WORTHY OF ETERNAL LIFE

By Brother Godwin

Beloved,

Main Scripture: Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles (Acts 13:46WEB).

I want to give praise to our Father for keeping us during the past seven months of 2011. He keeps covenant, and can be depended on. I will encourage us to take time out to praise him in this new month in line with Psalms 81:3-5 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. This is an instruction with benefits. Do you desire to have a testimony in August 2011? God ordained praise as the sickle of harvest.

Our Father is not a man that lies. If God has any issue, it is with our faith in his ability. He has no issue with the devil because that has been permanently defeated. God has no issue with our challenges because he has made all the provision we need to be on top of them. It is our faith that is the question. Here what God said inPsalms 81:13-16 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.  The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever.  He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.The same thing was said in Isaiah 48:18-19. So the issue is how much we pay attention to God and what He said; how much we live the Word of God.

Did you notice our main scripture? Those people considered themselves unworthy of eternal life? Now you need to put off your religious cloak to receive this. You and I need to consider ourselves worthy of eternal life. Worthy means “to have worth or merit or value”. It means “meriting respect”. This means we need to consider ourselves as meriting eternal life: God’s kind of life. This means you merit to stay healthy and healed; you as a child of God merit to be prosperous; you merit to be free from any molestation of the enemy; you merit to live the way God lives. This means we do not beg. Now I did not say this. The Bible did. If you understand the mystery of identity with Jesus Christ, then it will not be difficult to accept. As Christians, we were crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20); we died with Christ (Romans 6:8, Colossians 2:20); we are risen with Christ (Colossians 3:1) and we are quickened (made alive) with Christ (Ephesians 2:5). So whatever Jesus Christ did, we were there. But we need to reckon or identify with it (Romans 6:11).

Another concept that relates to this is the Christian as the righteousness of God. Jesus became sin so that we may become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). Righteousness means right standing with God. This means we have rights in the kingdom of God. We have the right to be healed. We have the right to be delivered. We have the right to prosper spirit soul and body. We have the right to be free. We have the right to carry and manifest God’s presence.  The right was procured by the price Jesus paid. When you know you have a right, you should consider yourself worthy. What are you waiting for? Insist on your right until you can handle it. We boldly go to the throne and demand for our rights (Hebrews 4:16).

I will encourage you to check the scriptures in this write up and take time to meditate on them.

Friend, consider that you merit eternal life (God’s kind of life) because the price was fully paid.

 Your set time of favour has come.