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Rev. Dr. Samuel Somuah Asante is an ordained minister of the gospel, who is commissioned to project the Lord Jesus Christ. His ministry emphasis is on th divine elevation of the believer in Christ. He believes strongly that all who are in Christ have the privilege to live above sin and failure, walk in righteousness and the resurrected life of Christ. He encourages Christians, especially pastors, to live a life that manifests the glory of God through them. Rev. Somuah is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana and holds a Masters degree in Theology from International Theological Seminary (Ghana Campus), and a PhD in Biblical Studies from ZOE Theological Seminar (USA). He is the Chief Servant of Jesus Witness Ministry, based in Taifa-Burkina, Accra. He is married to Rev. (Mrs.) Doris Somuah Asante and are blessed with two sons, Samuel and Arnold. They make their home in Accra, Ghana.

THE GRACE OF GOD 6.

KEY SCRIPTURE: Galatians 3:27 “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

In our previous study, we considered the fact that our faith in the finished work of our Lord Jesus gives us access to the grace of God. Romans 5:2.

We would look at how God identifies us with Christ in all that He did, which makes us benefactors of the grace of God.

Our key scripture tells us that as many of us as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. The word baptize is a Greek word which was translated into English. It is the word “baptizo” which means “to dip”,  “immerse” or “to submerge”. This scripture reveals that when we came to Jesus we were dipped or immersed into Christ. This is a work of the Holy Spirit as revealed in 1st Corinthians 12:13a ” For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body….”. This is not just water baptism; it is a spiritual immersion into the Spirit of Christ. By this work of the spirit, we become partakers with Jesus in everything he did, including His suffering, burial, defeat of the devil, resurrection ascension into heaven, and His seat at the right hand of God (Eph 2,5&6).

 Please note this, it is not the right-hand side, which is a location, it is the right hand which is a place of authority. The right hand of God is His authority and strength. (Exodus 15:6). Romans 6:4a says “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we should walk in newness of life”. Through this spiritual act of immersion into Him, we have become one with Him in everything He did and has obtained. This is what has brought us into the grace of God.

By this act of spiritual immersion which has made us share in whatever He did and has attained, there is an inseparable union between us and Jesus. (1st Corinthians 6:17) We represent Him on earth and He represents us in Heaven when Jesus appeared to Saul when he used to persecute the church, Jesus did not say why are you persecuting them but rather ” He said Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me? (Acts 9:4b).

Beloved stop looking down on yourself and being scared of the devil, you are one with Jesus. This is the Grace of God.

    CONFESSION

Thank you, heavenly Father, for making me one with Jesus through the spiritual immersion into Him. I am not an ordinary individual. My life would only shine to His glory.

THOUGHT: OUR IMMERSION INTO CHRIST MEANS WE LIVE IN CHRIST AND FUNCTION FROM THERE

FURTHER STUDIES.

Colossians 2:12 ” Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”

1 Corinthians 12:13 ” For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”

THE GRACE OF GOD 5

KEY SCRIPTURE: Romans 5:2 “By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

The grace of God is a world of amazing abilities and potential that is beyond human conception. Indeed, it makes available to the Christian the very potential that our Lord Jesus carried. (John 14:12)

Faith is access to the world of God’s grace with unlimited potential.

Our key Scripture reveals that by Jesus Christ or through our Lord we have access by faith to the grace wherein we stand.  The supply of supernatural abilities for us to be victorious by grace comes to us by faith.

This is faith in the death and resurrection of our Lord. Anything done by the Christian without identifying with the death and resurrection of the Lord leaves him or her empty of divine ability.  Carnality is simply doing anything without reference to the input of the death and resurrection of Jesus or not recognizing that it is Jesus acting through you. **

In Romans chapter 7, the apostle Paul lamented about his failure to overcome sin. He acted from his natural abilities. He came to his wits end and claimed, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He then declared his victory. ” I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I myself serve the law of God but with my flesh the law of sin ” (Rom. 7:25). He experienced victory when he had his mind acknowledge the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in the victory of our Lord Jesus is that which releases God’s grace to us. To be spiritually minded is simply to let your mind acknowledge the victory of Jesus as yours. Carnality is therefore to refuse to make Jesus’ victory yours. Rom. 8:6-8

Other fleshly actions like fornication, lies, and lust of all wrong things are all products of refusing to acknowledge Jesus’ victory as your victory!

