Awake

Greetings parishioners of this great community. Thank God for making us to see another beautiful day.

Today, I want to charge us with this short semon I titled AWAKE.

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As Christians, we need to be awake, we need to be fully conscious and be alert of our Christian life.

Many are the afflictions of the true believers but in Christ, we are more than conquerors if we can use the power vested in us as children of God.

Everything suppose to be working for you not you working tirelessly for something.

Wake up from your slumber and claim your sit among the kings, for you are destined to the throne.

You need to be:

1. Awake to God
2. Awake to your glory

Awake to God

• Know the integrity of God's word

Hebrews 4:12 KJV
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The bible is not only a book of the past and a book of the future but it is a book of now

• Knowing the reality of our Redemption in christ

Colossians 1:12-14 KJV
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: [13] Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: [14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

We should understand that our redemption is not just as doctrine and not as philosophy but we should know that in Christ, we have actually been redeemed from the authority of satan

• knowing the reality of creation

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

You should know the reality of the new birth for yourself. You should know and understand that the moment you accepted Jesus Christ as your saviour and confessed Him, you are recreated.

• Separation from world, not segregation

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 KJV
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Romans 12:1-2 KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. [2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Believers are in the world but they are to get rid of the world. You aren't to segregate yourself from the world but to separate from the world and not adopt their standard.

• Know the reality of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Because of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, it should be a common practice in the church today for believers to say in every crisis of life that "I am more than a conqueror"
The Holy Spirit
i) is our helper (John 15:7)
ii) is our guild (John 16:13)
iii) works through us as we act in faith (John 14 16-17)
iv) is our intercessor (Rome 8vs 26)
v) help us in prayers (1cor 24)
vi) show us things to come (John 16:13)

• know the reality of our fellowship with the father

1 John 1:3-4 KJV
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. [4] And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

1 John 1:7 KJV
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

The highest honor that the father has ever conferred upon us is to fellowship with Him, the son and the Holy Spirit.

• Know the autority in the name of Jesus.

Philippians 2:9-11 KJV
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We have authority to use the name of Jesus Christ as authority on earth. We should know the legal right we have in Christ and we should take the rightful place as a child of God.

Awake in your glory

• Present yourself as a living sacrifice

Romans 12:1 KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

• Remain in God and walk closely with Him

John 15:1-7 KJV
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. [3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. [4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. [5] I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. [6] If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. [7] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

• Be mature in your understanding.

Hebrews 6:1-6 KJV
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, [2] Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. [3] And this will we do, if God permit. [4] For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, [5] And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, [6] If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

God has plan for your ways in advance

Ephesians 2:10 KJV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

One you have believed in the positive plan of God for your life, He will assist you in attaining the utmost height you could never attain with your understanding.

Shalom

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