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Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
October 19, 2020.

You Are Enabled

Yes, Gleanings From the Book of Galatians.

We saw from our last discussion, the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. The works of the flesh being a manifestation of the old man, and the fruit of the Spirit the essence of the divine being in us, against which there is no law.

Then the apostle goes on to say;

Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Now, this is it, the scripture uses the word flesh to mean three things; the old man, a carnal way of thinking and the natural body.

Here it is used to denote the old man. The old man was impaled to the cross the moment we accepted Jesus. It was crucified, extinguished the moment we accepted Christ, with its inordinate affections.

Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

It is totally destroyed. It is yanked out the moment we accept Jesus. The body of sin, otherwise called the old man was kicked out, and the new man, the Spirit of Christ now our own and very Spirit.

We are freed from the nature of sin, hence, we are free from the penalty of sin, which is eternal death.

Romans 6:7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Now this is it, when the word says we have been delivered from sin, on this other side of life, it is talking of the nature and the penalty for sin.

We are dead to the old man with his affections and are alive to God right in our Spirits.

What the Christian is dealing with today is the effects of the nature of sin. It killed our bodies.

So, today, we are fighting the residue or the effects of what the old man did to us. But the old man himself is totally kicked out of us by the life of Jesus.

We do not have dual natures in us, the nature of Satan and the nature of God all together in one body, the temple God. We only have one new man as our Spirit. The new man, who is the resurrected Christ.

Then the apostle opens up something powerful;

Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Observe carefully this statement “If we live in the Spirit”

That you may see this, live in the Spirit?

We have become so familiar with these kind of statements to a level we have left the power therein unutilized.

The same statement was made in Acts. Paul makes this statement here expansively;

Acts 17:28
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being”

This Truth carries in it the power to make us free from the elements of this world.

we live in Christ, we walk move in Christ. All the activities we do daily are done in Christ.

Christ is a place. Christ is the heavenly place. Christ is the kingdom. There is no heaven or kingdom outside of Christ.

He is also our being. He is our reality. I live in Christ, I walk in Christ, he is my being, he is my body, he is my essence, hence, I cannot accept anything but Christ.

I cannot accept sickness and disease, I cannot accept failure, I cannot accept poverty, I cannot accept death, for I live in the person of Christ. I live in the kingdom of God, therefore I cannot be subject to the elements of this world.

See, this is not mere blabbing, Paul was lost in this revelation until he was surprised at the way the Colossian church was living as though they were still in the world.

He marveled that they had not realised that they were dead to the elements of this world. We hear him say;

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,

O’, that you may see this Scripture and arise!

I have always been subject to cold weather, specifically the rainy season over here in Nigeria.

At first I thought it was normal until I was born again. Anytime the weather would change, I would become afraid and would fall sick of cough and catarrh until the entire season would run out.

This would always affect my productivity through out the season as I would be weak, coughing and snorting all through the season.

This year, the Holy Ghost so rebuked me through this Scripture, not to even think I could be subject to the elements of the world as it came as usual. I got angry, I could not tolerate it any longer and I am now well and healthy even as the season is still on, to the glory of God.

That you may see that the enemy is only tempting you, to see if you know that you are no longer in his kingdom but in Christ.

Whether you truly know that you are no longer subject to his elements.

Beloved, now that we leave in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit.

May we be led by the Spirit, may we love one another by the power of the Spirit. May we shine the light of Christ to the nations brighter than ever.

Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw a Child of God, you started fine, equipped by God unto the work you are now in.

But you are beginning to feel pressure as though you do not have enough to run through with the assignment God has put you in, based on the outcome of things around you.

Coming out The Spirit led me to;

1 Timothy 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

Then the Lord Said, “My Child, before I placed you in my assignment for you, I already empowered you. I have given you all the resources you need in the accomplishment of My purpose for your life.

I have given you the keys to open every door on your path. The people you need at every turn I have already given to you. I have given you the authority to make use of My Name. I have given you the power needed to execute all I have called you to do.

All these I have done for you because I have counted you faithful in Me.

Be not anxious, rest in my grace and be fully assured that you are enabled.”

ENABLED: endunamoo in the Greek. Meaning to Empower (Strong’s Concordance G1743).

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

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
October 16 2020.

You have Perfect Well-being in Me

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians.

