Resonance

Category: Religion

  • When God Became Man

    When God Became Man

    “But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,”

    ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭4:4‬ ‭GNB‬‬

    Jesus is the Son of God. Unlike us, Jesus chose the time He would be born; the perfect time ( Gal 4:4). But to us, God’s perfect time is usually not what we think it is.

    Jesus wasn’t born in the golden era of King Solomon, when there was so much peace and gold that even silver was considered worthless (1 Kings 10:21). No! He was born at the time of the Roman Empire, when Israel was still under the rule of the Romans.

    Julius Caesar is considered the most famous emperor of all time. When he died, he was canonized as a god. His son was enthroned and made Augustus Caesar, the emperor at the time Jesus was born (Luke 2:1).

    Augustus Caesar went by the title, the son of god (his father Julius Caesar) and he himself was also made a living god. He was popularly called our lord and master. Sounds familiar? These titles are what Jesus is popularly known by in our world today. But at the time he was born, it was popularly known to be the titles of Caesar across the entire world.

    By Jesus (popularly known to be a carpenter’s son) claiming to be the Son of God and God Himself, the Lord and Master, he was placing Himself in direct opposition with the emperor, the ruler of the world at the time.

    Jesus didn’t oppose Caesar but accepted his lordship in that world by claiming that His Kingdom is not of this world.

    What do we learn here? The fullness of God’s appointed time comes with the fullness of adversity. The more detailed the vision, the more entailed the opposition.

    Don’t ever think that because God has promised it, everything is going to run smooth. God can do it without promising, but the reason why He is promising you is because a rough road is coming. He gives you His promise so you have something to hold on to when the hard times come your way.

    Thus, the saying; He never promised an easy road but a safe landing. Hold on. God’s time is still the best!

    I love you ❤️

  • The Mystery of Revelation: Whatever Doesn’t Change You Unmakes You

    The Mystery of Revelation: Whatever Doesn’t Change You Unmakes You

    The purpose of revelation is not to get us all hyper and enthused of how deep it is. The purpose of revelation is for transformation. Whatever revelational knowledge that doesn’t change you makes you religious.

    It’s not that there are two sides of the same truth, but there’s the complementary side of it that makes the whole truth look contradictory. For example, Grace gives us what we don’t deserve and Mercy doesn’t give us the demise we deserve. Yet, we ought not to be deceived, for we reap whatever we sow. Contradictory? Not! Complementary.

    Truth is One, but not all truths are the same. Some truths are greater than the others. Therefore, it is necessary what we emphasize. The truth is One, but within truth, there’s an order. This order of Truth is as important as the entire Truth itself. For example, prosperity is important but not as important as salvation. Therefore, if prosperity becomes the foundation upon which salvation is built, the essence of the Truth of both salvation and prosperity is lost.

    Always remember that there’s no bigger revelation than the Cross, for every new revelation emanates from there. The Truth must be laid brick by brick, precept upon precept; built on the right solid foundation. Otherwise, any deeper revelation would rather destroy us and lead us astray rather than take us deeper.

    Selah ❤️

  • God’s Sovereignty & Man’s Responsibility

    God’s Sovereignty & Man’s Responsibility

    God’s sovereignty goes hand-in-hand with man’s responsibility. It’s not that God is incapacitated. He desires partnership. Therefore, he leaves certain decisions to a man that has an everlasting effect. He ordains man’s actions and establishes it.

    “Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2:19‬ ‭NIV‬

    One of such ordinances is marriage. Inasmuch as God knows the end from the beginning, no one is predestined to be your spouse. Aside from God’s Sovereignty, God allows for your choice and ordains it.

    “No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭17:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬

    Another of such ordinances is your name. Our names aren’t just for this life. It’s forever. No one calls Abraham Abram anymore. His name was changed and established forever. The names we place on people are ordained up until another ordinance is made. A king can only change a decree by making another decree.

    Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18:18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

    What Jesus said is an ancient, old mystery; that man has a God-given partnership deal to establish everlasting decrees and have them ordained by God. Now my question is, what are you going to do with it?

