MARCH 21

SUFFICIENT GRACE

OLUBI JOHNSON

2 Corinthians 12:9
‘And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me’

Grace is God’s unmerited favour that causes Him to give a measure of eternal life to our spirits based on our faith in the sufferings, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ (Ps. 30:5).

When we first accept and confess the Lord Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, it is this measure of grace that gives eternal life to our spirits and gets us born-again (Eph. 2:8, Rom.12:3).

However, as we grow spiritually, this measure of grace is to grow and increase and so increase the measure of the life and power of God that flows from God into our spirits and subsequently into our souls (mind, will and emotions), bodies and circumstances (2Pet. 3:1, 2Pet. 1:2).

Now as we grow spiritually, God allows greater and greater measures of satanic power to come against us. This is to give God a legal basis (2Th. 1.4-6) to eternally punish Satan and all his demons in the lake of fire forever (Mt. 25.41, Rev. 20.10); but this satanic opposition should be overcome by greater increase of the grace of God given to us (2Cor. 12:7-9).

In practice however, we see many Christians being defeated by Satan by sin, sickness, poverty and death. This happens because many Christians do not grow in grace sufficiently because of pride, lack of knowledge of how to receive and release the grace of God in sufficient measure (Jam. 4:6-7, Hos. 4:6).

How then do we grow in grace?
By growing in humility and so increasing in revelation knowledge and wisdom (1Pet. 5:5-6, Pr. 11:2).

Humility is submitting to the will of God when we do not feel like it, especially in prayer; so we should exercise humility daily by acting on God’s Word when we do not feel like it; and also by regular fasting (Ps.35:13).

As we do this as daily and weekly habits (Is.58.6-13), we will continuously grow in grace and find in practice that His grace is always sufficient to give us victory over any satanic attack (2Cor. 2:14).

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