And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have SUFFERED a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1st Peter 5:10
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is SUFFICIENT for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong 2nd Corinthians 12: 8-10
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age Titus 2: 11-12
Today's post is based on the sermon notes I took during service yesterday. Thanks to Pastor Dipo O for sharing what he heard at the feet of the Master. I thank God for my Pastors, yesterday I really needed to hear that message. Like I could have just gone home when we read the first verse because I just knew that was God speaking to me directly. Amarachukwu- 'The grace of God'. Indeed the struggle is over.
God's grace upon your life enables ordinary 'ole us do extraordinary things for God. Grace adds God's super to my natural enabling me to be supernaturally natural. This is my season of grace, the grace that separates me from the struggle. There is a difference between working hard and toiling. Toiling represents putting all your effort into something without any appreciable results. I'm tired of toiling, I've invited Jesus into my boat and I'm throwing my nets wide out for a catch.
Why do we need the grace of God? We need the grace of God for salvation, for by grace we have been saved through faith lest we boast. Grace is that divine leveller for all become equal at the foot of the cross. The grace of God enables us to live above sin and walk in righteousness. Lord I thank you because by your grace, I can say NO to ungodliness. We can't overcome temptation in our own power we must always lean on the grace of God. Grace means obedience to God. There is a grace upon my life to accomplish God's purpose for my life, there is a grace for achievement and walking in destiny.
The grace of God is not a license to sin or to live at the edges wondering how far we can push the lines before we fall. Shall we continue to sin that grace may abound? The grace of God enables you to endure the trials that inevitably come our way. The grace of God will strengthen us and enable us fulfill our calling no matter what comes our way.
It doesn't matter what you are going through now, how deep the valley is, how uncertain the road less travelled looks remember that His grace is continuously with you when you make the decision to let go and hold on to Him. His grace is more than and will always be more than sufficient.
I feel so relieved because I know I must live according to my name. Amarachukwu: The grace of God.
Remain blessed and highly favoured
Zoe B
Showing posts with label Peace. Show all posts
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Monday, 10 May 2010
Thursday, 7 May 2009
A season of prayer: Day 41
A prayer for days when I try to pray but no words proceed from my lips.
Help me Jesus! Help me Father! Help me Holy Spirit! Remind me of the truth of your word that you are here with me, in this and that you will get me through this. Remind me of your love for me so that I can continue to trust you and your word. Remind me that there is surely an 'After this'.
Amen.
The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days-overwhelmed. Ezekiel 3:14-15
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth." The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah Psalm 46:10-11
Help me Jesus! Help me Father! Help me Holy Spirit! Remind me of the truth of your word that you are here with me, in this and that you will get me through this. Remind me of your love for me so that I can continue to trust you and your word. Remind me that there is surely an 'After this'.
Amen.
The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days-overwhelmed. Ezekiel 3:14-15
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth." The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah Psalm 46:10-11
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Friday, 1 May 2009
A season of prayer: Day 40
A prayer when I need to be still and know that He is God
2 eyes that see
2 ears that hear
2 feet that enable me move around, even though one is a bit swollen, still grateful I can walk unaided!
Lips to speak and apply gloss to
10 fingers and 10 toes
Heart, Lungs, Pancreas all functioning as God intended
I can do my number 1 and 2 by myself
Father, I thank you, you are worthy to be praised. I will praise you from everlasting to everlasting. Thank you for reminding me about these little things that I take so much for granted. You are worthy to be praised.
Father today I pray for the grace to be still and remember that you are God. I am not God, my parents are not God, my employers are not God, my friends are not God, my critics are not God, there is no other God apart from you and because you are God, you have the final say on all that concerns me.
You reminded me about how so easily I am moved by what I hear, what I see around me, if only I could be so as moved with what your word says as well. Your word says that irrespective if where I find myself, you are there with me. In the fire and in the flood, there you are in the midst of us and you are mighty. Teach me O lord to have that quiet rest in you, I yearn for it. Give me the faith that sees the Red Sea in front of me and the Egyptians behind me and yet still remains still, NO SHAKING!
Give me the strength of the widow Elisha encountered, who held her dead son in her hands and could still say IT IS WELL. Halleluyah. Teach me O Lord, show me how to do it for I am so anxious by nature but your word says I should be anxious for nothing and pray about everything. Remind me that while there are times to speak and even to fight there are some times that I just need to stand still for the battle is yours. You will go before me and straighten the crooked paths and cut asunder the bars of iron. Thank you God. My Big Daddy, the One who can fix anything and everything. I give you praise O Lord.
