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Sarah’s Corner

Volume 69 -17, March 2017

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Justified by Pastor Charles Omofomah

1Therefore, having been justiCied by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2

gives you when He declares you justiCied. May I also add that Many times when we say we are justiCied it sounds so spiritual

positionally that is what you are, but for you to experience this, you

and farfetched. What then does “justiCication” mean? JustiCication

must train yourself. Truth be told: I do not miss anything in the

is the act, process, or state of being justi3ied by God. This means

world because I have learnt to walk in righteousness to the point

that as a born again child of God, you can boldly declare, “I have

that I do not miss anything sin. They are so incongruous with my

been made righteous; I have been justiCied by God.” This simply

nature.

means when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you were made righteous, like one who has never sinned before.

If you can get this truth and meditate on it until you walk in that

The best word I would like to use to deCine justiCication is the

consciousness and it controls your life, then you will you have

word innocence.

access to your beneCits in Christ. Even when you are hit with an evil report from a doctor, the Cirst that comes to your mind is not, “Oh,

Thus, justiCication means that you have never sinned before, and

this is as a result of the things I did in the past.” No! The Cirst thing

you are innocent. You may say to yourself, “I know myself, I know

that should come to your mind is that you have been justiCied and

I have sinned”, but that does not negate the fact that when you

made righteous and innocent; old things have passed away and all

accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you automatically

things are now new (2 Corinthians 5:17). You let go of anything that

became righteous and innocent, absolved of all the sins you ever

holds you back and reach out and grab hold of your healing. Let

committed. In fact, it is like you do not even have knowledge of

nothing hold you back, walk in the consciousness of your true

sin; you are naïve.

nature: righteous, innocent and naïve of all sins.

Your Justi*ication Shows Your True Nature In Christ

Your Justi*ication Manifests The Glory Of God

Now, when you are innocent and naïve about a certain thing, it is quite impossible for you to miss that thing. For example, let’s assume that a particular time in your life you were able to travel

2 Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:2

to America every year for your vacation. After a while, things change and you are no longer able to do. After some years, you

The Bible is all about every beneCit that you gain as a result of being

might just say to yourself, “Oh, how I miss going to America for

justiCied and made righteous. These are the things you should

my vacations.” You are able to say this because you have been to

concentrate on. The Bible says that because you have been justiCied,

America. However, you cannot miss going to America if you have

the glory of God is now a possibility as we rejoice in the hope of the

not been there before. You are completely naïve about events that

glory of God. What that simply means is that the glory of God is now

occur in America. So, if you have never gone there, what are you

a possibility. Now, this is just part of it. Since you know that the

going to miss? You won’t miss anything. That is the picture God

glory of God is a possibility, you begin to rejoice.

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Knowing that it is possible for you to have your babies just as God had promised causes you to rejoice. And when you rejoice, just as the Bible says, the joy of the Lord becomes your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). So, permit me to say that it is a righteous cycle

Christianity is all about the grace of God. When the Lord said to

and not a vicious one.

of what Paul was asking Him to take away. The word “strength” in

Think about it: The joy that was set before Jesus Christ infused in Him inner strength to endure the cross and all the hardship. This, He was able to do because there was hope of glory; there was hope that what He was seeing is not the end, and that the end of that matter was going to be better than the beginning. If you realise what glory is, you will just be excited. Hallelujah!

Paul, “My grace is suf3icient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9), He meant that it was not in His hands to take away the pain. God’s grace is His power to take care the verse actually means dunamis, and it means God’s power. So, God’s grace is His power to deal with any circumstance in your life. When the doctor’s report is negative, your assurance that everything will be alright is the grace of God, which is His power.

God’s grace is His power to deal with that challenge in your life, to heal that disease, to bless you with as much babies as you want and guide you in your decisions. God’s dunamis is able to take care

What then is the glory of God? Realise that it is not just a cloud

of any problem that you may ever encounter in life.

appearing in the sky. We don’t talk about the glory of God except there is a manifestation. The glory of God is the manifestation of

Your Justi*ication Brings You Peace

His power. In other words, the glory of God is the outworking of

The manifestation of God’s almightiness and grace brings peace in

His almightiness. Therefore, because you have been made

your life. Being justiCied by His grace makes us to have peace with

righteous, you can see the outworking of His almightiness in your

God. You begin to live a life where you can be so assured that

life. Do you get that? It is a fait accompli that you will see the

nothing is missing and nothing is broken. Even if it is, it will be

outworking of God’s almightiness in your life because you are

mended. You have peace; you have shalom. When you tell a Jew

justiCied.

“Shalom,” what he understands immediately is everything is whole; everything is alright. There is nothing missing and there is

The glory of God swallows up every inadequacy that the doctor

nothing broken. It means that we have peace with God all round.

may have pronounced to you. It overshadows everything in your

When there is chaos in your life, you do not have to panic or

life until all you will see and experience is the manifestation of

worry. All you need to know is that you are justiCied, therefore

that glory in you. When you say to yourself, “I can’t have babies

shalom; everything is whole, there is nothing missing or broken.

because my fallopian tubes are blocked,” remember that the issue is not in the blocked fallopian tubes; the issue is the glory of God.

Shalom is not tested when everything in the natural is okay; it is

And the hope that you will see the glory of God is because you are

tested when there is chaos everywhere and even in the midst of

justiCied.

that chaos you can stand, knowing that it is well. We stand in the hope of the manifestation of God’s almightiness and because of

Many times the thing that stops the manifestation of the glory of God in your life is that you take your inadequacy so much into consideration. The glory of God only promotes; it takes you out of sickness and puts you in a state of health. It says because you are justiCied you have access to His grace. In case you are doubting me, the Bible says, “Therefore being justi3ied by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access to this grace which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory” (Romans 5:1-2). It all starts by being justiCied, by being made righteous.

Your Justi*ication Releases The Grace Of God

that shalom. When you acknowledge that being justiCied is by faith, you will have peace in your life. The access to the grace of God is by faith.

Faith seems farfetched when you esteem the natural things around you far beyond the Word of God, thus, making your impulses respond to the natural things. Make your faith confessions, initially, it might be difCicult, but keep at it. Look at yourself in the mirror, place your hands on your womb and declare, “Shalom, nothing missing, nothing broken.” When you say it long enough, knowing that God has already done it, the situation will have no choice but to align with the Word of God.

9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufCicient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my inCirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12: 9

Stay with the Word of God, it has been proven. Speak the Word to your body. Get acquainted with the Word of God, because when you do that, it is only the voice of God that you will hear.

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