As our key Scripture reveals the access, to this world of supernatural power and divine abilities to conquer, called ‘the grace of God,’ is faith in the victory of our Lord Jesus on the cross. As long as the Christian maintains Jesus’ victory in his or her consciousness, he or she will remain victorious in all engagements of life.

 THE CHRISTIAN SINS WHEN HE STEPS OUT OF GRACE. (THAT IS NOT TO COUNT ON THE JESUS VICTORY AS YOURS.  WE ARE NOTHING IN OURSELVES, OUR VICTORY IS TO COUNT ON JESUS’ VICTORY) 2nd Cor 3:5

 CONFESSION

My Lord Jesus conquered sin and death, that I might also conquer in His name. I fully identify with Him in His victory always so I would remain victorious all the time.

THOUGHT: OUR INHERITANCE IN CHRIST IS ALL THAT HE ACHIEVED THROUGH HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

FURTHER STUDIES:

John 14:12 ” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”.

Galatians 5:4 ” Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace”.

THE GRACE OF GOD 4

KEY SCRIPTURE: John 1:17 ” For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

Today is Christmas day, and I wish all patrons of simple truth devotional a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

The Bible reveals from our key scripture that the law was given or came through Moses, while grace and truth came by Jesus our Lord.

What is the law? The law is God’s righteous requirement that He demands from all men. It is holy. Romans 7:12 “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good”. If the law was holy and just and good, why was the need for grace?

The Bible teaches that although the law was good, men were spiritually dead and therefore could not meet the righteous requirements of the law. Rom 8:3&4, tell us what the law could not do because man was spiritually dead, our Lord Jesus died for us to condemn sin in the flesh of men. This made the righteous requirements of the law to be automatically fulfilled in us who believe in what our Lord Jesus did. Those who believe in what Jesus did on the cross are described as those who ‘walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit’. Rom 8:4.

The grace of God is, therefore, the supernatural power of the Spirit working in us who have faith in what the Lord Jesus did for humanity on the cross.

Any man who claims to live by the law means he has no faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus and therefore would not have this supernatural power working in him or her. He or she would meet the holy laws with his weak, sinful body.

This is the reason Rom 6:14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace”. To be under the law means sin has dominion over you. To be under grace, therefore, means you are filled with a power that overcomes sin.

To be under grace therefore cannot be a license to sin. It is a misunderstanding of what the grace of God is all about.

The law demands effort or works, and grace demands faith in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Galatians 3:12 ” And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.” It is a curse to claim to live under the law and not to believe in the Lord Jesus. A curse means to be empowered to fail, and a blessing also means to be empowered to succeed. Grace brings you blessing while living under the law brings you under a curse. Which one would you choose?

You have the greatest privilege on earth to place your faith in Jesus, so His mighty power would work in You today and forever.

CONFESSION

I thank God for allowing Jesus to give His life for all mankind. I have yielded my whole being to Him and, therefore, have overcome sin and the power of the enemy.

THOUGHT: ANY MAN STRUGGLING WITH SIN HAS NOT ACCEPTED GOD’S PROVISION OF GRACE, AND SO IS LIVING BY HIS WORKS.

FURTHER STUDIES

Galatians 3:10” For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.”

Romans 8:3-4  ” For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.

THE GRACE OF GOD 3

KEY SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 3:2 ” If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:”

Please read   Ephesians 3:1-10

We would consider the grace of God as revealed to the elect of God as well as some of the benefits of this grace.  From Eph 1: 5, by the grace of God, we have been predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will”.

 To be adopted as a son means to be placed as a full-grown son of God whereby, we have received full rights of His Son Jesus Christ. This adoption makes us joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 8:17. This implies we share a hundred percent access to the power and authority Jesus has.

 Apostle Paul writing by the inspiration of the Spirit describes this grace as a fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hidden in God. Ephesians 3:9.

 Is it not a mystery that He that is joined to the Lord Jesus is one spirit with him”? 1st Corinthians 6:17. Is it also not a mystery to be seated together with our Lord Jesus in heavenly places far above all principalities and power?

What an act of love demonstrated to us that “now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God” God has so elevated us that, the powers and authorities in the spirit realm would come to know the many-sided wisdom of God, through you and I, that is the church.

Our Father God, through our Lord Jesus, has made us a wonder. All these are not a result of anything we have done, nor anything we have or are. It is purely after the good pleasure of His will.

 This amazing grace has also made us who were enemies in our minds to be reconciled to the Father, such that ” in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, unblameable and unreprovable in His sight”. You have been made holy, unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight. You are in Christ, sharing His nature and state, so God sees you just like His Son Jesus. This makes you Holy, unblameable, and unreprovable.

