BELIEVERS HAVE ONE GOD AND FATHER-JESUS CHRIST.

GRACE LIFE, DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR SAM & PASTOR ETANA AYODELE. TUESDAY 6TH MARCH, 2018.

....Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist (1 Corinthians 8:6).
   For all believers, there is one God and one Father-Jesus Christ. All things concerning us comes from him and we exist in him, for him and through him. Our totality is rooted in him forever. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 says "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God..." Jesus was made sin for us so we can be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). The reason he went to the cross and suffered greatly in the hands of sinners and unworthy men was because of us. He died for us, was buried for us, rose for us, ascended into glory for us, return back as the Holy Ghost to give birth to us and at the same time live in us forever. He is seated right now in the heavenly, at the right hand of the Father just for us. His totality or his fullness is completely ours. What a privilege generation we are in Christ. Glory to him forever. This is why it is completely hypocritical for believers to say that they are not worthy before God. What? After all that Jesus did to make them worthy, what an erroneous identity.
   2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Is so instructive: "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." We live for Christ, our focus is him because all we are, is him. We are who we are today by his grace. With this, Christ and the spread of his gospel is the topmost priority for the believer. The best part of our time, energy and resources should be used to spread this gospel to the unsaved and the saved who are ignorant of the precise knowledge of Christ. This is the full time destiny of all believers; making Jesus known to all men. This is the ultimate reason for living, hear on earth.
   1 Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." There is one God-the man Christ Jesus. There is one mediator between God and men-the man Christ Jesus. The man Christ Jesus who is God Almighty (1 John 5:7, 20, John 10:30, 14:8-11, Isaiah 9:6) is our Father right now. Permit me to say that God who is our Father is a family man because he is the man called Christ Jesus. Don't forget that Jesus Christ who is God Almighty ascended to heaven as a man with flesh and bones. Luke 24:39, 41-43, 51 "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it , and did eat before them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven."
   Our Father-Jesus Christ, after eating fish before the disciples, ascended with flesh and bones without blood because the blood was shed for the remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22, Matthew 26:28). This is why the believer is not from any bloodline of men because he is not born by any earthly man or woman. He is born of God (1 Peter 1:23, John 1:12-13, James 1:18). The reason for bearing the parents names is for the people of the world; so they can understand him. He need those names for the system of this world. When it comes to the kingdom of God, all believers bears the name of the Father-Jesus Christ. Now affirm these words: Jesus Christ is my Father, I am his offspring, I am from his genealogy. His life is my life, I am who is he and he is who I am: one Spirit, one flesh and one mind. Amen. For the unsaved, you can become his son right now by saying these words: Jesus Christ, you are my Lord and Savior. I believe that God raised you from the dead for my justification. Thank you Father, I am saved. I am born of God. Amen.

PRAYER:
In the name of Jesus Christ, thank you my Father for giving birth to me. You have endowed me with your total goodness and placed me in your seat in the heavenly, forever. With this divine birth, I am a success and I will always be a success. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yes, I have a goodly heritage. I eat the good of the land wherever I go because the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The world and they that dwell there it. Great, completely blessed without flaw is my glorious identity in Christ. I rejoice in my righteous status in Christ. Amen.