And of
his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For
the law was given by Moses, but
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Jn.1:16-17
He
therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by8 the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? Gal.3:5
Once again, I welcome you to our year of Divine
Favour. This month also, has been named by the Lord to be our month of Unlimited Grace. I consider this a
great way to start a great year. As a matter of fact, towards the end of last
year from the Month of September as I waited on the Lord concerning this year,
the Lord began to put some scriptures in my mind for my meditations. The chief
of these scriptures was Galatians 3:2 and 5. He also made me meditate on
Rm.6:20 and Gal.2:16. He then went ahead to make me understand that he does not
want me to be brought under the works of the Law but to operate with Him by
faith because operating with Him by law would always bring condemnation because
the law would reduce a person to walking in the flesh as opposed to walking in
the spirit. That flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God but faith
which works by love. Further, that by strength shall no man prevail. See
1Cor.15:50; Gal.5:6; 1Sam.2:9.
Thus to inherit the Kingdom of God, we must learn and
walk in the ways of Abraham which is what the Lord Jesus Christ came to perfect
in His body. Also, to be victorious over evil, we must learn and walk in the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is why all the laws and prophets have been fulfilled in
the Lord Jesus Christ. [Mt.5:17-20] So what then is unlimited grace?
Grace is
divine favour and divine ability.
Unlimited is the adjective the Lord used to qualify grace for us this month
thus defining the extent of grace He is set to bless us with. In this case we
shall be experiencing the grace of God without limit over our lives;
Halleluiah!!! Divine favour is God’s good will or preference for us over
others. When God wants to bless a people, He gives them favour like He
exemplified with the children of Israel when He sent Moses and released them
from the bondage of a four hundred year old slavery in Egypt. Just before He
got them out, He promised to give them favor with the Egyptians who did not
even like them. He faithfully kept the promise as he took them out of
captivity. The favour caused the Egyptians to not let them go out of Egypt
empty handed. Thus they went out of Egypt with great fortune. See Exod.3:21 and
12:36.
Favour is therefore the magnet that attract blessings
to you. In our case, favour is the magnet placed by God on us to attract His
blessings to us. This is why it is divine favour for us. However, blessings
have a way of conferring responsibilities on us; when this happens, we must
deliver on the demand of the responsibilities the favour has attracted to us.
For some, the favour of God would attract you and your spouse to each other
this year, but it would take grace to sustain the marriage. This brings me to
the other side of the definition of grace. While divine favour attracts the
blessing, grace will give you the ability to sustain it. Thus unlimited grace could be defined as unlimited divine favour and ability without limit to sustain the favour. This
grace is also referred to as abundant Grace in the word of God. Really
unlimited grace would usually be abundant. This is the kind of grace required
to take up your Cross daily and follow the Lord Jesus Christ because only then
would you be able to find and retain your God given destiny. See 2Cor.4:15 and
1Tim.1:14.
God is saying to us that this month, He will bless us
with all he is set to bless us with and He will provide us with the ability to
sustain the blessings He is giving to us. I believe that all the promises that
God has made to us prior to this time are about finding fulfilment and God in
His infinite mercy has determined to release His unlimited grace to make them
happen for us. [Eph.2:8-10 and Rm.4-12]
However, these blessings will only be received by us
on the platform of faith in God and not our works which would not meet divine
standard but would be classified with the unfruitful works of darkness as flesh
and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
To this end, this month, we shall be looking at a
theme I title: Faith versus the works of
the Law in our relationship with God. We shall seek to look at faith and
the works of the Law and try to understand why Apostle Paul taught that by the
works of the Law shall no flesh be justified before God and show the role of
works in the New Covenant and How we have to depend on the grace of God to do
the good works which we have been ordained to do from the foundation of the
earth. Further, we shall be looking at what Jesus actually taught regarding the
Law and how He came to fulfill it. It took the revelation of the Holy Spirit
through the founding fathers of the faith to make us see what the Lord sought
to show mankind during His earthly ministry encapsulated in parables. See
Jas.2:14-24; Heb.8:7-13 and Jn.16:12-13.
As He spoke to His disciples on one occasion, He told
them that their eyes were blessed because what was hidden to others were
revealed to them. In the same way blessed are your eyes for the revelations of
the Holy Spirit to us at this time because of what is being sent to the earth
now. Meanwhile, someone may be reading this blog that is yet to receive the
unspeakable gift of God which is Jesus Christ [2Cor.9:15]. If you are that
person, today is your day; you can start this year with that as your first
resolution and the beauty of this is that you can fulfill that resolution right
away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born
again:
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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