Rhapsody of Realities
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome DSc, D.D ;
HE’S YOUR ALL!
(He’s Given You All Things, Including Himself)
TO THE BIBLE 1 Corinthians 3:21-22
“Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.”
LET’S TALK➡
Romans 6:23 (NIV) says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” That’s a fundamental truth of the Gospel: the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ!
However, as you get higher in the understanding of the Gospel, you’d discover that Jesus really doesn’t stand away and give you eternal life; He’s Himself eternal life. In giving you eternal life, He actually gave you Himself.
No wonder, the Apostle Paul, by the Spirit, said, “… all things are yours” (1 Corinthians 3:21). That’s because all things are in Christ, and He’s in you. Therefore, all things are yours, things present and things to come. He couldn’t see anything that wasn’t already yours. The day you come to terms with the fact that all things are yours, it’ll change your thinking and prayer life. You’d stop asking God for things. If it’s true that all things are yours (and it’s true), what then could you possibly be asking for?
Stop praying and asking God for healing; take divine health, for it’s yours in Christ Jesus. If all things are yours because Christ is in you, it means that divine health is already yours; you don’t have to pray or ask for what’s already yours. What you do is to acknowledge what belongs to you (Philemon 1:6); claim ownership of it in your words and actions. That’s how to walk in the Word and in the Spirit; affirming the Word in faith, irrespective and independent of circumstances.
God is your source and your sufficiency. In Him, you have all things. Refuse to be conscious of lack, because in reality, there’s nothing you don’t have. Christ is in you, and Christ is everything. Hallelujah!
Go Deeper?
2 Peter 1:3
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,
Colossians 1:27
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: [a]which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has [a]life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Pray?
Dear Father, I thank you for giving me all things in Christ Jesus. I rejoice, knowing that all my needs are met, because Christ is my source and my sufficiency! He’s my all; in Him I have all I require for life and godliness. Hallelujah!
Daily Bible Reading?
ONE YEAR
Luke 7:36-50, Joshua 1-2
TWO YEAR
Romans 3:26-31, Psalm 98-100
Act▶
Declare what you’ve got in Christ by saying this: “I’m a rich child of a rich God and all things are mine. I’m a joint-heir with Christ and a possessor of all things.”