December 13th
Believing
God, believing His Word!
By Riqui Ricón*
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But
if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose
I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a
desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless
to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. (Phil 1.21-24)
The more
you read and meditate on the Bible, which is God’s Word and doesn’t lie, the
more you realize that, in fact, the Gospel is all good news. What Jesus did in
the cross for His love to you is so wonderful that the apostle Paul wished to
be absent of body and present before the
Lord. (2 Co 5.1-10)
The first
believers discovered a wonderful secret in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they discovered
the Truth about the sacrifice of Jesus in relation to their bodies and persons:
You are not a body! You are a spirit!
God is
Spirit and you were created at the image and likeness of God. So, You don’t
have a spirit but you ARE spirit, created, regenerated to be according to the
image of God’s Son, Jesus Christ!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. (Joh 3.16)
Whosoever
believes in Him, has Eternal Life! And what is Eternal Life if not living for
ever. This means that whosoever believes in Jesus as the Lord and Savior of his
(her) life, will not die but live forever.
Jesus said unto
her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She
saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God,
which should come into the world. (Joh 11.25-27)
It is
written! Some way, with His sacrifice in the cross and His resurrection, Jesus cancelled
the domain that death had upon your life.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Ro 6.23)
The
victory upon death is a gift that God gives you as a part of the Eternal Life, the
Plentiful and Abundant Life that Jesus paid so you were made a Child of God,
Born Again.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also
himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him
that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. (Heb 2.14-15)
With His
death in the cross, Jesus paid all your sins so you were justified and
forgiven; by resurrecting between the death, He offers you a New Nature that
you didn’t have, nor could you have had: the Eternal Life of a Child of God.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death,
where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The
sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1
Co 15.54-57)
As you
can see, the victory upon death is a real fact and not a figuratively
expression. By God’s Word of Honor, you can be completely sure that death has
nothing on you.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Pe 1.23)
If you
can understand that you really are spirit Born Again, with the incorruptible
nature of a Child of the King, which can only be given by the Eternal Word of
God, then you will realize that they aren’t two lives: one here on earth and
other one in the beyond.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from
the law of sin and death. (Ro 8.2)
Now, you
life is continuous in the Eternity with God, your Father, and with Jesus Christ
your Savior. You can stop fearing, death will have no dominion on you!
Realize
that your body is merely a case, a suit with which you, who are spirit, can
express and communicate in this natural world. Your body is just the special
suit that a fireman needs to move inside a fire; is just the special suit an
astronaut needs to walk on the moon.
Your body
is just a very sophisticated peel to which you, who are spirit, give life when
you’re inside it.
Those who
have preceded in going to the Lord’s Presence aren’t dead, they simply moved,
changed planes leaving their case here, but they’re still the same: God’s
Children, Born Again.
Since the children have flesh and
blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break
the power of him who holds the
power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives
were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Heb 2.14-15 NIV)
You no
longer are a slave to the fear of death. Jesus Christ defeated death in your
place! The law of the Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ has made you free from the
law of sin and death!
Then said Jesus
to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my
disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free. (Joh 8.31-32)
Know the
Truth: You have Eternal Life and you will never die! Now, be free to live the
Plentiful and Abundant Life that Jesus bought for you.
Once your
victory upon death is assured you can stop being afraid and can focus in the purpose for which you still remain in
the world, for staying in the flesh in
more necessary for the cause of others.
But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that
ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a
people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy. (1 Pe 2.9-10)
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God
did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
(2 Co 5.20)
Now, you
are chosen linage, royal priesthood, saint nation, acquired people by God, you
are an ambassador in the name of Christ to announce the virtues of He who
called you from darkness to His admirable light. God, the Holy Spirit, is in
you and with you so you can beg everyone else to reconcile with God through
Jesus Christ.
For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is
acceptable unto the Lord. (Eph 5.8-10)
The
entire world is falling to pieces and the people live full of anguish and fear
while you are a Child of the Light and have been anointed by your heavenly
Father to establish His kingdom of Love in those who haven’t met Him yet.
Let’s
pray out loud:
Dear
heavenly Father, the Love with which you have loved me is amazing, even when I
was as I was you gave up Your Son, Jesus, to give me the gift of Eternal Life,
making me Your Child. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for so much and so great Love. I
am Your Child. I am Born Again, not from a corruptible seed but from an
incorruptible one by Your Word which lives and lingers forever. I have this
Eternal Life to love You and to love my neighbors as myself. I resist and cast
away the spirit of fear, for You have not given me, oh God, a spirit of slavery
to be in fear again, but I have received the spirit of adoption and, today, I
call you Abba, Father. I am healthy! I am free! I am prosperous! I am joyful! For
I will live for all Eternity in the Plenitude of the Love and the joy and the
peace I now have! No matter what my situation is right now,
I,_____________(your name here), am light in the middle of darkness! I will
come out more than a conqueror from every problem, disease or affliction
through He who loved me, Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Note of importance:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish my
relationship with the Almighty?
Simply say this prayer, placing all of your attention
and heart into what you’re saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that you are the Son of God.
That you came to this world from the Virgen Mary to pay for all of my sins, and
I have been a sinner. This is why today I tell you, I accept. I accept your
sacrifice on the cross! Yes, I accept Your precious Blood, spilled to the very
last drop, out of love for me! I open my heart to you and invite you in,
because I want you, oh Lord Jesus, to be my one and only Savior, my God, my
King, my Lord. Thank you, God Almighty, for with this simple prayer and
declaration of faith I have come from death to Life, I have been displaced from
the shadows and into Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Reborn! God I am
now Your Child! You are now my Father! I will never again be alone! Never again
will I live defeated. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2012
Reading
and Meditating on God’s Word.
Do these daily readings
and by the end of one year you will have read all the Bible.
December 13th Phil 1.12-30 / Ez 19
/ Isa 48
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