ALL GOOD THINGS
ALL GOOD THINGS ARE YOURS TO ENJOY
“trust … in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy” 1 Tim. 6:17
We must certainly trust in the ability of God to freely give
us all things to enjoy just like He made Abraham to be very rich; He made Isaac
to amass wealth such that Abimelech the king of Gerar had to come and make a
league with him, He made both the latter and the former end of Job to be filled
with the good things of life to enjoy and King Solomon to be so rich in wisdom
and rich in the good things of this life such that all his apparatuses were
made of gold. God is not a respecter of persons, He wants all of the Saints to
be without lack just like He made all things that Adam will ever need to be
superabundant in the Garden of Eden before even creating Adam.
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us,
who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans
8:31-32
“My God will richly fill your every need in a glorious
way through Christ Jesus” Phil. 4:19 GW
We see the Love of God manifested as He allowed His begotten
Son to die in our stead so that we can be saved and acquire redemption from the
throne room of Grace. We see here the Love of God resolving our sin problems,
performing the exercise of liberty from captivity and bondage and revealing His
eternal plan to cause us to enjoy all good things of life.
“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and
hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in
his labor; this is the gift of God” Eccl. 5:19
When Jesus ascended to heaven, he gave gifts unto men [Eph.
4:8], [both spiritual gifts Eph. 4:11-13 and physical gifts including wealth
and riches – Psalms 112:3], to enjoy freely and He empowers us to become like
Him in holiness and righteousness hereby qualifying us to be partakers of
heaven verities. We must stand in God and hold the beginning of our faith
steadfast to the very end if we are to partake of the inheritance of the saints
in Christ
“And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely. He that overcome shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son” Rev 21:6-7
The qualification to acquire these things that are given to
us freely is to thirst and yearn passionately until we receive freely the
fountain of the water that quenches all thirst.
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that
heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him
take the water of life freely” Rev 22:17
The Spirit of Jehovah God is the divine water of life that
imparts the life of God in us and reveals all that we need to know and apply in
order to inherit all things [1 Cor. 2:9-12]. Remember all good and perfect
gifts come from the Father of Lights in whom there is no variation nor shadow
of turning [James 1:17].
“NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through
faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that
things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” Heb. 11:1-3
Faith is believing that God’s promises will be birthed NOW
while hope is a futurist approach to the promises of God by earnestly expecting
it to be manifested by and by. Jesus Christ has paid the price for our
redemption, salvation, righteousness, deliverance and even sanctification. By
going to the cross everything that is negative and contrary to our enjoying the
blessings of God has been nailed to the cross and also the curses incurred
because of the sin at the Garden of Eden done away with. Sin is the dote that
attracts curses and right living and Christ likeness is the antidote to curses
and it attracts the blessings of God that makes us rich and add no sorrow to it.
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the RICHES OF HIS GRACE; Wherein he hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself” Eph. 1:7-9
“trust … in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy” 1 Tim. 6:17
We must trust in Jehovah Jireh who promised to bless us and
who we know is not a man that lie or the son of man that repents or change his
mind anyhow as long as we follow or walk after the path of the covenant of
son-ship that qualifies us for the free gifts of God our divine provider.
Please note that heaven and earth shall pass away but not one jot of His
precious promises will go unfulfilled.
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith work
patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of
God, that GIVE TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY, and upbraids not; and it shall be given
him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is
like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that
man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man
is unstable in all his ways” James 1:3-8
Jesus spoiled principalities and powers and we were delivered
out of darkness into the kingdom of Light where our eyes have been opened to
see by revelation knowledge and insight all the things that has been freely
given to us to enjoy so that we can come into conformity with the mindset of
God when we were made co-heir or joint heir with Christ Jesus of all the
verities and the blessings that He received as Son of Jehovah God.
“The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together” Rom 8:16-17
That is why Jesus boldly declared that the glory the Father
gave Him, He has given it to us, we have also become the joint-heir of all the
possessions of the Father that was willed to Jesus as the only begotten son.
Likewise we have also been given in HIM all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus
[Eph. 1:3].
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father” Rom 8:15
The spirit of adoption work in us such that we have been
drafted in as authentic children of the Most High God and made to enjoy every
blessings that Jesus the Firstborn Son enjoys. We are actually partakers of
God’s divine nature in Christ.