    I love you ❤️

  • If God Is Real, Why Does Evil Exist?

    Why does evil exist? Saying God doesn’t exist because the world isn’t perfect is like saying doctors aren’t real because diseases still exist. It’s a fallen world. Everything inclines to the negative. Put one sick person in a room with healthy people and everyone will eventually get sick. Put one good apple in a basket with bad apples and none will turn good. It is what it is!

    It’s so easy to blame God for all the evil things that happen in our world because He foreknew and did nothing about it. It is easier to blame God than to live with our own failures.

    “Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid actions and then blame the LORD.” Proverbs‬ ‭19:3‬ ‭GNB‬‬

    Why does evil exist? Evil doesn’t happen because God permits it. No thief needs permission to steal something that isn’t theirs. The enemy doesn’t ask for permission to kill, steal and destroy. He didn’t ask for permission to sow weeds among the tares.

    He doesn’t need permission, he needs submission. Submission of the human tendency to lie, be greedy, lustful, slothful, envious, wrathful and proud.

    It boils down to us. God has prevented more evil than it has ever occurred, but we’d never know or even believe. The little we could do is blame him for our mistakes and irresponsibilities, ironically.

    “But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.” ‭‭Eccl‬ ‭7:29‬ ‭NLT‬‬

    If evil exists, it’s because WE have allowed it. God will always give us a choice. Where there is no love, there’s no choice. The human will is greater than the strongest evil. It’s about time we took responsibility for our own choices and actions and fought evil with good.

    I love you ❤️

  • Is Jesus The Only Way To God?

    Is Jesus The Only Way To God?

    If God wanted everyone to come to Him, why would he create a narrow path that only a few can thread on? Why won’t He make Himself more accessible?

    The problem is not God. Man failed and fell short. We broke our partnership with the divine and tried so hard to be God. We have each turned to follow our own downward path. Each time God tried to establish a way back to Himself through one man or the other, they failed Him and directed everyone to themselves.
    So guess what? God decided to do it Himself. Since through one man – Adam – man fell, it was only through another “Adam” that man could be reconciled with His Creator. So the Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of men will become the sons of God.

    Jesus was the only man who fully walked with God and obeyed every ordained Word of God, thereby establishing the path back to God. By reconciling everyone to Himself, He had reconciled everyone back to God, for He is God Himself.
    But hei…this is the Good News; there’s only one way to God: Jesus, but there are many ways to Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
    I love you ❤️

  • Exploring the Kingdom

    Exploring the Kingdom

    Man has a natural inherent and incumbent desire to increase. Our brain has been modeled in such a way that it gets tired of stagnation, doldrums and boredom. So the next time someone complains that something is “one-way”, realise that we have the natural desire to increase in everything we do.

    Embrace this natural and pure desire and use to explore the goodness of God inside of you, inside of nature and inside of the Kingdom. When Jesus said “seek ye first the Kingdom…”, He wasn’t talking about something you do just once. The word “seek” is the Greek word zeeteite which means desire, enquire, marinate, discover.

    Jesus was saying discover the many things in the Kingdom; righteousness, peace, joy, prosperity, wisdom, riches, power, blessings, authority, honor, glory, revelations, miracles, signs, wonders, manifestations, success, strength, laughter, happiness and many many more. There’s always more in the Kingdom. Abundance. Increase. Growth. Development. Infinite. Unending. Everlasting. Eternal.

    A. A. Allen, who God used to perform many creative and dramatic miracles in his day, said and i paraphrase; don’t be afraid to go as far as impossible with God. No Christian has walked with God as far as God wants us to.

    When we discover, marinate, seek His Kingdom within you (Luke 17:21) and His Righteousness which is you (2 Corinthians 5:21); allllllllllllllll these things shall be added unto us.

    Tune your inherent desire to the Kingdom, and the things of the Kingdom which the world seeks shall naturally be yours.

  • The Faith Of God

    The Faith Of God

    “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith…”
    Hebrews 12:2

    Faith in the Greek world basically means “God’s persuasion”. Faith isn’t man’s work. It is God’s. He’s the author and perfecter of your faith. He believes in you and that’s how you’re able to believe in him.

