SIMPLY GRACE
MEMORY VERSE
And
he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in
my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
READ
1 Corinthians 15:9-10
1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was
bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than
they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
MESSAGE
After identifying his problem, King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20:4-13 refused to walk by sight but looked up to God in the face of threats. This was exactly what God wanted. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says,
For we walk by faith, not by sight:
Those
who will be ready for God's use in these end times must be ready to
walk by faith and not by sight. Our sense of sight is so limited. Sight
sees and speaks only of what is available, but if you have to wait until
certain resources are available, you may never achieve what God wants
done. For instance, when God sent Elijah to the widow at Zarephath in 1 Kings 17:8-16,
if she was to wait until she had enough before accepting to take in the
man of God, she would never have obeyed God's Word, and would most
probably have died during the famine. Many times, if we were to go by
our physical weaknesses, we would never have been used by God to do the
impossible.
The
difference between what we have and what we need for the assignment is
His grace. When God is sending you on an assignment, He knows your
limitations before asking you to go. If He cannot make up the shortfall,
He would not have sent you. How is it ever possible for one to chase a
thousand and two to chase ten thousands if the sense of sight is
applied? It is only grace! How can God pick up a notorious robber, clean
him up and ask him to go and start preaching to people including those
he once robbed? Sight will say: Never; but thank God for grace. How can
God give that assignment to you, in spite of your low educational
qualifications, whereas, by all reasonable standards, it is meant for
professors? It could only have been possible by His grace. So trust His
grace. His grace can fix the difference. Accept that task the Lord is
giving to you because He had already prepared to cover up the
difference. His grace will be sufficient for you.
PRAYER POINT
Father, between what I have and what I need to do Your assignment, let Your grace cover up the difference.
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