A NEW MANAGEMENT – Wednesday July 19th 2017
Memorise:
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16
Read: Romans 6:13-20 (KJV)
6:13 Neither
yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but
yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
6:16 Know
ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants
ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness?
6:17 But
God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed
from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
6:19 I
speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:
for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to
iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness.
6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Bible in one year: 2nd Samuel 14, Ezekiel 11:14-12:6, Hymn: Sing hymn 11
MESSAGE:
When
you have an encounter with Jesus that results in you accepting Him as
your personal Lord and Saviour, your life comes under a new management.
In Matthew 11:28-29, Jesus said:
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Before encountering Jesus, your affairs were managed by Satan and also by your own self-will (Ephesians 2:2-3).
A choice to welcome Jesus into your heart means that you have chosen to
do away with all your former masters and have embraced the Lordship of
Jesus over your affairs. My father used to say that whosoever you allow
to be your master will take care of you with whatever he has. If Satan
is your master, he will give you what he has: sickness, sorrow, fear and
all kinds of problems. If Jesus is your master, He will take care of
you with good health, joy, peace and all kinds of blessings. Who are you
yielding to presently? Who is you master?
I
was once invited to preach at the thanksgiving service of a particular
king. While I was preparing for the service, his chiefs, dressed in the
regalia of various secret societies, began to come in. An usher saw them
and ran to me to ask if they should be allowed to enter the Church. I
told him to seat them in the front row where Jesus would be able to
reach them quickly.
I immediately changed my sermon to talk about
Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. At the
end of the sermon, because I know who my Master is, I said this to
them: “I challenge all of you, if you can use all your powers to deflate
one of my tyres, I will surrender to your god, but if you cannot, you
must surrender to my God.” I then told them the registration number of
my car. By the time I gave the altar call, the second-in-command to the
king, who was the leader of all the secret societies, was the first to
come forward. When the other chiefs saw this, they followed suit. After
the service, the king said we should go and check up on his
second-in-command to find out if he understood what he just did. When we
got to him, he said he knew what he had done by surrendering to Christ,
adding, “When you see a small boy like this challenging all of us, who
doesn’t know that he must have someone behind him? It is the One behind
him that we surrendered to.” Thirty days later, this chief died. He had
served the devil all his life and was heading for hell, but thirty days
before his death, he changed to a new government and he is now in
Heaven. Who is managing your life?
Prayer Point:
Father, wherever forces of darkness are challenging Your children in this nation, show up and paralyse them today.
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