Machaira With Apostle Bennie

Category: Spiritual Growth

  • EPISODE 894 – YOUR LOVE-LIFE IN CHRIST MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

    EPISODE 894 – YOUR LOVE-LIFE IN CHRIST MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    When your heart is cultivated by the Word of God through meditation, you conceptualise God’s goodness, prosperity, good success and glory. Beloved, STORE UP THE WORD IN YOUR HEART!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    Saturday, 5th, July, 2025

    YOUR LOVE-LIFE IN CHRIST MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

    “Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head. 
    Ephesians 4:15 (GNT)

    There are some fellow saints in Christ, who are interested in growing their finances, their businesses, their families, and their relationships.
     
    They feed their minds with information which helps them in their career pursuits.
     
    However, you must know that a person is sustained by how he has built his inner man.
     
    “The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness, But as for a broken spirit, who can bear it?”
     Proverbs 18:14 (Amplified)
     
    If you are not well built in your spiritual life, you don’t carry any weight. When your life is hit by a raging storm, your spiritual weight and foundation will determine whether you will be shaken, moved or immovable.
    The strength of your life is dependent on how rooted you are in God.
    How deep are you growing in Christ?
     
    You don’t have to live a shallow life in Christ. Grow deeper in Him, for He is the strength of your life.
     
    The greatest evidence of your growth into Christ in every way is how you practice and express the love of Christ.
    The expressions of the love of Christ are the fruits of love.
    A plant which doesn’t grow, cannot bear good fruits. The good fruits you bear are the evidence of your maturity.
    There are people who measure their spiritual growth by the gifts of the spirit they demonstrate.
     
    Meanwhile, the gifts of the Spirit are gifts. You can have the gift of word of knowledge or the gift of prophecy and not necessarily be mature in Christ. 
    A gift of the spirit does not determine your growth in Christ. 
    Your growth in Christ is determined by the Fruits of the Spirit you bear.
     
    Look at what Paul said about gifts of the Spirit and love:
     
    “If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with love, my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal. And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God’s hidden secrets, and if I possessed unending supernatural knowledge, and if I had the greatest gift of faith that could move mountains, but have never learned to love, then I am nothing. And if I were to be so generous as to give away everything I owned to feed the poor, and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr, without the pure motive of love, I would gain nothing of value.”
     1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (TPT)
     
    The Lord does not measure your maturity by the mighty gifts of the spirit you demonstrate. Your maturity or growth in Christ is measured ultimately by LOVE.
    Your love-life in Christ makes all the difference.
    I ask you again, are you growing in Christ?
     
    Selah.
    DIG DEEPER
    (Ephesians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 1:8; Hebrews 5:12-13; 1 Peter 2:2; Galatians 4:1)
     
    WE PRAY
    THAT WE WILL GROW MORE INTO THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Psalm 73-75

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Deuteronomy 30

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I take heed to every instruction and training.
     
    – I am not dull in hearing the word of God.
     
    – I make time daily to fellowship with the scriptures.
     
    – I don’t lazy about my spiritual development.
     
    – I don’t trivialize my fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
     
    – I demonstrate the love of Christ in all things.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Glory to God!!

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  • EPISODE 890 – MATURE INTO CHRIST

    EPISODE 890 – MATURE INTO CHRIST

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    You may have big dreams and great plans for this new month; however, without being immersed in the Spirit, you can do nothing. Get intimate with the Holy Spirit and enjoy His overwhelming presence this month. Shalom Aleichem!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    5. Growing spiritually to become a mature believer.
     
    6. Reaching the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness] 
     
    7. Exercising our spiritual gifts in unity. 
     
    8. As we step into the above reality of our growth in the spirit or maturity; WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN [SPIRITUALLY IMMATURE].
    The spiritually immature are tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine. 
    When you are not maturing or growing spiritually, you become a victim of:
     
    – every cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men.
     
     – deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit]. 
     
    However, from these verses we see the matter of LOVE.
     
