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THE TRIUMPHANT AND GLORIOUS CHURCH 

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THE TRIUMPHANT AND GLORIOUS CHURCH: JESUS CHRIST – THE COMPLETE SHEPHERD! 

“. . . 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 that he might SANCTIFY and CLEANSE it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he might present it to himself a GLORIOUS church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. . . .” Ephesians 5:22-33. 

The Church is defined as an individual, local and collective body of born-again, Spirit-filled believers in Christ Jesus under a shepherd. And our Saviour And Lord Jesus Christ is the COMPLETE Shepherd of the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS CHURCH – and you can count and account on Him in 24/7, timeless, in life and grace. 

And it’s awesome, gracious, and graceful to know that the CHIEF, GREAT, GOOD and PERSONAL SHEPHERD of the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS Church is Jesus Christ – who is our Saviour, King, and Lord of All. For by Him the Church is glorious and triumphant in every way in the grace. 

“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to TRIUMPH in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place” 2 Corinthians 2:14. 

“And having SPOILED principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, TRIUMPHING over them in it” Colossians 2:15. 

More so, the Holy Scriptures enjoin that Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Lord, is to us, THE CHURCH – both as individuals and as a collective body – the complete shepherd: 

The CHIEF Shepherd – 1 Peter 5:4. 

“And when the CHIEF SHEPHERD shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away” 

The GREAT Shepherd – Hebrews 13:20-21. 

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that GREAT SHEPHERD of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen” 

The GOOD Shepherd – John 10:11, 14. 

“I am the GOOD SHEPHERD: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep . . .14 I am the GOOD SHEPHERD, and know my sheep, and am known of mine” 

My PERSONAL Shepherd – Psalms 23 

“The Lord is MY SHEPHERD; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever” Psalms 23:1-6. 

When you can comprehend this, there is no need to worry, live in fear and despondent because He’s ever faithful to who and what He is as our CHIEF, GREAT and GOOD SHEPHERD. 

I pray that the BLESSEDNESS of having the CHIEF, GREAT, GOOD, AND PERSONAL SHEPHERD over you will keep your head up, shoulders high, and heels high. More so, may you have the  mandate to triumph over all your infirmities, limitations, and CIRCUMSTANCES in your day to day in LIFE and GODLINESS. 

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK! 

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God . . . 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:1-2, 8. 

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not IMPUTING their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the WORD OF RECONCILIATION. 20 Now then, WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM” 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. 

SUMMARY: 

This is a pastoral, triumphant declaration of the Church’s identity and her Shepherd.  

In one line: It proclaims that Jesus Christ is the COMPLETE SHEPHERD — CHIEF, GREAT, GOOD, and PERSONAL — who sanctifies, leads, and causes the Church to walk in glory, triumph, and victory over every circumstance. 

It affirms that the Church is a born-again, Spirit-filled body made GLORIOUS and without blemish by Christ. In Him we TRIUMPH, are NEW CREATIONS, and AMBASSADORS with no reason to fear, and we are mandated to walk with head up, shoulders high, overcoming every limitation in LIFE and GODLINESS. The tone is reverent, declarative, pastoral, and victorious. 

Key Points 

  1. TheChurch’s Identity: Sanctified, Spotless, and Shepherded 

From Ephesians 5:25-27, Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it to SANCTIFY and CLEANSE it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it a GLORIOUS CHURCH, not having spot, wrinkle, or blemish, but holy and without blemish. 

Definition: The Church is an individual, local, and collective body of born-again, Spirit-filled believers in Christ Jesus under a shepherd. 

  1. Christ’s Identity:THECOMPLETE SHEPHERD 

Our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ is the COMPLETE Shepherd of the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS CHURCH — and you can count and account on Him 24/7, timeless, in life and grace. 

He is revealed in 4-fold fullness in Scripture: 

THE CHIEF SHEPHERD [1 Peter 5:4] — “when the CHIEF SHEPHERD shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.” 

THE GREAT SHEPHERD [Hebrews 13:20-21] — raised from the dead through the blood of the everlasting covenant, who makes you perfect in every good work. 

THE GOOD SHEPHERD [John 10:11, 14] — “I am the GOOD SHEPHERD: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” 

MY PERSONAL SHEPHERD [Psalm 23:1-6] — “The Lord is MY SHEPHERD; I shall not want… He restoreth my soul… my cup runneth over.” 

Result: For by Him the Church is glorious and triumphant in every way in the grace. When you comprehend this, there is no need to worry, live in fear, or be despondent — because He is ever faithful as our CHIEF, GREAT, and GOOD SHEPHERD. 

  1. The Church’s Posture: TRIUMPHANT OVERCOMER 

Triumph in Christ: “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to TRIUMPH in Christ” [2 Corinthians 2:14]. 

Victory Over Enemies: “having SPOILED principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, TRIUMPHING over them in it” [Colossians 2:15]. 

  1. The Pastoral Blessing & Mandate 

I pray that the BLESSEDNESS of having the CHIEF, GREAT, GOOD, AND PERSONAL SHEPHERD over you will keep your head up, shoulders high, and heels high. 

More so, may you have the mandate to triumph over all your infirmities, limitations, and CIRCUMSTANCES in your day-to-day LIFE and GODLINESS. 

  1. The Foundation: Reconciliation, New Creation, and Ambassadorship 

Peace & Grace: “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” [Romans 5:1-2, 8]. 

New Creation: “if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away” [2 Corinthians 5:17]. 

Ambassadors: “WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST… be reconciled to God” [2 Corinthians 5:18-20]. 

Righteousness: “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM” [2 Corinthians 5:21]. 

Key Theme in One Line: 
Jesus Christ, the COMPLETE SHEPHERD, makes the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS CHURCH sanctified, victorious, fearless, and sent as His ambassadors of reconciliation. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH: THE GLORIOUS SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS!

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THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH: THE GLORIOUS SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS! 

“Thou therefore, my son, be STRONG in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Thou therefore ENDURE hardness, as a GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” 2 Timothy 2:1-6. 

The Church of Christ is engaged constantly and continuously in spiritual warfare. And everyone born of God’s nature in Christ Jesus, needs to know it and be readily engaged in this spiritual battle that has physical effect in our world with resultant challenges to life’s, homes, communities, nations and more. 

“Thou art my BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms . . .” Jeremiah 51:20-23. 

And you are the Church, the triumphant and glorious Soldier of Christ. However, the glorious Church though engage in constant combatant spiritual warfare, is also a triumphant Church. Each warfare and battle engagement helps to refine, refresh, energise, rejuvenate and renew this blessed Church; hence, the Church is glorious, because its beauty is awesome despite satanic and cohorts’ efforts to fake, duplicate, adulterate, pervert and counterfeit these glorious attributes. 

“Husbands, love your wives, even as CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, and GAVE himself for it; 26 that he might SANCTIFY and CLEANSE it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he might present it to himself a GLORIOUS CHURCH, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” Ephesians 5:25-27. 

Therefore, get engaged and don’t watch from the sidelines or grandstand else you become a VICTIM and PREY instead of being the VICTOR, MORE THAN CONQUERORS, TRIUMPHANT and OVERCOMER. Know for sure that you are a winner anyday, anyway and anywhere as long as you know and understand that you are equipped as being born of God and filled with His Spirit to get engaged with this battles within and without. 

“The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL. 2 The Lord shall send THE ROD OF THY STRENGTH OUT OF ZION: RULE THOU IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES. 3 THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN THE DAY OF THY POWER, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth” Psalms 110:1-3 

Therefore, if I may say today – if it’s okay for me to ask you – What kind of CHURCH do you THINK you are today? Are you the dirty, stained hand, weakened, blemished and FEAFUL-HALLELUJAH acclaimed believer or a clean hand, gracious, graceful, glorious and triumphant Soldier of Christ? What are you taking hold on in the midst of a broken society, confused and destabilised world, faint-hearted and dissatisfied community – that’s filled with wickedness and evil, hatred, war and pandemic crushed nations and more. You are a spiritual Soldier of Christ. It’s our time to arise, be willing to volunteer with ease, to be a part of the needed change and difference for the good of our broken societal families, communities, nations and the world at large. 

I pray you step up to who YOU ARE in God’s BLESSEDNESS – as the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS CHURCH – who INDEED is the SOLDIER OF CHRIST – knowingly and unknowingly. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Husbands, love your wives, even as CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, and GAVE himself for it; 26 that he might SANCTIFY and CLEANSE it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he might present it to himself a GLORIOUS CHURCH, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” Ephesians 5:25-27. 

“The RIGHTEOUS also shall hold on his way, and he that hath CLEAN HANDS shall be STRONGER and STRONGER” Job 17:9. 

“Thou therefore, my son, be STRONG in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Thou therefore ENDURE hardness, as a GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” 2 Timothy 2:1-6. 

“Thou art my BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms . . .” Jeremiah 51:20-23. 

“The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL. 2 The Lord shall send THE ROD OF THY STRENGTH OUT OF ZION: RULE THOU IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES. 3 THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN THE DAY OF THY POWER, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth” Psalms 110:1-3 

“It is true that I am an ordinary, weak human being, but I don’t use human plans and methods to win my battles. 4 I use God’s MIGHTY WEAPONS, not those made by men, to knock down the devil’s strongholds. 5 These WEAPONS can break down every proud argument against God and every wall that can be built to keep men from finding Him. With these weapons I can capture rebels and bring them back to God and change them into men whose hearts’ desire is obedience to Christ. 6 I will use these weapons against every rebel who remains after I have first used them on you yourselves and you surrender to Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (LB). 

