How to use Identity in Executing Uncontestable Authority in Life

When I started my new life in Christ, one of the first things I noticed among believers in the Church was the level of humility and unblemished morality displayed even in troublesome times. But as time progresses, I began to question every form of the appearance of the outward display of humility: I thought something was not right since it looked to me as an act induced to reflect a value required in the believer’s walk of faith but denying the power of God. While humility is a desired virtue found in believers, yet it was possible to show a form of false humility that has no bearing of Christ living in us.

Then I realize the reason for this is that many believers lack the basic teachings of the personality of Christ. They know Christ in the flesh as revealed in the scripture, but not Christ Jesus the King of Glory represented in the present state. Out of these, I concluded that if believers do not know the identity of Christ Jesus, then how they could claim their place in the kingdom with authority as sons and daughters baffled me.

Therefore, we as believers take for granted many things concerning our identity in Christ in relation to themselves, the present world, and the future. Some feel it is overbearing to talk about who they are in Christ as a subject that offers an inconsequential benefit. To them, when they are engaged in a discussion about identity, it looks like the excitement of the ear.

Nevertheless, I started developing cold feet after learning my knowledge in this area might lack so much in substantial detail. However, it became clear after a while that I was at the dead-end of my effort. That was when the Holy Spirit awakened my understanding to consider the important relationship between identity and authority, and that touched a live wire in me.  

Then I realize the Bible has more to say about identity and authority than we can ever know. More than that, I came to know the Bible as a book that reveals more about the confrontation between heaven and earth on the issues of identity and authority. It is a book where identity encounters authority. Therein you can find the powers of darkness acknowledging the identity and authority of our Lord Jesus while denying the carnal man the same privileges.

Furthermore, I must admit my blindness over the years kept me from comprehending these truths. Since I have read and studied both in devotional and doctrinal the New Testaments, especially Acts of the Apostles more times than I can recollect, but missing the point of the story of the sons of Sceva found in Chapter 19. Yet I have never for once thought about the significance of the biblical unveiling of identity and authority so obviously displayed in plain sight in these books.

Suddenly, I discovered my focus was more on the great doctrine found in our Bible, but omitting the spiritual substance of the word of God. Something I later remedied by submitting to the Holy Spirit to teach me the missing link that completes the whole. Then something happened, and the Holy Spirit awakened me to gaze deeper into the mirror with all the distractions that kept me from looking at the scripture with an untainted lens taken away.

The breakthrough came during my engagement with our identity in Christ as revealed by the Bible. An intensive study that later yielded the ultimate discoveries of a lifetime. That was when the interplay between identity and authority took a definite silhouette.

Then I found out the historical book of the Acts of the Apostles reveals more about the great commonality between authority and identity in Christ than is expected. Out of this relationship, I saw a clear map of how God’s authority establishes our identity. In the same way, our identity in Christ reinforces our authority In Christ.

Believers must know the strength of our authority rests on our adoption as sons and daughters of God. In fact, our authority is effective in the affirmation of our knowledge of the Lord. Since our walk of faith demands the full knowledge of our identity in Christ.

At the beginning of the creative works of the Lord, Adam received authority over all the creatures in the Garden of Eden because he knew who he was with God. For the Lord God had given Adam exclusive control over all the expressions of his personality with the boldness to answer the question “Who are you” which declares identity.

Adam, the first man created, had a strong identity, built upon the unchanging foundation of God. God gave him dominion and blessed him with material and spiritual blessings. When the Bible says dominion, it means executive authority over the works of God on earth.

That is one reason to have the same authority as Adam in the beginning. It requires this, that we lay hold of the substance of our identity in Christ. Adam had that unbroken authority before he sinned against God. In the same way, as believers, we can have the same authority in Christ through the forgiveness of sin and receiving the new birth experience.

That is why we must first answer and settle the question of our identity before walking in the shoes of authority. While the question of identity answers to “Who am I”? The question of authority answers to the utility of the power and purpose of identification, including He that gives meaning and substance to identity.

Therefore, knowing the Lord is the first step to victory without which the derivation of our identity is impossible. Without Christ Jesus, it is impossible to activate and execute authority, which is the power of God over any sphere. For God has delegated to the believer’s authority with the knowledge of who we are in Christ.

