Grace Factor
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Introduction.
What is Grace :
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Grace (חֶסֶד, chesed; “grace, mercy, steadfast love, compassion”; חֵן, chen; “grace, graciousness, kindness”; χάρις, charis; “grace, favor, graciousness, goodwill”). Gracious or merciful behavior of a more powerful person toward another. Displayed by the Lord toward humankind and by people towards each other in the Old Testament. Used to describe God or Christ in their merciful character or actions toward humankind in the New Testament. Spiritual gifts are described as “graces.” A literary device used at the beginning or end of many New Testament letters.
You cannot mixed you effort with it , HIS unmerited Favour. you cannot earnt it or desiver it. You cannot mixed your own effort God’s grace ,
2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Grace flow into your life , marriage physical body , finacess .. When you see JESUS.. Revelation of Jesus in you automatically produce GRACE. it will make you to enjoy suceess beyond your natural intelligence , qualification and ability.
GOD unmerited FAvour is the GOSPEL , is not a subject . It is a person and HIS NAME IS JESUS . this is embodied in him and and his finhsed work on the Calvary.
Joseph: the man of many dream.
1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. 2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Success in the kingdom is not what you have but rather WHO you have .. The Jews understand this covenants,
The Lord is with ME ......... and I am a successful person.Because his with you you are already a suscces , Saving you and making you success is one of the main role of Jesus in Your life .
20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
Jesus … Yahweh , Yeshua … The lord is our saviour .
Jesus is also Emmanuel .. The Almight God is with US. .. Your transfromation and success inm christ is not by struggling , it simply by beholding Jesus and beliving that He loves you and want to save you.
Jew Understand when God is WITH A MAN .. Won many battles and Wars , taken terrotory because God was with them.
1 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. 4 “Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
When almighty God is with you , good things are bound to happen around you and through you.
2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Jesus is with me, so everything I do will succeed. I practice and recogised am Grace.
Go back to Joseph ...
Gen 37. Important .. clothof grace.
3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand.
Desire to have result only Jesus can give . When you stop doping and start depending on God’s divine favor , you will begin to experinece the Jesus Kind of result
Without him we cannot , without us , He wull not .
Christian experience may be summed up in terms of grace
Christian experience may be summed up in terms of grace
1 Corinthians 15:10 NKJV10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
See also Ac 18:27; Ro 5:2; Ga 1:15; Php 1:7
Believers should go on to experience more of God’s grace
Believers should go on to experience more of God’s grace
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
Acts 20:32 NKJV32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
See also Ac 13:43; Col 1:3–6; Heb 13:9; 1 Pe 5:12; 2 Pe 3:18