all our enemies will fall by the wayside.  This is not to say that we will not face obstacles or persecution.  But take heart that not matter what trials we are going through, when the Lord is for us, we can expect victory!

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Getting into the mood of baking again