    “Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head”. Ephesians 4:15 (GNT)
     
    We grow up into Christ by LOVE. And the reality is, apart from love, there is no other way to genuinely grow up into Christ.
    Your growth is not into yourself or personal desires. Your growth is into Christ; who is the ultimate example of love.
    Our Heavenly Father has made these provisions of gifted men to bring us to the place of MATURING INTO CHRIST in the perfection of His Love.
     
    Submitting to the training of the gifted men God has given you in your “local Church” is your reception and enjoyment of God’s provision for your growth in the spirit.
     
    Selah.
    DIG DEEPER
    (Jeremiah 3:14-16; 23:3-4; Ephesians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 1:8; Hebrews 5:12-13; 1 Peter 2:2)
     
    WE PRAY
    Dear Lord, please teach me how to humbly submit to the nurturing and training of my man of God.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Psalm 61-63

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Deuteronomy 26

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I humbly submit to training.
     
    – I take heed to every instruction given by my man of God.
     
    – I am not dull in hearing the word of God.
     
    – I make time daily to fellowship with the scriptures.
     
    – I don’t lazy about my spiritual development.
     
    – I don’t trivialize my fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
     
    – I demonstrate the love of Christ in all things.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Glory to God!

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  • EPISODE 817 – ARE YOU INTENTIONAL ABOUT YOUR GROWTH IN THE LORD?

    EPISODE 817 – ARE YOU INTENTIONAL ABOUT YOUR GROWTH IN THE LORD?

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Beloved, as long as you are in Christ and have set your focus to intensively serve His course, you will face opposition and tribulation. But tribulation should not break you. You are designed and built by Christ, to glory in Tribulation. Hallelujah!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    DIG DEEPER
    (2 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 1:8; Hebrews 5:12-13; 1 Peter 2:2; Proverbs 4:18; Galatians 4:1)
     
    WE PRAY
    – That we will increase in the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
     
    – That we will walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God, and demonstrating the love of Christ.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    2 Kings 8-10

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Leviticus 18

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I am an example of faith.
     
    – I demonstrate the love of Christ in all that I do.
     
    – I make time daily to fellowship with the Lord.
     
    – I don’t settle for less, I press deeper daily to manifest Christ in a greater measure.
     
    – My heart and mind is cultivated in the love of God daily as I feast on the word.
     
    – I set my affection on the Lord. 
     
    – The love of God dominates my heart and influences my actions.
     
    – I am directed and instructed daily by the word of God.
     
    – Envy, bitterness and offenses have no place in my heart because I am deeply rooted in the love of Christ.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Glory to God!

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  • EPISODE 701 – DON’T BE DOMINATED BY THE FLESH

    EPISODE 701 – DON’T BE DOMINATED BY THE FLESH

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Make it your priority to walk in love as Jesus loved all men. Even when He hanged naked on the cross, before His death (while the soldiers gambled for His clothes); He said, “Father forgive them…” Selah.
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    Tuesday, 24th, December, 2024

    DON’T BE DOMINATED BY THE FLESH

    “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less” 

    John 3:30 (NLT)

     
    Being born again for many years doesn’t make you spiritually mature. You can attend Church meetings, serve in a ministry or stewardship department for many years, and still not grow spiritually.
    To grow spiritually is a personal decision.
    You may cultivate certain spiritual habits and mindsets just by being present in an environment of the Word of Grace. Because environments or some atmospheres are contagious. 
     
    To grow effectively, you don’t have to only depend on the influence of the environment of your local Church. You have to be intentional about your growth in the spirit.
     
    In as much as your growth in the Lord or maturity in the spirit is your responsibility, you don’t do it alone.
     
    You don’t create the things you need for your growth. It is the Lord who supplies you with what you need and you put them to work.
     
    The greatest evidence of your growth in Christ is how you walk in the LOVE OF GOD. The Love of God does not satisfy the desires of the flesh.
     
