Conformed To His Death

Apostle Grace Lubega

Phillipians 3:10(KJV); That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death

As new creatures in Christ, we died with Christ and were raised with Him. It is important that we appreciate the duality of this experience because it defines how we ought to fully live in the newness of life.

We cannot only celebrate and identify with the fact that we were raised with Him. We must understand that we died with Him too.

How does one conform to His death?

In Romans 7:4, the Bible says, ‘Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.’

When we died with Christ, we also died to the law. A Christian who is conformed to the death of Christ does not live under the dictates of the Law but under the abundance of God’s grace.

Dying with Christ means that it is nolonger you who lives but Christ living in you. It is God that wills and purposes in you(Philippians 2:13). You cease to do things to please God but walk as one who knows God is already pleased with him. That is a dead man!

FURTHER STUDY: Galatians 2:19-20, Colossians 3:3

GOLDEN NUGGET:
When we died with Christ, we also died to the law. A Christian who is conformed to the death of Christ does not live under the dictates of the Law but under the abundance of God’s grace.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this reality. I understand the experience of both the death and resurrection of Jesus. I know that I no longer live but you live in me. I am under the grace of God because I died to the law. Because I died to the law, I also died to sin. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Azure development

Understanding The Person Of The Holy Spirit – 3

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 12:31-32(KJV); Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come

Often times, our theme scripture has been quoted as the ‘unforgivable sin’. This has been the basis of a number of contradictory doctrines; it is the reason why some Christians have lived in constant condemnation and why some are convinced that they are damned and destined for hell.

The ultimate question we should be asking is, ‘Can a Born Again Christian blaspheme the Holy Spirit?’

The answer is ‘no.’

A person born of the Spirit is by nature incorruptible and as such cannot blaspheme the very Spirit that begat him(1 Peter 1:23).

When Jesus spoke of this unforgivable sin, He was making reference to non-believers. Once you receive Christ in your spirit, it is impossible for you to sin against the Holy Spirit.

He that is born of God cannot sin(1 John 3:9). It is not in your nature to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

Live life in this understanding, free of any condemnation.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: 1 John 3:9, 1 Peter 1:23

GOLDEN NUGGET:

A person born of the Spirit is by nature incorruptible and as such cannot blaspheme the very Spirit that begat him.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this Word. Thank you because there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. I commune with the Holy Spirit in this understanding and liberty, safe in the knowledge that I am accepted and loved. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Of Windows And Ancient Oil

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Timothy 1:5(KJV); When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Our theme scripture is a perfect demonstration of the flow of ancient oil; that by eternal default, it must move from an older generation to the next.

You must understand that God opens the windows of heaven to us(windows representing revelation), not just to show us mysteries in His Word and of His Person. Sometimes, these windows are open to us because God is entrusting us with a message so we can pass it on to the next generation.

What this means is that windows also define the progression of ancient oil.

There are men and women of God who did not pass on ancient oil to the next generation because at some point, these windows were closed to these men and women of God. As such, they could not give what they had no access to. Their brooks dried early and they found themselves lacking relevance in subsequent generations.

On the other hand, there are generations that did not receive from older generations because even if the older generations had what to give, the newer generations could not receive ancient oil because the windows of the newer generation were closed.

That is not the true order of the Spirit.

Every generation has its revelation and because the church is moving from glory to glory; every generation must have a deeper revelation than the previous generation. The windows that are open now must be more than the windows that were opened before. The windows that are open now must be clearer than those opened before.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 3:18, Proverbs 4:18

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Every generation has its revelation and because the church is moving from glory to glory; every generation must have a deeper revelation than the previous generation. The windows that are open now must be more than the windows that were opened before. The windows that are open now must be clearer than those opened before.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this great Word. Thank you because what you have placed in me cannot and will not end with me. It is impacting generations to come. My windows are open enough to pass on ancient oil; years from now, people will receive from me because I walk in this understanding. In Jesus’ name, Amen

To Search The Mysteries

Apostle Grace Lubega

1 Corinthians 2:10(KJV); But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

The Spirit of God searches the deep things of God.

Often, when this scripture is quoted, some people think of mysteries about the person of God and His Word. This is true but there is more to it, child of God.

