Author: Grace Kingdom Christian Church

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 24, 2020.

Your Are Not Subject to Those Elements

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. Yesterday, we saw in ur discussion that, we are not from Mount Sinai, that gives birth to bondage. We are not of the earthly Jerusalem which is in bondage today with her children, but we are of the free, The spiritual and heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of all of us.

Then the apostle continues;

Galatians 4:28
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

We are born out of the promised Holy Spirit. A children of the covenant of promise and not of the covenant of the Law. To us belong all the blessings of God in Christ; righteousness, peace, pardon, redemption, sanctification, all the supplies of grace. We have the full promise of eternal life in Christ.

But there is something at this side of life the children of promise go through. The children born out of the grace of God.

Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Ishmael, born after the ordinary course of nature, had not the revelation of Spiritual things, persecuted Isaac, born after the Spirit.

Isaac was a good man, a man that feared God. He was born out of God’s word, with divine power fusing into the body of Abraham, and the womb of Sarah, which were both dead.

But we see this persecution immediately he was born;

Genesis 21:9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Observe the word “mocking”

This is what the children of the bondmaid or those of the bondmaid mentality do to the children of the free woman, the sons of grace. They mock. You hear them picking out words, out of context and exaggerating things. Saying what the preacher is not saying.

When Paul preached, “But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” Romans 5:20

Their mockery was that, Paul said, “let us do evil, that good may come”

Romans 3:8
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Even so, it is with the sons of grace today. When they preach the grace of God, they are being mocked that they say, people should go on and sin, that grace has now come. It is nothing new. It was so in the days of the apostles.

But the the word of God rather declares apparently that, when you are under the Law, you are under the dominion of sin, but sin looses its dominion over you when you run to the grace of God.

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

So, the gospel of the grace of God is so much persecuted today just like the mockery of Ishmael on Isaac.

Paul was mocked until instead of accepting shame, he proclaimed – I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is actually the power of God unto salvation. They wanted to make him ashamed of preaching the grace of Christ.

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

If you desire to be accepted, follow the normal norm, preach the accepted kind of message, don’t be real with scripture but preach it the way the mind of the flesh can accept it; Water-down the truth.

But if you preach the grace of God, be prepared you must be attacked, you must be fought against.

Galatians 5:11
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

This persecution arises because this is the genuine gospel. The gospel of the free grace of Christ. The preaching of the unmerited, underserved, unconditional favour of God upon the ungodly.

Observe carefully the statement “even so it is now” (Galatians 4:28)

The mockery, the contradiction of sinners, the persecution is still on, but it is just a scriptural fulfilment. If every one speaks good of the gospel of the grace of Christ, then it is false.

Brace up beloved, you in the right spot. You are actually in the spotlight. They are only jealous, and have come to spy the liberty we have in Christ, so they can bring us back again into bondage.

The mockery over you is a demonstration that you are in the grace of God. It is an announcement that you are in the undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unconditional power of God’s grace.

See you tomorrow…

In an encounter with the Lord; I saw a child of God, restless in deep troubles, I saw him holding unto to natural things for succor while the troubles were still on.

But these troubles had continued with him because he had not completely abandoned himself in his identity in Christ, which was the reason he was still being controlled by these elements.

As I saw this, I heard the Lord say “Wake up to your reality, you are not subject to those elements”

And I saw this Child of God began to let go of the natural things he was holding unto, and to rise in his authority in Christ.

Colossians 2:20
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Then the Lord said “Wake up to your reality! You are not subject to those elements.

You are no longer of the world. You no longer live in the world, but you live in Me. In me you live and move and have your being.

Why subject yourself again to the elements of this world as though you are still living in the world?

You are born into a new world, the kingdom of the dear son of God. You dwell in light where darkness has no place. Where you cannot be overcome by the elements of this world.

You are in the kingdom of glory, where sickness, poverty, failure, weakness, defeat, disease have no authority.

Wake up my Child to your reality, refuse to be under, and experience my glory and righteousness.”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 23, 2020.

Let The Barren Rejoice!

Yes, Gleanings from The Book of Galatians. Yesterday we saw the typification made by the apostle Paul of the two covenants. Expressing allegorically, that Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid and the other by the free. One by promise and the other by the flesh.

