BREAKFAST BY THE SEASIDE
Life's Punchlines... (Volume 3).
❤🇳🇬🇳🇬 Year 2020🇳🇬🇳🇬❤.

Preacher: Priest Godsknight O.J

Topic: No Space In Prison!

Text: Luke 4v18 " The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To preach deliverance to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed."

Good day & welcome to Month April 🤓. God is set to keep it more real with mankind this month, may His divine supplies never elude you in Jesus Name🙏.

Regardless of the global pandemonium, great things are bound to happen. People are getting married🤵🏽👰🏽, earning big 💰, celebrating newly born babies 🤱🏻 etc.

No space in the devil's 😈 prison for you, don't give him a reason to track you down (James 4v7). Trust God too much to give up & you'll testify (Gen 41v14-40).

Those that want police👮 cases for you, won't cross your path. Those already in your life to steal your joy (John 10v10), will be ashamed 😝(Is 41v10-14).

Know the Kingdom of Jesus rules, to enjoy maximum freedom (John 8v32 & 36). You belong to the best Kingdom, hence, shouldn't be relegated👍.

Is 8v16  "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples".

We've been furnished with enough rules from the stable of the Mighty One of Israel to govern Nations (Matt 7v12, Exod 20v1-17)👩🏼‍⚖👨🏼‍⚖.

Let's break them down, & put them  to use. Strict adherence means total safety, no ridiculous behavior. The world will have no choice than to emulate (Ps 22v28).

May God reveal your enemy's next line of action to you in Jesus Name. Their set-up is your step up, don't forget to stay on top (Ps 22v30)

Finally, a lockdown is not a lockout 🤣, don't allow pressure get your brain shut down😱. Happy New Month, zoom ✈.

Let's Pray:

1) LORD Jesus, I activate the freedom Calvary offered me in its full fledge in Jesus Name ( Col 2v14-15).

God bless you🤝.
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THE RICHES OF GOD’S GRACE!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 2020.

SUBJECT:  THE RICHES OF GOD’S GRACE!

Memory verse:  "That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2 vs 7.) 

READ:  Ephesians 1 verse 3 - 8:

1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,
1:4: just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
1:5: having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

1:6: to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

1:7: In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,

1:8: which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

INTIMATION:

The common definition of grace known to us is "God’s free and unmerited or undeserved favor for sinful humanity." God showered His kindness (His grace) on us. This is the voluntary and loving favor given to those He saves through faith in the substitutionary work of Christ. God voluntarily became man—the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The man Jesus was subject to human limitations by setting aside His glory and His rights, in response to His Father’s Will to limit His power and knowledge. Christ became “poor” when He became human because He set aside so much. Yet by doing so, He made us “rich” because by His “grace,” we are redeemed—we received salvation and eternal life. 

Therefore, the grace of God can be defined as His voluntarily setting aside His Deity—His glory, rights, power, and knowledge, for the love of sinful humanity, and bestowing on us unmerited or undeserved favor by redeeming us from sin and Satan, and handing us the gift of salvation and eternal life. In Christ we have all the benefits of knowing God—being chosen for salvation, being adopted as His children, forgiveness, insight, the gifts of the Spirit, power to do God’s will, the hope of living forever with Christ. Because we have an intimate relationship with Christ, we can enjoy these blessings now, and thereafter in the heavenly places because these blessings are eternal, not temporal. 

The mystery of salvation originated in the timeless mind of God long before we existed. It is hard to understand how God could accept us. But because of Christ, we are holy and blameless in His sight. God chose us, and when we belong to Him through Christ, He looks at us as if we had never sinned. All we can do is express our thanks for the wonderful love. Salvation is God’s work and not our own doing. In His infinite love, God has adopted us as His own children. Through Jesus’ sacrifice, He has brought us into His family and made us heirs along with Jesus (Romans 8 vs 17). 

