THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
Transform the World
Unlimit your Faith to make Change
By Daniel Bwegule
Published by Superiorworld Publishing at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Daniel Bwegule
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The righteous man
Chapter 2: Faith gives life to the righteous
Chapter 3: Faith, the result of Spiritual birth
Chapter 4: Transforming the world
Chapter 5: Faith, the reality of God’s word
Chapter 6: Faith, knows the outcome of circumstance
Chapter 7: Faith doesn’t depend on time limit
Chapter 8: Faith is word and action
Chapter 9: Faith works for anyone
Chapter 10: We do not act to have. We know we have
Chapter 11: Proclaiming the end from the beginning
Chapter 12: Faith doesn’t work by procedure
Chapter 13: Hearing and acting give desirable results
Chapter 14: Faith and confession
Chapter 15: The single minded
Chapter 16: Getting ownership in spiritual world
Chapter 17: The righteous has overcome the world
Chapter 18: Power of faith in the Holy Spirit
Chapter 19: Walking in love of God
Chapter 20: Exercising strong faith
Chapter 21: Using faith as weapon
Chapter 22: Seeking the invisible things
Chapter 23: Walking by faith
Chapter 24: Never give up
Chapter 25: Not being controlled by physical senses
Chapter 26: Laying hold on eternal life
Chapter 27: The positive attitude
Chapter 28: Being faithful
Chapter 29: Righteousness, faith and prayer
Chapter 30: Being thankful
Dedication
This book is dedicated to men and women all over the world who desire to make change. God re-created you with an ability to make developmental changes in the world around you. Through the power you received from the Spirit of God you can do great things in this world and bring glory to the master creator as he expects you.
But you shall receive power – ability, efficiency, and might – when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witness in Jerusalem and all Judea and all Samaria and to the ends – the very bounds – of the earth.
Acts 1:8 (Amp)
Preface
The Righteousness Transform the World, is the devotional, inspiring and revelational book which is designed to influence the development of the reader spiritually, mentally and bodily. Every human being is designed to operate in both spiritual and physical worlds. Regardless of which principles are used, the spirit and the body must work together for the development of that individual.
In the world today everyone strives to ensure remarkable changes in his or her surrounding, which base on different matters such as economics, education, health, relationship and so forth. But, many people have been unaware about the concept for leading to those changes. This is due to misunderstanding of the reliable principles. The Righteousness Transform the World is the book that contains the answer for this. It describes the concept of how faith is used with no limitation to effect change in the world. Therefore, to achieve your desires for making remarkable changes in your world, you will necessarily have to read this devotional book.
This book is for everyone who desires to cause transformation to his or her world based in economics, health, academics and so on, basing on God’s principles and power. I trust this devotional book will be a blessing to you.
Remember, the power to lead you to your destiny is in you!
Introduction
Stepping into the Course of Action
This, The Righteousness Transform the World is the 30 days devotional book designed to influence spiritual growth and development of the reader. The book contains inspiring and revelation articles basing on the word of God. Most of quotations are from the Holy Bible New King James Version and some other versions used are as indicated.
From the past to the present world, every individual who ever lives in this world grows and develops with the motive of causing change in his or her surroundings, beginning with the family level, coming to the village, in the district, in the province, in the nation and eventually the entire world. This is about change basing on location. But also, there is the change to be done basing on individual’s needs, such as financial need, health, education, relationship and so forth. This desired change is rooted on the application of God’s principles such as the principle of faith that says; “the righteous shall live by faith.” Therefore, developmental changes of your world will basically depend on this principle.
So, as you will be reading this devotional book, you will learn how to use faith to effect changes in your world. It doesn’t matter in which situation you are, it doesn’t matter who you are. As long as you apply this principle of faith, changes will be effected in your world. This devotional book is divided into 30 chapters, therefore, is advised to read one chapter a day so as to enable you to meditate on what you have learned. You can also re-read this book as much times as you can and saying prayers and thanks giving at the end of each chapter until you gain power to transform the world around you.
