The Jesus We Believed

Apostle Grace Lubega

1 John 5:6(KJV); This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth.

The Jesus we believed came by water and blood. He did not come by water only but by WATER AND BLOOD.

The similar characteristic of water and blood is that they are both cleansers.

In Revelation 1:5, the Bible speaks of how He washed us from our sins in His own blood.

In Ephesians 5:26, when speaking of the water, He says that the Church has been sanctified and cleansed with the washing of water by the Word.

How did Christ cleanse the Church?

He did so by loving it; where there is no love, there is no sanctification.

This is why we preach the grace and not the law; the law does not speak love but wrath.

When Grace is preached, there is sanctification because we are imputing the righteousness of God upon men.

Embrace the revelation of His grace because it is what cleanses.

FURTHER STUDY: Revelation 1:5, Ephesians 5:26(MSG)

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Christ cleansed the Church by loving it; where there is no love, there is no sanctification.

PRAYER: My loving Father, I thank you for your love. Thank you for the gift of grace, mercy and kindness that draws me closer to you and deeper into communion with you. I am grateful because my fellowship with you is free of condemnation and wrath. In this very light, I see you in greater depths and dimension. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

In This Freedom We Live

Apostle Grace Lubega

Acts 2:23-24[AMP]; This Jesus, when delivered up according to the definite and fixed purpose and settled plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and put out of the way [killing Him] by the hands of lawless and wicked men. [But] God raised Him up, liberating Him from the pangs of death, seeing that it was not possible for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it.

Our theme scripture reveals that it was NOT POSSIBLE for death to continue to hold or retain Christ.

This means that in both the equation of heaven and earth, there was no window of opportunity whatsoever that could allow death to hold Him.

This was regardless of the power of death and the strength of its hold; it was not imaginable or even conceivable that death could have the upper hand.

This in itself is a statement of your victory as a child of the Most High God.

Regardless of how terrible a situation is, it is not possible for it to control you or to win.

Even the worst disease that dares to attack your body will have to leave, seeing that it is not possible for it to retain you.

God has put an expiry date to every plan of the enemy over your life.

By His power and grace, He has eliminated every single possibility of victory that the devil may ever have over your life.

Look at life in this understanding.

Let nothing shake you because it is NOT POSSIBLE that it can continue to hold you.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Isaiah 54:17(MSG), Colossians 2:15

GOLDEN NUGGET:

God has put an expiry date to every plan of the enemy over your life. By His power and grace, He has eliminated every single possibility of victory that the devil may ever have over your life.

PRAYER: My loving Father, I thank you for this Word. What a blessed assurance to know that I have constant victory in you. I am bigger than any circumstance and refuse to bow to any schemes of the enemy. I am more than a conqueror through Christ who strengthens me. In all things, I win because I have embraced this truth. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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The Double Cure

Apostle Grace Lubega

Isaiah 53:5(KJV); But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed.

The wounding of Christ for OUR TRANSGRESSIONS and His bruising for OUR INIQUITIES also had the inevitable result of bringing HEALING to our bodies.

Death to sin was death to disease and sickness.

It is the double cure.

You cannot believe in the forgiveness of sins and yet doubt that God can heal your body.

That is why when the Christ was faced with a man who had paralysis, He simply said, “Thy sins are forgiven” (Luke 5:20-25).

I know of Christians who believe that the diseases in their bodies are because God is punishing them for their sins; they embrace affliction as penance for their misdeeds.

Some have struggled with such diseases for years because they have not understood our theme scripture and its implications.

There is absolutely nothing God cannot take out of your body, whether it is cancer, tuberculosis, or any terminal illness.

However, you must also believe that you are forgiven.

To embrace His abundant mercy is to embrace healing.

Receive the forgiveness of God, divine health will follow.

FURTHER STUDY: Luke 5:20-25, 1 Peter 2:24

GOLDEN NUGGET:

The wounding of Christ for our transgressions and His bruising for our iniquities also had the inevitable result of bringing healing to our bodies. Death to sin was death to disease and sickness.

PRAYER: Loving Father, thank you for the great work at Calvary that purchased my forgiveness and healing. I embrace this truth in the understanding that I have the imputed righteousness of God and because I do, divine health is my portion. When I died to sin, I died to disease and now live in the daily experience of the life of God flowing through my body. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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In The Knowledge Realm

Apostle Grace Lubega

Mark 6:4-6(KJV); But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.

There are things that only exist in the knowledge realm; you can only access them by virtue of what you know in and by God.

