Month: August 2025

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95. Devotion 14 – HE is Above All to be Worshipped

DEVOTION 14. Sunday – The Lordship of Christ (7.1) – He is Above All Others

The Lordship of Christ brought into effect the manifold wisdom of God to be known to all rulers, principalities & powers.

The Lordship of Christ (7.1) – Above All Others

Eph 3:10-11

(10) to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
(11) according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

The Lordship of our Lord Jesus Christ is far beyond any other.

But even more so; it is demonstrated on a cosmic, celestial & ethereal scale and platform for all of creation to become aware of who He is, what He is about & how He deals with those who do not bow to His Lordship & accept the free gift so graciously offered to all things created.

Philippians 2:9-11 – “Christ is Lord – to the glory of the Father”

(9) Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
(10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
(11) and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Even Satan is well aware of what the Lordship of Christ is. He is even still bound to worship Him, and Him alone.

Luke 4:8

And Jesus replied to him, Get behind Me, Satan! It is written, You shall do homage to and worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve. [Deut. 6:13; Deut. 10:20]
And we all know what happened to him…

The Lordship of Christ (7.2) The Lordship of Christ demands worship for He is Who He is.

He is God and there is no other. He is the all-superior Creator of everything ever created. The mercy He gave & granted mankind deserves all that worship entails unto Him alone.
Given then this merciful act granted to us – (who should have died for our own sins), there should surely then come the humble gesture of what I can & should give back for such an all-surpassing act of grandeur.

It is therefore just fitting to give worship, adoration, thanksgiving & praise back to Him. To honour & exalt Him in His position & honour due to His entitlement as Lord of all of creation.

Rev 5:12-14

(12) saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
(13) And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!”
(14) Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=D0dorpOItug&si=lybVKfbsSfv1G2h0

Prayer:

Lord,

words are utterly inadequate to express our love & gratitude. But with our hearts we surrender all we are in body, soul & spirit to bring You our utmost praise, honour & adoration.
To You alone our hearts desire to sing & declare praise to the honour of Your Name.
Amen

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94. Devotion 13. Through the miracle of Salvation

DEVOTION 13. Saturday – The Lordship of Christ (6) – Through the miracle of Salvation

The Lordship of Christ is demonstrated through the gift of Salvation made available to all nations, tribes & tongues.

Only someone that knows their mandate, superior position & authority can present something on a global scale & platform. Therefore, only God can – in His Sovereignty, offer salvation to the whole world!

LET US CONSIDER tonight ‘how much’ Grace, Power & Benevolence of God it took to get us into the kingdom! And how much it takes to prepare us for His Kingdom. How Great a King & Lord of all He is!

Christ made redemption available to all

    Joh 1:12-13

    (12)  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (13)  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

    Will it be obtained by all? No

    Act 8:20-22

    (20)  But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

    (21)  You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. (22)  Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

    Joh 3:27

    (27)  John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

    Joh 6:44

    (44)  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    Joh 3:5, 36

    (5)  Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (36)  He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

    Rom 8:30 

    Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

    The Trinity God, all Three Persons are involved in Redeeming us back to the heart of the Father.

    How do we enter the Kingdom?

    Rom 5:9 

    Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

    1Co 6:11 

    And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

    Prayer:

    Lord, in allowing ourselves to reset our foundational stance we are left stunned to think of such immense grace that I can be called ‘child’ of the Most High God. That You have called & drawn me back to You.

    A moment of utter humility grant us now to bend our knees & thank you from our hearts that we have received the gift of salvation & may trust fully in Your Holy Spirit to prepare us to enter Your kingdom.

    Oh, How we love You, Lord of all!

    Amen

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    93. Devotion 12. God’s Law of Love Upon Our Hearts

    The Lordship Of Christ (5). As We Receive His Law Of Love Upon Our Hearts

    HIS LAW of LOVE RECEIVED THROUGH FAITH

    WE OUGHT to understand here that the law has now been written on our hearts through this new covenant relationship that we have with God. We receive it BY FAITH, through Christ’s blood being shed for our atonement into this eternal relationship with God for our redemption.

    The law is His love letter to us; now fulfilled by grace and not works of the law.

    Jer 31:33

    But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the Lord, I will put My law within them, and on their hearts will I write it; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

    THEREFORE, Christ dwells in our hearts by faith – through the written word on our hearts. The written Word, Christ Himself, dwells in us through Himself living in us. This is all possible through His Holy Spirit’s indwelling in our spirit man.

    WE HAVE now understanding of His love, His ways & His being (character, power & presence) as we exercise continually our faith upon Him.

    BY FAITH we have received Him into our lives. By faith we concede Him to capture our hearts, soul, mind & spirit being. By faith we submit to His LORDSHIP. Through the experience of His love,- allowing Him & trusting Him to love on us. Our lives are now being changed – from glory to glory.

