Statement of Faith
Statement of Faith
A document created by the founders of Glory to GOD Ministries, outlining the Scriptural beliefs and foundational doctrines of Glory to GOD ministries.
Purpose of this Document
For the instruction and direction of all members and participants, individuals or organisations, of the foundational beliefs and Scriptural doctrines that make up the core values of Glory to GOD Ministries.
The Gospel of Grace
We here at Glory to GOD are unashamed ministers of the Gospel of Grace as we believe that this Grace Message is the Gospel, rightly interpreted:
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 TIMOTHY 2:15 (KJV)
HEBREWS 4:12 (KJV)
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Like the Apostle Paul, we here at Glory to GOD are not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of GOD unto Salvation:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
[PAUL]ROMANS 1:16 (KJV)
ONLY THE REAL GOSPEL [GRACE] TRULY HAS THE POWER TO BRING GOOD NEWS INTO PEOPLE’S LIVES.
ISAIAH 52:7 (VOICE)
7 Ah, how beautiful the feet of those on the mountain
who declare the good news of victory, of peace and liberation,[a] The voice that calls to Zion, that chosen place for God’s promise people,
announcing to them “Your God rules!”
2 CORINTHIANS 3:6 (AMP)
[It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.
Grace is more than just a doctrine; it is an actual person – Jesus Christ. Grace alongside Truth is His defining characteristics:
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
JOHN 1:14 (KJV)
We believe that this Message of the Good News of GOD to all mankind needs to be preached and ministered to all people with great care and with an awareness of the great responsibility we have as ministers of reconciliation
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:18-20 (KJV)
The only Jesus people will ever see is the Jesus that we, His ambassadors, present to them:
ROMANS 8:18-21 (PHILLIPS)
PRESENT DISTRESS IS TEMPORARY AND NEGLIGIBLE
18-21 In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own. The world of creation cannot as yet see reality, not because it chooses to be blind, but because in God’s purpose it has been so limited—yet it has been given hope. And the hope is that in the end the whole of created life will be rescued from the tyranny of change and decay, and have its share in that magnificent liberty which can only belong to the children of God!
The way we present Jesus to the people of this World will determine their eternal destiny. The responsibility He has given us as His children is that great.
CORE VALUES, KEY DECLARATIONS & KEY DECREE’S
FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE NEW CREATIONS IN CHRIST AND THAT THE WORD OF GOD CLEARLY STATES THAT WE ARE HEALED BY THE STRIPES OF JESUS (2 PETER 2.24).
WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE LIVE IN HUMAN BODIES MADE OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND IN A FALLEN WORLD THAT ARE BOTH SUBJECT TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALL OF MAN AND WE ARE THEREFORE IN A SENSE BROKEN AND SUSCEPTIBLE TO CONTAMINATION.
WE RECOGNISE THAT ALL OF US ARE EXPOSED TO ALL KINDS OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE ALL THE TIME, WHETHER DUE TO HEREDITARY CONDITIONS, POOR LIFESTYLE/DIET CHOICES OR ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ILLNESS INCLUDING DEMONIC ATTACK.
HAVING SAID THAT, WE BELIEVE EVERY BELIEVER HAS INHERITED SOMETHING MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT AND THAT IS THE VERY SAME POWER AND AUTHORITY THAT RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD, THE RESURRECTION LIFE OF JESUS. WE ARE THEREFORE COMPLETE IN CHRIST (COLOSSIANS 2:10). IF WE TRULY WANT TO GROW INTO OUR SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE AND SHED THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR EARTHLY INHERITANCE WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO RENEW OUR OWN MINDS BY CONSISTENTLY EXPOSING OURSELVES YOURSELF TO THE WORD OF GOD:
ROMANS 12:2 (MSG)
Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you
WHETHER IT BE BY READING THE BIBLE ITSELF OR BY LISTENING TO OR WATCHING GOOD, GRACE-BASED TEACHINGS/MESSAGES THAT ENCOURAGE YOU AND BRING HOPE AND BUILD YOU UP SPIRITUALLY (PLEASE SEE OUR “RECOMMENDED RESOURCES LIST”). TRULY ANOINTED TEACHING IS THAT REVEALS CHRIST IN THE WORD AND WILL ALWAYS LEAVE YOU WITH A SENSE OF PEACE, JOY AND FULFILLMENT. YOU SHOULD NEVER LISTEN TO MESSAGES THAT BRING YOU “BAD NEWS”, WHETHER IT IS DOOM & GLOOM, DISASTER PROPHECIES OR MESSAGES OF GUILT, SHAME, CONDEMNATION AND SIN-CONSCIOUSNESS.
1 JOHN 4:17 (KJV)
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Having said that, we believe that all New Testament saints have the right to live healed and whole lives:
JAMES 5:14-16 (NIV)
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
From this passage and from other historical evidence we know that there were not many who were sick among the early church, unlike the church today.
