THE GRACE OF GOD

THE GRACE OF GOD

SCRIPTURES: Hebrews 3:4, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Zechariah 4:6. 

CONFESSIONS: 2 Corinthians 12:9.

SONGS      1. Favor is my name. 2. Jehovah Jireh, your grace is sufficient for me

2. There is none holy as our God.

HYMNS:    1. Grace that is greater than all my sins.

                     2.  More Love to thee O Christ                             

PRAYERS

1.   O God arise and destroy every weapons fashioned against me. 

2. My Father and my God, help me not to take your grace for granted, in the name of Jesus.

3.   I refuse to frustrate the grace of God in my life, in the name of Jesus.

4.  all hindrances to my maximizing the grace of God in my life, collapse, in the name of Jesus.

5. By the power in the blood of Jesus, I shall reach my goal, in the name of Jesus. 

INTRODUCTION

The source of grace is the Father. The grace of God brings salvation to man. Titus 2:11. Grace and faith came through Jesus Christ. Therefore, we obtain grace through our Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:17. Jesus must be our foundation. The grace of God is multiplied in our lives by our knowledge of God. 2 Peter 1:2. The knowledge of God comes through prayerful study of God’s word, the Bible.

To be effective in doing what God has called us to do, we need God’s eyes, ears, hands, feet, strength, and power. God confers His grace not only on individuals but also on His work. 2 Corinthians 13:14. As Christians, grace is available to us at all times and in every situation.  All we have to do is ask God through Christ to impact us with His grace. Matthew 7:7-8.

Prayer: Father pour upon me the grace that I need to run successfully the race that is set before me, in the name of Jesus

WHAT IS THE GRACE OF GOD?

The grace of God is:

1.    Divine enablement. Romans 15:15.

For example, we are saved by grace through faith in God.

2.    God’s power and ability impacted to human beings.

To enable them to accomplish their God given assignments and tasks.

3.    Unmerited and freely given favor of God.  1 Corinthians 1:4.

4.    A gift to man from God. Ephesians 2:8, Ephesians 3:7.

It is free. Money cannot buy it.

Prayer: Father pour your grace upon me afresh, in the name of Jesus.

WHY DO YOU NEED THE GRACE OF GOD?

1.   It takes the grace of God to carry out your divine assignments on earth and fulfill your destiny. 1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Luke 2:40, Exodus 33:10.

Even our Lord Jesus needed the grace of God to carry out His assignments. Hebrews 2:9.

2.   The gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed according to the grace of God that rests on you. 1 Peter 4:10.

3.   The grace of God perfects a person. 1 Peter 5:10.

Apostle Paul in the Bible is a perfect example.  He was a man that in his zeal for God, murdered Christians thinking that He was doing good for God. But despite this terrible past, the grace of God perfected his life and he became one of the chief apostles.

4.   The grace of God establishes a person. 1 Peter 5:10.

It turned illiterate fishermen from Galilee into leaders of Christianity. It turned Saul of Tarsus the murderer of Christians into Paul the Apostle who wrote over a third of the New Testament books of the Bible.

5.   The grace of God strengthens a person. 1 Peter 5:10.

This is why the Bible tells us that God’s grace is sufficient for us and that His strength is perfected in our weakness. Leviticus 15:25.

WHAT CAN HINDER THE GRACE OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE?

1.   Sin. Isaiah 59:1-2.

2.   Your actions can frustrate the grace of God in your life.

For example, bitterness and unforgiveness can all hinder the grace of God in your life. Hebrews 12:15. Humility attracts the grace of God, while pride keeps it away. 1 Peter 5:5.

3.   The grace of God can be wasted and not appropriated wisely. 2 Corinthians 6:1.

4.   The grace of God can be abused. Jude 1:4.

For example, it should not be taken as liberty to commit immorality and other sinful acts.

5.   Not studying or increasing in your knowledge of the word of God.

Remember that your knowledge of God increases your grace.

6.   Failure to ask God for more grace.

You have to take all your problems to God in prayers.

7.   Ignorance

Not knowing that the grace of God is available to you through Jesus Christ.

Prayer: O Lord, damage my ignorance, in the name of Jesus.

HOW DO YOU OBTAIN GOD’S GRACE?

1.    Get saved. Jesus is the only source of grace 

Grace and faith came through Him. We must remain attached to the socket of God to benefit from His grace.

2.    We must acknowledge our weakness

Apostle Paul did.  He said when he is weak then is he made strong through Christ.  1 Corinthians 15:10, Matthew 7:7-8.  We must realize that it is not by our power or our might but by the Spirit of God. Zechariah 4:6.

3.    Realize that you are not powerless

The Greater One lives in you than he that is in the world. He carries the greatest power than any situation or power that can confront you. Lamentations 3:37, Psalm 62:12.  Realize and confess that you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you. Philippians 4:13.  