Further Scriptural Meditation: (1 Timothy 1:18; 6:12; Matthew 16:18b; Ephesians 6:10-18; Revelation 12:11; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:57; 1 John 4:4; 5:4-5; 2 Timothy 4:7-8). 

SUMMARY: 

This is a prophetic, war-time charge declaring that the Church is not weak, defeated, or passive. The Church is God’s BATTLE AXE, WEAPONS OF WAR, and GLORIOUS SOLDIER — engaged in constant spiritual warfare, yet always triumphant in Christ. 

It calls every believer to know their identity, reject sideline Christianity, and arise to rule, overcome, and bring change in a broken world. The tone is urgent, militant, and triumphant: from fear to faith, from grandstands to frontlines. 

  1. TheChurch’s Identity & Calling: A GOOD SOLDIER
    From 2 Timothy 2:1-6, the Church is charged to: 
    – Be STRONG in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 
    – ENDURE hardness as a GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST — not entangled with the affairs of this life, striving lawfully, labouring to partake of the fruit. 
    – Be God’s BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS of war to break nations and destroy kingdoms [Jeremiah 51:20-23]. 

You are not a spectator. You are the Church — the triumphant and glorious Soldier of Christ, sanctified and equipped with divine authority. 

  1. The Reality: Constant Warfare, Constant Victory 
    Engagement: The Church is constantly and continuously in spiritual warfare that produces physical effects — challenges to lives, homes, communities, nations, and more. 
    Refinement: Every warfare and battle engagement refines, refreshes, energizes, rejuvenates, and renews the Church. 
    Glorious Despite Attack: The Church remains glorious because its beauty is awesome, despite satanic and his cohorts’ efforts to fake, duplicate, adulterate, pervert, and counterfeit these attributes. 
    Sanctified & Spotless: Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it to SANCTIFY, CLEANSE, and present it a GLORIOUS CHURCH without spot or wrinkle [Ephesians 5:25-27]. 
  1. The Mandate: Get Off the Sidelines 
    No Grandstanding: Do not watch from the sidelines — else you become a VICTIM and PREY instead of a VICTOR, MORE THAN CONQUERORS, TRIUMPHANT, and OVERCOMER. 
    Equipped to Win: You are a winner any day, any way, anywhere because you are born of God and filled with His Spirit to engage these battles within and without. 
    Royal Authority: Christ sits at the right hand UNTIL He makes enemies His footstool. He sends THE ROD OF STRENGTH OUT OF ZION so His people may RULE in the MIDST OF ENEMIES as willing volunteers in the DAY OF POWER [Psalm 110:1-3]. 
  1. TheProphetic Interrogation: Which Church Are You?
    You are confronted to choose: 
    The dirty, stained, weakened, blemished, and FEARFUL — hallelujah — acclaimed believer? 
    Or the clean-handed, gracious, graceful, glorious, and triumphant Soldier of Christ? 

In a world filled with wickedness, evil, hatred, war, and pandemic-crushed nations, it is time to ARISE, VOLUNTEER with ease, and be part of the needed change for families, communities, nations, and the world at large. 

  1. TheBlessing & Prayer 

I pray you step up to who YOU ARE in God’s BLESSEDNESS — as the TRIUMPHANT and GLORIOUS CHURCH — who INDEED is the SOLDIER OF CHRIST, knowingly and unknowingly. 

Scriptural Truths Worth Pondering 

  1. Ephesians 5:25-27: Christ’s goal is a GLORIOUS CHURCH — holy and without blemish. 
  2. Job 17:9: CLEAN HANDS shall be STRONGER and STRONGER. 
  3. 2 Timothy 2:1-6: Be strong, endure, fight lawfully, labour, and receive understanding. 
  4. Jeremiah 51:20-23: The Church is God’s BATTLE AXE to break and destroy. 
  5. Psalm 110:1-3: RULE, BE WILLING, POWER, BEAUTY of HOLINESS. 
  6. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 [LB]: We use God’s MIGHTY WEAPONS to pull down strongholds, capture arguments, and bring obedience to Christ. 

Key Theme in One Line: 
The Church is Christ’s triumphant, glorious Soldier — forged in spiritual warfare, armed with divine weapons, and mandated to rule, overcome, and bring change in a broken world. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

YOU ARE – GOD’S BATTLE AXE 

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YOU ARE – GOD’S BATTLE AXE: THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST – AND TRIUMPHANT IN EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYWAY! 

“Crowns and thrones may perish 

Kingdoms rise and wane 

But the Church of Jesus constant will remain: 

Gates of hell can never 

‘Gainst that Church prevails; 

We have Christ’s own promise – 

And that cannot fail” – S. Baring-Gould. 

“But THANKS be to God, who ALWAYS LEADS us in TRIUMPH in Christ, and through us SPREADS and MAKES evident everywhere the sweet FRAGRANCE of the KNOWLEDGE of Him” 2 Corinthians 2:14. 

Yea, Kingdoms, Nations, Empires, Politicians, Political and Military dictators, Kings and Rulers that have covenanted with satanic evil and wicked cohorts have risen and fallen – lost their greatness and collapsed, reigned and died. Yet the Church of Jesus Christ –  hallelujah – the greatest and only UNPARALLELED force known on earth, beneath the earth, and in the heavens, keeps marching on triumphantly in the face of absolute opposition and challenges. And in spite of all the attacks of the ENEMY and his COHORTS against God’s mandate – His plan, purpose and pursuit – the Church stands and advances. 

“. . . 2 The Lord shall send the ROD of Your STRENGTH out of ZION (THE CHURCH). RULE in the MIDST of your ENEMIES! 3 Your people shall be VOLUNTEERS (WILLING) in the DAY of your POWER; In the BEAUTIES of HOLINESS, from the womb of the morning, you have the DEW (UNCTION) of your youth” Psalms 110:1-3 NKJV. 

All simply because this Kingdom purpose and cause is of God, and it is an EVERLASTING KINGDOM that endures and will endure through ALL GENERATIONS – irrespective of the challenges, opposition and difficulties in the pathway. 

“Thy KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, and thy DOMINION endureth throughout ALL GENERATIONS” Psalms 145:13. 

“For THE KINGDOM is the Lord’s: and he is the GOVERNOR among THE NATIONS” Psalms 22:28. 

Therefore, as God’s Battle Axe and Weapons of War, the Church of God in Christ Jesus, it is time to ARISE and BUILD with selfless hearts of FAITH, HOPE and LOVE again – in order to set things right in the human DECADENCE and PERVERSIONS that we see EVERY DAY in our denominationised Churches, Homes, Streets, Roads, Governments, Communities, and in every place of living and doing life. 

“The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the DEMONS are SUBJECT to us in Your name.” 18 He said to them, “I watched Satan FALL from heaven like [a flash of] lightning. 19 Listen carefully: I have GIVEN you AUTHORITY [that you now possess] to TREAD on serpents and scorpions, and [the ability to exercise authority] OVER ALL the POWER of the ENEMY (Satan); and NOTHING will [in any way] harm you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your NAMES are RECORDED in heaven” Luke 10:17-20 Amplified. 

For we as the Church have been given so much tremendous authority and power to bring about the atmophere we earnestly desired to colour our worlds with God’s goodness until Christ Jesus returns for the fulness of our God and well being as Apostle Paul stated in the Holy writ of Ephesians 1:17-23. 

WE ARE God’s BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS OF WAR, the Church of JESUS CHRIST with the mandate to be triumphant in EVERYWHERE and EVERYWAY. 

CHURCH ARISE – YOU ARE THE CHURCH! 

IT’S NOT THE ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING!! 

AND AS THE CHURCH – YOU ARE TRIUMPHANT!!! 

CONGRATULATIONS – BE BLESSED. 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTH WORTH PONDERING: 

“THOU ART MY BATTLE AXE AND WEAPONS OF WAR: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms . . .” Jeremiah 51:20-23. 

“Thy KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, and thy DOMINION endureth throughout ALL GENERATIONS” Psalms 145:13. 

“For THE KINGDOM is the Lord’s: and he is the GOVERNOR among THE NATIONS” Psalms 22:28. 

“Now thanks be unto God, which ALWAYS causeth us to TRIUMPH in Christ, and maketh MANIFEST the SAVOUR of his KNOWLEDGE by us in EVERY PLACE” 2 Corinthians 2:14. 

“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT TO FAINT (Give Up, Lose Heart, Discourage) Luke 18:1. (Emphasis Mine) 

“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH; and THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT. 19 And I will give unto thee the KEYS of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt BIND (Allow, Permit) on earth shall be BOUND (Allowed, Permitted) in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt LOOSE (Allow, Permit) on earth shall be LOOSED (Allowed, Permitted) in heaven” Matthew 16:18-19 (Emphasis Mine). 

“Jesus came up and said to them, “ALL AUTHORITY (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age” Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified. 

“[I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son]. 18 And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people), 19 and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength 20 which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above ALL RULE and AUTHORITY and POWER and DOMINION [whether angelic or human], and [far above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and world but also in the one to come. 22 And He put ALL THINGS [in every realm] in SUBJECTION under Christ’s feet, and appointed Him as [supreme and authoritative] head OVER ALL THINGS in the church, 23 which is His body, the FULLNESS of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers]” Ephesians 1:17-23 Amplified. 

Further Scriptural Reading: 2 Corinthians 10:3-16; 1 Timothy 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:12; Ephesians 6:10-18; 2 Timothy 3:12; Isaiah 54:15-17; Isaiah 60:1-2; Mark 16:16-20.  

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

HAVE FAITH IN GOD: THERE’S THE FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORD! 

