GRACE FOR GRACE

The word, Grace is a popular word as far as God’s Word is concerned. John 1:16 (NIV): “Out of His fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given”. Ephesians 2:8 (NIV): For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” God releases His grace in His own fullness to all of us, not because of our own righteousness. Of course, we have no righteousness because the bible says our righteousness is like filthy rags. There is no man that is righteous, and if God is to consider self-righteousness, no one is qualified for grace. But God paid the penalty of our grace by Himself. He did it all, no man worked for it. He gave it to us. Jesus brought grace, He worked for it. He was abused because of us, they placed thorns on Him, spat on Him, flogged Him, yet He stood because He knows what He was going to achieve in our lives. In His fullness, without any reservation nor selection; no partiality. And because He has done it, everyone one of us seated here, are a product of grace. We are living by mercy, by the grace of God. Grace of life is what is sustaining us. Not many people who were born with us are here today. There is an extension of this grace. If you have grace now, there is an extension. For grace to be grace, something must happen in our lives first. Matthew 6:33 (NIV): “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”. Many a times, the ‘many other things’, we connect it with material things alone, money. Do you know that grace can be added? If the grace of God is not in your life, you will just sweat for nothing. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV): “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” You must be born again. Accept Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour. There’s a difference between a church goer and being born again. Church goers go church but go ahead and live their normal reckless lives. But to be born again, you must be born of the Spirit. Let the Spirit of God dwell in you. You must be transformed by the renewal of your spirit. God cannot give grace to everybody. For the fact you work for it does not mean He gives it to sinners. Paul said, ‘Shall we continue to live in sin so that grace may abound?’ God forbid! If the grace of God is upon me, why must I be living in sin? Grace for Grace, blessing for blessing. The more grace in your life the more you begin to receive in His fullness and power. He deposited it upon you. The grace of God upon our lives makes us to receive the fullness of Him. All the attributes, power and praises of God begins to manifest. Grace for empowerment, for strength, for prosperity, for breakthrough. God is a God that fills everything with His presence in every way. Ephesians 1:23 (NIV): “Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way”. When the Word is talking about the church, He is talking about you and me. It is not this building nor this chairs, you are the church. And anything that wants to work against you, the bible says, He has put all things under your feet. Everything that wants to work against you, God has put it under Jesus’s feet. Disappointment, under you, sickness, under you, failure, under you. That is why as a child of God walking in His ways, nothing fails in your life. Be positive, be bold. Jesus was bold enough to face the Pharisees and Sadducees. He was courageous. You should have courage as a backbone because it leads to victory. Because of you and me, He put all things under His feet. As a product of grace, Jesus is your head, all things are under Him. He became your head. Whatever good things that will make you happy in life is under Him. A son that is obedient to the father will be bold enough to make a demand. But if the son is not obedient, he will be scared and doubting to go to the father because he knows the life he is living. But if you are living by the law and demand of Christ, you are bold enough to go to the Father and make a demand. You are His body. Your body is not to glorify the devil. Your body is the temple of the living God. Whosoever destroys the body, the Lord will destroy. As you are keeping your body for Christ, anything that wants to destroy it, God will destroy it. Is it sicknesses and diseases, HIV, cancer? God will fight for you.You don’t know what is embedded in your life as a product of grace until you put what you have into work then, you manifest. Grace is not for the lazy. Grace is for labour. You labour in the Word, you labour in fasting and prayer; it is for labour. Do you know Jesus laboured for our salvation? Many are expecting manner to just fall from heaven, the days of manner falling has passed. Now, you work for what you have. If you sit down and say because you have grace, you will not doing anything? You must work. Paul says, ‘I am the least of the apostle but I labour more because of the grace of God upon me’. Grace is for labour. If you want more blessing, you labour for it. The country we are now, is not a country that you do only one work. Is that not true? You have to do many things to keep life going. Ask God for grace for expansion. Ask Him for revelation for what He wants to do. Grace is for work. Everything in this life has been purchased by grace and God has put everything under His feet and as a child of grace, you are qualified to go to the Father and demand your own. Make a demand. Philippians 4:13 (NIV): “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength”. Don’t say you cannot do it. Those that have grace will not say that. Instead, they’ll say they can do all things. Grace will expand you and move you from limitation. I must move forward. Light attracts light. What does darkness do? Retract. Now that you have grace and the Spirit of God, you become supernatural. You can reason, interpret the Word. You can explain. That is why education is also good. Grace is available for you. Don’t say you can’t do it, you can. You are what you are by the grace of God. Don’t let the devil deceive you. You have God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Grace has a multiplier effect. People you don’t know get connected to you. Connect yourself with grace. Be building on your grace everyday. From grace to grace not from grace to grass. See what Paul achieved with grace. The man that was once a murderer until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus, see how many books he wrote. There’s greatness as far as God is concerned. There’s grace for you. People that God will connect you with are waiting for you. Until you connect yourself to God, God will not connect you with men. He is the head of all things, His body which is the church. It is time for you to connect yourself to grace. If the fullness of grace dwells in Christ, you too carry grace. The grace of God will dwell on you. There is grace over this ministry. Grace will work for you, whether in your academics, your businesses, your marriage, your children, grace will work for you. We cannot be limited. We cannot afford to be in the same level. There is grace for breakthrough, for blessing, for evangelism, for soul-winning. There is grace. The secret of the kingdom is made known to carriers of grace. The secret of this kingdom we are, the kingdom of righteousness, of holiness, of breakthrough, belongs to those who carry grace; carriers of grace. 1 Corinthians 2:9–10 (NIV): “However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’, the things God has prepared for those who love Him, these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God”. He revealed it to them that love Him and carry His grace. Do you know there are many blessings in the deep? Grace has the ability to locate you wherever you are. It will discover you and bring you to a place of testimony and celebration. It will connect you to men that have resources. That is why ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’, the things God has prepared for those who love Him’. Do you love God? Not by mouth but from your heart? When you love God, you will work for Him and obey Him. It is grace we need to give us a sweatless life. When God begins to make a revelation by His spirit, you will end up living a sweatless life. Paul says, ‘That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection…’ Do you have time on a daily basis to have a fellowship with God? Do you feel His presence and His power? That is fellowship in the same ship. If you have fellowship with God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, you cannot sink academically, spiritually, financially. Most things are revealed through your fellowship with God. If you use flesh, you cannot get it. If you are not reading your bible, if you are not fellowshipping God, then what are you doing? Wake up. Grace is speaking for you now. Grace will make you do what you cannot do before. What you cannot do before, I see you doing them now. With His revelation, you are doing them in the name of Jesus. Amen.