Christmas Day Sermon: The Grace Called Jesus

Text: John 1:14–17
Supporting Scriptures: Genesis 3:15, Isaiah 9:6, Luke 2:10–21, Titus 2:11–14, Revelation 21:3–5

THIS THING CALLED GRACE Part 3

The language of abundance transcends mere words; it encapsulates the beliefs and intentions that underlie those words. It’s about aligning your thoughts and expressions with the financial reality you aspire to manifest.

Unveiling the Subtle Forces of Language

Language is more than a mere tool for communication; it’s a powerful instrument for turning dreams into reality. The words you choose can either magnetize abundance toward you or repel it.

The amazing truth is that life happens for you. Life does not happen to you.

When Adam lost the garden, he lost the enclosure of pleasure, and we see that Jesus’s ministry brought among other things – healing and provision.

Let’s look at how Jesus demonstrated this mindset in His earthly ministry

• God spoke abundance into our spirit:
• God gave us permission to FREELY use the resources He has made available in the garden of abundance.
• Scarcity mindset entered the world when our parents focus was shifted away from abundance to lack
• Scarcity mindedness leads to nakedness, inadequacies and fear
• Scarcity mindedness is based on deception – and deception is the primary tool of the devil to shift your focus from the abundance that surrounds you.
• Scarcity mindedness results in not having enough, hardships not because things are hard but because we have believed them so

So God is saying to you that His word will provide you with refreshment that gives you stability and steadfastness which then leads to hope.

Patience + Encouragement (of scriptures) = Hope

So if patience is missing from the equation, you can’t have hope.

Why is hope important?

Because hope is the anchor of faith!

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The year shall end in praise

Time is an important part of our lives. It gives order to our days and allows us to set schedules. But schedules in and of themselves are worthless unless we have a purpose behind the schedule. It is useless to keep track of time if there is no end toward which we are moving.

Have you ever been unexpectedly called in to meet with your boss, and then spent the dreadful time before your meeting conjuring up why you might be in trouble? Has your imagination led you to create scenarios of how you might be fired, and what your reaction

would be? Have you ever imagined the worst-case scenario in some situations where the future seemed unknown to you?

This is your imagination feeding on the fear of the worst thing happening. This may have come from movies we have watched or even life's experiences but how does God wants us to to live? To remember that fear is not our future. God is - and He has conquered every tomorrow before we get there.

Psalm 139: 5 offers a comforting prose for every believer when the terrain of life looks unfamiliar:

You’ve gone into my future to prepare the way, and in kindness you follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past. You have laid your hand on me!

The greatest antidote to fear is to know ane be consciously aware of the love and presence of God.

Key 1: The environment

Key 2: Alone

Key 3: Self-discipline

Key 4: Germinate

Key 5: Water (Eph 5:26)

Key 6: Fertilise

Key 7: Sunshine

Key 8: Pruning

Key 9: Time

Key 10: Patience

I am teaching on “10 keys to a fruitful life. Join us if you can… blessings

How to use the Word to build a new image of prosperity in you

Your Miracle Is In Your Mouth - 12 Oct. 2025

This week I had a dream where God showed me the picture of a tree that is beautiful with evergreen leaves and fruits along its branches. As I looked, I could see through the trunk to see the roots of this tree tapping down into the river bed below. I could see the spirals of nutrients as they flow through the trunk from the root up to the stem and the leaves. It was a fascinating sight. The tree looked luxurious, magnificent and undisturbed and here is what I heard God said to me:

“you see this tree is connected to the source from which it was made from. It does not have to struggle for nutrients or fail to produce fruit. Why? Because it was connected to its source. Everything that connects to its source functions optimally because that thing draws all it needs from its source”.

