MAINTAINING A HEALTHY PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE {PART 1}

I once heard a preacher say that the summation of life is obtaining salvation for yourself and helping as many others as you can to obtain salvation. If you don’t put life in perspective, you will discover that it is empty. When you take the time to think about life outside of God, you will see that all the things we chase have no meaning. Without God, we are nothing. It is what Jesus has done for us that gives our lives meaning and makes it worth living. 

It’s good to maintain a healthy perspective of life. Most people spend their lives chasing after things that mean nothing in the long run. Eventually, we find that our lives are centered on so many mundane things and we forget the things that are worth living for. Life cannot be lived with material and superficial things at the centre – shoes, money, clothes and the like. Life is beyond all this. You should be able to identify with a vision that matters to you; something that goes beyond you and transcends material things. 

Your life should have a meaning beyond things. Your life should have meaning beyond self – what I should get, what I shall eat, what I shall wear, what I should have. Don’t be that person who is totally self-centered and has no compassion for the next person. Be a blessing to people beyond what you can get in return in terms of appreciation, acknowledgment or fame.

- Pastor Adah Igah

 

The Blessing Of Sowing

2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.

2 Corinthians 9:6-10

But this I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth forever. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

There is a mentality of the righteous, and giving is that mentality. Righteous people give. Not everything you get is for your use; some of those are meant to be given. Overflow comes from giving, not from hoarding. In the math of overflow, God brings the harvest just as fast as, or even faster than, the seed is being sown. The just (righteous) give and they give valuable things. Selfishness brings suffering because it causes men to have what they don't need, keep what they don't use, and refuse to give what they should. They suffer because they think only about themselves.

Give, and have some faith that God can take care of you.

What do you have in your hand? Be as practical as possible when walking by faith, but make sure you walk by faith all the same. Start from somewhere.

Do not kill the faith in your heart concerning your seed. Do not say, "It is a small seed, it is not much". No. Your seed is always great, unless you diminish its value by your words.

Start with the little you have in faith. Do not condemn yourself on the seed you sow. Judge yourself by what you have, not by what you do not have. Do not fold your hands when there is seed in front of you to sow. You always have seed to sow; ALWAYS.

Learn to encourage the faith of others. You cannot and you will not see and experience increase thinking about yourself alone. Believe God and give. Learn to give more than your money as well. Give material things to people, give your time, give your resources and give your faith in helping others.

God never limits anyone.Your giving always makes room for harvest; it gives God room to bless you.

IF IT CANNOT MEET YOUR NEED, IT IS A SEED.

Use seeds to solve your needs.

Learn to be a giver. Give without reservation and without seeming reason. It is easier to start with little. Let giving be a major part of your life. Your giving will always be move you forward.

God is your source. He is your ever-increasing money supply. Jesus has delivered you from lack, from poverty, from selfishness and from not having enough. He has delivered you from management of anything. He is faithful to provide you with a seed, and He is faithful to multiply your seed sown. He is your supplier and He is the multiplier of your seed. Sow. Give. He is faithful!

With a seed in your hand, you can get anywhere. God will multiply your little. He is faithful. Sow your seeds. Expect. Press in. Press into the manifestations of the spirit of God.

Pst Adah Igah

SGC trusts You

Lord, SGC Makurdi trusts in you.
You are our strength
You are our supply
In You, we have the victory
By You, we have taken over whole nations
In Your name, we have resettled abandoned cities.
We are not afraid of lack
We are not afraid of the opposition
You have given to us in abundant measures
The anointing for abundance
You have made us overcomers
More than conquerors
By Your love.
Lord, You are our Source
And we lack for no good thing
Your mighty hand of favour is upon us
Your anointing rests upon us
Like the morning dew upon fields
You have supplied all the need
Our prosperity is evident, it is sure
For to us, You swore an oath.
In the sacrifice that gave us life
You changed everything about us
You have helped us to get wealth
You have helped us to make money
You have helped us to prosper
By the sacrifice of your Son, Jesus
You have helped us to lay up gold as dust
You have furnished our houses
With gold and perfumed ornaments
You have given us children –
Strong, righteous and fearless children
You have made us a display for the world to see
You put laughter in our mouths
Songs in our hearts
Grace in our speech
Beauty in our eyes.
Lord, You have given us victory!
You have set us above – like You, with You.
You have made us
You have us made.
Forever we are Your loved ones
We are Your favoured ones
Lord, SGC Makurdi trusts in You;
You are our everything

Live Free in God's Grace

Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless cycle of trying to please God by doing stuff or trying to be sinless. We might need to unlearn most of what we know about God because the veil Jesus tore down, religion and mixed teachings are sewing back up to simply prevent people from seeing the love of God behind the veil.

