Machaira With Apostle Bennie

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  • EPISODE 896 – …BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    EPISODE 896 – …BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Do not let the wrongs of others redefine the goodness of God in you. Continue doing good for others, whether they appreciate it or not.
    Apostle Bennie
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    Monday, 7th July, 2025

    …BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    “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)

    Your growth determines your manifestation.

     
    You are able to handle situations and impact your world according to your inward growth.
    Your growth in your understanding of Christ and consciousness of who you are in Him is your growth in the Spirit.
    It is your growth into Christ (in all things, mainly His love) by which you become the complete expression of Him in this world. 
     
    You cannot express Christ beyond your level of maturity of growth in the spirit.
     
    The highest proof of your growth or maturity in the Spirit is how you walk in Love.
     
    Your love towards God and towards others reveals how you are deeply rooted in Christ. The more your roots grow deep into the love of Christ, the more you mature or grow in the Spirit.
    You can be born again for 10 years and not be mature.
    Growing in the Spirit is not automatic, it is intentional.
    Organisms don’t just grow healthy. It takes the right nutrients and the supply of other needful elements.
     
    Your mind and heart must be cultivated in the love of God.
    One who is growing in the spirit has his/her affection set on the Lord and not on his/her own interests. The love of God dominates your heart and influences your actions.
     
    How consistently do you fellowship with the Spirit and the Word?
     
    Or you must be convinced to have a consistent fellowship with the Spirit and the Word?
     
    How excited are you in your heart concerning the things of God?
     
    How do you love the brethren?
    Are you bitter, envious, angry and holding on to an offense?
     
    When you are deeply rooted in the love of God,  bitterness, envy and offenses cannot have any place in your heart (because they are fruits or expressions of the self).
    The more you grow or mature in the Lord, the more the self is subdued by the love of Christ.
    Selah
    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
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Psalm 79-81

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Deuteronomy 32

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – 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!!! Gloreeeey

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  • EPISODE 582 – UPHOLD AND ESTEEM THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST

    EPISODE 582 – UPHOLD AND ESTEEM THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    DIG DEEPER
    (Colossians 3:16; John 15:8; John 13:35; Romans 8:37-39; Colossians 1:28-29; 2 John 1:9; John 15:7-8)
     
    WE PRAY
    – That the delight and persuasion of the word of God shall be intensified in our hearts more and more; to make us doers of the word and not hearers.
     
    – That he word of Christ shall deeply dwell in our hearts and we shall not yield our minds to the old fables and false teachings of this world. 
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
     Daniel 10-12
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I don’t pattern my life according to the standards of this world.
     
    – I walk in the unconditional love of Christ.
     
    – I delight myself daily with the word of Christ.
     
    – Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ.
     
    – I continue in Christ no matter the storm, sufferings and persecutions.
     
    – I am a true disciple of Christ.
     
    Hallelujah!!!!

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  • EPISODE 452 – PERSONALIZE THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    EPISODE 452 – PERSONALIZE THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Friday 19th, April 2024
     

    PERSONALIZE THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    “Lying back on Jesus’ chest was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.”

    John 13:23 (New American Standard Bible)

    One glorious identity you can have is not the job you do, the title you bear, the things you have accomplished; but the reality that you are loved by Jesus.

    The love of Christ is not limited to one person or a group of people. 

    The love of Christ reaches all and is available for all. His love is unconditional, unquenchable, unfailing, intense, extensive, expansive and unending.

    Jesus in His earthly walk loved everyone, and that was why He died for all men.

    John (the apostle of Jesus), the author of the “Gospel of John” personalized Christ’s love for him.

    The Gospel of John is known as the revelation of the divinity of Jesus. However, it is also the Book focused on the revelation of the Love of God.

    John the apostle wrote about the love of God for the world (see John 3:16). And how Christ also has a special love for His own who are in the world (John 13:1).

    He unveiled the fellowship of love in the Godhead, as in the Father’s love for the Son. The Lord shares this same love with His disciples (John 15:9).

    Jesus loves the world, yet He loves His disciples and has a deeper fellowship with them.

    John wrote how Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters (Mary and Martha). He even wept when Lazarus died, and the people who saw him said, “See how He loves him”. (John 11:5, 35-36).

    So clearly, John the apostle knew the scope and extensiveness of the love of Christ. However, he personalized the love Christ has for him.

