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    IN HIM: A Daily Devotional
    IN HIM: A Daily Devotional
    IN HIM: A Daily Devotional
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    IN HIM: A Daily Devotional

    By Phil Pringle

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    The term 'IN HIM' is found in various ways, over 150 times in the New Testament. Such a small phrase can be easily overlooked, however this concept was at the core of Jesus' teaching when He conveyed the picture of the vine and the branches. He introduced the lifestyle of 'abide in me, and I in you.'

     

    Paul unveils the full ramification of this spiritual fusion in his writings. He declares all of the promises to us from God that are discovered in Christ & only within Christ. This covers everything from salvation to living the abundant life.

     

    These meditations on this truth will empower you to live 'In Him' every day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaX Ministries Pty Ltd
    Release dateApr 9, 2017
    ISBN9789813170674
    IN HIM: A Daily Devotional

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      IN HIM - Phil Pringle

      INTRODUCTION - ABIDE IN ME

      John 15:4-8

      ‘Abide in Me, and I in you.

      As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

      I am the vine, you are the branches.

      He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

      If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

      If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

      By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.’

      After we have received Jesus and He us, He introduces us to a new lifestyle where we live our lives ‘in Him’, and ‘He in us’. This surprising and sublime teaching reveals the mystery of how God would fulfil His promises to every individual in humanity who receives Him. Paul called it the ‘mystery hid from the ages’. It was ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’.

      How does Christ come to dwell within us? If we want Him to come, He will come. We need to want Him for Himself, rather than what He can do for us. If our heart is for Him, we will discover Him. For Christ to live within us is not a difficult thing. It is so easy, the simplest of us is able to have Christ within. We just ask Him to come in. In Revelation 3:20 Jesus asks us to open our door to Him, so He can enter. Christ in us means He transforms us, from the inside out. His call to open up to Him was to a church, the Laodicean Church, which once did have Him within, but along the way, somehow He was ejected from the church and now outside instead of inside. Just because we have asked Christ into our lives does not mean He is there forever, hence the word ‘abide’. Our first calling is to invite Christ into our lives, but then we are called to ‘abide in Him and He in us’. This means we establish habits in our lives that keep us in Christ. It is impossible to abide in Christ without spending time in prayer and in His word every day. Abiding in Christ also means I am in fellowship with those believers He has planted me amongst. I am in the House of God, the church. Abiding in Christ is loving being with Him and all He’s about, prayer, the Word, church and ministry.

      1 John 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

      Our conversation will always locate us. When our conversation is Christ this centres our lives around Him. When we attribute to Him all the good things in our lives, worship Him, speak of Him, study Him, preach Him, pray through Him, and acknowledge Him, announcing His name, this entwines us in Him and He in us. All our ministry is to glorify and proclaim Jesus Christ the Son of God. This is how we abide in Him and He in us.

      Ephesians 3:17 ...that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;

      Praying in the Spirit in an atmosphere of faith, being strong, positive, confident and courageous, Christ will dwell in our hearts and we in Him.

      The very basics of living the Christian life begin with prayer and the Bible. Anyone who is consistent in prayer, that is, if you pray every day, you will abide in Christ and He in you. The best time to pray every day is in the morning before you do anything else. Pray with your voice. Speak to God. Prayer is not something we do just in our mind. We speak our prayers out to God. Start with thanksgiving and worship, then deal with any blockages like sin or unforgiveness, then pray for those things that you are burdened about and desire, then declare the promises of God believing that your prayers will be answered.

      Meditate on Scripture as you read, with a pen in your hand to write down thoughts that come to you. Meditation is ‘digesting’ the Word. Jesus told us to ‘eat His flesh’. The Word became flesh and it was Jesus. When we meditate, ‘chew’ on the Word, we are ingesting Jesus Himself into our soul. He is the Word. Abiding in the Word is abiding in Jesus. Abiding in prayer, in communion with God is abiding in Christ.

      In Him: A Daily Devotional

      ‘Being in agony he prayed’

      Day 1

      Justified in Christ

      Romans 3:24

      Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,...

      God wants us back with Him. He has paid whatever price it would take to redeem us back to Himself. ‘Redemption’ is a word taken from the slave markets where a person’s freedom could be purchased. They were redeemed. The price for our freedom from the dominion of Satan and sin was the death of Christ. When He paid that price our purchase was complete. God wanted to purchase us so we would never be slaves to sin again. He wanted to declare us righteous, to make us right, and so part of redeeming us was to achieve that justification. We had made ourselves ‘wrong’, but He determined to make us right, to justify us. He knew we couldn’t do this ourselves, so He planned to make it happen by Himself. Jeremiah prophesies that the day would come when God would be known as ‘THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS’. (Jeremiah 23:6) This means He becomes our rightness, not we ourselves. We are right because He says we are! We are made right by His actions, not ours. His righteousness becomes our righteousness. This is grace which means we don’t get what we do deserve and we do get what we don’t deserve.

      To be justified means someone else has declared us righteous. That someone else is God Himself and He has declared us righteous according to His standards! Our status has been changed. Once we were declared sinful, but now in Him we are declared righteous, because He has imputed Jesus’ righteousness to us as though it were our own. We are now ‘in Christ’.

      When Jesus arrived before the throne in Heaven after defeating the devil and rising from the dead, the Father viewed the entire life of His Son and declared it was flawless and spotless, the only perfect life that had ever been lived on Earth. His thought life was perfect. His emotional life was perfect. His attitudes, perfect. His relationships with mother, father, brothers, sisters, friends, everyone, were perfect. His relationship with God in obedience, devotion, commitment, worship, prayer was perfect. From the beginning of His life to the end, Jesus had lived the perfect life according to God. However, He had not lived that perfect life for himself. He lived it for us. So He said to the Father, ‘See my friend, Phil Pringle down there, and see that one and this one, they would like to have salvation from their sins and be declared right rather than wrong. They would like to be accepted with You and to enter Heaven.’ The answer from Heaven was that neither I nor anyone else could ever achieve that with all our failings and faults. So Jesus said, ‘Well, I love him and I freely give my life for him. If he will receive Me then he will receive my life as though it were his own.’

      We become completely right with God owning a perfect life with a perfect record. We are declared righteous. We are justified.

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      Day 2

      No Condemnation in Christ

      Romans 8:1

      There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

      God will not condemn sin in us after condemning it in his Son. How will He impute sin to us a second time after imputing it all to Jesus? It would be God saying Jesus’ sacrifice was insufficient. If we are in Christ, there is no condemnation against us. We are forgiven, cleansed and now blameless in God’s sight, not because we have achieved great holiness, but because we have received Christ and are now in Him.

      Revelation 12:10 declares ‘now’

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