Galatians 4:22-23
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Now, the apostle goes on to explain that, these things are an allegory of the two covenants. The covenant of free grace and the covenant of the Law.

Galatians 4:24-25
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Observe carefully what the Spirit says about the covenant of the law given on mount Sinai” the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar”

The word used above for gendereth is from the Greek word gennao which means to procreate, to regenerate (Strong’s Concordance G1080).

Hence, the law gives birth to bondage. The law regenerates bondage, It regenerates sin in the lives of those observing it. It takes you back into bondage, not just the bondage of condemnation, but even into the bondage of sin.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Romans 7:9

So the apostle says the law gives birth to bondage, just like we saw in the life of Hagar and Ismael. Hagar gave birth to Ishmael, but Ishmael and Hagar were still slaves.

She could not earn the promise even by giving birth to Ishmael, who was born after the flesh, which is a symbol of the works of the flesh, having no justification or acceptance before the tribunal of God.

And so we hear the apostle say of Hagar and Ishmael;

Galatians 4:25
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

The word of God is so clear on this, if you desire to see the effects of the law, visit Jerusalem as it is already in bondage.

As at the time Paul wrote this, the Jewish Nation were in civil, legal and moral bondage. Many of the Jews today are still waiting for the Messiah to come, who has already appeared. God manifested in the flesh, died and is now glorified. Many are still in bondage to the law and its practices today.

When people go there and see that many are still waiting for the messiah, they one way or the other feel pity upon them for their lack of faith and knowledge, yet the apostle says, that is the essence of the nature of the covenant of the law, and anyone under it is in bondage just like the present Jerusalem.

But there is something special about the covenant of promise, the covenant of grace;

Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

We are not born from mount Sinai, we are not born from the natural Jewish nation, we are not of the natural Jerusalem which is in bondage today with her children. We are not of the earthly but we are born from above, from the heavenly Jerusalem, which is free and having the the living God dwelling in it. The spiritual Jerusalem, which is the mother of us all.

Oh, hear the Spirit speak;

Galatians 4:27
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

The Lord says “Rejoice! let the barren rejoice! Let the desolate break forth and cry. For Zion is travailing and giving birth. Even to a nation in a day is she giving birth, for now is the time of your redemption.”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 22, 2020.

You Have Overcome The Wicked One

Yes, Gleanings from the book to Galatians. In our last discussion, we looked at the question the apostle asked those desiring to be under the law;

Galatians 4:21
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

Now, what does the law actually say?

Galatians 4:22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

The apostle begins to open up the two covenants by using an allegory. He says Abraham had two Sons, Ishmael and Isaac. One by a bond woman which is Hagar the Egyptian slave, and the other by the free woman, which is Sarah, the legitimate wife of Abraham.

Now this is what the apostle begins to open up here; that they which are of the law are slaves. They which are of the grace of God are free.

No man with a choice will chose slavery instead of freedom. This is why this idea of going back to the works of the law is of the devil.

No one who is normal will prefer a life of slavery, but today men vehemently fight to be slaves. Imagine Isaac, everyday desiring to give away his position as the heir and a legitimate son, to the position of Ishmael a slave child.

Ismael, even though Abraham’s son, was a son of a slave woman, having absolutely no part in the inheritance. This is what the enemy wants to rob the Church of; the inheritance.

Then we hear;

Galatians 4:23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Observe these “he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh”

Born after the natural course of life. He was not born of God. It was the desire of Abraham for a child that brought Ismael for a time into the house. He was never God’s original Idea.

That which born of flesh is flesh. The law gives birth to works of the flesh and has nothing to offer as it pertains spiritual things.

“But he of the free woman was by promise”

That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. There is no connection between the two. Flesh gives birth to flesh and Spirit gives birth to Spirit.

Isaac was of the free woman. A child of promise. A Child of grace. Why switch your identity to a child of the flesh?

Why give away your authority to the devil and go back to taking upon you the identity of a slave?

God loves you beyond knowledge. You are a Child of promise. You are not a slave Child. You were born from above, and whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world.

You have overcome the beggarly lifestyle of works salvation. Do not go back to a life of slavery. You a child of the living God. An heir of God.