It’s my prayer that as you read this book may your life be inspired and transformed through the power of God, so that your spiritual growth and development will be effectual, in Jesus name. Amen!
Chapter 1: The Righteous Man
"For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him."
(2 Corinthians 5:21).
Who is the righteous? The above scripture gives us an answer. It says; “he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.” The word righteousness here has the same meaning as the word righteous. Therefore, in other words we may say, he made him to be sin for us, that we might become the righteous of God in him. This scripture describes the exchange process which was done between the Saviour and men that the one who had no sin became a sinner and we who were sinners became righteous. In other words, the righteous became the sinner and sinners became the righteous. So, these words give us the meaning of the righteous man, that it is the one who is blameless, or sinless, and holy.
The righteousness is the gift of God. Romans 5:17 says; "....those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ." God gave us this gift for Jesus’ sake, because according to the nature of sin that we had, we deserved death. But, in contrary God gave us the gift of righteousness through Christ Jesus. In other words, we were given the gift of eternal life; as it is written in the scripture on Romans 6:23 that; "….the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
We know the gift is something given to somebody freely. Therefore, it doesn’t cost anything for someone to become the righteous. It has been given free of charge. Romans 5:18, puts clear that; "…as through one man’s offence judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life." This means through unrighteous act of Adam judgment came to all men and through righteous act of Jesus Christ the free gift of eternal life came to all men resulting into justification of life. Now, if righteousness is the gift of God, how do you take it? The scripture in Romans 10 says; "…with the heart one believes to righteousness" (v10). That is, when you believe that God raised Jesus from the dead will be justified (v9).
Therefore, there is nothing else you need to do for becoming righteous, rather, have faith in the son of God. For those who believe in the only begotten son of God shall not perish, but have eternal life. So, don’t delay to take the gift of righteousness for yourself. It is not cheep, but free of charge. You don’t need to pay anything but only believing in the word of God. Also, if you have already received your gift of righteousness, it is your time to go another step further, by living the righteousness life, the life without guilt, self condemnation, fear and worries, but, life full of victory and prosperity in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!
Thanks giving
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Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for your love that you granted us through giving your Son Jesus Christ as the sacrifice so that we might become righteous in him. I thank you for that precious gift of eternal life. Thank you Father for now I am living the righteousness life in Christ Jesus. Receive glory, praise and honour. Hallelujah!
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Chapter 2: Faith Gives Life to the Righteous
"The just shall live by faith".
(Romans 1:17)
Life in the Kingdom of God is lived by principles. So, faith is the vital principle which needs to be applied. As the opening scripture says that; the just shall live by faith, that means without faith no life. What is faith? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Then, if faith is the evidence of things not seen, that means faith does not operate direct in the physical world. So, this means the life of the righteous man doesn’t depend on the physical world anymore, but depends on the spiritual world. Therefore do not be discouraged with what is going on in this world; if you are the righteous, you are no longer a part of it.
The scripture says, "The righteous shall live by faith." It does not say the righteous shall live by praying so much. It does not say he shall live by fasting very much or whatever, but it says, he shall live by faith. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Then connecting with Mathew 4:4 that says; "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." This means, if the just shall live by faith and faith comes by hearing the word of God, that is to say the righteous shall live by the word of God. Thus, your life is dependent on the word of God which you feed into your spirit.
When we talk about the righteous man in the new covenant, we mean a new creation. This means we don’t talk about the flesh, but the inner man who lives inside the body. So, since the word of God is the food of the spirit of man, it means the nutritional status of the spiritual man depends on the kind of stuff he takes. For example, if he feeds on a balanced spiritual food, which is the sound doctrine, certainly, he will never be spiritually malnourished, rather, will be healthy and powerful. Likewise, if he feeds on none balanced spiritual food he will obvious be spiritually malnourished and weak. Now, what do you choose? Becoming spiritually strong or weak? My advice is that; choose to be healthy and strong, and this is the best choice if you want to function perfectly and have positive results of what you do.