Please throw away from your mind, the sin consciousness and the guilt consciousness and accept that, through the Lord Jesus, you are now a Holy, unblameable, and unreprovable person, acting like Jesus.

CONFESSION

This grace bestowed on me is beyond my conception, what a love, what a favour, and what an honour. I respond with all my heart to love Him and live totally for Him.

THOUGHT: INDEED THROUGH CHRIST JESUS  , WE HAVE RECEIVED GRACE UPON GRACE

FURTHER STUDIES.

Colossians 1:27 “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory”:

Ephesians 2:5-6 ” Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”

THE GRACE OF GOD 2.

KEY SCRIPTURE: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

In our previous study, we looked at the manifestation of God’s special grace revealed to specific individuals or groups of persons, through the sovereign will of our Father God.

We now consider the grace for salvation that has appeared unto all men. Titus 2:11 ” For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men”, The Lord Jesus died for all persons and the Lord extends His hands of love to all. This was made available, not because anyone deserved it. The scripture puts it beautifully in 2nd Cor 5:19, “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

Dear brother and sister, please note that the Lord says because of His grace, He is not counting your sins against you, because through Jesus He has reconciled or changed all men thoroughly (the word in Greek is “Katallasso”). By taking away the sins of the world He has potentially changed all men. All that God requires of men, is that they would accept this great offer of love.

If you have not made Jesus Lord over your life, you can make Him Lord, right now, and you will receive eternal life.

Eternal life is a gift and no one’s good works could earn it. In Mark’s account of the man who came to Jesus and requested how to earn eternal life. (Mark 10:17-27) Some have taught that, from Jesus’ answer, eternal life could be earned by works.  (Read through the whole story.) The disciples asked, (after the man had sadly left because he could not forsake his riches), who then could be saved or earn eternal life? The Lord Jesus answered. “….. With men it is impossible, but not with God, for with God all things are possible”. By this answer, the Lord establishes that salvation or eternal life is never by the effort of men, for it is always impossible with men. No man could earn salvation by his works.

We are saved by grace through faith. Not by works lest any man should boast.

 CONFESSION

No man can earn salvation by his efforts or works. I accept God’s provision through our Lord Jesus’ death and resurrection. I have made Him my Lord and so I am saved.

THOUGHT: THE GRACE OF SALVATION IS AVAILABLE TO ALL, YET ONLY THOSE WHO RECEIVE IT WILL BE SAVED.

FURTHER STUDIES.

2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Titus 2:11 ” For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,”

THE GRACE OF GOD.

KEY SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 2:8-9 ” For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

In contrast to the mercy of God being revealed to all creation the grace of God is a perfection of divine character which is not shown to the whole of creation but by God’s sovereign will he manifests His grace to those He so desires. (Please get this understanding, the grace of God comes upon a person or a group of people, to do or achieve a particular task)

Grace is a goodwill, love, and salvation unto His people. It is also the supernatural work of the Spirit of God in the life of a man. The Lord reminded the Israelites that He did not set His love upon them, because they were more in number than any other people……” He said it was because of the oath He made to their forefathers: The question is, did Abraham deserve to be chosen? God called him and was gracious to him purely on His own sovereign will.

Abraham did not merit that favour anyway. God’s grace has been shown throughout the scripture that it is never based on the merit of the benefactors but purely on God’s sovereign will to be gracious to such people or individuals.

The grace of God cannot be bought or earned. In Acts 8:20 Peter said to Simon “Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God (grace) may be purchased with money”. Grace is only grace when the recipient has no claim upon it. Many of us children of God and especially ministers of the gospel who boast about our gifts, don’t have the proper understanding of the grace of God. Nothing you did brought it to you. It is not your holiness, prayer, or any effort of yours that qualified you for the grace of God. The apostle Paul wrote by the inspiration of the spirit.

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God:” The abilities we have are of God and must be acknowledged in that light. God must continually receive the praise. He says also in 1st Corinthians 15:10b. “……but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”

Beloved the grace of God remains God’s sole prerogative to give to whomsoever He chooses, yet note, IT MUST BE RECEIVED BY FAITH to be effectual in our lives. (Ephesians 2:8).

  PRAYER

Thank you, heavenly Father, for your grace upon my life. I did not merit it in any way, yet in your wisdom and sovereignty, you gave it to me. Thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus I have prayed.

THOUGHT: GRACE IS SOVEREIGNLY GOD’S CHOICE, YET MAN PARTAKES OF IT BY FAITH.