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HAVE FAITH IN GOD: THERE’S THE FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORD! 

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND, not a FAMINE of BREAD, nor a THIRST for WATER, BUT OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD . . .” Amos 8:11-13. 

It is a great time to HAVE FAITH IN GOD and give your EARS to the HEARING of the SAYINGS of God, before the FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORD takes hold of you, as it is so obvious in many places today. 

“. . . 22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “HAVE FAITH IN GOD” Mark 11:12-14, 20-24. 

It is time to INCLINE your EARS to GOD’S WORD by HEARING and giving attendance to God’s SAYINGS, in order to be ABOVE ONLY, in the midst of challenging times. For FAITH comes by the HEARING of the WORD. 

“So then FAITH COMES BY HEARING, and HEARING BY THE WORD of God” Romans 10:17. 

“My son, ATTEND to my WORDS; INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO MY SAYINGS. 21 Let them not DEPART from thine EYES; keep them in the midst of thine HEART. 22 For they are LIFE unto those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy HEART with all DILIGENCE; for out of it are the ISSUES OF LIFE” Proverbs 4:20-23. 

There are many VOICES in the air 24/7, and whom and what you LISTEN to will shape your life, every now and then. One is either HEARING the sayings of the WORD of God to be APPROVED or may be hearing sayings that are posed for self- APPLAUSE and HYPE by SOCIAL MEDIA and other MULTIMEDIA platforms; or by the tradition and rudiments of the world; or by satanic and cohort sayings; or by self make-believe or being made to believe; or by the circumstances of the environment and such like. 

It is time not to feed on rubbish or from the waste bin garbage simply because you want to feed. Wake up and locate a place for the HEARING OF THE WORD OF GOD, not SENTIMENTS and PREJUDICE that appeal to your emotions and circumstances. God’s INTENT is to GIVE you SHEPHERDS that will FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING that you might grow up in GRACE and be established in the FAITH. (Jeremiah 3:15; Proverbs 4:7). And it is your responsibility and accountability to locate one today and begin to hear aright the SAYINGS of God in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen. 

There is a genuine reality today of falsehoods, adulteration, perversion and dilution of the authentic and authoritative WORD of God by deluded preachers and others in manifold manifestations in the name of Church or Ministry (Galatians 1:6-9; Philippians 1:15-18) It is not surprising because the Scriptures knew before now of the upcoming FAMINE of the HEARING of The WORD of God. 

A lack of the genuine HEARING of the WORD means a lack of FAITH. Faith is the transaction tender between Man and God, which when lacking, or adulterated or fake or diluted, one cannot trade in the Kingdom or Heavenly Business with God. Do you know the effect and consequences of that? It is therefore imperative that you wake up from your lazy attitude and begin to examine what you are HEARING today, before – The FAMINE of the HEARING of the WORD kicks into your being and overwhelms you in life and godly living. 

For NO HEARING of the WORD means NO FAITH, and that means NO TRANSACTION in heaven for your earthly affairs under God. Heaven does not accept fake or adulterated or perverted or counterfeited or polluted and such like tender for transactions outside FAITH, which is derived and built up from the HEARING of THE WORD of God. 

Therefore, do yourself a favour and examine what you are hearing and feeding your being if it is God’s WORD, or any of these: Man-made beliefs, traditional dogmas, denominational creeds and byelaws, cultural sayings of the old fables, the rudiments of this world, philosophy of men, prejudice and sentimental appeals, and such like. 

THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO THE FAMINE OF THE WORD, IS THE HEARING OF THE WORD.  

I pray you don’t run to and fro when it’s too late to look for the WORD. Do yourself a favour today,, before FAMINE kicks in and make-believe takes over. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“So then FAITH cometh BY HEARING, AND HEARING by THE WORD of God” Romans 10:17. 

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, BUT OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD: 12 and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst” Amos 8:11-13. 

“My son, ATTEND to my WORDS; INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO MY SAYINGS. 21 Let them not DEPART from thine EYES; keep them in the midst of thine HEART. 22 For they are LIFE unto those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy HEART with all DILIGENCE; for out of it are the ISSUES OF LIFE” Proverbs 4:20-23. 

“But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy MOUTH, and in thy HEART: that is, the WORD OF FAITH, which we preach; 9 that if thou shalt CONFESS with thy MOUTH the Lord Jesus, and shalt BELIEVE in THINE HEART that God hath RAISED him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED. 10 For with the HEART man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” Romans 10:8-10. 

“And I will give you PASTORS according to mine heart, which shall FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15. 

“But GROW in GRACE, and in the KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen” 2 Peter 3:18. 

“WISDOM is the PRINCIPAL thing; therefore get WISDOM: and with all thy getting get UNDERSTANDING” Proverbs 4:7. 

“I MARVEL that ye are so soon REMOVED from him that CALLED you into the grace of Christ unto ANOTHER gospel: 7 which is NOT ANOTHER; but there be SOME that TROUBLE you, and would PERVERT the gospel of Christ. 8 But though WE, or an ANGEL from heaven, PREACH any other gospel unto you than that which we have PREACHED unto you, let him be ACCURSED. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man PREACH any other gospel unto you than that ye have RECEIVED, let him be ACCURSED” Galatians 1:6-9. 

“Some indeed PREACH Christ even of ENVY and STRIFE; and some also of GOOD WILL: 16 the one PREACH Christ of CONTENTION, NOT SINCERELY, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 but the other of LOVE, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in PRETENCE, or in TRUTH, Christ is PREACHED; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice” Philippians 1:15-18. 

SUMMARY: 

Core Theme: The Urgency of Hearing God’s Word in a Season of Spiritual Famine 
The entire exhortation centres on one principle: faith comes only by hearing the Word of God. In a time marked by competing voices, doctrinal corruption, and spiritual apathy, the writer calls believers to guard their ears, reject diluted substitutes, and return to authentic Scripture as the only basis for faith and life. 

  1. Prophetic Warning: A Famine of Hearing the Word 

The message opens and closes with Amos 8:11-13 — God declaring a famine “not of bread nor thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord”. This is framed as a present reality: falsehoods, adulteration, perversion, and dilution of Scripture by “deluded preachers” under the banner of church/ministry. Galatians 1:6-9; Philippians 1:15-18 are cited to show that perverting the gospel and preaching from envy/strife are not new. 

  1. Theological Foundation: Faith = Hearing = Transaction with God 

Definition of faith: “Faith is the transaction tender between man and God.” It is the only currency heaven accepts for earthly affairs. 

Source of faith: Romans 10:17 — “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” No hearing of the Word = no faith = no transaction in heaven for your life. 

Command of Christ: Mark 11:22 — “Have faith in God.” Faith is not optional; it is a mandate. 

  1. Practical Instruction: Guard What You Hear 

Because “there are many voices in the air 24/7,” the believer must examine what they feed their spirit. The message lists counterfeit sources to reject: 

  • Man-made beliefs 
  • Traditional dogmas and denominational creeds/byelaws 
  • Cultural fables and old sayings 
  • Rudiments of this world + philosophy of men 
  • Prejudice and sentimental appeals 
  • Social media hype, self make-believe, circumstances, satanic/cohort sayings 

Proverbs 4:20-23 is used as the corrective: “Attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings… Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” 

  1. God’s Intent: Shepherds Who Feed with Knowledge 

Jeremiah 3:15; Proverbs 4:7 establish God’s intent to give “shepherds according to mine heart” who feed with knowledge and understanding so believers grow in grace and are established in faith. This creates responsibility: locate such shepherds/places now and “hear aright the sayings of God in Christ Jesus’ stead.” 

  1. Consequences of Neglect 
    Personal: Lazy attitude leads to being overwhelmed by famine; “run to and fro” seeking the Word but not finding it, per Amos 8:12. 
    Spiritual: Fake, adulterated, perverted, counterfeited, or polluted “tender” cannot trade in the kingdom. Only faith built from the Word is accepted in heaven. 
    Doctrinal: Lack of genuine hearing produces lack of faith, which removes the believer from effective kingdom living. 
  1. Call to Action & Antidote

The only antidote to the famine of the Word is the hearing of the Word. 
Therefore: 

  1. Wake up now, before it’s too late. 
  2. Do yourself a favour today: examine what you hear. 
  3. Incline your ears to God’s Word to be “above only” Deuteronomy 28:13 even in challenging times. 
  4. Grow in grace and knowledge 2 Peter 3:18. Get wisdom and understanding Proverbs 4:7. 
  5. Confess and believe the Word of faith in your mouth and heart Romans 10:8-10. 

Scriptural Anchors Used Throughout 

  • Amos 8:11-13: Prophecy of famine of hearing 
  • Romans 10:17: Faith by hearing 
  • Proverbs 4:20-23: Attend, incline, keep the Word in heart 
  • Mark 11:22-24: Have faith in God 
  • Jeremiah 3:15: Shepherds that feed with knowledge 
  • Galatians 1:6-9: No other gospel; accursed if perverted 
  • Philippians 1:15-18: Some preach Christ from wrong motives 

Tone: Sober, urgent, prophetic, corrective. It is a call to repentance from spiritual laziness and sentimentality, back to Scripture as the sole authority for faith and living. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

DARE TO LIVE BY GOD’S POWER AND GRACE 

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DARE TO LIVE BY GOD’S POWER AND GRACE: YOU WILL BE STRONG AND STRENGTHEN – IN LIFE AND GODLINESS! 

“And when they had PRAYED, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all FILLED with the Holy Ghost, and they SPAKE THE WORD of God with BOLDNESS . . . 33 And with GREAT POWER gave the apostles WITNESS of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and GREAT GRACE was upon them all” Acts 4:31, 33. 