I CHOOSE TO BE STILL, TO STAND FIRM AND SEE THE DELIVERANCE THE LORD WILL BRING MY WAY FOR THE EGYPTIANS I SEE TODAY, I SHALL SEE NO MORE. MY GOD WILL FIGHT FOR ME AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE. I WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD FOR HE IS MY COMFORTER, MY WAY MAKER, I SHALL NOT FRET, I SHALL REJOICE, I SHALL NOT BE AFRAID FOR I TRUST IN THE STRENGTH OF MY GOD. A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT MY SIDE, TENS OF THOUSANDS EVEN BUT I SHALL NOT FEAR FOR EVERY MAN REMAINS A LIAR WHERE GOD ALONE IS TRUE. HE HAS A MIGHTY HAND WITH WHICH HE DOES MARVELOUS WORKS. I AM A WALKING WONDER, A MIRACLE ON TWO FEET AND I DECLARE THAT I LIVE THE LIFE HE CREATED FOR ME TO LIVE IN JESUS NAME. TO DO ANYTHING ELSE WOULD BE TO LIVE A LIE. Amen and Amen.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes Psalm 37:7
Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 15:13-14
For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:“ In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength" Isaiah 30:15
Heavenly Father, thank you for Favoured Girl, thank you for her life and her destiny as she prepares to celebrate another 365 days of your faithfulness, I give you praise. I ask for a bumper package for her in this new season. Do what you alone can do and may your name be glorified in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Do show some love on her page.
N.B It was my intention to stop a season of prayer at Day 40, as 40 represents waiting on God but there are still so many prayer points so we'll just keep going by the grace of God as the Spirit leads. It is well. Prayer is a powerful weapon in the lives of believers, may God give us the grace and strength to keep on using it to gain the victorious lives we should have in Jesus name. I hope you have been blessed by it. This is our year of achievement and fulfilling destiny in Jesus name. Amen and Amen.
2 eyes that see
2 ears that hear
2 feet that enable me move around, even though one is a bit swollen, still grateful I can walk unaided!
Lips to speak and apply gloss to
10 fingers and 10 toes
Heart, Lungs, Pancreas all functioning as God intended
I can do my number 1 and 2 by myself
Father, I thank you, you are worthy to be praised. I will praise you from everlasting to everlasting. Thank you for reminding me about these little things that I take so much for granted. You are worthy to be praised.
Father today I pray for the grace to be still and remember that you are God. I am not God, my parents are not God, my employers are not God, my friends are not God, my critics are not God, there is no other God apart from you and because you are God, you have the final say on all that concerns me.
You reminded me about how so easily I am moved by what I hear, what I see around me, if only I could be so as moved with what your word says as well. Your word says that irrespective if where I find myself, you are there with me. In the fire and in the flood, there you are in the midst of us and you are mighty. Teach me O lord to have that quiet rest in you, I yearn for it. Give me the faith that sees the Red Sea in front of me and the Egyptians behind me and yet still remains still, NO SHAKING!
Give me the strength of the widow Elisha encountered, who held her dead son in her hands and could still say IT IS WELL. Halleluyah. Teach me O Lord, show me how to do it for I am so anxious by nature but your word says I should be anxious for nothing and pray about everything. Remind me that while there are times to speak and even to fight there are some times that I just need to stand still for the battle is yours. You will go before me and straighten the crooked paths and cut asunder the bars of iron. Thank you God. My Big Daddy, the One who can fix anything and everything. I give you praise O Lord.
I CHOOSE TO BE STILL, TO STAND FIRM AND SEE THE DELIVERANCE THE LORD WILL BRING MY WAY FOR THE EGYPTIANS I SEE TODAY, I SHALL SEE NO MORE. MY GOD WILL FIGHT FOR ME AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE. I WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD FOR HE IS MY COMFORTER, MY WAY MAKER, I SHALL NOT FRET, I SHALL REJOICE, I SHALL NOT BE AFRAID FOR I TRUST IN THE STRENGTH OF MY GOD. A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT MY SIDE, TENS OF THOUSANDS EVEN BUT I SHALL NOT FEAR FOR EVERY MAN REMAINS A LIAR WHERE GOD ALONE IS TRUE. HE HAS A MIGHTY HAND WITH WHICH HE DOES MARVELOUS WORKS. I AM A WALKING WONDER, A MIRACLE ON TWO FEET AND I DECLARE THAT I LIVE THE LIFE HE CREATED FOR ME TO LIVE IN JESUS NAME. TO DO ANYTHING ELSE WOULD BE TO LIVE A LIE. Amen and Amen.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes Psalm 37:7
Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 15:13-14
For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:“ In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength" Isaiah 30:15
Heavenly Father, thank you for Favoured Girl, thank you for her life and her destiny as she prepares to celebrate another 365 days of your faithfulness, I give you praise. I ask for a bumper package for her in this new season. Do what you alone can do and may your name be glorified in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Do show some love on her page.