Thence, one of the genuine issues behind the identity of believers is the question of how God restored our lost heritage, which includes our authority over the works of His hand. Because without knowing and having a recognized identity, we are powerless to use our authority over the things in the heavens and on earth. The sons of the High priest called Sceva tried using authority without identifying with the Lord Jesus in the times of the Apostles and failed woefully. It was a case of mismatching identity to execute unauthorized authority in Christ.

They had wanted to use the authority of Christ in casting out demons from people without identifying with Jesus Christ the source of the authority. They failed because they had no grounds to affirm their identity in Christ. This story fully explains the importance of having an identity derived from the Lord Jesus in line with the power of the new man.

The demons knew the men lacked the one thing needed in life, which is having a relationship and newness of life worked by the Holy Spirit of God. This is the sum of our reconciliation with God through our Lord Jesus, the origin of the new identity in Christ.

They were still maintaining the old carnal identity represented by Adam. But they needed the new from the Last Adam, Christ Jesus our Lord. Their failure to exchange the old distorted and disconnected identity for the new man’s identity in Christ was their undoing.

The demon asked them who are you, a question of identity. The same demons acknowledged the superior identity of the Lord Jesus, whom they know, and the Apostles as of the Lord whom they recognized.

The power of authority comes alive when we can settle the questions of our identity based on the acceptance of the omnipotent rule and reign of God our all. The question of authority demands, we subject ourselves to the person of Christ and the power of the new man created in Him. The only way to enforce your authority in this world is through your identity in Christ. No better way is workable than accepting who God says we are by grace.

Let Nature teach when God cannot

A few days ago, I watched a documentary on Discovery/Nature Channel by Sir David Attenborough the great explorer who has been at the forefront of uncovering the hidden treasures of the ocean depths through innovative technology. His programs are widely viewed worldwide by those very eager to learn about the world around us.

I was amazed after watching his daring expeditions, at the resourcefulness and values of his works to humankind. Through his effort and discoveries, we now know so much about what nature holds. In 2015, he used a submersible to film the previously unseen parts of the Great Barrier Reef, off the Australian coast.

Now humankind is without excuse since we know so much about nature than before this time due to the application of science and new technologies. Man can now boast of reaching the depths of the sea and the heights of the atmosphere. But the question still remains have we allowed nature to teach us any useful lesson of life. Alternatively, what has nature taught us?

The Creator in His wisdom has hidden wisdom in many places easy to be found by all who desire to learn the ways of God. God even commanded us to go to the ants to learn the ways of life. Perhaps the tiny ants can teach us better than tens of thousands of teachers. How many would dare study the life pattern of the ants?

In the Bible, God asked some questions about the ways of nature and the paths of wisdom in the highly rated book of Job. But has nature taught us any useful lesson to enlighten our darkness? Therefore, there are two principal avenues to learn about the ways and work of God.  These are:

·         Nature representing the general revelation of God.

·         The Bible called the word of God representing the special revelation of God

For example, in nature, one can find the simplest animal has within her species several of her kinds reflecting diversities. Let say the cats that are multi-colored, with faces and variable body structure. This is expressly true in different parts of the world. The same can be said of the flocks, birds, ants, rodents, fishes, and many other creatures according to their kinds. The same can be observed in the flora world of trees and herbs.

What is nature teaching by this subtle difference observed in the simplest of the plants and animals? She is teaching us to look at ourselves and appreciate our diversities expressed by our races and colors.

If only nature has, a voice to teach man what he is blind to see.  In the Psalms, the Bible says heaven declares the glory of God without voice and languages. Why has God not permitted nature to teach us by speaking in human languages? If only nature can teach us that man is a creature of God with many characteristics that reflects the goodness of God. Then the world would have been a safer and better place to live in.

Apostle Paul speaking to the believers in the city of Corinth castigated them of their ignorance of the lessons of nature. He chided them for not permitting the knowledge of nature to influence their practice of the faith. The same is true of today’s practice of faith worldwide. In a situation where racism intolerance and hatred runs riot in many Christian nations. All goes to show that the leaders are still blind to the lessons of nature. They have refused the obvious in place of the great deception.

Without the world and the church accepting and promoting the revelation of nature to believers the issues of race relations and injustice would be a troubling thorn in the flesh of the body. Bible teachers can teach all the doctrines of the bible without making a dent in the conscience of the hardened heart caught in the web race superiority. The only way out is the involvement of the teacher of the New Covenant using both lessons of nature and the word of God to enlighten the heart of man?

It does not make any sense of watching nature without learning the lesson she is teaching. Why spend time watching discovery channel without understanding that man is the primary focus of the entire discovery on show.

Therefore, let God teach us that we might know what nature has to say in the wake of the crisis engulfing the world. So that we can, all look at man created in the theomorphic image of God, celebrate, and appreciate our difference in love. Nature condemns racism. Nature rejects the doctrine of the superiority of one race against other races. Nature is color blind.    

The Great Interruption Ahead in the Church

The present-day churches have for too long imposed religious, doctrinal, ideological divides to separate the united fellowship of children of God. Most have invented types of denominational doctrine to perpetuate conformity among their flock to the exclusion of others. While not all these reflect the will of the Lord who had given the church the great, commission to reach the world with the gospel.

An example is the Church in the early century after the ascension that went that conservative route instead of spreading out until the dispersal that occurred with the religious and state persecution. The unthinkable happened in the pursuit and hell-bent persecution of the Apostles left with no chance to congregate as a new body.

The early church did experience a dark period of divine interruption that did well to focus the intent of leadership of the Church in evangelism.  God allowed and used it as a means to get the church moving in the right direction of fulfilling the commission of evangelism that reach the entire world.

This goes on to show that the Lord can use divine interruption and dislocation as a tool to bring His purpose to pass. In some cases, He can use it to purify and reposition His people for what is to come. In fact, every single divine intervention in the life of a prophet, apostle, priest, king, judge, or institution was to re-focus and direct their spiritual life to reach the goal set for them.

The Scripture records are a convincing example of how God uses interruptions and intermission to bring His plan and purpose to pass. An example is Apostle Paul who had his purpose cut short and dislocated so that he can reach a new level by the Lord. At a point, he met Christ on his way to Damascus. For David becoming the king of Israel, he had his life engagement disrupted to meet Samuel in the field.

Now the terrible and frightening pandemic has interrupted our church service and outreaches.  Out of the fear of spreading the contamination across the world, many churches are closing down the tent. The church authorities in obedience to the state laws are adopting the measures while advising believers and worshippers to refrain from hugging one another, handshakes, handholding, and communion sharing.

Due to this, millions of believers have been unable to take part physically in any church services and that may continue for weeks. With the possibility that they may not be able to again for months. Simply put, the coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally interrupting and changing the way we do and will be a church at the same time. Never before has the church been disrupted by her services. The question then is:

·         If the changes will be long or short term?

·         And to what extent this historic pandemic will change the local church?

·         And what we should expect to remain the same in the church if at all.  In this case, a comparison should be made of the plague judgment against Egypt in the first Passover of the children of Israel

·         What should we expect to see in the coming days?

The answer to all those question rest with the Lord who know why. He can as well reveal the true meaning of the pandemic crisis to the church if there is a need for that. The Bible can also help us have a clear view of the events through the lens of interpretation.

However, some of the changes the church shall witness worldwide due to the outbreak of the pandemic could be in the way and process of services.  Perhaps our Lord can use the crisis of the Coronavirus in educating the church about the expected changes and the new initiative that shall make landfall soon. Hence, some of the changes expected in our churches are these:

·         Most believers shall come to a new definition of the true meaning of the church as a living body different from a building where everyone meets.

·         The pandemic shall initiate many teaching events shedding new light on the end-time theology of the church.

·         There would be inevitable causes to restructure the church organization with new departments created to reflect unity and true leadership.

·         There might be a new and substantial appointment or election of new elders and deacons to run the affairs of the church.

·         The strengthening of the virtualization of the church.

·         The sanctification and the purification of the church.

·         The coming judgment that shall commence in the house of God as prophesied in the epistles of Apostle Peter.

·         The judgment that shall come upon all nations in the world. The separation of the sheep and the goat’s nations.

·         The great tribulation revealed in the Olivet discourse happening eventually.

·         Our level of preparedness to evangelize and meet with the coming of our Lord.

·         The need for a family altar and fellowship reinforced and increased.

·         The need for growth in the church.

·         The balancing of missions and outreaches to the unsaved.

·         Of the necessity of prayer and intercession first for all men, leaders, and the church.

·         And the need to show compassion and care for our neighbors

That way the church can make the necessary adjustments to her in-reach and outreach programs.  She can ensure the wise and prudent among the leaders are shepherding her flock. As in 1 Corinthians 12:18, we have learned that our Lord has arranged the flocks, all the members in the body, and placed each one as it pleased Him.

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How the Love of God can Reconcile the Races

All it took was just eight solid minutes and forty-six precious seconds, that was the time it took that has changed and redefined history forever. It was the time a police officer took to snuff out the life of his neighbor with hands handcuffed behind his back with his neck pinned to the ground by a police officer.

I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, tell mama, I can’t breathe he screamed out. Breath is a gift of life from God that made humankind a living soul. The Bible says that God breathed into his nostril after creating Adam from the dust of the earth.  Breath is a precious gift from God that no man has the right to deprive others of having the benefits. Nevertheless, the police officer was bent on taking the breath away from his neighbor anyway.

Today that action has touched the conscience of all humankind without exception. The world has changed her outlook with protest rocking all nations. There is an awakening in motion championed by the rejects and the least likely in the society towards a race reconciliation. It is no more a black thing. Now all is involved in the healing process with the racial divide that has long separated the people shattered.

People of all colors are on the street daily marching for the establishment of a just and equitable society. Across the states, more people of all colors are crying out for justice and peace, both white, black, brown representing every race. Black Lives Matters is no more a minority slogan, but representative of all crying with brokenness and indignation against a system that allowed such hatred and wickedness to exist for too long.

The closed seals of trouble are opening one at a time to the utter amazement of the world. Yesterday, it was the pandemic crisis and the great mourning of those who have lost their lives and the damage down to the world economy. But when the world thought the Coronavirus pandemic is waning thin and things would soon return to normal, then the unexpected happened.

Good, but what about the church, our dear Church. Why is the wall still standing? Why is there no lamentation in our Churches that proclaims the name of the Lord and pride in the purity of her doctrine? Why is the Church not speaking out and leading the way? The Church has missed another excellent opportunity to declare the love of God to a dying world. The church is supposed to be at the forefront of the ministry of reconciliation to the nations. The Church has been called to advance the kingdom of Christ reconciling love worldwide. That means the time has come to reconcile, embrace, and celebrate our difference and diversities to the glory of God.

As a Christian, I may be tempted to conclude that whatsoever has happened is of the devil, and concerns only the world that does not know the Lord. At the same time, I may try to use religious acrobats to point fingers at the rioters and looters as socialist and “Antifa” sympathizers bent on fermenting trouble to destabilize our nation. However, let the truth be told to the glory of God. But how can the socialist see beyond the veil to condemn the evil that I justify with my faith? How can the same secular and unbelieving world condemn the wicked acts of racial oppression, profiling, and inequality, and the church stands unmoved without compassion and empathy?

What has happened so far is the revelation of our lip services and the barrenness of our individual heart to the consternation of the world. Church leaders and followers have all tried to maintain the systemic and unholy alliance that perpetuates the status quo. In today’s world, truth is often unpleasant and unwanted as an umpire to moderate social issues that benefits the majority. All because the love of God has taken leave from town. The love of God shed in our hearts by the Holy Spirit has been left to decompose and atrophied.

The crux of the matter is that God’s love has left us in our nakedness, and uncaring and unsympathetic and dry theological expositions that only promote our denomination, and not Christ. That run contrasts with what our Lord has commanded us to practice if we truly love Him. Some may say I love God and my neighbor as myself. That is good if that is true in the ongoing situation unraveling before us. However, the truth must be told no matter how had it seems.

But the big question today concerns our love extended to our enemy. How many of us truly love our enemies? Because Christ Jesus exemplified that love and expressly commanded us to love our enemies. Some may ask who is my enemy?

That is where the test and the difficulties arise that shame us to our outward profession of faith. Do you love your enemies as yourself? Do you see yourself reflected in the image of your enemy? Do you believe all men bear the fearful image of God? If you do, that is love in action. That is love worth dying for.

What does love have to do with the murder of George Floyd? Everything. If the police officer had, an atom of love in his heart events would have been different today. If he has seen the image of God shining brightly in the eyes of George, things would have been different.

Without love, we are subject to the same tendencies that gave way to that act of murder. Surprisingly, many of us do not know what love means in practice. We have so compartmentalized and abused love that we are left with nothing but hatred looking like love. In fact, what we call love is hatred disguised as love. If not so what can explain the wicked act that took the world by storm?  

Unknowingly and knowingly the church has encouraged the doctrine of hatred against those that are different and look different. If you don’t believe then walk into a white evangelical church with your skin-colored black. Including those who do not agree with their core beliefs. Tell an independent and fundamentalist that you are a Pentecostalist and watch what happens.

Many pastors of the fundamental and independent streams have turned “Love your enemies” to “Hate your enemies” with scriptures to back the practice. Whereas neither the Old nor New Testament enjoined the children of Israel or the Church to hate their neighbor. The God we served required of us to love the strangers, the immigrant, and those who hate us, etc. All the writers of the New Testament epistles to the church repeat this teaching.

Now today’s believers are not encouraged to be reconcilers, but to be far, and hostile to those who are different. That is why in some countries, we have the white, black, Mexican, African, the Pentecostal, Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox, and you name it churches.  Today’s Church has separated people, by religious and doctrinal beliefs, political affiliation, and cultural and personal differences. The Pentecostal cannot fellowship with the Evangelicals. The Baptist cannot agree with the Black Southern Baptist that believes in speaking in tongues. The Methodist would not fellowship with the Pentecostals.  Where is Christ in all this?

Let us not deceive ourselves, as long as we refuse to confront the truth and reconcile with one another the evil would continue. And the same hatred that killed George Floyd would haunt our churches. The same virus “I am superior to you” syndrome that killed Eric Gardner’s shall rule among us if we refuse to reach across the racial divide.

When we make enemies of the Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslim, unbelievers, immigrant, drug and alcohol addicted, gay, transgender, Black, White, Brown, socialist, liberal and conservative because they do not follow us, then we are no different in character from the murderous police officer. But glory to God. That is not who we are as believers in Christ Jesus.

Recognizing the Dangers of the Virtual Church

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Since the onset of the pandemic crisis, the virtual church has emerged as the church for the moment. Whereby the mainstream traditional, evangelicals, and Pentecostal churches simply want to make services more accessible to all without trying to change the Gospel in any way. 

On the other hand, we have those in the virtual church environment who are redefining Christianity in a new liberal and spiritual fashion. They no longer seek to hold the traditional orthodox views in their effort to make the church more user friendly. Even there are those classified as Christian pagan and ritualists, still holding their form of Christianity.

The latter does not use the definitive and scriptural terms on most topics related to faith. They decline to use the language of certainty in describing the basic beliefs of the faith. Some embrace ambiguity and reject all forms of propositional truth as a basis for faith.

When pressed on contentious issues like transgenderism, homosexuality, or whether or not hell is real, they avoid giving direct answers.  This is the color and tactics of religious disguise. They act as the religious chameleon, the masters of disguise, changing color depending on what they are talking about and to who they are talking to.

In extreme cases, the emerging virtual church could mean different things to different people if there are no guidelines put in place. This is true in churches that do not emphasize the authority of scripture with a Christian system of beliefs and practice.  In some virtual churches, you do not have to adhere to any order to engage in the ongoing virtual conversation. 

Many of the emerging virtual churches are now focus on the matters outside the great commission to establish a new world order of togetherness.  These have roots in the pagan and New Age religion looking to establish a universal religion of inclusiveness and tolerance called the one world religion.

Where does all this fit in with the emerging virtual church that believes that a structural shift is taking place in Christianity and a new spiritual era is about to be born, like the Reformation in the 16th century when Luther challenged the Papal authority?

 Because the digital church that disseminates content and control from a national or local standpoint to a global or online outlook could use the same global structure. With ease, they can replicate the agenda of the globalist with great success. 

In this atmosphere of theological and religious heresy it easy to customize the virtual church environment as an instrument to find the spiritual god within.  Which is the same as using the digitalization as a means to find a mystical spiritual experience that puts them more in touch with a created god during this crisis period?

Others promote left-wing social justice issues and works of compassion. Some completely ignore the issues of personal salvation.  Some engage with the Gnostic Jesus that is found in Dan Brown’s narratives of the Da Vinci Code.

When done in the church it could parallel in principle to what is been done in the global society today. Some church leaders are even claiming that a new spirituality is now emerging that will shape the church of the future. We shall see as we examine the ensuing situation with the problems and the outlook of the digital church.

But could this be the beginning of the end of the true fundamental Christianity as we know it because of the extremities of the virtual church practices embraced by some churches?  

The redefining of Christianity that could become a vehicle used in leading us to the one world religion with a different Gospel preached altogether. (Galatians 1:6-7). The digital church can be an instrument in creating ecclesiastical globalism using the seducing power of technology.

And it will look like the lamb, but it is not, be alluring and captivating, because it is appealing to our flesh and what the unrestrained nature desires.

And in this stealth set up the local church can give up her power, and lose her authority and expression in place of the ascendency of the virtual church. Then every sense of corporate accountability disappears being replaced with the personalized independence and convenience of the virtual church in our self-centered culture.

For many years, American churches have been at the forefront of this revolution having created settings and perfected the system that is up and working. With this, the local church has been primed for this moment of world crisis through the building of ministries, congregations around the personal and user initiatives instead of Christ-centered faith.

This is what makes the virtual church so attractive to the new generation of seekers because it is a pick and mix spirituality. Participants can simply bring their own experience, beliefs, ideologies, philosophies, practice, ideas to the table, and share with others.   Everyone can do and believe whatever feels good to them.

Christ rose up to save the world and not religion

Today in many lands the architects and inventors of religion are hopelessly baffled. They appear crest-fallen without the hope of recovery. She has become like the great mountain falling with a great thump down to the earth. Religion has failed man, leaving many of her adherent feeling unsatisfied. The world authorities even went to the extent of declaring religion as non-essential just like the coffee shop and hotels.

However, the corona crisis has revealed the many positives and negatives in our culture and societies. Perhaps now all can see clearer since she is a great leveler, putting everyone in his rightful place. The crisis has humbled the high and great mountains, of economics, arts and culture, finances, world sports and athletics, high society and fashion, and what have you. It is a game-changer no doubt bringing the great and mighty creations of this world down to their proper place and level in the scale of relevance.

The pandemic crisis has proved the Bible true and valid as the only cure of the panacea of the illness of man. There was a man who once said “I know what is in man and the vain thoughts of men” but they laugh Him to scorn. Again a mathematician of high caliber, who was also a philosopher in the 1600s named Blaise Pascal, is quoted as saying “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator”. Today both quotations stand true. Religion cannot fill the God-shaped vacuum in our hearts.

It is true, the vacuum in our hearts cannot be filled by anything created by man including the religion devised by man, such as man-made systems of belief. It can only be filled with a solid, substantial, real, and lively relationship with God the Creator of all things. Hence the solution to the pandemic and man’s problem is a relationship, not a religion.

In the midst of the death of so many souls in the pandemic there is a cry for a relationship in the loneliness of isolation and in the hospital bed there is a silent cry going up from heart torn apart with sorrow. Our loved ones are crying out deep from the souls, and from the spirit for comfort. The bottom line is that religion has failed us. Religion is powerless to save us. Religion is confused without an answer to offer to the world.

Hence the solution to this predicament is found only in God through knowing Jesus Christ. This precludes assigning yourself to the rules and regulations of organized religion. Yes this is found in having a transformative encounter with the living God who created you.

It is the will of God to have an intimate and personal relationship with you. In order to make this a reality, God was manifest in flesh. He came down to earth as a person in human form. He was named Jesus as a human born of the Virgin Mary. 

For thirty-three years He lived here on earth like you and me. Though He was fully human and God, yet He empties Himself and refused to use His right as God in flesh. He even experiences all forms of human frailty and suffered taking on the due payment for the sin of the world.  He paid for it fully with His perfect and holy life. Christ has paid the price to restore mankind back to God through having a relationship with God. This is the will of God that we were always meant to have by his death and resurrection. And that is what religion cannot offer her adherent.

For Jesus Christ did not die to make a man religious. He came to make God known to man not only because he is God, but has the power to give the man what he has lost. Today you can know Him in the fullness of the knowledge of God which is the essence of eternal life.

Why wait when you can receive Christ right now. It is by faith through prayer to God. God knows your heart and is not concerned with your words, but with the attitude of your heart.