Now, we can appreciate how rich is the grace of God toward us that believe: Salvation brought the whole of God—Triune God—at work; Based upon the redemption work of His Son, the Father forgives us and sends the Holy Spirit to wash away our sins and continually renew us. When Christ became human, He set aside His Deity—His glory and His rights, His power and knowledge—and became subject to human limitations just for the atonement for our sins. Though Jesus was on an equality with God, He sacrificed Himself in order to offer Himself for the salvation of the whole of mankind. 

In redemption, Christ bought us out of that from which we could not deliver ourselves. We have thus been purchased by the blood of Jesus out of the slavery of sin from which we could not deliver ourselves by works of law or meritorious deeds. While we are still neck deep in sin He loved us, He planned and executed our redemption without any contributions from us. Consequently, bestowed on us the believe in His work for us on the cross. all the benefits of knowing God—being chosen for salvation, being adopted as His children, forgiveness, insight, the gifts of the Spirit, power to do God’s will, the hope of living forever with Christ. How great, rich, awesome is God’s grace toward us! 

Therefore, our response to the exceeding greatness of His love and grace toward us is to love Him back out of gratitude for all He has done for us, by our raw obedience to His will for us. And if we love Him we should keep His commandments (John 14 vs 15 & 23).

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for Your grace lavished on me out of Your love for me. Endue me with the spirit of complete trust, and obedience to You, and live according to Your will, that I may fully harness the benefits of Your grace upon me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

CREATED FOR GOOD WORKS!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY MARCH 31, 2020.

SUBJECT: CREATED FOR GOOD WORKS!

Memory verse: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them..” (Ephesians 2 vs 10.)

READ: Ephesians 2 vs 8 - 10:

2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
2:9: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

INTIMATION:

We become Christians through God’s unmerited grace, not as the result of any effort, ability, intelligent choice, or act of service on our part. However, out of gratitude for this free gift, we will seek to help and serve others with kindness, love, and gentleness, and not merely to please ourselves. Christians have been created anew in Christ by obedience to the gospel (Romans 6 vs 4 - 5). Since they are recreated in Christ p, they respond with good works of thanksgiving. They have been so created, not by good works, but for good works. The Christian is not saved by works of merit that he or she has devised according to his or her own desires. They are saved for the reason that God might work through them. 

While no action or work we do can help us obtain salvation, God’s intention is that our salvation will result in acts of service. We are not saved merely for our own benefit, but to serve Christ and build up the church. Christians thus work in response to what God has done for them (First Corinthians 15 vs 10). It is their works that manifest their response to the grace of God. While good works cannot save believers, they are true indications of our faith and love for Christ. Their works are not meritorious conditions upon which they will be judged. They are indications of their thankful response to God for His grace. Final judgement will be based on our deeds because our deeds proclaim what sort of heart is within us. 

The Christian owes all that he is to God who gave him a reason for transforming his thinking and life (Romans 12 vs 1 - 2). Through the manifestation of God’s grace, Christians have been driven by faith to conform their lives to the will of God (See Romans 3 vs 31). They do good works in thanksgiving of the grace of God (Second Corinthians 4 vs 15). Credit of the transformed life, therefore, must go to God for His grace that gives reason for hope by focusing our lives on God. We are God’s masterpiece. Our salvation is something only God can do. It is His powerful creative work in us. 

Good works are faithful service, acts of charity, and involvement in civil affairs. They are actions that are above reproach; gracious, godly, and winsome behavior that shows Christ in your life, who in His earth walk was full of good works (John 10 vs 32; Acts 10 vs 38). When Christians engage in good works, they effectively become the light of the world that people will see and glorify the Lord (Matthew 5 vs 16). Good works are winsome. If you want someone to act a certain way, be sure that you live that way yourself. Then you will earn the right to be heard, and your life will reinforce what you teach.

