INTEGRITY 5


TEXT 2Cor 6:1-2
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

MESSAGE
Yesterday we discovered that God supplies us with grace (divine influence, ability and presence) to enable us stay True to our commitment. However, you must engage and leverage on this supernatural ability and make the best of it. You must be a doer! Engage the grace in your daily activities. Let the consciousness of it cause you to take initiative and be your propelling force. You'd be surprise at why you'd come up with. If you don't do so, you'd be frustrating the grace of God and that is extremely wasteful and unfair.

You must, stop evaluating situations based on your natural abilities. Let it be in your consciousness and subconsciousness that you're powered by the all powerful God and He's with you through every situation. He'd see you through no matter what; "...for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me" (Heb 13:5-6). This was why the saints of old could stay true to their integrity despite cruel trials to the point of painful death

For Paul, situations were not particularly favourable yet he leveraged on grace and eventually was not a bit behind the chiefest of apostles (2Cor 11:5, 12:11). He says, "For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me". (1Cor 15:9-10).  "...like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me (Col 1:39 WMTH). Leverage on the grace of God for your integrity and you'd not have to compromise.

LET US PRAY
Father, thank you for grace is always available for me.

Father I trust in your grace and I declare that I can do all things through Christ that atremghtens me

I stay true to my conviction and I preserve my integrity because the grace of God is in me. I remain loyal to the course of Christ and I do not frustrate the grace of God in me

Father I pray that you'd sweep thought your church with a revival of integrity and holiness

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Deuteronomy 31- 32
Psalm 48:9-14
Luke 19:45-20:26

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