“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power HATH GIVEN
UNTO US ALL THINGS that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge
of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby ARE GIVEN UNTO US exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust” 2 Peter 1:2-4
The knowledge of who the Father and the Son is will give us
the understanding of who we are in God and we will be able to stand by Faith
and receive all the precious promises of God and eventually get all the things
that pertain to life and godliness freely. Important key here is the
multiplication of grace and peace unto us. The Prince of Peace that we know and
embrace allows us to receive peace also and let go of every agitation that
causes fear, doubt, unbelief, anxiety and worry such that we will know and
receive by FAITH all that has been given to us. Grace continues to stress the
fact that these things are not paid for because Jesus Christ has paid the price
for them and they are to be received freely, no price!
“Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he
that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? And your LABOR for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me,
and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness” Isa
55:1-2
The key word here is LABOR which is excessive exercise of the
mental faculty and toiling in other to get that which Jesus Christ has paid the
price for you; not at all… IT IS FREE! Not of works but of Grace! Grace excessively
stresses the fact that it is freely bestowed to us by God, the only thing is we
need to stress our hand in FAITH to receive. For example in going to Egypt, God
made Pharaoh to give Abraham all that was needed to start his husbandry
business and it was the breathe of God upon the business that cause expansion
and blessings that follows to generation unborn.
Having money does not equate to being blessed. God promised
to bless us not to give us money! The original intention of the Father is that
we are blessed and He defined such BLESSING as being, fruitful in all our
endeavors, multiplication in whatever we lay our hands up, subduing all powers
that confronts us, reign over all the earth realm and to dominate over every created
things upon the planet either spiritually or physically [Genesis 1:28[. The
pronouncement upon patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was always the
release of the covenant of blessings.
One of the greatest scriptures in the New Testament decreed
that God has given us every spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. Blessings can produce money which is an afterthought due to the sin
factor of men but you can be blessed and acquire all the good things of life
without money. Money is a product of the fall of man! You can have so much
goods that like Israelites did with the Egyptians, you trade by batter with
others who have so much of the other good things of life that you need.
The
onus has always been “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall NOT want” [Psalms 23:1]
Many get ensnared in life because the god of mammon rule over
their heart and Jehovah God has been displaced out of their heart. All we need
is Jehovah and when we seek Him first all the good things of life for our
enjoyment shall be added unto us.
We must not trust in man or uncertain riches
else they become the idol in our hearts [Jer. 7:5-12 Message Bible]. Intimacy
and determination to live righteously breeds favor with God but intimacy with
God is impossible without knowing God [2 Peter 1:1-4], for all things that
pertains to life and godliness is given unto us. Remember, only those who know
their God shall be strong and do exploit! [Daniel 11:32]. God will do
exceeding, abundantly, FAR ABOVE, what we ask for or even think, according to
HIS power which is at work in us [Eph. 3:20].
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God” 1 Cor. 2:12
When the word of God reiterated that “It is not by power nor
might but by my Spirit”; it is to say that the Holy Spirit will release the
Spirit of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding such that we will be able to KNOW
what is freely given to us, do things with ease and also get goodly and godly
result in whatever we lay our hands to do which the scriptures already declared
that whatever we lay our hands to do shall prosper. The Spirit of God make us
to know by revelation and insight those things that are freely given to us to
enjoy or to do. He supplies all the divine grace necessary to excel and to do
exploit.
Even in ministry [Luke 4:18], it was the release of the Holy
Spirit upon Jesus Christ Himself that enabled Him with all that is needed and all
that it takes to do the work of ministry that was committed into His hands. True
enough, sin and curses came by one man Adam and we began to toil but abundance
of Grace was introduced and given by one man called Jesus Christ [Romans 5:17].
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God" 1 Cor. 2:12
The first step in accessing the blessings of God is to know
about its availability, until then faith cannot be activated TO RECEIVE. But
continual looking into the perfect law of liberty release faith such that
abundant grace of God can be released to us and we do become all that the
Father purposed for us to become and acquire all that he has destined for us to
acquire. God also gives dreams, visions, and angelic visitations or speak
“dhabar” word into your heart such that you know what God is set to do for, in
and through you. Faith exercised by you bring these into physical
manifestation.
“It is true that through the sin of one man death began to
rule because of that one man.
But how much greater is the result of what was
done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace
and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ” Rom 5:17 GNT
We are given the privilege to be equipped with EVERYTHING
good in this Life! We were manifested on planet earth to rule and reign in the
midst of our enemies!
“Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal
covenant, EQUIP YOU WITH EVERYTHING GOOD that you may do
his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight,
through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen” Heb. 13:21 ESV
Grace is the free release from the throne room of Grace that
enables us to have all that it takes to live good and godly life and ALL that
GRACE abounds, flourishes, prospers and overflows in us if we dare to believe!
You can always have all sufficiency in ALL THINGS needed on this side of
eternity!
“And God is able to make
ALL GRACE abound toward you;
that ye, always having ALL SUFFICIENCY in all things, may abound to
every good work” 2 Cor. 9:8 KJV
You and I are facilitated by God to receive all available
grace meant for the saints and not be lacking in anything because all things on
this earth has been prepared for us. We dominate over every living thing in the
air, sea and land and it must be registered in our hearts that God is able to
do exceeding, abundant, FAR ABOVE what we ask or think according to His power
which is at work within you [Eph. 3:20].
“Besides, God will give you his constantly overflowing
kindness. Then, when you always
have everything you need, you can do more and more good things” 2 Cor.
9:8 GW
“Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness,
which causes through us thanksgiving to God” 2 Cor. 9:11 KJV
I say again you have been wired by God to be enriched in
everything until abundant supplies or bountifulness overflows in you! The Lord
is your Shepherd, you must never lack; green, lustrous, and good pastures is at
where God placed you now and the anointing of God over your life will cause
your cup of blessings to overflow abundantly! Let your faith rise up in order
to access the plenteous abundance that God freely supplies! All things are
yours!
“…Everything belongs to you…the world, life or death, present
or future things, everything belongs to you” 1 Cor. 3:21-22 God’s Word Bible
PRINCIPLE OF ASKING AND RECEIVING
"Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find.
Knock, and the door will be opened for you. Everyone who asks will
receive. The one who searches will find, and for the one who knocks, the door
will be opened. "If your child asks you for bread, would any of you
give him a stone? Or if your child asks for a fish, would you give him a
snake? Even though you're evil, you know how to give good gifts to your
children. So how much more will your Father in heaven GIVE GOOD THINGS to those
who ask him?” Mat 7:7-11 GW
The Father is a good God who gives us good things to enjoy! The
expression. “Every one that ask receives” must be understood only with relation
to good things and we know that all good and perfect gifts come from the Father
of Lights, in whom there is no
variableness or shadow of turning [James 1:17]. It is important that we note
that this promise is limited to such things as are good for us in the sight of
God. For it is possible there may be gifts good in themselves and yet not
proper for us in our particular circumstances or God sees that we are not ready
for.
We ask God for a gift; we seek for what we have lost; we
knock for entrance. Only a door stands between us and Christ! He will not give
us stones or serpent… He has set a table of fat things in our front! Remember
Mephiboseth, when king David sent for him from Lodebar, he must have thought
that time to die has come! But that was the season of coming into royalty and
coming to dwell in the palace of kings and eating at the dining table of the
king forever [2 Sam. 9:10]. Suddenly I see the Lord God miraculously turning
around all things that are contrary against you! Yes, your time to enter into
REST has come… Come and partake of the goodness of God in the land of the
living!
God will never fail to give good things and above all His
Holy Spirit, the only thing is that we must ask for them. Remember IT IS A
GIFT. You do not pay for it; it is freely given when you ask for it!
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that
ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work”
2 Cor. 9:8
The necessity of grace to enable us to do our duty and also
to receive our need must be established here. There is the need for fitness of
prayer towards the obtaining of grace because it is a treasure in the hands of
God Himself and we must ask to receive. It is not like silver or gold, to be
dug with hard labor out of the bowels of the earth. God is more than ready to
grant these grace and gifts much more than we desire to have. The caution here
is that we will only have what we desire or ask for that is according to His
will. A young ten year old boy will not ask God for Cadillac Car and expect God
to give him! But God gives when we ask according to His will.
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we
ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: And if we know that he
hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired
of him” 1 John 5:15
The frequency and intensity of prayers is very important as
we see in “ask, seek, knock” It is not enough that we pray for a good thing
once; but we must insist and renew our petitions often, for the words do each
of them imply different degrees of petitioning God in asking, tenacity,
importunity and diligence. The easiest way of obtaining a thing is to have it
for asking.