All things are already yours in Christ. Your are born through the blessing of Abraham as a child of promise, for you are born of the Spirit. You are not a slave child, but like Isaac, you are a child of promise – born of the promised Holy Spirit.

Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

See you tomorrow….

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw a child of God who has been fighting many battles with the enemy. Going through a lot of trials. I saw that he was now advancing in his spiritual walk.

He had moved forward and was gaining stature and strength in the things of the spirit. I saw the enemy making new plans to attack with the same temptation.

But Just before this, I heard the Lord say “Not this time, he has already overcome”

1 John 2:14
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Then the Lord said “My Child, the trials are not to kill you but to make you grow up into me in all things.

You have stood strong on my word which is now dwelling in you richly.

The strength of your life is increased, you are gaining stature with me, this is the reason for the many battles you face.

I say to you, my word has grown in you and has prevailed. I AM proud of my grace in you and have declared my word to your adversary; not this time – he has already overcome.

And now I say to you, you are strong, My Word abides in you and you have overcome the wicked one.”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 20, 2020.

This is Your Morning, Here Comes Your Joy

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians.

We saw in our last discussion, that the apostle was again in labour pains for the churches in Galatia that had gone back to the law, that Christ be formed in them.

Then we hear the apostle say;

Galatians 4:20
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

“I desire to be present with you” A deep longing and concern for the churches. He was not satisfied with their being Christians, but was concerned more about their establishment in Christ.

I have had a lot of people try to talk me out of preaching the truth, in the name The Truth, will bring division. If that was Biblical and is Holy Spirit inspired, the apostle wouldn’t have being longing to redo the work with them to which he had done in so much labour. He would have said, ‘let’s just leave them to live in their misery, after all, they are already saved.’

That’s not true love. Love does not rejoice in evil. Hence, we hear the apostle “and to change my voice”

The apostle sounds here as though he had been too lenient with the Galatians, and now he wanted to take on another approach. They had made him to loose confidence in his labours upon them, to which we hear him say “for I stand in doubt of you”.

This was actually a frustrating experience for the apostle as it is with many today who are trying to reestablish the hearts of the people in Christ.

But his overwhelming love for them never allowed him to let go and wallow in bitterness, but he implored rather another approach. This is worthy of emulation.

The apostle no more sure of their freedom in Christ, their going back to Judaism and practices of heathenism, made the apostle to switch his tone as we can see in the following verse;

Galatians 4:21
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

This kind of scriptures gave me courage to overcome the bondage of the law. The apostle now throws this to the faces of these backslidden Churches.

“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law”

This is a blow to the faces of those struggling to have the Law back on our pulpits. The desire to be under the Law is not of God. Many people today desiring to serve God through their works, desiring to live in the works of the law do not actually know the Law.

As I write this right now, if my reader who desires to be under the Law feels he actually knows the law, out of the 613 laws in the Bible, can you just stop and recite the ten commandments chronologically without opening your Bible?

The Holy Spirit will not inspire you. And again, they only know a few out of the 613 laws in the Bible.

Give them the Bible, even with it they can’t find fully the laws. They don’t know what they stand for, because there is no life nor relationship with those commandments.

Hence, the apostle says “do ye not hear the law”

Paul is saying here that, those desiring to be under that Law don’t even know the Law. They can’t hear what the Law is actually saying.

When I was new in the faith and I was taught that you earn salvation and blessings by your works, (It doesn’t matter how it is presented, that is what they teach in essence). I decided to look a little into to the law. As I began seeing some things in the Law, I could see that they were far from the reality of the Law themselves.

For instance, today we are all made kings and priests unto God. Every Christian is a priest. We are all a Royal Priesthood.

Revelation 1:6
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

If we are now to go back to the old covenant to keep the Law as a way of life as many say. The Law forbids priests from balding their hair. In other words, no skin cut hairstyle for priests. No shaving of side beard. No cuttings in the flesh.

Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

If my reader is of the desire to reestablish the law; If he is of age, he is well shaven, looking good, reading this and pointing a false finger at others.

I would read these things out of the law and I would watch people who would be so guilty of what they were preaching by all these standards, yet they would be preaching works angrily.

Another instance, since we all have been made priests unto to God, for those who agitate that there is no divisions in the covenant; that we should just take the word of God literally without rightly dividing the word;

We are told as priests of the Lord to burn our daughters if they ever fornicate;

Leviticus 21:9
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

When people come to these kinds of scriptures, they say no, this one is old covenant.