You want to know what God taught me about being fruitful? Then join us tomorrow at 8:00 am UK on live.thelightshouse.org to learn more

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When the Israelites were sandwiched between the rock and the high sea with the uproar of Pharoah’s armies behind and the impassable Red Sea ahead, it was a hopeless situation - one with no way out.. UNTIL.. They encountered the God who delivers! No matter what you have faced and facing right now, here is a word from the Lord: “When I had nothing, desperate and defeated, I cried out to the Lord and he heard me, bringing his miracle-deliverance when I needed it most.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭34‬:‭6‬ ‭TPT‬‬ This month, God’s miracle deliverance will visit you and lifts you up.

How do you embrace your beingness?

Fortunately as a child of God, God already has made you in the image and likeness of Jesus so your beingness is the outworking of a christ-inworked life.

•  Know that your beingness is an internal job and that your real self is made in the image and likeness of God.
• Know and embrace the truth that the atmosphere God created around your life is that of delight, abundance, prosperity and wholesomeness (Gen 2:8-14)
• Know your unique assignment on earth and follow it (Gen 2:15)
• Only focus on what is good in your life (Gen 2:16-17)
• Surround yourself with people that share the same values as you (Gen 2:18)
• Demonstrate your God-gevne authority (Gen 2:19-20)
• Refuse to wear the cloak of shame and regret (Gen 2:25).

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Be fruitful

Do multiply. Do replenish the earth and Do Subdue it

Have Dominion

The mindset, the mastery and the mentoring for success

The mindset, the mastery and the mentoring for success

The mindset, the mastery and the mentoring for success -3

In today's message, I want to share with you a few things why you are uniquely wired for success and why failure, lack or stagnation are aliens to your natural make up.

God had an intention to create humans like Himself and He desires for these humans to dominate everything He had created.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. So faith only comes as you hear and keep hearing the word of God. The continuous hearing of the Word makes your mind set on the Word – your mind takes on the frame/set of the Word. But it is not just any Word of God. To have an ownership mindset, your mind must be set based on the finished work of Jesus. It is about what Jesus has done. It can not be because it is in the Bible.

When God’s blessings are evident in your life, they look like:

Like the psalmist prayed:

“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish the work of our hands upon us.” (Ps. 90:17)

We pray:

The beauty and glory of the Lord is on me and in me. He has established the work of my hand.

When God’s blessing rests on your hands, ordinary work produces extraordinary results.

The Bible teaches that our mind can be shaped by the structure of that which we allow to pour into us and that whatever is allowed to pour into our mind, ultimately determines the reality we are going to experience.

God is saying to us that the way we will not be shaped or fashioned to the way the world thinks and acts is by renewing our mind.

Transformation comes in the place of mind-renewal

As the mind is renewed, it develops into a mindset akin to what it is predominantly exposed to.

Affirmation for Success

Lets look at the code that God used:

Gen 1:1, Gen 1:26

-          The word of God created life (Gen 1:1, 26, John 1:1-5)

-          The word of God reframes and reshapes life (Heb. 11:3)

-          The word of God maintains life (Heb. 1:3)

-          The word of God gave you the new birth (1 Pet 1:23)

God coded everything by his faith filled words now he gave Adam a mentoring moment on how to frame his word:

A believer can experience the same failure pattern of his parents but it does not mean it is generational curse. In order to understand how this is possible, let me explain to you 3 ways in which we can adopt the behaviours of our parents without knowing it:

-          Verbal programming (what did you hear when you are growing up?)

-          Modelling (what did you seewhen you are growing up?)

-          Meaning attached to specific events (what did you experience when you were young?)

Proverbs 26:2 says Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying, So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving]. This means that a curse without the basis for it (without a cause) shall never stand. The first time the word "curse" was mentioned, it was directed to the devil and that speaks volume - that God issues a curse over anything that seeks to undermine you or that which seeks to hold you captive.

A curse is the opposite of a blessing and both are issued by words. As a believer, a curse is legally not allowed to operate in your life. Why? Because Gal 3:13 says Christ has redeemed you from every curse. As a child of God, Jesus Christ says He has given you the Holy Spirit. The Aramaic word for the Holy Spirit is paraqleta, which is taken from two root words: (1) praq, “to end, finish, or to save,” and (2) lyta, which means “the curse.” What a beautiful word picture: the Holy Spirit comes to end the work of the curse (of sin) in our lives and to save us from its every effect! Paraqleta means “a redeemer who ends the curse.”

