Rev. Chris Oyakhilome
THE GRACE ADVANTAGE
📖Memory Verse: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).
No matter how intelligent you are or how hard you work, there’s a dimension to real success and achievement that transcends natural abilities and efforts. It’s called grace. Grace arranges and orchestrates life’s circumstances in your favour.
Grace coordinates how things unfold for you, who comes in and out of your world, when they arrive, and for what purpose. It determines how things connect and align; the people, resources, opportunities etc. When you understand this, you become truly humble, realizing that the race isn’t to the swift, nor is the battle to the strong. Wealth is not to one who’s brilliant, neither is favour to the learned, but time and chance happen to them all (Ecclesiastes 9:11 NIV).
The apostles understood this. That’s why Paul, John, and Peter often talked about grace. Read their respective epistles; they often began by saying, “Grace be to you…” (2 Corinthians 1:2). 2 John 1:3, “Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father….” Also, “… Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied” (1 Peter 1:2). They knew what grace could accomplish.
Be conscious of the grace of God. Learn to function by grace and multiply the grace of God in your life. How does grace multiply? Peter tells us that it’s through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2). You can multiply and increase the dimensions and workings of God’s grace in your life by meditating on the Word and putting it to work in your life. Hallelujah!
CONFESSION
No matter how intelligent you are or how hard you work, there’s a dimension to real success and achievement that transcends natural abilities and efforts. It’s called grace. Grace arranges and orchestrates life’s circumstances in your favour. Grace coordinates how things unfold for you, who comes in and out of your world, when they arrive, and for what purpose.
If you’re blessed by this devotional, believing every words you heard by faith in your heart, and would love to make Jesus the lord of your life, then speak the confessions below out loud, and mean them with your heart:
O Lord God, I believe with all my heart in Jesus Christ, Son of the living God. I believe He died for me and God raised Him from the dead. I believe He’s alive today. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from this day. Through Him and in His Name, I have eternal life; I’m born again. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul! I’m now a child of God. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY
James 4:6 (KJV)
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Romans 5:17 (KJV)
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
2 Corinthians 9:8 (KJV)
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
1-Year Bible Reading Plan
Hebrews 1;
Jeremiah 34-35
2-Year Bible Reading Plan
John 9:1-7;
1 Chronicles 1