This was why Jesus would call them hypocrites. I am waiting to hear a man burn up his daughter for the sake of fornication.

I can go on and on..the Law says No crossbreeding , No planting of different crops on the same piece of Land, don’t wear any clothe made of two materials, either with linen and cotton.

Leviticus 19:19
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

A lot of us subsidize crossbreeds like dogs, broilers today like anything. Like broilers, We may not be there crossbreeding them ourselves, but we buy Biblically forbidden food and cook in our homes and eat and celebrate Christmas. You are trice guilty by the Law. Sentenced to death.

Your farm at the backyard has pepper, Tomatoes planted together, you are trice guilty! Sentenced to death.

This one you can’t escape, you that desire to be under the law, what are you wearing?

Check all the clothes you are wearing. Combinations upon Combinations of linen, cotton and whatsoever on your body right now. You are thrice guilty! And sentenced to death, for the wages of sin is death.

When it comes to these ones, they say no, not these laws, the other ones. Blunt hypocrisy. The Bible does not teach that. The Law demands all or nothing; all or you are cursed;

Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

When you keep one, you are indebted to keep all. When you go back to one, you must pay all the debt;

Galatians 5:3
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

This is why all what we are seeing around today about the law is mere razzmatazz. It is just noise making.

This is why the apostle says, you that desire to be under the law, Don’t You Hear?

Paul says they don’t actually know the Law, they don’t know what they are agitating for. If you know the Law, you will actually honour it. You will establish it by respecting it’s purpose, agreeing with its sentence and run to Jesus.

May The Spirit of Revelation Rest Upon The Church Even in These Last Days Like Never Before in The Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

In an encounter with the Lord, early hours of this morning, I heard “The Joy you have longed for is now coming into your life”

As I heard this, the sense surrounding me was of a person who has not had a reason to be joyful for a long time. Someone who has being in sorrow and languishing for a long time now.

I was led to:

Psalms 30:5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Then the Lord Continued “I have seen your sorrows, all you have being going through in the dark. Your obscurity has not been hidden from my eyes. Child of my love, I say to you, the joy you have longed for is now coming into your life.

Your weeping has lasted, but I say it has just being for a night. The darkness is passed, and now is your lifting. This is your morning, here comes your Joy.”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 19, 2020.

Don’t Be Moved By The Upturns and The Downturns

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. Yesterday we saw that zeal is good when channelled towards the good thing, to which the apostle admonished the Churches to be zealously affectionate about the gospel of the grace of Christ even in his absence.

Then we hear;

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

My little children; with so much kindness the apostle addresses them.

Now there are things in the above verse worthy of note; “of whom I travail in birth again”

Observe the word “again” The apostle had laboured before for them through his teachings, prayers, his ministry among them was one he carried out in much infirmity.

He compares his labours for them to a woman in labour. This he had to do “again”

Then we hear;

“until Christ be formed in you.”

This is not to say that they were not born again. They were born again. They were new creatures but were not yet formed a perfect man in Christ, they had not yet attained to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Just like he made a comparison of the heir as long as he is a child (nepios), defers not from a servant. He now looked upon them as unformed foetuses. They were new creatures in Christ but He was not yet formed in them.

By going back to the law, they had gone back to an unformed state, just like an unformed foetus in the womb. He was dissolved in them. Hence, he was labouring to give birth to them one more time.

There is nothing greater in Christianity on this side of life than for Christ to be formed us. This is The true and only labour. The joys and peace and the glory cannot be compared to a thousand trophies.

When you only begin to climb up this road, it feels as though you are actually in heaven.

This should be our target. That we totally become submissive unto to the grace of God, that Christ be formed in us. That the reality of who he is saturates our entire beings. Where we now wear The Lord Jesus. Our minds transformed to the mind of the son of God in all its aspects.

Where the king reigns in us in all we do. May our hearts be strengthened to lay down our lives and to put on Christ as our life.

See you tomorrow…..

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw Child of God doing a work. I saw competitors around him. But I saw the grace of God manifesting for this Child of God.

In holiday seasons the number of his customers did not change as it was with all seasons. His progress was constant through out all seasons as he was steadfast to his work, fighting the fears.

