Communion Christian Centre on ‘My Church and I (Father’s instructions II)’. Acts 20:32
The reason why I’m teaching this is to help you work in the light of certain miracles that are domiciled in a local assembly or in the body of Christ. Your inheritance is not outside the body of Christ. It is among those who are sanctified. Your best of friends should be those who are sanctified. Acts 20:32. In the body of Christ, the head (Christ) is what makes us identify the body. Job 32:8. Your body doesn’t go anywhere if it is not concluded in your head.
There is no advancement that you will experience in your life if it is not coming from Christ. If you are persecuted just like Saul was persecuting the Church, Jesus Christ showed up and said, “why are you persecuting me?”. So it means that whatever affects the body affects the head. It doesn’t just affect the head, it affects every part of the body. If any part of the body is injured, the whole body is affected, because of just one finger that is wounded, the whole part of the body can be experiencing pain. The pain is distributed to all parts of the body from the head. Decisions are made in the head. Where the head goes, the body goes.
That is why the Bible says husband should love their wives as Christ loves the Church. He dictates the tune; we follow Him. If you are born again, you belong to the family of God, which is the body of Christ. Head is the provider for the body. The reason why you have to do your business is because you are thinking of it in your head. You are taking care of a part of the body, it is in your head. We carry the face of Christ. In II Corinthians 3:18, it says but we all (The body of Christ) with unveiled face (The face of Christ) beholding as in a mirror.. so if you don’t look through His lens, you won’t see anything in the mirror. The mirror is God’s word.
The mirror is what shows you and creates a perfect law of liberty showing you what your destiny looks like. Beholding in a mirror gives you audacity to approach matters of life. The body of Christ are believers who are spiritual. The responsibility of the body is in the head, not in the body. Anybody going against you is going against Christ. God told Abraham, I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. God takes ownership of your life. Your identity is in Him. The glory of the body is from the Head.
Galatians 6:1…it says if any man be found in a fault, you that are spiritual, restore him. Your neighbour’s matter is not to be broadcast. That is not love. All of us have weaknesses or vulnerabilities, so if you don’t pray for your brother who is going astray or found in a fault as a spiritual person, you don’t understand convenant. The glory of God is resident in the body, not in a person. A single person cannot bring down the body of Christ no matter how giant the person is in the things of the Spirit. That is why if a great person in the Spirit is called to glory, the body still continues.
Always prioritize the gathering of the Saints; gathering with your brother and sister, because that is where your inheritance lies. Gathering of the Saints is a priority in the Kingdom of God. When Saints gather, great things happen even in the Scriptures. You cannot be pumping in and strolling out of a family or local assembly and lay claim of the inheritance of that local assembly. You have to belong to the family.. you have to be a member that is rooted. You can’t go to a family and claim their inheritance..first of all, you are not bearing that family’s name, secondly, they don’t know you so there is a consistent appearance and service that makes you a bonafide member of that family.
You must be aware of your role in your local assembly. They include:
1) Your role in your local assembly is that you are a son. The Kingdom is the Kingdom of father and sons. Don’t ever get to a point that you are too familiar with grace and anointing. Those that tried it with Moses had issues. Judas also did it, getting familiar with the anointing of Jesus, it didn’t end well for him. Elymas got familiar with the anointing and got blind. Acts 13:9-11. You are a son and behave like a son. You are not a charlatan who talks against the body.
2) Love and genuine affection: seek people’s welfare. Give to the member of the body.
3) Learning and growth.. II Peter 3:18
A local assembly is God’s spiritual educational centre. When you get born again, your spirit must be trained and educated. There is a way to live and talk in the Spirit. There are customs and traditions of suoernatural people to be learnt. Church is God’s earthly institution that trains your Spirit and you should never graduate from it because you need to be continuously nourished and trained to do exploit. There must be growth in spiritual things and more room for you in Christ to express yourself and release your potentials. The devil is consistently trying to distract people from growth by not making them read the word. Now people after the hearing the word for some minutes, will start checking the time to go home. We need to be given to prayer and the word. Acts 18:24, 1 Peter 5:2, II Timothy 2:2, 3:14, John 8:31.
4) Faithfulness and loyalty. You must be faithful and serve God without murmuring. If you will be murmuring, just sit down. Faithful is He that has called you, you too should be faithful. Faithfulness is a fruit of the Spirit. It should be part of your character. It has become difficult for people to even be loyal to friends. Look at David and Jonathan in the Bible, faithful to each other. The throne that was meant for Jonathan was given to David, and yet Jonathan was not envious. Gal 5:22-23.
5) Discipline and Stewardship. I Peter 4:9-10, I Corinthians 16:15, Romans 16:1
As a son, you will need to be corrected by your father. You should accept discipline. Nobody monitors you as you are grown, because your parents instilled the needed discipline while you are young. There should be discipline in the way you talk or dress. Render your service to God. God goes all out for those who go all out for Him. Volunteer to serve. Those who go all out for God are not on the same platform with those who dont do anything for God. You are in the same body but not on the platform. You’d be shocked by the way they will magnetize God’s blessings.
6) Unity..Acts 2:1
Unity with other people in the local assembly is one of the ways to plug into the inheritance in the local assembly. As a body, we must be in one accord to get things done in the Kingdom. You are liking a lady in the same assembly and somebody else in the same assembly has gone ahead of you to get the lady, you will pray for their union to be perfect, not that you will pray for their union to be broken. Love people and love them unconditionally. Psalm 133
7) Generousity and abundant harvest. II Corinthians 9:7-9. For the advancement of the Kingdom, go all out for God. It is our responsibility to give. Whatever you are given should go into the propagation of the Gospel.Those who withhold tend to poverty. Proverbs 11:24-25, Galatians 6:5-9, I Corinthians 12:12
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