God has released Our 💕 GOOD NEWS 🌹 and it says: BE RICH IN GOD’S MERCY!

God has released Our 💕 GOOD NEWS 🌹 and it says: BE RICH IN GOD’S MERCY!

💕 EPHESIANS 2: 1-7.

🌹 1. “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

🌹 2. in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

🌹 3. among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

🌹 4. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

🌹 5. even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

🌹 6. and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

🌹 7. that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 2:1‭-‬7 NKJV

 

💕 Ephesians 2:1-7 reveals one of the greatest stories ever told. Alleluia!

You may wonder what Ephesus – the place where this message was delivered – meant: Ephesus is an ancient Greek city, metropolis, urban center, on the western shore of Asia Minor in what we now know as the nation, Turkey. It is the site of the Temple of the Greek diety – Artemis. Ephesus was a major trading center and played an important role in early Christianity.

Our passage, Ephesians 2: 1-7, even till verse 10, speaks of how God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sins and trespasses, empowering us about how we can become rich in God’s Mercy. If we break down this sacred text down verse by verse, we shall be able to identify the thoughts of Christ as our saviour, God’s mercy and grace.

In Ephesians chapter 2, this Pauline letter addressed the non-Jewish (Gentile) members of the Church (Ephesians 2:11) who were, perhaps, recent converts (Ephesians 1:15). He wrote to help develop the spirituality and testimonies of those who were already members.

The message presents Sin as the death of the soul. A man who is dead in trespasses and sins will have no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit has now fled, leaving nothing but the ruins of a man.

This word of life reminds us to focus on God as the giver of the good gifts we have received. While a faithful response is needed on our part, we can’t take the credit for what God is doing in our lives. This teaches us humility and trust.

From this epistle, we deduce that the purpose of the Church is this: “so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God” (Eph. 3:10, NKJV). In this devotion, we shall pray to get this divine wisdom to tutor the spirits! Amen.

🌹 I love the inspired way the Life Bible-Presbyterian Church website presented the “greatest story ever told” and more, in this prose:

🦅 This is a story of hope and love. It begins with the deepest darkness of sinners, and it ends with the brightest light of saints. It is far better than all the ‘rags-to-riches’ stories you may have heard before, because it magnifies the amazing grace of God for us unworthy sinners.
I think that you will agree with me that this is truly the greatest story ever told. And since we, who are saved by Christ, are the blessed objects of this story, we must never grow tired of hearing it. We must now see everything in life in relation to this story, so that we may live our lives meaningfully in deep gratitude and praise to God. This is one way to be rich in God’s mercy! And let us tell this great story boldly and widely so that all the world may know it, and many more people may come to experience its great impact on their lives.
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🦅 Reading the scriptures and accepting this message, every heart in whom God is working at this very moment feels drawn to the big picture of Jesus Christ’s great, painful and compassion-filled sacrifice at Calvary.

The one who gets touched by God comes to realise – through the delivery of God’s mind – that he/she, like every unsaved mankind, deserve God’s awful wrath because of his/her sins. But having also realized that God loves sinners so much, that He went through the greatest lengths to rescue us from mankind’s helpless situation. 💕

🌹 If your heart is now responding to the interpretation of God’s word, then listen carefully: the Word of God says that He will save you when you trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. So, What does it mean to believe in Christ?

 

🦅 First, you must accept every thing that the Bible says about Christ, and about yourself, as true – that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came down from heaven to be made a sacrifice for sin, and that you are a sinner who deserves nothing but the wrath of God. Only the proud, uncircumcised, and depraved mind will reject this!

💕 Then, you need to confess to Him personally that you are a sinner in need of His salvation.

🌹 Second, Put your trust in the completed work of Jesus Christ alone, and stop trusting in your own power, knowledge or good works to save you.

🌹 And third, to trust in Christ is also to commit your life to Him, once and for all, with no thought of turning back. Let Him be your Lord and master from now on. And as you trust in Christ now for salvation, He will assure you that you are His. He will give you the assurance that you have been quickened together with Christ, raised up together with Him, and you now have the privilege to sit together with Christ in heavenly places!

🦅 Sometimes we feel that we have gone too far to be divinely rescued. We feel so broken and helpless to even pray… If your life has been broken by sin, and you feel as if there is no hope left for you, please hear this truth: No life is ever too broken to be rescued and restored by God! 💕

🌹 The lives of some people have been ruined to such a great extent that even their own families and friends had given up on them and rejected them. But where all human efforts have failed, God has worked wonderfully to deliver them and transform their lives! Today there are many ex-offenders, drug addicts, and even convicts on death row who have testified of God’s work in rescuing thei souls and restoring their lives. All of them will eventually be displayed together with us as fine trophies of God’s amazing love! Alleluia! This brings us now to the grand climax of the story of salvation…

🦅 We Shall Glorify God in Eternity (v.7)

🌹 Look at verse 7 –  “That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” This grand show of God’s grace will take place after God has gathered together in one – all things in Christ – as Paul had mentioned in Ephesians chapter One. The phrase “in the ages to come” indicates that this will go on indefinitely into eternity. We will be permanently displayed to all the angels in heaven and all creation as the greatest trophies of God’s amazing love.