God wants you strong and strengthened in LIFE and GODLINESS – which is GODLY LIVING. And the only resource to FUNCTION and BECOME strong and strengthened in LIFE and GODLINESS is you DARING to live by God’s enabling – POWER and GRACE that’s given to us in Christ Jesus’ stead. That’s what the Apostles were living with and through to advance the cause of the Kingdom of our God and to keep the enemy at bay. They were emboldened to witness for the cause of the Gospel because the great enabling of grace and power of God by the Holy Spirit was active in their work in the Lord God. And upon such act of grace they stand firmly in the faith to authenticate and enact whom they believe and what they believe and why they believe. 

“Therefore being JUSTIFIED by faith, we have PEACE with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS by faith into this GRACE wherein we STAND, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2. 

“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have OBTAINED like PRECIOUS FAITH with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 GRACE and PEACE be multiplied unto you through the KNOWLEDGE of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 according as his DIVINE POWER hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the KNOWLEDGE of him that hath CALLED us to glory and virtue: 4 whereby are given unto us EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES: that by these ye might be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” 2 Peter 1:1-4. 

Apostle Paul was emboldened to DO ALL THINGS through Christ Jesus, who strengthens and keeps him stronger and stronger by the of enabling – POWER and GRACE of Christ Jesus’ stead. This grace meets his lack and limitations, and turns every situation that appears to be failing into a place of sufficiency. It turns his weakness, failures, and infirmities into strength.  

It is Christ Jesus’ enabling POWER and GRACE that empowers Apostle Paul to FUNCTION and to BECOME in Life and Godly Living – in all we can comprehend of His exploits in the kingdom, His cause, and His fulfilment in life and ministry. 

“I CAN DO ALL THINGS through Christ who STRENGTHENS me” Philippians 4:13. 

“And He said to me, “My GRACE is sufficient for you, for My STRENGHT is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the POWER of Christ may rest upon me” 2 Corinthians 12:9. 

God wants you to THRIVE and not SURVIVE in DOING Life and LIVING Godly -in the very place you are called, and endowed with ALL THINGS – (2 Peter 1:2-4). God wants you to be strong and emboldened in the faith as you do life and live godly, by Him, in Christ Jesus’ stead.  

Hence, you need to ask yourself honest questions to know if you are living by God’s POWER and GRACE or by your own ABILITIES.  

Let your strength come from the Lord in every aspect of doing life, by God’s enabling power and grace. 

“Finally, my brethren, be STRONG in the Lord and in the power of His might . . . 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth BOLDLY to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak BOLDLY, as I ought to speak” Ephesians 6:10, 19-20. 

And considering all your rising early and coming in late – your day-to-day routines and schedules – How strong or strengthened are you today in doing Life and being Godly? How sufficient are you today in doing Life and being Godly.  

How weak and insufficient are you for the demands of Life and Godly Living? How do you endeavour to FUNCTION in order to BECOME with MEANINGFUL FULFILLMENT? These, and many other questions not mentioned, you must present to yourself in the pursuit of your CAUSE and COURSE in your daily Life journey. 

Be Blessed in LIFE and GODLY LIVING in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Therefore, having been JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have PEACE with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into this GRACE in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2. 

“I CAN DO ALL THINGS through Christ who STRENGTHENS me” Philippians 4:13. 

“And He said to me, “My GRACE is sufficient for you, for My STRENGHT is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the POWER of Christ may rest upon me” 2 Corinthians 12:9. 

“Finally, my brethren, be STRONG in the Lord and in the power of His might . . . 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth BOLDLY to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak BOLDLY, as I ought to speak” Ephesians 6:10, 19-20. 

“GRACE and PEACE be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine POWER has GIVEN to us ALL THINGS that pertain to LIFE and GODLINESS, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been GIVEN to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” 2 Peter 1:2-4.  

SUMMARY: 

The Central Thesis: God’s Design for You 

God does not want you to merely SURVIVE, but to THRIVE in DOING Life and LIVING Godly. This is possible because you are already called and endowed with ALL THINGS that pertain to life and godliness, by His Divine Power [2 Peter 1:2-4]. 

The only resource to FUNCTION and BECOME strong in this life is to deliberately DARE to live by God’s enabling — POWER and GRACE given through Christ Jesus. 

KEY POINTS: 

  1. Biblical Foundation: The Apostles’ Example

The message uses Acts 4:31,33 as the pattern: After prayer, the believers were FILLED with the Holy Ghost, and with GREAT POWER and GREAT GRACE they witnessed boldly. 

That same enabling of grace and power by the Holy Spirit kept the enemy at bay, emboldened them for the Gospel, and made them stand firm to authenticate what they believe, whom they believe, and why they believe [Romans 5:1-2]. 

  1. The Paul Principle: Sufficiency in Weakness

Apostle Paul’s life is the case study: 
Emboldened to DO ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens [Philippians 4:13]. 
Grace meets lack and limitations and turns failing situations into sufficiency. 
Weakness, failures, infirmities → turned into strength [2 Corinthians 12:9]. 

Result: Paul was empowered to FUNCTION and BECOME in Life and Godly Living, fulfilling his Kingdom cause and ministry. 

  1. The Call to Self-Examination

Because you are called to Godly Living by God’s Power and Grace, not your own abilities, you must ask yourself: 

Am I living by God’s POWER and GRACE or by my own ABILITIES? 

Considering all the pressure of “rising early and coming in late,” how strong, strengthened, sufficient, or weak am I today for the demands of Life and Godly Living? 

How do I FUNCTION in order to BECOME with MEANINGFUL FULFILLMENT? 

You must present these questions to yourself as you pursue your CAUSE and COURSE in your daily Life journey [Ephesians 6:10, 19-20]. 

  1. The Promise & Posture

Justification by Faith gives you PEACE with God and ACCESS by faith into this GRACE wherein you STAND [Romans 5:1-2]. 
His Divine Power has already given you ALL THINGS for life and godliness, and EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES so you may be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE [2 Peter 1:1-4]. 
Command: “Be STRONG in the Lord and in the power of His might” and speak BOLDLY [Ephesians 6:10, 19-20]. 

Closing Benediction: Be blessed in LIFE and GODLY LIVING in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen. 

Key Themes in One Line: 

Strength, Sufficiency, and Fulfilment are not by human effort, but by daring to live daily in the enabling POWER and GRACE of Christ Jesus — which turns weakness into strength and makes Godly Living possible. 

Tone: Prophetic, confrontational, doctrinal, and empowering. Heavy emphasis on POWER, GRACE, FUNCTION, BECOME, THRIVE, STRONG, BOLDNESS. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

LOVE AT ITS BEST 

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LOVE AT ITS BEST: IT DOES INSTRUCTS AND DISCIPLINES! 

“And ye have FORGOTTEN the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, DESPISE not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor FAINT when thou art REBUKED of him: 6 for WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, AND SCOURGETH EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH. 7 If ye endure CHASTENING, God DEALETH with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father CHASTENETH not? 8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are PARTAKERS, then are ye BASTARDS, and not sons” Hebrews 12:5-8. 

You may not like and love this writ, except you genuinely want God’s WORD to define you for today and tomorrow as you do LIFE and live GODLY by grace, in Christ Jesus’ stead. For some, LOVE is basically about being spoken to softly, taken to the mall for shopping, being showered with gifts now and then, taken for holidays, spoilt with every good thing or goodies while their shortfalls and real-life failings are never mentioned or told them, which would rather help them to amend, braze up, mature and grow in the grace. 

It is unfortunate that many people are in Church without having anyone to strengthen them from their bad behavioural menace and attitudes to the realities of life. When people build their lives on falsehoods and entitlement, and they do not realise the dangers of not wanting the truth, they will always find themselves at the breaking points of life’s deceptions and falsehoods. And some will get to a point wherein they are irreparable, because such LOVE anticipated without discipline for wrongdoing was never MEASURED to them – with the true reality of life: discipline and instruction as the path to do life and live godly by grace in righteousness. 

Herein are three hard TRUTHS among the lot about genuine LOVE one needs to give thoughts to. They are needful in order to help you, and your friend, spouse, colleagues and those you love and cares about: 

  1. LOVE with ‘OPEN REBUKES’ – helps to DELIVER and SAVE – Proverbs 27:5-6. 
    “OPEN REBUKE is better than SECRET love. 6 FAITHFUL are the WOUNDS of a friend; but the KISSES of an ENEMY are deceitful” Proverbs 27:5-6. 
  2. LOVE That ‘CHASTENS’ – helps to MOLD and AMEND – Hebrews 12:5-11.
    “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor faint when thou art REBUKED of him: 6 for WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, AND SCOURGETH EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH. 7 If ye endure CHASTENING, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father CHASTENETH not? 8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are PARTAKERS, then are ye BASTARDS, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which CORRECTED us, and we gave them REVERENCE: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days CHASTENED us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be PARTAKERS of his holiness. 11 Now no CHASTENING for the present seemeth to be joyous, but GRIEVOUS: nevertheless afterward it YIELDETH the PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS unto them which are EXERCISED thereby” Hebrews 12:5-11.
  3. Love that PROTECTS – helps to COVERS, OVERLOOKS, MAKES UP and to EMANCIPATES from further sins and errors – 1 Peter 4:8/Proverbs 10:12. 

“And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for LOVE shall COVER (OVERLOOK, MAKES UP) the multitude of sins” 1 Peter 4:8 (Emphasis Mine). 

“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love COVERETH (OVERLOOK) all sins” Proverbs 10:12 (Emphasis Mine). 

