WE ARE REDEEMED TO BE PROSPEROUS!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY MAY 30, 2021.

SUBJECT : WE ARE REDEEMED TO BE PROSPEROUS!

Memory verse: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10 vs 10.)

READ: Second Corinthians 3 vs 5; 8 vs 9:

3:5: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.

8:9: For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

INTIMATION:

Prosperity is a part of our salvation. The Word says that Jesus became poor so that we, through His poverty, might be made rich (Second Corinthians 8 vs 9.) Yes, Jesus came to make us rich emotionally, spiritually and physically. It was for this reason He said, in John 10 vs 10, "....I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." He came that we may have life in ample sufficiency; great plenty. What an awesome God. Jesus Christ did all these, including eternal life for you and I. 

Jesus became poor by giving up His rights as God and becoming man—the person Jesus of Nazareth. As a man, He was subject to human limitations. Though He did not give up His eternal power when He became human, but He did set aside His glory and His rights in order to accomplish our redemption from sin and the powers of darkness: “Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.”  

(Philippians 2 vs 6 - 7.)

No one can claim to be adequate without God’s help. No one is competent to carry out the responsibilities of God’s calling on His or her strength. Without the Holy Spirit’s enabling, our natural talent can carry us only so far. The apostle Paul remarked that our sufficiency is of God, and not of ourselves.Paul, having full knowledge of that revelation said again that God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that we will always be sufficient in all things, and may abound to every good work:

"And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessings) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donations]." (Second Corinthians 9 vs 8, Amplified Version.)

Our redemption package—our inheritance in Christ, is such that God has so much empowered us in Christ; making us complete in Him, and giving us His fullness in Him. As His adopted children, we are heirs to His kingdom and joint-heirs with Jesus, and all that Jesus received in victory over Satan, He received for us: “Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” (Revelation 5 vs 12.)

We have been made kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth (See Revelation 5 vs 10). The needed empowerment to reign has been received for us. Physical, spiritual, and emotional prosperity are our inheritance in Christ. We are redeemed to live a struggle-free life, knowing that God, through His divine power has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him and of Jesus our Lord. (see Second Peter 1 vs 3.)

Though He has called us to glory and virtue, but the onus is on us to dig deep in the Word to know Him the more, praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, and that our eyes of understanding be enlightened, that we may know the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the believers. (see Ephesians 1 vs 17 - 18.)

Prayer: Abba Father, how great and awesome You are! You have given us all things for a victorious and triumphant life on this earth. O Lord endue me with the excellent spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of my inheritance in Christ, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!