There are ideas that are yet to be born; innovations yet to be created; theories yet to be established. Even these fall in the realm of mysteries and the Spirit of God reveals these too.

What is the cure to the world’s incurable diseases? That is a mystery and God wants to reveal it to you.

What has technology failed to solve in your nation? God wants to reveal that to you too.

The Bible says that wisdom begets inventions(Proverbs 8:12). The Spirit of God is a fountain of wisdom.

Ideas, innovations and creations are born in the places of communion. If you must change the world with a ground breaking solution, learn to cultivate a relationship with the Spirit of God.

His name be praised!

FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 8:12, Colossians 2:3

GOLDEN NUGGET:
There are ideas that are yet to be born; innovations yet to be created; theories yet to be established. Even these fall in the realm of mysteries and the Spirit of God reveals these too.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this Word. Thank you because wisdom is not just my portion, it is my nature. I cultivate intimacy with the Spirit of God; it is my life and the heartbeat of my soul. In this, I overflow with answers because I draw from the source. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

To Keep The Windows Open – 3

Apostle Grace Lubega

Malachi 3:10(KJV); Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Every access to the windows of heaven gives us an assignment and places us in the position of responsibility to fulfill divine purpose.

Because one is living in the assignment that God has ordained for their life, certain tragedies cannot destroy or end their lives.

For example, as long as your windows are open, even if you are diagnosed with stage IV cancer, it should not worry you.

God has trusted a man to whom windows are open with deep truths and as such, He cannot allow such a man to merely die with these great deposits. The scriptures reveal that the eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge(Proverbs 22:12). When these windows are open to you, He preserves you.

Look at the pattern of the lives of the men who had access to these windows. Their lives were never taken from them, they laid them down once they knew that they were done with their assignments on the earth.

Christ gave up His life, it was not taken(John 10:18). Paul was torn betwixt whether to stay in the body or to depart and be with Christ. He survived beatings and death because what was in him determined when He would leave the earth.

When such a man decides to die, he can make bold statements like , ‘For I am being poured out like an offering'(2 Timothy 4:6 amp). He doesn’t define it as death but as a pouring out because he knows that in him, God has put too much!

How much access you have to the windows of heaven gives you the liberty to decide how long you want to live; they place in your hands the choice between life and death.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: Philippians 1:23, John 10:18

GOLDEN NUGGET:
How much access you have to the windows of heaven gives you the liberty to decide how long you want to live; they place in your hands the choice between life and death.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this day. Thank you for this marvelous truth. Lord I am yielded to the Spirit of revelation. My windows are constantly open; I am relevant tomorrow and will be relevant in the years to come because I have access to these windows. My life is preserved because of knowledge; my end is glorious because of this access to great truths in you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

To Keep The Windows Open – 2

Apostle Grace Lubega 

1 Corinthians 3:2(KJV); I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

It is not a given that because one sits under a teacher who flows in the graces of revelation then the windows of the spirit are open to them.

That is why Christ speaks of casting pearls unto swine(Matthew 7:6). In a large congregation, some receive revelation like pearls cast to swine while others receive it as pearls cast to sons.

God can release meat and milk at the same time. One man may pick the meat; another may pick the milk and another may pick nothing at all.

Your growth is a personal choice and it depends on what you choose to pick; meat, milk or nothing at all.

A Christian who chooses milk will grow albeit slowly because milk is for babes(1 Peter 2:2). He who chooses meat will mature faster because meat is for those that exercise themselves to discern that which is good and evil(Hebrews 5:14). He who picks nothing will never grow.

Seed doesn’t choose it’s ground. God is no respector of persons(Acts 10:34). He has not decided that meat is for a select few.

Exercise your spiritual senses to receive greater insights in God. 

His name be praised!

FURTHER STUDY: Hebrews 5:14, Acts 10:34

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Your growth is a personal choice and it depends on what you choose to pick; meat, milk or nothing at all. Exercise your spiritual senses to receive greater insights in God. 

PRAYER: My Father, I thank you for this Word. I know that the seals of heaven have been broken; the windows have been opened and revelation is flowing in torrents. My spirit is yielded, my mind ready and my heart open. I am hungry for deeper truths; for higher wisdom; for sharper understanding and for unequalled vision because you have availed it. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

To Keep The Windows Open – 1

Apostle Grace Lubega

1 Corinthians 3:2(KJV); I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

The windows of the Spirit must be continually open unto you.

