Apostle Grace Lubega

John 10:10 (KJV); The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Oftentimes, I have heard people condemn preachers who do not preach about life’s struggles and difficulties. They wonder why such men and women of God are not pointing Christians to ‘reality’.

Their idea of reality is the pain of daily living. While this may be true for those of this world, God has been deliberate on redefining our idea of reality as His children. In Colossians 3:3 (AMP), He says that your real life is hidden in Christ.

The Bible says that the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. It is not our responsibility to preach the works of the devil but to demonstrate to all men what Christ came to do.

Jesus came on the earth that He may reveal the heart of the Father. In doing so, He sought that no man perish, but that ALL may have eternal life. Preaching Christ as anything other than a life-giver is evidence of a misconstrued understanding about the heart of the Father and the Person of Jesus Christ;  this breaks the heart of the Father.  

The Bible tells us in Hebrews 9:12 that when Jesus went into the Holy of Holies, He secured a complete and everlasting redemption for the Church through the shedding of His own blood. As Christians, we must be fully aware that the life we received after His blood was shed at Calvary gave us life in abundance and absolute freedom from any weapon of darkness.

This is why our preaching and ministry must demonstrate the life that we have in Christ Jesus.  Every time we speak of Christ, it must be to show Him as a life-giver, not a condemner, not an angry judge and not He that takes away what He has given us every time we make Him angry. 

When we tell people of their greatness in God, we are pointing them to the life in Christ; when we tell men that the power of Christ in them can heal the sick, cause the lame to walk and raise the dead, we point them to the life in Christ.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 5:12

GOLDEN NUGGET: Preaching Christ as anything other than a life-giver is evidence of a misconstrued understanding about the heart of the Father and the Person of Jesus Christ;  this breaks the heart of the Father.  When we tell men of their greatness in God, we are pointing them to the life in Christ; when we tell men that the power of Christ in them can heal the sick, cause the lame to walk and raise the dead, we point them to the life in Christ.

PRAYER: Loving Father, We thank You for this truth. We thank You for revelation and the right interpretation of Your Word. We are awakened to the consciousness that we are regenerated through the blood. We know that You sent Your only Son to die for us and now we carry His very life in us. We understand the life that we have received and live with the consciousness of it, every day, to the glory of Your name, Amen.