    The true motive or intention of the love of God at work in you is to bless or nourish others without personal interest. This brings all glory to God and not you.
    The greatest sign of an immature life is the INFLUENCE OF THE FLESH.
    From the opening verse:
     
    “Brothers and sisters, when I was with you I found it impossible to speak to you as those who are spiritually mature people, for you are still dominated by the mind-set of the flesh. And because you are immature infants in Christ,” 1 Corinthians 3:1 (TPT)
     
    Paul was speaking to fellow saints (believers in Christ), not unbelievers. Some of these (if not all) were babes or infants in Christ. 
     
    The evidence of their spiritual immaturity was how they were DOMINATED BY THE MIND-SET OF THE FLESH.
    The more you grow in the spirit, the less you are influenced or dominated by the flesh.
    To which extent are you dominated by the flesh?
     
    Selah.
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 Corinthians 3:1-3; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 22:37-40; Ephesians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 3:18)
     
    WE PRAY
    That our love will grow and increase beyond measure, bringing us into the rich revelation of spiritual insight in all things.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
    1 Thessalonians 5
    2 Thessalonians 1 – 2
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I refuse to be dominated by the mindset of the flesh.
     
    – My actions and decisions are not influenced by the flesh.
     
    – I am a nourishment to others.
     
    – I am intentional about my growth in the spirit.
     
    – I demonstrate the love of Christ in all things.
     
    – As I receive daily nourishment and supply from the Lord, I increase in the expression of love.
     
    – I am not dull in hearing the word of God.
     
    – I make time daily to fellowship with the scriptures.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Gloreeeey!!

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  • EPISODE 236 – SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 2 (ARE YOU GROWING? 9)

    EPISODE 236 – SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 2 (ARE YOU GROWING? 9)

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Saturday 16th, September, 2023

    SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 2 (ARE YOU GROWING? 9)

    “Brothers and sisters, when I was with you I found it impossible to speak to you as those who are spiritually mature people, for you are still dominated by the mind-set of the flesh. And because you are immature infants in Christ,”

    1 Corinthians 3:1 (TPT)

     
    God is interested in your growth in the spirit.
     
    In as much as God doesn’t wait for you to be fully matured in the spirit to trust you with a gift of the spirit, or to put you in the ministry, He expects you to grow.
     
    He doesn’t want you to remain a babe in Christ.
     
    “as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby” 1 Peter 2:2 (NKJV)
    The purpose of the Word of God, and the teachers of the word is to nurture and culture you unto maturity.
    We have seen that the greatest fruit of a matured life in Christ is LOVE. And the greatest sign of an immatured life is the influence of the flesh.
     
    The more you grow in the spirit, the less you are influenced or dominated by the flesh.
     
    The flesh is a limitation to your growth in Christ. It has expressions and these expressions of the flesh are as weeds in a crop farm.
     
    Weeds are basically unwanted plants. They compete with crops for nutrients and resources which harness growth.
     
    They can interfere with harvesting operations and increase risk of spoilage.
     
    As you are planted in Christ don’t permit any effect of the flesh to germinate in your heart.
     
    Your heart is a field for the cultivation of the word of God (Mark 4:14-15).
    It is important you identify whether you are growing or not by knowing the deeds of the flesh.
    To live by the flesh is to live by your self-interest. It is to choose your own way than the way of the Spirit. The flesh does not depend on the graciousness of the spirit but the self. It is contrary to the spirit.
     
    ” I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit’s instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won’t always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to. For we naturally love to do evil things that are just the opposite from the things that the Holy Spirit tells us to do; and the good things we want to do when the Spirit has his way with us are just the opposite of our natural desires. These two forces within us are constantly fighting each other to win control over us, and our wishes are never free from their pressures. When you are guided by the Holy Spirit, you need no longer force yourself to obey Jewish laws. But when you follow your own wrong inclinations, your lives will produce these evil results: impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, spiritism (that is, encouraging the activity of demons), hatred and fighting, jealousy and anger, constant effort to get the best for yourself, complaints and criticisms, the feeling that everyone else is wrong except those in your own little group—and there will be wrong doctrine, envy, murder, drunkenness, wild parties, and all that sort of thing. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:16-21 (TLB)
     
    The activities of the flesh always compete with the Spirit in your heart, just as weeds compete with crops in a farm. They oppose and affect your growth in the spirit.
    Don’t give room for any of these things to germinate in your heart.
    Live by the influence of the Holy Spirit. 
     