Then the word “seek” implies a further degree of diligence,
as when a thing is out of place or missing, and we cannot have it by calling
for it, then we are at the pains to searching and looking for it until you can
actually find them. But the word “knock” signifies a yet greater degree of
patience and perseverance in our pursuit of what we ask for. For it supposes
that there may be several difficulties or hurdles in the way, and that the
passage may be shut up, yet that we should patiently wait, and drive on our
pursuit aggressively with greater importunity until closed doors are opened
unto us.
Asking, seeking, and knocking imply that we ought not to be
discouraged, depressed or dispirited with the difficulties we meet while
waiting, either in putting up our prayers to God, or in not receiving quickly a
due answer to our prayers; but that we should endeavor to conquer and overcome
all difficulties in our path, and be incessant in our prayers to God. Remember,
we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us. We must endeavor to
utmost devotion to worship, holiness and service unto our God while we wait
patiently for His answer
“That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith
and patience inherit the promises. Heb.
6:12
“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we,
if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end”
Heb. 3:6 [Also Heb. 6:10]
We must make sure that our confidence in the ability of God
to do or give what we ask or hope is intact and unshaken, and in the same token
be patient while waiting in FAITH for God to bring our request to pass
Our God is well able to do … Ephesians 3:20
We must believe in God’s being, ability, and goodwill. He is
willing to do much more than what we ask or thing because His power which is at
work in us, we are His children who He want to provide for us and there are
precious promises through the scriptures, dreams, revelations and visions that “He
that cannot fail to provide” has promised us.
Let it sink into your spirit-man that God for Christ’s sake
will hear and grant their prayers. However there must be a willingness and
endeavor to comply with all of God’s commandments [1 John 3:22; Prov. 28:9;
Prov. 15:8]. Also when we do consciously commit sin, we must repent of it
[Psalms 66:18; Isa. 1:15] else we block the blessings that is to flow to us. We
must stand in our prayers with our hearts free from sin like un-forgiveness,
bitterness, malice, and be full of love unto to all men [Matt. 5:23, Mark 11:25-26].
Lastly whatever we ask for must be used to the glory of God,
and we must not ask for it in order to consume it on our lust [James 4:3]. Our
prayers must be fervent and heartfelt, with patience and constancy, humility
and submission, gratitude and thanksgiving for former mercies with vigilance in
further praying and watching, and the diligent use of other lawful means
appointed by God including seed faith, tithe and offerings.
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Amen” Eph.
3:20
MOUNTAINS CANNOT STOP YOU
Even when we are passing through the valley of the shadow of
death as we go through intense persecution, trials and tribulations, we should
know that the momentary and temporary hitch will soon fade away and we shall
see the goodness of God in the land of the living. No matter what we are going
through, we must exercise strong faith in God who promised and will give
liberally to all men. He has never fail, can never fail and will never fail in
bring His promises to pass. The righteous shall not be forsaken by God nor will
their descendant come into stupendous poverty and become beggars. Never!
“Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea;
and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say
unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them” Mark 11:22-24
We must having an assuring faith in God’s ability, and firm
heart that remain unbend-able and unshakable having come into a resounding
knowledge of what God promised to do. Mountains may stand in the way of
fulfilling these precious promises of God but we are not of them that turn into
perdition but of them that stand believing until there is a physical
manifestation of what God promised. Sea shall bellow, winds shall blow and
mountain shall shake, we will stand tall and be still! Knowing that our God is
on our side! When He counter surge against the kingdom of darkness, mountains
shall skip like a ram and powers of darkness shall tremble at His feet.
The figurative mountains hindering progress and the
manifestation of good from the Presence of God is what our faith desires to
remove. These are significant obstacles in the path of mercy, goodness and
divine favor.
The spirit of fear, doubt, unbelief, anxiety and worry
operates under the spirit of weakness that cripples our faith if we let him! It
will even cripple our will, produce unrest and discontent; it only look at the
down side of life and never focus on the plenteous good that God has done in
our lives and pessimistic against the promises of God. But we are not of them
that turns back to perdition! We choose to stand on the Lord’s side and believe
that we have received the spirit of power, love and a sound mind and that
strong faith arises in our heart to put down and destroy every reasoning,
imaginations and thoughts negative and contrary to the will of Jehovah God for
our lives. The WORD of God is true! It shall come to pass. He will do what He said!
No spiritual mountain or obstacle should be able to stand
strong before a confident faith in God. We must exercise GOD KIND OF FAITH,
having control, dominion or authority over every living creatures on earth and
putting to flight every wicked demonic entities and their wicked works knowing
that God has given us authority over the powers of the enemies and nothing
shall cause us to stumble!
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