RHAPSODY OF REALITIES(Thursday, 19th December, 2013)

LET CHRIST BE REVEALED IN YOU –
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

For I reckon that the sufferings of the
present
time are not worthy to be compared
with the
glory which shall be revealed in us. For
the earnest expectation of the creation
waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of God
(Romans 8:18-19). When the Lord Jesus walked the earth,
He
was one hundred percent man and one
hundred percent God. He manifested the
divine life
to the people of His day, and the supernatural was
His daily walk. As Christians, we’re
partakers of His
divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Therefore, as
He is, so are
we in this world (1 John 4:17). We’re the offspring of
the Word of God (James 1:18), and like
Him, we’re
one hundred percent human and one
hundred percent
divine. You’re therefore required to give
expression to the
divine life in you. Romans 6:16 says,
“Know ye not,
that to whom ye yield yourselves
servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness?” If
a Christian finds himself struggling with
one bad habit or the other, the problem is that he
allows his body
dictate to him, instead of yielding to the
Word of God.
The more the Word gains the
ascendancy over you, the more the God-life will be revealed in
you to live
the supernatural life. Conversely, the more you allow the
senses gain
the mastery, the more the human life
will be revealed
in you, and you’ll lead an ordinary life.
This explains why some Christians suffer, get sick, and
live very
uninspiring lives; it’s because they
unwittingly made a
choice to live life from the human plane.
But there’s a higher plane; a higher life in Christ,
where your
humanity is swallowed up in His
divinity. John 3:30
says, “He must increase, but I must
decrease.” Let Christ increase in you. Christ in you is
the hope
of glory (Colossians 1:27); let Him talk
through you; let
Him see through your eyes and work
with your hands; let Christ show up in your life! Every
time you respond
to situations, let it be Christ in you
responding. Every
time you talk, let it be Christ talking in
you!

PRAYER:

Dear Father, I thank you for the power
of your Word in my life, to build in me
an excellent character and the mindset
of a champion. My spirit, soul, and
body are completely yielded to you, to be dominated and transformed by your
Word, and my profiting is appearing to
all, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY: Galatians 1:15-16; 1 Peter 2:9 (AMP)
1year bible reading plan: Revelation 11:1-19
; Daniel 1-2

2year bible reading plan: Acts 1:12-26
; 2Chronicles 33