Fish And Bread

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 7:7-10 (KJV): Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

In our theme scripture, the bread represents the Word of God and the fish represents souls of men.

When Christ uses the allegory of the fish and bread, He seeks to point us to what our ultimate prayer as children of God should be: the Word and souls.

That is why you must always ask God to TEACH YOU and USE YOU to win souls. That is why we seek God! Fish and Bread: souls and the Word.

It is deception to think that in asking, seeking and knocking, it is so God gives us cars, jobs or houses.

There is nothing that money can buy that equates to a soul. There is nothing money can buy that equates to the Word of God.

That is why we spend on the Word: we buy truth and sell it not. That is why we do all we must do to win souls to the kingdom!

At the end of your life, you must have fish and bread to show for your days on the earth!

The principle of multiplication is around fish and bread for when He(Jesus) has fish and bread then He feeds the five thousand.

Praise Him!

FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 23:23, 2 Corinthians 12:15

GOLDEN NUGGET:

It is deception to think that in asking, seeking and knocking, it is so God gives us cars, jobs or houses. There is nothing that money can buy that equates to a soul. There is nothing money can buy that equates to the Word of God.

PRAYER: Father, I am greatly humbled by this truth. These great words give me a reason to live for they cast light on a cause that is greater than self. I thank you for redefining my desires. I thank you for pointing me to fish and bread as the ultimate focus of my prayer: to win souls and to know your Word. I pant after these things every single day of my life. You satisfy me Lord, with this sum of all good things. To the glory of your name. Amen.

It All Starts From Love

Apostle Grace Lubega

Ephesians 1:15-18 (KJV): Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints

Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus that they may receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation and that the eyes of their understanding be flooded with light.

What is important to note in all this is that it all began from a place of love. The scripture reveals “…after I heard of your faith in the Lord and love unto all saints, cease not to give thanks for you…”

Paul made it a point to pray for the Church at Ephesus to receive the Spirit of revelation having heard of their faith in the Lord and LOVE unto all the saints.

In the absence of AGAPE- the unconditional Love of God, the revelation received by a man may be from another light.

It is easy to get excited about the depths in God but depth must find itself in love.

That is why Paul speaks of the depth, breadth, length and height of love (Ephesians 3:8).

God is love BEFORE He is revelation. He is love BEFORE He is deep. He is love BEFORE He is broad. He is love BEFORE He is high.

God is love and those that do not love do not know God!(1 John 4:8)

You can be deep and yet not know God but you cannot love and not know God. Praise God!

FURTHER STUDY: Ephesians 3:8, 1 John 4:8

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God is love and those that do not love do not know God. You can be deep and yet not know God but you cannot love and not know God.

PRAYER: My loving father, when you loved the world, you gave. By love you drew me to yourself and still by love you keep me.
My Lord mysteries did not save me, depth did not save me, love did. This day, cause me to love deeper than ever before. May my life carry this one consistent testimony that I love God and God loves people through me.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Discipling Nations

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 28:19 (KJV): Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

We live in a time when some Christians have built big churches in their nations but these Christians are not necessarily a voice in that nation.

The nation can dictate what the Church does and even has the capacity to take away the church’s license to continue its operations.

What a tragedy!

Part of the problem is because the pattern of discipleship has been misunderstood. They have raised disciples of Jesus Christ in the nation but have not discipled the nation.

God did not send us to simply make disciples IN nations.

He sent us to make disciples OF nations.

Make your nation a disciple of Jesus Christ.

That is a very big responsibility.

God doesn’t want to merely give you the biggest church in your nation, He wants your nation to bow to the name of Jesus Christ.

If we are to talk about a big church in a nation, it’s size should relate with the extent to which that nation has seen Jesus through your ministry, not just the numbers. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 1:5, Philippians 2:10-11

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God did not send us to simply make disciples IN nations. He sent us to make disciples OF nations.

PRAYER: Father God, I thank you for the great mandate of nation discipleship. What a responsibility! Thank you because you have equipped me as an able minister for this great task. I hear the sound of nations calling and know that in me you have placed their answers. I am your vessel Lord, and today, I say that I am available. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

By His Sword

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 10:34-35 (KJV): Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Every Born Again Christian needs a wilderness experience.

This is not a physical wilderness but a spiritual experience in which, among other things,God separates you from anything on which you ordinarily depend be it friends, colleagues or family.

That is the essence of His sword: it separates father from son, daughter from mother and daughter in law from mother-in-law. This does not necessarily mean that they are bad people. What it means is that you cease to keep around them so often because you are always driven to the presence of God and to places of solitude. Seeing “Canaan” sometimes requires that you leave your own.