Then the Lord led me to;

Galatians 3:15
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Then The Lord said, ” Go on with your work my Child. Do not be disturbed by the people around you. It is a competition for the place I occupy in your life.

Don’t be moved by the upturns and downturns. My covenant of grace is manifesting upon you. It remains unutterable, constant through all generations. No man can add a jot to it nor cancel the blessings therein.

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 18, 2020.

It Is Your Time Of Rising

It is absolutely an overwhelming season, a victorious moment. The fires are there, but there is a peace which surpasses understanding surging through from the throne of grace to many who are looking unto Jesus.

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. We saw from our last discussion, how the apostle defines the motive of those preaching the law. That they desired to exclude the believers so they would affect them.

Then we hear the apostle say;

Galatians 4:18
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Now the apostle makes a generic statement, that it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing. Zeal is good when well channeled. But he says it was different in their case “and not only when I am present”

Paul says, don’t just be zealous when I am around, preaching the grace of God to you, don’t just be affectionate when I am around with you, but let your zeal remain even when I am not around.

This is the problem, when people have not had a personal revelation of Jesus, they cannot stand when the pressures of the law hit them. They are easily carried away by diverse doctrines.

It is difficult to stay focused on the grace of Christ, because the teachings of the law are not lies, you can find them in scriptures, but it is not the present truth, hence, it must be taught with the Spirit of revelation.

You have to seek God for yourself daily. You have to crave for Jesus. You have to spend time praying and meditating upon God’s word.

It is our only way of escape. In life there is only one you can forever lean on, a friend in all seasons, only him has the power to truly love unconditionally, the only life line, the only hope, the only life; Our dear Jesus.

Oh’ he appeared to me one day and revealed to me his humility. I have been in tears each time I closely look back on that encounter. I know, I know, I am undone before his excellences, but his unmatched love for me is what gives me the courage to kelp pushing on daily.

He is the one we are to be zealously affected with everyday.

See you tomorrow….

In an encounter with the Lord, I heard these words “It is Your Time of Rising”

When I heard this the sense surrounding was of someone who has sat in the dark for a long time.

Then I was led to:

Isaiah 60:1-3
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 17, 2020.

Now is Your Time of Comforting

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. We saw from our discussion yesterday that the grace of Christ produced an exceeding excitement in the hearts of the Galatia Churches, we saw how they were at first willing to do anything for the gospel, but the introduction of the law was now turning their hearts cold.

We hear the apostle continue;

Galatians 4:16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

This is how it is with all those that preach the truth; the gospel of the grace of Christ.

When you are wholly committed to the preaching of God’s grace, instead of being accepted by all, because your whole duty is to push people to Christ, you are rather hated and despised by many. You become an enemy of many.

Why? Because you just keep stepping on trophies. A lot of people have built upon the foundation of Christ, wood, hay, stubble and when you are led by the Spirit to breakdown these fences, instead of humility, they tend to hate you rather. You immediately fall into the camp of their enemies. It is as though you are coming from nowhere to condemn all they have laboured for all their lives.

My father actually said this to me, He was from one of the orthodox churches in Nigeria, which today are a people who do not joke with the preaching of the law.

But I kept on pointing him to Jesus, preaching the grace of God to him until one day he said, I feel condemned with what we stand for any time I hear you preach. Thank God we never became enemies. He respected my call and accepted my manner of delivery. And the later years of his life were the most exciting of all his years.

Standing for the truth is not actually what people think, If anyone was hated among the apostles by religious people, it was Paul, but if any one was actually successful there was none like him. Why? The truth never dies, it lives forever.

Then the apostle says;

Galatians 4:17
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Observe carefully the above statement “They zealously affect you”

Who are they? False brethren, teachers of the Law. The entire ministry of Paul was a war against these kinds of people. It was a fight against anything outside of Christ.

The whole ministry of Paul was to dispute the doctrines of the Law and to persuade men to look to Jesus;

Acts 19:8
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God

And again we hear;

Acts 28:23
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

Because once you win a heart to Jesus, you have given that heart all and has set it on fire forever.

This is my call, this my ministry, this is my passion; to persuade men daily to turn to the grace of Christ.

So, the apostle says, they zealously affect you, but not well.