If you are getting tired of the gospel of the forgiveness of sins by the finished works of Christ alone, I encourage you to keep listening, keep hearing. There is more to it than just trying to please God, which we can't. Keep listening and keep meditating and prayerfully consider the teachings. Living in the open oceans of God's grace is far far better and more rewarding than living in the cycle of defeat of guilt, condemnation, self effort and self righteousness. Embrace the righteousness of God and be established in it. Even if you think sin is getting worse in your life because of grace, keep listening. One experience with the love of God, that pure undiluted love of God for you, unstained by your self effort or basing your acceptance on moral codes of conduct is far more enriching and liberating.

Your sins are forgiven, believe and rest; embrace it, be established in it. Your sins past present and future are forgiven. Keep taking the grace pills. And may the God of peace through the precious gospel of His son Jesus Christ cure the aches and pains that tradition religion and mixed doctrines have inflicted in our minds and hearts.

- Pst Adah Igah

Our Righteousness

Whatever you do and wherever you go, let all things begin from and culminate in the Finished Works of Jesus. This is the basis for our Christian life. If you don’t understand this, whatever you do will result in self effort. We do not pray or sow our seeds trying to convince God to give us things or hear and answer us.

Be established in righteousness.

When we say we are righteous, we mean that we can stand before God without any sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation – because of the Finished Works of Jesus. Stop thinking that you aren’t good enough for what God offers because of what you have done or not done, when, in fact, it is none of your actions or goodness that qualified you in the first place.

To be established in righteousness, what you should be looking at is “…as He is…” So your definition of righteousness should not be based on anything related to your right or wrong in any way but on Him, Jesus. Your righteousness is not defined by your standards; it is defined by Jesus. You are who He says you are. He is your righteousness. Why? “For He was made sin for us who knew no sin…” (2 Cor. 5:17)

This righteousness is equality with God. Righteousness is having the life of God. This means that the same quality of life and love that He enjoys and dispenses is the exact same that we can enjoy and dispense as well. The same quality of forgiveness that operates from His heart operates from our heart as well.

Righteous men that we are, we need to realize that we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us and we are living in His victory! Righteousness is that we are enjoying all that Jesus paid for on the Cross; we are not trying to be or trying to get. We are victors already!

We are righteous without a single good deed, so also we are prosperous without a dime in our pockets. Faith is believing what Jesus did for us, not trying to achieve your own righteousness.

A Mighty Supply!

"There’s a MIGHTY SUPPLY!" "Breaking forth through those thick dark heavy clouds, is the shining light of the sun in a golden array of colors. Out of something difficult and ugly, a beautiful picture emerges for you," saith God.

What is the 'thick dark heavy cloud'  you are experiencing in your life right now? Take the prophecy in your mouth and break through those dark cloud... It might be the dark cloud of 'not enough', the dark cloud of 'just enough', the dark cloud of 'sickness', the dark cloud of 'inconsistencies', the dark cloud of 'prayerlessness', the dark cloud of 'whatever'.

Take up the prophecy in your heart and in your mouth and break through those dark clouds, let the shining light of the sun (revelation knowledge) of God in golden arrays of colors break through and let the beautiful picture emerge for you now in Jesus name. The picture right now is difficult and ugly but THERE IS A MIGHTY SUPPLY, you just believe and trust that God is able to bring His own words to pass in your life.

Finally, be persistent because it says you are "breaking through", the light is "breaking through" that means there is a force wanting to resist this light but the VICTORY is already ours through CHRIST, so be persistent.

Understanding Ministry Gifts

Your understanding of ministry gifts (apostles, teachers, prophets, evangelists and pastors) helps you to be able to flow better and co-operate with them. This in turn causes the anointing and the manifestations (in your life) to increase. Lay church members are not prophets, even if they do prophesy regularly. The Bible makes this distinction clearly when it talks about the four virgin daughters of Philip the evangelist who prophesied, and Agabus who was clearly spelt out to be a prophet (Acts 21:8-10). The Bible also mentions certain prophets and teachers in Antioch (Acts 13:1).

