LORD, I NEED MORE OF YOU

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For MONDAY, 13TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: LORD, I NEED MORE OF YOU.

MEMORIZE: “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” Philippians 3:10.

SCRIPTURE READING: Philippians 3:9-11.

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”

EXPOSITION:

Since sin nature has destroyed the relationship of men with God, we need rebound for continuity. The price of our redemption had been fully paid by the Lord Jesus Christ. This makes way for a new relationship with the Father. Christ thereby becomes our righteousness as He inputs His life into us. We inherit divine nature as He terminates our okd sinful nature by His forgiveness.  Apostle Paul had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. This is illustrated in several instances. 

1. He desired to win Christ; and an unspeakable gainer he would reckon himself if he had but an interest in Christ and his righteousness, and if Christ became his Lord and his Saviour: That I may win him; as the runner wins the prize, as the sailor makes the port he is bound for. The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. 

 

2. That he might be found in him (Philippians 3:9), as the manslayer was found in the city of refuge, where he was safe from the avenger of blood, Nu 35:25. Or it alludes to a judicial appearance; so we are to be found of our Judge in peace, 2Peter 3:14.  We are undone without a righteousness wherein to appear before God, for we are guilty.  There is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. None can have interest or benefit by it but those who come off from confidence in themselves, and are brought heartily to believe in him. 

 

"Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law; not thinking that my outward observances and good deeds are able to atone for my bad ones, or that by setting the one over against the other I can come to balance accounts with God. No, the righteousness which I depend upon is that which is through the faith of Christ, not a legal, but evangelical righteousness: The righteousness which is of God by faith, ordained and appointed of God." The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isa 45:24; Jer 23:6.

3. That he might know Christ (Php 3:10): That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings.  Faith is called knowledge, Isa 53:11. Knowing him here is believing in him: it is an experimental knowledge of the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, or feeling the transforming efficacy and virtue of them

4. That he might be conformable unto him, and this also is meant of his sanctification.  We are then made conformable to his death when we die to sin, as Christ died for sin, when we are crucified with Christ, the flesh and affections of it mortified, and the world is crucified to us, and we to the world, by virtue of the cross of Christ.  This is our conformity to his death.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, I desire for more of you in my daily walk with you. Help me to know you more and be more fruitful in you in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Judges 19-21.

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