You may have lost people who were previously close to you thinking that it is a spirit of rejection at work in your life. No! God is separating you so He can work in you.

Your family, colleagues and friends may not understand you now but don’t let that disturb you; allow God to work through you.

A time will come when you will return, like Christ did, from the wilderness in the power of the Holy Ghost; you will come back in glory to demonstrate the power of God. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Matthew 4:1, Luke 4:14

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Your family, colleagues and friends may not understand you now but don’t let that disturb you; allow God to work through you. God is separating you so He can work in you. A time will come when you will return from the wilderness in the power of the Holy Ghost; you will come back in glory to demonstrate the power of God.

PRAYER: My father, thank you for your Word. I yield to your working in me. Every day you teach me the importance of depending on you; you shape me, mould me and break me for your purpose. Even as you deal in me, I know it can only be that you eventually deal through me: to change many, to draw many to you and to demonstrate your glory.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Heaven Consciousness

Apostle Grace Lubega

John 3:31 (KJV): He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

As a child of God, you ought to have a heavenly consciousness.

Many people have allowed their lives to be patterned by this world. Their thoughts are defined by the world; their finances are determined by the world; their health is shaped by the world; their dreams are defined by the world!

You are born from above, your citizenship is of heaven!

How does one that is heaven conscious operate?

The Greek Word for “from”, used with regard to the New Creature being from heaven is “ek.”

It makes reference to “place, time or cause.”

This means that heaven consciousness requires that you understand your heavenly dwelling, operate by heavenly time and live for and by heavenly causes.

This is a simple yet deeply profound truth.

You may know it in your mind but are you conscious of it? Have you exercised your spirit to yield to its reality?

You are not of this world, child of light.

You are a heavenly being; you speak a heavenly language, you move according to eternal time and execute eternal agendas on the earth.

Set your eyes on things above. Speak like a man from above! Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Hebrews 12:22, Philippians 3:20

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Heaven consciousness requires that you understand your heavenly dwelling, operate by heavenly time and live for and by heavenly causes.

PRAYER: My father, I thank you for the life in Christ. I may be in the world but I am not of the world. My Lord while on the earth, you set a pattern for how one who is out of this world should live. I walk in the consciousness of one whose dwelling is above; I yield to the timing of the Spirit and give my life to the purposes of heaven. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Grace Of Endurance

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Timothy 1:8 (KJV): Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God…

When you are deeply anointed by God, it also follows that you will be deeply afflicted for the sake of the gospel. Some Christians forget this.

They admire the miracles and demonstrations of power and hunger for the portion of the anointing on another man’s life.

But the question is, are you ready to be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel?

The anointing has a price to it and part of this price is ENDURANCE.

Be ready to pay the price. But in paying this price, remember that the grace is always greater than the price to be paid.

So, we are not of those who speak of a price without the grace to pay for it.

Like our theme scripture has revealed, you can only endure affliction according to the power of God. The Message version says, “We can only keep on going after all, by the power of God.” Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Timothy 2:3, John 16:33

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The anointing has a price to it and part of this price is ENDURANCE. Be ready to pay the price. But in paying this price, remember that the grace is always greater than the price to be paid.

PRAYER: My God I thank you for your Word. I am grateful for your strength and power that is constantly at work through me. It builds in me the convictions of fortitude and the ability to endure all things for the sake of the gospel. This gospel is my life and nothing can ever cause me to draw back because of your grace and power at work in me. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Grace Dispensation

Apostle Grace Lubega

Ephesians 3:2 (KJV): If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.

The grace of God is not just a doctrine.

Neither is it merely one of the attributes of God such as mercy and forgiveness.

Our theme scripture calls it a DISPENSATION.

It means that in both history and eternity, it was accorded a time period.

When we say that we are living in a grace dispensation, it means that anything done outside the revelation of this grace is not in accord with these times as understood in the Spirit.

You must understand these times, child of truth because these times are tagged to purpose and the divine plan of God. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Peter 1:12, John 1:17

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The Grace is not just a doctrine, it is a dispensation.

PRAYER: Father God, what a pleasure to be alive in this day! I thank you for your grace. Thank you for the new covenant that is built on better promises. Thank you for the blood of Christ that speaks better things than that of Abel. Thank you because this is not a day of vengeance but of your mercy poured out to us. I grow in grace and as I do, I am aligned to eternal purpose and course.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Crown Of Wisdom

Apostle Grace Lubega

Ephesians 3:10 (KJV): To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God

God has revealed to us the incredible truth that it is the responsibility of the Church to demonstrate the MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD to the powers and principalities.