    And also, everywhere that says “faith in God” actually translates as “faith of God” in the Greek (Mark 11:22). Not that God needs faith but that your faith in God is sourced from His faith in you.

    This is why Paul says there’s “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph 4:5) and that’s because it’s Christ’s faith we all have. You don’t take part in perfecting or puffing up your faith. Christ does it for you in you. Remember, He is the author (He gave you a measure of faith: Romans 12:3) and finisher (perfecter, completer: Phil 1:6) of Faith.

    “…even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not (visible yet) as though they were”.
    Romans 4:17

    Faith isn’t a magical substance. What we understand as faith is merely waking up to a reality that has always been here.

  • The Realities Of Faith

    The Realities Of Faith

    “For we walk by faith, and not by sight.”
    2 Corinthians 5:7
    “the just shall live by faith.”
    Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38

    Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

    Faith is seeing with God’s Eyes. The LORD, the timeless God, sees not as man sees. Everything that is happening or will ever happen has been planned and prepared beforehand, even before the foundations of the world.

    For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
    Ephesians 2:10 NKJV

    God not only knows the future; God in reality is the future. (Rev 1:8)

    Don’t live from earth towards heaven, live from heaven towards earth. Why? Cuz you’re a citizen of Heaven.

    We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.
    Philippians 3:20 GNB

    God’s Word is settled in Heaven (Psalm 119:108). In God’s time, there is no future. Therefore, when we see through God’s eyes, we speak from the future into our present realities.

    This is the true meaning of prophecy. Prophecy is not speaking from the present into the future. It is rather speaking from the future into present realities. And there is an evidence, a knowing, a confident assurance, that it will come to pass. That is Faith.

  • Was Jesus’ Death An Afterthought?

    Was Jesus’ Death An Afterthought?

    Once upon a time, there lived Adam and Eve in a beautiful fragrant Garden called Eden. Heaven on Earth. Then a serpent came by, and the rest was history. Man has fallen. Sin has entered into the heart of man. What will God do now? Wait thousands of years after to die on the Cross?

    The Gospel is not that man fell and rose up again. The Gospel is that man mystically rose up even before He fell. For many generations, Evangelism has been approached from the Western view popularised by St. Augustine. To start from the fall of man and end at the Cross is not exactly wrong per se. It just doesnt tell the whole story. The Gospel is meant to make us happy, to make us laugh. It’s the Good News!

    Why? Because it is the foolishness of God which insults every known wisdom of man. Using the Western view lens brings up questions like why did God allow Adam to sin? The Gospel is that man’s sins were paid for even before He sinned. And that was a better way of dealing with sin than stopping man from sinning.

    The Gospel is a constant mockery of Sin, Death, Hell, Evil and the Grave. Because they thought they had the upper hand from day 1. But even before the foundations of the world..hallelujah!..God had everything under control. Psalm 2 is very prophetic. The kings of the earth talked about was Death, Evil and the Grave.

    When they gathered for battle and thought they had won the possessions of the earth and overthrown God’s sovereignty, God was simply laughing uncontrollably at them in mockery at their futile efforts.

    The Greek word for care is ” melo “. It means anticipating a person’s need and meeting it right now. When you care about someone, you anticipate a need tomorrow and meet it today.

    Was His Death on the Cross an afterthought? No. Because that is not caring. His death was foreknown and predestined.

    When God created man, He anticipated the fall of man, thus the lamb was slained before the foundations of the world. Hallelujah! Before you got into that situation, God had already made your way of escape (1 Cor 10:13).

    In Romans 3:25‭-‬26, Paul talks about why God overlooked the sins of the people in the Old Testament. Because they were all mystically included in the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ.
    The likes of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, the nation of Israel, you name it.

    Jesus paid for our sins even before Adam knew how to sin. This is why the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ is called the Gospel, the Good News. The Gospel is that the lamb was slained before the foundations of the world, before man fell from glory. And with this knowledge, I can also emphatically laugh in ecstatic glory in tantalisation reaction to sin, death and the grave.

    “Now death, where is your sting?” hahaha

    I love you ❤