God wants us to love while we enjoy His love shed and spread abroad in our inner hearts by the Holy Spirit of love. It is by this love of God that we are saved. And God has commended His Love towards us in Christ Jesus to enable us to live in Christ Jesus’ stead by it. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8. 

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not LOVE [for others growing out of God’s love for me], then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction]. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy [and speak a new message from God to the people], and understand all mysteries, and [possess] all knowledge; and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing. 3 If I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good at all. 4 LOVE endures with patience and serenity, LOVE is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; LOVE does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. 5 It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured. 6 It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. 7 LOVE bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening]. 8 Love never fails [it never fades nor ends]. But as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part [for our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete]. 10 But when that which is complete and perfect comes, that which is incomplete and partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known [by God]. 13 And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love” 1 Corinthians 13 Amplified. 

SUMMARY:  

Central Thesis: Genuine biblical love is not sentimentality or spoiling. It is God’s love, shed abroad by the Holy Spirit, that saves, instructs, disciplines, and matures. True love delivers through open rebuke, molds through chastening, and protects through covering sin. Without discipline and instruction, love becomes empty sentiment that leaves people broken at life’s breaking points. 

  1. Core Declaration: Love at Its Best Instructs + Disciplines

Hebrews 12:5-8 is the anchor: “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” The message declares that if you have no chastisement, you are not a son but a bastard. Love at its best does not faint at rebuke; it endures chastening because God deals with us as sons. Hebrews 12:11: Chastening is “grievous for the present” but “yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” Kingdom principle: A love without discipline is not fatherly love — it leaves people irreparable. 

  1. Warning Against Counterfeit Love

Many confuse love with soft words + gifts + holidays while ignoring shortfalls and real-life failings. That “love” never helps people amend, brace up, mature, and grow in grace. It is unfortunate that many in church have no one to strengthen them from bad behavioural menace and attitudes to the realities of life. When people build on falsehoods and entitlement, and refuse truth, they end at the breaking points of life’s deceptions. Without discipline measured to them, some reach a point of being irreparable. Doctrine: The path to do life and live godly by grace in righteousness is discipline + instruction 2 Timothy 3:16. 

  1. Three Hard Truths About Genuine Love

The message presents 3 “needful” truths to help you, your friend, spouse, colleagues, and those you love and care about: 

Love with ‘Open Rebukes’ — Helps to Deliver and Save 
Proverbs 27:5-6: “Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend.” Truth-telling, though painful, delivers and saves. Concealing faults = deceitful kisses of an enemy. 

Love That ‘Chastens’ — Helps to Mold and Amend 
Hebrews 12:5-11: God chastens every son He receives. Earthly fathers corrected us and we gave them reverence; how much more the Father of spirits. Chastening is for our profit “that we might be partakers of his holiness.” It is not joyous now, but grievous — yet it produces righteousness in those exercised by it. 

Love that Protects — Helps to Cover, Overlook, Make Up, and Emancipate 
1 Peter 4:8 + Proverbs 10:12: “Love shall cover the multitude of sins.” “Cover” means to overlook, make up, and emancipate from further sins and errors. This is not excusing sin but refusing to stir up strife with hatred. Love bears, hopes, and protects without enabling destruction.

     4. Foundation: God’s Love First

Romans 5:5, 8: God wants us to love while we enjoy His love “shed abroad in our inner hearts by the Holy Spirit of love.” It is by this love of God that we are saved. God commended His love toward us in Christ Jesus to enable us to live in Christ Jesus’ stead by it. 1 Corinthians 13 Amplified is quoted in full to define love: patient, kind, not jealous/proud/rude/self-seeking, bears all things, believes/hopes/endures all things, never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:13: “the greatest of these is love.” 
Kingdom principle: We cannot give what we have not received. Discipline, rebuke, and protection must flow from enjoying God’s love first. 

  1. Tone + Call to Action

Tone: Weighty, prophetic, corrective, and pastoral. It is teaching + exhortation. The message warns against “church without fathers,” confronts entitlement/falsehood, then anchors everything in Scripture. 

Call: Let God’s Word define you for today and tomorrow. Accept open rebuke and chastening as proof of sonship, not rejection. Measure love by maturity produced, not comfort given. Give the 3 hard truths to those you love so they amend, brace up, and grow. Let love protect by covering sin, but never without instruction that leads to righteousness. 

In one sentence: The message declares that God’s love — shed abroad by the Spirit — is proven through instruction and discipline; “therefore, genuine love must rebuke openly to deliver, chasten to mold and amend, and protect by covering [OVERLOOKING] sin, because love without discipline produces believers who shatter at life’s breaking points, but love rooted in God’s love matures us to live godly by grace in righteousness.” 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

HAVING GOOD NEWS IS GOOD – AND WITH WAGONS OF GOODIES IT’S FAR BETTER AND BEST

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HAVING GOOD NEWS IS GOOD – AND WITH WAGONS OF GOODIES IT IS FAR BETTER AND BEST: IT REVIVES THE FAINTING HEARTS – IT ENHANCES THE KINGDOM LIFE AND CAUSES THE GRACE! 

“A HAPPY heart is good MEDICINE and a JOYFUL mind causes HEALING, But a BROKEN spirit DRIES up [DEPRESSED] the BONES [BEING]” Proverbs 17:22/Amplified/Emphasis Mine. 

It is good to have a job and/or business, but better if the accompanying wages or returns can keep your spirit being – the temple of the Holy Spirit – alive, active and far above the waters, to enable you to meet your day to day living matters and extend to the helpless without further worries. 

Being BLESSED – that is, being empowered to succeed in God’s POWER and GRACE – is the ability to have beyond enough and to reach to somebody else. For prosperity that withholds is poverty in disguise. Until you can have and give without complain and murmuring, you are still poverty stricken in disguise. And God’s intent is to see us prosper in His grace as our spirit and soul prosper alike, to sustain and maintain the abundance of outpourings and still be in the faith. 

“Beloved, I pray that in every way you may SUCCEED and PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH [PHYSICALLY], just as [I know] your SOUL PROSPERS [SPIRITUALLY]” 3 John 1:2/Amplified [Psalms 37:25; 2 Peter 1:2-4; 1 Timothy 6:17-19]. 

“Blessed and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has BLESSED us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ” Ephesians 1:3/Amplified. 

“Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who Favor my vindication and want what is right for me; Let them say continually, “Let the Lord be MAGNIFIED, who DELIGHTS and TAKES PLEASURE in the PROSPERITY of His servant” Psalms 35:27/Amplified. 

There was prosperity in the first civilised world – Egypt – while others were poor and hunger stricken. Jacob the patriarch was fainting and fading with time and in dire need, in the poverty and austerity-stricken world of his time. And when he was told that Joseph, the Premier of Egypt, his son was alive, he felt good but in doubt, due to the time lapse and evidence given in the forensics of his death by his other children years before. But when he SAW the WAGONS – trail of camels with loads of goods, accompany with cash (money) – I can hear, “ooh goodness,” his DYING and FAINTING spirit was MADE alive, that is, REVIVED instantly. The power of WAGONS is indisputable in such a dire time of time. 

“. . . 25 AND THEY WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN unto Jacob their father, 26 and told him, saying, JOSEPH IS YET ALIVE, and he is GOVERNOR over all the land of Egypt. AND JACOB’S HEART FAINTED, FOR HE BELIEVED THEM NOT. 27 And they TOLD HIM ALL THE WORDS of Joseph, which he had said unto them: AND WHEN HE SAW THE WAGONS which Joseph had sent to carry him, THE SPIRIT OF JACOB THEIR FATHER REVIVED: 28 and Israel said, IT IS ENOUGH; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die” Genesis 45:1-28. 

I pray for you today, that every good news that comes to you will be accompanied with LOADS of WAGONS. Wagons are good, for they come with other goods that meet needs. Wagons make all the difference in one’s life. You may not appreciate or understand it until it happens to you. To have your debt or dire needs paid, with extra relief to do and live life in such a way as to never be in debt again and dire need, is far better than just having your debt only paid and still be in need. There is a miracle for you today. Receive it and be blessed in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

I pray that the Lord God El-Shaddai – the all-sufficient Father – will meet you today at the point of your need and turn your fainting heart into overflowing joy, reviving your dying spirit that you might live again and worry no more in all that pertains to life and living godly. 

GOD’S BLESSEDNESS REVIVES FAINTING HEARTS – THE POWER OF WAGONS WITH GOODIES IS FAR BETTER, AND IT IS INDISPUTABLE – AND YOU CAN BANK ON GOD’S PROVISIONS AT CHALLENGING TIMES TO HELP YOU BE A BLESSING TO SOMEONE ELSE. 

“The thief [devil (enemy)/cohorts] comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in ABUNDANCE [to the FULL, till it OVERFLOWS]” John 10:10/Amplified. 

It takes overflowing, super-abundant provision to help someone else who deserves the needed help without entitlement, in doing life and living godly in the grace. 

Every grace in God’s BLESSEDNESS! 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“. . . 25 AND THEY WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN unto Jacob their father, 26 and told him, saying, JOSEPH IS YET ALIVE, and he is GOVERNOR over all the land of Egypt. AND JACOB’S HEART FAINTED, FOR HE BELIEVED THEM NOT. 27 And they TOLD HIM ALL THE WORDS of Joseph, which he had said unto them: AND WHEN HE SAW THE WAGONS which Joseph had sent to carry him, THE SPIRIT OF JACOB THEIR FATHER REVIVED: 28 and Israel said, IT IS ENOUGH; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die” Genesis 45:1-28. 

