(Nuggets from Ephesians 3:17A – KJV)
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…” (Ephesians 3:17A KJV)
Dear ALL,
Youths, adults, skeptics, prodigals, church kids, and street kings/queens.
This one verse is about to wreck every excuse you’ve ever had for living a powerless life caused by ignorance.
In this scripture, Apostle Paul wasn’t praying for a visit, he was praying for a PERMANENT RESIDENT, one who will come in to STAY. The Greek word for “DWELL” is “KATOIKEO”; it means to settle down, to take up address, to move in with all the furniture. Jesus doesn’t want to come just to crash on your couch for the weekend. He wants your master bedroom, the keys, the Wi-Fi password, the whole house. Question that will haunt you tonight: Have you only invited Jesus to visit, or have you handed Him the title deed to your heart and the keys to your life?
Most of us treat salvation like a casual thing, with so much levity and disdain, especially after accepting Him into your life as your Lord and personal savior, whereas Jesus is standing inside the house you claim is His, watching you live like He’s not even there. That’s not salvation, that’s spiritual squatting.
Jesus wants to DWELL ACTIVELY in you, HE IS NOT A STATUE.
He wants you to feel His presence practically.
When Christ actually DWELLS in you (not visits, not Zoom-calls, not mid-week fellowships or Sunday appearances), everything changes.
- You stop performing, because His presence is your perfection. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV)
YOU’RE NOT TRYING TO BECOME HOLY; HOLINESS MOVED IN AND STARTED DECORATING HIS ABODE.
- Your secret battles get evicted. Porn at 2 a.m.? Lust? Rage? Depression? Addiction? They can’t stay when the King has come to stay. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4 KJV)
THE DEVIL KEEPS KNOCKING, BUT JESUS CHANGED THE LOCKS.
- Your mouth starts speaking a new language. Lies, gossip, cursing, jesting, negativity, they get choked out and neutralized by the RIVERS OF LIVING WATER. “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth…” (Ephesians 4:29 KJV)
WHEN CHRIST LIVES INSIDE YOU, YOUR WORDS, ACTIONS, THOUGHTS, COMPANY & HABITS AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE.
- You walk through trauma with a smile. Job lost? Diagnosis bad? Friends ghosted? Money gone? Doesn’t matter. “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew 28:20 KJV). You won’t forget so soon that He keeps in PERFECT PEACE, ALL THOSE WHOSE MINDS STAY ON HIM. (Isaiah 26:3 KJV)
THOUGH THE STORMS RAGE, YOU REMAIN UNPERTURBED BECAUSE THE CAPTAIN AND MASTER OF THE WIND LIVES INSIDE THE BOAT: YOUR LIFE.
- You stop chasing purpose; purpose starts chasing you. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10 KJV) When Jesus dwells inside, you don’t hunt destiny, destiny hunts you down in the grocery store, in the lecture hall, on the block, on the bus, in the prison cell, just name it!
But here’s the part nobody preaches in the viral Instagram reels, YouTube shorts, Facebook Reels or Viral tweets: “CHRIST WILL NOT DWELL WHERE SELF STILL SITS ON THE THRONE”.
You can’t have two kings in one castle. One must abdicate. That’s why Paul prays “that Christ may dwell in your hearts BY FAITH.” Faith is the EVICTION NOTICE you serve your EGO. Faith is you opening every closet, every drawer, every hidden folder, and saying, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me…” (Psalm 139:23-24 KJV).
The moment you do that, something supernatural happens. “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by FAITH; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19 KJV)
FILLED WITH THE FULLNESS OF GOD; Not 70%, Not 99%. ALL. That’s the offer on the table right now, and you don’t have to sleep on this.
So, here’s the challenge, NO MORE PRETENSE, HOLY DRAMA, HYPOCRISY or MAKE-BELIEVE.
STOP PLAYING CHRISTIAN, STOP POSTING SCRIPTURES WHILE LIVING IN SIN, STOP SINGING “Oceans” while DROWNING IN COMPROMISE.
Open the door WIDE and let the King of Glory come in (ALL the way in).
Pray this out loud right now, wherever you are:
“Lord Jesus, I’m tired of visiting you ONLY ON SUNDAYS. I am tired of reaching out to you only when I have an EMERGENCY or just landed into some big trouble. I am fed up already, Lord. Move in today, come and make my heart your home. Come and occupy every room in my heart. Break every chain, burn every idol, I give you my entirety, I surrender the throne of my heart. REIGN in me, LIVE in me, SPEAK through me, LOVE through me. From this second forward, it’s no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me. Grace my life with your indwelling presence and help me to live according to your will to retain you within me permanently, in Jesus’ name, AMEN.”
If you meant that prayer, something just shifted in the atmosphere.
King Jesus is welcome home now, and the house is His now; don’t ever attempt to indulge in sin, lest He walks away.
If you joined this prayer and handed Jesus the keys to your life, kindly drop “I LET HIM IN” in the comments section.
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 331 OF 365 🔥
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