Just as He said

This week I have a very strong desire to put on my Apostolic Cap and talk about the power available to children of God which we can utilise to generate positive outcomes, in our lives. 

There is a phrase in the Bible that if Christians meditate on, can immensely transform their lives.  In Matthew 28:6 there is a phrase “… as he said…” according to the King James Version. 

Thus phrase forms part of a statement declared by an angel of God to two women who were disciples of Jesus who had gone to his tomb early in the morning on the third day after his death. 

According to the Biblical account, the stone covering the entrance of the tomb had been rolled away and an Angel was sitting on it and he made the statement to the effect that the Jesus they are seeking is not there and that he had risen, as he said before his death.  

His resurrection affirmed the authenticity and dependability of the word of Jesus and therefore the word of God.

Christianity has to do with faith in the word of God.  Pastor Mensa Otabil said if we view Christianity as an inside out view, you would go inside to operate the power that is in you.  

As a Christian, the spirit of God and therefore the power of God, dwells in you.  Anyone who is aware of this truth, does not go around seeking to have a so called powerful person resolve his or her spiritual issues.  

Most Christians who move from prophet to prophet, do not believe that the spirit of God which operates in a Pastor or Prophet, is the same spirit that dwells in him or her.

 In fact , that Christian may be more ‘powerful’ than the Prophet or Pastor he is going to for prayers because he is living a holy life, which is pleasing to God, for God is no respecter of persons according to Acts 10:34-35.

 God does not give out his spirit in different measures to indwell believers.  The spirit of God that dwells in a new convert, is the same spirit that dwells in a Bishop or a Prophet or an Evangelist or an Elder or a Deacon.

All you need to do as a child of God is to believe in the word of God and know that it works and that according to 1 John 4:4 we, Christians, that the Spirit of God dwells in us have overcome the world and Jesus in us, is greater than the Devil who is out in the world, wrecking havoc all around.

If we realise that we have overcome the Devil and everything he controls, then we can believe and act in faith and make declarations and just as Christ declared that he will die and on the third day, he will rise from the dead and it manifested as he said, there shall be a manifestation of our declarations also.

The problem of modern day Christians is that, a lot of them, do not study and meditate on the word of God, so they do not witness the manifestation of the power of God, in their lives. 

Such an experience over time, give them the impression that the spirit of God dwells in different dimensions in believers.  This then leads them to seek solutions to their challenges from so called powerful men of God. 

Some Pastors also fall into this misconception of the measure of the spirit of God in believers.  When the size of a Pastor’s church for instance, is not increasing the way he had been praying for self-doubt sometimes begin to set in. 

Especially, if he begins to compare his church with that of say a colleague from the same Bible School, then he begins to wonder if there is not a spiritual secret he is not aware of. 

This is when, if care is not taken, fellow Pastors who appears to be very successful in the ministry but are using occultic powers, could sway them from the narrow path and get them trapped in the Devil’s clutches and eventually and inevitably, destroy their lives. God bless.

By Laud Kissi-Mensah