Ephesians 6:10-19

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Join me in this Study series to learn more about Authority, Its Use and Benefits.

Authorities are established by God. Authorities are established as leadership structures to coordinate people, guide them to do what’s right, and to maintain orderliness.

And God established authorities to do man good.

Jesus was a person of Authority, and He exercised His Authority to teach people to do right, to liberate people and help them enjoy freedom, to help people follow God’s order for doing things.

As a person in position of Authority understanding the Purpose of Authority ensures its rightly Used.

As a person Under Authority, understanding the Benefits of Authority will help you maximize it.

God wants us submitted to the Authorities He established.

Jesus Examplifies the 2 Drivers of Humility from Philippians 2:5-11

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Philippians 2:5‭-‬8 NKJV

-God the Son existed in the beginning as the second person of deity (John 1:1)
-He was the Word through which all things were created (John 1:3).
-However, in order to redeem man, the Son of God became man- took the form of man (John 1:14, Colossians 2:9), found in appearance as man (Philippians 2:8)
-Even though Jesus was born with flesh and blood, He was intrinsically God. God bypassed the sinful human nature in Jesus by virtue of His birth to a virgin (Matthew 1:18-25).

-Philippians 2:5-11 clearly tells us that Jesus Layed Aside His Godly rights, took the form of a man in order to save man. He did that to meet the Father’s requirement for man’s redemption.

He submitted to God to the point of death.

-He ran His earthly ministry not as God but as a Man anointed with the Holy Ghost (Acts 10:38).

-He identified as Man. He was tempted just as we are, yet He did not sin (Hebrews 4:15).

Likewise us:
We are born of God.
We have the nature of God.
However to stay humble before God, we must submit totally to God and His Word
And we must not think ourselves higher than other people- we identify as men as well. This by no means doesn’t mean we don’t know who we are or what we are made of. We are Born of God! I am proudly Born of God! ?

And just like Jesus, we too though having the form of man boldly witness of Christ and do Kingdom exploits by the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8).

And we can live victoriously by faith in Christ, helped by the Holy Spirit.

Faith must always be engaged in order to bring the expectation of hope into tangibility.

Pride is a dream stopper, HUMILITY pleases God

Join me in this part as we see how humility influences the actualization of our dreams…

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From what we learnt about humility the last time……in Part 6,

• humility is the fear of Lord 
• The fear of the Lord means to reverence God 
• We saw the 2 drivers for humility- 
• A commitment to obeying God, Submitting to God, recognizing and acknowledging His supremacy. 
• A consciousness of having the same basic human man form, just like anyone else.  
• Most importantly Philippians 2:5-11 says we are to follow Jesus example 
•  He obeyed God fully, and He identified as man in His relationships. 

Humility requires for us to 

1. Submit to God
2. Trust God (facilitated by our past Experiences and Encounters with God and also because His Character is trustworthy-He is good,Loving, merciful, keeps promises, He is God-supreme and sovereign. Deuteronomy 7:9 
3. Believe God, believe His Word, Walk by faith 
4. Amos 3:3
5. We create our dreams by faith- believing, speaking and acting based on God’s word and His leading 
6. This is a major step in CREATING your dream 
7. Create first in your mind and write down (Habakkuk 2:2). 
8. Then go ahead and call forth your creations
9. MAKE them- translate them from visions on tablets to reality 
10. Genesis chapters 1 and 2 for  how God created created the and Earth.
11. But you know faith walks with love 
12. faith without Works is dead James 2:14-26. The expressions of WORKS we see in James 2:14-26 are arts of love
13. In Mark 11:22-24 – The mechanics of faith.  Buttressed by Romans 10:9-10
14. But then Mark 11:25 quickly introduces the concept of unforgiveness 
15. Forgiveness plays a key role in answered prayers 
16. Strife is a rate-limiting step in becoming Your Greatest Dream 
17. Article- Strife Is not your friend 

being born of the Spirit of God ensures a smooth line of communication between you and God. Proverbs 20:27 tells us that the spirit of man provides the light through which man communicates and leads man.

Be magnified O Lord my God, be highly exalted my Father, because it is your delight and pleasure to prosper me well beyond my imagination and thinking.

Ever since I learned about the principle of multiplication as taught by Jesus, I employ it for my ministry outreaches. And every time I’ve employed this principle just as Jesus taught it, I end up with fragments/leftovers. Now that I think of it, sometimes I unknowingly over-budget for my outreaches, but what I find is; when we get to the field, we are able to attend to everyone who is present and still have leftovers for our support team.

“…for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.” John 10:29 NLT

What makes you a child of God is that you have His nature- you are born of the Spirit of God. This commonality in nature with God was necessary to facilitate fellowship, communion and communication between God and man.