Many people confuse zeal for knowledge. People can be zealous for the wrong thing for decades. There is such a thing as zeal without knowledge. We go for knowledge and not just zeal.

The law preachers, the apostle says, zealously had a target, and what is their target?

“they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.”

They disqualify you through the law, that you may look to them. The exclude you from your rights are a righteous and holy child of God by the blood of Jesus.

They make you think they have attained righteousness by law keeping, and when you have a heart for God, and try to purely keep the law and you can’t, you start looking to them as the qualified, for mediation. They become your mediator before God. You do whatsoever you are told to do, so they can get to God for you.

Look to Jesus, the all sufficient one and find grace and mercy in this great time of need.

Another day in the love of Christ with you tomorrow…..

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw someone that had lost something as she was just waiting on God.

She was determined not to use natural means to fix things, but she wanted the sovereign hand of God to move on her behalf. Yes it worked.

I saw the Lord move swiftly on her behalf and things that were on hold were been released supernaturally.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

2 Kings 8:6
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

Then the Lord said “It is my will for you to prosper and be in health even as your soul is prospering. You have waited upon me, now is your time of comforting. I AM restoring health to you. Vitality in your spirit, soul, and body.

I AM healing your hurts. You have felt like an outcast but you have never been alone my child. I AM always with you even in the fires. My love cannot let you alone.

Listen not to the voices that say, ‘you will never be sought after’ for I am restoring the all to you.

All you have lost even until now, and all you have never had, I bring to you in a moment. Not one word will fall to the ground that I have spoken concerning you.

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 16, 2020.

Put Out The Enemy

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. We saw yesterday that the Observation of days, months, years and the Sabbath were a shadow of the reality we now have in Christ. Today we are in the day of salvation, the day of Christ. We are to be chaste virgins to Christ alone and not unto beggarly elements.

Then the apostle goes on to say;

Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

The language Paul used above is very strong and rarely found in the mouths of most of our leaders today. “Be as I am; for I am as ye are”

Now, how was Paul? He was wholly committed to the gospel he preached. The gospel of God’s grace for the wretched. Paul preached and lived a lifestyle of the grace of God, to which he now commends the churches in Galatia to be as he was.

Then we hear “for I am as ye are”

A lot of people who minister the law to people make it look as though they are perfect observing the commandments and trying to help others to become sinless as the falsely imagine they are.

Not so with the apostle, Paul Identifies with these churches that were now going back to the works of the law, saying, I am as ye are. We all stand by the grace of God. We all are qualified by that same death, burial and resurrection and nothing else. I am as ye are. As wretched as all of you. This is rare in the mouths of many leaders.

Then we hear him continue;

Galatians 4:13
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Infirmity of the flesh? You, an apostle, having infirmity in your flesh?

A lot of people make it look as though Christians are worse sinners if they are sick or have any other infirmity. I have had people contact me secretly for fear of been castigated in their local churches for their problems, in the name of lack of faith.

Yes, we encourage people to go for the life in Christ Jesus, but no Christian is above temptation, no matter your level of revelation. If the grand apostle of revelation had an infirmity, then I think you too may.

In fact, the more the grace, the more God allows you to be tempted so the grace can find expression.

Infirmity of the flesh mentioned above is not specified, it could be anything at all.

Now this is it, because Christ has already borne all our griefs and sorrows on the cross (Isaiah 53:4-5), since he bore it and took it away, nailing it to the cross, we do not have it again. As he is, so are we in this world (1John 4:17), hence, all what we go through is called a temptation.

It only comes to test what is already in us, this is the reason Paul calls his infirmity in the flesh a temptation;

Galatians 4:14
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

This was a rare quality of faith demonstrated by the churches in Galatia. Today people judge ministers of the gospel by how many cars they’ve got, how large the size of their ministries, how many members they’ve got. They judge them by material things and despise the word of God.

Their case was different;

Galatians 4:15
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

They disregarded his impoverished condition and embraced the gospel, they took him in even as they would take in an angel from God. They were ready to give anything to the apostle for the furtherance of the gospel disregarding his infirmity.

O’ how I have sought for knowledge. I do not care the source as long as it is Biblical, and would make me grow, I’ll go for it and not titles.