    AND… this testifies of His love – having the experience OF His love. His divine presence flooding us with God Himself enabling us to become rooted, in soul & spirit… grounded IN LOVE!

    THIS TESTIFIES of His Lordship over us – He becomes our Lord as we allow His Holy Spirit to fill us with the Living Word, to engrave it on our hearts as He reveals the Truth of our Lord & Saviour by His divine expositions deep within our spirit. Not by power or by might BUT by His Spirit we come to know Him, to make Him truly Lord – Adonai in our lives.

    HEREBY then to receive His Love & embrace His Lordship in our lives is to experience and to come to know Him as Lord.
    NOT Him wanting ‘to lord’ over us, but to flood us with the love & presence of Himself. Without the Spirit within we cannot know Him. Without the Helper we cannot live.

    1Co 2:12-14 (Rom 8)

    (12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
    (14) But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.


    Prayer:

    Thank you Lord, For giving us Your Holy Spirit through Whom all power & revelation comes. By Faith we receive afresh Your Law of Love upon our hearts & You as Lord – Adonai, my Lord into my life.
    Amen

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    92. Devotion 11. Through Receiving His Love

    The Lordship Of Christ (4) Through Receiving His Love

    CHRIST demonstrates His love in many ways to His creation. Him being the totality of all that love means, shows His Lordship through how He loves, care, guides…

    THEREFORE, the way He loves also positioned Him in power to conquer & reign over all things.

    If we look at the following two Scriptures, we can see how powerful the forgiving love of Christ really is, that we also have to walk in.

    Pro 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.
    Pro 17:9 He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

    WE also see that the LOVE of Christ is so powerful that it came to overhaul all the restrictions of the law. This love that moved Him to give His life for us & become our Lord.
    THE Lordship of Christ over us came at a tremendous cost. We should therefore consider His love daily in prayer for authenticity to receive it afresh – in an authentic way & NEVER allow it to become a familiarity.

    THE power behind His love is that which saves a whole world! His love is powerful. It should be treated with respect and NOT be taken for granted or become a familiar word on our tongues. WE should purposefully receive His love continuously & into every situation & area in our lives.

    PRAYER:

    OUR prayer tonight, for ourselves & others flow then from the following:

    Eph 3:17-18

    (17) May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,
    (18) That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]

    THANK You, Lord Jesus,

    That Your love is meant to change our lives continuously so that we may reap from the supernatural power of it & be filled to be able to pour it onto others.
    WE receive Your love now into every area & the deepest fibre of our being for healing, for strength, for wisdom & glory.

    Amen & amen!

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    91. Devotion 10 – He Comes First

    The Lordship of Christ (3). He Comes First

    Our quest here on earth suddenly becomes easier as we place the focus on Him! When He comes First

    When we focus on what HE wants to achieve and when focusing on what & where God is busy working, we realize that He has ‘weaponized’ & empowered us through His all-surpassing love-power; to love, care & share Him with this lost & broken world.

    Suddenly this heavy load that we felt we had to carry becomes a joy & His Word truly becomes a light to our own paths as we come to realize – BUT the onus is on Him!
    For He is the Lord of all of this that we are busy with; for Him. It is His name that is at stake! That He will make sure it to be glorified. The one Who’s name will be amplified & lifted up is His! And the pressure is off from us to do ANYTHING in our own strength.

    Our mission is to surrender to the Lordship of Christ and have our spirit-eyes opened up to see His strategic ways for all things to flow into convergence for the honour of His glory – as He is first & foremost the conductor of this comprehensive event.

    If we look at our own significance, importance, – even in our striving to do things for God in an excellent fashion, the attention often falls on us & our ability, and that warns us out. In our own strength & by following our own ways cannot endure very long.

    In our realignment under the Lordship of Christ our eyes are set to follow & heed to His every move. The stress disappear for we cannot move without Him moving first.

    Scriptures for Devotion:

    Psa 119:1-2

    (1) BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God’s revealed will).
    (2) Blessed are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart.

    Psa 119:28

    My life dissolves and weeps itself away for heaviness; raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.

    Pro 3:5-6

    (5) Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
    (6) In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

    Prayer:

    Thank You Lord! Thank You, that You are God & we your servants who may follow you blindly. Knowing that if You are leading, we will enter the promises of Your Covenant-Word to us. As You are placed first, all other things will fall in place.
    You are the Lord, our God and the One Who captures all our love & attention.
    We love You Lord. You are the Lord of our lives.

    Amen

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    90. Devotion 9 – The Lordship of Christ. (2)

    The Lordship of Christ (2) – Jesus Christ ; HE gave us His all

    Psa 103:19
    The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.

