
“If you cannot imitate Jesus, Do not expect Christ” – Part 2
December 27, 2019
“Do not worry about tomorrow”- Part 1
January 1, 2020
We would not be where we are if it was not for His grace. The bible says “all men have sinned and fallen short of his glory” but His grace gave us boldness and confidence to stand before Him. We can never talk about the year of favor while we don’t talk about grace. Grace allocates and relocates any person. It means when grace finds you, it has the ability to relocate you to the right position. It means where grace found us is not where we were supposed to be, thus, grace located us where we were and brought us to His presence. It is not by our own wisdom that we were able to come to the feet of Jesus, grace allocated us and brought us to His feet. If we say 2020 is a year of favor, we know that grace is unmerited favor, so it means 2020 for us is grace, we are going to see favor which is grace. Grace applies where you do not deserve it.
Sin is not only a deed, when the bible says ‘all men have sinned’ it even refers to those who are going to be born. Anyone who is born out of God without having anyone who connects him to God, they are born as a sinner. So, we are not sinners because of a deed but because of where we are born from, so the biggest sin in the life of a man is not what you did but where we are from. We did not do anything to attain this favor, it is unmerited. If we attain it according to what we did, we become disqualified because we will be going to God with what He didn’t give us but what we created through toil. There are those who create righteousness and holiness through religious acts; do not live righteously because you are trying to be righteous but live righteously because righteousness is in you already. The gift of God is righteousness, so live righteously because of the gift of God in you. The problem is that we try to be righteous, we do not conform to the righteousness that God has given us. This grace has restored us and brought us back to God; this is the only place where there is comfort and there is no judgment, at the feet of Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:16
There are different kinds of favor, the kind of favor you have is determined by the source. When God says to the Israelites, ‘you will receive favor with the Egyptians’, it means when Egypt favors them, it will be because of the favor that He has bestowed on them but when a parent favors one child above the other it is not the favor from God, it is the natural favor and it is influenced by situations that make one child special from another. You find that the parent could not have children before the child that they favor above others. Or while they were pregnant there was a struggle with sickness so that makes them favor that child above other children or sometimes parents just favor a child for the way he or she is, even though they love all their children. There is favor that man can have because of how he looks, does things and speaks but it is not the favor of God. Whenever there is more than one person involved, someone is bound to be favored. When you receive favor from your mother it is not unmerited favor. For you to know the favor of God, is when there is grace in it. The favor of God comes with grace, because you never deserved it, but the favor of men depends on you doing something.
Look at Jacob, he was loved by God before he could even do anything, favor was upon him. But with Jacob and Esau, the other one was loved by the mother and the other one was loved by the father, this is not grace because it was dependent on what they did. Rebecca loved Jacob more than Esau, that is why she advised him to go kill an animal, take its fur and pretend to be Esau before Isaac that he may bless him, so Esau had favor from Isaac. Jacob had favor which is not only from his mother but also from God. Isaac was able to favor and love someone who is not favored by God.
God said, “I love Jacob, I hated Esau” God does not favor you because of your character or that you are a good person, so such favor is called grace. Grace brings you back to the truth, after it allocates you, it places you in the truth. God is proclaiming that 2020 is going to be a year of favor, it means you lacking was a lie, you being sick was a lie so grace is here to allocate you to the truth. What is the truth Pilate asked? People think the truth is only what is said but the truth is your life, how you live. That is why Jesus said, “I am the Truth” He did not mean that He is the one who should be spoken about, but it means how He lives is the truth, His conduct and everything around His life. Grace places you in the truth. You can be far from the truth even though you have not lied with your mouth, but because you are not what you are supposed to be in God.
A lie is not only when you speak lies, you become a liar when you are supposed to be serving and you don’t, you are a liar when you are supposed to be a prophet but you are a teacher. You can be a liar because you are not living a righteous life, not having finances is a lie because God did not create you to not have finances. Adam and Eve lived a lie the moment they were chased out of the Garden, they were created to live in the Garden, not outside of it, they were created for the glory, not to live outside of it. Your body knows it is created for the glory of God, so the moment your body lives out of the glory, it is in a lie. Grace needs to allocate you to the truth.
The problem is that when grace locates us, we want to be relocated in a second. There is a journey to town, Limpopo, Cape Town, Kenya, America, Botswana all of them differ in kilometers. Being relocated does not mean you have arrived; you are still on the way. When God says to you, “my grace is sufficient’ it means that grace is still busy with you. How can you complain while you are on N1 on the way to Cape Town? When grace is busy, let us not be impatient.
When we say some of you it is not time to have money it does not mean you are not suppose to have money, but it means that it is not time. Time and “you do not have to” are not the same things. The Father speaks about the fixed date because no one is created to be poor. Grace wants to take you to what you are created to be financially and all other spheres of life. The reason it is not the fixed date for you to have a car, a house, a business, a job or marriage. While grace is relocating you from short tempter to long suffering and endurance, it cannot allocate you to prosperity at the same time. It needs you to arrive first where you do not have short temper to now take you to prosperity. So, you cannot be on two journeys at the same time, unless it is along the way. Relocation to a righteous life and a prosperous life are in different places, you need to first pass by righteousness before you reach prosperity.
