RHAPSODY OF REALITIES MONDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC :✨REDEMPTION AND CHRISTIANITY✨

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RHAPSODY OF REALITIES MONDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC :✨REDEMPTION AND CHRISTIANITY✨

SCRIPTURE 📖: Romans 6:4

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Many don’t realize that the Christian isn’t actually the “redeemed.” If Christianity were all about redemption or salvation from sin, there wouldn’t have been the need for Jesus to rise from the dead. His death on the Cross

and not would have been enough; it paid for all our sins and guaranteed complete propitiation. But that’s redemption Christianity.

Redemption refers to saving someone by paying a price. So when Jesus died, He paid the price for man’s redemption with His own life; He did that for all humanity, not for Christians. The Christian is the result of Christ’s resurrection, not His death.

This should make it clearer: when Jesus hung on the Cross, in the mind of God, every human person was hanging on the Cross too (in Him), for He was our substitute. When He cried out, “It is finished” and gave up the ghost, we also died in Him. Hallelujah! Now, when He came out of the grave, when He resurrected, we were also in Him.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ gave us something far beyond redemption; it ushered us into a newness of life. We’ve been raised up together with Christ (Ephesians 2:6).

Romans 10:9 lets us know that salvation comes by believing in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and the subsequent confession of His lordship. A Christian, therefore, is one who identifies with the resurrected Christ.

Thus, just as Christ was raised from the dead into a newness of life, the Christian has no past. That’s why the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature…”; meaning that he is a new species, one that never existed before.

Being born again, therefore, you’re not the “redeemed”; you’re the fruit of the redemptive work of Christ. Redemption was consummated with His death, but Christianity came from the resurrection. Hallelujah!

                          CONFESSION

Just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, I also have been raised into a newness of life to walk therein. I’m a new creation, conscious that I’ve been raised together with Christ and made to sit together with Him in the place of victory, authority, and dominion forever, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

2 Corinthians 5:17;

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 2:20;

20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Romans 10:9-10

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 5 & Daniel 3-4

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 17:22-26 & 2 Chronicles 9-10

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC :✨ABSOLUTE DOMINION OVER THE ADVERSARY✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC :✨ABSOLUTE DOMINION OVER THE ADVERSARY✨

SCRIPTURE📖 : Luke 10:18

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Genesis 3 tells us that the serpent beguiled Eve. He is further describe that the serpent, beguiled Eve which deceiveth the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). In the 10th verse of Revelation 12, he is called “…the accuser of our brethren….” Peter, in 1 Peter 5:8 calls him your adversary: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

An adversary is an enemy, an opponent, an opposer. Some people are trying to make Satan look good by introducing new songs with lyrics that portray him as your friend. Don’t be deceived; Satan is not and could never be your friend! He’s your adversary, howbeit, a defeated one.

The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 pens another identity of Satan’s personality, referring to him as the god of this world. But thanks be unto God; you’re not of this world! You don’t belong in Satan’s jurisdiction; therefore, he’s not in any way a factor, because you’re superior to him; give him no place or chance in your life.

You have dominion over Satan and the rulers of darkness to keep them defeated, to keep them subdued under your feet. The Lord Jesus said in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Your dominion and authority over the adversary and adversities is supreme; it’s incontestable; recognize it and exercise it always.

                                PRAYER

Dear Father, I’m not deceived by Satan’s lies, manipulations, tricks, schemes and strategies or enticed by his deceitful ways. I stand firm in the truth of the Word and resist him in truth and in faith; I walk on in the victory I have in Christ, living above all the negativities of this world, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

Ephesians 6:12; 

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

1 John 4:4; 

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

James 4:7

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 4 & Daniel 1-2

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 17:11-21 & 2 Chronicles 7-8

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC :✨ABSOLUTE DOMINION OVER THE ADVERSARY✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC :✨ABSOLUTE DOMINION OVER THE ADVERSARY✨

SCRIPTURE📖 : Luke 10:18

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Genesis 3 tells us that the serpent beguiled Eve. He is further describe that the serpent, beguiled Eve which deceiveth the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). In the 10th verse of Revelation 12, he is called “…the accuser of our brethren….” Peter, in 1 Peter 5:8 calls him your adversary: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

An adversary is an enemy, an opponent, an opposer. Some people are trying to make Satan look good by introducing new songs with lyrics that portray him as your friend. Don’t be deceived; Satan is not and could never be your friend! He’s your adversary, howbeit, a defeated one.

