Today I fulfilled the covenant of circumscision with God 2/5/17

[Sajih]

I felt a deep sense of obligation


to share with you some of my personal story that led to my circumscision


Having discovered the amazing truth about our One True God that came about

With the help of the angel Gabriel the Holy Spirit

in different stages


and

Over a stretch of some ......,five years







I suddenly found myself in the same predicament as Blessed Abraham

For I too was born into a pagan family
And brought up among a community that worshipped idols


And I too

found myself an outcast from my own family and community.







Yet despite all the darkness that gloomed over my life


I too
discovered a great and unique love for the One True God that never existed before in my entire life

A love that has taken me to endless boundaries of knowledge

I had never imagined myself to be taken to

nor did I know existed for that matter.

It is this amazing love for our One True God that has led me to gradually put faith into action
By fulfilling Gods covenant that was handed down from generation to generation in

Genesis 17:12
12 From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased.




I too found myself getting circumcised at the late age of 47


as did Blessed Abraham at the supposed age of 99



back in Genesis 17:24


Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised


As did John in Luke 1:59


On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,



And Jesus in
Luke 2:21

On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.


I cannot describe to you

how honoured and overwhelmed I am to be counted amongst his chosen people

That's right my dear brothers and sisters

"Amongst his CHOSEN people"

As he stipulated himself

back in


Genesis 17:7


7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.


Notice my dear brothers and sisters the significance of the above verse and its numerical interpretation

That ironically matches today's date
And its significance in my life


2/5/17. When 2 and 5 are added =7/17 when read backwards = 17:7


How compassionate and Merciful is our wonderful God Amen


It is this everlasting covenant that God decreed for mankind amongst many others that Jesus testified to vigorously in


Matthew 5:17-18
The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.




Faith without action my dear brothers and sisters is dead



As attested to by Blessed James in


James 2:14-17

Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.



And action without faith is dead
as James went on to clarify in the following damning words of


James 2:18-26


18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your[a] works, and I will show you my faith by my[b] works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?[c]21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[d] And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.


25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.




We pray that more and more people
Show their true love to our One True God
The Lord of Spirits

As Blessed Abraham did

By putting the proper action with the proper faith


So as to avoid being cut off from Gods people as stipulated by him in

Genesis 17:14


Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut
off from his people;

he has broken my covenant."



May God continue to bless and protect you and your families


and may you all continue to be a light for others who are still embedded in the darkness of deceit

Your humble brother

sajih

[Anthony Morghan]

Thank you Sajih for the sharing to us this very personal something you did for God. This very brave for this action you do. You are good example for devoted man.

God bless you my brother.

Anthony