The ministry of the prophet is characterised by the following:
- A prophet must be a ministry gift and be a teacher and/or preacher of the gospel.
- A prophet must flow in certain manifestations of the spirit on a regular and consistent basis: the gift of prophecy and two or all of the revelatory gifts. The other gifts of the Spirit are optional.
- The laying on of hands accompanies the office of the prophet.
- The prophet teaches and/or preaches on the spur of sudden revelation. A prophet may not teach in a concise, step-by-step manner like a teacher. The idea of prophecy connotes a bubbling forth, so the prophet may catch a sudden revelation in the middle of a certain message and continue in that direction. It is his office in manifestation.

It is important to note that with ministry gifts, one can stand in one, two or more offices, but there is always a major calling/office. For example, with prophets, the teaching ministry usually follows behind. The prophet does not and should not try to put his teaching ministry before his prophetic ministry. So, a prophet should know God’s Word, study and prepare to teach it if need be.
Therefore, we should learn to co-operate with the different ministry gifts and not try to force one to function like another. There are no inferior or superior ministry gifts, they are simply different in operation and they bless us in their diversity as we learn to understand and co-operate with them.

Ephesians 4:8, 11-12: “Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors, and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:”

Ministry gifts are set in the church to edify you. In the same way that speaking in tongues charges you up, so also edification comes by the ministry gifts. These gifts are set in the church by God, through an election of grace. No one calls (anoints) himself in any office. God does the calling. This does not mean that one must be a ministry gift in order to start a church. We see this in Paul’s ministry. He went around establishing churches and leaving them in the hands of elders who would hold the fort until the maturing of a ministry gift who would now handle the church. The most obvious gifts in the early church were apostles, before prophets and teachers began to show up. The first recognized evangelist in Scripture was Philip (one of the seven deacons in Acts 6:5) who went to Samaria and preached Christ (Acts 8:5). The only recognized pastor in the Jerusalem church was James, the Lord’s brother, who wrote the book of James. He pastored the church in Jerusalem and the apostles and teachers were submitted to him because the pastor is the authority in the local church.
The office of the teacher is analytical in nature. He takes the people step-by-step through the nuances and mazes of God’s Word for maximum understanding. He presents the light of God’s Word to the people in the simplest way possible.

A pastor who is a prophet and a teacher operates in basic and simple measures because his mission is to reach out to people on different levels of growth and understanding. A prophet who is an evangelist and a teacher may not be so sensitive as to teach in simple and basic terms.

The pastor is seemingly the least spectacular of all the ministry gifts. One of the most consistent gifts of the Spirit that manifests in the office of a pastor is the word of wisdom. One pastor who had pastored a church for over 55 years was asked the secret to pastoring and he said, “Always have the right answer for people when they come to you.” Sometimes, folks may not come to you one-on-one, but in the middle of a sermon, the ministry of a pastor may come into operation to address the situation of one person in particular. The office of the pastor is much like a shepherd: he will always have a heart for the sheep, and sometimes, for the one sheep, hence the sensitivity of his heart. The office of a pastor works with the anointing and the grace of God, not by personal choice or ambition. This ministry is the only one set aside to shepherd believers: to encourage, correct and be there for the people. All other ministry gifts need a pastor; they need to be shepherded too. Being submitted to a pastor helps the growth of believers a great deal.

Most every other ministry gift, with the exception of the pastor, has itinerary functions. Some teachers are called to travel while others are called to teach in a particular church. Sometimes, there are teachers who are called to teach a particular section in a particular church, for example, the children’s church or the youth group. Such a calling is not less important than one which is required to go round the world. It is all about being faithful in the place where God has called you to.

When you read the New Testament, it would seem like the only ministry gifts in operation were the apostles. This was because the church was in its babyhood stage, and God was using them to set the doctrines and foundation of the church (Ephesians 2:19-22). They were the foundational apostles. The times have changed, though, and the more rampant ministry gift in this present day is the office of the pastor because there are many churches in the world now and people need a shepherd. Still, all ministry gifts are important to the body of Christ, and we must learn to understand and yield to them for our maximum benefit.

- Pst Adah Igah

Established In Right

Isa 54:14

In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

2 Cor 5:21-6:1

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Rom 5:17

17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

The Bible says that we have made the righteousness of God in Christ.

Righteousness is to stand before God without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority.

 Righteousness is a gift. Righteousness is a nature.  A nature is a nature –who you are inherently, not behavior, what you do outwardly. Righteousness is not right living; it is a nature that will eventually produce right living because of the inherent right in nature. A person doing right things does not automatically make them a righteous person. It is nature that defines fruit; fruit does not define nature. 

