 HOW GOOD IS YOUR CREDIT By Bruce Leane, guest writer Subtitle: How good is your credit in Heaven? How do you get a credit in Heaven? Do you work for it or inherit it? Or do you rely on hope that God is merciful and you’re good enough to obtain credit in Heaven?  Accessing our heavenly account is by faith. It is faith that pleases God and causes him to act. Credit in the Bank of Heaven is there for all Christian believers to claim boldly. The believer’s credit is pre-paid and eternally secured. The Father God secured the account by the death of his Son Jesus on the cross. Our Heavenly credit rating is then a free gift from God. You cannot add to your credit account in Heaven by any effort on your part. Whatever you try to add to the account will not be put into your account because of your imperfect life of living to please self alone. Trying to add to your heavenly account by good works and hope won’t be classed as worthy to be added to the account. Only faith in what Christ has done will access the account. You can’t overspend the account because it’s part of an account set up by God and he has supplied all that is needed to keep the account open. God has made many entries in the account such as forgiveness of our failures, answered prayer, healing, and the free gift of righteousness. There is nothing we can do that will cause God to cancel these entries. Clearly understand, that as you were before Christ came into your life you didn’t deserve the account. You cannot be or do anything that will please God and deserve the account, you are here on earth to use the everlasting credit scheme God has set up for you (Romans 4:1-11), and to live by faith in the righteousness God has bestowed on you.  If we are to live in the abundance of God's blessing as heirs, daily, we must know his terms and conditions. his terms are seek forst the Kingdom of Heaven and ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU. POVERTY IS AN ATTITUDE There are many attitudes that cause the Christian life to be one of poverty. If we insist on working to please God the Christian life will be dry as dust and as joyless as a dried up lake. This kind of thinking and behaviour does not make entries in the account that God has given us. The poverty attitude stems from living in a position of ignorance of what the Bible says we God has given us. To know our spiritual status as the sons and daughters of God we must read the terms and conditions laid out in the book of Hebrews. Our ignorance has reduced us to a begging mentality and position. We are forever begging God to give us more when we already have that ‘more’. The trouble is, the poverty attitude says it never has enough and remains unsatisfied because they miss the heart of God. He wants to bless you more than you want to be blessed. We have been trained to beg, plead, even fast for more so that we miss what we already have. ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.’ (Eph 1: 3). It is like trying to climb a hill your already on top of or sit on a chair that you are already sitting on. You’ve got everything you’ve ever wanted because God has given it to you. So enjoy it by taking God at his Word and accepting it by faith.  The breakfast tray is set. God has set up the tray of life and filled it every good thing for us. Psalm 23 says 'I shall not want.' THE INHERITANCE
My kids are forever teasing me about their inheritance. One of them has earmarked a box of old wooden carpenter’s planes in my shed. I keep on saying, ‘take them,’ but he says, ‘No! They are my inheritance.’ He has his inheritance already but he hasn’t taken it. It is like many Christians; we have been given everything we need including goodness and divine health, abundantly provided for, but we haven’t taken them. Anything we own down here will instantly become old junk at our demise and is recycled amongst relatives. But God has not left us without a roof over our heads, so to speak. Jesus is recorded as saying, ‘I go to prepare a place for you… That where I am there you will be also.’ (John 14:1 -4. We can take Jesus’ word as truth and rest assured that our credit rating in Heaven is good and we haven’t had to make one premium. Meanwhile down here, God decided that he would make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault – we who stand before him covered with his love. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us,’ (Eph 1 4 -5). Accept God’s credit rating here and in heaven and live as God’s children as quoted in Romans 8:17, “Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ…”
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