Acts 4:33 and
Zechariah 4:6-7
“And with great power
gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great
grace was upon them all.” Act 4:33
“Then he answered and
spake unto me, saying. This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying. Not
by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Who art thou, o great
mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth
the headstone there of with shoutings, crying. Grace, grace unto it.” Zechariah 4:6-7
Grace is not only unmerited divine favour it is also unmerited
divine ability! Where divine favour separates you for preferred benefits,
divine ability makes it possible for your preference to be justified. In other
words, favour helps to open doors of access to the good things of life to you
like opportunities to prove your worth, divine ability helps to enable you
deliver with excellence on the opportunities you have been given.
This month, God has determined to bless us with great grace. I
believe that this is for a purpose. The purpose is seen in our text scriptures.
In the second text, God had a building project going and He wanted to use
Zerubbabel to make it happen. So He made it very clear that the project would
be accomplished without any hitch by Zerubbabel depending absolutely on the
help of the Holy Spirit. Further in the text in Acts of the Apostles, we are
told that the apostle bore witness to the gospel with great power and that
great grace was upon them all.
Clearly, the reason God is granting us great ability and
great favour this month is to enable us to effectively bear witness to the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is so that more people would be taken
from darkness into light and be set free from the power of Satan to God for the
forgiveness of their sin and inheritance in the kingdom of God. See Acts 26:18.
We also have the responsibility to nurture those we are instrumental in
bringing into the kingdom until they become established in faith and begin the
cycle to also do the same for others. The result is that what others are dying
to get will become ours cheaply. See Matthew 6:33.
In light of the foregoing, beginning this month, we shall believe
God for the salvation of 1% of the world’s population drawn from among the Lost
based on His promise to us from Psalm 2:8. In response to our commitment, God
is set to bless us with double what we are long due for. See Haggai 2:3-9 and Isaiah
61:7. Also, we have to come to terms with the fact that what God has promised
us can only be accomplished by his hand, so let us rest in this truth; great
grace is actually God working out His perfect plan for our lives! 1Kings 8:15
However, if you are yet to make a decision for the Lord Jesus
Christ, you will have to do so to be able to partake of this great grace as it
would be of no use attempting to benefit from a covenant to which you are not a
party. If you will do so right away, please say the following prayer out loud
and you will be born again:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I repent of my sin and
embrace Jesus Christ as my savior and Lord because He died for me and on the
third day, He rose from the dead for my justification.
I reject Satan and his fatherhood and make an eternal
commitment to honor you forever in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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