N.B It was my intention to stop a season of prayer at Day 40, as 40 represents waiting on God but there are still so many prayer points so we'll just keep going by the grace of God as the Spirit leads. It is well. Prayer is a powerful weapon in the lives of believers, may God give us the grace and strength to keep on using it to gain the victorious lives we should have in Jesus name. I hope you have been blessed by it. This is our year of achievement and fulfilling destiny in Jesus name. Amen and Amen.
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Saturday, 13 December 2008
A season of prayer; Day 11
A prayer for peace
Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul; thy best, thy heavenly, Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
(First verse, "Be still my soul", by Catharina von Schlegel
Ancient of Days, I am that I am, Holy One, you deserve the glory, honour and praise. Thank you for another opportunity to give you praise. In all the seasons of life, you remain God. From infancy to childhood; adolescence to adulthood, even as a rocking elder, you will still be God showing yourself strong and mighty. In autumn, winter, summer and spring, you are God.
Father today I thank you for my family, those connected by blood and those you have grafted into the 'quilt' of my life. Daddy, we may be related but we are different people, different personalities and different outlooks on life and due to that we do not always get along, sometimes we outright clash, sometimes we throw the fruit of the spirit like patience, self-control out of the window as we really get down to it but Lord I thank you that you have bound us together with love. Your love keeps us and guides us and we pull together even when circumstances want to pull us apart.
Today I pray for peace; that stillness that comes not because there is no storm but because you are with me in the storm and until there comes a wind that you cannot still, then teach me to know that there is no reason to be afraid. Like Gideon who built an altar to Jehovah Shalom- the Lord is peace even though the enemy was on all sides give me that peace in my heart. I speak to the storms, I command the waves with the authority vested in me as a child of God and I say Peace, be still. I speak to my heart, I speak to my soul, Be still. I encourage myself in the word of God and choose to bear patiently, like Joeseph until the word that has been spoken over my life comes to manifestation.
Daddy, Lord I must be at peace for you are my peace. Holy Spirit you enable me bear the fruit of peace. Your word says blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. O lord as I pursue peace in my own life, help me to also be a bearer of peace, help me O Lord not to add strife to the lives of others, let my words and my actions bring about peace in the mighty name of Jesus. I pray for fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, husbands and wives, mothers in 'love' and daughters in 'love' father give us all peace in Jesus name.
For He himself is our peace Ephesians 2:14
Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul; thy best, thy heavenly, Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
(First verse, "Be still my soul", by Catharina von Schlegel
Ancient of Days, I am that I am, Holy One, you deserve the glory, honour and praise. Thank you for another opportunity to give you praise. In all the seasons of life, you remain God. From infancy to childhood; adolescence to adulthood, even as a rocking elder, you will still be God showing yourself strong and mighty. In autumn, winter, summer and spring, you are God.
Father today I thank you for my family, those connected by blood and those you have grafted into the 'quilt' of my life. Daddy, we may be related but we are different people, different personalities and different outlooks on life and due to that we do not always get along, sometimes we outright clash, sometimes we throw the fruit of the spirit like patience, self-control out of the window as we really get down to it but Lord I thank you that you have bound us together with love. Your love keeps us and guides us and we pull together even when circumstances want to pull us apart.
Today I pray for peace; that stillness that comes not because there is no storm but because you are with me in the storm and until there comes a wind that you cannot still, then teach me to know that there is no reason to be afraid. Like Gideon who built an altar to Jehovah Shalom- the Lord is peace even though the enemy was on all sides give me that peace in my heart. I speak to the storms, I command the waves with the authority vested in me as a child of God and I say Peace, be still. I speak to my heart, I speak to my soul, Be still. I encourage myself in the word of God and choose to bear patiently, like Joeseph until the word that has been spoken over my life comes to manifestation.
Daddy, Lord I must be at peace for you are my peace. Holy Spirit you enable me bear the fruit of peace. Your word says blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. O lord as I pursue peace in my own life, help me to also be a bearer of peace, help me O Lord not to add strife to the lives of others, let my words and my actions bring about peace in the mighty name of Jesus. I pray for fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, husbands and wives, mothers in 'love' and daughters in 'love' father give us all peace in Jesus name.
For He himself is our peace Ephesians 2:14
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