    Through His journey of becoming man, equal to the very beings He created, living among them, bearing their scorn, arrogance, rebellion & dissention and then in embracing the real understanding of their humanity & lives on earth – He has set the stage for His Lordship & kingdom to be manifested on earth as it is in heaven! The Lordship of Christ is eternally set.

    Further through His sacrificial death, resurrection & ascension and fulfilling the Promise of the Helper – He gave us His all in all! He fulfilled the heart’s desire of the Father!

    He provided all that is needed for this covenant with God’s chosen people to be completely fulfilled in time. He appropriated all things to align & flow into the sovereign completion of His reign.

    Therefore, the main focus point that we can receive through this message is that Christ wants ‘to Be’ & have His being on earth through man. That is the reason He made us – to rule in all His sovereignty through us on earth.

    You & I are one of those human beings that He would delight to express His Lordship through in His kingdom, His kingdom reign, His power, His faithfulness, His wholeness in & for humankind in the midst of chaos, anarchy & turmoil in this life.

    Especially in these days where we at times do sense that the wheels could easily come off. Yet we as believers in Christ know & we can say in all humility & dependency upon Him:

    “But for the grace of God, there I go…! But for the Lordship of Christ over my life, there I go!

    Therefore, we know our lives really matter to Him. He has demonstrated & communicated it in so many ways that we are to receive from Him all things pertaining to this live, embrace His power, love and Spirit-presence.

    We are then set to live through this package of the fulness of Who He is to fulfil His mission & bring glory to His name. We are set to live under His Lordship for indeed he DOES REIGN over ALL things!

    2Pe 1:2-3

    (2) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,(3) as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue

    Prayer:

    Lord Jesus,
    We have come to realize that you are sincerely acquainted with all our dispositions. We therefore step into that place of leaning over & aligning ourselves to Your lead & Lordship in our lives.

    Helps us to purposefully re-focus on Your all-powerful abilities, know how, supreme wisdom & eternally purposed plan which will bring all things together in cohesion as we then follow after You through Your life-giving presence within us.

    We love You Lord with every fiber of our being and we thank You that Your Lordship also means that we can follow You as You lead and not as we have planned it!
    Amen

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    89. Devotion 8 – The Lordship of Christ

    The Lordship Of Christ no 1

    The Lordship of Christ is also discovered as we come… “to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

    Eph 3:19

    [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

    We have no right on ourselves. We belong to Christ. Let this sink in.

    We have to allow Him to move us unto living through Him, daily. Him, having His being through us. On earth as it is in heaven – in us & through us. Having the fulness of who He is – flooding though our whole existence… our whole being.

    Therefore, our emotions, walk & talk, our regular conduct… our mindset in the daily situations in life should actually display this unequivocally because of this wonder & awe of Him in us. Without a doubt. To be a testimony of our witness & testimony of Christ that lives within us.

    Through life we experience our ebb & flow in life’s different & various situations. We even experience that in our faith-life. We have these moments of victory, faith & hope just to be down casted in our soul dimension when the frustration of not being able to break through in our faith-walk, or in life’s physical realm stares us in the face.

    In these real moments in life, we tend to look within and revisit our own limitations, shortcomings, weakness and even go back to that sunken feeling of our failures old & recent ones…

    What the Lord asks of us is to re-focus… re-align… adjust ourselves towards the reality of Him in us.

    We ought to take the focus & attention off from ourselves on the horizontal focal points that we are bound to; not able to breakthrough those thought patterned visuals in our minds.

    As He steps into the scene… There is an immediate BIG “IF” before us. IF we do allow His presence to become the main attention. For He is indeed always with us, always present everywhere & eternally the presence in everything.

    Instead of positioning ourselves as main character, we now turn and focus on Christ in the scene. Him asking us to allow Him ‘TO BE’!

    If we embroider further on this thought… we can say that Christ wants us to allow (to will, desire, want, to understand it to be of utmost need), Him ‘to be’ who He wants (desires, all knowingly will to be) , through our lives.

    Allowing Him to be God in our lives. He nudges us to thoughtfully ‘give over’. This meaning for us to really trust Him, have faith in Him that He can be God through & in our lives.

    That is what He came to give us – to be God Himself in & through us.

    Prayer:

    Father God,

    it is our deepest desire & quest to surrender ourselves to You in such a way that allows the manifested presence in the fulness of Who You intended to reveal Yourself in this world. That this will have an effect in the physical realm where we move & have our being through our lives & through Your kingdom here on earth..

    Thank You, Lord, that we may pursue to know You more – the great I am, the Lord of all of creation!

    Thank you, Lord, that this can become our faith reality through knowing Your love, the love that You have for each and every thing created. It is so immeasurable. It surpasses all understanding.

    Help us to know & belief that Your love for us is flawless, pure, constant, eternal and of a divine caliber.

    Your love is supreme and the rule and standard to all that love is.

    Amen