July's 90 Days Reflections

You Are a Lifegiver

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

[17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

[18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

[19] To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

[20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

[21] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

As a Christian, you are commissioned as a minister of reconciliation from the day you came into Christ. You are not ordinary. You act and stay in the stead of Jesus because you are one with Him – joined with Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:17 reads that He that is joined with the LORD is one spirit. In 1 John 4:17 the Bible echos that "As He is so are we in this world." To cap it off, in John 20:21 Jesus said as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. All through the scriptures we see our oneness with Christ as believers and our duty and role in the redemption plan. Jesus has clearly laid out our duties as believers, that we are to carry on the work He started when He walked the face of the earth.

Jesus preached repentance from sin, thereby translating us from the kingdom of death and darkness into the kingdom of light and life. As believers, we have been translated from darkness to light and from death to life. Now the ministry of reconciliation has been committed to us, to reconcile men to God.

Dearly beloved, the Father sees us in this light as "lifegivers" and nothing less; and yet, a lot of us have belittled ourselves so much that we are so concerned with the very trivial things of life, like feelings, emotions and sentiments, which all together have brought many into that same pit of darkness that Jesus delivered us from. Many have sunk into deep depression because of the foolishness and darkness of their minds, that they have given up their joy and have become the devil's play ground.

Dearly beloved, it's not suppose to be so. You are a "lifegiver." You are the hope of all those sitting in deep darkness. Do I need to remind you that darkness is fast growing all around us and that God is going to hold us accountable for doing nothing. Arise, my beloved, from that pit that the evil one has driven you to and shake off every weight that's holding you down and go all out for souls.

Don't miss a day in this 90 Days of Soul Exploit. Make your prayers and commitment count. Be that man and woman God can depend on to reconcile the world of man to Himself.

God bless you richly,

Pastor John Ifeanyi

Servant of God