Unfortunately, there are things that deny men access to what God has availed through these windows.

In our theme scripture, Paul wanted to feed the Corinthian Church with meat; he wanted to expose them to deeper insights into the person of God; He desired for them to drink from deeper realms in the spirit. The windows were open but these men had no access! All he could give them was milk.

Why?

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:3, ‘For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?’

Strife and division denied the Corinthian Church access to readily available revelation.

When we fight each other, envy one another, gossip, slander and backbite one another, we deny ourselves deeper truths in God.

One revelation has the ability to change your entire story, ministry, marriage and business. A single revelation can save your child from drug abuse or cast cancer out of your body. You have to look at the bigger picture and determine to let go of grudges, anger and any hurt.

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Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: James 3:16, Ephesians 4:26

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Strife and division can deny you access to readily available revelation. You have to look at the bigger picture and determine to let go of grudges, anger and any hurt. Keep your access to the windows open.

PRAYER: Loving Father, your love knows no bounds, your grace is sufficient and your mercy is unfailing. Today, I make the choice to see my brethren through the very eyes that you see them; to continually have grace on my lips, never to mock with the scorners or point fingers like the accuser of the brethren. Because I understand this wisdom, the windows of heaven are open unto me. Revelation is readily available to me in the times that heaven releases it. By this wisdom I mature as a child of God. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

To Honour His Grace

Apostle Grace Lubega 

Psalm 138:8(KJV); The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Just because we are in the grace dispensation does not mean that we take sin lightly. Sin was such a serious issue to heaven and to eternity that it required God to come in the flesh and die for the salvation of mankind.

It is this seriousness that reminds us to have a reverence and honour for the grace of God. It means that we do not deliberately and knowingly do that which is wrong in the eyes of God merely because we are under the grace of God. 

The Bible says, ‘Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.'(James 4:17).

Even though we are perfect in spirit by virtue of regeneration by Christ, in the flesh, we are all a work in progress. God is working to perfect us. It is our responsibility to allow Him to deal with our individual areas of weakness. It is wrong to have the attitude of one who can only allow the Spirit to deal with some aspects of our lives and refuse Him to deal with others because we do not feel the need to change.

You might not be perfect today but have the attitude of a man who has allowed God to continue working in him to perfection.

Let Him search your heart and break what must be broken to build what must be built.

FURTHER STUDY: James 4:17, 2 Corinthians 6:1

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Even though we are perfect in spirit by virtue of regeneration by Christ, in the flesh, we are all a work in progress. God is working to perfect us. It is our responsibility to allow Him to deal with our individual areas of weakness. 

PRAYER: Loving Father, thank you for this Word. Thank you for your abundant grace that you so lavishly bestowed upon me. I respect and honour it and never take it in vain. I yield to the working of your Spirit in me, to deal with me, teach me, to give me the strength to walk away from what I must walk away from. I will be better tomorrow than I am today because I have trusted your working power in me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Worship Beyond The Veil

Apostle Grace Lubega 

John 4:24(KJV); God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The flesh is a veil. 

Worship beyond the veil is to do so beyond the consciousness of the flesh.

There are Christians who when in worship and prayer are rather too conscious of what their neighbour will think. They cannot raise their voice or kneel in prayer because of what people might think.

Some are thinking of the new clothes they bought and are wondering when they’ll have the chance to showcase them in the Sunday Service. 

Some are very mindful of their earthly positions of authority and worry that they are too important to get emotional in the presence of God.

All these are veils. 

When we worship beyond the veil, we forget everything about us; who we are; what we have or what we do not have.

The flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God(1 Corinthians 15:50).

It means that there are realms in worship you can never taste when you are still conscious of who you are in the body.

We worship beyond the veil when we die to the flesh and let our spirits free; when God becomes our sole focus; when we are content to gaze at the beauty of His holiness; when the things of the earth grow strangely dim in the light of His glory.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY:1 Corinthians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 15:50

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Worship beyond the veil is to do so beyond the consciousness of the flesh.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this Word. When you died, I died with you. My spirit is alive to the worship beyond the veil. I burn incense from the Holy of Holies because I know how to decrease that you may increase. I continuously commune with you in this understanding. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

In The Service Of The Gospel

Phillipians 2:22(KJV); But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Service defines the relationship between fathers and sons in the gospel.

