Thoughts Unto Santification.  Dear Heavenly Father, I Thank You For Grace Unto Repentance And Salvation In The Blood Of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Name, Amen. Father, I Ask For Grace To Be Truly And Increasingly Sanctified Unto You. Father I Ask For A Daily Infilling By The Holy Spirit To Empower Sanctification And Victory Over Myself. Amen.

 HYMN:  Ancient Words

 CHORUS: Adonai I worship You

Our Father, creator of heaven and earth we bless your holy  name. We thank you for the gift of life and this new day you have blessed us with. We declare that you are good and your mercies endure for ever. We thank you for the gift of salvation through Christ Jesus.

 BIBLE TEXTS:

 2 Corinthians 5:17

Romans 12:1- 2                                                                                  Hebrews 4:12   

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.” (2 Corin 5:17 NKJV ).

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life: your sleeping, eating, going-to work, and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (Romans 12:1-2 MESSAGE version).

“For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:8 NKJV)

Good morning brethren, we thank God for His faithfulness and mercies and the RCCG Convention earlier this month. We thank God for the grace to participate and the profound teachings from our father in the Lord; sanctification and being more than conquerors. By His Grace we each enter the new wave of glory. Amen.

 SANCTIFICATION:                                                                                                              This morning let us again pray that we continue to truly be new creatures from the old one that professed unto salvation on meeting with Christ Jesus. And that we are actually set apart unto the Lord.                                                   We are admonished in Romans 12:1-2 to not just flow with culture and generally acceptable practices of our generation, but actively think and choose what is pleasing to God.  There has to be a change from inside out, that is at the level of thoughts.  

 More Than Conqueror:                                                                                                We learnt at the Convention that the greatest victory we each require is not over perceived adversaries, but over SELF! Pride, anger, lusts, greed, gluttony, laziness, flippant talk and wrong attitudes etc etc are all to be conquered.

These are largely issues which may often not be readily evident or recognised by other people. They are birthed and nurtured in the mind, though outward actions may strive, and even go to great lengths to hide them. “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9 NLT.

Thoughts are the fountain, and incubator of all that is against God’s will. Even if negative thoughts remain as such, and are not actually acted out, they can still amount to sin. Unlike human laws and statutes which require actual execution to warrant prosecution and sanctions, that which remains in the heart as negative thoughts still constitute sin before the Lord. “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust for her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart”. Mathew 5:28  

 ACTION:

Sanctification is a lifelong process by the will of God, and through His power.

 ”you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” 1 Cor 6:11

 “just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing if water by the Word,“ Ephesians 5:26

Sanctification and victory over self, cannot be by superhuman effort, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the washing of water with the Word of God. But what is the doing by believer? Apostle Paul provides a good model:

“Not that I have already obtained, or am already perfected, but I press on, that I may lay hold of that which Christ Jesus has already laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Phillipians 3:12-14  

Apostle Paul had a goal: he forgot the past, he took hold, he strained and pressed forward. Paul actively chose to forget the past, ie change his mindset, values, old thought process and focus on his goal. So the Holy Spirit will enable us as we wash in the water of the Word and renew our minds.

Apostle Paul goes on to give good advice in Phil 4:8-9 of what to focus the mind on and do. He enjoins we take him Paul as an example, and do what we learn and receive at the feet of the fathers.”—–whatever things are true, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.”                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      PRAYER

 Father, I thank You for grace unto repentance and salvation in the blood of Jesus Christ. In Jesus name, Amen.

Father, I ask for grace to be truly and increasingly sanctified unto You.

Father, I ask that my mind and thoughts are daily washed and renewed by Your Word. (Phil 5:26, Hebrews 4:8)

Father I ask for a daily infilling by the Holy Spirit to empower sanctification and victory over myself. (Phil 4:8)

Father, thank you for answers to prayers. Amen.

Glory to God! Amen!

Shalom.

Thank You Jesus.

Jesus Loves You.

Father! In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ Your Son! We Cover Your Son Pastor E A Adeboye With The Precious Blood Of Jesus! He Shall Finish Strong, To Your Glory Through Christ Jesus Our Lord And Saviour! Amen!

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God Make His Face Shine Upon Us, And Be Gracious To Us; May The Lord Lift Up His Countenance Upon Us, And Give Us Peace, In Jesus Christ Name, We Pray! Amen!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

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