KEY SCRIPTURE: Rom 3:22 KJV” Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:”

We have established in our previous study that God’s righteousness is not an initiation by man but a gift of God that gives us a head start in righteousness.  According to Rom 5:17, this gift of righteousness, coupled with a reception of an abundance of grace, makes us reign in life. Please note that the strength of the enemy is the separation of the people of God from Him. Righteousness takes care of every barrier between us and our Father God. Righteousness gives us a perfect standing before the Father.  Our perfect standing before our heavenly father grounds our absolute triumph over the enemy. It is therefore the grand scheme of the devil and his cohorts to move the children if God to act against God, to break that right standing with the Father.

Dear child, if God’s righteousness is a gift always employed by faith. When you sin, you have broken fellowship with the Father, and so you must admit your sin, confess it, and receive the Lord’s forgiveness. Meanwhile, your gift of righteousness is not affected, but your repentance from that wrong way takes away the broken fellowship and makes your righteous standing fully effective once again. One thing that the child of God must be very cautious about is staying away from sin. Devils assume authority over the Christian when he or she sins. If the Christian sins, it means he has yielded to promptings or instructions from the enemy. Remember the scripture that says to whom you yield yourself to obey, his servant you become. Rom 6:16. This is the reason devils keep whispering, stirring, suggesting, and scheming in every way possible to make the child of God sin.

Dear child of God, please note that it is very important for you to maintain your righteous consciousness always. One way to do this is to meditate on the truth of your righteousness. Joshua 1:8 teaches us how it is done. It says this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein, or mutter it or say it to yourself at a low tone, day and night. That thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein, for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and have good success. Take time to mutter the scripture over and over again, till your spirit is saturated with that truth. You may repeat the following: I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You may repeat this for about two weeks and see what happens to you.

CONFESSION

I am the righteousness of God. I walk upright by God’s righteousness in me. I have a right standing before God because of my righteousness. Thank you, Lord.

FURTHER STUDIES

1Tim 4:15 KJV” Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”

Rom 3:28 KJV ” Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.”