We saw in our last discussion that, if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not under the law. We are led by the God within and not by carnal commandments. We do not trust to the flesh for there is nothing good in it, we look to and are led by the Spirit of Christ.

Then we hear;

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Every evil work mentioned above is in the flesh of all Christians. Our bodies carry these evil desires, but when we are led by the Spirit, we put to death the deeds of the body by His divine power in us.

Romans 8:12-13
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Now, the apostle said something we cannot just walk by in the afore quoted verses of the fifth chapter of Galatians, as he mentioned the works of the flesh.

He said “of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Now, what you see above is often used by religious people to put the Christian in bondage to fear, guilt and condemnation.

Before I say this, note that I am not advocating the pursuit of gross sinfulness.

But, at the time the apostle said this to the Galatia Churches, they were only charged of being bewitched by false brethren to fall back to the keeping of the law for righteousness.

The apostle only admonishes them not to partake of the lifestyle of unbelievers who are children of wrath by nature, practicing sin, and who do not have an inheritance in the kingdom of God. He was only asking them not to emulate their way of living.

We are not to copy their way of living, for we are children of the kingdom, qualified and already living in the kingdom of light:

Colossians 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Hence, it was not a threat as though we inherit the kingdom of God by self-righteousness. It was not said as though, by we not being angry, not being wrathful, and not doing all the things mentioned as works of the flesh, can then have a part in the kingdom of God, but it was an admonition to live different from the sons of perdition.

Then we hear;

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Observe carefully this statement “the fruit of the Spirit”

All the items mentioned above are not conditions but the fruit of the Spirit of God on our inside. They are not the root but the fruit of our born again Spirit.

It is pitiful when people think loving others, doing good and whatsoever, are a criteria for the kingdom.

When we love, it is a by-product of who we are. It is the manifestation of the spirit of God in us. It is never a criteria for anything but a revelation of the beauties of the Father in and through us. A fruit or a product of the Spirit in us.

Notice the fruit called “longsuffering”

Are you wondering why you have not denied Jesus despite years of suffering and waiting for the fulfilment of God’s promises upon your life?

It is because the Spirit of glory is upon you, He has laid hold on you, and through all you are going through, He is only manifesting the fruit of longsuffering in and through you.

You are not demonized. Do not think it strange that you are going through diverse temptations.

The truth of it is that, there is no law that can stop you now, you are unstoppable, for the attributes of your God; love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance are currently manifesting through you, and against such, there is no law. There is no law in existence that can stop you right now.

Hear the word of the Lord, “My Child, I have not created any weapon that can prosper against you. Neither have I created any law that can triumph against you.

You have perfect well-being in me. Therefore, rise up to who you are and say to the naysayers, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Having the prosperity of my God. Secured in Christ, and Established in the Peace of My Father.”

This is your heritage My Child, for I have given unto you the free gift of righteousness.”

Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

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

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
October 14, 2020.

He Has Already Given You The Deliverance

Yes, Gleanings from the Book Of Galatians:

We saw in our last discussion, that there is a walk in the Spirit, and there is a work in the flesh,

Then we hear;

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Observe this statement carefully “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit “

Now you may ask, what does it mean the flesh lusteth against the spirit?

This is it; Our bodies are completely dead to God. When we were in Adam, sin killed our bodies. Hence, our bodies are not subject to the will of God.

when we are saved, our salvation is complete in the Spirit, but not in our bodies, which is the reason we still sin.

Now that Christ is in us, though our mortal bodies are dead, there is a way out. The new and living way made available by the Spirit of Christ.

Romans 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

There is no mercy in the The law, it demands righteousness from our dead flesh. What a demand! You may say.

But is nothing good in the body, it is dead because of sin; so trusting in your ability, trusting in your strength to accomplish the will of the father is a failure from the thought to the attempt. The flesh is dead and in variance to God’s will.

There is something interesting we hear from the above verse;

“but the Spirit is life because of righteousness”

The life and righteousness the Spirit is our escape route. The part of us that is regenerated is the Spirit, the part of us that contains life is the Spirit, the part of us that is righteous is the Spirit.

So, if we must see the life of God manifesting in us, we must rest or look to or be led by the only part of us that is alive to God, the Spirit.

