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STUDY YOUR RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL

PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME DSc DSc DD

FRIDAY, JULY 17th, 2026

THEME: BRING YOUR BODY UNDER SUBJECTION

📖 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1).

Having understood that your spirit is the Most Holy Place and must take the lead, with your soul trained to follow, there’s one more vital area to address: your body. Your body doesn’t automatically align with the life of God in your spirit; it must be brought under control.

That’s why the Word says, "present your bodies a living sacrifice…” (Romans 12:1).God has done His part in recreating your spirit but the yielding of your body, presenting it to Him as a living sacrifice, is your responsibility. The Apostle Paul gives further insight: “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection…” (1 Corinthians 9:27).

This means the body must be disciplined and trained to align with your spirit. The body has its tendencies; it responds to sensations, appetites and external stimuli. It wants to act based on what it feels. But you’re a spirit being, not a body; you live in a body. Therefore, you can’t let your
senses rule you. The Bible says, “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die…” (Romans 8:13).

To live after the flesh is to be governed by the body and its impulses, but that’s not your life. You live by the Spirit, and as the concluding part of Romans 8:13 declares, “…if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” That means through the Holy Ghost, you put to death the activities of the body, override its impulses, and bring it into alignment with God’s will and purpose.

This isn’t suppression; it’s mastery. Your spirit, one with the Holy Spirit and filled with the life of God, takes charge. Your soul, renewed by the Word, agrees. Then your body is brought into obedience. This is the complete order of the Christian life: spirit, soul and body in alignment with the Word of God.

Don’t let your body dictate your life or control your responses. Whether it’s weakness, appetite, or any form of pressure; take charge from your spirit. Present your body to God. Make it serve His purpose. If you feel symptoms of sickness, declare, “No! My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; therefore, it’s immune to sickness, disease and infirmities.” Refuse to allow sickness in your body; it’s part of keeping your body aligned and yielded to God.

🔊 PRAYER

Dear Father, I thank you for your life and glory in me. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I present it as a living sacrifice, bringing it under subjection to your will and ways. I refuse to be governed by the senses or natural impulses. I walk in sync with the Spirit, aligned with your perfect will at.

📚 FURTHER STUDY:

1 Corinthians 9:27 AMPC; Romans 8:12-13 NIV;
Galatians 5:24-25

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Acts 25:1-12 & Psalm 7-10

2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Galatians 5:1-12 & Isaiah 37

STUDY YOUR RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL

PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME DSc DSc DD

SUNDAY, JULY 5th 2026

THEME: KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR TRUE NATURE

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life…(1 John 5:13)

God wants you to know who you are. Not to guess, not to assume, but to know. The Apostle John, writing by the Spirit, says, “These things have I written unto you…that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” This is about your identity—what you have and who you are in Christ—NOW. You’re divine because you have eternal life, the divine life.

Consider the Apostle John, who wrote what we read in our theme scripture. During the time of the Great Persecution, after John had been arrested, they put him in a large boiling pot to fry him alive. They were determined to destroy him. But when the fire had burnt out and consumed itself, John stood up. They couldn’t kill him because there was something about him.

That’s how the expression came about, “St. John the Divine.” They couldn’t explain him. They said, “This is not an ordinary man.” So they banished him to the island of Patmos and left him there. Now think about it: was John the only one who was divine? No. What made him divine was the life he had, the eternal life of God in him, and the consciousness of that life.

That same life is what you’ve received in Christ. The Bible says you’re a partaker of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).That means you’re not an ordinary person. You’re not merely human. You’re a God-being because you have the life of God in your spirit. But this must dawn on you;otherwise, you’ll think, talk, and respond from a natural standpoint. Yet that’s not your true identity.

When the Bible says, “…that ye may know that ye have eternal life...” (1 John 5:13), it means God wants you to know and function by that revelation. He wants it in your present-hour consciousness. He wants you to be fully aware that the life in you is divine. He knows that when this becomes real to you, your responses will reflect your nature and your expectations will rise to match the life in you. Hallelujah!

🔊 CONFESSIONS

I’m a partaker of the divine nature, and I live in the full consciousness of the God-life in me. I walk in dominion, boldness and victory, manifesting Christ in all that I do, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

📚 FURTHER STUDY:

2 Peter 1:4; John 1:12-13; 1 John 4:17

1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 17:16-34 & Job 6-8

2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
2 Corinthians 13:7-14 & Isaiah 25

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