In our theme scripture, when Jesus went to Nazareth, He could not do many mighty works because of their unbelief. When He realized the problem was unbelief, He went around the villages teaching.

If the son of God understood that the answer to unbelief is more teaching, you, child of God, cannot afford to do it any other way. If Jesus faced the unbelief of men and the teaching of the Word was the solution, there cannot be another way, He is the standard!

If you ever find yourself struggling with faith, listen deeper to the Word of God.

If you think things are not working out for you, go deeper into the scriptures.

The Lord said, “Give yourself wholly to these things that your profit may appear to all.”(1 Timothy 4:15).

A time comes where the Word of God sinks so much into your spirit that it is inevitable for you to have results.

Return to the Word, that is where the life of God is.

If you are faced with any daunting situation, search for what the Word has said on that particular issue, listen and study it until you have received an understanding of it.

The breakthrough will come.
Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: John 6:63, 1 Timothy 4:15

GOLDEN NUGGET:
There are things that only exist in the knowledge realm; you can only access them by virtue of what you know in and by God.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for the gift of your precious Word, my wellspring of life and the anchor for my soul. Your word is true and is forever settled in the heavens. I believe it from the depths of my heart; I look to it in all things and trust that what you promised and have spoken over my life will surely come to pass. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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The Privilege Of Righteousness

Apostle Grace Lubega

Romans 4:6-8(KJV); Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

THE PRIVILEGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

The gift of imputed righteousness is a great and wondrous privilege we have been accorded as children of the Most High God.

David saw it for what it was and could not help but exclaim, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”

The entire Old Testament is full of the privileges of righteousness as described by David. He says, “The Lord knows the way of the righteous”( Psalms 1:6); “Thou Lord will bless the righteous, with favor will you compass him as with a shield”( Psalms 5:12); “God is in the generation of the righteous”( Psalms 14:5); “The lips of the righteous feed many;”(Proverbs 10:21); “A righteous man may fall seven times and rise again”(Proverbs 24:16).

Think about it.

David saw the true status of such a man; that he is favored by God; that he is a source of blessing for many; that he never stays down when he falls; that his steps are ordered by God.

David claimed the promises of the righteous man yet he only lived in the shadow of your experience.

In describing everything about a righteous man, he was only pointing us to what we now have in and by Christ.

Righteousness is not just a doctrine or a moral character but it is the life of men who have understood God.

Embrace righteousness. Live in the confidence of one who is holy before God, upon whom God does not impute sin. This is your portion and story.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 3:21-22

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Righteousness is the life of men who have understood God. Embrace righteousness. Live in the confidence of one who is holy before God, upon whom God does not impute sin. This is your portion and story.

PRAYER: Loving Father, thank you for this Word. I am grateful for the gift of righteousness that you have imputed upon me. I receive it Lord and embrace it as my very nature. I am holy and blameless before you. You have stamped my every action with approval; I am right when I heal the sick; right when I choose to change the state of my nation. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Things That Make Ministers: To Raise A Child

1 Kings 11:1-4(KJV); But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love…For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Every man’s relationship and experience with God is entirely personal.

Simply because a parent has a relationship with God does not mean that the child will automatically have a relationship with God.

That is the deception that some men and women of God have; they assume that their children will automatically carry the mantles they have or that they will serve God simply because their parents serve God.

No one simply inherits the gene that loves God. The church of Christ is not a monarchy.

This is why, even though David was the man after God’s own heart, because he did not teach his son Solomon true worship, Solomon ended up bringing idols into the house of God.

It is the very same reason why despite the fact that Samuel was a great man of God who feared and loved Him, his sons did not walk in the ways of the Lord (1 Samuel 8:1-3).

Parents in ministry, especially men and women of God have to teach their children to serve God; you have to let them know that they have to experience God for themselves and go through the patterns of growth too.

It is only in the place of personal experience that they will see God like you do and serve Him like you do.

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Samuel 8:3, Proverbs 22:6

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Parents in ministry, especially men and women of God have to teach their children to serve God; you have to let them know that they have to experience God for themselves and go through the patterns of growth too.

PRAYER: My loving Father, I thank you for this instruction. I understand that every experience with you is personal and I yield myself to a deeper and personal knowledge of you. In this wisdom, I teach my children and instruct them on the way they should go. I point them to the God I love and serve every day. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

We Are The Body

Apostle Grace Lubega

Acts 9:3-6(AMP); As he traveled he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him [displaying the glory and majesty of Christ]; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice [from heaven] saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting and oppressing Me?” And Saul said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He answered, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

When our Lord and Master appeared to Saul on his way to Damascus, He did not ask him why he [Saul] was persecuting the Church or question him on why he was oppressing His people.