When Christ saves us, we move from a life full of sin to one where we are led by God’s Holy Spirit. All our sins, not merely some, are washed away. In becoming a Christian, the believer acknowledges Christ as Lord and recognizes His saving work. We gain eternal life with all its treasures. We have a new life through the Holy Spirit, and He continually renews our hearts. None of this occurs because we earned or deserved it; it is all God’s gift. This was so important that the Triune God participated fully in the work of salvation: Based upon the redemption work of His Son, the Father forgives us and sends the Holy Spirit to wash away our sins and continually renew us. Therefore, our gratitude to God for all His gifts, is demonstrated in our good works.

Prayer: Abba Father, give me the grace to continually engage in good works, as Your masterpiece and ambassador here on earth, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

GOD’S STANDARDS OF LIVING!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY MARCH 30, 2020.

SUBJECT: GOD’S STANDARDS OF LIVING!

Memory verse: “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6 vs 8.)

READ: Psalm 15 vs 1 - 5:

15:1: LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

15:2: He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

15:3: He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor does he take up a reproach against a friend;

15:4: In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honors those who fear the LORD; he who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 

15:5: He who does not put out his money at usury, nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

INTIMATION:

God demands that His people will be morally upright, Though we live in a morally bankrupt society, a world whose standards and morals are eroding, our standard of living should not come from our evil society but from God. The standards of living prescribed by God is His will for His people. As we grow in our relationship with our Redeemer, we develop a desire to live by His standards. The depth of our eternal relationship with Him can often be measured by the way we reflect His standards in our daily activities. 

Whoever lives by God’s standard is qualified to stand in His presence. In the passage we read today, the psalmist gives us the standards to serve as a measuring scale to determine how we are doing. It defines the character of those who could stand in the presence of God. These include those who walks uprightly; those with righteous behavior of life. The righteous commit themselves to the fear of the Lord, their defense is the Lord. Their sustenance is guaranteed because they live under the protection of the Lord. Those who are truly righteous deal justly with others. They are mindful of their integrity, and deal honestly with God and others. 

Words are powerful, and how we use them reflect our relationship with God. Perhaps nothing identifies Christians as their ability to control their speech, to speak the truth at all times, and do not speak hypocritically. Making up or spreading false reports is strictly forbidden by God. Gossip, slander, and false witnessing would undermine families, strain relationship, neighborhood cooperation, and make chaos of the justice system. Destructive gossip still causes problems. Even if you do not initiate a lie, you become responsible if you pass it along. Don’t circulate rumors, squelch them.refusing to slander another person. 

A committed Christian does not backbite; does not speak behind the back of someone in order to destroy his or her reputation. He or she does that which is good in response to faith, and does not take pleasure in looking on evil or committing evil. Love for God and others should rule their lives. In loving their neighbors as themselves they should not work against them nor slander them. They should be disgusted with those who do wickedly, and align themselves with those who do good. They should be committed to their words even when it may be to their own detriment. They should strive to always do that which is right and fair to their neighbors. 

A committed Christian should not take or give bribe, despises extortion, and should not listen to violence. It is obvious that what corrupts justice most is the act of persuading the judges’s favor through a gift. A bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous. When a society has resorted to bribes in its justice system, it has become a corrupt society in which there is no real integrity.. Christians should hold their heads high in integrity.

God demands the the poor and powerless amongst us should be well treated and given the chance to restore their fortunes. Christians should reflect God’s concern for the poor by giving and by helping those less fortunate than ourselves, helping them  by lending money without interest, and thus not taking advantage of them when they have fallen into hard times. God is not against charging interests on loans for business purposes, as long as it isn’t exorbitant (Proverbs 28 vs 8). He is against charging interests on friendly loans to the needy, especially among the community of believers (Leviticus 25 vs 35 - 37). 

Some people are so obsessed with money that they will change their God-given standards and lifestyle to get it. If money is a controlling force in your life, it must be curbed, or it will harm others and destroy your relationship with God. It is impossible to focus one’s life on service to the Master in heaven, and at the same time make material things the master of our lives. If one’s focus is on the things of this world, then he cannot give himself or herself to God in a way that God demands of His children. 

