Rhapsody of Realities 16 September 2026: Born of the Word and the Spirit
SCRIPTURE: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God… (1 Peter 1:23).
Christianity is not a religion. It’s not a system for moral improvement or an attempt to become better through human effort. Rather, it’s the outworking of a divine birth, an actual transformation that takes place in the human spirit when one receives Christ.
You need to fully understand what happened when you were born again. You didn’t merely join a church or adopt a new way of life; you were born of God’s Spirit. This wasn’t symbolic or figurative; He imparted divine life to you and made you a new creature with a new origin, a new nature, and a new identity.
Your physical birth made you human, but the New Birth in Christ made you a partaker of the divine nature. We read in our opening scripture that we were born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which lives and abides forever. Also, James 1:18 says, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
That means being born of the Word, you have the life of the Word. It’s for the same reason that we’re called the epistles of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:3). Then, the Lord Jesus said in John 3:6, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The Apostle Paul, by the Spirit, explains this further in Romans 8:10-11: Though your physical body was subject to death because of sin, the Spirit now gives it life because of righteousness.
The Holy Spirit in you is life to your spirit and vitality to your body. This is why Christianity is the manifestation of the divine life in a human person. You’re as divine as the Lord Jesus is. This is the consciousness God wants you to have. You’re born of the Word and the Spirit. The life in you is superior to sickness, fear, failure, weakness and corruption because it’s the very life of God. Think, talk, and live accordingly. Glory to God!
CONFESSION
I’m born of the Word and by the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore, my origin is divine. I’m as divine as Jesus is, and I walk in the consciousness of my divine origin and identity in Christ. The life of God is at work in me, and I manifest His righteousness, excellence, victory, and glory today, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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FURTHER STUDY:
John 3:3-6
3 Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb again and be born?
5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.
6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!
John 1:12-13
12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—
13 Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Galatians 2:1-21 & Songs of Solomon 1-2
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Rhapsody of Realities 16 September 2026
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