God gave us the gift of righteousness upon the platform of His love. And He did this by the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, in order to make His gift to us legal. God is a just God, and He must have justice. He took His justice in punishing a man –Jesus for us. This justice ended up as righteousness –the gift, to us.  

The gift of righteousness cost Jesus His life, but it has been given to us for free. Knowing that we did not and cannot work for righteousness does not make the gift any less valuable. If anything, the fact that something so priceless is free makes it all the more precious.

We cannot work for this righteousness. There is no amount of effort that can produce this nature or extend this gift to us. This is why we must be established in righteousness. When you are established in this precious gift, you will begin to discover your true nature and you will begin to receive freely all that Jesus did for you. Do not try to work for money or for things. Do not try to work for holiness and right living. Simply receive it. Listen, the way you received righteousness, by simply believing in Jesus, is the same way that you continue to live life in Him. You cannot maintain by your effort what you did not work to get. The works of righteousness are not many; the works of righteousness is to believe. 

Come to understand that you are standing before God without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. Stop trying to get things from God using gimmicks. If your qualification before God is not based on what you have done or what you do, but on what Jesus has done, why do you feel like you are not good enough for the things that God offers? And why do you feel like you have to convince God to give to you by much praying and much giving? Is your receiving still based on God’s free gift or your actions now? 

It is God that does for us what He does for us; we do not make ourselves great, we cannot help God to make us great. In the same vein, we cannot undo His help to us and for us by our actions.

Righteousness is not defined by anything I can do or not do because it is not based on my standards. Be established in righteousness. Righteousness is all the work of God. 

- Pst Adah Igah

MIGHTY SUPPLY

My eyes are opened and I see what looks to be a thick cloud that is about to rain heavily. However, as I behold the sight carefully, I see in the midst of the clouds some wings in flight. I see winged beings flying, following each other in formation, coming in my direction...and the sight is glorious! From the midst of the clouds, I see the sun rising and forming a golden colour around the clouds. These gigantic winged beings flying so gloriously towards the earth are in multitude.

And as I behold this sight, I hear in my heart, There is a MIGHTY SUPPLY, a supply that is beyond your comprehension and it's a continuous supply, saith God.

This is a supply that has no end. This supply is so great that even if multitudes upon multitudes of angels keep bringing them constantly tail-to-tail to earth, it will still not be exhausted. No! It cannot be exhausted.

There's a MIGHTY SUPPLY! Breaking forth through those thick dark heavy clouds, is the shining light of the sun in a golden array of colours. Out of something difficult and ugly, a beautiful picture emerges for you, saith God.

It's a beautiful picture emerging from what was designed to pull you down. It's strength unequalled; strength untold; strength that will never end, ministered to you continually. Oh the sight is so beautiful; the picture that came out of the ugliness, the darkness and the confusion. I hear in my heart, Jump into this supply; jump in. It's for you.
Rev Arome E. Adah.

WHAT ABOUT 2016?

What about 2016?

There have been many predictions from a lot of people concerning many things but just mark my words: let your heart be at peace, for 2016 is a year of your receiving much more.

What I see in my heart is a bumper harvest. Let your heart be at peace. You may see a lot of apparently discouraging things, even before this year turns over, but I am assuring you because we have inside information that we will not be swallowed up in the year 2016. Rather, we will swallow up the year.

The story of the Red Sea keeps coming to my heart: that Red Sea before them was a problem to the children of Israel and at the same time the army of Pharaoh advancing from behind was a problem to the children of Israel. What happened? God divided one so that the children of Israel could pass through and then the problem that God divided swallowed up the other problem.

This is what is in my heart in 2016. Those problems that keep disturbing you; those seemingly monumental problems will just divide and you will walk through them and then these bigger problems will swallow up other smaller problems! Watch and see, you will witness one of these problems destroying the others.

 The Lord told us during our most recent prayer cruise that a rumour will be heard about us. I repeat, A rumour will be heard about you and like wild fire, it will go round the people around us.

You will not have to fabricate anything about yourself. God will cause men to hear something about you. God will cause men to hear a rumour about you. Listen to me: the rumour they hear may not necessarily be factual but God will cause them to hear it and believe it because that is how He sees you.

 I declare to you that those apparently monumental problems will become ancient history in your life by the end of the first quarter of 2016.

By the time we are in the month of March, you will be saying, "I used to have that problem. I don't even remember what it feels like to have that problem."

Glory to God!

I keep hearing in my heart, "WHAT ABOUT 2016?"

