Welcome to the month of May 2018: Our Month of Great Grace
And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus:
and great grace was upon them all. Acts 4:33
Divine visitation greetings family, I welcome you to the month of May 2018 which the Lord had graciously tagged our month of Great Grace. As I was meditating on this word, the Lord gave me the above text of scripture and I saw how timely this word is because we have followed the Lord’s instruction to pray more often than we were doing. In our text scripture above, the preceding verses reveal that the early Church fathers were at this time being persecuted by the Sanhedrin whose desire was to see that they stopped the spread of the gospel.
They came together and prayed for boldness to preach the gospel with power to bring glory to God and God in turn rewarded them with great grace. This was because they walked in love towards each other so that they were of one heart and soul and freely shared what they had with each other.
Since last month we have been praying day and night and we have one recurring theme in our prayers which is that God’s kingdom should come in our midst and His will should be done in our lives on earth as it is in heaven so that we can fulfill the purpose for which He brought us together. This is similar to what the early Church fathers prayed that God visited them with great grace.
What is great grace? When we take the word apart, we can clarify the definition. The word great means large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; opposed to small and little.
Grace on the other hand could be defined as divine favour and the supernatural ability to do what you cannot do naturally. Great grace therefore means to have immense divine favor and ability to do what we cannot naturally do.
Just like any other gift in the Kingdom, grace is first given to us in seed form at new birth, then we are expected to cultivate it until it matures in us to the point where it can increase to become great just like the early Church fathers enjoyed. This month, God is set to release great faith on us like He did with the early Church in answer to our prayers. Thus this month, we are to expect God to give great power to our witness of the resurrection and cause us to walk in love and experience the unity of the brethren like never before.
In light of the foregoing, we have to take advantage of this desire of God by pleasing Him through our obedience to take the gospel out like we have never done as a ministry. [Mk.16:15] This may seem herculean now but when we start, you will find it the most exciting thing to do. Therefore, I am calling on all who have not been a part of the spiritual enlargement exercise to take responsibility and enlist on a suitable day to start to participate in our two hour daily one hour prayer session. Those sessions have proven to be most fruitful and beneficial to us all.
In addition, we have also enlisted everyone to participate in the evangelism plan which would entitle you to reap harvests that would be both temporally and spiritually beneficial to you. See Jn.4:36; Isa.52:7 and Rm.10:15. This is the very reason God releases His grace on us in abundance.
As we commit to this this month, God is going to do what He did before in the early Church and cause his presence to reign in our midst and make His signs and wonders become common place among us.
However if you are reading this article and you are yet to commit to the Lord Jesus Christ, today is your opportune day to do so. In Hebrews 4:16, we are told to boldly approach the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you’ll be saved:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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