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Relinquishing Your National Identity

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »

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Scripture reading: Genesis 12:1-5

I am going to read something for you that God said to Abraham, but it is something that is being said to you. It applies in a way differently to you than it did to Abraham, but it is the same word and it has the same meaning. We are going to look for what God meant when He said these things to Abraham. This is what we call “exegesis.” Always look for the exegesis: God said so and so, but what did He mean?

Let us go to Genesis 12:1, “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.”

The Lord said this to Abraham and we want to know what the meaning of this is. Why did He put this in the Bible?  Why should I be interested in what God said to Abraham?  Do you follow what I mean?

This is your Bible. God put it in the Bible. Men fought to take it out. Men wanted to destroy the Bible. Men killed and did their best to destroy it and it could not be destroyed. They took some of the scrolls and burned them! Yet, the people who burned them are past and gone and the scrolls remain. Hallelujah! They never did get it.

So, I am asking you, does this word about Abraham mean something to you, or to us? Why did God put it in the Word? Why did God fight so hard that this word could come to us? God is saying to you here in this verse that you must relinquish your national identity.

That is hard. That is very, very hard. If you are born a black man, you like being a black man. Some people do not know that. Some of you, brethren, do not know that the people who are black like to be black. If you could give them the choice to be white, they would not want it, because there is a certain feeling that you have inside, that you are something special.

When my brothers and I grew up, we felt that we were made out of iron. We were strong. We were fighters. We were on top of the world. I know the people in Africa feel that way too. But then I found out afterwards that everybody feels that way! You on one side, you are feeling your feeling, and you do not know what the other person is feeling on his side. I know that the Germans feel that way, and the Russians feel that way. Everybody feels that way and nobody is finding out what the other person feels.

So, there will be wars until Jesus comes, because war is in the heart of man and it is the spirit of the antichrist. I want you to take this—do not take it with a grain of salt. Take it and believe it: it is the spirit of the antichrist that makes men want to reign and rule over one another. Anywhere you find men who want to rule and reign and be the boss and be tops, it is the spirit of the antichrist. That is, unless it is where you want to be tops in Christ—then you are bottom.

Those who want to be tops in Christ—they are the least. They go around washing everybody’s feet and letting people walk on them. Oh, you do not like that, but that is the way you are tops in Christ. “Recompense to no man evil for evil…but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:17,21). That is being tops in Christ. God worked it out that the spirit of the antichrist is the one that likes to rule and reign over others and the Spirit of Christ is the one that wants to rule and reign with Christ.

Genesis says, “Get thee out of thy country (thy national identity)…!” Do not be an American anymore! Do not be a Kenyan anymore. Do not be a Jamaican anymore. Do not be a Polish anymore. Do not be a German anymore. Just belong to the new nation, the royal priesthood, the peculiar people. My God! Isn’t this what God is asking us to do? He approached Abraham with this, and He said, “Get out Abraham! Get out of here and stay out of here!” Abraham knew it was God who spoke to him.

Now, I am not saying that it is easy. It is difficult not to be black, when you are black. God sent me to His people. He did not send me to a color. I have to recognize God’s people regardless of their color. There is something else that we need to recognize and that is that you really do not have any color! Your color is a deception! It is an outward facade that you are wearing to deceive everybody that you are black or white when really you are supposed to be a spirit. A spirit does not have any color! Do you understand? You are not what you seem to be.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 1998, pg. 2-3, 6-7)

Thought for today: Have you relinquished your national identity yet or are you still holding on to the roots of your inheritance? Bring this matter before the Lord and have Him speak to you so that at the end of the day you are counted among those who have overcome.

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Righteous from Deep Inside

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , , on March 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

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Scripture reading: Ecclesiastes 7:21-22

We are thinking about the life of Abraham, how God dealt with Abraham and how God deals with us. There is a peculiar thing in God, in that the way He dealt with the people of the Old Testament is the exact pattern of how He will deal with us. Therefore, we do not need to worry about what God will do or how He will do it. If we just look at the Old Testament, the promises that God has given to Israel are the promises that He is giving to you. Somebody said, “But that is Old Testament.” It is Old Testament, but it is God. God is never old! So what God did through these people, He is now doing through you.

