CHRIST IS YOUR SOURCE.

GRACE LIFE, DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR SAM & PASTOR ETANA AYODELE. THURSDAY 8TH FEBRUARY, 2018.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11).
   A Christian is a new creature in Christ. This man in Christ has never existed before in the eyes of the Father. The only foundation he has and will ever have is Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:10 says "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Jesus Christ is the origin of all believers. We all belong to Him.  It is a common belief among many in the kingdom that a believer is from an earthly genealogy. Because of this, he has to break some ancestral curses or wrong foundations that must have been set down by his ancestors. The believer is founded on Christ and he belong to the God-class of being. You are not in  any bloodline or earthly generation. You are from the generation of Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13, 1 Peter 1:23).
   Born of God is your status in Christ. You are in Him and He is in you (1 John 4:15). 1 John 4:4 says "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." Anyone who believe that Jesus is the Christ is not born by man but Christ (1 John 5:1). In the Old Testament, David ask a question in Psalm 11:3 that if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? He didn't say foundation but foundations. The righteous don't have many foundations but one, which is Christ. This foundation (Christ) has destroyed the devil, sin and all its consequences. His sacrifice was the utter end of all the misery of this world (Hebrews 2:14, 1 John 3:8, John 1:29). Anyone in Him, who have the knowledge of His  victory is exempted from all evil.
    Christ is your solid foundation. In Him, there is no sin, no curses, no oppression or any form of evil. It is the fullness of God that reside in Him. You are one with Christ: bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh. Ephesians 5:30 "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." Jesus Christ is our life (Colossians 3:4). His totality is ours. Christ nature is our nature too (2 Peter 1:4). Whatever you can find in him is in you and anything you can't find in him is totally absent in you. 1 John 4:17 "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."
   A believer is from the generation of Christ and there is no curse or bondage in this generation. So, we don't have any wrong foundation to destroy. All things about a Christian are of God. His faith is of God, his mind is the mind of Christ. There is nothing outside Christ in the life of a believer. Whatever is not in Christ is not in him except he lack the knowledge of Christ. Just like Christ, he has authority over death, sicknesses and diseases, poverty and all oppression of the devil and all the misery of this world. For you,
Christ is the foundation of success in the kingdom and in all your affairs. You are a king, born to rule over darkness and to liberate others from the authority of darkness (Mark 16:17). Your source is a blessed one and you are forever blessed in Christ.

PRAYER:
In the name of Jesus Christ, thank you Father for giving birth to me. You  are my everlasting foundation. In Galatians 2:20, Jesus declared my  glorious identity in Him: I have been crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I am born of God and whatsoever is born of God, overcome the world. The limit is forever taken away from my life for  I am richly blessed in Christ. All the unsaved are receiving Christ today as they receive his glorious gospel and the saved are functioning in Christ dominion on earth. Amen.