The Kingdom of God: Redeemed and Delivered
Daniel 9:2-3
In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of theLord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
There is nothing that you will ever need that is not addressed in the bible. God has no obligation to give you what you do not see in His word. Daniel, in the above text, went into fasting and prayer after getting understanding from the books as power regarding the captivity of the Children of Israel. Many Christians fast and pray without revelation, without understanding. We need understanding from the books of the Bible to understand what belongs to us, what has been freely given to us.
Colossians 1:12-20
There is nothing that you will ever need that is not addressed in the bible. God has no obligation to give you what you do not see in His word. Daniel, in the above text, went into fasting and prayer after getting understanding from the books as power regarding the captivity of the Children of Israel. Many Christians fast and pray without revelation, without understanding. We need understanding from the books of the Bible to understand what belongs to us, what has been freely given to us.
Colossians 1:12-20
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
We are already qualified to be partakers of His inheritance! You do not need to go through anyone to reach God, you can go directly to Him and partake of your inheritance. You can approach God just like any pastor, Bishop, Apostle or minister can. Jesus gave us the power to cast out demons and heal the sick, so you still do not have to go through any one to have your demons cast out or be healed:
Mark 16:17-18
Mark 16:17-18
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
As long as you are a believer, you can cast demons out and lay hands on the sick for them to be healed. You are qualified through the King of kings.
We are delivered from the power of darkness, according to Colossians 1:13. You do not need to be delivered again, you just need to be shown how to live a delivered life.
A story is told of baby elephant whose leg was tied to a tree. Since it was tied, the baby elephant knew it could not break off since it did not have enough energy to break free. When the elephant grew, it still thought it could not break free, despite having developed the energy to snap the rope and break free. The fact that the elephant could not break free was engraved in its psychology, and it believed that it has been imprisoned forever. The elephant clearly did not need any external help to free it from the imprisonment, but just to change its thinking and realize that it could snap the rope and break off easily, now that it had grown big and had more energy.
Many Christians are still living in ignorance and deceit that they need to be delivered, while the Bible clearly says that we have already been delivered. Not only were we delivered, but we were also conveyed into the Kingdom of Jesus. We are in the Kingdom of Jesus, who has the authority and mandate to run it. We have the power and ability to live a delivered life since everything was accomplished on calvary:
John 19:30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Break free from deception and ignorance, and announce your deliverance. Jesus fought the battle and won the victory, we just need to walk in the victory:
Colossians 2:15
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
In Christ we have redemption through His blood (Colossians 1:14), meaning that we have been bought back through paying the price. We used to belong to the devil, but Jesus paid the full price for us to be redeemed. We are not in debt anymore. We have been redeemed from curses, sicknesses, poverty, etc.
When we accept Christ are not re-modified or repaired, we are made into new creatures:
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
We have the bloodline of Christ, and are of the seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). We have been delivered from every curse of the law (Galatians 3:13). In Christ, all family cycles are broken. Curses can only follow you if you are ignorant. If you know the truth, there is no way you can remain in a cycle of curses.
Many people do not know that they are redeemed, which is why they continue to live in curses that run down their family lines, such as polygamy, drunkenness, hereditary diseases etc. When we accept Christ, we no longer are of our bloodlines, but we have the blood of Christ. The blood of Jesus that speaks greater things than the blood of Abel (Hebrews 12:24) has broken every cycle of failure and struggle in our lives.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
Jesus was never poor since the beginning, He only became poor once, for us. He became poor so that we may become rich, so we can live lives that are free of poverty and debt. Ignorance and the deception that God teaches us through poverty is what causes many of us to continue living in poverty. God wills for us to enjoy the fruit of the land and to enjoy a life of prosperity, which is why He allowed His son to become poor in our place so that we may be redeemed from poverty.
Haggai 2:8
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts.The silver and gold do not belong to the devil, they are the Lord's and so should His children live to enjoy them. You can never change that what does not irritate you, so if poverty does not irritate you, you cannot change it.
As long as you are a believer, you can cast demons out and lay hands on the sick for them to be healed. You are qualified through the King of kings.
We are delivered from the power of darkness, according to Colossians 1:13. You do not need to be delivered again, you just need to be shown how to live a delivered life.
A story is told of baby elephant whose leg was tied to a tree. Since it was tied, the baby elephant knew it could not break off since it did not have enough energy to break free. When the elephant grew, it still thought it could not break free, despite having developed the energy to snap the rope and break free. The fact that the elephant could not break free was engraved in its psychology, and it believed that it has been imprisoned forever. The elephant clearly did not need any external help to free it from the imprisonment, but just to change its thinking and realize that it could snap the rope and break off easily, now that it had grown big and had more energy.
Many Christians are still living in ignorance and deceit that they need to be delivered, while the Bible clearly says that we have already been delivered. Not only were we delivered, but we were also conveyed into the Kingdom of Jesus. We are in the Kingdom of Jesus, who has the authority and mandate to run it. We have the power and ability to live a delivered life since everything was accomplished on calvary:
John 19:30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Break free from deception and ignorance, and announce your deliverance. Jesus fought the battle and won the victory, we just need to walk in the victory:
Colossians 2:15
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
In Christ we have redemption through His blood (Colossians 1:14), meaning that we have been bought back through paying the price. We used to belong to the devil, but Jesus paid the full price for us to be redeemed. We are not in debt anymore. We have been redeemed from curses, sicknesses, poverty, etc.
When we accept Christ are not re-modified or repaired, we are made into new creatures:
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Redeemed from curses
Many people do not know that they are redeemed, which is why they continue to live in curses that run down their family lines, such as polygamy, drunkenness, hereditary diseases etc. When we accept Christ, we no longer are of our bloodlines, but we have the blood of Christ. The blood of Jesus that speaks greater things than the blood of Abel (Hebrews 12:24) has broken every cycle of failure and struggle in our lives.
Redeemed from poverty
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
Jesus was never poor since the beginning, He only became poor once, for us. He became poor so that we may become rich, so we can live lives that are free of poverty and debt. Ignorance and the deception that God teaches us through poverty is what causes many of us to continue living in poverty. God wills for us to enjoy the fruit of the land and to enjoy a life of prosperity, which is why He allowed His son to become poor in our place so that we may be redeemed from poverty.
Haggai 2:8
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts.The silver and gold do not belong to the devil, they are the Lord's and so should His children live to enjoy them. You can never change that what does not irritate you, so if poverty does not irritate you, you cannot change it.
Jesus never paid for us to go to heaven only, but for us to live a redeemed and delivered life.
~ Apostle Dr. David Karanja.
(7/10/12 Sunday Service Sermon, Africa Transformation Mission. Pramukh Plaza, 6th Floor.)
Apostle Dr. David Karanja is the visionary of Africa Transformation Mission, a ministry under Christ Harvesters Ministries.
~ Apostle Dr. David Karanja.
(7/10/12 Sunday Service Sermon, Africa Transformation Mission. Pramukh Plaza, 6th Floor.)
Apostle Dr. David Karanja is the visionary of Africa Transformation Mission, a ministry under Christ Harvesters Ministries.
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