TEXT: EPHESIANS: 2:
4-9
What is grace? Grace is an unmerited favour; it is
kindness from God that we do not deserve. We enjoy God’s grace because He is a
merciful God. As His children; He is always ready and willing to give us
everything that will make us to be happy and comfortable with Him.
One of His numerous provisions for us is His grace.
Through His grace; we enjoy different blessing that we do not merit. It is by
His love that we are not consumed (Lamentation 3:22) we did nothing for Him to
make Him love us from the inception of the earth. (He created us in His own
image) He gave His only son to die for our sin, we did nothing to merit this great
love, but because His grace is always sufficient. Romans 3:23-24 says “All have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His
GRACE through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Whatever you are or do
on earth is not by your power, wisdom or knowledge; it is by the grace of God
The grace of God can make a nobody to become global
champion. There are some people that are well educated, influential and have
all it takes to occupy a respectable post, but they just struggling without
anything to show for it. There are some people that do not have good
qualification, “connections” and knowledge to occupy a particular post, but
because of the grace of God upon their lives; they are in the place of
authority higher than their expectation.
Esther in the book of Esther chapter 2 was a candidate of
God’s grace; she was not supposed to contest for the beauty pageant that made
her the queen. The grace of God singled Esther out among all the qualified
virgins. The grace of God can make a beggar to become a millionaire within a
twinkling of an eye. I don’t think that Esther as a slave in that country could
afford expensive clothes than the rest of the virgins, so it is not her
dressing that attracted the king, but the grace of God upon her was what
attracted the king.
Moses also was able to live by the grace of God when
Pharaoh said they should kill all Hebrew boys. “Then Pharaoh gave this order to
all his people, “every Hebrew boy that
is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.” Pharaoh’s
daughter found a baby wrapped in cloth that belong to Hebrew on river Nile, she
could have drown the baby in the river as her father has instructed, but for
the grace of God upon Moses, she fell in love with the baby. “she opened it and
saw the baby. He was crying and she felt sorry for him. This is one of the
Hebrew babies she said” (Exodus 2: 6) This verse shows that Pharaoh’s daughter
knew for sure that the baby was to be killed, but she spared his life by the
grace of God. The baby that was to be
killed was taken care of in the palace of the person that wanted him dead!
If the grace of God is on you, what the enemies think will
hurt or end your life will become what God will use to launch you out.
The grace of God was on Joseph that is why the plan to
kill him was unsuccessful. When they were planning killing him, one of the
brothers [Judah] advised that they should sell him to the Ishmaelite traders.
[Genesis 37:18-38] If they had killed him; he would not have fulfilled his
destiny. The grace of God on him made Judah to come up with the idea of selling
him into slavery. One day of God’s favour through His grace, is more that many
days of labour.
HOW TO STEP INTO THE GRACE OF GOD
·
Live
in humility- (1 Peter 5:5)
·
Be
prayerful-( 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
·
Live
a holy life –(1 Peter 1:15)
·
Have
faith in God (Hebrew 11:6)
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Commit
your ways to Him (Proverbs 3:5-6)
·
Fear
and obey the lord- (Deuteronomy 13:4)
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Always
be in His presence by praising and worshiping Him
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