“A HAPPY heart is good MEDICINE and a JOYFUL mind causes HEALING, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 Amplified. 

Further Scriptural Reading Text: Genesis 45:1-28  

SUMMARY: 

Central Thesis: God’s nature is El-Shaddai, the all-sufficient Father who gives abundantly. Good news is good, but “good news with wagons” — provision beyond enough — revives fainting spirits, sustains kingdom life, and empowers believers to be blessings to others. True prosperity is not accumulation, but capacity to have, give without murmuring, and remain in faith. Selfishness/withholding is poverty in disguise; God’s intent is for our spirit and soul to prosper alike so His outpourings can be sustained. 

  1. Core Declaration: The Power of “Wagons”

Genesis 45:27 anchors the message: Jacob fainted at the news of Joseph, but “when he saw the wagons… the spirit of Jacob their father revived.” The message uses “wagons” as kingdom imagery for God’s timely, tangible provision with “goodies” attached. Having good news is good; with wagons it is far better and best because wagons meet needs, relieve debt, and prevent a return to dire need. Proverbs 17:22 is cited: “A happy heart is good medicine… but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” Provision revives; joy heals. 

  1. Doctrine of Prosperity: Blessed to Be a Blessing

Being blessed = being empowered by God’s power and grace to have beyond enough and to reach somebody else. 3 John 1:2 is quoted: “I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospereth.” God’s intent: spirit and soul prosper alike to sustain abundance and remain in faith. Psalm 35:27: God “delights… in the prosperity of His servant.” Ephesians 1:3: He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Key correction: Prosperity that withholds is poverty in disguise. Until you can have and give without complaint and murmuring, you remain poverty-stricken. Kingdom wealth is measured by capacity to give. 

  1. Work + Wages with Kingdom Purpose

It is good to have a job and/or business, but better when wages keep “your spirit — the temple of the Holy Spirit — alive, active and far above the waters.” 1 Corinthians 6:19. Provision should enable you to meet daily living matters and extend to the helpless without further worries. John 10:10: Christ came that we may have life “in abundance, to the full, till it overflows.” That overflow is for others. 

  1. God’s Sufficiency in Challenging Times

God’s blessedness revives fainting hearts. The power of wagons with goodies is indisputable. You can bank on God’s provisions at challenging times to help you be a blessing to someone else. El-Shaddai — the all-sufficient Father — meets you at the point of need, turns fainting hearts to overflowing joy, and revives dying spirits so you live again and worry no more. Philippians 4:19 underlies: “my God shall supply all your need.” 

  1. The Grace of Giving Without Entitlement

It takes overflowing, super-abundant provision to help someone who deserves needed help without entitlement, while living godly by grace. 2 Corinthians 9:8 supports: “having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” The prayer is declarative: May every good news that comes to you be accompanied with loads of wagons. There is a miracle for you today — receive it and be blessed in Jesus’ name. 

Key Scriptures in Context 

  • Genesis 45:25-28: Joseph’s wagons revived Jacob’s fainting spirit 
  • Proverbs 17:22: Happy heart = good medicine; broken spirit = dried bones 
  • 3 John 1:2: Prosper in health as soul prospers 
  • Psalm 35:27: God delights in His servant’s prosperity 
  • Ephesians 1:3: Blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ 
  • John 10:10: Life in abundance that overflows 

Tone & Call to Action 

Tone: Weighty, prophetic, doctrinal, and pastoral. It is teaching + intercession. The message corrects cultural views of poverty/prosperity, then prays. 
Call: Reject withholding and murmuring. Embrace God’s intent for “super-abundant” provision. Believe for good news with wagons — provision that revives you and positions you to be a blessing. Live godly by grace, with spirit and soul prospering together. 

In one sentence: The message declares that God, El-Shaddai, intends His people to experience “wagon-level” provision — abundance that revives fainting hearts, sustains kingdom life, and creates capacity to give without entitlement, because true blessedness is measured by what you can do for others after your own needs are met. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

OCCUPY TILL I COME IN GIVING 

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OCCUPY TILL I COME IN GIVING: FOR GOD’S LOVED-WORLD IS A GIVING WORLD! 

“For God so LOVED the WORLD that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16. 

God’s LOVED-WORLD is an awesome world of LOVE – therefore, don’t be SELFISH about it. To many, the opposite of LOVE may be HATE or HATRED. On the contrary, in God’s scriptural kingdom, LOVE’S opposite is SELFISHNESS – being selfish, covetous, hoarding and greedy. 

“GIVE, and it shall be GIVEN unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men GIVE into your bosom. For with the SAME MEASURE that ye mete withal it shall be MEASURED to you again” Luke 6:38. 

The LOVED-WORLD of God is made to be liveable, likeable, loveable and enjoyable because of the act of GIVING that takes place every now and then. For example, the plants GIVE out oxygen to RECEIVE or TAKE IN carbon dioxide for their photosynthesis. In same scenario are humans and all living creation. We GIVE out carbon dioxide and TAKE IN oxygen to keep our human body alive and life in check. This cycle keeps life going every day. It is a GIVING world; hence it is LOVED-WORLD, and it is LIKEABLE, LIVEABLE, LOVEABLE, REACHABLE, INDESCRIBABLE and ENJOYABLE  

God so LOVED, He GAVE! Genuine LOVE GIVES. Where God’s LOVE is, GIVING goes along. Giving could be in the form of giving once TIME, FINANCE, PHYSIQUE (STRENGTH), TALENT/SKILL, PROTECTION [DEFEND], VISITATION, MATERIAL GIFT, SPIRITUAL CARE and such likes and MORE, to the needy and vulnerable ONE especially. To authenticate and ensure that God’s LOVE that saves us from sin keeps abounding in us by grace, our Father God abundantly and lavishly GAVE us the Holy Spirit of LOVE, to ensure that the DNA of love is embedded in us as default to live and do life in love. Thus, indicating that everyone born of God in Christ Jesus is carrying the default of love, irrespective of circumstances, except the individual chooses and decides to live otherwise against the true being in Christ Jesus’ stead. 

“Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us, because God’s LOVE has been ABUNDANTLY POURED out within OUR HEARTS through the Holy Spirit who was GIVEN to us . . . 8 But God clearly shows and proves His own LOVE for us, by the fact that while we were STILL SINNERS, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5, 8/Amplified. 

It is MORE BLESSED to GIVE than to RECEIVE, for givers NEVER go down no matter what. This I know so well. Hence you see that the hand of the giver is always above and over the recipient’s hands to receive. That is the kingdom principle which also works in the natural world. Make yourself a living giver today, propelled by love and not by pride and arrogance, nor by sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. 

Therefore, do a self-check and be a GIVER today: For God’s LOVED world is a GIVING world – and our passion to help people when they are falling should outweigh our intent to crucify them when they fall – THERE’S NO ROOM FOR SELFISHNESS, HOARDING AND WITHHOLDING to enjoy the unspeakable gift of joy of God that’s in Christ Jesus stead. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16. 

“I have shown you in every way, by labouring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECIEVE” Acts 20:35. 

“There is that SCATTERETH, and yet INCREASETH; and there is that WITHHOLDETH more than is meet, but it tendeth to POVERTY. 25 The LIBERAL soul shall be MADE fat: and he that WATERETH shall be WATERED also himself. 26 He that WITHHOLDETH corn, the people shall CURSE him: but BLESSING shall be upon the HEAD of him that SELLETH it” Proverbs 11:24-26. 

“For God is not UNJUST so as to FORGET your WORK and the LOVE which you have SHOWN for His name in MINISTERING to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do. 11 And we desire for each one of you to SHOW the same DILIGENCE [all the way through] so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you will not be [spiritually] sluggish, but [will instead be] IMITATORS of those who through faith [lean on God with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power] and by patient endurance [even when suffering] are [now] INHERITING the promises” Hebrews 6:10-12 (Amplified). 

SUMMARY: 

Central Thesis: God designed the world and His kingdom to operate by love expressed through giving. Selfishness, hoarding, and withholding are the true opposites of love and block both natural and kingdom blessing. Every believer carries a default of love by the Holy Spirit and is called to live as a giver — in time, strength, resources, and compassion — because “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” 

  1. Kingdom Mandate: Occupy by Giving

The exhortation opens with Luke 19:13 — “Occupy till I come” — but reframes it as “Occupy till I come in giving.” John 3:16 anchors the entire message: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” God’s nature is love, and love proves itself by giving. Therefore, God’s world is a “loved world” and a “giving world” by design. 

  1. Doctrinal Correction: Love’s True Opposite

Culturally, people assume love’s opposite is hate or hatred. The message corrects this biblically: In God’s scriptural kingdom, love’s opposite is selfishness — manifested as being selfish, covetous, hoarding, and greedy. 1 Corinthians 13:5 underlies this: “love seeketh not her own.” Selfishness is the anti-kingdom posture; hate is the fruit, but selfishness is the root. 

  1. Natural Law Confirms Kingdom Law: The Cycle of Giving

Creation itself illustrates the principle. Plants give oxygen and take in carbon dioxide; humans do the reverse. This cycle keeps life going daily. The world is “liveable, likeable, loveable, reachable, indescribable and enjoyable” because giving and receiving are built into it. Luke 6:38 is cited: “Give, and it shall be given unto you… with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” What works in nature is also kingdom principle. 

  1. The Default of Love in Every Believer

Romans 5:5, 8 explains how: God saved us by love, then abundantly poured His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. This embeds the “DNA of love” as default in everyone born of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore every believer carries the capacity for love irrespective of circumstance, unless they choose to live contrary to their true being in Christ. Genuine love gives — it is not theoretical. 

