PHANEROO~DEVOTION Apostle Grace Lubega 15th April 2016

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth [Genesis 1:26].

THE SPIRIT OF DOMINION

The biggest lie that the devil has used against the Christians of our day is the thought that they do not have all that they need and have to go to church to obtain these things. For so long, we have tried to have, to get and to acquire. We do not know how to walk in what we already have by the scriptures. If you are to compare our lives to the standard of the gospel and the testimony of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, you realize that many come short because certain men and situations determined our times and our livelihoods.

We have frustrated the grace of God upon our lives for so long. Look at the revelations that ought to have changed the world not only by the words we speak but by the lives we had to live. The Bible says that he shall supply all our needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus; that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us; that we were given all things that pertain to life and godliness. How come you still cannot afford a meal or monthly rent? How can we then prove to those rich men in the world that they are poor or that there's more in God? How can we tell them we are greater, when we look to them for our success, when we have to force laughter around them to get favours?
Child of God, the beginning of salvation is the persuasion that all these things are ours and that we have free access. Then and only then can men seek for something deeper than money, the car, the house or the job but God, only God. What causes ten men to hold your lapel and say ‘we shall go with you’ is not the car you drive or your position in government but that you have God. The men of this world will not come to church because the church acquired cars and houses and good jobs, but that we live a life deeper than these material things- a life that showed them who God is.

FURTHER STUDY: Philippians 4:19, 2 Peter 1:3

GOLDEN NUGGET: The biggest lie that the devil has used against the Christians of our day is the thought that they do not have all that they need and have to go to church to obtain these things.

PRAYER: Father, we thank you that the testimony of the eternal life that we carry is not in the vanities of this life; the things that moth can eat; the things that are done with their use but in the knowledge of you and your son. Thank you that this knowledge and the hunger for it prevails over any need; it causes us to pray; to fast; to seek you; to love you; to spend and be spent for the gospel. This eternal life you have given us is what will cause men to come to you and as we grow in this knowledge, we thank you that they come because when they see us, Lord they see you. We thank you Jesus. Amen.

Excerpt: THE SPIRIT OF DOMINION