SUNDAY SERMON 21/04/2024
- Sermon By: Apostle & Prophet: Josephat Elias Mwingira
- Categories: Sermons
THE RIGHTS WE HAVE IN THE LORD
Ephesians 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:”
We have been blessed with all the blessings we need under the sun, none of which we have been denied.
DECLARATION:
I have all the blessings, none of them have been denied to me, if there is something called a blessing, I have them all; if anything needs blessings, I have them all; if anyone has blessings then I have them all.
The word says that these blessings exist in the world of the spirit and not in the body, God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and who is our Father has blessed us with all the blessings of the spirit and not of the body. “who blessed us with all spiritual blessings, in the spiritual world, in Christ;”
Everything you see under the sun has its origin in the spirit, if you have not found it in the spirit then know that you are a thief like the devil, the devil is called a thief because he steals.
The blessings that you and I have been given are spiritual and belong to the spirit world. In order for you to get them, you have to be in the spirit so that you can reach your blessings. Being in the spirit is the first secret to entering and taking what is yours.
God has blessed you with all the blessings but why don’t you get those blessings?
Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
God says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;” Those who perish are not the people of this world, but they are God’s people, Are you among God’s people? If the answer is yes and you have not received the blessings, it is because you are perishing for lack of knowledge. Being ignorant means you lack knowledge; the one who destroys you is not the devil because you already belong to God. Many saved ones are struggling with the devil, you who are saved should know that the devil has nothing to do with you anymore, what torments you is lack of knowledge (ignorance).
Proverbs 9:6 “Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.”
This means that a fool does not live, you always find that he has high blood pressure, diabetes, he has no money, he is poor, he has demons, because he has not got the knowledge to know who he is to his heavenly Father; thus he is ignorant (he has no understanding).
But the Bible says if you accept and obey you will eat the good of the land, Isaiah 1:19 “If you accept and obey you will eat the good of the land;”
Ignorance is the highest level of not knowing God, because the word says in Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” means that if you know the Lord then you get knowledge and ignorance leaves you.
Jesus said Matthew 6:33 “But seek first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these will be multiplied to you.” If you seek the Kingdom of God, nothing will bother you; not food, clothing, shelter and everything you need will be yours.
After being saved, I made the following inner decision:
1. Self-awareness:
After I was saved I wanted to know who I am to my Heavenly Father; You who survived, the first thing you should know is to understand who you are. You are a child of God because the Word says “but to all who received him, he gave them the power to become children of God” from then on, start living as a child of God.
2. Learn to do what God wants and not what you want,
3. When I was saved, I learned to serve God because it is a spiritual habit, don’t desire to be served if you haven’t served others, don’t advertise yourself and say you know I’m a servant, no! Let what you do define you. You find that you are a servant but if you are pushed to do God’s work you get angry, a servant must be more tired than his master, now if you don’t want to be tired it means that you have not accepted to be served.
Why are many servants stuck? It is because they are not ready to come down; the word says that he who humbles himself will be exalted, so accept to humble yourself so that He will exalt you.
4. I longed to know His word; because the Bible says in John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” When I was saved I desired to know God’s truth which is His Word.
Let your faith not be in your positions but be built in the Word of God.
Don’t fast and pray for your wife or husband to be like you, that’s stupid and that kind of prayer and fast will make you get stomach ulcers and God won’t hear, why? Because it is.
What you have to pray for is to tell God to give you to know how to live with your wife or husband. But if you want him to be what you want, you will end up fighting every time.
That is how it is even in our spiritual life, let us ask God to give us to live with other people as they are and to come out from ignorance because God cannot bless you when you are ignorant.