Which is the reason why we are told;

Galatians 5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

When we depend on the Spirit, our mortal bodies are quickened, the life in the Spirit revitalizes our flesh, giving power to our bodies to attend to God’s purposes.

This is why we cannot be sinless, sinless perfection is the idea of the devil. First, your body is already dead, it is to the degree that you depend on God that you can experience his life flowing through you.

We are daily dealing with a dead body, leaning on the Spirit to supply life to this body of sin.

Hence, we have failed, we do fail and shall fail as it is a practice, a journey until our Lord returns.

But there is now no condemnation to those that are led by the Spirit. We may not have arrived yet, But praise God! We have left.

We hear the apostle state above “But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law”

Being led by the Spirit is not a lifestyle of the law. It is in contrast to living under the law. Here, we are only practicing the allowing of our true natures, allowing of the righteous Spirit in us to manifest the life of God already in us.

We are not doing it to earn something, we are already born of the Spirit, born again righteous. The Spirit of righteousness in us is only expressing himself through us.

We are not seeking to be qualified, we are not living a beggarly lifestyle of trying to earn justification and blessings by the dead works of the flesh, No! We are aware, it is in our consciousness that we already have him in whom all things consist on our inside.

Therefore, we are only living our reality as Sons born of the Spirit. Sons of freedom. Sons of the Living God.

In an encounter with the Lord, I saw a Child of God in a car, I knew immediately within it was a vehicle of purpose. The door of the car was opened, so I leaned over to hear what the Lord was saying to this beloved one. As I went close, I heard this conclusive statement “honor the Lord, for he has already given you the deliverance”

When I heard this, the sense surrounding me was a tendency of hearts going cold to the faithfulness of God at the moment.

Colossians 1:12-13
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Then the Lord said, ” My Child, honor your father, keep giving thanks unto your father for I have already delivered you.

I have qualified you by the blood of my son, made you fit to be a partaker of the inheritance I have reserved for my Children.

Even though you are living in the world, you are in me, living in My kingdom for it has come down to the earth.

My child, Do not let your heart become cold, you are not subject to the power of darkness, for I have already carried you out of failure, sickness, poverty and disease into the kingdom of light. The kingdom of the son of my love. So honor your father with praise.

Let your gratitude resonate with a giving of thanks unto your father, for you are delivered! I have made you a partaker of the unsearchable inheritance in My kingdom”

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

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
October 11, 2020.

A Blessing is Coming Upon You

Yes, Gleanings from the Book of Galatians.

We saw in our last discussion that we are the regenerated free sons of God in whom The Law is fulfilled, hence, we love one another as the manifestation of the nature of God as sons of the living God.

Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

After warning wolves who came into to the church to distort the sound doctrine of justification by faith alone, he now turns to warn the Galatians from they themselves devouring one another.

It is unnatural for the sons of God with Power to live after the worldly manner. But at this time in the Galatian Churches, the doctrine that increases sin had entered, and the apostle foresaw that its effects, if not corrected, would be seen in the lives of these holy brethren.

Divisions, factions, malice, strife, envy would now creep in, since many were now turning to fables, looking to The Law for righteousness after been washed and recreated eternally righteous by the blood of our precious Jesus. Even as many will begin taking sides to which there is but one side or one way, Christ manifesting his love through the free grace of God.

Even though we have peace with God, factions and strife amongst ourselves hinder our experiencing this sweet and divine peace between each other.

Oh’ how sweet the fellowship of the brethren, a potting soil for the manifestation of the anointing.

Hence, there is need to reject the devouring of one another lest we be consumed by our own brethren even as the apostle warns the Galatian Churches.

Then we hear;

Galatians 5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

The above verse will remain a mystery to you unless unveiled by the Spirit. It is key to understanding how to live in the grace of God.

You can’t just understand the simple statement mentioned above until the Spirit of God opens up your heart.

There is walk in the Spirit and there is a walk in The Law where the man who does these things shall live by them.

You can live in the Spirit or you can live in works of The Law. They are two different things and are completely antagonistic.

You can’t live in the law and manifest the life of the Spirit but if you walk in the Spirit you accidentally fulfill the Moral Law.

When you are wholly submitted to God, he changes your desires to the desires of the Spirit. Here God changes your will to his own will, and then by his power fulfils his counsel in you.

