The Believer's Standing and His State

Before delving to the core of this message, I must stress the need to raise your mindset to think like Him (1 Peter 4:1-2). I should also point that the standing and the state of a Christian are two different facets of his life.

As Christians, our standing can determine our state but our state cannot determine our standing. Our standing is permanent and unchangeable, while our state is temporal and changeable. Many times, people judge us according to our state... and not by our standing.

Our standing connotes divinity as it is what Jesus has done for us, while our state requires humanity as it is what we do for ourselves.
"We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit." 2 Cor 3:18 (HCSB)

Who do you see in the mirror when you look? That same person is the glory of the Lord.That is your standing.

Don't measure your life by your state but measure your life by your standing in Christ. For instance; "...the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5 - is your standing in Christ. But what if you are diagnosed of Arthritis or even cancer? Don't worry, calm down, for it will come to pass.

Let your standing determine your faith, don't allow your state determine what you believe in. Your standing must change your state because the Precious Holy Spirit is our agent of change.

Your standing says: "you are the head and not the tail". But you've just been fired from work... You are broke at the moment... You can't even feed... Just don't worry, believe in your standing and allow it to rule your faith.

You have a standing that will change your state. HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Migraines or any manner of sickness isn't your standing, but your state - which is temporal and highly changeable. You must believe in your standing and daily give thanks to God for your standing in Him.

God wants us to "fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." (2 Cor 4:18)

Accordingly, we must not look at the things which are seen - that is, our state - but at the things which are not seen, which is our standing in Christ Jesus.

Your standing is permanent and unchangeable. No man can change it. So, you must believe, think, and act in accordance to your standing in Christ Jesus; and not by what you see.


Remember, by your standing, you are the glory of God.

Prayer: 
Lord, thank you for my standing in Christ Jesus. (Amen)

Freed Sudanese Christian woman rearrested

A Sudanese woman whose death sentence for refusing to renounce her Christian faith was revoked has been rearrested, her legal team told CNN Tuesday.

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, and her husband, Daniel Wani, were arrested Tuesday at an airport in Sudan's capital as they were trying to leave the African country, Ibrahim's legal team said.

Sudanese woman to be freed after death sentence was overturned

 

Sudan authorities will be freeing Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for her faith - particularly for marrying a Christian man.

Meriam, who gave birth to a baby daughter on Tuesday, is set to be free in s few days, Sudan officials told news outlets.

The news of the woman being freed comes just a day after David Cameron spoke out against the death sentence handed to Ibrahim earlier this month for apostasy.

Sudanese woman sentenced to death for converting to Christianity

According to the Nation, a Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to death by hanging for apostasy after she left Islam and married a Christian man.

“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” the judge told the woman, AFP reports.

Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion. Hence, local media reports has insisted that the sentence would not be carried out for two years after she has given birth.

The BBC reports that Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law. It rules that apostasy – the abandonment of one’s religious faith – is a crime.