Prayer: Abba Father, give me the grace to live by Your standards; to love you and others with all my heart, and doing good works, that I may earn Your approval for eternity with You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

BREAKFAST BY THE SEASIDE
Life's Punchlines... (Volume 3).
❤🇳🇬🇳🇬 Year 2020🇳🇬🇳🇬❤.

Preacher: Priest Godsknight O.J

Topic: Worth His Sacrifice!

Text: Acts 17v30" Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent."

Life will appear simple to you, if you've mastered its complexities. However, you can know so much, yet, know nothing.

For millenniums, the worth of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on tree 🌲 Calvary✝, is yet to be fully grasped because of the complexities in its analysis.

Today is a blank cheque, hopefully you'll grab this opportunity to wine 🍷 & dine 🍞 with the lover of your soul forever (Jer 3v15 & 22-23).

Everyone came from heaven through Jesus' carefully designed procreation mandate 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, but not everyone stays connected. Reason being that, some claim to be "Breakout Kings"💀.

Their offsprings hardly understood the worth of Calvary for them. They claim that their ancestors were fallen angels, hence, rebellious cultures🙃 should be preserved ( Gal 1v13-17).

Jesus Christ created your ancestors (Col 1v16), He stretched forth His hands on Calvary tree to identify with His winged-humans that fell. He didn't give up on them, despite Lucifer's mess up🤷🏾‍♂.

Do yourself a greater good by finding your divine track🏃‍♂ in Jesus, you don't have to live like one who's dead while alive (Luke 16v11-13).

Drinking human blood only puts you in chains 🤮, real power is devoid of madness! Jesus can heal you like those ten lepers, it's your gratitude that shall make you whole ( Luke 17v11-19).

Those Angels are not getting the full benefits of Calvary sacrifice because, they chose to rebel still, rather than value the Price that redeemed them 🙇🏻‍♂(Col 1v13-14, Rom 10v14-17).

Regardless of your ancestor's background, you're not doomed 🤓(Rom 10v10). C.O.F.F.E.E says, "Christ Offers Forgiveness For Everyone Everywhere". Visit the Mercy Seat today (Heb 4v14-16).

God bless you🤝.
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COMMIT YOURSELF TOTALLY TO GOD!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY MARCH 29, 2020.

SUBJECT: COMMIT YOURSELF TOTALLY TO GOD!

Memory verse: 

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."

 (Romans 12 vs 1.)

READ: Revelation 3 vs 15 - 16:

3:15: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

3:16: So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

INTIMATION:

We cannot measure up to God’s standards. No one has ever measured and will ever measure up to God’s standards except Jesus Christ, who is also God. But God expects us to have some measure of service He considers reasonable. God wants us to offer ourselves as ‘living sacrifices,’ that is daily laying aside our own desires to follow Him, putting all our energy and resources at His disposal and trusting Him to guide us. It is only reasonable to respond with worship to God for His grace that was manifested through the sacrifice of His Son on the cross for our sins. We should offer our lives in sacrificial worship and service to Him.

In view of the fact that God’s grace was poured out for our salvation, our natural response is to obediently comply with the directions of the One who has offered the grace. Therefore, all believers should be motivated to respond to all God has done, and give themselves totally to the One who gave His only begotten Son to them. Committing ourselves totally to God as a living sacrifice should be a natural response of the spiritually-minded individual who has come to know and appreciate the grace of God. As the Levitical Law called for the total consumption of the burnt offering for sin upon the altar of sacrifice, so must believers give their lives totally to God. 

We should offer our lives in sacrificial worship to God and service to Him. Those who have not given their lives totally to God have not appreciated the grace of God. If because of His grace God was willing to offer His Son, who was eternal in heaven, then certainly it is not unreasonable that we give to Him the totality of our short life on earth. Commitment to serve Jesus is an everyday work in one’s Christian life. Those who commit themselves to Jesus will not only receive the abundant life in this life, they will also reap eternal life in the new heavens and earth to come. 