Everything that you believe, you should believe it because it is in the Bible. You must have proof as to why you believe so and so, and you must know your Bible and where to prove it from the Bible. If you do not have proof, find out from those who have studied the Bible and let them show you where the proof is, because we are not supposed to preach any doctrine or any dogma that does not have solid biblical foundation. To have solid foundation means in most cases that you must find it in your Bible at least three times. Now, most of your Bible is implied. It is written “So, and so, and so;” but it is implied “So, so, so.” That means that God will imply more in the Bible than what is actually written in words, because He said in John 21:25 that if all that Jesus said and did was to be written in books, the world could not hold the books. Do you understand? So then, for solid working truth you must have biblical foundation.

Unless you have a pure heart, you will never come to truth. Truth is so elusive that it only comes to those whose hearts are pure. In other words, I can convince myself that I am right, but it does not mean that I am right. There are many things that we believe are true that are not true. We believe that we are right, and because we believe that we are right we will go to lengths with it, but it will never bring forth life for the only thing that brings forth life is “truth.” I am just laying down some principles for you: There are many things that are true, but they are not truth.

Every one of us has skeletons in the closet. Yes! We have some skeletons down there. We lock the door, seal it, and forget them. Now, if you should come and take the platform and begin to preach about the skeletons that I have in the closet from way down yonder, it would be true things that you are saying, but it would not be truth. Truth glorifies Jesus! You may know something about somebody and you tell it to somebody else, but when the person hears it, it disturbs him. It does not lift him up. It does not take him near to Jesus, but it sinks him. If this is so, then it is not truth; and the bearer of evil tidings is working as an emissary of the devil.

There are some things that we know that we should not talk about. I will prove it to you. Let us say that we know some secrets, some dark deeds that were done in our family. Do we go around talking about them? No, we do not; and if this is so, then why should we talk about somebody else’s secrets?

God is bringing up a people. He said, “Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant?” (Isaiah 42:19)

Also, in Ecclesiastes 7:21 He said that if your servant curses you, you should pretend that you do not hear. Do you know why? The reason is given in the next verse. It is because sometimes you have likewise cursed others.

God gives us a clear path and it is a little bit narrow, isn’t it? You do not have any leeway. You are not as free as a sinner. But it is the path of righteousness and the Word says, “…few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14). There are not many Christians who walk the Christian way.

You say, “Brother Cecil, these are people who are not going to heaven,” but you are wrong! A lot of wicked people go to heaven. That sounds bad, doesn’t it; but was the thief on the cross a righteous person? He made it though, because he repented at the last edge and he was saved although his shirt was singed with the fire of hell. He was saved.

So, as righteous people, we have to be righteous from deep down inside.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 1998, pg. 1-2)

Thought for today: Let us examine our walk before the Lord and see to it that we walk the true Christian way.

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Thank God for Tribulation!

Posted in Christian Walk on February 11, 2026| 1 Comment »

Scripture reading: Romans 5:1-5

One day I said to God, “God, I see Your people. I see the “Holy of Holies”, the spirit realm where God and man walk as one; and I also see the “Outer Court” realm. How are You going to get us from the “Outer Court” into the “Holy of Holies”? How are You going to get me from being natural, carnal—from planning my own business, from planning the meetings, from doing my own thing… How are You going to get me from one place to the other? And not me alone, but the whole church? For the whole church must be one with Christ before the end comes, and I see the end coming down on us like a fast-moving train! Oh God, how are You going to get us out?”

I asked God this and He answered me. Of course, when I say that God answered me, I am talking about after many, maybe fifty, years. So do not believe that I asked this and God answered me right then and there. No, no! However, eventually, God did say to me, “I am going to do it by tribulation.” I said, “Oh, God! What kind of tribulation would there need to be to bring that pastor from his ‘pastoring’? To bring him from his situation of loving God but at the same time taking the place of Jesus Christ in the congregation? How are You going to bring him from there to the Holy of Holies? How are You going to bring me from where I am to the Holy of Holies? It must be terrible tribulation!”

But then, I did not understand tribulation. If God tribulated all of us at one time, none of us would be able to help the other. Can you understand that? We need a certain amount of tribulation to bring us into perfection. But if God tribulated all of us at one time, what would our condition be? We would be in a terrible condition! So He is very nice to us and tribulating us piece by piece, part by part.

