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  • “Who we are in Christ changes everything”

    It matters that we have a right understanding of who we
    are     because of whose we are.

    “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus…And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His son into your hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son,
    then an heir of God through Christ.”
    Galatians 3:26; 4:6-7 NKJV

    Jesus was not a servant who aspired to be a son, He is the Son who chose to serve.  Jesus was not a servant working His way up the ladder.  In the incarnation, Jesus is fully God.  Pre-existent, eternal, the one by whom and for whom all things were created.  He is the King of Glory. Which makes it all the more remarkable that He chose to be a servant.  He was not in a position of weakness trying to earn the Father’s favour, it was already His.   (more…)

     
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  • Failure a catalyst to faith

    Failure is often a catalyst to faith in the Kingdom of God. Oftentimes we assume that God can’t use areas of our lives where we lack capability and craft. Thus, we confine and constrict ourselves to what’s comfortable and familiar, instead of leaping into the land of risk.

    Yet, it’s often in the land of risk that we find the catalysts to greater depth of the supernatural in our life.

    Now, let me be clear; I am not encouraging any sense of moral failure in order to reach greater levels of faith, but it is obvious that Jesus created a culture of faith around Him.

    The Bible says that Judas was a thief and Jesus knew it (John 12:4-7). Yet Jesus made Judas the treasurer of His ministry. Why would Jesus make Judas the treasurer when He knew that he was a thief? (more…)

  • Christmas Prayer for CCUC

    FATHER how is it that we come to look upon the babe in the manger at this time of the year? At Christmas, the day set aside so we can remember that YOU, JESUS, stepped down out of eternity, took off YOUR royal robes of YOUR glory, also laying aside YOUR divine powers. Coming as a helpless baby, completely powerless, completely vulnerable. Fully reliant on Mary and Joseph for everything, YOUR complete care and survival. But YOU came to live the same life that we live. FATHER as we come into Christmas day, LORD awaken in us the wonder and awe that the Shepherds had when the angels told them about the saviour being born and how they came to look upon this child to see the SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD laying in the manger – a feed trough. (more…)