It is the mind of flesh to reason that one can give anything less than the totality of his or her life and still believe that God’s grace will reward him or her of his or her lukewarm commitment. Just as lukewarm water makes a disgusting drink, so also is a Christian who is half-hearted, following God halfway. We should give ourselves to God, asking Him to put us to good use to His glory. As we grow in our relationship with our Redeemer, we develop a desire to live by His standards. The depth of our eternal relationship with Him can often be measured by the way we reflect His standards in our daily activities.

God has good, pleasing, and perfect plans for His children. He wants us to be transformed people with renewed minds, living to honor and obey Him. Because He wants only what is best for us, and because He sacrificed His Son, now living, to make our new life possible, we should joyfully, and gratuitously give ourselves as ‘living sacrifice’ for His service.

Prayer: Abba Father, I want to live my life fully and completely dedicated to You, to serve and obey You in all things. I pray for Your grace to lead me through, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN HUMILITY!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY MARCH 28, 2020.

SUBJECT: THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN HUMILITY!

Memory verse: "Let this mind be in you which was in Christ.” (Philippians 2 vs 5.)

READ: Philippians 2 vs 3 - 8: 

2:3: Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than himself.
2:4: Let each of you look out not for his own interest, but also for the interests of others.
2:5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
2:6: who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 
2:7: but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

2:8: And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

INTIMATION:

The spirit of Christian humility is the spirit of Christ in laying aside rights to serve the interest of others. Jesus Christ was humble, willing to give up His rights in order to obey God and serve people. As believers, we should have a Christ-like attitude, one that enables us to lay aside our rights in order to serve others. We should develop His attitude of humility as we serve, even when we are not likely to get recognition for our efforts. Truly humble people compare themselves only with Christ, realize their sinfulness, and understand their limitations. On the other hand, they also recognize their gifts and strengths and are willing to use them as Christ directs. 

If we say we follow Christ, we must also say we want to live as He lived. Jesus was willing to lay aside or empty Himself, of His being and essence as God in order to incarnate in the flesh of man. He made a supreme sacrifice in incarnation in order to accomplish the plan of redemption for the salvation of man. In contrast to lordship, He took on slave-hood, in contrast to existence in spirit, He took on the physical. In order to become the slave of humanity, He had to take on the form of humanity. In order to make the divine sacrifice for the sins of humanity, He had to incarnate into the form of those for whom He would die. 

Jesus equal to God in essence, being, eternality, and work. Since He was God, then He could not have existed in any other state of being than what God is. However, in order to accomplish the redemption of mankind, He did not consider His being God something that could not be forsaken for the benefit of His creation. Jesus did not consider His existence as God something to be grasped in view of the state of condemnation in which all humanity dwell. 

Jesus had every right to demand service or to forcefully Lord over the flock. However, He commanded our submission by what He did for us in serving our sin problem. We thus follow Him in thanksgiving for what He did on the cross and continues to do as our Advocate (First John 2 vs 1). While on earth, He did not command the following of His disciples through authority. They followed because of His love for them. The sign of a member of the body of Christ is one who is functioning as Jesus in order to make himself the servant of others. The function is based on loving one’s neighbor as himself, and loving others as Christ loved us.

Therefore, humility is not self-degradation, it is realistic assessment and commitment to serve. Like Jesus, we should have a servant’s attitude, serving out of love for God and for others, not out of guilt or fear. Considering others’ interests as more important than our own links us with Christ, who was a true example of humility. True humility is seeing ourselves as we really are from God's perspective, and acting accordingly. Humility will not allow you to be influenced by praise, honor, and popularity. It helps you not to allow popularity to twist your perception of your own importance. 

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of humility and servanthood that I will serve You and others out of love and obedience to You in all things, in Jesus’ Name I prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!