Power to be Sons I

Monday 1 August
READ: Romans 8:14-17
MORE LESSON: John 1:12-13

Biology teaches that the makeup of any offspring is a product of the chromosome of the parents. Put in simple terms, every child carries the nature of his parents. This finding in biology is actually an ordinance of God which applies both to physical and spiritual realms. As in natural birth wherein the offspring carries the nature of its parents, so also the offspring by spiritual birth carry the nature of the spirit that quickens them to life. John 1:12 says that when we receive Jesus and believe in His name, we are given the power (the right) to become sons (children) of God. This power is the new birth. When we confess Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we are begotten again into a living hope. God's Spirit comes into us, therefore, we become children of God. As offspring of God, we are carriers of the nature (attributes and character) of God.

It pleases God to make us partake in His divine nature, as it is written, 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 Peter1:3-4. Salvation through Christ Jesus reinstates in the believer the image and likeness of God in which man was originally created, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them: Gen.1:26- 27.

When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost this image and likeness (the very nature) of God. Since they yielded themselves to satan by obeying his voice and doing what satan suggested, satan's nature (lying, deceit, self, pride, violence, stealing, killing, destruction, and the likes) entered into them. The offspring of Adam and Eve up till date naturally manifest this nature. That is why even children less than one or two years can fight, be selfish, greedy, etc. This nature of satan, like a seed, grows with age and can become a big tree with several branches in a man’s life. When you accept Jesus and believe in His name, God removes that satan's nature and reinstates His nature in you. You then receive power to become a son of God who manifests the attributes of God which include, among others, love, kindness, forgiveness, faithfulness etc.

PRAYER/ACTION
* LORD Jesus, I invite You afresh into my life; I confess You as my Lord and Saviour.
* Displace every nature of satan out of my life and give me the nature of God.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
My Lord and my God, with thanksgiving, I declare the month of August good beginning from now, in the mighty name of Jesus.