Principalities do not understand a prayer warrior, they understand the WISDOM of a prayer warrior.

You may pray so hard but if your prayer is not in the WISDOM OF GOD, you will never have the results of prayer.

You need WISDOM!

These principalities are waiting to see the wisdom coming out of your spirit, they will bow to you!

When God wants to fix your marriage, He will give you wisdom. When He wants to heal your body, He gives you wisdom. When He wants to change your finances, He will give you wisdom.

Seek wisdom and this wisdom is in the precious Word of God. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 11:33, 1 Corinthians 2:7

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God has revealed to us the incredible truth that it is the responsibility of the Church to demonstrate the MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD to the powers and principalities.

PRAYER: My father, I thank you for the crown of wisdom. This wisdom operates in every area of my life and causes circumstances to bow to the knowledge of who you are. Oh! I am wise! I am wise in my relationships, I am wise in my business, I am wise in my career, I am wise in my family! To the glory of your name. Amen.

Love, The Revealed Experience

Apostle Grace Lubega

Ephesians 3:19 (AMP): And [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].

Love is an experience.

There are some that claim to love God but don’t really love Him. When they say they love Him, it is because it sounds like a good thing to say or they heard it in a song.

But when you truly examine their spirits, such people are very far from the true definition of love.

You can never understand God’s love without the experience of it.

When your love relationship starts from the place of experience, it is then that you will start to truly know God.

Your relationship ceases to comprise of one sided conversations and becomes a deep friendship which is a two way street; you responding to God and God responding to you.

Seek love, the revealed experience. When you receive it, God substitutes all your pleasures with Himself.

The things that used to give you joy, if they are not of God will nolonger give you that joy because you have truly fallen in love with God.

FURTHER STUDY: Psalms 16:11, 1 John 4:8

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Love is an experience. You can never understand God’s love without the experience of it.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for your love; it is the depth in depth; the breadth in breadth; the height in height. It fills all things and saturates every area of my life. Today I choose to walk in the deep assurance that I am sincerely and overwhelmingly loved by you and that nothing can ever separate me from this love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

An Open Invitation

Apostle Grace Lubega

Song of Solomon 1:4 (KJV): Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Solomon speaks of an intimate relationship between the King and His love, which represents the relationship between Christ and each one of us, His bride the Church.

He says, “Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers.”

This starts with an invitation from God Almighty; it is He who draws us.

You can never have a proper relationship with God without understanding that it is He who invites you into His chambers rather than you inviting yourself.

God wants you to relate with Him based on your response to His invitation.

Go into the presence of God with the knowledge that He invited you and eagerly awaits to spend time with you.

Have the constant expectation that with this open invitation, God delights in communing with you.

This is what makes prayer A LOVE AFFAIR! Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: John 6:44, Hosea 11:4

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God wants you to relate with Him based on your response to His invitation. Go into the presence of God with the knowledge that He invited you and eagerly awaits to spend time with you.

PRAYER: My loving father, thank you for the open invitation into your courts. Boldly, I come to the throne of grace knowing that you are my audience and I have your attention. I delight in basking in your presence because of the things you make me feel. Thank you for your love, for the things you reveal and for the constant and absolute pleasure of simply being with you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Life And Immortality To Light

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Timothy 1:10 (KJV):…But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

It is one thing to have the revelation of life, to understand that the life of God is in you and that it revitalises your mortal body and kills the transactions of the flesh but it is another to have the revelation of both life and immortality.

This is the purpose of the gospel!

Our theme scripture says that it has brought life and immortality to light.

It means that through the gospel we have received the revelation of both the life of God and the fact that anything we do under the operation of that life is immortal.

Without this revelation, people walk in the darkness of two things: the fear that some thing will die and the further fear that if it dies, it will not revive again.

Child of eternity, not only do you have the God life but whatsoever you do and have in God is immortal. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Matthew 24:35, John 10:10

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Through the gospel we have received the revelation of both the life of God and the fact that anything we do under the operation of that life is immortal.

PRAYER: My loving God, I thank you for this day. I am grateful for this revelation and the weight of this truth! Oh, how great is this understanding! I have the life of the Spirit and whatsoever I do and touch will never die. My ministry, vision and everything about my life demonstrates the life of God but deeper than that, they will never die. In Jesus’ name. Amen.