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When God spoke for the first time in Genesis 1:3 He said, “Let there be light.” In essence, what God was saying is, “Let there be Jesus”, because Jesus is the Light of the World (John 8:12). God established, through this verse, that Jesus is the beginning of everything. Jesus calls Himself the Alfa and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. You and I are in-between. We do not start and we do not end. The difficulty in the world today, and even in the Church, is that many other things have taken the place of Jesus as the First and the Last.

In the parable of the lost coin in Luke 15:8, Jesus talks about a woman, she is symbolic of the Church, who had ten silver coins. When she lost one coin, she lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it. Notice, in this verse, that the first thing she did was to light a lamp. When the lamp is on, the result is that light comes. The lighting of the lamp speaks of revelation, and the Light itself is Jesus Christ. Without the Light, the Church will never walk in the fullness of the blessing. What the Church needs today, is not prosperity, but the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ. Prosperity comes through the grace that is in Jesus Christ. The lost coin in the verse represents prosperity or wealth, which you and I must find, but we can only find it if we light the lamp. The wealth, when found, must bring great joy to those around us. The wealth must be given a mission to win souls. This is the purpose for the end-time wealth.

In Matthew 16:16-18, Peter answered Jesus and said,

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered Peter and said, “Blessed are you, Simon-Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

The two words that stand out in the passage for me are “reveal” and “rock”. I believe that for the Church to be established and for it to walk in great power, there must be a revelation of the rock, and that rock is Jesus Christ. The devil will never succeed against a Church that knows who Jesus is, and what His death on the cross has accomplished. The Church must be established on the revelation of Jesus Christ. It is when Jesus is revealed to us that the gates of hades will not prevail against it.

In this book, I remind you that Jesus is not just a name. He is alive and He is real. He was crucified but on the third day, He rose from the dead, in great power and ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of God. This may come as a shock to you, but I have realised that Jesus has been forgotten in many Churches. His name is still being mentioned, a bit, but the reality of His existence has been lost completely. Jesus has been replaced by principles, when the principles were designed to reveal Him. Today we hear the word “grace” mentioned in Church, not as a person, but as a force or power. Do you know that there is no grace apart from Jesus? Jesus is the manifestation of the grace of God. Grace is not just undeserved favour, as defined by many, it is neither a force nor a power, but a person. What makes it amazing is that grace came in the person of Jesus Christ to die on the cross so that the free gift of righteousness may be imputed to many. This book is a call to put the amazing back to grace.