Again, we will say as we said last year, it is a year of the Spirit because on Spirit wings He has taken you and you will sail through it. It is not going to be by your efforts, but by Him, you will just sail throughnd you will glide through and after you have passed you will look back and ask, I actually passed through those storms? Wow! I actually passed through all those things and they didn't hurt me?

YES.

 Just as the Hebrew children and those around them wondered whether they had really been in the fire because not only did the fire have no power over them but even the smell could not be perceived on them. So you will pass through and none will even be able to perceive the problem on you. Glory to God! There is a Mighty Supply.

What are we going to say about 2016?

I see us like the children of Israel stepping into this year 2016 just with those words on our lips; the words keep coming from our mouths: "The Lord is good and His mercies endureth forever."

"As you enter into the year, the year opens up for you," says God.

"The year opens up for you and you completely take over with my mercy in your heart and with my mercy upon your lips."

I seen the year dividing into two for you and I see a complete take over. I see a great army marching; marching past January and when you look back nothing is seen because everything has been completely eaten up. I see them marching into February, marching into March, marching into April and marching into May in the same way. As they go, everything is being devoured and everything is being taken. What belongs to them they take for they can see what Christ has done for them. They can see the price He has paid so they grab and they don't let go of any. They don't let go anything and nothing seems to fall away from them.  Everything seems toffall towards them.

 This is a great army with none breaking their ranks. Why? They are not breaking their ranks because their eyes are fixed upon Jesus; their eyes are fixed upon the price He has paid. Yes, they are not breaking their ranks be cause they are not trying to do it by themselves; they are simply taking.

Yes, they are the men of faith; they are the women of faith. They are the ones declaring and peaking the words of faith and the words of righteousness are upon their lips. They are unstoppable; they are unquenchable; their fire burns brighter and stronger; brighter and stronger! Their fire goes around every where consuming all in its path.

They are not unidirectional, they are multidirectional and you will see their fire going everywhere, taking every angle and consuming everything.

The world has fallen to them for they can see and can perceive that God has given these ones the world by the sacrifice of Jesus. It was said after many years of David being king that David perceived that God had made him king.

 The church is coming to it and we have come to that finest hour. Like David perceived it we will begin to perceive that God has given us this land by the sacrifice of His Son Jesus and with that perception comes breakthrough.

What shall we say about 2016?

We are going to be lifting up our hands in thay year and praising Him in the way we have never praised Him before; rejoicing in the way we have never done before. We will have our eyes fixed on Jesus in the way we've never done before and we are going to declare the works of Jesus, the works of God, in the way we've never done before. Our eyes are going to fail us as we look to our own works so our eye should be fixed upon Him always.

What are we going to say about 2016?

For I see the workings of miracles! I see the workings of miracles in such magnitude that the church, the body of Christ has never really gotten into. I see the workings of miracles in every place all around the world. People are just getting born again and they are immediately moving into the workings of miracles; staggering miracles; astonishing things happening zpthrough them; through us; through the church.

 I see the world coming to a standstill; I see the world coming to their knees because of the workings of miracles in their lives by the church. Just as it happened in the life of Moses and there were such workings of miracles in the life of Moses that Pharaoh and Egypt came to their knees so it will be again, haha, so it will be again! Workings of miracles in the church; by the church; and the world coming to its knees.

What shall we say about 2016?

It is the year of the mighty money flow. We talk about the workings of miracles and I hear in my heart: it is a year that people will experience the flow of money because of the workings of miracles or via the workings of miracles. They will see money coming in torrents. I see people standing in awe; in 'fear' for the magnitude of money they are seeing, the money coming into their hands by the workings of miracles.

What are we going to say about 2016?

I see souls! I see the harvest of souls and I see the compassion of God welling up in our hearts for souls in the way it has not been in a while. I see the church taking this large amounts of moy coming into their hands and I see them putting it into souls; putting it into the harvest of souls. Keep putting it into the harvest of souls, for it is His will that all be saved and that all come to the knowledge of Him.

I see men with the anointing; with a unique anointing. I hear them; a unique anointing, going out into the streets and into the corners preaching! And the results show hundreds, thousands, giving their lives to Christ in an unconventional way! They may not even be called Evangelist; they may not even have a registered ministry, Hahaha! Yet I see the fire of God! It's as though theybare transparent and I can see through them. I see the fire of God burning in their hearts. I see that fire like a volcano; like lava forcing its way from their hearts through their mouths and as it comes out I see people running, running, running, running, giving their lives to Christ.

-Rev Arome E. Adah.

Established In Righteousness

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness shall thou be established: thou shall be far from oppression; for thou shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Romans 5:17

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.