    Shalom
    DIG DEEPER
    (Galatians 5:16-25; Matthew 15:19; James 1:15; 1 Corinthians 3:1-3; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 22:37-40; Ephesians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 13; 2 Peter 3:18)
     
    WE PRAY
    We are praying and declaring that the flesh should not have a loud voice. And that we will not permit any effect of the flesh to germinate in our hearts.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 221
    Proverbs 4 – 7
    John 11 – 12
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I am not dominated by the flesh.
     
    – My actions and decisions are not influenced by the desires of my flesh.
     
    – I don’t permit any effect of the flesh to germinate in my heart.
     
    – My heart is for the growth of the word of God.
     
    – The Spirit has mastery in my life.
     
    – I am dominated by the word of God.
     
    – The word of God has a free course in my heart.
     
    – The word of God has power over me.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Gloreeeey!

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  • EPISODE 234 – SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 1 (ARE YOU GROWING? 8)

    EPISODE 234 – SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 1 (ARE YOU GROWING? 8)

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Thursday 14th, September, 2023

    SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY 1

    (ARE YOU GROWING? 8)

     
    Just as we have FRUIT of a matured life in Christ, there are SIGNS of spiritual immaturity.
     
    Being born again for many years doesn’t make you spiritually matured. You can be attending Church meetings and be serving in a ministry or stewardship department for many years and still not be growing spiritually.
    To grow spiritually is a personal decision.
    There are certain spiritual habits and mindsets you may cultivate just by being present in an environment of the Word of grace. Because environments or some atmospheres are contagious. 
     
    To grow effectively, you don’t have to only depend on the influence of the environment of your local Church. You have to be intentional about your growth in the spirit.
     
    In previous episodes we realised that, your demonstration of the LOVE of GOD is the greatest evidence of your growth in the spirit.
    The Love of God does not satisfy the desires of the flesh.
    The true motive or intention of the love of God at work in you, is to bless or nourish others without personal interest. This brings all glory to God and not you.
    The greatest sign of an immatured life is the INFLUENCE OF THE FLESH.
    From the opening verse:
     
    “Brothers and sisters, when I was with you I found it impossible to speak to you as those who are spiritually mature people, for you are still dominated by the mind-set of the flesh. And because you are immature infants in Christ,” 1 Corinthians 3:1 (TPT)
     
     Paul, was speaking to fellow saints (believers in Christ) and not unbelievers. And some of these (if not all) were as babes or infants in Christ. 
     
    The evidence of their spiritual immaturity was how they were DOMINATED BY THE MIND-SET OF THE FLESH.
    The more you grow in the spirit, the less you are influenced or dominated by the flesh.
    Are you growing?
     
    To which extent are you dominated by the flesh?
     
    Selah.
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 Corinthians 3:1-3; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 22:37-40; Ephesians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 3:18)
     
    WE PRAY
    That our love will grow and increase beyond measure, bringing us into the rich revelation of spiritual insight in all things.
     
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 219
    Psalm 145 – 150
    John 9
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I refuse to be dominated by the mindset of the flesh.
     
    – My actions and decisions are not influenced by the flesh.
     
    – I am a nourishment to others.
     
    – I am intentional about my growth in the spirit.
     
    – I demonstrate the love of Christ in all things.
     
    – As I receive daily nourishment and supply from the Lord, I increase in the expression of love.
     
    – I am not dull in hearing the word of God.
     
    – I make time daily to fellowship with the scriptures.
     
    Oh Hallelujah!!! Gloreeeey!!

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