The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 pens another identity of Satan’s personality, referring to him as the god of this world. But thanks be unto God; you’re not of this world! You don’t belong in Satan’s jurisdiction; therefore, he’s not in any way a factor, because you’re superior to him; give him no place or chance in your life.

You have dominion over Satan and the rulers of darkness to keep them defeated, to keep them subdued under your feet. The Lord Jesus said in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Your dominion and authority over the adversary and adversities is supreme; it’s incontestable; recognize it and exercise it always.

                                PRAYER

Dear Father, I’m not deceived by Satan’s lies, manipulations, tricks, schemes and strategies or enticed by his deceitful ways. I stand firm in the truth of the Word and resist him in truth and in faith; I walk on in the victory I have in Christ, living above all the negativities of this world, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

Ephesians 6:12; 

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

1 John 4:4; 

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

James 4:7

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 4 & Daniel 1-2

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 17:11-21 & 2 Chronicles 7-8

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SATURDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC: ✨ALWAYS TESTIFY✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES SATURDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC: ✨ALWAYS TESTIFY✨

SCRIPTURE📖: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony… (Revelation 12:11).

It’s important that you always testify of God’s goodness and the victories He’s wrought in you and through you. Our opening verse says, “…they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony….” Learn to testify always! Let your environment feel the impact of your testimonies.

Firstly, testify the Word. Declare the Word as it concerns you. Say what the Word says. Secondly, testify of His works of grace and love. Now, apart from your testimonies glorifying God and inspiring faith in others, they also cause Satan and his demons to take notice of you and flee from you.

Demons really can’t tell what you think or know, but when they hear your testimonies, they’ll transmit the message to their cohorts to stay away from you, because they can see that you know who you are. This is because they’re very proud figures and they don’t like to be disgraced. They know if they try to mess around you, you’ll cast them out.

So, make it a habit to always testify of the power of God, the integrity of His Word, and the power of the Spirit in your life. Not only will it cause you to experience more blessings, it causes consternation in hell. Never consider anything the Lord does for you or through you to be too small to talk about. There’s power in your testimony to completely neutralize the adversary and cause him to back off.

It makes no difference what daunting challenges the enemy throws at you—testify that the greater One lives in you; therefore, you’re marvellously helped of the Lord and have overcome the adversary and all adversities. As you do, the Lord’s power and glory will be manifested in your situation. Hallelujah!

                              PRAYER

Dear Father, I thank you for your kindness, faithfulness, and love. I thank you for the miracles you’ve wrought in my life and the many blessings that I enjoy. I thank you for the power of your infallible Word that has brought me into a place of glory, strength, power, rest, and dominion, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY

Mark 5:20; Psalm 89:1; Luke 17:11-19

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 3:11-24; Ezekiel 47-48

2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 17:1-10; 2 Chronicles 5-6

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST 2023. pastor Chris.TOPIC:✨ IT’S FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHURCH✨

💎✨TO THE GLORY OF GOD DECEMBER IS HERE FOR YOUR BENEFIT. GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF YOU. HAPPY NEW MONTH OF DECEMBER... GO IN HIS NAME AND WIN AND KEEP WINNING💎✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST 2023. pastor Chris.

TOPIC:✨ IT’S FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHURCH✨

SCRIPTURE📖: …He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come (Ephesians 1:20-21 AMPC).

Many today still don’t understand the authority that’s vested in the Name of Jesus and the power of attorney given to us to use it. That’s why they’ve never fully enjoyed the benefits of it. Jesus has a Name that’s superior to all titles of authority in this world and in the next. So learn to use His Name.

The Weymouth New Testament describes the transcendent greatness of His power and might, the supremacy and dominion of His Name, His reign and glory both in this age and in the age to come. He’s in the “… heavenly realms, high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come” (Ephesians 1:20-21 WNT).

The most beautiful part is that His authority, rulership, reign and dominion are for the good of the Church: “…Christ rules over all forces, authorities, powers, and rulers. He rules over all beings in this world and will rule in the future world as well. God has put all things under the power of Christ, and for the good of the church he has made him the head of everything” (Ephesians 1:21-22 CEV).

He is all that He is for our advantage. His Name wields all the power that it wields for our benefit: “…God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and he gave him this authority for the benefit of the church” (Ephesians 1:22 NLT).

Never live as a victim. Don’t live an ordinary life. Use the Name of Jesus. He said, “All authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” Then on the basis of that authority, He said, “Go ye therefore…” (Matthew 28:19). Devils, angels, life, death, hell, the world, circumstances, living and non-living things hear and respond to us in His Name. Therefore, be conscious of the transcendent greatness of His Name; live and do all things in His Name (Colossians 3:17).