We teach that divine healing belongs to every child of GOD. So therefore we will keep pursuing a truly pure and holy lifestyle as we consecrate ourselves and our lives to GOD
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
1 PETER 1:15 (NIV)
We are totally against the spirit of religion of this world (man-made religion). The only true religion there is and that we accept in exclusion to all others is the one defined best by the Apostle James:
James 1:27
New International Version (NIV)
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(A) orphans and widows(B) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(C)
THE KEY OBJECTIVE OF THIS MINISTRY
– THE RESTORATION OF THE IMAGE OF THE LORD ESPECIALLY OF FATHER GOD
WE BELIEVE THE LORD HAS GIVEN US THE OBJECTIVE TO OPERATE IN HIS ANOINTING AND HE HAS ENABLED US TO FULFILL THE ISAIAH 61 MANDATE:
1 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME;
BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK;
HE HATH SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED,
TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES,
AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM THAT ARE BOUND;
2 TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD,
AND THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD;
TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN;
3 TO APPOINT UNTO THEM THAT MOURN IN ZION,
TO GIVE UNTO THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES,
THE OIL OF JOY FOR MOURNING,
THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS;
THAT THEY MIGHT BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
THE PLANTING OF THE LORD,
THAT HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED.
4 AND THEY SHALL BUILD THE OLD WASTES,
THEY SHALL RAISE UP THE FORMER DESOLATIONS,
AND THEY SHALL REPAIR THE WASTE CITIES,
THE DESOLATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS.
WORD & DEED
WE HERE AT GLORY TO GOD MINISTRIES ARE HEARERS OF THE WORD AND WE ARE THEREFORE DOERS ALSO:
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
JAMES 1:22 (KJV)
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
COLOSSIANS 3:17 (KJV)
THE FOLLOWING IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS “THE GOLDEN COMMANDMENT”. WE HERE AT GLORY TO GOD MINISTRIES ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AS THE SUMMATION OF ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND AS JESUS ALSO TAUGHT IT IS GOD’S PERFECT WILL FOR MANKIND SUMMARISED IN ONE SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL COMMANDMENT:
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
LUKE 10:27 (NIV)
We believe that the “Golden Commandment” that Jesus gave us can only be fulfilled in our lives as we dedicate and devote ourselves and our lives to restoring the image of the LORD, especially of Father GOD in our hearts by renewing our minds as we expose ourselves to good grace-based teaching especially those that emphasise the goodness of GOD and His unconditional and personal love that He has for each one of us.
Then, as our hearts grow progressively more persuaded and convinced of His great love for us, it will be a natural response to love Him and worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
When we begin to respond to His first loving us and as the image of GOD is restored more and more in our hearts, minds and in our lives, we will naturally begin to see the image of GOD in those that GOD has placed around us, our neighbours.
We passionately desire to bring forth the truth and reality about who GOD really is and we want to do all that we can to restore a right understanding of who GOD is into people’s lives.
FUNDAMENTAL GOAL OF THE MINISTRY
Our main goal is to grow, alongside those whom we are ministering with and to, in the understanding of how much the LORD loves us all, as individuals and as His body, and how much value and worth He places on us and on our lives.
He considers us as so precious and loves us so much that He paid the greatest price, His one and only Son, to reconcile us back to Himself.
As we grow in the understanding of this most powerful truth called the “Love of GOD” we will realise and respond to how much we should love, respect and honour Him, ourselves and our neighbours.
As people begin to see our good works they will give glory to GOD:
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
MATTHEW 5:16 (NIV)
As we begin to see other’s with the same unconditional love the LORD has for us and the same loving-kindness and mercy we extend to ourselves and our sins and shortcomings, we will naturally extend that same love to our neighbour.
Essentially it is the Word of Christ, rightly divided and interpreted that has the real power to transform our lives:
Romans 10:17
New International Version (NIV)
17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,(A) and the message is heard through the word about Christ.(B)
Colossians 3:16
New International Version (NIV)
16 Let the message of Christ(A) dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom(B) through psalms,(C) hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.(D)
Everything we do as a ministry and in our personal lives we do by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and His enabling power in our lives.
All of this in order that to fulfil His purpose for our lives and for this ministry:
8 The LORD will vindicate me;
your love, LORD, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
PSALM 138:8 (NIV)
GUARD YOUR HEART
Proverbs 4:23
New International Version (NIV)
23 Above all else, guard(A) your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.(B)
Our heart is the centre of our being, and everything it receives it receives as truth. So we must watch what information comes in through our senses and into our mind. We must discern what we allow in to our hearts. We should not allow every wind of doctrine or teaching into our hearts nor should we mix the two covenants together Because His Word clearly states that the Old Testament is obsolete:
Hebrews 8:13
New International Version (NIV)
13 By calling this covenant “new,”(A) he has made the first one obsolete;(B) and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
When we allow two different kinds of teachings to come into our hearts, whether it is law mixed with Grace or just simply law our hearts will become unstable and in the end you will have no faith.
ROMANS 10 VERSE 17 – PARAPHRASE
Faith cannot come unless you hear the true gospel, the gospel of peace (Find scripture reference for phrase gospel of peace)
Here at glory to God we will not allow or permit any other teaching or any other wind of doctrine (Anything that contradicts the gospel of peace).