Summing up, I conclude by saying that, if faith gives life to the righteous man and faith comes by hearing the word of God, thus make the word of God available for you richly. Read the Bible, meditate and act on the word of God so that to build up your spirit. By doing this, you will be able to live the righteousness life, which is the life above all lives in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!
Prayer
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Heavenly Father, I thank you for your kindness, I thank you for your word. Father, I pray that your word will always abide in me richly to give me light and inspiration that will lead me to the destiny in Jesus name. Amen
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Chapter 3: Faith – the Result of Spiritual Birth
"For I say through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith."
(Romans 12:3)
Someone may say I have no faith, but I am born again; in other words I am a Christian but I don’t have faith. Another one may say I have great faith. But remember, the scripture tells that; “God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” This means everyone who is born again has been born with faith. That is, the day you heard the word of God for the very first time and believed it, faith came into your spirit.
The scripture says; "we are born again by the incorruptible seed which is the word of God" (1Peter 1:23).Therefore, you received faith the day you were born again by the word of God. Remember, Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And it comes as the gift of salvation from the Holy Spirit. Then as you continue to hear the word of God day after day, it helps to increase and strengthens your faith.
Therefore, no one who is born again should say I have no faith, and no one should proud that he has strong faith, for we all receive faith as the gift of the Holy Spirit after our spiritual birth. But, the point is that, we differ from one another on the amount and strength of faith. One may have weak faith and another one may have strong faith, another one may have little faith while another may have great faith, so each one can function depending in which level he is.
Now, what does this teach us? The answer is that, all who have been born again should be aware that, each one of us has been given the measure of faith, but what you need is to increase and strengthen your faith. Little and weak faith hinder your ability to function at the higher level. Therefore, increase your faith by feeding yourself with the word of God. Then put your faith in practice to make it strong. Then, be aware of these things that faith is the result of spiritual birth, and every one who is born again has been given the measure of faith as the gift. Thus, it is his or her responsibility to live by it so that to get its fruits.
Remember the principle that says; the righteous shall live by faith. Therefore, it does not matter of your righteousness; if no faith the fruits of eternal life can not manifest in you.
Thanks giving
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Heavenly Father, I thank you for the gift of faith. My desire is that I will always operate with big and strong faith to transform my world. I thank you for your powerful word that you have given me to live by. In the name of Jesus, you deserve glory and praise. Amen!
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Chapter 4: Transforming the World
"For assuredly, I say to you, If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."
(Mathew 17:20).
Faith contains force that causes transformation. What is force? Force means power, which is an ability to cause change. Therefore, faith contains power or ability to cause change. In other words, it has ability to cause transformation.
In the opening scripture above, it says; you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move. In other words you will cause transformation of this mountain, or you will transfer this mountain from its place to another place or you will change the history of this environment. This is because if someone who saw this mountain here before transformation has done will come and find something new, he will not speak the same language, but he will be marvelling and talking about what happened.
Remember this transformation does not occur only to the mountain. But, it can also occur to any situation that needs change. For example the same principle was used by the Master himself. He said to the fig tree: "Let no one eat fruit from you ever again" (Mark 11:14). He just spoke a word and went his way, but in the spiritual realm the transformation occurred. Then, the next day the fig tree was found withered away (Mark 11:21). This happened because his word had power or force which when worked with faith change was effected. He did not fast. He did not either kneel down to pray earnestly to make it happen, but he just spoke an authoritative word and the history of that place was totally changed.
So, this is how to use force which is in you, that when you act in faith, the world gets transformed. You can transform your world in any aspect of your life. You can transform your world of finance, you can transform your world of health, and you can transform the troubling situation in your marriage and make it more successful than ever, you can transform your world of education and so on. What you need here is to speak the word with authority to create new things. So, now let us use our faith to transform this world. Let us prove to the all creation that there is power in us, the power of the righteous man that can change the history of this world for the glory of God in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!