This was a rare faith and it is worthy of our emulation. This kind of faith and love for God was now becoming cold by the introduction of the law. Not good! Not good I tell you.

So, our problems are called temptations. Our light affliction is rather producing for us an eternal weight of glory.

It is well beloved, it is just a temptation, it will soon be off by the power of Christ.

See you tomorrow….

In an encounter with the Lord this morning, I heard the Lord speak to a person having marital problems, as I saw the hand of the enemy trying to put them apart.

I heard “Submit yourselves one to another, what you see is of the enemy. It will be worse if you let go.

Can two work together if they are not in agreement? Agree with me my Child, and watch me restore.

Look to agreeing with yourselves, for you are better together than apart my dear Child.

I love you too dearly to watch you suffer the pains of loneliness.

It is not a matter of who is right or wrong, forgive unconditionally, even as I have forgiven you, and seek restoration as my hand is ready to move.

Put out the enemy, he is the third party with the voices of discord. When you walk in love, you walk with me, you walk in my life, for I AM Love.”

Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of move

Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 15, 2020.

You Are Now Going Forward

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. We saw in our last discussion as the apostle admonished the churches in Galatia, that going back to the law is going back into bondage. It is to live under beggarly elements which cannot offer life.

Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Then the apostle goes on to state some of the beggarly elements they were now going back to observe;

Galatians 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Please get ready as the word of God is going to step on religious toes right now!

Observation of days, today is idolatry. Observation of days, months, times, and years is unscriptural, it was the former way of life lived by the churches in Galatia to which they made worship them to which are not gods by nature.

Today in Christ there is nothing like the Sabbath days. The Sabbath day observation ended when Jesus died on the cross to fulfil the righteousness of the Law for us. He himself is the Lord of the Sabbath.

Today we don’t have days, we have only one day called the day of salvation:

2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Now is the day of salvation. We don’t have to wait until a Sabbath day to have fellowship with God. We don’t have to observe a holy Sabbath day for us to be holy, we are perpetually holy and irreproachable in Christ;

Colossians 1:21-22
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

The Sabbath observation was just a picture of the rest we are to have in Christ. It was foreshadowing the grace we will have in Christ. It foreshadowed that after the work on the cross, we will rest from all our works to earn salvation and look to Christ for salvation.

Now that Christ has done work, we have entered into this rest. We are no longer labouring to enter the rest but we have ceased from all our works to earn salvation.

Hebrews 4:9-10
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Oh, that you may see that it was a shadow! God rested on the seventh day when the work of creation was finished on the sixth day, as a picture that the people of God, the new creation, when we believe in the finished work of Christ, the new creation work done by Christ, we enter the rest(the seventh day, the Sabbath day) just as God did and rested on the seventh day. But for unbelief not many people do.

Christ is the reality of the Sabbath; it was all speaking of him. He is the substance of the Sabbath observation, he is the fulfilment of the Sabbath.

Colossians 2:16-17
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Observe the statement “Which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

I know most of you have not seen this one in your Bibles. Sabbath days were a shadow, the reality is Christ. He is the substance, the material, the reality of what they were foreshadowing. Now that we have the reality, going back to the shadow is foolishness.

Again observe this statement “Let no man therefore judge you”

please don’t send me a mail concerning this, you are forbidden by the word of God not to Judge me for not observing the Sabbath days. I am observing my rest in Christ.

Those who fight for the observation of the Sabbath days do not even know the day of the Sabbath. Many people will kill you for going to the farm on Sunday. They think Sunday is the Sabbath day.

The Sabbath days were “Friday Sun Down to Saturday Sun Up”. (Luke 23:53 -56, Luke 24:1) it does not have anything to do with Sunday. Most of us believe our Lord Jesus died on Friday which was the preparation for the sabbath, if you read the above quoted verses, the Sabbath day was Saturday to which they rested to see him rise on Sunday. Hence those fighting for the observation of the Sabbath on Sunday do not even know the day of the Sabbath. Religion without revelation is a demon.

This is why Some real law keepers go to Church on Saturday, adding the name of Jesus to their traditions which Paul says is doing service to beggarly elements.