This is the reason why a curse of any form is not allowed legally to operate in your life though you can experience its influence if you surrender yourself to deception and lying vanities.

Join us tomorrow at 8:00AM as we stream "The Anatomy of a Curse" on live.thelightshouse.org and we will seek to answer these 3 questions:

- Can a believer be cursed?

- Can a believer experience a curse?

- Is it OK to believe in generational curse?

Blessings

A lie is opposite of the truth.

A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving or misleading someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar. Lies can be interpreted as deliberately false statements or misleading statements.

Jesus called Satan, the devil, a murderer from the beginning.  But in Genesis, in the beginning, Satan didn’t pull a knife on Eve.  He didn’t throw her off a cliff.  He didn’t twist a vine around her neck and strangle her.  He didn’t hit her over the head with a rock.  That would have been too overt.

When questioned, Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent.  The result was a separation from God (a spiritual death), eviction from the garden, and eventual physical death of the carnal body.  The result of the lie was a murder of the truth, and the murder of the spiritual covenant relation they had with God, and the murder of the body.

Because someone who believes a lie, takes action based upon that mistaken belief, and because the consequences of those actions can, and often do result in death, any one who lies to you doesn’t care whether you live or die.

HOW TO LIVE ABOVE CURSES

Today, I want to explore a topic titled “defiant faith”

The word “defiant” means full of or showing a disposition to challenge, resist, or fight : full of or showing defiance : bold, impudent. defiant rebels. a defiant refusal.

What is defiant faith? It is a faith that refuses to give in to the fear of the enemy. It is a faith that speaks boldly of the power of God to overcome the adversary no matter what we see. It is a faith that boasts in the goodness of God.

When naysayers seek to pull you down or the voice of logic seeks to come in, remind yourself of God's victories of the past in your life.

Conclusion

The Word of God sets a divine flow for life:

What you hear enters your heart.

What you see becomes your vision.

What your heart holds shapes your mouth.

What your mouth speaks directs your steps.

Where your feet walk leads to what your hands will prosper in.

Psalm 1 reminds us: the blessed man chooses his ears, eyes, heart, mouth, and steps carefully—and

the result is a life that flourishes like a well-watered tree.

This is the flow of a blessed life.

When you face a Goliath moment in your life, what should you do: 1. Be motivated by the end results 2. Ignore the criticisms and faithlessness of your close friends 3. Decide to fight the good

There is a difference between soul, spirit, body and heart – and the word of God operates on the heart.

Why? Because your heart determines where your life goes.

Your heart is where the seed is planted.

The faith you believed came by hearing the Word of God or the promises of God in the specific matter but that faith will be contended for by the world, the enemy, unbelieving family members and friends, religious people, pop culture, pseudo-science, media distractions, purveyors of lies etc

If you are believing God for a miracle in your life or a breakthrough for your marriage or healing for your loved ones or whatever it is you have believed God for, it is crucial to know how to “fight” to lay hold of the winner’s prize.

How do you fight the good fight of faith? The Bible says, it is by laying hold of eternal life. How can you lay hold something that is already yours? Did Jesus not say in John 10:28-30 that:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

30 I and my Father are one. Jesus is saying here that your eternal life is guaranteed. Your future in Christ is secured if you have made Him your Lord and Saviour.

We know the will of God for you is to have and enjoy eternal life. We define eternal life as the quality of life that God enjoys which is a present day possession of the believer but it must be known, enjoyed and experienced as an active, vigorous blessed life in this life and forever.

1)     God gives length of days to us.

2)     The phrase "The length of His blessing" equate to the quality of life that we enjoy.

So, from the above, we can know the will of God for us.