The Bible says that we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ.

 Righteousness is to stand before God without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority.

Righteousness is a gift. Righteousness is a nature. A nature is a nature- who a person is inherently, not behaviour, what the person does outwardly. Righteousness is not right living; it is a nature that will eventually produce right living because of the inherent right in nature. A person doing right things does not automatically or necessarily make them a righteous person. It is nature that defines fruit; fruit does not define nature.

God gave us the gift of righteousness upon the platform of His love. He did this by the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, in order to make His gift to us legal. God is a just God, and He must have justice. He took His justice in punishing a man - Jesus for us. This justice ended up as righteousness, the gift, to us.

The gift of righteousness cost Jesus His life, but it has been given to us for free. Knowing that webdi not and cannot work for righteousness does not make thengift any less valuable. If anything, the fact that something so priceless is free makes it all the more precious.

We cannot work for this righteousness. There is no amount of effort that can produce this nature or extend such a gift to us. This is why we must be established in righteousness. When you are established in this precious gift, you will begin to discover your true nature and you will begin to receive freely all that Jesus did for you. Do not try to work for money and things. Do not try to work for holiness and right living. Simply receive it. Listen, the way you received righteousness, by simply believing in Jesus, is the same way that you continue to live life in Him. You cannot maintain by your effort what you did not work to get. The works of righteousness are not numerous; it is simply to believe!

Come to understand that youbare standing before God without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. Stop trying to get things from God using gimmicks. If your qualification before God is not based on what you have done or what you do but on what Jesus has done, why then do you feel like you are not good enough for things that God offers? And why do you feel like you have to convince God to give to you by your much giving and much praying? Is your receiving still sedbon God's free gift or your actions now?

It is God that does for us what He does for us. We do not make ourselves great, we cannot help God to make us great. In the same vein, we cannot undo His help to us and for us by our actions.

 Righteousness is not defined by anything I can do or not do because it is not based on my standards. Be established in righteousness. Righteousness is all the work of God.

 By Pastor Adah Igah.

You Are Righteous!

Paul, in his time, spoke about the end time. He said that they were in the end time in those days! This means we have reached the very end of the end time! And because of the times in which we live, when many things are failing, ignorance is not an excuse. It is necessary to know and be convinced about certain things from the Word of God otherwise you will live and fall like a mere man when you ought to be living like the New Creation that you are.

2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”

You are not a mere man, because you have the life of God in you. The Greater One lives in you and you have ceased to be an ordinary person.

John 10:10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

1 John 4:4: “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

You must be established in this otherwise you will get swept away with the fear that is going around in the world. You must not be ignorant or the devil and traditions and the law will thrive on your ignorance about what God has done for you. You are not a normal person. You are not an ordinary person! You will be in the midst of crisis and terrorist attacks and bombings and dangers and accidents, and you will walk out of them unhurt. You will be in the midst of dangerous diseases and viruses and you will be unhurt. The things that harm and kill normal people will come to you and you will still be standing, because “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made you free from the law of sin and death.”

The presence of the Holy Ghost in you has made you a super-person! You are better than the superheroes you see on TV like Thor and the X-Men. What you have on the inside of you is far greater than what they have. The circumstance or danger doesn’t change what is inside you; it brings out what is inside you. Just like the warrior in Thor rises to the challenge, so we ought to let the power on the inside of us rise to the challenges around us. What if you are not exempted from the trouble when it comes? What if you are in the midst of it?

Psalm 20:1: “The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;”

The Lord will deliver you in the middle of the plane crash, or the bomb blast!

Psalm 91:1: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Psalm 91:7-8, 11: “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked…For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”

The day of trouble reveals the character of your spirit and your soul. In the day of trouble, what is in your head will be of no effect but what is in your heart will answer to the situation.

We are raising champions here! God has made you a champion and you are manifesting what He has made you.

Give voice to the Christ in you!

When you come to the place of lack, and your knees are jittery, do not despair! Go back to the Word and let it soak into your consciousness until it bursts out of you and you kick the lack out! Assume the character of God’s Word until it begins to paint pictures in your heart and fear dissolves! God is your Refuge, your Provision and your Defender, He is your Protector! You have no reason to be afraid because you are not taking care of yourself. You are not your protector and your defender, God is! And you must let this become a conviction that settles in your heart. Come to know the principle of life that is at work in you. It eliminates death.

Romans 8:2: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”

2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”

You are in Christ; your sins are forgiven; you are righteous. You are better than Superman!