💕 Through His kindness to us, God will reveal exactly how exceedingly rich His grace is!
This will then provide us as well as all the angels in heaven endless grounds to offer praise to God forever and ever.

🦅 This is so well-expressed in the last stanza of John Newton’s famous hymn:

“When we’ve been there ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’ve first begun.” 💕

🌹 Then at last, we will all fulfill the final end of man, which is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Just listen to Beloved John’s description of the heavenly praise that he had a glimpse of, in Revelation 5:11-13 –

🦅 “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard them saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” 💕

So our salvation will ultimately glorify God for His love and grace. That is what is meant by being RICH IN GOD’S MERCY!

🦅 Today, we have seen the story of our salvation from beginning to end in Ephesians 2:1-7.

❣️ Here is the summary of this amazing story: We were dead in sins (vv.1-3); we are made alive in Christ (vv.4-6) and we shall glorify God in eternity (v.7).

💕 But how can a mortal being benefit from God’s plan when he/she remains carnal (of the flesh and worldly)? We must take the step to be born of Christ’s blood:

🦅 Give your life to Christ in total submission, by faith, and this will be confirmed as your month of New Beginnings!

🌹 Oh Yeah, when we wade through the month of perfection. We need to brace up to enter our journey of new beginning. That is what those who expect the August visitors (angels of liberation) do. 💕

🦅 As we boldly enter into this prayer session, I welcome you into your life- reshapening new beginnings… in Jesus’ Name!

💕 In Faith, SAY THESE PRAYERS WITH ME:

🦅 1. Help me, O LORD, to perfectly understand what I ought to know, about the purpose of the Church. By the manifold wisdom of God USE ME to unravel God’s wisdom before the rulers and powers in the heavenlies, in Jesus’ Name. (Eph. 3:10)

🦅 2. Let them be weakened and destroyed, O Jesus: the household witchcraft and sorcery that take orders concerning my destiny. Now, by fire, let my demonic adversaries run into the abyss and perish, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 3. This year, my rejoicing and testimonies shall be manifested, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 4. PowerHoly Spirit of God assigned to ensure that I become rich in God’s mercy: speak forth, and let me live, in the Name of Jesus

🦅 5. Every evil altar causing me to wander about without moving forward, burn by fire by force, in the Name of Jesus

🦅 6. I recover, in a hundred-fold, all my divinely-given opportunities to excel, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 7. Every covenant of never coming to the manifestation of grace, raging in my bloodline, expire by fire, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 8. Resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ, cause every sickness in my body to vanish, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 9. The number of my years I shall spend alive and serving God… I have begun to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 10. Powers of circum-locution assigned to return me to square one, perish in the abyss, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 11. Powers evoking failure and regrets in my life, your time is up, be cremated NOW, in the Name of Jesus.

🦅 12 Powers turning my seat of glory into the hot bed of battles, what are you waiting for? Perish in the fire of God’s wrath, in the Name of Jesus.

🦅 13. Covenants with wicked elders that stole my glory, break by fire, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 14. Powers turning into scorpions to poison my life, receive fire and perish, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 15. Oh God, arise by fire, disgrace my disgrace and let my stubborn pursuers perish via that death they prepare for me, in the Name of Jesus.

🦅 16. By your Name ‘JEHOVAH’, Let my way open by fire, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 17. Powers that have sold me out to the enemies, perish by fire, in the Name of Jesus.

🦅 18. Voices in my foundation attacking my manifestation, be cremated in the fire, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 19. My head, my head, my head. Hear the word of the Lord, arise and be who you are blessed to become, in the Name of Jesus.

🦅 20. My blood, my blood, my blood, be mixed with the blood of Jesus, kill every infirmity, in the Name of Jesus!

🦅 21. I move from story to glory, in the Name of Jesus Christ

🦅 Gratefully exalt God’s Name, and appreciate the LORD JESUS for hearing and answering your prayers

🦅 Now Hear this Prophecy:
Today, mercy will speak for you. Mercy will set you free, open doors for you, fight your battle and grant you your heart desires, in Jesus’ mighty Name.

🦅 Every verdict of satan’s kingdom against your destiny is hereby annulled by the blood of Jesus! The Lord will deliver you from evil conspiracy and spiritual litigations, in Jesus’ mighty Name!

🦅 God Bless Your Family, Ministry, and life this midweek, in Jesus’ Name!❣️

Good afternoon and have a blessed Wednesday!
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AMEN!🦅

Shalom