11/10/2021
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield ourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. Romans Chapter 6
The 'will' of man is control by man himself. Before sin can have power over a child of God, it must first pass through his will. In this chapter, Apostle Paul reminded us about our past slavery to sin. How we yield ourselves to sin but now encourages us to yield and submit ourselves to our new master- Jesus Christ.
Most people blame the devil for certain actions in their life when truly the devil is not responsible. We are totally responsible for what controls and dominate us. Whatever we yield ourselves to, we become slaves to that thing; It might be s*x, idolatry, hatred, witchcraft drunkenness, lust, seduction etc but in Galatians 4, Paul encourages us to walk in the Spirit and produces fruits of the spirit.
When you yield yourself to something, with time, that thing will have tremendous control over you. After the act, you start regretting and even hate yourself for yielding to it., "why me again" For example, the spirit of lust..it has enslaved so many and made so many useless. What is lust.. I must have it now, I want it now or never.. and the price is very costly. Many people say, I can give up that habit when i want, it's so difficult.
Testimony: Yesterday, I was returning from my village. I boarded a bus. A young girl of about 32 was inside. She told us a story about herself. She said every Saturday night she will go to night club buy a bottle of beer and seat alone. Men will come there, see her, lost after her, buy her drinks with the intension of dancing and passing the night with her. At the end of the day, she will drink like 8 bottles and eat rusted meat from them and ran to her house and sleep. This habit enslaved her for a long time and finally she was delivered by Jesus Christ.
If you are passing through the same or similar thing there is solution for you. No escape from this will ever come from any human power, but only through the power of redemption. We must yield ourselves to the one who can break the dominating power of unrighteousness in our life, Jesus Christ the righteous redeemer. He was anointed by God for this purpose. As we yield to him today, he will break every kind of slavery in our life.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, we thank you for a new day and a new week. I pray that this week, sin shall not have dominion and control over my life. Let my will be focus and submissive to your word. In the name of Jesus, I break every unrighteous habit that wants to dominate and rule over me. As the mountain surround Jerusalem, surround us today Lord. Let our going out and coming in be fruitful. Let us not return home empty. Favour us today on every side. I commit those traveling today into your hands, grant them safe travels in Jesus Christ name..
Announcement: Our church will dedicate this week to pray for all our partners. Partner churches, organisations, ministry friends who support our ministry and also our local partners. We invite our local partners to attend our Wednesday, Friday 6 pm church service and Sunday 9 am church service. Blessings.