FURTHER STUDIES.

1 Corinthians 15:10 ” But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”

James 1:17-18” Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of…

 Consider the following questions

1. Can you give the contrast between God showing mercy as compared to showing g His grace?

2. What is the grace of God?

3. On what terms did God show Abraham His grace?

4. Explain the statement the grace of God cannot be bought or earned.

5. What makes it wrong to boast about any gift you have from God.?

MEDITATE ON THE WRATH OF GOD.

KEY SCRIPTURE: Psalms 119:48 ” My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.”

God’s statutes are decrees, ordinances or testimonies He’s made about Himself, or He has instructed us to obey. One of such statutes is His revelation or declaration about His dislike for sin. Please read what He says about the wicked “Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup” (Psalm 11:6).

God’s wrath, as we have discussed earlier, is a perfection of His divine character, and we must take time to meditate on it. This will help our hearts to appreciate God’s detestation for sin. Sin is deceitful and can subtly take over one’s heart without a personal awareness of it. When the heart is appreciative of God’s dislike for sin, the heart would instinctively reject sin, whether it comes subtly or consciously. Like a canoe which has not been anchored, may drift away, so with a heart that has not been imbedded deeply in God’s righteous demands may not stick to his or her grounds for uprightness, Meditation on God’s wrath is a key.

Meditating on God’s wrath would also give birth to a true fear of God in our souls or hearts. Many acts of foolishness on the part of some Christians proceed from hearts that have not come to terms with the dreadfulness of God. “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are made manifest unto God…….” (2nd Corinthians 5:11). The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Hebrews 12:28-29 reminds us, “Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire.” There can’t be any acceptable service of our Father if there is no reverence for the glorious Majesty and godly fear of His righteous anger.

 How does one meditate on the wrath of God. Go to some scriptures that talk about the wrath and then ponder over it. You may also repeat the scriptures over and over again to yourself, such that the truth gets deeply planted in your heart.

  CONFESSION

It is a good thing to deeply reverence the Lord. I take time to think over God’s wrath frequently and always do the instructions of the word.

THOUGHT: WHAT YOU ATTEND TO DIRECT YOUR LIFE.

FURTHER STUDIES.

Psalms 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways

Psalms 148:5 “Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.”

Questions to consider.

1.Why meditate on God’s wrath?

2. HOW does sin function?

3.How does meditating on the wrath of God give birth to the fear of God?

4. Explain this statement: There will not be any acceptable service, if we do not have a reverential fear of God’s majesty and His wrath?

5.How do we meditate on the wrath of God.?

INSTANCES OF GOD’S WRATH.

KEY SCRIPTURE: Romans 2:8-9 “But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;”

God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34. The bible is replete with a number of instances of God’s wrath against the unrighteousness and the ungodliness of men.

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of its sin. The practice of homosexuality and lesbianism and their subsequent refusal to repent. Genesis 19:24 ” Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Achan coveted the accursed things that was not to be touched and therefore He was stoned with his family. Joshua 7:25 “And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? The Lord shall troubled thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones’.

David committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and murdered Him as well. 2nd Samuel 12:10 ” Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife”. Beloved, no one must allow his status to cause him to play down on God’s word. God is no respecter of persons. David was a man after God’s heart yet when he messed up with God’s word, he attracted God’s anger and fury. NOTE: EVERY MAN IS A MAN.

I wish to clarify the error creeping into the church concerning the grace of God in relation to the wrath of God. Some say because of the grace of God, God would overlook every wrong they commit. To stand in grace means, having a higher power that makes you live above sin: Forgiveness of sin is an act of God’s grace, yet when you keep living in sin ,you are refusing the grace of God. This is what attracts God’s wrath. Some Christians frustrate the grace of God. Galatians 2:21 ” I do not frustrate the grace of God…”God’s wrath comes on all those who frustrate the grace of God.

Ananias and Sapphira died by attempting to deceive the church of God. Acts 5:5 ” And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost; and great fear came on all them that heard these things”.

The brethren who do not discern the blood and body of Christ during communion services. 1st Corinthians 11:30 “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many are dead”.

Beloved, God would never tolerate sin. Turn. away less His wrath comes upon you.

CONFESSION

One of the reasons God made His grace available is make men live above sin. I always take advantage of God’s grace to live above sin.

THOUGHT: EVERY MAN IS A MAN BEFORE GOD.YOUR STATUS WILL ONLY BE SPECIAL IF, YOU FEARFULLY HONOUR GOD

FURTTHER STUDIES

Jeremiah 10:10 ” But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation”.