Here he takes all the glory because the entire initiative came from him and the performance of it also came by his sovereign Hand. This life is the free grace of God in manifestation where it is all of God and none of man.

Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

He gives you new wantos, new desires, new willingness, and then empowers you to fulfil these desires. This is the life of Grace. It is God at work in a man.

It is God living his life in a man and not a following of religious prescriptions.

This is relationship. God wants relationship, we have been called to fellowship with the father and the son through the Holy Spirit and not to life of slavery as though we are not sons of the living God. Heirs of the incorruptible God.

Jesus died to bring us back to Union with God and not to modify a religion of bondage.

The desires of God cannot be contrary to his nature, hence we hear the apostle
state that, when you live in the Spirit “ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”

This is what The Law cannot do. It gives you demands without empowering you to fulfil its requirements.

Dear beloved; when you look to Jesus, you may not be aware, but you radiate his Glory, when you behold Jesus you are living in the Spirit, you are being led by the Spirit, and are being changed into the same image from Glory to Glory as by the Spirit if the Living God.

In an encounter with The Lord, I saw a Child of God, despite her consistency in looking to Christ, I saw affliction upon affliction coming against her.

I saw anger and resentment trying to creep into her mind due to her prolonged wait. She was beginning to be angry,

But as I saw this, all I felt was the Lord saying “Do not be offended.”

I was led to:

Mark 4:17
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

And again,

Matthew 11:6
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Then the Lord said, “My Child, do not offended. All the afflictions coming upon you have come to make you loose your hold upon my promises. My word is only proving you so you can bear much fruit, even fruit that will endure.

Do not be offended in me, it is because I have already spoken my word of blessing over you which is the reason the enemy is seeking to defile your perception.

Do not be discouraged at the manner I Am accomplishing things upon you. For the enemy is fighting to make you let go of your hope so you would be robbed of your inheritance.

My dear Child, there is a blessing coming upon you for refusing to be offended and standing strong in me. Blessed are you my Child, for you will not be offended in me.”

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

Royal Life
Daily Devotional & Prophecy
October 9, 2020.

Rest Now! And Watch Me Build

Yes, Gleanings from The Book of Galatians,

We saw from our last discussion that we have been called unto liberty; liberty from the bondage Satan, sin, The Law, guilt and condemnation. But we are not to use our freedom as a reason to set a track record of sin, but to manifest the nature of God in us, through loving one another which is what the grace of Christ helps us achieve.

Then we hear;

Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The above verse gives us the substance of the Law. To love our neighbour even as we do ourselves.

Even though by The law we could not fulfil this demand, by the grace of God today it is fulfilled in us as we are partakers of the divine nature;

2 Peter 1:4
“that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

We are today regenerated as the associates of the God kind of nature. Remember God is Spirit and he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit (1Cor. 6:17). We are in union with the nature of God today, and this nature is the nature of Love, for God is Love;

1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Hence, today we are born of God, loving others is not a criteria any longer, but the manifestation of the sons of God. A way of life for the Christian.

It is rather a proof that what The Law could not do, Christ has fulfilled in us. When we love one another, it is a proof that we carry the nature of God.

1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Loving one another is a proof that the grace of God in us has fulfilled what the law could not fulfill in us.

So the statement “for the law is fulfilled in word, even this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” is not made as a demand for us to earn something but for a demonstration of who we are, partakers of the nature of Love as free citizens in the kingdom of Christ.

In an encounter with the Lord, I heard “I see you are tired in the labour, rest now! and watch me build”

I was led to;
Isaiah 42:14-16
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Then the Lord said, “My Child, I see you are tired in the labour, but hear this My Child, I have long held my peace, I have been watching how things have come up against you as you have continued to labour in my will.

I have been still and have refrained myself, But now I AM crying out like a travailing woman. I AM destroying and devouring at once. I am making waste the mountains before you. Laying waste all the obstacles against the fulfilment of my word upon you!

I will now lead you by a way you have never known, opening up for you the treasures hidden in dark places, giving light to crooked things as I rebuild Zion. Darkness I AM turning to light before you. This I am doing even for the remnant I AM calling as I lead them to my house.

These things I do for you and will not forsake you. You are done, but I have kept you in my grace, rest now! and watch me build.”

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