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.

The Miraculous Faculty

Apostle Grace Lubega

Romans 1:11 (KJV): For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

In our theme scripture, the word used for “gift” is charisma, which among other things, is translated to mean, a “miraculous faculty”.

Paul sought to impart in the church a faculty and not just the product of the faculty. He sought to impart a miraculous faculty rather than to simply perform miracles amidst them; to show them how to fish rather than give them fish; to make them suppliers of spiritual things rather than just receivers of them.

Saints, it is maturity to place a demand on the faculty as opposed to just what the faculty can do.

So, child of God, don’t just ask for a job, get something that causes jobs to look for you. Don’t ask for fish, ask for how to fish. Don’t ask for healing, ask for what makes you heal. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Matthew 4:19, 1 Corinthians 2:6

GOLDEN NUGGET: 
Child of God, don’t ask for a job, get something that causes jobs to look for you. Don’t ask for fish, ask for how to fish. Don’t ask for healing, ask for what makes you heal.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this day. Thank you for your instruction on how to pray and the things that define how I must seek you. Today, I choose to place a demand on the things that make men; the things that distinguish us in substance. To the glory of your name. Amen.

To Feel After God

Apostle Grace Lubega

Acts 17:27(KJV): That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

As Christians, sometimes we are selfish in our pursuit of God because we seek Him for our personal needs and gratification.

Someone is asking for the anointing and the grace to flow in the miraculous simply for his own benefit so that he or she may be seen as being powerful.

Where is the feeling after God?

Where is compassion?

Instead of panting for the anointing and the power to heal or to demonstrate the Spirit, ask yourself, ‘Do I feel His compassion? Do I love like Jesus loves?

This is because that is the very reason Jesus heals; the very reason He wins souls; the very reason He casts out devils.

I weep for the generation that does not want this love but wants its products!

Until you truly start to feel after God, you will never be able to die for the cause of what God is doing in this day.

You may be attracted to its glory and yet be too alive in the flesh to die for it.

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 12:15, Matthew 14:14

GOLDEN NUGGET: 

Until you truly start to feel after God, you will never be able to die for the cause of what God is doing in this day. You may be attracted to its glory and yet be too alive in the flesh to die for it.

PRAYER: My loving God, I thank you for this Word. My heart is on the altar this day and yield to the working of your grace and Spirit. You cause me to love like you do, see things like you see them and desire what your heart desires. Out of the abundance of what you do in me, I minister. To the glory of your name. Amen.

To Be Dealt With By God

Apostle Grace Lubega

Romans 15:18 (MSG): I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures, only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that triggered a believing response among the outsiders.

There is a difference between what God does IN a man and what He does THROUGH a man.

You may heal the sick and stay sick; you can cast out demons and stay demonised. You may teach wealth and be poor.

The grace of God that causes men to respond to the message you preach both in word and in deed comes when a man ministers from what God has done IN him.

What isn’t coming from what God has done and placed within you cannot reproduce a grace to work in another man’s life.

As a Christian who seeks to grow, you ought to be more focused on what God works in you than what He works through you. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Galatians 6:17, John 21:18

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The grace of God that causes men to respond to the message you preach both in word and in deed comes when a man ministers from what God has done IN him.

PRAYER: My loving God I thank you for the life you have given me and the great call you have ordained me for. Thank you because you are dealing with me every day and working in me the character of the Spirit: integrity, diligence, faithfulness, fortitude and the many things that set me apart as a child of God.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Revive Or Offend

Apostle Grace Lubega

1 Corinthians 1:18 (KJV): For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

The gospel operates two way: it either revives or offends.

The scripture says that it is foolishness to those that are perishing but is the power of God to us that are saved.

Some people are so concerned with saying the “right things” and in doing so, they compromise the message of the gospel.

They fear to offend certain groups of people in the name of being “sensitive.”

Some have gone so far as to never mention God in their own version of the gospel because we must be religiously “tolerant.”

This compromise in itself amounts to being unequally yoked.

If you are neither reviving nor offending by the message you preach then you are most probably being political.

We have not been called to diplomatic neutrality in this gospel. We have been called to preach Christ dead and resurrected.

We lift up Jesus at all times and in all things because He is the answer. Praise Him!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 2:15-16, Jude 1:3

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The gospel operates two way: it either revives or offends.

PRAYER: My God I thank you for the gospel! It is both the power and the wisdom of Jesus Christ; it’s the hope for the world and the answer to the cry of the nations.
God I preach it without disguise and compromise, and behold the doctrine of Christ with a clear conscience.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.