The Lord’s language is clear; He asked, “Saul, Saul, why are you PERSECUTING AND OPPRESSING ME?”

When Saul attacked the Church, He launched an attack against the Lord of heaven and earth Himself.
He told him, “It is hard to kick against the pricks.”(Acts 9:5). He meant that Saul had picked the wrong battle.

Anyone who touches you touches Jesus!

Anyone who fights you fights Jesus!

Anyone who sets themselves against you sets themselves against Jesus!

And God has defined the end of such an attempt. “It is hard…”

Whoever it is cannot win.

Walk with the confidence that you are the apple of His eye (Zechariah 2:8).

Live in the understanding that you and Him are one and what cannot defeat Him can most definitely not defeat you.

His name be praised.

FURTHER STUDY: Acts 17:28, 1 Corinthians 12:27

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Anyone who touches you touches Jesus! Anyone who fights you fights Jesus! Anyone who sets themselves against you sets themselves against Jesus!

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this Word. I stand in the liberty of knowing that I am yours; in you I live, move and have my being. You are my fortress and my shield. I stand in the confidence that nothing can destroy me because when they touch me, they touch you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

When We Win Souls

Apostle Grace Lubega

Luke 7:33-35(KJV); For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children.

The wisdom of God upon our lives is our vindication. People will always speak all kinds of things about you; they will insult and slander you. However, they should never question the wisdom of God upon your life.

Christ was accused of eating with the wicked, of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber but the wisdom that worked in Him was beyond question.

Even what seemed like foolishness as He hang on the cross turned out to be great wisdom. The Bible says that if the rulers of this world had had wisdom, they would not have killed the son of glory. Even in His death, there was wisdom (1 Corinthians 2:8).

Despite all the accusations and persecution against the Christ, in the end, what He did brought many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10). That is why the Bible says that they that are wise win souls; it is wisdom to win men to God (Proverbs 11:30).

The Church of Christ has withstood ridicule over time; it has been branded as cultic, revolutionary and even as opium of the people.

It has stood through the ages because of the operation of wisdom. The wisdom herein is that the Church is the conduit through which men are brought to God; souls are won and nations turned to Christ.

Every time you draw people to Christ is an operation of wisdom upon your life.

Turn your eyes away from the naysayers, the persecutors and those that maliciously accuse you. As long as you are in the service of the Father, winning men to Him, wisdom will always be your vindication.

The world will always look at your life and know that you were indeed wise.

His name be praised.

FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 11:30, Daniel 12:3

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Every time you draw people to Christ is an operation of wisdom upon your life.

PRAYER: My loving God, I thank you for this Word. You have been made my wisdom and I walk in that understanding every day. Because I am wise, I preach the gospel; because I am wise I hunger for the manifestation of your glory in my nation and in my world. Because I am wise, I do everything to pay the price for souls. To the glory of your name. Amen.

In The Pursuit Of Mastery

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Timothy 2:5(KJV); And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

The laws of mastery were designed for people who understand that they have the seed of greatness in them.

These laws are patterns laid out for those that aspire for all that they are in God.

They do not favor mediocrity and neither do mediocre people honor and respect them.

Our theme scripture reveals that if you desire mastery, you can never be crowned as a master until you learn to live according to the laws that lead to mastery.

Predictability is a form of mediocrity. Predictable Christians are mediocre Christians.

The primary source of Christian mediocrity and hence predictability is their refusal to embrace their identity in the spirit and to live according to the laws that define that realm.

C.S Lewis said, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

The realm of the spirit has laws by which the child of God operates; the law of faith; the law of love; the law of the Spirit of life and so many others.

You can only claim a place of mastery in this world when you learn to live by the laws of the spirit.

Embrace your identity in God. Live in its consciousness every moment of your life.

Refuse to be predictable and mediocre.

Mastery is your portion in Christ.

FURTHER STUDY: John 3:8, 1 Corinthians 9:25

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The realm of the spirit has laws by which the child of God operates; the law of faith; the law of love; the law of the Spirit of life and so many others. You can only claim a place of mastery in this world when you learn to live by the laws of the Spirit.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this wisdom. You have destined me for greatness; to make my mark on the world, I am a city set on a hill that cannot be hid. I know that I am peculiar, anointed and separated by you. I walk in the knowledge and understanding of this reality; I pattern my life after the principles of the Spirit that make great men and women. To the glory of your name, Amen.