Today we are in the day of Salvation, the day of Christ, I can go to my farm on Sunday, Saturday, any day I feel like. In our Church, we have only set aside Sundays for services, Wednesdays for services, there is actually no difference. We only set aside a day convenient for many of us to meet and enjoy fellowship with each other and the Lord. In Christ observing days is idolatry.

Paul says the Galatians observation of days was a destruction to all his labours of grace upon them;

Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Look to Christ. We are already in our Sabbath rest, resting from our works and enjoying the grace of Christ. Christ the Lord is the body of the Sabbath.

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw the Lord with a Christian who had been in a tight corner for long. This child of God has never actually experienced the life of abundance before in her life.

I saw that the Lord had promoted her but she had stayed in that level without going forward for a long time.

As I saw this, I Saw the face of the Lord become all of a sudden full of displeasure over the condition of this Child of God. Then I felt him say Heard “You are now going forward” as the Lord began putting up things together for a shift.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8
The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

Then the Lord, “My Child, I see your longsuffering, you have waited for so long for my salvation, but this is your moment. Your have dwelt too long in this condition. I say to you, Go forward!

What you see before you I have already given to you. Go on my Child and possess the Land. Lay hold on your inheritance. Do not be afraid, You are not going alone, I, even I your God is with you. I AM with you to help you all the way.

I am establishing my covenant upon you and no one can stop what I do for you. I say to you my Child, arise! gladden yourself, rejoice, for – you are now going forward”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
September 13, 2020.

It is Not A Battle Of The Flesh

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians. Yesterday we saw that there are no gods. There is but one God,The Source, The one Being, from Whom all things.

The Churches in Galatia did service to so-called gods before their conversion, but now things had changed. Look at what the apostle says;

Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Observe carefully this statement “how turn ye again to weak and beggarly elements”

What are these weak and beggarly elements? The law and its ceremonies.

The apostle calls it weak and beggarly, not because the law is evil in itself, but because it does not have the power to offer life, righteousness, joy, peace and salvation to those observing it.(Gal. 3:21)

It is weak and beggarly, not in itself, but in giving life and justification to its observers.

Before the conversion of the Churches in Galatia, they were used to observing ceremonies, laws unto fictitious deities which had nothing to offer as it pertains life and righteousness.

Now that they had received Christ, The life and righteousness, and were expressly declared the way of salvation through Jesus, turning back to the law and its ceremonies was utter foolishness, blatant stupidity and a show of contempt for what the Lord has done.

That kind of persuasion is of the devil who desires men to fall back from honouring Christ; from looking to Christ for righteousness into the bondage of the law. We hear;

“Whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage”

The apostles never admonished any one to go back to keeping the law for righteousness after being delivered from that bondage. If there is a desire to fall back to the law the apostle says it is a desire to fall back into a life of bondage, where you live beggarly; you start doing everything to earn righteousness and favour from a thrice Holy God.

You live the position of an heir as a son – to begging as a servant. Those who don’t know who they are in Christ will kill you for disturbing their servant hood mentality when you preach the power of God’s grace to which he has already qualified us as sons.

There is only one reality we must observe, Christ! He is the substance of the covenant.
The reality of every blessing. He is the way the truth and the life. He has been slain for you and I, as we look to him daily, we are being Changed into the same image, from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.

See you tomorrow….

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw a leader in the will of God. I saw this person trying to lead others to their destinies in Christ.

But I saw that though he was doing it, he was doing it as though it was a thing of the flesh. He was using natural efforts but the hearts of these people were under a demonic power.

I saw a demon stand by as it exerted power over the hearts this people. But I heard the Lord ask this Leader to refrain and take a deeper spiritual route. I saw this leader as he withdrew and began addressing this demon, commanding these powers to be broken over this people.

Ephesians 2:2, 6:12
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:…

…For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

And again;

James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Then the Lord said, “My child, It is not a battle of the flesh, refrain from your vain attempts and spiritually address the enemy.

Command the prince of the air to let go my people, break the course of this world in the hearts of my remnant by the power of my Spirit.

What you see is beyond the physical, Pray my child! Do not listen to the voices of the people speaking against by counsel upon you. It is beyond what you hear, there is a power exerting authority over them.

But I have given you authority, arise and take your land. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Be resolute and determined for I AM with you. Do not be silent, command, I say command these powers to be broken and usher in the revival.”

Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua
Living Hill Christian Church.