4.    Pray for God to bestow His grace on you. 2 Thessalonians 1:12.

Do not suffer in silence. Ask God for His grace daily to run the race that is set before you and to sustain you.   1 Corinthians 15:10, Matthew 7:7-8.

  

PRAYERS

Songs: 1. He is able more than able to do much more than I could ever dream. 2. Bigger than all my problems, bigger than everything.  3. Where he leads me I will follow. 

1. Ask God to forgive you of every sin. Use psalm 51 and 32 to do this.

2. My Father and my God, pour your grace upon me daily to enable me accomplish my divine assignments, in the name of Jesus.

3. My Father, let your grace be sufficient for me in my weakness, in the name of Jesus.

4. My Father, let your strength make me to be strong in my weakness, in the name of Jesus.

5. I receive your grace to do the impossible in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

6. I receive grace to maximize my benefits in Christ, in the name of Jesus.

7. I prophesy over you now: Receive the grace of God to do your God ordained assignments.  Receive the grace of God to shine in all your endeavor.

    Receive that grace now, in the name of Jesus. 

THE HIDING PLACE

THE HIDING PLACE

SCRIPTURES: Psalm 91, Psalm 23, Psalm 121, Isaiah 54:5-15.

CONFESSIONS: Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 32:1,2.

SONGS       1. You are God from beginning to the end
                           There is no room for argument 
                           You are God all by yourself
                      2.  Covenant keeping God, there is no one like you.

3. There is none holy as our God.

4. Lord you are my fortress

You are my hiding place

Lord you are my fortress

And I will hide in your resting place

O Lord!

You are my fortress

You are my hiding place

Lord you are my fortress

And I will hide in your hiding place

HYMNS:  1.  A mighty fortress is our God.

                    2.  Rock of Ages cleft for me.                               

PRAYERS

1.   Every garment of disaster fashioned against me, catch fire and burn to ashes, in the name of Jesus.

2.  Every gift of death, I return your back to your owner, in the name of Jesus.

3.   Affliction shall not know my address in the mighty name of Jesus.

4. Lord Jesus, take your sponge and your soap and wash me clean, in the name of Jesus.

5. By the power in the blood of Jesus, I cancel the manifestation of any evil dream in my life, in the name of Jesus.

WHAT IS A HIDING PLACE?

A hiding place is:

1.    A fortress or a stronghold.

2.    A refuge or a secured place.

3.    A rock.  Isaiah 51:1.

4.    A place of succor. Isaiah 51:3.

5.    A place of comfort. Especially when your life seems to be falling apart.  Isaiah 51:12.

6.    A place of Safety. Psalm 127:1, Psalm 3:5.

7.    A place of rest.

8.    A place of help.

9.    Your security umbrella.

10. Your covert in the time of trouble.

11. You covering from the storm.

12. Your covering that prevents your enemy from seeing or locating you no matter how much the look. In fact, the more they look, the less they will see in the name of Jesus.

Prayers:

1.   I put myself, my family, and my possessions inslde the blood of Jesus, for protection.  

2.  Every negative dream about my life be reversed by the blood of Jesus. , be wiped off by the blood of Jesus.

3.   Evil garments hindering my life, I tear you off and set you on fire.

5. Every evil plan for my life, backfire by fire, in the name of Jesus.

WHAT DOES A HIDING PLACE HIDE YOU FROM?

A hiding place hides you from:

1.    Wasters. Isaiah 54:16.

They waste lives, destinies, and property.

2.    Strongmen including the terrible and the mighty enemies. Isaiah 49:25. Luke 11:21-22.

3.     Marine powers. Isaiah 50:2.

4.     The heat and from the sun. Isaiah 49:10.

5.    The lawful captors. Isaiah 49:26.

6.    Oppressors such as satanic intermediaries hired to curse people and bewitch through enchantments. Numbers 23:23.

7.    Afflictions. Isaiah 54:11.

8.    The wicked

9.    Fear. Isaiah 54:11.

10. Spiritual thieves.

11. From poverty

12. Sickness and diseases.

13. Evil tongues including false accusations and satanic broadcasting of your goodness.

14. Fiery darts also known as arrows.

15. Witches and Wizards

16. Foundational problems such as curses, evil covenants, and evil names. 1 Chronicles 4:10.

17. Storms of life. Isaiah 25:4,  

18. Tragedy, disaster, accidents and untimely death.

19. Troubles

WHO IS YOUR HIDING PLACE?

God is your hiding place.  As your hiding place God is your:

1.    Stronghold in the day of trouble.

2.    Covert from the storms of life.

3.    Strength in the day of weakness.  Isaiah 25:4.

4.    A shadow from the heat. Heat here simply means affliction. Isaiah 25:4.

5.    A place of comfort. Especially when your life seems to be falling apart.  Isaiah 51:12.

6.    Your shield. Psalm 3:3.

7.    He is your rereward. God does not just have your front covered but your front too.

8.    Banner, Jehovah Nissi. Exodus 17:15.

 He goes before you in any battle to preserve your life and ensure that you win the battle.