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The Comfort Of The Scriptures

Apostle Grace Lubega

Nehemiah 1:1(KJV); The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.

God comforts us through knowledge and revelation.

Sometimes, we expect the comfort of God to come to us physically like a mother would wrap her hands around a child. He does that too but He does so through knowledge.

From our theme scripture, the Hebrew name Nehemiah is translated to mean “Jehovah comforts” while the Hebrew name Hachaliah means “whom Jehovah enlightens.”

God is teaching us something from this pattern of identity and of naming; that He comforts us by His enlightenment.

Paul in Romans 15:4 speaks of the comfort of the scriptures that give us hope. In 2 Corinthians 1:3-5; He speaks of how the Lord comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble with the very comfort we received from God.

When He said “He is your strength”, that is comfort.

When He said “He is the lifter of your head”, that is comfort.

When He said “He is your righteousness, justification, wisdom, peace, the beginning and the end”, that is comfort!

You don’t need people to always tell you that it is going to be okay, that it is well with you. Often times, you may find yourself alone without a shoulder to lean on.

Simply embrace the Word of God.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 15:4, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God comforts us through knowledge and revelation.

PRAYER: My Lord, I thank you for the scriptures. In them, I find peace, joy, understanding and hope. I look to your Word regardless of the circumstances of my life because they are the reality I behold. Like you were faithful to Abraham, you are faithful to me. Like you stood beside Moses as he stood before the Red sea, Lord you stand with me. Like you stood by David before Goliath, you stand by and in me. In all things, I choose to draw my strength from you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Our Language

Apostle Grace Lubega

Genesis 2:17(KJV); But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Any fruit or seed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads to death.

It was a principle set from the beginning of the earth when the Lord told Adam and Eve that if they ate from that tree they would SURELY DIE. It is not debatable; death is the sure end of anything born of the knowledge of good and evil.

But what is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

It is the fruit of your lips; what you say with your tongue. The bible says a wholesome tongue is a tree of life…(Proverbs 15:4)

Some people often complain about why we insist that a Christian should be perfect in speech; why they should never make any negative confession. They claim that life is not rosy all the time and we have to acknowledge some realities.

They are rich by Christ but when their pockets are empty, they believe it is fine to confess that they have no money.

By Christ’s stripes, they were healed but they are fine with confessing sickness when their bodies are afflicted.

That is eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible says you will surely die.

Certain ministries die for no other reason than that they eat of the knowledge of good and evil. They swing between positive and negative confession depending on their circumstances.

Some marriages die for no other reason than that the couples eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God calls us to eat of the tree of life in acknowledging every good thing that is in us in Christ Jesus.

FURTHER STUDY: Philemon 1:6, Proverbs 18:21

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God calls us to eat of the tree of life in acknowledging every good thing that is in us in Christ Jesus.

PRAYER: My loving Father, I thank you for this Word. In you, I have everlasting life because I eat from the tree of life; the words of my lips are seasoned with truth and the reality of who I am in you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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When The Blind See

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 11:2-5(KJV); Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

The ultimate sign of the operation of the person of Christ in the life of a believer is firstly, sight.

This is why in the order of the manifestation of the works and glory of God as seen from our theme scripture, sight to the blind is the first to be mentioned.

Understand that this is not only physical sight but spiritual sight.

It was the heart of Christ during His life on the earth. He tells Nathaniel, “Greater things shall you see” (John 1:50).

There are realities of the Christ through His Word that He wants us to see.

Paul follows this mandate and declared that his part was “To make men see…” (Ephesians 3:9).
God wants you to open the Word and see; for your eyes to be opened to His insights and His person. What are His depths, height, breadth, and length? Who is Christ? How does the line of the Melchizedec priesthood work? How do we minister in the sanctuary?

It is one thing to open a blind eye physically but it is another to cause a man to see God.

It is one thing to make a lame man walk physically but it is another to open the Word and point Him to the Christ.

Miracles are wonderful but perform them and let men see Christ in His depth.

Prophecy is good and has its place but having seen something about an individual, let them see Christ through His Word so that the Word and the Spirit agree.

FURTHER STUDY: John 1:50, Luke 24:27

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The ultimate sign of the operation of the person of Christ in the life of a believer is firstly, sight. This is not only physical but spiritual sight.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank you for this Word. It casts vision upon my spirit and causes me to see you deeper. The eyes of my understanding are flooded with light. I know the hope for which I am called and the riches of your glorious inheritance in the saints. By this very sight, I walk in the spirit and by this very sight, I am cleansed from any form of leprosy. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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