“…but if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness…”- Romans 8:10 (NIV)
If you have given your life to Jesus Christ, it is important for you to know that God has given you a gift which is called the gift of righteousness. Righteousness is the very nature of God that makes us have a right standing with God. It is the very gift of God that makes us stand before God without any guilt of sin or shame. It is the gift that the Bible talks about in Hebrews 4:16 that we should “…come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to use at the time of need…” It is the gift that makes us do things right the first time, and cause us to reign in life. For it is written, “…they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One Jesus Christ…”- Romans 5:17. It is a gift that God has equipped us with to make us win in life and we must take advantage of this gift because beyond all the advantages that have been listed above, it has come to play a major role in our health as well.
Before Jesus Christ came, death reigned in the world because of the first man Adam who sinned against God. And because death was at work, man was subject to sickness but when Jesus Christ came and gave us the gift of righteousness, just as our opening scripture says, “even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life to us (our mortal bodies) because of righteousness. Meaning that our body receives life because the gift of righteousness is at work in us.
I want you to understand this; sickness had legal grounds in our lives then because the law of sin and death was at work but today in Christ Jesus, the Bible lets us know that “…the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us (Christians) free from the law of sin and death…” Romans 8:2 (NKJV). Jesus Christ did not only come to abolish the law (Ephesians 2:15), He came to fulfil the law. The Bible declares that the soul that sin shall die (Ezekiel 18:20a) because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Jesus Christ who was made sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) for us, died and when He died we died in Him. “…He condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us…” Romans 8:3-4. Today, we can no longer be subject to sickness because righteousness is at work in us. Therefore, take advantage of this truth today and live in the reality of it. Whenever you notice any symptoms in your body, boldly declare and say that sickness cannot thrive in your body because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is at work in you. As a matter of fact, when you live everyday of your life with the consciousness of this truth, it is just not possible for sickness to thrive in your body. Praise God!
TODAY’S RHEMA
Our body receives life because the gift of righteousness is at work in us!
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
Father I thank you for the gift of righteousness which you have given to me in Christ Jesus, I thank you for this nature of yours that has been imparted into my spirit. I declare that through this gift I am reigning in life; and by the power of your Spirit, sickness will not thrive in my body because I do not have in me the nature to be sick or be disadvantaged. Praise God!
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