Faith In The Lord Jesus Christ

By Pastor M. Isi Eromosele

The first doctrinal principle is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

“Having faith in Christ includes having a firm belief that He is the Only Begotten Son of God and the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Our doctrine teaches that we can return to live with our Heavenly Father only by relying on His Son’s grace and mercy. When we have faith in Christ, we accept and apply His Atonement and His teachings. We trust Him and what He says. We know that He has the power to keep His promises. Heavenly Father blesses those who have faith to obey His Son. …

“We believe in Christ, and we believe that He wants us to keep all His Commandments. We want to show our faith by obeying Him. …

“… Through our faith in Jesus Christ, He can heal us, both physically and spiritually.”

My dear friends, take a minute now and concentrate on your own faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as I ask you a few questions:

1. Are you happy with the direction of your life and the depth of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?

2. Do you love God with all of your heart, soul, strength, and mind, as the Lord taught the lawyer in Luke 10:27?

3. Are you doing the simple things in your everyday life?

a. Are you saying your prayers every morning and every night?

b. Are you reading every day from the Holy Scriptures?

c. Are you using appropriate language?

d. Are you being honest?

e. Are you living the Word of Wisdom?

4. Are you being kind and thoughtful of the needs of those around you?

5. Are you following the counsel of the Bible that you must always forgive those who have offended you?

6. Are you living worthy of a temple recommend?

7. Are you actively participating in your Sunday meetings, especially sacrament meeting—partaking of the sacrament worthily and renewing your covenants with the Lord?

8. Are you returned missionaries maintaining the dignity of a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ in your dress and in your personal demeanor?

9. Are you preparing for and actively pursuing finding your eternal companion?

Are you really looking for a companion who loves the Lord and honors His holy name?

10. Those of you who are married, are prayer nights a regular occurrence as you continue to build and strengthen your relationship?

There are other things, of course, that I could add to this list. However, if you are seriously striving to do your best to follow Christ, then you can answer questions like these with a resounding Yes!

As you have thought today about your personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, is there anything in your life now that you know is not what you want it to be? Is there anything that you know in your heart is not consistent with one who has real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?

Pastor M. Isi Eromosele is a part of the Leadership Pastors at God’s Intervention Center in New York. He is also the Founder and CEO of Oseme Group, a global management consulting company based in New York City.

Divine Progression By Faith

By Pastor ChyChy Ayodele

Today, every believer saved from this world stands at this cross road. We have to make up our minds and advance in God and come to the fullness of God’s salvation, His redemption. The only reason most believers make no progress is unbelief. And if they continue in unbelief, they will not only stagnate, they will fall back into perdition (Hebrew 10:38-39).

The only safe state for a believer is progression by faith. Never stand still until you enter your rest (Hebrew 4:9-11). If you are not advancing, progressing, growing steadily into Christ and departing more from the flesh, the world, sin and the natural, then you are in unbelief. And unbelief is sin, unbelief is rebellion.

Unbelief means you are hardening your heart, resisting God, stopping His actions and stopping the work of the spirit in your life. Conversely, faith unleashes the spirit of God within you. Faith is the victory for you.

If you stay in Faith you will make the steady progression in God until you come to the fullness... the salvation, the redemption. You have to believe God in spite of the odds, in spite of how seemingly weak we are to resist the devil and overcome, die to the flesh.

Since God said it, then believe it. He said crucify, mortify the flesh, sin shall not have dominion over you, by His stripes you are healed, you have been delivered from the power of darkness etc.

By divine progression, you step into the realm of God. You step into the outer court. Here you are just flesh, born again, introduced into spirit. But here, you are still flesh-ruled, following every impulse, struggling with sin, unable to say no to sin and devil, still suffering bondage, too weak to drive out demons.

Most believers live here, freely co-exist with sin, traits of worldly lives of sin, no evidence of change, having flesh to fight with, living so in the flesh.

Holy Place

In the Old Testament temple given by God's design the outer court is not floored, or cemented or paved. The floor is dirt, earth and mud etc. Those who live there walk in the flesh, they are in contact with earth, dirt, flesh, dust and in this world, sin.

To get to the holy place, there is a layer of big bowl of water and the altar of blood sacrifice. The altar of sacrifice is where you advance if you want to depart from the outer court. You get sprinkled with the blood.

Blood sanctifies you, cleanses you, then you proceed to the bowl of water, actually applying the Word to clean up and wash your life, purify your walk. Believers must apply the Word directly to their lifestyles, their earth walk, they must separate from the world and climb up. There is a climbing to do to get up, this symbolises prayer and the Word.

Having applied the Word you enter into the prayer life by Baptism of the Spirit. Then you will enter Spirit worship that releases such divine presence over your life. You become a lot stronger here, far away from the outer court believer, but your journey is not over yet. Outer court dwellers live here. They have some victory but at a great cost.

The Holy Of Holies (The Most Holy Place)

Unlike the holy place where you have flesh plus spirit duality, here its all spirit, all God. You are dead to flesh and to works, self, effort, exertion, in the presence of God. In the most Holy place you meet the Shekinah glory, the full presence, the total manifest presence, All God.

You do your part which is simply to abide there, not by striving, sweating, but by yielding to the spirit. The simplicity here is incredible, almost fantastic, too easy, yet the most difficult for our human souls who believe in earning by effort. But God said be still, yield. He kills your flesh; you enter into His own strength and relinquish your own. You are in the strength of God's glory.

Here, you are not using formula, principles, work, labour, effort as in the holy place. You are simply yielding and this is Grace. 

You must enter this realm ferociously, fervently, pressing until you enter the rest.This is the sweetness of Grace, this is the beauty of Grace. Once the soul learns how to live here, the simplicity is amazing, the ease is unbelievable. 

The supernatural is normal. God is a constant flow, no coming out of Him. Once the soul enters here, it enters the school of the spirit, here it must be schooled in the way of the spirit.

Only believe! Which is all God requires. It is by Faith.

Pastor ChyChy Ayodele is the President and Pastor of Supernatural Life Ministries Global in Abuja, Nigeria. She is also a Lawyer, a Gospel Singer, a Christian Publisher and a Motivational Speaker.