                        CONFESSION

The Lord Jesus is set in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that’s named. Therefore, all of nature, angels and demons hear and obey when I speak, because I stand and speak in the authority of Jesus Christ. Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY

Isaiah 45:23; Ephesians 1:17-23 AMPC

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 2:15-29; 1 John 3:1-10; Ezekiel 45-46

2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 16:23-33; 2 Chronicles 3-4

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES THURSDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC :✨THE SWORD IS IN YOUR MOUTH”✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES THURSDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC :✨THE SWORD IS IN YOUR MOUTH”✨

SCRIPTURE 📖: Psalm 149:5-6

Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand.

Psalm 149:5 exhorts the saints to be joyful in glory and sing aloud upon their beds. The ensuing verse 6 says, “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand.” This is a prophecy from the Old Testament, and you have to understand that the revelation of the New Testament Church was hidden from the prophets of the Old Testament. Thus, when the passage speaks of “a two-edged sword in their hand,” it reflects their viewpoint based on their perception of the Kingdom.

However, a fascinating shift takes place in the New Testament: the two-edged sword isn’t in the hand; rather, it’s in our mouths. Talking about Jesus, the Apostle John writes, “And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength” (Revelation 1:15-16).

Notice it says this two-edged sword protruded from his mouth and not his hand. We don’t fight with a sword in our hand; the sword is in our mouth. Again, in Revelation 19:15, the Bible says, “And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations….” That is remarkable.

In the 21st verse, it says, “And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh” (Revelation 19:21). This sword is the prophetic Word of God in your mouth. That’s our weapon of war today in the Kingdom.

Jeremiah 51:20 says, “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.” With the Word on our lips, we cut the enemy asunder. We paralyze all the works of the devil everywhere. Blessed be God!

                           PRAYER

Dear Father, thank you for the revelation of your Word and the blessings of the New Testament. With the sword in my mouth, I speak forth righteousness into the nations. I declare that the effort of those who secretly or openly sponsor or promote violence and hostility against the Church is fruitless. Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY:

Ephesians 6:17;

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Ecclesiastes 8:4;

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Hebrews 4:12

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

1 John 1-2:1-14 & Ezekiel 43-44

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 16:12-22 & 2 Chronicles 1-2

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES WEDNESDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.TOPIC :✨FAITH IS OF THE HEART✨

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES WEDNESDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2023. Pastor Chris.

TOPIC :✨FAITH IS OF THE HEART✨

SCRIPTURE 📖: 2 Corinthians 4:13

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.

There are those who complain, “I thought this faith thing works! I believe in the Word for my health, why isn’t it working?” For such people, it could be that they’ve only mentally assented to the Word; that’s not what works. True faith is of the heart.

The Apostle Paul in (Romans 1:16) tells us that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God that works; in other words, it brings or causes salvation for everyone who believes. The one who doesn’t believe it can’t have the benefit of it, and believing is of the heart and not the head (Romans 10:8-10). It’s your spirit that makes contact with God.

Faith is not a response of the brain or the mind; it’s not some kind of magic or a formula, no! Faith is the response of the human spirit to the Word of God. In Luke 6:6-10, for example, when Jesus encountered a man with a withered arm while teaching in a synagogue, He instructed the man to stretch out his hand, which he did, and his hand was restored.

There’s no way the man would have received a miracle if he had tried to rationalize the Master’s instruction in his head. But he responded with his spirit to the Word! The man heard Jesus in his spirit and acted from his spirit.

It reminds of a similar account in Mark 2 when the Lord Jesus healed a man sick of the palsy. He said to the man, “…Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house” (Mark 2:11). The hitherto paralyzed man stood up and walked away, offering praises to God.

The man couldn’t have risen unless he responded from his spirit. You see, his spirit wasn’t crippled, as the ailment or infirmity resided in his body. So, how could a man with that condition have risen? The answer is simple: When he heard the words of the Master, he acted from his spirit, and it produced results. Once you can believe the Word with your heart and voice it from your mouth, it’ll produce results. Hallelujah!

                         CONFESSION

I respond to the Word from my spirit. I’m convinced by the Word that I’m a victor and a success in Christ Jesus. I walk in health, prosperity and victory; I’m what God says I am; I have what He says I have, and I can do what He says I can do. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY:

Romans 10:8-10;

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

1 John 5:4;

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Hebrews 11:3

3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

2 Peter 3 & Ezekiel 41-42

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:

John 16:1-11 & 1 Chronicles 29