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In Christ, God has already given us abundant and long life. But we still have to receive (partake of) His gift by faith. It is through the promises (words) of God that we gain the knowledge of God's will and so obtain the faith we need to receive His life. Thus as we put His Word first, we come to the knowledge that God has given us all we need, and this gives us the confidence to come to Him and partake (receive).

The two areas of right BELIEVING and right DOING, involve:

1. Having FAITH in God's promises of long-life, and

2. Obeying God's WISDOM in our actions and life-style!

WISDOM in living is just as needful to long-life as well as FAITH.

When you are fearful or sad, just embrace the Wisdom of God.

What is the Wisdom of God?

The Wisdom of God is a Person.

In the life of Joseph, we noticed that:

Grace brought him to the palace.     Grace gave him the interpretation of the dreams and   Grace gave him the practical action plan to save the nation

Grace is the ever willingness of God to show… love, mercy, power, favour and all good things He has for us.

Grace is the divine help of God that we received when we are at our wits ends.

Grace is God’s gift to us.

Grace can’t be worked for

Grace must be received.

Grace is the escalator that takes us to higher heights of life

Grace is the elevator that moves us quickly to places we can’t get to ourselves.

It was God’s grace that helped Joseph that gave him the right words to speak to Pharaoh and presents a solution.

Humility therefore leads to soul prosperity and soul prosperity leads to wholesome life prosperity. 

Jesus demonstrated how humility leads to more grace

Even though Jesus is Grace Personified, He demonstrated how grace works with humility for us and why it is a way to pursue.

The question: How do I take advantage of what is mine?

 First by recognising that the blessings of God is not something you inherit by virtue of any

meritorious act on your part. It is a gift from God the moment you become born again.

 Second, know that though it is your inheritance, walking in it requires your co-operation. It is

not everything that God desires that He gets. For example: God’s desire is that all be saved (

1 Tim 2:4) but not all are saved. Why? Because of the response to the grace freely given by

God. God’s grace makes all things available but our response is crucial on how we enjoy

what God has freely given

 Third, God functions by principles – and these principles, known, learnt and applied are what

makes one person enjoys God and the other may not. God is constant in both situations but

the response from each individual to his grace is crucial.

John 1:16 says of the fullness of Jesus, we have all received. Every believer has already received the fullness of God’s grace. That fullness is no one other person than the Lord Jesus. We are 100% full with God’s grace but the Bible also teaches that God gives more grace to us.

How is it possible to have more of what you are already full of? Is that a contradictory statement? No. It is not. Even though God’s grace is always 100% available for you, you can experience a different dimensions of that if you learn this one truth: how to walk in humility!

Humility is not

·       Having a low self esteem

·       Self-deprecating attitude

·       Sense of unworthiness

·       Being subservient

·       Being a “door-mat”

·       allowing people to walk all over you.

Watch this message as Davies Bamigboye shares how Joseph’s humble heart was in display when he met Pharoah and how we can learn from him on how to walk in humility.

John 1:16 says of the fullness of Jesus, we have all received. Every believer has already received the fullness of God’s grace. That fullness is no one other person than the Lord Jesus. We are 100% full with God’s grace but the Bible also teaches that God gives more grace to us.

How is it possible to have more of what you are already full of? Is that a contradictory statement? No. It is not. Even though God’s grace is always 100% available for you, you can experience a different dimensions of that if you learn this one truth: how to walk in humility!

Humility is not

·       Having a low self esteem

·       Self-deprecating attitude

·       Sense of unworthiness

·       Being subservient

·       Being a “door-mat”

·       allowing people to walk all over you.

Watch this message as Davies Bamigboye shares how Joseph’s humble heart was in display when he met Pharoah and how we can learn from him on how to walk in humility.

The seed must be in the ground and die there in order to produce more of itself. For a seed to be more than just a seed, it had to be buried in the earth (and, thus, in a manner, die), after which the life-generating elements within the seed would cause it to germinate into a plant containing many such seeds.