For example, there is a hand that isn’t working right, and God starts beating on the hand. But the other hand comes and holds it up until that hand learns to obey Christ. Then He takes the other hand. Brethren, I see us going into tribulation one by one, little by little. Some of us think we are going to have a picnic. We decide to go on a picnic and we pack our lunch to take with us, but God has another plan for us. He starts to bring tribulation down upon us one by one, two by two, four by four… And it is increasing. I thank God for tribulation! That is a terrible thing to say, but I thank God for tribulation because through the tribulation He is doing a work in our midst.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, December 2002)

Thought for today: Let us thank God for tribulation knowing that through the tribulation He is doing a work in our midst.

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Vacancies in Our Lives

Posted in Christian Walk on February 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: John 6:63

In John, chapter 6, Jesus Christ made a revelation to us. This revelation is far-reaching because we do not seem to understand what is happening when we are doing certain things.

In verse 63, Jesus said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you are spirit, but not just spirit, they are also life.” In other words, there are words that are “spirit” but they are not “life.” Take your Bible, turn it in the converse, and you will begin to understand a lot of things that you did not understand before. You will notice that in everything you do, you are issuing out spirits; spirits are coming from you to another person.

I remember in my young days, I was addicted to violence and would get mad very easily. I would just want to do destruction. When I came to Jesus, and He delivered me, I was so glad because I thought that now all that madness was gone out of my soul. Little did I know that certain compartments in my soul still retained some of the old man.

At that time, I was working on a farm. One day, two men started to fight. I could not stand to see one person beating up on another who was helpless; I could not stand the “bully” spirit. This man knocked the other man down, then picked him up and knocked him down again and again. I rushed in and called, “Hey, you are going to kill him! Stop this!” Instead of obeying me, the man turned against me and began to shove against me. Suddenly, a spirit from that man came into me. In other words, I had a door open; I had a vacancy and he ministered the spirit of violence to me, which I had no desire or reason for. I was not vexed with anybody, I was not mad with anybody, but I began to manifest the same madness, the same shortness of breath. I began to manifest vexation without being vexed. Furthermore, what I did was worse, because I acted just like I would if I were out in the street again fighting. But now I was a Christian, I was preaching the word of God; yet all of a sudden, I used a tactic that came down from my street fighting days, a tactic that was from the other life. I got the man over my shoulder, ran with him, and slammed him down on the wall. I thought to myself, “Why am I doing this? I am not mad. I am not vexed with anybody.” I realized that a spirit of violence was ministered to me.

I tell you all this because God is doing something special for us. We all have vacancies in our lives, but God is closing them up by putting us into circumstances in which we can submit to the words of life.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, December 2002)

Thought for today: Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

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“He Will Lead You into All Truth”

Posted in Christian Walk on February 9, 2026| 1 Comment »

Scripture reading: John 16:13

John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

When we read in John, we realize that there is no reason for us to have false doctrines. You should be able to listen to the worst and most powerful preacher of falsehood and not be taken by him because your insides cannot accept his doctrine; you will vomit it up. This should be the condition of the children of God because the Holy Spirit is in us and He will reject the things that are not of Him; unless you especially want it and put Him aside to take it.

Where did Jesus say that the Holy Spirit was going to lead us? “He will lead you into all truth.” (John 16:13) Lord have mercy upon us! If the Holy Spirit came into us to lead us into all truth, then what is wrong with us? Why do so many people have the Holy Spirit but are not being led into truth? It is because they are all going after lies and errors.

Let us look at the following situation: Here is a human being having a desire inside of him – he wants to preach. It is a righteous desire, a good thing. He wants to bless others. He wants to see people lifted up and praising the Lord. But lo and behold, the desire to preach becomes number one in his life and God loses His place to the desire to preach. So who takes over? The man takes over, but let me tell you, a religious spirit will never allow him to be the boss. The religious spirit is going to take over because that is his territory. The man becomes a preacher, and a lot of people get blessed. But while he opens his mouth, one little piece of the religious spirit gets into it. If you continue to listen to him, you will find yourself more and more having the same desires. You might not want to preach, you might want to do something else, but it will all be a religious exercise.

Do you see the danger? Lift up your eyes. Look around. Where are the people growing in the Spirit? If the Holy Spirit came to lead us into all truth, we are going to get better and better for God every day, no matter how dumb we are, because the Holy Spirit is setting little traps here and there for us to go into truth. You may get your head bashed in and you may think something bad is happening, but it turns out to be the Holy Spirit Who has set a little trap for you to bring you the words of truth. We have to remember that the Holy Spirit is always working little things to get us into the truth.

(Excerpt from “Led of the Spirit”, Foundational Teachings #077)

Thought for today: The Holy Spirit came in order to lead us into all truth.

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