The Power of being a True Christian

Written by Joseph Ho, July 12th 2014

I believe that many Christians are asking the questions why they still believe in a God who answers prayers only half the time. Most Christians don't get all they asked from God and they wonder why. They asked for healings which never came, they asked for financial freedom from debt which never came also, they also asked for reconciliation from broken relationship, yet God don't mend the broken hearts. So they begin to wonder about this true God who never seems to answer prayers which are simple in content. They only get 50% chance that God answers prayers. Will a good God give them a sickness and then say my grace is sufficient for you? I think not.

Hebrews 12:8New International Version (NIV)

8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

Hebrews 2:10New International Version (NIV)

10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.

But I am very sure if the sickness came from greed, overworked, fear for the lack of faith in a God who can provide, abuse through alcoholism, smoking, sex, and others, God will not easily remove his lessons. He will let them experience the consequences of such abuse for quite some time before he releases them from the wages of sin. That he will do most of the time. Everyone must pay for the wages of sin, until we truly repent and understand the pain of being disobedient to this God. When God chastise, it will have to take a prison sentence before anyone is released. Without true regret and repentance, no one will be released from the sufferings as the time factor is accorded for the time to repent.

Isaiah 55:8New International Version (NIV)

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
   neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord.

This is a fact not a lie to discredit the Lord God Almighty. And this is a truth which many Christians have witnessed by do not dare to speak a lot in any public area for shame that their God does not seem to be Almighty in nature. And also for the fact that God does not remove their pain instantly after they seek help. So the fairy tales and myths begin to die off, what was preached to them is not what they seem to experience. So these spokesmen of God are painting a false reputation and image of our God. God does not conform to men teachings, he conforms only to his own ways for he already said, my ways are higher than your ways.

Isaiah 55:9New International Version (NIV)

9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Proverbs 8:32New International Version (NIV)

32 "Now then, my children, listen to me;
    blessed are those who keep my ways.

Hebrews 3:10New International Version (NIV)

10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.'

Thus, the power of being a Christian is walking in the ways of God. So what is the ways of God? Are the preachers of God teaching the right way of God? If yes, then why are there so many sufferings in the church and no manifestation of the power of God. Isn't it logical to conclude that what they are teachings no one is following or they have taught the wrong ways of God? There can only be two conclusions, either the teachers are at fault or the students are not learning.

When the power of Christ is not present in a church, it would be wise to dissect the causes and seek restitution. It is not fair to the sheep that they are led astray by the blind shepherd. Shepherd need to communicate with God to lead the sheep, after all the destiny of the world and each individual are in the hands of God who is the author of our faith.

True Christians should always walk in victory, victorious over every difficult situation that comes his way, since God will show himself to remove all enemies that goes against them. All manner of evil will be deflected and God comes to show himself by vindicating us from these evil forces exercised through disobedient people consumed by the evil of their hearts, doing Satan's bidding thinking it's of God. These people who do Satan's work actually think they are doing God a favour, as they are blind and deaf, they follow scripture blindly in the wrong season; they applied the wrong scriptures causing more injustice than righteousness.

Blind and deaf Christians cannot do God's will, for they do not conform to the leading of the Holy Spirit so they are false worshippers who worship God in form but no substance. They blindly applied static biblical principles and think that by following the Logos, they are doing God's work. This is the hidden Power of the True Christians who walk in the Spirit of the living God. True Christians walk in the rhema word of God, the enlightened now prevalent word of God; in short they ate today's manna and not yesterday/s rotten bread. Thus, they manifest the True Power of a Real Christian who is in the Spirit of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16New International Version (NIV)

15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

Thus, there are 2 types of Christians one with the Holy Spirt and the other with his worldly wisdom spirit, not transformed and don't know the truth. These 2 will always be in conflict with one another for the one without the Spirit of God will come against the Spirit man as his own spirit conforms to worldly wisdom and teachings which is against the will of God. This spiritual differences set the true and false worshippers apart, and thus we get the word "weeds and wheat" the good and the bad.

If you are a Christian and you never heard from God your father, then you are none of his. True believers must listen to God and follow him because they have the Holy Spirit. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, claiming that the blood of Jesus covers you is extremely foolish as God has never accepted your worship as his people. So his protection will never come upon you even if you cry until the cows come home, it will never happen. This is the main reason why "Christians" don't get their prayers answered, for they were never True Christians in the first place. Now I am not suggestion that only True Christians will always get their prayers answered, there is a time when the will of God conflicts with a  believers wish and so this kind of prayers will not be answered as well.

John 10:16New International Version (NIV)

16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

John 10:27-28New International Version (NIV)

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Only true Christians hear from God and they obey this commandments, those who don't hear cannot obey him. These false Christians obey only the bible with their own understanding and not God as they could not hear from God. So they come into conflict with the true sons and daughters of God.

1 Corinthians 6:17New International Version (NIV)

17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

 

John 4:23New International Version (NIV)

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

God is seeking true worshippers who will worship him in Spirit and in Truth. So God is not seeking just Christians who go to church as a social activities they do on Sundays to meet friends and be part of an acceptable nucleus, no he is seriously looking for real worshippers. God seeks those who are given his Spirit by Jesus Christ and he seeks those who walk in Truth, no compromise.

Walking in Truth requires a true sacrifice of praise, our work as a worship to God, our walk as a Spirit-led journey, we chastisement as a discipline from God to perfect us into holiness, our daily activities is with godly principles derived from the bible. God hates liars, so we must hate liars, God hate evil, so we must hate evil, we do what God does.  See Jabez was more honourable than his brothers and God hears his prayers and blessed him. I believe Jabez honours what he said and does, he does not liar and then claim the power of grace and mercy of God to forgive that lie. Such are the wrong teachings and application of grace and mercy. When you lie deliberately your life does not align with biblical principles. God cannot forgive a liar without consequences. He will surely chastise that liar.

Saying something you don't mean and having a loose lip constitutes a liar. Repent before it's too late. God cannot bless a constant liar who claims the Grace of God as a means to dissolve himself from the consequences of the liar he spoke causing his friends to be led astray when they believe in the words of this kind of man. This is evil in plain sight, yet this misleads the man to think that the Grace of God will always forgive him. So there can be no transformation in such a man since the Grace of God will always be there to forgive such a man. Yet strange and funny is the claim of the Blood of Christ covers him. God protects a constant liar? So the Holy God now has a low standard for righteousness? This is incredible heresy. This is the delusion of the false Gospel, as it goes against every word written in the Bible. So such kind of Christians does not have the power to overcome, for he thinks he is always forgiven when he sins. So no Christianity exists in them for the word of God is not in them, in such a worshiper of falsehood, yet these kind of worshippers are led astray and the consequence of their destination is hell.

I better show that all liars the truth is they will go to hell for it is written in the Book of Revelation. Saying something without honouring your own words is called lying and liars go to hell, it is written in the bible. And it cannot be wrong for no men can change what is written by God. Also those who have no courage and guts to speak the truth will also not enter into heaven.

Revelation 21:8New International Version (NIV)

8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

1 Chronicles 4:9New International Version (NIV)

9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[a] saying, "I gave birth to him in pain."

We follow and make our life a living word of God by actually living out the words of God as written in the bible but with Spirit wisdom.  That is then the True Power of a Christian. This is my definition of a True Sons and Daughters of God. We are not of this world; we are of the Spirit of God so our ways are not the ways of this world. Any questions, please write to prophet3333jh@gmail.com.