ELIZABETH ABAYE BLOG

COME UP HITHER Elizabeth I. Abaye www.elizabethabaye.com “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” Revelation 11:12 KJV The call of the Spirit of God is always to a Higher Place, to see more, to know more, to receive more and to be more in God. The Christian Life by design is one of ever increasing glory...... No glory is ever enough; we are to Go Up Higher for more glory because it is always from one level of glory unto another. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Similarly, Proverbs 4:18 tells us, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” There is always more and more and more for us to grasp in Christ but for us to get them, we must Go Up Hither. It is in the place o

  CHOSEN BY GRACE Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:10 says, “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (KJV). Sometimes we tend to think that we get through in life by our own power or self-righteousness but I have come to understand that we are nothing outside the grace of God. No matter how educated you are if grace does not work with you, your education is meaningless, it will take you nowhere. Oh it is good to be righteous for that is who we are in Christ: nevertheless, you don’t depend on your righteousness but upon the Spirit of grace who administers grace upon grace on us. And no matter how gifted and talented you are, if you are not endowed with grace, your efforts will be worthless and unproductive. for “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but i