The Holy Spirit this morning in my communion time with Him wants me to share with you a familiar truth that we know but just take for granted because we use it casually and over time it begins to lose its significance in our lives.

We neglect the import of its relevance and necessity in our lives so we are robbed of its potency and ability to make us conquer and overcome obstacles in our lives. So I will share with you some of the things the Holy Spirit taught me about grace in the life of the disciples of Jesus.

Firstly without grace you cannot be saved. Grace is the agency through which you turn from darkness to light in an instant because it is a gift from God not of works you did or achieved that give you rights to boast you accomplished anything. Ephesians.2:8.

“The Holy Spirit gave me a definition of grace as being the supernatural ability of God given to the human to be able to be and do what only God can do and bring that divine process to completion on the earth.”

As an example in the book of Genesis.6:5-8 we read these words:  Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent  of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Now from this scripture we see the horrible condition of the heart of man and the judgment that is just for this kind of attitude and behaviour from God’s perspective which is total destruction. It called for the removal of man from the face of the earth but at that moment of human failure we see the Lord step in with an offering to help Noah.

“This offering to Noah is grace which he finds in the eyes of God supplying him an ability to create and build an ark that will save him and his family from the judgment against men which would soon happen. This gift of grace gives Noah an opportunity to start out life again with the help and aid of God free of the wickedness and treachery that had consumed man before.”

Now this ability that Noah gained from God meant Noah was empowered to start putting together an Ark no human could have done. This Ark would become the home that saves the life of his family and every species of animals on the face of the earth in a forty day continuous downpour of rain such as has never happened before. No other flood of that intensity has ever been seen again on earth because God said so.

When you look at this supernatural ability that came to Noah you realize just how powerful and effective  grace is. This is because Noah came out on the other side of that downpour of rain safely. Though all other men on earth perished in it. Noah had the privilege to start life again with legal ownership of everything . 

As you have seen this operation of grace at work in the life of Noah you will never again be lax or take the grace of God for granted. This reality of the power of grace will stir you up to use the grace supplied to you to accomplish marvels in the life of others and yourself because it is God’s ability working in and through you.

 I can take you through the whole Bible and show you story after story of men who found grace in the eyes of God and from that moment did wonders no one imagined that person would ever be able to do.

Gideon found grace when the angel of the Lord visited him in Judges.6:12 and went from a cowardly man threshing wheat in a winepress to become a deliverer of the nation of Israel from the Midianites as God’s supernatural ability came upon him. Once he walked in obedience to God’s instructions he defeated armies he had never fought before as one man.

How about Zerubbabel in Zechariah.4:6-10 who the Lord spoke these words to: Not by might nor by power says the Lord but by My Spirit says the Lord of hosts. He shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of grace, grace unto it. Once that grace manifested Zerubbabel’s hands did complete the temple God said it will with supernatural ability working in him from God even though the Law of the Medes and Persians which alters not was in place to stop it.

What of the Apostle Paul who constantly tells us in his letters the secret to his success is the grace given him by the Lord that enabled him to be effective in ministering to the nations of the gentiles God sent him to reach. I am what I am by the supernatural power of God working in me even though Paul used to be a blasphemer of Jesus. The grace supplied to him by the Lord made him into a vessel of honor for God’s use beyond his peers.

The Apostle Paul mentions in Galatians.2:7-9 these words:  But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter 8 (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), 9 and when James,Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 

“The reality was that the same grace that worked in Peter effectively to reach the Jews also worked effectively in Paul to reach the Gentiles.”

Now the Holy Spirit wants you to start valuing the grace of God more honorably and repent for your disrespect and misuse of it. It is time to accept it joyfully as the supernatural ability of God released to you to accomplish marvels that only God can do on earth through men. 

This is to give you reason to celebrate the fact that God chose you to be a vessel for His glory to do what will cause men to marvel. 2 Timothy.2:21. It is not a gift for you to boast in your ability but to demonstrate just how Mighty God is in using what man disregards to put to nothing what man approves so that no flesh will glory in His Presence.

Today provides you a fresh opportunity as you hear these words to lay hold of the grace being apportioned to you just as it was to Zerubbabel when the work had ceased. To rise up again in the strength of the Holy Spirit to complete the work God gave you to do as you allow the grace: the supernatural ability of God engulf you and propel you into spiritual action to bring into reality all the Lord said will be done through your life in Jesus Name. Amen.