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  • WHAT FASTING OFFERS (4): CONSECRATION TO THE LORD YAHUSHUA

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    Saturday January 23, 2021

    WHAT FASTING OFFERS (4): CONSECRATION TO THE LORD YAHUSHUA

    Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,
    Joel 2:15 (NASB)

    Your life as a believer is a consecration to our Lord and Saviour Yahushua HaMashiach. However, there is a difference between the potential and the reality. Most believers are living daily lives of filth and are being defeated by sin. Their lives is anything but a life of consecration. Why is this the case? The answer may not be far-fetched when you observe their daily lives. Fasting offers us the opportunity to consecrate our lives and to maintain that consecration. A believer’s consecration is probably highest during fasting. Romans 12:1 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” How do we present our bodies as living sacrifices to Adonai? It is through fasting. When you fast, you are consecrating your body to Adonai as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. Until your body is on the altar, you cannot live a consecrated life. It is practically impossible. That is why the Lord Yahushua didn’t say “if you fast” in Matthew 6:16, rather He says “Moreover when ye fast”. He knows that you cannot walk acceptably with the Holy Spirit if your body is not laid at the altar as a living sacrifice.

    Fasting is something you cannot avoid. One of my most cherished mentors, Bishop David Oyedepo said that “Fasting is a spiritual hardware without which the software would never work”. He went ahead to say that there is no software for fasting, it is all hardware. You desire to walk in holiness, then fasting is a non-negotiable hardware you must subscribe to. You desire to see any form of addiction humiliated in your life, then you must subscribe to fasting. Remember, it is not 24 hours or even three days fasting, we are talking about here. We are talking about at least 10 to 40 days fast. When you combine a life of consecrational fasting with Wisdom, you will walk in perfect dominion over sin and unrighteousness. There is no hold of sin that cannot be broken in a fast. If the Lord Yahushua says that “this kind does not go except by prayer and fasting” (Matthew 17:21), then it behoves us to know that to disarm “this kind” of whatever it may be would require fasting and prayer.

    See! There is war that we are in against sin. It is a fight. Hebrews 12:4 (BBE) says, ‘Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:’ No wonder the only potent instrument is fasting. What really keeps us from sin is the word of God (Psalms 119:9,11) but until you see it, you cannot become it. In fasting, light dawns on your spirit, illuminating your spirit-man to know what is the hope of your calling and when light comes, darkness naturally looses its grips on its victims.

    REMEMBER: In fasting light from the Word breaks in your spirit, causing you to walk in sanctification.

    PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the grace to live a fasted life where my body is constantly at the altar as a living sacrifice in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree that whatever that does not please Adonai drops off your life as you fast in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    John 17:17

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Genesis 23:1-24:27; Matthew 14:22-15:11

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  • WHAT IS HOLINESS?

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    Monday September 14, 2020

    WHAT IS HOLINESS?

    For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
    I Thessalonians 4:7 (KJV)

    Holiness is from the Greek word ‘hagiasmos’ which is from ‘hagiazo’ meaning to make holy, purify or consecrate. Our recreated human spirit was created in righteousness and true holiness (see Ephesians 4:24) So we are called unto holiness because we were recreated holy and it is only natural for us to maintain who we are. It came to a point in the lives of the church in Ephesus when they acclimatized with the world around them forgetting who they were created to be. Apostle Paul had to write them to be renewed in the spirit of their mind and to put on the new man. To put on the new man is another way of saying be conscious of the new man you were made to be. When you become conscious of that new man that was created in righteousness and true holiness, it will help you to begin to lay off the things that are not consistent with that life in your spirit. If truly you are born again, you were recreated in righteousness and true holiness, so not living holy should be very alien to you. In fact, it should be impossible not to live holy. The problem many believers have is acclimatization with the world. It is evil communication that corrupts good manners. So many believers have lived with the world so much that they have lost their identity trying to identify with the world. Whenever sin becomes attractive to a believer, he/she has fallen from grace and if he/she would not retrace their steps quickly, they will become lost in the world.

    Holiness is the nature of righteousness that consecrates us and sets us apart from the world. It is the lifestyle that we have in Christ that makes us to venerate God, hallow Him, be holy and sanctified in our actions. We can live holy because our new man was created in righteousness and true holiness. If you are struggling with a sinful lifestyle, go back to Christ Jesus in repentance and receive cleansing, then begin to renew the spirit of your mind with the Word of God and walking in the consciousness of the nature of righteousness which you received at salvation. Make sure that on a daily basis you are renewing your mind with the Word of God because you will soon become what you think about. If the Word of God is what you are thinking about, you will soon become it. This is the principle that cannot be broken. So many are struggling with sin because of the nonsense that they gabbage into their mind and because you will soon become the attitude of your mind, if it is sin and sinful thoughts that fills your mind, you will have no choice but to start manifesting it.

    When the Word says in Romans 12:2 that you should be transformed by the renewing of your mind, it is saying that your transformation is only to the extent of the Word of God that you expose your mind to. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that as we look at Him as in a glass we are changed into the same image as by the Spirit of the Lord. This is the secret of maintaining your holiness nature. Beloved, there is no need to keep struggling when you should be reigning and ruling. Sin should not have dominion over you again because you are now a new creation in Christ Jesus. Cheer up and wake up! The days of defeat are over in your life. It is time to live true to your nature of holiness. Shalom!

    REMEMBER: Holiness is the nature of your recreated human spirit. Live to that consciousness.

    CONFESSION: I am a new creation in Christ Jesus with the very nature of God, the nature of righteousness and true holiness. I am reigning and ruling over sin. Glory be God!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I declare that sin shall no longer exert dominion over you in the name of Christ Jesus Amen!

    FURTHER READING
    Romans 6:19-22;

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
    Isaiah 15:1-18:7; Galatians 1:1-24; Psalm 58:1-11; Proverbs 23:12

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