Focus: The Power Of Grace

Text: 1Cor.15:10

"His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain…"

The grace of God is more than an unmerited favor; it is the ability of God to achieve divine results. Paul tells his audience, "His grace to me was not without effect" (1Cor.15:10). Grace is result-oriented. Grace produces supernatural effects.

You can't possess grace and be empty of divine results. The Scripture says of Samson, "And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done" (Judg.14:6). Samson killed a lion with so much ease and he had no weapon in his hands. He killed a lion like a little goat, and that was because he was mightily possessed by the Spirit of the Lord, and in Zechariah the Spirit is described as "the Spirit of GRACE and of supplications" (Zech.12:10). 

The number 5 signifies grace, and in Isaiah 11, we find that the fifth spirit mentioned is "the spirit of might." The Spirit of grace is also the Spirit of power.

In this first day of the new year, I pray for you to be infused with the Spirit's power. I pray that you experience the Spirit of grace in your life in such a way that every one around you will feel the impact of the Spirit's presence in your life. With the power of God's grace in Paul's life, he labored abundantly for the Lord and fulfilled his role in history.

Refuse to be drowned in the pool of your own misery and weakness. Remember that grace is God's power triumphing over man's weakness. Grace is God's ability in you; use it! Let people see and feel the power of God's grace in your life! It is power to love and serve. Grace is God's means to God's ends. Let it be said of you that God's grace given to you was never in vain! Don't waste the power of grace given to you by the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen!

by Bishop Moses E. Peter