Feb. 5, 2015
MY FRIENDS, IS GOD’S GRACE SUFFICIENT, EVEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9 (ESV) My friends, Sufficient grace is grace 
that is enough, but not super abundant, fantastic, huge, or incredible.
Sufficient tells us that His grace is “adequate for the purpose;” If we have faith, in the promises in His word. In fact, we are reminded in Ephesians chapter 2 that we were once dead in our sins, allowing the god of this world to control the desires of our mind and body “and were by nature children of wrath.
But God, being rich in mercy and love made us alive with Christ and by His grace if we believe, we became Heirs of God and joint heirs with His Son Jesus For by grace we have been saved through faith and it is not because of anything that we have done but it is a free gift of God.
In addition, God’s word must be our guide as we allow His Spirit to guide us in “all truth and understanding.” Let’s now focus on
a few of the best of the best in God’s word, starting with Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, whose bloodline takes us to Jesus Christ the Savior of mankind.
Paul also tells us, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:3 (NIV) But my friends, Abraham was a liar who looked out for number one, self, even when it evolved someone taken his wife for themselves.
Then you have Elijah who God used to stop the rain for 3-1/2 years who brought fire down from heaven and killed 400 prophets of Baal in a demonstration of God’s power and his faith on mount Carmel.
But when King Ahab tells His wife Jezebel what Elijah had done and Jezebel threatened his life, at that point, he loses all faith for “Hell hath no fury like a woman,” who is mad at a prophet of God, so he runs like a scared Rabbit, But through God’s grace Elijah now abides in Gods kingdom.
You also have Moses who God chose to lead Israel to the promise land, who had no problem killing someone and covering up the murder. My friends, He never entered the promise land here on earth but because of God’s Grace he also abides now in God’s Kingdom.
David “a man after God’s own heart” was a adulterer and a murderer of an innocent man whose wife He had committed the adultery with. My friends, no one is perfect in God’s word except Christ “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23 (NKJV)
God’s word also shows me sin is not put into categories, with liars and thieves on one end of the spectrum and murderers and adulterers on the other. But God’s grace is sufficient for all, even His Chosen Generation in the 21st century got to have it now society.
In addition, God tells us “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, 
thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Jer. 29:11-13 (NKJV) Because my Grace is sufficient.
So today my friends let’s shift our focus from self, and take a walk up that hill to Calvary as the power of God’s Spirit works in us to deny old inclinations, and powerful propensities toward new habits that lead us away from God.
But through our faith and endurance we must continue to prepare our heart to received God’s grace more abundantly while spreading the good news of Gods Gospel in preparation to enter God’s kingdom a “place no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” 1 Cor. 2:9 (ESV)
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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