The word of God says you will know them by their fruit (Find scripture reference), so we are responsible to check our own lives to see if we are bearing fruit or not:
Matthew 7:16-18
New International Version (NIV)
16 By their fruit you will recognize them.(A) Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?(B)17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.(C)
Also we must not let our hearts be split. The splitting of one’s heart is due to the lack of understanding. When a person is deceived, not understanding how much they are loved by the Father, They will go back to their old ways that’s loving God and Loving sin at the same time. This is what causes the splitting of a person’s heart.
Sin is deceitful; it can destroy you and rob you of true intimate fellowship with the father and everyone else in your life.
We, as true ministers of God’s grace, like Paul, most definitely do not promote sin. Rather our intention is to help people, who want to, to come out of their sin.
We believe every true ministry of GOD ought to be a five-fold ministry. If a ministry is not a fivefold ministry we recommend that they seek and obtain help and support from another ministry that is a five-fold ministry.
A ministry cannot stand nor grow without the input of a recognised apostle i.e. one who is sent by God as a gift to the body.
Glory to God ministries is a five-fold ministry given to us from God, by his grace, as a gift to the body of Christ worldwide.
We do not boast about this gift from God but we are compelled to declare that there must be order in the house of God. The governmental structure that God himself has ordained for His house is found in First Corinthians chapter 12 verse 28:
1 Corinthians 12:28
New International Version (NIV)
28 And God has placed in the church(A) first of all apostles,(B) second prophets,(C) third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing,(D) of helping, of guidance,(E) and of different kinds of tongues.(F)
Many ministers, through their own insecurities and desire to control Others, Have not allowed the apostle’s and the prophets to take their position in the church. That opens up, unknowingly, a spirit of witchcraft to come in and paralyse the church.
The church of Jesus Christ is a kingdom and a Theocracy not a democracy. So you cannot have a board made up of “good” people. In the true church of Jesus Christ first is the Apostle, second the Prophet, third the Teacher and so on:
Ephesians 4:7-16
King James Version (KJV)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
So you cannot have a board of members voting and deciding on any matter as they have not been given any authority by God. The authority has been given exclusively to the five-fold ministry.
BEING BORN OF GOD
John 3:5
King James Version (KJV)
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
We cannot enter the kingdom of GOD unless we are first born of water and of the Spirit.
John 3:6
King James Version (KJV)
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
When you were born naturally, your mother’s water had to first break in order for you to be birthed in the natural as a sinner, contaminated by the sin of Adam.
GRACE- DEFINITION:
GOD’S ENABLING POWER FOR TRANSFORMATION
WHEN A PERSON ACCEPTS GOD’S FREE GIFT OF SALVATION – HEBREW: YESHUA(JESUS), AND BELIEVES IN THEIR HEART THAT HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND THEY CONFESS WITH THEIR MOUTH THAT JESUS IS LORD, THEN AND ONLY THEN IS A PERSON IS TRULY BORN OF GOD.
Titus 3:5
King James Version (KJV)
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
2 Corinthians 5:17
King James Version (KJV)
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Every person who has been actually born of GOD should be able to testify to the above Scripture. There should be certain and definite point, a turning point, in every believer’s life, that marks the end of the old and the beginning of the new. This point is the point of contact between you and the Lord, when you allowed him into your heart, invited him into your life. It is similar to the point of arrival, in the flesh, of the Lord Jesus, into history. The periods before and after that point, the birth of Jesus, are referred to as BC and AD respectively. We believe that as significant as the birth of Jesus is historically, His arrival into your life should be as significant. A believer should be able to remember when they were saved and there should be evidence, fruit of major transformation and change in that person’s life since that point.
Are you following the Lord Jesus according to the Gospel of Peace?
Romans 10:15
King James Version (KJV)
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Is their good fruit in your life, evidence of supernatural change and transformation?
Matthew 7:16-18
King James Version (KJV)
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Ephesians 2:8
King James Version (KJV)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
As we grow in the knowledge of how much you are loved by the father and that you are His righteous, sin will become less and less appealing.
The reality of the gospel is that it is a journey.
WHAT SETS US APART AS MINISTRY ?
Through the right teaching we are on the journey to understanding and to love the father with all our heart with our entire mind with all our soul with all our strength (Luke 10:27).
As you learn to love Him in this way His love becomes complete in you and in your life. His love manifests fully in your life, then you are able to love yourself with His kind of love and then u can love your neighbour as you love him and yourself.
Having that understanding, we are then able to love all people of this world and we will go forth in word and deed and demonstrate His love through us to the hungry, poor, widow, poor, orphan, abandoned, broken, unlovely, shame, and every other type or kind of person on Earth
1 John 4:16
New International Version (NIV)
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love.(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(B)
Therefore our mission is to go to the ends of the earth the highways and byways and compel people with the love of Christ to come in to the arms of the loving Father
Only when you know how much you are loved by the father do you have the boldness to go forth unashamedly and declare the Word of God fiercely.