John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him”.

Pls Consider the following questions:

1. What does it mean to say that God is no respecter of persons Acts 10:34

2. What do you understand by the statement, every man is a man?

3. What is the relationship between the grace of God, and the wrath of God.?

4. How do people frustrate the grace of God?

THE WRATH OF GOD

KEY SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 4:24 ” For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.”

The wrath of God is a topic most people do not wish to talk about. Some wished it was not part of the bible. Some Christians believe it is not consistent with the goodness of God.

The wrath of God is a function of the Holiness of God. The wrath of God indeed is very consistent with God’s goodness. God’s wrath is simply His anger and judgment against sin. Sin has brought God’s creation, which He described as “…very good”(Gen.1:31) into total decay. Is the surgeon wicked when he removes the tumor from the brain or any part of the body?

God’s anger and hatred for sin make him judge the sinner who would not repent and turn away from his or her sin. Psalms 7:11 “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”

The absence of wrath against sin would have made God imperfect. Note this, indifference to sin is a moral blemish.

Can you imagine this perfect and holy God disregarding sin and refusing to show any anger or severity for sin.? (Rom 11:22). Notice how God is both kind and severe. He is very hard on those who disobey, but very good to you if you continue to love and trust him. But if you don’t, you too will be cut off.

God’s wrath is an eternal dislike and anger against all unrighteousness. On the cross, after Jesus had suffered so much, He shouted, My God My God, Why has thou forsaken me.? (Matt 27:46) What was happening here? Our Lord Jesus had borne the sins of all men. He had become SIN. The father, for the first time, turned away from the son. This is the consummation of God’s wrath.

Do not confuse the grace of God, with the wrath of God. The grace of God is God’s divine provisions for

 man to excel, so that man will not be dominated by sin. (Rom 6:14)

God’s wrath comes into action when man refuses God’s grace and allows sin to dominate him. Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;”

Dear child of God, submit to the provisions of God’s word, so you would be exempted from His wrath.

CONFESSION

God’s wrath is against all unrighteousness of men, with no exemptions. I allow the word to prevail over my life, so I do not come under God’s wrath.

THOUGHT:   THE WRATH OF GOD IS HIS LOVE TO PRESERVE HIS CREATION BY DESTROYING SIN, ANÐ ITS EFFECT IN MAN

FURTHER STUDIES

Acts 5 :1-11

Psalms 95:11” Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest”.

Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD.

KEY SCRIPTURE: Psalms 139:7 ” Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”

God, our father is ever present or omnipresent.  He is everywhere at every time. God is higher and above our three-dimensional world. Man is finite and lives in a finite world. Our world is controlled by time, space, and matter. God is infinite. He is above our world, yet He controls time, space, and matter. Colossians 1:17, “He is before all things and by Him all things consist.”

God’s Omnipresence reveals how mighty He is. Isaiah 40:15 says “look, The nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the scales. Look! He even lifts up the islands like powder.” Please just consider the preceding verse. God has the nations in His hand as a ‘drop of water ‘in a bucket. Nothing is hidden from Him, for He is so great, and every single thing is open and naked before Him (Hebrews 4:13). What a comfort to know that this mighty creator of the universe as our father assures us that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

 Proverb 15:3 informs us that the “eyes of the Lord are in every place. Watching the evil and the good. ” God always and in every place sees you. There is no moment you get out of His all-seeing eyes. He says the hair on your head is all numbered. And not even one strand of hair falls without His awareness. Luke 12:7.

These thoughts about God must fill our minds most of the time. Our worship and service unto the Lord would be deeper and satisfying if we would take time to meditate about God as revealed concerning His Omnipresence.

Many hearts are failing for fear and worry because we have lost sight of God’s omnipresence. The Psalmist says in Psalm 46:1 that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” He continues His declaration that no matter what happens, he would not be moved. Because ” God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall rightly help her, AND THAT RIGHTLY EARLY”:

Dear brother or sister, you are never alone in whatever condition you find yourself. God is with you. Only believe in Him. HE WILL HELP YOU, AND THAT RIGHT EARLY.

 CONFESSION

My Father is with me in all situations, and at all times. I would walk upright before Him, and nothing would ever move me.

THOUGHT: GIVE NO PLACE TO WORRY AT ALL, FOR GOD IS ALWAYS WITH YOU, AND WILL NEVER FAIL YOU

FURTHER STUDIES.

Jeremiah 23:24 ” Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD”.

Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”