9.    Pillar of fire by night and Pillar of cloud by day. Exodus 13:21.

10. Redeemer.

11. Savior. Provides various wells of salvation for you to partake of. Isaiah 12:3.

12. Covenant keeping God.

13. Your helper. Hebrew 13:6.

14. Your maker that knows how you are wired and how to best help you.

15. Comforter. John 14:26.

16. Envelope and covering so you can hide in Christ as Christ is hidden in God.

He is your covering that prevents your enemy from seeing or locating you no matter how much the look. In fact, the more they look, the less they will see in the name of Jesus.

    Song: Holy Ghost destroy destroyer, attack attacker, oppress oppressor.

    Prayer

1.    I put myself inside the blood of Jesus for cleansing, purging, healing, deliverance and for a new beginning.

2.    I envelope myself, my family and my possession in the blood of Jesus.

BENEFITS OF HIDING IN GOD

When you hide in God:

1.   He has promised to fight for you while you hold your peace. Exodus 14:13,14).

2.    He has promised not to leave you or forsake you. Hebrews 13:5.

3.    He covers you continually. Psalm 139:13.

4.   He has promised to help you. Isaiah 41:13-16.

5.   He strengthens you when the enemy comes against you. Isaiah 41:10.

6.   He has promised never to forget you. Isaiah 49:15.

7.   He holds you continually in the palm of His hands. Isaiah 49:16.

8.    Your walls that protect you are continually before Him. Isaiah 49:16.

9.   He raises a standard against enemy when he floods (afflicts) your life with problems. Isaiah 59:19.

10.       You shall not be put to shame if you hide in Him and wait on Him.  Isaiah 49:23.

11.       No weapon that is that is fashioned against you prospers. Isaiah 54:17.

12.       Anyone that gangs up against you shall scatter. Deuteronomy 28:25.

13.       Whatever ever the Lord says about you comes to pass so He can overrule every evil edict and verdict that is against you. Isaiah 55:11.

14.       No power is allowed to touch you or to harm you. Psalm 105:15.

15.       If anything goes wrong, He can make it write because He is your maker. Psalm 139:1-13.

WHAT CAN PREVENT GOD FROM BEING YOUR HIDING PLACE?

1.   Sin. Isaiah 59:1-2.

2.   Wickedness. Isaiah 55:7.

3.   Not studying or hiding the word of God in you.

Learn the word of God and appropriate it for every situation that confronts you. The devil and his cohorts will have no choice but to back off.

4.   Not telling the Lord your problems.

You have to take all your problems to God in prayers.

5.   Ignorance Hosea 4:6.

One form of ignorance is not knowing who you are in Christ. Another is not knowing your rights as a child of God. That is ignorance of your inheritance in Christ.

Prayer: Anything in my life that would remove my shield of protection, be destroyed, in the name of Jesus.

     

PRAYERS

Songs: 1. Have mercy on me O Lord.  2. Every disaster fashioned against me and my family backfire.  3. Turn me to fire O Lord. 

4. Barricade my life, blood of Jesus, barricade my life.

1. Ask God to forgive you of every sin. You can use psalm 51 and 32 to pray for this.

2. (Read Psalm 91 out loud and pray it over your life). My Father and my God, hide me under the shadow of your wings, in the name of Jesus.

3. Every satanic pregnancy in my life, I puncture you. Be aborted, in the name of Jesus.

4. Arrows fired into my life by day and by night backfire, in the name of Jesus.

5. I return every evil package back to their owner in the name of Jesus.

6.   I rise above every yoke of the oppressor, in the name of Jesus.

7. You the agenda of killing, stealing, and destruction for my life, fail and die.

8. O Lord, hold back the hand of the enemy that they cannot perform their evil enterprise in my life, in the name of Jesus.

9. Every evil plan and conspiracy of the enemy against my life, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.

10. I take divine insurance against every disaster, tragedy, and accident fashioned against my life, in the name of Jesus.

11. Every evil garment prepared for me, catch fire, in the mighty name of Jesus.

12. Every evil expectation of the enemy for my life, be frustrated by the blood of Jesus.

13. Every evil surveillance over my life, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.

14. Witchcraft manipulations against my life, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.

15. I cancel the manifestation of any evil dream in my life, by the power in the blood of Jesus.

16. O Lord, by all the power by which you are known as the Almighty, change my story, in the name of Jesus.  

17. Angels of the living God, encamp around me, in the name of Jesus.

18. Divine wall of fire, encocoon my life in the name of Jesus.

19. Divine shadow of God envelope my life, in the name of Jesus.

20. Blood of Jesus, barricade my life, in the name of Jesus.

21. Thank you Father for answering my prayers. Sing the song, “For I have touched the helm of his garment and his power has made me whole.”