    For about five times in his Gospel account of Jesus, he identified himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.

    (See the following verses, John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7, 20).

    John didn’t only write about how Jesus loved him, he also wrote about how he related to Jesus.

    In the Gospel of John, we see that he related to Jesus as his Father. John didn’t connect to Jesus only as his master. He exudes the confidence of one who is loved.

    While all the disciples were dining with Jesus, John writes how he was lying on Jesus’ chest.

    Wow…

    John lying on the chest or bosom of the King of Glory?

    Let me ask you:

    Do you have the same level of confidence in the love of Christ?

    How do you see yourself when you think about Jesus?

    Do you think you are among all the innumerable company of saints?

    Or do you think you are the one Jesus loves?

    This is not about esteeming yourself above others. This is not about being loved because of your deeds.

    The confidence in Christ’s love for you must be dependent on who Christ is and the richness of His love.

    He loves you personally. Among the multitudes, He still loves you as though you are the only one He sees.

    Personalize the love of Christ.

    “I AM THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVES”

    Glory to God!!!

    Shalom

    DIG DEEPER
    (1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Jeremiah 31:3; 1 John 4:18; Romana 8:35, 37-39; Psalm 5:11-12; Romans 5:8; Psalm 36:5-7)
     
    WE PRAY
    We pray that we will know and be confident in the fullness of the love of Christ for us.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
    1 Chronicles 19 – 22
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I am the disciple whom Jesus loves.
     
    – I am specially loved by the Lord.
     
    – I walk daily in the consciousness of this love.
     
    – I am confident in His love for me.
     
    Oh thank you Lord Jesus!!!

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  • EPISODE 419 – ARE WE WASTING OUR TIME?

    EPISODE 419 – ARE WE WASTING OUR TIME?

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    DIG DEEPER
    (1 Peter 1:4-9; Ruth 1:18; Psalm 78:8,37; Col. 2:7; Acts 20:24; Hebrews 12:1; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27)
     
    WE PRAY
    That our hands will not relenting in the service of the Lord. And that we will labour to the end, knowing the value of what God has entrusted to us.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
    2 Samuel 5 – 7
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I finish my race.
     
    – I value this kingdom mandate more than my necessary needs.
     
    – I am fully persuaded about the call of God.
     
    – My service to God is unto a glorious end.
     
    – I am involved in God’s great work. And this is a worthy course.
     
    OH Hallelujah, GLORY TO GOD!!!

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  • EPISODE 226 – ARE YOU GROWING? 1

    EPISODE 226 – ARE YOU GROWING? 1

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Wednesday 6th, September, 2023

    ARE YOU GROWING? 1

    “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)

    Your growth determines your manifestation.
     
    You are able to handle situations and impact your world according to your inward growth.
    Your growth in your understanding of Christ and consciousness of who you are in Him is your growth in the Spirit.
    It is your growth into Christ (in all things, mainly His love) by which you become the complete expression of Him in this world. 
     
    You cannot express Christ beyond your level of maturity of growth in the spirit.
     
    The highest proof of your growth or maturity in the Spirit is how you walk in Love.
     
    Your love towards God and towards others reveal how you are deeply rooted in Christ. The more your roots grow deep into the love of Christ, the more you mature or grow in the Spirit.
     
    You can be born again for 10 years and not be matured.
    Growing in the Spirit is not automatic, it is intentional.
    Organisms don’t just grow healthy. It takes the right nutrients and the supply of other needful elements.
     
    Your mind and heart must be cultivated in the love of God.
    One who is growing in the spirit has his/her affection set on the Lord and not on his/her own interests. The love of God dominates your heart and influences your action.
    Are you growing in the Spirit?
    How consistent do you fellowship with the Spirit and the Word?
     
    Or you must be convinced to have a consistent fellowship with the Spirit and the Word?
     
    How excited are you in your heart concerning the things of God?
     
    How do you love the brethren?
    Are you bitter, envious, angry and holding on to an offense?
     
    When you are deeply rooted in the love of God,  bitterness, envy and offenses cannot have any place in your heart (because they are fruits or expressions of the self).
    The more you grow or mature in the Lord, the more the self is subdued by the love of Christ.
    ARE YOU GROWING IN THE SPIRIT?
     
    Selah
    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 2023
    Day 212:
    Psalm 119:91-150
    Luke 22-24
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – 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!!! Gloreeeey

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