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Possessing Your Possessions
Contributed by Farinu Ademola on Dec 9, 2006 (message contributor)
Summary: Your rights as a child of Godis to be in health,body, soul and spirit. Take hold of what belong to you else the enemy will steal it or rob you of your inheritance.
POSSESSING YOUR POSSESSION
Jesus desires for you is revealed in this sermon. He is a great God, a merciful High priest and a benevolent God.
Accepting Jesus in to your heart today is better than signing a trillion dollars into your account. Nothing in this world can be compared to what Jesus came to offer you. Receive Him today and sign your name to receive the greatest possessions.
This song writer described his name as a miracle, a comforter and a mighty God. This is true. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
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Your name is a miracle
Your name is the Comforter
Your name is the Mighty God
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Galatians 4:1-7 – “What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. 4But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.”
Obadiah1:17 – “But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.”
What are our legitimate possessions in Christ?
• Salvation
• Deliverance
• Healing
• Peace
• Joy
• Prosperity etc
Why then do we lack in these blessings?
Ignorance is our greatest enemy
Hos.4:6 – “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children .”
• Unless you know what God has said in His word concerning you, you would be unable to possess your possession in Christ. The cheapest way for the devil to keep a man in the dark and rob him of God’s blessings is to take away knowledge from him.”
Your oppressor does not need to put chains on your hands and feet, all he has to do is to keep away knowledge from you.
How then can we possess our possession?
Get rid of ignorance; get to know what belongs to you and go for it!
God will only visit you on the basis of His promises that you know.
E.g. Joseph - Gen: 50:24 – “Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
Gen. 50: 24-25 – “And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. Then Joseph said to his brothers,“
Gen.50:24-25 (NIV) - “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." 25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place."
Genesis 21:1 -2 : “And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken 2Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him”
Gen.21:1-2 (NIV) – “Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.”
God’s promises to us
For Salvation
John 3:16-18: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