The Amplified version of our theme scripture renders it thus, ‘But Timothy’s tested worth you know, how as a son with his father he has toiled with me zealously in [serving and helping to advance] the good news (the Gospel).’

What is the worth of sonship? What proves it? Service does.

Church attendance does not define sonship. Listening to the message of a man or woman of God is not what makes one a son.

Your commitment and availability or your submission to the ministry has not been tested and proved until you have learned to serve.

Service is you having a part in a vision of a ministry and it having it’s part in you. It is how fathers see their spirits multiplied in sons.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 12:15

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Service defines the relationship between fathers and sons in the gospel.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this wisdom. I serve with diligence and zeal in the understanding that through service, I grow and mature in the things of God. I serve the men and women of God you have blessed me with, I add to their labours and never subtract from them. To the glory of your name, Amen.

Understanding The Person Of The Holy Spirit – 2

Apostle Grace Lubega 

Ephesians 4:30 (KJV); And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Corrupt words grieve the Holy Spirit. 

In Colossians 4:6, the Bible says, ‘Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.’

The Message Version of this scripture renders it thus, ‘Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.’

There have been many instances when Christians have said the vilest things about fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord. I’ve been in ministry long enough to see some men die from stab wounds resulting from words spoken against them. Most unfortunately, some of these words have been spoken from the pulpit itself by men of God, either against other ministers or against their own church members.

The reason why some struggle to demonstrate the Spirit is because they have breached this principle countless times. They think they can corrupt others with their speech and still experience the manifestation of the Spirit. How can you hate a brother you see and claim to love a God you do not see?(1 John 4:20). When you grieve a brother or sister, you grieve the Spirit in him or her too. 

The reason we preach grace is because every communication of the Spirit of God ministers grace because He seeks to edify men and not to corrupt them.

Purpose to be kind in your speech. It is part of the virtue that must flow out of you because you know God. 

His name be praised!

FURTHER STUDY: Colossians 4:6, 1 John 4:20

GOLDEN NUGGET:
The reason we preach grace is because every communication of the Spirit of God ministers grace because He seeks to edify men and not to corrupt them.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this Word. I receive it in humility, it works in me to bear fruit that abides forever. My lips minister grace to my hearers. I am conscious that the same Spirit in me is the Spirit in my fellow brothers and sisters of the faith.This consciousness defines my language, speech and attitude towards a fellow believer. In Jesus’ name, Amen

Understanding The Person Of The Holy Spirit – 1

Apostle Grace Lubega

1 Thessalonians 5:19(KJV); Quench not the Spirit.

The scriptures instruct us never to quench the Holy Spirit. It means that we shouldn’t suppress or stiffle Him in anyway.

Quenching the Spirit is when one interrupts His operation in a place or through a person.

He is a spirit of liberty and how yielded you are to Him defines how much you will flow in these liberties.

For example, when a person hears another speaking in tongues and commands them not to do so, that is quenching the Spirit because when men speak in tongues, it is the Holy Spirit who gives them utterance.

If you disrupt a meeting of a man of God as He teaches the Word, if he is a man of truth, you quench the Holy Spirit. In doing so, you cut short His intended purpose and as such, carry the responsibility of any souls that may be lost as a consequence of your actions.

Some church services are designed in such a way as to quench the Holy Spirit. ‘Program’ is their God and rules the day. There is absolutely no room for the Spirit of God to manifest and fulfil His intention. This does not mean that we should abuse time and unnecessarily elongate services. It means that we must be sensitive enough to allow Him move as He wants to even if it disrupts our carefully planned programs.

Your spirit must be exercised to know what touches the Spirit and what pleases Him. You must know when He says yes and when He says no. When He says proceed and when He says stop.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: Ephesians 4:30, 2 Corinthians 3:17

GOLDEN NUGGET:

The Spirit of God is a spirit of liberty and how yielded you are to Him defines how much you will flow in these liberties.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this truth. My spirit is exercised to hear you at all times and in all places. I am acquainted with your desires because I have learnt how to feel after you. Because of this understanding, I am far from error and offence. In Jesus’ name, Amen.