RHEMA From Heaven

LET YOUR LIFE BEA BLESSING

Matthew 5:13
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste (purpose), how can it be made
salty? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and walked on by people

It is the will of God that all His children prosper. But this does not just happen. God has
ordained that we prosper by working as Christians. That is why the Bible teaches that the
diligent soul will be made fat and prosperous.

See Proverbs 13:4, “The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of
the diligent shall be made fat” The New Living Translation of the Bible renders it more
clearly, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper”.
Thus, it is not only a fact that prosperity comes by diligence, but it is also the truth since
God’s word says so. Without diligence or hard work many things won’t go well in your
life. Most things will work well if only people will be diligent in their endeavors. As a
Christian you must know that, God has blessed you with the ability to work things out.

Thus, anytime you deploy your strength to work hard at things it receives the blessings
of the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:11). Your input receives a supernatural touch to produce
tremendous results.
In Genesis 1 and 2, the Bible reveals the work to rest ratio of God. He worked six days
putting things in a great order and rested only on one. The ratio was therefore six to one.

Genesis 2:2 says “And on the seventh God ended his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh from all his work which he had made”
Therefore after six days of hard work, the Bible described the results as “very good”.
Genesis 1:31 says “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth”

Things become “very good” when you work. Remember that, before then, the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1:1). So
working on things to make them better is one attribute that the Bible revealed about God
in creation. That is one more reason why the hard working person will be made fat,
increase, prosper and will see something very good in life because that’s the divine order
from creation. Therefore anytime you practice laziness, you deny yourself of great
blessing in life.

Refuse to be lazy in life. Refuse to do little when it is possible to work harder to make
things better.
Remember that laziness can’t give you a beautiful destination.
Work hard in all the endeavors of your life and you will see “very good” things in your life.

Study: Proverbs 12:24

BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power and of love and of a sound mind”

Strength and courage are two dominant forces you need to get something done in life. Not only that, but you also need it to persevere in a course you take in life. Without courage, you will not be able to move on to do exploits. Being courageous simply means being fearless, daring, or audacious. This is the attitude God expects us to carry in the exercise of our divine mandate.

Most often than not, the circumstances that sometimes surround us in the pursuit of our purpose demands that we remain tough and stay courageous. It is by this courage that can make you pursue a vision despite any opposition.

No one can rule out the fact that there are challenges associated with pioneering things in life or getting something done. Despite the fact that such moments may sometimes generate fear and anxiety from a natural standpoint, you must learn to respond with courage from your inner man.

Pursuing any God-given agenda sometimes exposes you to “denials” and “betrayals” but this must not make you quit. Joseph, the son of Jacob had to deal with rejection and denials from his own brothers on his way to the top. The fact that he didn’t give in or even commit suicide in the face of such harsh treatment of being sold by his own blood brothers to traders shows some iota of courage.

As a Christian, you must learn not to faint in the day of adversity. Proverbs 24:10 says, “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small”. You must always build your faith by consistently feeding on God’s word. Your faith in God will give you divine strength and courage to always do the impossible. Again, Jesus taught us not to faint in the days of adversity. On the cross, when He was neglected by all, He still held on confessing God as His father and also entrusted His life in His hands (Luke 23:46). How courageous are you in the midst of hard times? Will you still stand your grounds to pursue your vision when no one is on your side.

Don’t run away or give up on your God-given purpose all because you are faced with a challenge. Be strong and move forward. Like David, move through the troop and run over the wall (Psalm 18:29).

Read: 2 Timothy 1:7, 1 John 4:4

GUARD YOUR FREEDOM

Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage”

Freedom is one priceless thing that God has blessed the believer with. For instance, the born again believer has been set free from sin, sickness (which is incipient death), and any satanic bondage. The Bible also teaches that we are free from any condemnation or guilt that our previous life of sin might have birthed. Romans 8:1 says “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”.

Your freedom as a Christian started the day you got born again. See John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”. The moment Christ became the Lord over your life, you entered into freedom.
Nonetheless, now that you have been set free from the power of darkness, it is also dependent on you to “keep this freedom”. Because being freed and staying free are two different things. That’s why the bible is admonishing you to stay free. In other words, you must not allow the elements of this world to hold you captive again- the pride of life, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes.

Remember that the devil still wants to extend his influence over your life, but until you submit, he does not have a say. Stand your ground and always resist the devil from putting you under bondage (1 Peter 5:9). Walk in this new life and fight off any attempt of the enemy to influence your life and future and always remember that freedom in Christ does not mean freedom to transgress.

Read: Galatians 5:1

SEEKING GOD FIRST BRINGS PROSPERITY

Matthew 6:33
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”

Job 36:11 also says “If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.” Putting God first will make you spend your days in prosperity and your years in pleasures.

There is no prosperity outside God. The prosperity that brings peace and unending joy in your heart only comes from God. Proverb 10:22 says “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

It is in seeking God and putting him first that makes things go in your favour. God causes all grace to abound to you any time you bring or put Him first. Seeking God first means that you give him the first place in all that you do. This includes your life, your work, your marriage, and your pursuit of success and all that concerns you.

