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My Month Of Understanding Christianity
Contributed by Pastor Amos Dele Dada on Jun 11, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: It is with great delight and joy that I welcome you to this special month of Understanding Christianity. Christianity, like the proverbial mustard seed that Jesus gave as an analogy of faith, as a small seed has grown to become a big tree.
In Christ we have an assurance that God knows us and cares for us; an assurance of a reliable Friend. Through prayer we can have intimacy with God the Father even to the point of respectfully calling Him 'Dad'! Abba father- Romans 8:17.I was in an exam hall in 1980,sweating under airconditioned room, I called on my Friend Jesus praying with Jn14:26,at the end of the day I had a B+ in the course!
In Christ we have protection from powers and principalities, no matter how deadly they look or might be. We have the capacity and ability in Christ to pull down strongholds and cast down wicked imaginations. God gives us freedom from fear: fear of loneliness, fear of man, fear of death, fear of hell because in Isaiah 41:10 he promises never to leave us alone. Dake's Annotated reference bible says there are 355 "Fear Not" in the bible almost one for each day!
In Christ you are able to find your purpose for living. As a Chemical Engineer I was trained to refine crude oil which I did for almost two decades of my life, but in Christ I found a higher purpose of refining human beings for Jesus. Instead of practicing Chemical Engineering now I practice Jesus engineering. Traveling round the world, preaching the gospel of Jesus directing human being from hell to heaven and strengthening believers especially leaders across the globe under the auspices of International Gathering of Eagles conferences. Privileged to preach the gospel in over 70 nations and still counting!
I think another great benefit of being in Christ is having inner peace and joy. If you are truly in Christ you 'live a worriless life' John 14:27- My peace I give unto you. John 15:11" These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you. In the words of the author of Hebrew time will fail me to mention prosperity (Joshua 1:8,Deut 8:18), strength, power, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, (Eph 1:17-19)direction (Job 32:8,Psalm 32:8), guidance Psalm 23 says he leads me in the path of righteousness and more that believers enjoy in Christ.
As they say, "save the best for the last," I guess in the words of Peter and Jesus Christ , Peter asked ,we have left all and followed you-become Christians what will be our benefit-Jesus simply said -prosperity with persecution and ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD ALMIGHT (Mk 10:28-30).The truth is that, it is only in Christ you can find both! The beauty of this is that I have not written here what I have not benefited from God in my Christian life.
The most outstanding is making heaven and by the grace of God I will make it in Jesus name. My life has been prophetic. God uses people to prophesy to me and it comes true. At Ife a lecturer, an Elder in Our church CAC Bethel Ile-Ife said he had a dream where he 'saw me securing job with oil Company. I relocated from Ife to what was then Bendel State. I subsequently, started a branch of Christ Apostolic Church Bethel and built a cathedral to God." That was inn 1984 by 1998 it all have come to pass. While I was courting my wife the then General Evangelist Of Christ Apostolic Church Prophet Babajide on one occasion while I was driving him from Ife to Ilesha in his brown Mercedes saloon car prophesied to me - I saw the wagon and the engine and they made it to the glorious land. He was referring to me and my fiancé then. I hold on to that prophecy. I will make heaven with my wife Eyitayo by the grace of God.