*NOW THAT JESUS IS LORD OF YOUR LIFE*

*PASTOR CHRIS OYAHKILOME*

*WEDNESDAY, 11TH DECEMBER 2024*

_*...if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (Romans 10:9).*_

When you confessed the Lordship of Jesus, believing that God raised Him from the dead, you received eternal life; you were born into Christ and Christ came into you. You now have His life, His nature, and His spirit. This also means you'll never go to hell because Jesus Christ, the light of the world, lives in you. He already went to hell in your place and defeated Satan and his cohorts of darkness in hell (Colossians 2:15).

When He obtained the victory in hell, you were in Him. Accordingly, you have victory over hell, sin and death. No wonder the Bible says, _*"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world"*_ (1 John 4:17). In the Day of Judgment, you'll boldly face the Master because as He is so are you. How is He? He's righteous and holy; and so are you.

Colossians 1:21-22 says, _*"And you...hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight."*_ 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, _*"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."*_ It's His doing; we didn't ask for any of these: It pleased Him to make us partakers of the divine nature—associates of the God-kind (2 Peter 1:4).

1 John 5:11-12 says, _*"And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life..."*_ (NIV). When you made Jesus the Lord of your life, His divine life supplanted your human life. Like Him, you possess the organic and existential attributes of deity. You're a God-carrying vessel; you're one in whom all of divinity dwells. The Bible says concerning Jesus: _*"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily"*_ (Colossians 2:9). Then the very next verse says, _*"And ye are complete in him..."*_ (Colossians 2:10).

This means you have what He has, for you're a joint-heir with Him (Romans 8:17). You're where He is; you're seated with Him in the place of dominion, great glory, power and authority (Ephesians 2:6). You can do all things (Philippians 4:13), for you function in His Name and in His sufficiency (2 Corinthians 3:5). These and more are the realities now that Jesus is Lord of your life.

*PRAYER*
*Dear Father, I thank you for my new life in Christ Jesus; I rejoice that I am now in Christ and He is in me. His life, nature and Spirit are at work within me. I have what He has, for l'm a joint-heir with Him. I'm where He is because I'm seated with Him in the place of dominion, great glory, power and authority. I can do all things because I act in His Name and in His sufficiency. Blessed be God!*

*FURTHER STUDY:*
*||* *2 Corinthians 5:17* Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. *||*

*||* *Colossians 3:3-4* For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. *||*

*||* *James 1:18* Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. *||*


*SCRIPTURE READING*
*1-Year Bible Reading Plan=>* Revelation 3:7-22 & Hosea 7-10

*2-Year Bible Reading Plan=>* Revelation 11:11-19 & Jonah 3-4

EXCERPT FROM: Rhapsody Of Realities Daily Devotional