{"id":7833,"date":"2025-08-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:21:00","slug":"our-highest-calling-reveal-god-flesh-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/our-highest-calling-reveal-god-flesh-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Our highest calling &#8211; to reveal God in our flesh III"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear readers to the column of our \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI thank God for every one of you and pray that your thirst for the Word of God and His wisdom would not grow cold and that you would not lose the passionate desire to fellowship with Him daily, since God is the true source of life.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe are still talking about the calling of every Christian \u2013 to manifest God through our lives, as Jesus did. We discussed that Jesus came to manifest God to the people. He paid the price on the Cross of Calvary so that every one who believes in Him can become one with the Father. Now Jesus calls every believer to follow His example and to manifest God to the people through our lives.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJesus manifested God in two main ways:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Through His lifestyle (character) and<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Through His deeds (gifts).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe can also manifest God through our characters and our works.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Character<\/strong>\u00a0is the passive part of our being that reveal itself under specific circumstances. It is not possible to determine character right away. It is who we really are. The character of Christ is formed in us hrough the help of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>It manifests in\u00a0<strong><em><u>us:<\/u><\/em><\/strong>through<strong><em><u>peace, love and joy<\/u>;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>It manifests in\u00a0<strong><em>our relationships with other people:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>through<strong><em><u>long-suffering, goodness and kindness<\/u>;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>It manifests in\u00a0<strong><em>our relationships with God:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>through\u00a0<strong><em>faithfulness<u>, gentleness and self-control.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control\u00bb\u00a0(Galatians, 5:22-23).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe fruit of the Spirit helps us to act and react like Jesus. We are able to manifest God only if the character of Christ is manifested in us. We can only be like Christ when we have the fruit of the Spirit growing in us. As we submit ourselves to the Spirit of Christ that indwells us, His character and His traits will be formed in us and that will help us to live the life He lived. It will help us to relate to God, to other people and to ourselves like Jesus did or would do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut God also wants us to do the works of Jesus. For this very reason He gave us the Holy Spirit with all of His manifestations. We read about these manifestations in the following passage:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00ab\u2026for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues\u00bb\u00a0(1 Corinthians, 12:8-10).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe manifest God in our lives not just through the character of Christ, but also when we do the works Jesus did while on earth. And that is entails the active part of our life &#8211; our personalities.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Our personality<\/strong>\u00a0is the active side of our life that is connected to what we do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo we manifest God in our flesh when through the help of the Spirit as we develop the fruit of the Spirit and exercise the gifts of the Spirit. We will not be able to manifest God in our lives in this wicked generation all by our own or in our own strength; this kind of life style is only possible by the power of God that dwells in us.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMay God give you every one of us the understanding of the importance of us fulfilling our callings!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now Jesus calls every believer to follow His example and to manifest God to the people through our lives.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus manifested God in two main ways:\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00b7 Through His lifestyle (character) and\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00b7 Through His deeds (gifts).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-photo-1027131-1024x709.jpeg",1024,709,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40093,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/40093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}