  1. Forms of Giving + Attitude of Giving

Giving is broad: time, finance, physique/strength, talent/skill, protection/defense, visitation, material gift, spiritual care, and more — especially to the needy and vulnerable. The attitude matters: be propelled by love, not by pride, arrogance, sentiments, prejudice, or dissimulation. Acts 20:35 is quoted: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The giver’s hand is always above the recipient’s hand. Proverbs 11:24-26 confirms: the liberal soul shall be made fat; he that watereth shall be watered himself, while withholding leads to poverty and curse. 

  1. Compassion Over Condemnation: No Room for Selfishness

The writer confronts a critical heart issue: our passion to help people when they are falling should outweigh our intent to crucify them when they fall. There is no room for selfishness, hoarding, and withholding if we want to enjoy the “unspeakable gift of joy of God that is in Christ Jesus’ stead” 2 Corinthians 9:15. Hebrews 6:10-12 reinforces: God does not forget work and love shown in ministering to His people. We are called to diligence and to imitate those who inherit promises through faith and patience. 

Key Scriptures Anchoring the Message 

  • John 3:16: God’s love is proven by giving His Son 
  • Luke 6:38: Giving/receiving law of measure 
  • Romans 5:5, 8: Love of God poured into hearts by Holy Spirit; Christ died for us while sinners 
  • Acts 20:35: It is more blessed to give than to receive 
  • Proverbs 11:24-26: Liberal soul made fat; withholding leads to poverty 
  • Hebrews 6:10-12: God remembers ministering in love; imitate faith and patience 

Tone & Call to Action 

Tone: Urgent, weighty, doctrinal, and corrective. It is both teaching and exhortation. 
Call: Do a self-check. Reject selfishness, covetousness, hoarding, greed. Choose to be a “living giver” today because God’s loved-world operates on giving. 

In one sentence: The message declares that because God is love and He gave His Son, His world and kingdom function by giving; therefore, believers must reject selfishness as love’s true opposite, embrace the Holy Spirit’s embedded default of love, and occupy their lives as givers in every form, knowing giving is the blessed kingdom principle that keeps one above. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

THE BLESSEDNESS OF – “BEING LED OF THE SPIRIT”

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THE BLESSEDNESS OF – “BEING LED OF THE SPIRIT”: THE ENABLING POWER OF GOD TO ACCESS AND FULFILL PURPOSE IN CHRIST JESUS! 

“. . . 14 For as many as are LED by the Spirit of God, they are the SONS of God . . .” Romans 8:9-11, 14-17. 

“Then was Jesus LED up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil” Matthew 4:1. 

Until redemption in Christ Jesus, the OLD TESTAMENT CREATION people were LED by mere men who served under God as Prophets, Priests, Kings and Levites, and who were not born again [not circumcised in the heart] otherwise born of God with the Holy Spirit living within them [Romans 2:28-29; Philippians 3:3; John 14:16-27; Romans 5:5]. All of them, from the Old Testament till the Gospel, none was born of the Spirit in their spirit-being, in order for them to know, understand and experience God within for themselves [John 3:1-15]. Those used to accomplish divine purpose in the Old Creation Testament received the Blessed [empowering] Spirit of God’s BLESSEDNESS UPON them firstly – without living WITHIN them – but ONLY for them to function and carry out the intent, plan, purpose and pursuit of God as they were instructed in all generations and dispensations until Christ Jesus. That Is when the Spirit WITHIN comes into being for our BLESSEDNESS within. The Holy Spirit, the third person of the divine trinity, was concealed – not revealed in person except in function- to those used in the Old Creation Testament. 

“For there are three that bear record [witness] in heaven, THE Father, THE Word, and THE Holy Ghost: and these three are one” 1 John 5:7. 

And God’s BLESSEDNESS in grace is as real as when it is being carried by the spiritual empowering of the Holy Spirit, who is the enabler of God, and the ensuring factor that brings God’s promises to physical reality – tangibility in various formats to all in humanity. Unfortunately, most people think that God’s BLESSEDNESS, [BLESSINGS] are of the physical, [tangible] things they see, feel/touch, smell, hear and taste; which unfortunately, it is not, otherwise it would rot, rust, corrupt, decay, degrade, depreciate and the like, in all things happening under the Sun. And it is heavenly secured in God’s hands of righteousness, where Christ is seated and we in grace ARE positioned and seated at the right hand of the Father God, and it is with no earthly corruptions, counterfeits, distortion and adulteration to undermine its priceless worth in the grace. 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED us with all spiritual blessings in HEAVENLY places in Christ . . . 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the HEAVENLY places” Ephesians 1:3, 20. 

“And hath raised us up together, and made us SIT together in HEAVENLY places in Christ Jesus” Ephesians 2:6. 

“Lay not up for yourselves TREASURES upon earth, where MOTH and RUST doth CORRUPT, and where THIEVES break through and STEAL: 20 but lay up for yourselves TREASURES IN HEAVEN, where neither MOTH nor RUST doth CORRUPT, and where THIEVES do not BREAK through nor STEAL: 21 for where your TREASURE is, there will your HEART [SPIRIT-BEING] be also” Matthew 6:19-21. 

For God’s enabled BLESSEDNESS, [BLESSING] it is not accompanied with sorrow and such like, but it enriches to all things. And it is not limited to any to monopolised, as it is irrespective of gender, race, colour, tongue, status, class, geographical location, etc. And it is not governed by sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. 

“The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” Proverbs 10:22. 

“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is NO DIFFERENCE between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is RICH UNTO ALL that call upon him. 13 For WHOSOEVER shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be SAVED” Romans 10:11-13. 

“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is NO RESPECTER of persons: 35 but in EVERY NATION he that FEARETH him, and WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS, is ACCEPTED with him” Acts 10:34-35. 

“Christ hath REDEEMED us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE the PROMISE of the Spirit through faith . . . 26 For ye ARE all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is NEITHER Jew nor Greek, there is NEITHER bond nor free, there is NEITHER male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” Galatians 3:13-14, 26-29. 

In same scenario, to BE LED BY THE SPIRIT [HOLY SPIRIT] is another act of the BLESSEDNESS [BLESSING] of God in Christ Jesus. That you live and do life in grace by the leading [being led] of God in every one of your life decisions, it is an awesome, gracious and graceful realm to enjoy of God in order to fulfil purpose in your redemption in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen. 

Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord in humanity knows the virtue of BEING LED of the Spirit, from the onset of His humanity and Ministry until the end of His time in our redemption. He knows it takes the Father God’s BLESSEDNESS to function within His perspectives. And because He was BEING LED of the Holy Spirit, He was able to fulfil the demands of the Father God for human redemption with no stone left unturned in His humanity [Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 4:1/Luke 4:1-22; Acts 10:38]. 

The Believers of God in Christ Jesus can also enjoy the BLESSEDNESS of God in BEING LED of the Holy Spirit. It is God’s given access to ALL in Redemption that are born of God in Christ Jesus [Romans 5:1-2, 5-8]. That is what ensures SONSHIP in God in Christ Jesus. [Galatians 4:6-7; Romans 8:14 (8-11, 14-17, 26-40); Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; John 7:37-39; Luke 11:9-13]. And every believer should crave to ensure that they are BEING LED of God, otherwise satan and his cohorts will set up middlemen in religious cloaks and will act religiously as your go-between to God, which is unscriptural toward religiosity, dogma, bondage and such like [1 Timothy 2:5; Acts 4:12]. There are many out there for deception, to pervert and to deceive others of the truth [Galatians 1:6-9; Jude 1:3-4; Philippians 1:15-18]. And BEING LED of the Holy Spirit BLESSEDNESS gives the wisdom from above, to be above only in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen. [James 3:15 (13-18)]. 

I PRAY that you will rise up now in Christ Jesus and thirst and hunger after the BLESSEDNESS of BEING LED by the Holy Spirit of promise – who is the Holy Spirit of the triune [trinity] God [1 John 5:7]. If you act otherwise, it then means you have set yourself readily ready to fall prey and victim before the enemy and cohorts of your faith in Christ Jesus’ stead. [1 Peter 5:8-9; James 3:13-18]. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING ON CONTEXT: 

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” 1 John 5:7. 

“Then was Jesus LED up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil” Matthew 4:1. 

“And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was LED by the Spirit into the wilderness . . . 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all . . . 18 The Spirit of the Lord is UPON me, because he hath ANOINTED me to PREACH the GOSPEL to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. 22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?” Luke 4:1-22. 

“How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him” Acts 10:38/AMP Classic Edition. 

“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you . . . 14 For as many as are LED by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together” Romans 8:9-11, 14-17. 

“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be ENDUED WITH POWER from on high” Luke 24:49. 

“But ye shall RECEIVE POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be WITNESSES unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” Acts 1:8. 

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” John 7:37-39. 

“. . . 11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father GIVE the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” Luke 11:9-13. 

“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from ABOVE, but is EARTHLY, SENSUAL, DEVILISH. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace” James 3:13-18. 

SUMMARY: 

Core Thesis: 
The message presents being led by the Holy Spirit as the central blessedness of the New Covenant. It contrasts Old Testament function “upon” with New Testament life “within”, arguing that true purpose, sonship, and God’s incorruptible blessedness are accessed only through Spirit-led living in Christ. 

  1. Definition of God’s Blessedness
    Nature: Not physical, tangible, or perishable. It does not rot, rust, decay, or depreciate like earthly things [Matthew 6:19-20]. 
    Location/Security: Heavenly, secured in God’s hands of righteousness where Christ sits at the right hand of the Father [Ephesians 1:3, 20; Ephesians 2:6]. Believers are “seated in heavenly places in Christ”. 
    Character: Adds no sorrow [Proverbs 10:22]. Enriches in all things. Inclusive — no difference of gender, race, class, geography [Romans 10:11-13; Galatians 3:28]. Not governed by sentiment, prejudice, or dissimulation. 
  1. “Being Led of the Spirit” as Enabling Power
    Scriptural Anchor: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” [Romans 8:14]. Spirit-led living is presented as proof of sonship. 
    Christ’s Pattern: Jesus Himself knew the virtue of being Spirit-led from the start of His ministry [Luke 4:1] until redemption was complete [Matthew 4:1; Acts 10:38]. He functioned by the Father’s blessedness and the Spirit’s empowerment, fulfilling every demand of redemption. 
    Believer’s Access: This same Spirit-led access is “God’s given access to all in redemption who are born of God in Christ Jesus” [Romans 5:1-2, 5-8]. It is not for a select few. 
  1. Old Testament vs New Testament Contrast
    Old Testament Creation: People were led by men under God — Prophets, Priests, Kings, Levites. They were “not born again, not circumcised in the heart” [Romans 2:28-29]. 
    Spirit’s Role Then: The Spirit came upon them for function — to carry out God’s intent for that dispensation — but did not live within them [John 7:39]. None were born of the Spirit in their spirit-being until Christ. 
    New Testament Reality: With redemption in Christ, the Spirit within comes into being for the believer’s blessedness. The Spirit is now revealed, not concealed, as the third person of the triune God [1 John 5:7]. This enables knowing, understanding, and experiencing God internally [John 3:1-15]. 
  1. Practical Implications for Believers
    Sonship & Purpose: Spirit-led living ensures sonship [Galatians 4:6-7; Romans 8:14-17] and empowers believers to access and fulfil purpose in Christ. 
    Warning Against Religious Go-Betweens: If believers are not Spirit-led, they become prey to “middlemen in religious cloaks” promoting religiosity, dogma, and bondage [1 Timothy 2:5; Acts 4:12]. Scripture warns of deceivers who pervert truth [Galatians 1:6-9; Jude 1:3-4]. 
    Wisdom from Above: Being led by the Holy Spirit gives “wisdom from above” — pure, peaceable, gentle, full of mercy [James 3:15, 17] — which keeps the believer “above only in Christ Jesus’ stead”. 
  1. Exhortation

The message closes as a prayerful charge: believers must “rise up now in Christ Jesus and thirst and hunger after the blessedness of being led by the Holy Spirit of promise” [Matthew 5:6; Luke 11:9-13]. Failure to do so leaves one open as prey to the enemy [1 Peter 5:8-9]. The call is to crave Spirit-dependence for power, witness [Acts 1:8; Luke 24:49], and victory. 

Summary in one sentence: 
God’s incorruptible, heavenly blessedness in Christ is accessed and expressed through the enabling power of the Holy Spirit within, which makes Spirit-led living the defining mark of New Covenant sonship, purpose, and protection against religious bondage. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI

HAVE FAITH IN GOD 

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HAVE FAITH IN GOD: FOR NO WORD MEANS NO FAITH – AND NO PLEASING OF GOD! 

“. . . 2 And be not CONFORMED to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may PROVE what is that GOOD, and ACCEPTABLE, and PERFECT, will of God. 3 For I say, through THE GRACE GIVEN unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, ACCORDING as God hath DEALT to every man THE MEASURE OF FAITH” Romans 12:1-3. 

We live in the days of divergent INFORMATION. And information generates what we BELIEVE and our BELIEVING trajectory, which invariably affects either our FAITH toward God or creates in us the attitude of FATE on other things. And INFORMATION is available in almost every facet of our way of doing life for various reasons; and most of the time, the information that is there may lure people away from the TRUTH for purposes intended to make them not HAVE FAITH IN GOD. And unfortunately, that is why the INFORMATION that is available in some sources is not TRANSFORMING and TRANSFORMATIVE for the good of doing life, to lead one to godly living – toward God and FAITH in our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ.  

Suffice it to know that FAITH is not BELIEVE and BELIEVE is not FAITH, though sometimes we use them interchangeably, which does not make spiritual, scriptural sense. FAITH is ACTIVE while BELIEVE is PASSIVE. And FAITH is acting correspondingly or accordingly on what you BELIEVE of and on God’s WORD and SAYINGS in SCRIPTURAL context. 

FAITH comes by the HEARING and CONTINUOUS HEARING of God’s WORD. Faith does not come by HAVING HEARD, for FAITH is NOW and it is ACTIVE and not PASSIVE. It thus means: if FAITH can COME or be activated by the CONTINUOUS HEARING of God’s WORD, it means also FAITH can GO or be inactive due to the lack of REFRESHING of The WORD. Which then indicates that NO WORD means a NO FAITH, and NO PLEASING OF GOD – for FAITH PLEASES God Hebrews 11:6; and the consequence of NO FAITH is emptiness, noise-making, foolishness, stupidity, ignorance and God kept at a distance, for God can not dwell outside His WORD. 

“So then FAITH cometh by HEARING, and HEARING by the WORD of God” Romans 10:17. 

“But WITHOUT FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to [walk with God and] PLEASE Him, for whoever comes [near] to God must [necessarily] BELIEVE that God exists and that He REWARDS those who [EARNESTLY and DILIGENTLY] seek Him” Hebrews 11:6 Amplified. 

Therefore, do yourself a FAVOUR and get back into the CONTINUOUS MOOD and REALM of the HEARING of The WORD of God, and not in stories or comments or analogy or make-believe of men and more, about the WORD. Your happiness and joy are within your reach. Do something about yourself, to ensure your FAITH works for your goodness, graciousness and gracefulness in every way. 

“As he spake these words, many BELIEVED on him. 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which BELIEVED on him, If ye CONTINUE IN MY WORD, then are ye MY DISCIPLES indeed; 32 and ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH shall make you FREE” John 8:30-32. 

I plead with you today and even now to HAVE FAITH IN GOD, for He is GOOD and FAITHFUL, TRUE and SURE to all His PROMISES, toward our path in doing life and living godly, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“So then FAITH cometh by HEARING, and HEARING by the WORD of God” Romans 10:17. 

“But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” Hebrews 11:6. 

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God OVERCOMETH THE WORLD: and this is the victory that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, even our FAITH. 5 Who is he that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:3-5. 

“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath DEALT to every man THE MEASURE OF FAITH” Romans 12:3. 

“. . . 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” Mark 11:12-14, 22-24. 

SUMMARY: 

The message opens with Romans 12:1-3: “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” and “God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” 
Core thesis: Have faith in God: for no Word means no faith — and no pleasing of God [Hebrews 11:6]. Faith is sustained only by continuous hearing of God’s Word. In days of divergent information, only the Word produces transforming faith. 

KEY POINTS 

  1. Diagnosis of the Age: Divergent Information vs Truth
    We live in days of divergent information. Information shapes what we believe and our believing trajectory. That trajectory either builds faith toward God or produces an attitude of fate toward other things. 
    Observation: Most available information lures people away from truth to prevent them from having faith in God. Much of it is not transforming/transformative for godly living. Only God’s Word leads to faith in our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. 
  2. Key Distinction: Faith vs Believe 
    Suffice it to know that faith is not believe and believe is not faith, though we use them interchangeably. 
    Definition: 
  • Believe = passive — mental assent. 
  • Faith = active — acting correspondingly on what you believe of and on God’s Word and sayings in scriptural context. 
    Faith is the obedient response to truth believed. 
  1. Mechanics of Faith: It is “Now” and Sustained by Hearing 
    Romans 10:17: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
    Doctrine: Faith comes by the hearing and continuous hearing of God’s Word. Faith does not come by “having heard” in the past. 
    Implication: If faith can come/activate by continuous hearing of the Word, then faith can also go/be inactive by lack of refreshing of the Word. 
    Formula: No Word = no faith = no pleasing of God. 
    Hebrews 11:6 Amplified: “Without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Consequence of no faith: emptiness, noisemaking, foolishness, stupidity, ignorance, and God kept at a distance, for God cannot dwell outside His Word. 
  2. Pastoral Charge + Application 
    Therefore, do yourself a favour and get back into the continuous mood and realm of the hearing of the Word of God, and not in stories, comments, analogy, or make-believe of men about the Word. 
    Promise: Your happiness and joy are within your reach. Do something about yourself so your faith works for your goodness, graciousness and gracefulness in every way. 
    John 8:30-32: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Freedom, discipleship, and victory come through abiding in the Word. 
  3. Closing Plea + Character of God 
    I plead with you today and even now to have faith in God, for He is good and faithful, true and sure to all His promises, toward our path in doing life and living godly, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 
  4. Scriptural Thoughts Worth Pondering 
    The message reinforces the theology of faith with anchor texts: 
  • Romans 10:17 – Faith comes by hearing the Word 
  • Hebrews 11:6 – Without faith impossible to please God; He rewards diligent seekers 
  • 1 John 5:3-5 – This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith 
  • Romans 12:3 – God has dealt to every man the measure of faith 
  • Mark 11:22-24 – “Have faith in God… believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” — faith speaks + expects 

In one sentence: The message is a warning against information overload without the Word, followed by a call to return to continuous hearing of God’s Word because faith is active, present-tense, and the only way to please God — and it is sustained only by the Word, not by past encounters or men’s opinions. 

This works as a 3-part teaching outline: Problem: Information without Word → Principle: Faith is active + now → Practice: Continue in the Word to please God and overcome the world. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI