MONTH SEPTEMBER 2026 ENTITLED: “GROWING IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST! 

The Month of September 2026 is the MONTH OF BUTTERFLYING IN THE GRACE; it is the month to answer these questions here, though not limited to them: WHY GO PURSUING AFTER THE BUTTERFLY, WHEN YOU CAN CULTIVATE [CREATE AND CURATE] YOUR GARDEN WITHIN YOU BY GROWING YOUR PLANT – AND THE BUTTERFLIES WILL COME TO YOU, TO MAKE YOU BUTTERFLYING? THINK! 

I know that my God and your God, in Christ Jesus, wants to put an end to your aimlessness, sweating, depression, struggling, tiredness and such like. Hence I am using metaphor to illustrate to you what this Month is all about for you. A month of GROWTH and FRUITFULNESS that is ENTITLED: “GROWING IN THE GRACE & KNOWLEDGE IN CHRIST!” 

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU A PERSONAL LIFE STORY AS A METAPHOR TO THIS MONTH THEME. 

I found out just before I got married to my virtuous wife that everything around her showed signs of the butterfly, especially in her drawings. I thought is because of her tendency towards being a graphic designer and communicator. In closer observation, I also found out that the pendant on her necklace was most times with a butterfly, and sometimes on the bangles on her hand. There was a butterfly on top of the bangles. I never knew then that she was telling a storyline of saying, I am matured and ready to fly as a Butterfly. Now I know, without asking her for explanation. 

However, I didn’t read much meaning into it then, apart from saying, “OK, that’s what ladies like.” And in the course of getting married and planning for our wedding, I noticed that she was so insistent that the card be designed with a butterfly, and that the decorations would follow along the same line. There were others I cannot recall fully well now. I used to just say “butterfly lady” without reading meaning into it, but I observed it. And eventually, that’s what was done. 

I’ve thought of lots of things that had to do with the butterfly around her. I couldn’t understand fully well then what it meant. I later found out, in the course of researching in recent times, as I’ve been thinking about growth and fruitfulness and development and fulfilment in life and knowledge, and in many thoughts – That’s when the concept of the butterfly came alive again. While I was analysing, I realised there are four stages of growth and development in the becoming of the Butterfly – to BUTTER-FLY indeed in glory and beauty and grace. 

Although I knew something about the Butterfly in my Secondary School days as a student of Biology and Agricultural Science, before heading for Engineering – I didn’t think much about it as I have thought about the Butterfly at this period of my life, from a spiritual perspective. The butterfly has four stages of life: the time of the Egg, the time of the Larva [Caterpillar], the Pupa [Chrysalis], and eventually the formation of the Butterfly – the final stage. These stages or phases are signs of growth, signs of progressive changes. It is what is called metamorphosis – into what we want to become, as most of us want to become something in life and grace, in the grace. 

Let us consider a Butterfly in respect of growth and development in STAGES [PHASES]: 

A butterfly develops through four distinct life stages in a PROCESS called complete metamorphosis. This total transformation takes about one month to complete the cycle: 

THE FOUR STAGES ARE: 

1.The “Egg” Stage: 

Female butterflies lay tiny, round or oval eggs on plant leaves. These leaves will serve as food when the young hatch. 

2. The “Larva [Caterpillar]” Stage: 

A hungry caterpillar emerges to eat leaves and grow. It sheds its tight skin several times as its body gets bigger. 

3. The “Pupa [Chrysalis]” Stage: 

The full-grown caterpillar forms a hard shell called a chrysalis. Inside this shell, its body changes completely into a winged insect. 

4. The “Adult [Butterfly]” Stage: 

The adult insect breaks out of the chrysalis. It rests while its wet wings dry and fill with fluid before it flies away. 

The metaphoric writ is not about the Butterfly, but about YOU – to think and to derive something that will cause you to dream, to have a desire, to have a vision, and to understand that there is a process to becoming as a born-of –God child in Christ Jesus’ stead. Unfortunately, like the Butterfly, most people do not want to go through any processes to their becoming. They want to wake up one morning and just become – which is not only an illusion but has brought many to a place of delusion. 

But those who are wise take the path of growth to fruitfulness, by undergoing a process that will process them into becoming and has processed them into what they have BECOME. The wise know that when they are processed, and get to their place of becoming, they are solid, they are efficient, they are strong, they are competent, they are diligent, they are prudent. They have worth, they have quality and they are principled to the how of doing life and living godly, in the grace, in Christ Jesus’ stead. 

That’s why sometimes, you may be wondering, “Why is that person so stable and I am not stable?” The first thing you will want to ask yourself is: Did you follow through a PROCESS to arrive at the point you are at? Did you go through a PROCESS in life in that marital state? Did you go through a PROCESS in your educational career, in that degree course? Did you go through the PROCESS, or did you just ARRIVE or buy your way into the present point of your life right now without any process? 

For a butterfly to become a butterfly, there is a process to go through to come to that point. 

different phase in my life, a place of beauty and glory. A time to fly and display what I am made of, what I have been processed into. 

That’s why growth is so important to our fruitfulness in life and grace. And when you GROW as a Believer in God by God’s Word, in GRACE and in KNOWLEDGE, in Christ Jesus, in respect and context of this Month of September theme in Christ Jesus — you don’t just grow for nothing, but your growth makes you become in fruitfulness. 

Hence, I am persuaded and I am persuading you to see the need for GROWTH and FRUITFULNESS. For your growing in the grace, and growing in the knowledge in Christ Jesus, takes you out of struggle, religion, sectarianism, traditions and such like creeds and bondages that many have been addicted to, instead of growing. 

For if you are not growing, you will be stunted and withered with time. 

Because it is growth and fruitfulness, you radiate, you rekindle, you rejuvenate, you blossom and you refresh effortlessly. 

When you are processed into becoming, it will be said of you as was said of the Apostles and disciples in the early days — when the people analysed the whole process, they said, “This person,” “these people” are different, unique and peculiar — just as they said of the apostles, “they have been with Jesus,” as a mark of their uniqueness. 

These people that turned the world upside down, there was something unique about their lives, because they had been with Jesus. 

You will find out that the epitome of what you are trying to bring forth and show forth is that great bright light, that beauty you want to display — being grown in grace and knowledge in Christ Jesus, and not in yourself or in someone else. 

They will see — that behind it, before it, around it, within it — is the beauty of Jesus, the beauty of Christ. 

Like somebody trying to squeeze you in life, what you radiate, the aroma that comes from you, the fragrance, the beauty — what comes out of you is just Jesus, and nothing else. You just ooze out that glory, that beauty of life. 

When the butterfly is processed into a butterfly, through stage after stage, and when it is ready to fly, fully grown — some of us, like me as a growing child, tried to catch them. We would run after them. 

I can remember growing up as a child, during primary school, at break time. We would go out to play. We would see butterflies flying around, and we would try to capture them. Sometimes we succeeded, sometimes we didn’t. We burned energy, we burned time during that break, chasing butterflies of different sizes and colours and beauty. Some of us who were able to bring one into the classroom, we were all happy for him or her. And if you were not able, you kept on trying the next time. It was just beautiful, just to watch butterflies fly around. 

And when I look today, in the course of this month’s theme we have — if I want to come to that place of butterflies, I have to cultivate the garden. 

So when I look at my family, at the garden my wife has made today, where we’ve spent most of the summer outdoors, it is such a welcoming and relaxing and beautiful and healthy place to be — and it is simply because of the upgrade she has made it become. This summer was uniquely different, and so we spent most of our time outdoors in the beautiful garden. 

Now, whether at sunrise or late evening, you can see lots and lots of butterflies of various species flying around the garden, displaying their character and beauty and glory. The bees were not left out either, as they display what it means to pollinate plants to produce fruit and flowers — the bees are there flying from plant to plant, helping with the pollination of the fruit plants that are there, and the flowers that are there. 

I just love the beauty of beholding the garden through the kitchen window, especially with my eyes focusing on the butterflies in various places. It makes my mind reflect on the butterflies and bees and other insects in the Garden of Eden. I can imagine how beautiful it was to see butterflies, and bees pollinating — every creature doing its bit. 

The butterfly makes me realise even more that there is something about each one of us and our uniqueness: We are like a seed. And for us to bring forth the beauty we have, we need to GROW. For us to grow, we have to be planted. We need to have a good, natural environment for that butterfly nature in us to come out. We need to grow into it. 

And when you GROW through the process into your butterfly life, in the grace and in the knowledge of Christ Jesus, there is something different about you. 

But if you do it in haste, to become it overnight, the Scriptural writ says, “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent” — Proverbs 28:20. 
I say it again: He that is in haste to be rich shall not be innocent. 

That is why I love the scripture of Proverbs 11:11, and Proverbs 16:5: _ “He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.” _ 

There are Believers out there who will intentionally break laws, who will break rules in order to achieve their objectives. And there are people like that in the house of God, who just break the governing rules and governing laws and bypass the process to get to their desires. All they care about is, “I want to have a car, I want to have a house, I want to possess possessions,” without minding the consequences. 

When you trace the effects of the breaking of God’s Word, some people will say, “It is the end that justifies the means.” Unfortunately for them, in the context of the Kingdom, the process of acquiring what you want matters, and that is what justifies a child of God in grace and knowledge in Christ Jesus’ stead. 

If it is acquired by oppressing others, you are an oppressor. If you obtain what you obtain by intimidating others, you are not of God. You may have it, yes, but the Bible says, “The wicked shall not go unpunished” — and whatever you possess, you will not have peace, because “There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked” — Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:21. 

But when you are processed to acquire what you want to acquire as a child of God, you are stable in your faith. You can call upon God, and He will be there for you. You are not afraid, you are not ashamed, because you know how you got there. If men applaud you for being there, you should know what it means, but if God approves you to be there, it is a different thing altogether — Acts 2:22; 2 Timothy 2:15.  

Therefore, in this month of September, the month of GROWING IN THE GRACE AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS, it is my earnest wish that, as a living plant, for you to attract your butterflies — and also as a seed, you need to grow to attract butterflies — you ensure that you are in good soil. That is your heart. So that your exposure will give you all the space for you to grow, and eventually, the butterflies will come. 

The butterfly will come to the garden to display its grace and to multiply too. The butterfly is always attracted to plants, and it will help with flowering, beautifying, and such like. 

I want you to know this, which is true: that every seed can become a forest by growing in the grace and knowledge of God — not in religion, not in dogma, not in tradition, not in the definition of men, but in the wisdom, and the power, and the Holy Spirit of God. 

And as a living seed, you have to be planted to grow up in the grace and knowledge of Christ Jesus, so that you can FLOURISH in the courts of our God. Don’t be a potted plant, but be a planted plant. It is in being planted that you can flourish to ensure God’s RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Growth in the grace and knowledge in Christ Jesus is a life that is without limitations, and it is irrespective of all ages. Fruitfulness is for all to ensure through Growing. 

Then your butterflies will come instead of you pursuing after the butterflies. 

God bless! 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH READING AND PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“So, beloved, since you are looking forward to these things, be diligent and make every effort to be found by Him [at His return] spotless and blameless, in peace [that is, inwardly calm with a sense of spiritual well-being and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him]. 15 And consider the patience of our Lord [His delay in judging and avenging wrongs] as salvation [that is, allowing time for more to be saved]; just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him [by God], 16 speaking about these things as he does in all of his letters. In which there are some things that are difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable [who have fallen into error] twist and misinterpret, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 Therefore, [let me warn you] beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the ERROR of UNPRINCIPLED men [who distort doctrine] and fall from your own steadfastness [of mind, knowledge, truth, and faith], 18 but GROW [SPIRITUALLY MATURE] IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. To Him be glory (honor, majesty, splendor), both now and to the day of eternity. Amen” 2 Peter 3:14-18/Amplified. 

“And now I COMMEND you to God [placing you in His protective, loving care] and [I commend you] to THE WORD OF HIS GRACE [the counsel and promises of His unmerited favor]. His grace is able to BUILD YOU UP and to GIVE YOU the [rightful] inheritance among all those who are sanctified [that is, among those who are set apart for God’s purpose—all believers]” Acts 20:32/Amplified. 

“But my horn [my emblem of strength and power] You have exalted like that of a wild ox; I am anointed with fresh oil [for Your service]. 11 My eye has looked on my foes; My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me. 12 The righteous will flourish like the date palm [long-lived, upright and useful]; They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic and stable]. 13 Planted in the house of the Lord, They will flourish in the courts of our God. 14 [Growing in grace] they will still thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age; They will flourish and be vital and fresh [rich in trust and love and contentment]; 15 [They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises]; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. [Rom 9:14]” Psalms 92:10-12. 

“Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 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. 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, ADD TO YOUR FAITH virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to KNOWLEDGE self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be NEITHER BARREN NOR UNFRUITFUL IN THE KNOWLEDGE of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even MORE DILIGENT to make your call and election sure, for if you DO these things you will NEVER stumble; 11 for so an ENTRANCE will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” 2 Peter 1:1-11. 

“Jesus answered and said to them, “YOU ARE MISTAKEN, not KNOWING the Scriptures nor the POWER of God” Matthew 22:29. 

“Hear the word of the Lord, You children of Israel, For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is NO TRUTH OR MERCY OR KNOWLEDGE of God in the land . . . 6 MY PEOPLE are DESTROYED for lack OF KNOWLEDGE. Because you have REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have FORGOTTEN the law of your God, I also will forget your children” Hosea 4:1, 6. 

“13 Therefore MY PEOPLE have gone into CAPTIVITY, Because they have NO KNOWLEDGE; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it. 15 People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled” Isaiah 5:13-15. 

“Now so it was that after three days they found Him [Jesus] in the temple, SITTING in the MIDST of the TEACHERS, both LISTENING to them and ASKING them questions . . . 52 And Jesus INCREASED in WISDOM and STATURE [PHYSIQUE], and in FAVOUR with God and men” Luke 2:46, 52. 

SUMMARY: 
This message is a prophetic charge for SEPTEMBER 2026 entitled: “GROWING IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST” — a month of BUTTERFLING IN THE GRACE. 

Using the butterfly and the garden as a living metaphor, it calls every born-again believer to embrace PROCESS over HASTE, and to grow into fruitfulness in Christ Jesus. 

KEY POINTS: 

1. THE BUTTERFLY METAPHOR: PROCESS PRODUCES MANIFESTATION

• A butterfly goes through 4 stages: Egg → Larva/Caterpillar → Pupa/Chrysalis → Adult Butterfly. This is called complete metamorphosis and takes time. 

• The story of your wife’s wedding — the butterfly on the card, jewellery, and decor — was a prophetic picture: “I am matured and ready to fly.” A wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime phase of beauty, glory, and display. 

• Application: You cannot skip the process and still carry the glory. What is done in secret in the chrysalis is what is displayed in public. 

2. WHY PEOPLE STRUGGLE: THEY WANT TO BECOME WITHOUT PROCESS

• Many want to wake up and “just become.” That is illusion and leads to delusion. 

• The wise take the path of growth. Processing makes you solid, efficient, strong, competent, diligent, prudent, principled. 

• Self-check questions: Did you follow a PROCESS in marriage, education, career, or ministry? Or did you just ARRIVE or buy your way there? 

• Scripture warning: “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent” — Proverbs 28:20. “He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread” — Proverbs 11:11.  

3. THE DANGER OF BYPASSING GOD’S PROCESS

• Some in the house of God break rules, oppress, and intimidate just to “possess possessions.” 

• “It is the end that justifies the means” is not Kingdom logic. In the Kingdom, the process matters. 

• Consequence: “The wicked shall not go unpunished” and “There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked” — Isaiah 48:22; 57:21. 

• God-processed people are stable. They are not afraid or ashamed because they know how they got there. Men may applaud, but God’s approval is different — Acts 2:22; 2 Tim 2:15. 

4. GROWTH IN GRACE & KNOWLEDGE = FREEDOM & FRUITFULNESS

• Growing in grace and knowledge in Christ Jesus delivers you from struggle, religion, sectarianism, tradition, and bondage. 

• Without growth you become stunted and withered. With growth you radiate, rekindle, rejuvenate, blossom, and refresh effortlessly. 

• Like the apostles, people will say of you: “They have been with Jesus.” Your life will ooze the aroma, fragrance, and beauty of Christ. 

5. CULTIVATE YOUR GARDEN, DON’T CHASE BUTTERFLIES

• Personal testimony: Your wife’s garden this summer attracted many butterflies and bees because it was cultivated and upgraded. 

• Truth: Butterflies are attracted to planted, flowering gardens. They help with pollination and beauty. 

• Application: You are a seed. To bring forth beauty you must be planted in good soil — your heart. Don’t be a potted plant. Be a planted plant so you can FLOURISH in the courts of our God — Psalms 92:13-14. 

• Every seed can become a forest by growing in the wisdom, power, and Holy Spirit of God, not in religion, dogma, or men’s definition. 

6. SCRIPTURAL ANCHORS FOR THE MONTH

• 2 Peter 3:14-18: “But GROW in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Be diligent, not carried away by error. 

• Acts 20:32: “The word of His grace is able to build you up and give you inheritance.” 

• 2 Peter 1:5-8: Add virtue, knowledge, self-control… “For if these things abound in you, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful.” 

• Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 5:13: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” 

CALL TO ACTION: 

1. DECIDE TO GROW: Be intentional about growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ Jesus through God’s Word and the Holy Spirit. 
2. EMBRACE THE PROCESS: Don’t take shortcuts. Allow God to process you through every stage so your becoming will be stable and God-approved. 
3. CULTIVATE YOUR HEART/GARDEN: Get into good soil. Create an environment of prayer, Word, obedience, and the Spirit. Stop pursuing the butterfly — become the garden and the butterflies will come to you. 
4. REJECT HASTE & COMPROMISE: Don’t break Kingdom principles to get results. Fruit without process has no peace. 
5. PURPOSE TO FLOURISH: Be planted, not potted. Grow without limitations at any age so you can bear fruit, display glory, and reflect Jesus. 

God’s desire for you this month: To put an end to aimlessness, sweating, and struggling. To bring you into a season of GROWTH and FRUITFULNESS where you BUTTERFLY in grace — beautiful, stable, fruitful, and full of the aroma of Christ. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI