How was she going to break the news to him? Would he accept it? These thoughts flooded her mind.
Clara had been having some strange ill feelings in her body for over a month. This wasn’t normal to her. She was a strong girl of 24, and hardly did she fall ill. If she did, a space of two to three days took care of everything. But with the prevailing condition she decided to see her doctor. Being referred to the medical laboratory, blood and urine samples were being collected from her for analysis. While she waited, thoughts ran through her mind, pictures of dying victims of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) she had seen on her TV screen came alive in her imagination. The thought of that dreaded virus made her shudder. She had been having unprotected sex with her boyfriend. Even though she loved him (or so she felt), she couldn’t vouch for his moral integrity. Dan was such a slimy fish. You just couldn’t get him; he seemed to master the art of playing his cards well. “This could be the day of reckon” she thought. Caught in the guilt of her involvement in pre-marital sex and the consequence that seemed imminent she found herself muttering under her breath ‘Lord I’m sorry… let it not be…’
Minutes passed, and with the passage of time grew her anxiety. Every footstep she heard down the hall way leading to the lab made her heart beat faster. She needed to know her fate and know it fast. What seemed like eternity eventually came to an end when the Doctor came along, beconing her to his office. Sitting before him, her eyes widely opened with anxiety written over her face. His words came through to her: “You are positive… you’re carrying a baby, congratulations”. A heave of relief flooded her. At least she wasn’t going to be an added statistical figure on the HIV list. But how does she tell Dan? Would he accept responsibility for it?
10 months latter saw Clara and Dan walking out of the clinic. Dan was obviously lost in thoughts. The reality of an added responsibility seemed to dawn on him. Clara, though saddened by the constraint in her relationship with Dan over the pregnancy had a sense of relief knowing she won’t be alone in catering for their child. Even if Dan decided to back out, the court would surely compel him to give a CHILD SUPPORT. Thank God for the DNA testing- the GENES matched!
Whenever a ‘Christian’ cries out to God in prayer, God looks at one thing- is this my Child? The moment he discovers the presence of His GENE inside him, He (God), assumes the responsibility of not just being a GOD to that individual, but a FATHER to that individual. Hence that child is qualified for a heavenly ‘Child Support’.
What makes us His child is our being BORN AGAIN. This is beyond the repetition of the sinner’s prayer; they aren’t magic words that produce salvation when spoken. It is beyond water baptism; one could go in a dry devil and come out a wet devil. It is beyond speaking in tongues; a good rehearsal can produce it, after all demons speak in tongues.
The born again experience isn’t something mechanical, neither can it be logically explained. Rather it is a revelation experience that begins with a SEED.
“Being born again not of corruptible seed[SPERM CELL], but of incorruptible, by the WORD OF GOD, which liveth and abideth forever”. (1PET1:23)
Your confession doesn’t generate salvation, it seals it. The SEED of the Word does. No one can lay claim to
Without a seed, new life can’t be brought forth… the word produces New Life in your spirit.
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The uniqueness of a seed isn’t in its coating, after all the seeds of the orange and the grape fruits have a striking semblance. The difference is in the GENE. It is for this reason people preach the ‘Word of God’, yet it lacks power. It carries the ‘coating’ of the Word but lacks the GENE of the Word- Which is the SPIRIT.
When the seed of God’s word takes hold of our spirit being, it infuses its gene into us. That is what gives us a unique life, hence we are regenerated. Better still, we’re re-GENE-rated. Our natural GENErational lineage becomes irrelevant because “…if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE; Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new” (2COR5:17).
By implication, your old life has no power over you; strange family patterns, bad habits etc have no legal hold over you anymore. If they still do it’s because you gave them the power to, by your ignorance of your heritage.
The scriptures further reinforced it this way; “But ye are a chosen GENEration…”(1 pet2:9) …and because it has its origin in GOD.
The uniqueness of His gene in me makes me know that I’m the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God 2Cor5:21…. That I am HOLY(1pet2:9)… I can’t be sick(Isaiah54:4-5)… I am the HEAD(Deut28:13) and that I belong to the LINEAGE OF gods, for he told me “…ye are gods and all of you are children of the most high…” Psalm82:6. Hence I am qualified for a heavenly Child support because the SEED of the almighty formed me.
Anybody could fake it. They could walk like a Christian, talk like one dress like one “Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal, THE LORD KNOWETH THEM THAT ARE HIS…” 2Tim2:19
Are you his Child? Are you Born-Again?
AKPOVETA, Philip A.
