| God promised that you would be the heir of the
world. It is the same promise that He made to Abraham. And because you
are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s seed and an heir “according to the
promise”. (Galatians 3:29) |
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| When God made this promise to you, He made it so
easy for you to receive — “through the righteousness of faith”. All you
have to do is believe that as the heir of the world every blessing is
righteously yours because Jesus died to give them to you. He also rose
from the dead to enforce them in your life. |
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| So don’t try to
earn your blessings “through the law” — through your efforts or
performance. Freely receive what God freely gives to you through Christ
and His finished work at the cross. |
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| When a church
member was retrenched at 41 years of age, he refused to fret or think
that he had to jostle with the rest of the people in the job market.
Instead, he believed that by God’s grace, he would get a better job with
a higher pay. Indeed, through a mutual acquaintance, a new job came
along with a pay packet that was 60 per cent more than his previous one! |
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| Another man was
experiencing a strained relationship with his wife to the point that
divorce was imminent. When he started attending our church, he realized
that a happy marriage could be his, not by his trying to keep the
marriage going or earning the love of his wife, but by believing that
although he could see his own weaknesses, he was still the righteousness
of God in Christ because of the blood of Jesus. Today, he and his wife
are reconciled, and enjoying a blessed marriage. |
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| Don’t let the
devil disqualify you by bringing you the law and saying, “How can you
receive this blessing when just last night, you broke God’s law?” or
“Are you sure you deserve this?” Instead, say, “Father, I thank You that
I receive everything freely by Your grace, Your unmerited favor in my
life, because of the blood of Jesus!” |
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