Christ Above The Elements: Forms

Apostle Grace Lubega

Galatians 4:9 (KJV); But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

When a man is not born again, he is subject to the elements of this world.

For us who have received Christ, the scriptures remind us that we are no longer subject to any such elements (Galatians 4:3).

The word elements as used in our theme scripture is translated as “stoicheion” in the Greek to mean among other things, “the material causes of the universe.”

When a man is under the elements, he easily relates with the MATERIAL WORLD because it is governed by predictable material causes.

In the same way, many Christians have become attached to a God, or to a Christ who appears in material elements.

They build monuments of the forms that the Christ appears in and many of these forms have sadly framed the foundation of many world religions.

When God appeared to Moses in a burning bush, it did not make the burning bush God. When Christ appeared as a rock to the children of Israel, it did not make the rock the person of Christ.

The scriptures say that one day, the elements shall melt (2 Peter 3:10).

That means physical elements and the forms the Christ takes cannot serve as our primary source of our revelation of Him.

FURTHER STUDY: 1 John 4:17, Colossians 3:1-3

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Physical elements cannot serve as our primary source of the revelation of God.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank you for this wonderful truth. I thank you because your love towards me gives me confidence that as you are so I am in this world. I refuse to be subject to the rudiments and elements of this world, and I choose to live above them. Every area of my life yields its form to your word. Every situation in my life yields to the divine revelation of your truth in my life. In Jesus’ glorious name. Amen.

The True Promise Of God

Apostle Grace Lubega

Exodus 3:8(KJV); And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Often times, we preach men ‘back into Egypt’ because we have not understood the true promise of God.

Many of our testimonies are of ‘Egypt’, for in Egypt, they had food, got married, had children and raised families.

These are what define promises to us and as such, we think that they form the ultimate basis of satisfaction in the Promised Land.

However, the Promised Land was a place flowing with milk and honey.

These two – that is the MILK and HONEY represent the Word of God. (1 Peter 2:2, Psalms 119:103).

This Promised Land was meant to be a place of the Word because knowledge is our true inheritance.

It is eternal life to KNOW the only true God and His son Jesus Christ (John 17:3).

The Holy Spirit is called the SPIRIT OF PROMISE (Ephesians 1:13) who leads us into all truth (John 16:13). It is He who searches out the deep and bottomless things of God and leads us therein.

The true promise of God is the knowledge of Him. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: John 17:3, John 16:13

GOLDEN NUGGET:

The true promise of God is the knowledge of Him.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for the great inheritance of knowledge. You are the God that fulfils promises—you have and continue to fulfil the promise of knowledge. I know that the windows of heaven have been thrown open and mighty rivers of revelation are poured incessantly from above. Lord I receive, I take it all, with no restraint, no veils and no barrier of traditions. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

The True Testimony

The Sardis Paradox

Apostle Grace Lubega

Revelation 3:1(KJV); And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

The altars from which we minister must constantly be burning with God’s fire.

Sadly, we live in a time where for some, the altar is ready, the sacrifice is prepared but there are no flames.

People do everything possible and are engaged in all forms of church programs to create the impression of fire but the hearts of men remain cold.

Some are calling fire from heaven and having no results because they have ignored the fact that in this dispensation, we do not call fire from heaven but call fire out of ourselves.

The Bible says of such that they are alienated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18).

Like the church at Sardis in our theme scripture, they may think that they are alive yet to God, they are dead.

You may have a form of godliness and yet be dead (2 Timothy 3:5), worship God and yet be dead, do all sorts of things to show that you are born again yet you are dead, to the extent that salvation becomes a very heavy burden.

Alienation from the God-life starts from the place of ignorance. This is the highest form of death.

The church at Sardis was dead to God because they were ignorant and did not know it.

What makes you alive unto God is the increasing knowledge and revelation of His person.

FURTHER STUDY: Ephesians 4:18, 2 Timothy 3:5

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Alienation from the God-life starts from the place of ignorance. What makes you alive unto God is the increasing knowledge and revelation of His person.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for your word. We are living in the times of the fulfilment of prophecy that in the last days, knowledge shall increase. I receive knowledge with an open spirit and a ready mind. Lord I choose to pay the price to know. Every day, you launch me into greater depths of your person. The more I know, the more alive I am to you and the more I manifest the God-life. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Voices Of God

Hedged In

Apostle Grace Lubega

Job 1:7-10 (KJV); And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

The protection of God in our lives is not only for us as individuals but also extends to everything that belongs to us.

As seen from our theme scripture, God placed a hedge, not only around Job but his house and all his belongings. 

God has hedged you in: His protection is not only from the outside but He has also ensured that certain things do not get to you. 

He has hidden you in a place that the fowl doesn’t know and that which the vulture’s eye has not seen (Job 28:7).

The Bible says, “The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.”(Psalms 16:5).

When the scriptures speak of Him maintaining your lot, it means that He keeps constant watch over what belongs to you, inspecting it like a guard to ensure that no harm has befallen it.

You are kept by God; His hand is also upon all your property. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Ecclesiastes 10:8, James 1:13

GOLDEN NUGGET:  
The protection of God in our lives is not only for us as individuals but also extends to everything that belongs to us.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this word. I thank you because you have put a hedge of protection around me and everything that pertains to me. I thank you Lord because you maintain my lot. Nothing that is mine can be taken away; what belongs to me eventually makes its way to me. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

The Zeal Of God

Apostle Grace Lubega

Isaiah 9:7 (KJV); Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

God orders and directs certain things in our lives by reason of His zeal towards us because He seeks to establish His eternal purpose.

Indeed, there is a place where we submit to God by obedience to the truth that He may work in us both to will and to do according to His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).

However, there is also a place where His zeal performs whatsoever happens in our lives.

These are the things that are bigger than our abilities; things we could never achieve by our own labour.

Take the example of Isaac the Patriarch. When he purposed in his heart to bless His son Esau, God, because of eternal purpose could not let this happen (Romans 9:11-13).

He ensured that Rebecca heard it, that she prepared venison and asked Jacob to pose as his brother Esau (Genesis 1:1-29).

Jacob was the elect of God and no amount of human will could stand in the way of his blessing.

By this same zeal, He orders your footsteps, increases your ministry, establishes your business and brings peace to your marriage and family. The zeal of the Lord is at work in your life. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 9:10-14, Malachi 1:2-3

GOLDEN NUGGET:

God orders and directs certain things in our lives by reason of His zeal towards us because He seeks to establish His eternal purpose. By this zeal, he orders your footsteps, increases your ministry, establishes your business and brings peace to your marriage and family. The zeal of the Lord is at work in your life.

PRAYER: Gracious Father, I thank you for this Word. It is working in my life. I thank you because you order my every footstep, thought and meditation. You establish your purpose in my life because of your great zeal toward me. I rest in knowing that you perfect that which concerns me. I live a life of purpose. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

In Christ’s Hand Writing

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Corinthians 3:3(KJV); Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

You are a written epistle.

The Message Bible version of our theme scripture says, “Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. CHRIST HIMSELF WROTE IT — not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives — and we publish it.”

The distinction on any true minister of the gospel is the wisdom to read a man’s life from the place and in the very print that Christ wrote it.

Some ministers read your life but from a different script. They speak lines that God did not place in your story.

For example, the Bible says of those in Zion, “And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick…” (Isaiah 33:24). You have come unto Zion, the city of the living God (Hebrews 12:22).

When a minister of the gospel tells you that you are sick, he is reading from the wrong script.

When he says you are poor, he is reading from the wrong script because He became poor that you may be rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). When he says you are judged and condemned, he is reading from the wrong script because He said you have been freely justified and that there is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ (Romans 3:24, Romans 8:1).

FURTHER STUDY: Philemon 1:6, Isaiah 33:24

GOLDEN NUGGET:

When a minister of the gospel tells you that you are sick, he is reading from the wrong script because none in Zion shall say, “I am sick.” When he says you are poor, he is reading from the wrong script because Christ became poor that you may be rich. When he says you are judged and condemned, he is reading from the wrong script because you have been freely justified by His grace!

PRAYER: My Lord I thank you for the story of my life, that which is not written by ink but by the Spirit and with your very own hand. I know who I am and read from the right script every day. I am blessed! I am healthy! I am anointed! I am rich! I am crowned with revelation! I am mantled by the wisdoms of eternity! I am shining with the glory of God! In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Glorious Stars

Apostle Grace Lubega

Numbers 24:17 (KJV); I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. 

The prophecy in our theme scripture related to Jesus Christ.

This is why when He was born, a star appeared in the sky representing Him in the spiritual realm (Matthew 2:2). 

We too, as children of God are stars (Deuteronomy 1:10) and come in the likeness of that one star Jesus. 

Jesus’ star was radiating with a distinctive brilliance and for this reason, it was seen and followed by the wise men.

If Jesus’ star was shining like any normal star, wise men wouldn’t have moved miles to bless him.

For this same reason, your star ought not to shine in an ordinary way. It must shine brightly like Jesus’ did, enough to attract. 

In 1 Corinthians 15:41, the Bible says that one star differs from another in glory. One man manifests a different level of glory from another. 

But the scriptures tell us that Jesus gave to you the very glory that was upon His life (John 17:22).

It means that you are called to shine as brightly as He did. This  glory  puts favour upon you! Praise God!

FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 4:18, Isaiah 60:1

GOLDEN NUGGET:

We are stars and we come in the likeness of that one star Jesus. You are called to shine as brightly as He did. 

PRAYER: Father in the name of Jesus, I thank you for this knowledge. I thank you because my star is shining brighter and brighter every other day. I radiate the glory of God. I walk in this wisdom and consciousness every day. Favour is upon my life! I attract great opportunities, I attract the right connections and I attract the right people. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Not A Son Of Terah