TO THE BIBLE: 1 John 5:11-12

“And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

LET’S TALK

Some young people get initiated as members of gangs, secret cults, and societies, because they believe they can get something more than the natural human life in such groups. They engage in all kinds of vices and nefarious activity, believing that they will give them the edge. However, no one needs to join such groups to obtain supernatural powers or influence. Indeed, there’s a life beyond the ordinary human life, and that’s the God-life found only in Christ! Jesus brought this life and immortality to light through the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:10).

In John 5:26, He declared, “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself.” The life Jesus is referring to here is the God-life! You only find this life when you make Jesus Christ Lord of your life. It’s the life He had when He walked the face of the earth, and He had the fullness of it in Him (Colossians 1:19). This God-life is a special kind of life. It’s the life that, if anyone would have, he would live forever. It’s a life that dominates sickness and disease, and reigns over the devil; it’s the miracle-life of God.

However, this life is only for those who have received Christ Jesus: If you believe that God raised Jesus back to life, and have confessed Him as your Lord and Saviour, you’ll have this same life. This new divine life of God in you completely supplants the human life with which you were born of your parents; it’s a life beyond this world!

Go Deeper

John 3:16, John 20:31; 1 John 5:11-12

Pray

I’m conscious of the life of God in me. I live above sickness, disease, poverty, pain, and the devil, in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Daily Bible Reading

ONE YEAR

John 14:15-31, 1 Chronicles 1-2

TWO YEAR

Mark 14:1-11, Numbers 32

Act

Tell your friends about this special life you have. And if they aren’t born again, tell them about Jesus and lead them to salvation, so they too can have this same life.

TO THE BIBLE: 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

LET’S TALK

2 Corinthians 5:17 is God’s sovereign declaration and revelation of the new person in Christ. Let’s look at this verse a little more closely. First, it says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ….” “Anyone” means any person at all, regardless of who they are or what they’ve done. The moment you’re in Christ, in God’s mind, you’re a new creation without a past. Notice it doesn’t say, “he will be a new creation”; instead, it says, “…he is a new creation….” This isn’t a promise; it’s a statement of fact, a present-hour reality. If you’re in Christ, you’re a new creation NOW!

You’re not a reworked, renewed, or refurbished creation; you were born afresh, without a past! You’ve been baptised into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13). It doesn’t matter whether or not you feel so; that’s God’s sovereign declaration of you, because you’re a new creation in Christ.

Your spirit, through faith in Christ Jesus, has been recreated, and you’re now the righteousness of God in Him. Therefore, you can declare boldly that you’re the righteousness of God. You’ve got the same life and nature with God now! And that nature has produced in you the rightness of God–the ability to do right and be right, and fulfill the Father’s will. In 1 John 4:17, the Bible says, “…as He is, so are we in this world”; you’re already like Him today, because He’s in you and you’re in Him.

Go Deeper

Romans 6:4; Galatians 3:27-29

Speak

I’m a new creation in Christ: old things are passed away, and all things have become new. I’m what God says I am, I have what God says I have, and as Jesus is, so am I in this world! Glory to God!

Daily Bible Reading

ONE YEAR

John 4:27-54, 1 Kings 2-3

TWO YEAR

Mark 9:2-13, Numbers 12

Act

Listen and meditate on the message titled, “How To Have A Great Day.”