Where have you placed God and His kingdom on your preference list? In fact, putting God second means all things shall be subtracted from you. Anything other than seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness first will fail. Place God and His kingdom first and you will be first in all your endeavours.

There is no genuine prosperity without God. Anytime prosperity is sought according to the standards of this world, it will be subjected to vanity and shame. It is only in God you can find true prosperity that is not subjected to sorrow.

If you seek the purposes and the plans of God’s kingdom, you will never go on a wild goose chase trying to find riches, wealth and honour. Don’t forget that, looking for prosperity must not lead you to forget God’s kingdom and your quest to walk in His righteousness. People who pursue riches and wealth without God turn to make money as their idol. As a Christian such pursuits can make you backslide and finally fall into apostasy.

Remember that, the greatest prosperity status that you can ever achieve is that after getting all the material things you still end up in heaven. Thus, put God first and you will spend your days in prosperity.

Read: Mathew 6:33 Proverbs 10:22

SEARCH GOD’S WORD DAILY

Psalm 119:105
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”
Acts 17:11 says “These (the Berean) were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily…”

There is nothing precious and refreshing in the world except the word of God. That’s why it matters the time you spend with the word.
The bible teaches that the believers in Berea placed a premium on God’s word in that they searched the word daily. God’s word to them was a “daily bread” and not a “cake” for special occasions.

You see, how often you get into the scriptures reveals the value you give to the word of God. That’s the truth I believe the Bereans that Apostle Paul preached knew. They constantly received the word of God with a ready mind and always searched the scriptures.

This is the attitude that can make you fruitful in your walk with God. Don’t just hear the word that’s preached from the pulpit and go. Search the scriptures daily for yourself as well. As a Christian, you must be “word conscious”. The word of God must be part and parcel of your life. The Psalmist talks about meditating on the word day and night. Psalm 1:2 says, “…whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night”.

Engaging God’s word daily or examining the scriptures daily is the only way to get the truth into your heart. This is how you can have a meaningful walk with God. Not only that, it will make you “deception proof”. You see, people who study the word can’t easily be taken by the falsity people proclaim.

As you walk with the Lord, many things will try to get your attention but never be distracted when it comes to daily studying and meditating on the word. The word is your life, it is the source of your health, healing, prosperity, promotion and deliverance. In fact, it is the SURE WORD of prophecy that you have today (2Peter 1:19).

Read: Psalm 119:105, Deuteronomy 8:3

SERVE GOD GENUINELY

Isaiah 29:13 “Then the Lord said, “because the nations approaches [Me only] with their words and honors Me [only] with their lip service but they remove their heart far from Me, and their reverence for me is a tradition that is learned by rote [without any regard for its meaning]”

God considers the kind of worship or reverence we give to Him. Sometimes what we call worship or “serving the Lord” is actually not one. On teaching on the kind of worship God expects from us, Jesus in the book of John said worship must be in spirit and in truth.

See John 4:23-24: “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” Thus, what characterizes true worship is the spirit and truth. God can’t be worshipped in the flesh. It is by our spirit that we are able to contact God and not with our senses. There are many things people do in the flesh today when it comes to worship. When it comes to worship, adoring and exalting the name of God, any means by which you want to express this must be from your heart (spirit). Don’t dance and just sing in the flesh. Let it be under the inspiration of the spirit.

Also, for our serving God to be genuine, it must also be within the context of God’s word. Thus, if you don’t know the word you are much likely to just do anything in the name of serving God.

When worship or serving God is genuine, it is inspired by the love for God and faith in God rather than the want for things. One hard truth is that God sees your heart and He knows the very motivation behind every action of yours. In fact, he sees it when you are living a lie or pretending to be serving or worshipping him. So if for the want of things you “falsify” worship or you are serving God, He knows it. Isaiah prophesied of such false worshippers. See Isaiah 29:13: The Lord says, “These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me…”

For you not to walk in deception, know what is really behind your “worshipping or serving the Lord”. True worship is by the spirit. It is from a heart of love and faith. So only folks who are born again or have fully surrendered their lives to the Lord, are the ones who can genuinely serve or worship the Lord. Attending church does not necessarily mean that you are serving or worshipping God.

Be sure you are born again and living by the word. That’s the starting point of true worship.
Read: Isaiah 29:13

PUT YOUR BODY UNDER CONTROL

1 Corinthians 9:27 “I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.”

Keeping your flesh or body under control is one of the greatest things you must do to get to your glorious destination in your walk with God. The Bible teaches that man is a spirit, has a soul and lives in a body. The bible calls the body as our earthly suit, jacket or tent that we live in (2 Corinthians 5:1). Thus, the real you is your spirit. One author calls it “the you in you”. You must understand that being born again only makes your spirit anew. This does not change your body in any way.

It is important to know that salvation does not and will not change your body, i.e., your skin colour, the shape of your body, the desires and the feelings in your body. What it does is to make your spirit man new and alive in God so as to lead the flesh to live in sync with the new nature of the regenerated human spirit.

Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:27 that, “…I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away”. Notice the word “I” referring to his spirit which he distinguished from his body. Meaning that living the life of the spirit involves bringing your body under subjection to the will of God. In other words, you must let your spirit master power over or dominate your flesh.
When you allow your body or flesh to do as it pleases you will “self -destruct”, not only that, you will be a castaway, disqualified and rejected.

You have to know this truth that since the flesh is not redeemed yet it will always want anything that gives it pleasure whether that is the will of God or not. Allowing yourself to be carried away into “pleasure-seeking ventures” of the flesh will let you miss the mark.
You see, after born again, you have to battle with the flesh to let it follow the ways of God. Know that bringing your body under control is a fight. Your spirit is one side and the flesh or the body also on the other side. But you have only one option that is to fight and win. This is a daily war that you must fight until the redemption of the body (Romans 8:23). Every one of us is into this battle. In fact, the rich, the poor, the pastors, church members, men, women, new believers and matured Christians are all in this battlefield. No one is exempted from this battle with the flesh.

Don’t get confused when you see this war in your life. Don’t wonder whether you are born again. Yes, sometimes the desires the flesh brings on board are strange, or seriously “out of order”. But the truth is, you are still a child of God. You only have to fight it off. Let the spirit in you master power over it.
Read: 1Corinthians 9:24-27

INVEST INTO YOUR LIFE

John 12:24 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit”
Life is not all about having fun and life is also not a game. Life is business! In fact, life is a serious engagement. Until you understand life from this perspective you are bound to fail because you will leave out key principles that will ensure your success.

One principle that will make you succeed in life is “investing”. You must invest in your life. One fact of life that can’t be denied is that your level of investment in life will determine your level of ultimate attainment. This truth cuts across the two realms of life, that is, the natural and the spiritual.
For instance, people who devote their time to study in the area of their academics or career end up doing well in the natural world and people who spend time praying, fasting and studying the word of God, also become stalwarts in spiritual things.

You see, although investment is sacrificial and involves great discipline, its results outweigh the sacrifices made. This is why you must not take it lightly when investing in your life. This you can do in many ways. Constant study, determination, perseverance and self-control are but a few virtues that would enable an individual who wants to invest in his life.
Also, Jesus said in John 12:24, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” This verse gives us the principle of investment. It teaches that, to have something you must be willing to sow something. In other words, if you don’t give out something, you are surely going to receive nothing. You must invest. That is your corn of grain falling into the ground.
You must invest in your spiritual life and the things that also concern you naturally before you can have a place of prominence.
Don’t take life for a joke. Take actions that will lift you from one level to another.

Read: John 12:24

PROSPERITY BY HARD WORK

See Proverbs 13:4, “The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of
the diligent shall be made fat” The New Living Translation of the Bible renders it more
clearly, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper”.
Thus, it is not only a fact that prosperity comes by diligence, but it is also the truth since
God’s word says so. Without diligence or hard work, many things won’t go well in your
life. Most things will work well if only people will be diligent in their endeavours. As a
Christian, you must know that God has blessed you with the ability to work things out.
Thus, anytime you deploy your strength to work hard at things it receives the blessings
of the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:11). Your input receives a supernatural touch to produce
tremendous results.

In Genesis 1 and 2, the Bible reveals the work to rest ratio of God. He worked six days
putting things in great order and rested only on one. The ratio was therefore six to one.
Genesis 2:2 says “And on the seventh God ended his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh from all his work which he had made”

Therefore after six days of hard work, the Bible described the results as “very good”.
Genesis 1:31 says “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth”
Things become “very good” when you work. Remember that, before then, the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1:1). So
working on things to make them better is one attribute that the Bible revealed about God
in creation. That is one more reason why the hardworking person will be made fat,
increase, prosper and see something very good in life because that’s the divine order
from creation. Therefore anytime you practice laziness, you deny yourself of great
blessings in life.

Refuse to be lazy in life. Refuse to do little when it is possible to work harder to make
things better.
Remember that laziness can’t give you a beautiful destination. Work hard in all the
endeavours of your life and you will see “very good” things in your life.
Read: Proverbs 12:24

Force your way into the Kingdom of God.

Luke 16:16 “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it”
It is important to know that there are things worth getting or fighting for in life. One of such is making your way into God’s kingdom by taking hold of the gospel.

The gospel is God’s approved route to accessing the kingdom and all that it is. Thus, until you receive and believe the gospel you will miss out on what God has for you.

Our opening text, shows the attitude that a person must have to gain access into the Kingdom. Luke 16:16 says “…since then the gospel of the kingdom of God has been and continues to be preached, and everyone tries forcefully to go into it”. Meaning that you need to be active and aggressive to take hold of the gospel for you to enter the kingdom.

You see, someone forcefully trying to occupy a space or to take a hold on something tells that, there are adversaries. Similarly, when it comes to you accessing God’s kingdom through the gospel, the presence of opposition – the devil, and the evils of the world, calls for some degree of seriousness.

You being forceful means that you are ready to ward off anything that wants to resist your flow in the kingdom.
Be zealous when it comes to making it into the kingdom. A causal approach to the things of God won’t produce any much benefit.

Read: Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”

Study: Galatians 4:18