It is possible to go start in Cape Town while God wants you in Limpopo but when you get to Cape Town, you will know that it is impossible to carry on from Cape Town to Limpopo but it is possible to carry on from Limpopo to Cape Town. It is possible to plant trees in Cape Town, it is possible to relocate animals to Cape Town but it is impossible to relocate the sea to Limpopo. So, what I am saying is that, It is possible to enter prosperity with righteousness but it is impossible to enter righteousness with finances. That is why Jesus said it is hard for a rich man to receive the Kingdom of God, it is like a camel having to pass through the eye of a needle.
When the scripture says “with God all things are possible” it means God has to take you somewhere before He can take you to prosperity. Before He gives you prosperity He needs to do something with you, He needs to panel beat your character first. God spoke about favor and how prosperous we are going to be in 2020, how finances are going to come left and right and then He says, “rest in Me, stop worrying’. So you need to pass by the rest of God and get the truth as you are on the way to prosperity, every panel beating operation you are getting now is along the way to prosperity, it is not in a different location. Only grace can take you where God wants you to be, only grace can change your life because of the favor that is in grace.
John 18:37-38
“Everyone who is of truth, who is a friend of the truth, who belongs to the truth hears and listens to My voice” Jesus is the Truth. He has come to show us an example of living. Living a lie is not only when you sin, it is also your lifestyle, when you live in lack. Jesus showed us how to be rich, before crucifixion He was wearing a purple garment which was the garment of royalty. Jesus was wearing an expensive apparel. He had a basket overflowing with finances, but He did not always find a solution in money even though He had money.
To show someone does not deserve money you see them buying their way into things they should wait patiently on God for. Jesus did not depend on finances, but He depended solely on the power of God, not what is in His pockets. The truth is not to have money but to live in the fullness of God. Let us take a little moment of introspection; are you walking with the truth? Do you bear witness to the truth? Are you the truth? It is a lie for you to be sick, poor and live an earthly life. The truth is not only spoken. It is also a lie for you to have money when God does not want you to have it and to work when God does not want you to work.
You need to be in the truth, you need to be a friend of the truth and hear the truth. The truth is in God, it is the very mind and will of God. Some people their marriages and partners are a lie. They are not in the truth, they are not living in the truth, that is why they are always fighting. A fight is not you in a fight, but it is God fighting. God cannot contradict Himself, a lie and the truth can never agree. That is why there is always disagreement in some marriages, it is because there is a lie and the truth. One is a husband and the other one is a baby or one is a wife and the other is a baby, one is in truth and the other is in a lie. There is no discernment out of the truth, there is only blindness. Where there is no truth, there is no vision. When you live a lie you live in darkness, truth is light. Do you want to know where your marriage, career or spiritual life is going? Be in the truth, in the truth there is vision, everything becomes clear because life is in the truth.
Am I identifying a lie in you? The truth exposes lies. This is what we mean when we say grace allocates you, it allocates you to the truth. You are more than what you have become. What you have become is a lie but what you are is the truth. There is no one greater between a prophet and a teacher but when a teacher becomes a prophet, he becomes lesser than what he used to be before. There is no competition in God, but a lie can never compete with the truth, two people can be prophets while the other is not supposed to be; one becomes bigger because he is in the truth and the other is in a lie.
Truth is quiet but a lie makes noise. Most people become broke again after encountering fortune in money because they are trying to prove to someone that they have money. Some people are channeled by their communities on what to buy, where to go and what to wear. Do not be like that, it is not because they love it or want it. Live in the truth, there are people who cannot restart in life when they have to, because of status, they have come to be known in a certain way, so they cannot humble themselves and start from the bottom.
If in 2019 you were living in a lie, in 2020 you are only going through with the truth. Leave everything that is a lie in 2019, cross with the truth. Romans 1:25 reads ‘they have exchanged the truth for a lie. A lie can look like truth when accommodated the more people accept it and welcome it, it becomes as if it is the truth. The world accommodates a lie and opens a door for it. You not having money can be accommodated and welcomed but something has to change it and take it back to the truth of how God has created us to be. The people in the Bible were businesspeople, only Philemon was an employee. The book of Deuteronomy wants you in the position of a head, you must employ the world, not your brother, you and him must co-own and cooperate, use your company to evangelize.
John 17:17
“Sanctify them, purify, consecrate, separate them from yourself, make them holy by the truth. Your Word is truth”
Only the truth can perfect you, the truth sets you free, so many people are not free because they are not in the truth. Be in the truth, that truth is the Word. Let it allocate you and place you in the right position and enter 2020 in the truth. The life which you were living which was a lie is no more. Don’t live a lie, be where God wants you to be. Peace is found in the truth; you can go and be a CEO and not find joy but resign and become an usher and find pure joy. Find peace in God, don’t live in a lie. If God wants you to serve, live for God. If God wants you to be a prisoner, be that, chains are what comforts you. You are here because you are a prisoner. Live in the truth and let the truth allocate you, the truth is drawing you back to Christ. God will find you in that false career, business, relationship, marriage, from wrong friends and allocate you to the truth.
Crossover with the mentality that when God speaks, you will run and do. 2020 is yours, the favor of God is with you, these are the stops we are going through on our way to favor. God will release the holy havoc, that will cause confusion to the world, now we are entering it physically. It won’t be a taste of a glimpse anymore, it will be the real thing, favor upon favor. It is favor, favor!
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