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The word is like a map that sets men on the path of destiny. The word of God transforms. It revives any builds. It builds conviction even in the hearts of men. And just like the woman at the well, when men encounter the spirit and the word of God, there's an exchange and revelation of identity. Weaknesses are exchanged for strength and greatness is made out of ordinary men. I will never be tired of telling you that God has predestined you for greatness. You must believe this. There is a seed of greatness on your inside. You must believe this.

A promise of greatness on your inside. You must believe this. There is no smallness in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no toiling in God's plan for your life as a believer. There's no suffering in God's plan for your life as a believer. I want to break you out of that spot where you can no longer think small. The presence of God does not just make the difference. The presence of God is the difference. So join us at the experience when men encounter God and lives are transformed. Second Corinthians chapter nine verse eight.

I want us to read the first four words together with power. The first four words. You know what the word is? The first four words with power and authority. If you can see it projected, one, two, three. I'm already the game of power. And God is able. I think this is perhaps one of the strongest assurances that can ever be given to a believer. And God is I'm going to continue from where I stopped on Tuesday. Still preparing us for the conference that is coming.

But this will be its own teaching. It's a continuation but it's its own teaching. It's gonna stand alone. Because of what I want to discuss. And God is able. One of the strongest assurances that can be given to a believer. Do you believe in God? Ask your neighbor, do you believe in God? Do believe God? Did you get a response?

And God is able. Before Paul even describes what will happen, he's directing your attention to the one who will make it happen. That God is able. Whatever he is able to do, the strength of the promise is that God is able. That is the strength of the promise. The strength of the promise that is about to follow the sentence that Paul is making here is the ability of God. That there can be someone in this place right now that your present condition may be narrow. That your resources may look insufficient right now. That the opportunity is currently available to you may appear limited. It might look as though there is no help around your life at the moment, yet the bible is showing you that none of those things defines the boundary of what can happen in your life.

Because at the end of everything, the final consideration is that God is able. That he can look at your life with the way your life is currently progressing and introduce into that life what you could never have manufactured by human effort. That the mighty hand of God can come upon a man who by all standards you will consider ordinary, who by all standards you will consider helpless, without advantage, but that something can come upon that man that makes a difference. That God can enter into an area of your life where you've been struggling repeatedly and then cause a new measure of divine ability to begin operating in that area. God is able. Paul does not say God wishes he can help you or God wishes he could help. He says God is able to make something happen. And what is God able to make happen? It says God is able to make all grace abound towards you. How many?

All. How many? All. You see, a lot of times people explain grace only in relation to forgiveness of sins. But the testimony of scripture is broader than that. Grace, when you study scripture, is God's unmerited favor that is true. But grace is also God's empowering power at work in a person. Grace is God supplying you and your life what your natural strength could never have produced. Grace is something of God permitting into a man's life and bringing about supernatural results. Grace is God amplifying your effort.

So that with little effort, you have amplified results. Grace many a times in people's lives can mean what this microphone means to my speaking right now. You agree with me that there are people outside in the overflow, across the tents, at the gallery. But if I remove this microphone and I begin to speak, will they hear me? Happened when I had a microphone? That's the grace. That the grace of God can take what you are doing naturally and amplify it. The moment this comes, that's the grace of God. It's the grace component. It's the same effort you are putting.

It's not as though you started working harder all of a sudden. But that the grace of God can come upon a man's life. And take the same thing he's doing. And the Bible says God is able. Oh my. It was Paul that was speaking in first Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 10. And look at how Paul describes it. Paul says, by the grace of God, I am what I am. He says, and his grace towards me was not in vain. But I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not high.

There was something powering my labor. You will look at me and say, my goodness, this guy is hardworking. But Paul says, listen, it's not as though I'm so diligent. It is not high. It is the grace of God which was with me. Grace entered into his labor and gave his effort and outcome that was greater than what the labor alone could explain. It says yet not high. You would see my result, and you would make a mistake attributing my result only to my labor. There is a grace component that comes upon my life that amplifies what I'm doing. So when people come and ask me what am I doing, I might give you all the principles.

But if I don't give you the grace, you are wasting your time. There is something else that is in the equation. Mouth... Eyes cannot see it. Ants cannot touch it, but there is something there. Something God has placed upon my life. He says, by grace, I am what I am. Human effort alone cannot explain this. Human intelligence alone cannot explain this. Human wisdom alone cannot explain this.

By grace, I am what I am, Paul says. Grace enabled Paul to labor. When the grace of God rest upon a man, his work begins to carry an advantage that effort alone cannot produce. He's working, yet something beyond his work is working with him. He's speaking, yet something beyond horrid tree is giving weight to his words. It is grace. Sir. He's building, yet something beyond intelligence is arranging people, is arranging resources, arranging opportunities, arranging results around the assignment. It is grace. That's why Paul says in second Corinthians chapter 12 and verse nine, he says, my grace is sufficient for you.

My strength is made perfect in weakness. That grace enters into the place where your own intelligence, where your own wisdom, where your own methods, where your own labor is insufficient. That grace supplies strength where your weakness has become obvious. That grace gives capacity where human capacity has reached its limit. My grace is sufficient for you. In Ephesians chapter three from verse six to verse seven, Paul is speaking, and he says that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, right, and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel. Listen to this. So he says that the Gentiles can believe, that the Gentiles can come into the same inheritance we have received through this gospel. How will that happen? Next verse now says, of which, for this cause, for this reason, what reason?

That the Gentiles can come to the inheritance of this gospel, of what we have received in this gospel. For that reason, I became a minister. So I became a minister with an assignment that those who are called Gentiles, including me and you, can come into an inheritance, can become heirs of salvation, can receive the inheritance for which we have been saved. Is that not so? Paul says, for that reason, I became a minister, but according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power. So the assignment was obvious, to bring the Gentiles into an inheritance, but the assignment was helpless without the grace of God. That what empowered the assignment was a grace that was upon my life. I don't think that just because I knew the assignment meant that I could just go to Gentiles and start preaching. Grace gave him ministry capacity that because I understand my assignment does not mean I have what it takes to do the assignment. I became a minister not of my own effort.

I became a minister not of my own strength by the grace of God, by the gift of the grace of God. He's saying, can minister to the Gentiles today. I can preach this gospel with signs following so that the Gentiles believe because of the oppression of the grace of God which was given to me by the effective working of his power. And when you understand the Gentiles, you will know what Paul was saying. Paul got to one of their one of their cities in Athens, And when he got there, he saw temples, different temples, hundreds of them, lots of temples dedicated to idols. These were people given to idol worshipers. These were people that have sold their life to idol worship. These are people that have sold their life to sorcery to sorcery. These were necromancers, people that have interfered with demonic spirits that can concoct incantations. These were sorcerers.

It means they were not new to the supernatural. And Paul says, these were the people I was sent to. Idol worshipers that weren't worshiping one idol. Entire families had hundreds of idols they were worshiping. Entire fifties had thousands of idols they were worshiping. And Paul says, was sent to them that they should receive this same inheritance because they are heir of salvation as well. So this thing cannot escape them. And Paul said, I understand this. That's why when I was sent to them, I was trembling. I was afraid.

I understand this. In first Corinthians two, that's what Paul was talking about. When you read from verse three, from verse three, he says, I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in more trembling. What do you think that means? Paul is saying, I was afraid when I came to you. Paul is saying, I felt inadequate when I came to you. I felt as though what I had to tell you was important, but I didn't have the words to put it to you. So if you are to judge by my words, there's absolutely nothing impressive about my speech and my preaching. Let's do it in amplified, then we'll do it in NLT. I want you to see what Paul is talking about here.

So when you say, you know the context. It says, I came to you in a state of weakness. So who was weak? So you will not think that he meant when I came to you in weakness as though the people were weak. Paul is saying, I was weak when I came to you. I was afraid when I came to you. I was trembling greatly. Give me NLT. When I came to you, NLT even describes it. No.

Not this. MSG. Can you read this together? One, three. Go. Paul says that's how I came. So go back to NKGV. Paul says that's how I came. I felt inadequate. I looked at the magnitude of the assignment and what God has sent me to, and I saw that they were given to idol worship.

And I said, how can I do this? So in verse four, noted that my speech and my preaching were not in enticing words of man's wisdom because he could not have been. When I came to you, I had to depend on the grace. On this grace I was talking about, that he said it was for the Gentiles, I was made a minister by the gift of the grace of God. That grace is what you see here. That when my spirit is speaking, I started speaking in power, demonstrations of the spirit and of power. That was how I came. I couldn't rely on words alone. Words alone were insufficient. I might be inadequate in myself, but there is grace.

My God. My God. Give me this verse in the mercy. Let's start again from verse three. I want you to watch this. I want us to read together everybody. One, three. Go. Uh-huh. If you want the truth of it...

Continuation. Next verse. If you want the truth of it and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. Pause there. Nothing I said because I I wasn't... So that you don't think that I'm so intelligent. Because there are lots of people that believe it is because of Paul's for a physical education that made him so impressive and made him write to all of the epistles. Paul himself is saying, see, there are times in my life I was even afraid. There was nothing I could have said I would have impressed anybody. Are you with me, brothers and sisters?

Yes, sir. He said, but the message came through anyway. How God's spirit and God's power did it. NLT. God's spirit and God's power did it. My message and my preaching were very plain. I wasn't using persuasive speeches. I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. Remember that I was made a minister, he said, by the gift of the grace of God, which was given to me by the effective working of his power. For there was something I received, something upon my life that took my ordinary, my ordinary.

I was speaking plainly. There was nothing spectacular about how I was speaking. I wasn't using impressive grammar, but there was grace upon my life. God. Mango There's grace coming upon someone. Tell I tell you. Give me the amplified version. It says my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom using clever rhetoric, but they were delivered in the demonstration of the holy spirit that is operating through me and of his power. What was his power doing? Steering the minds of the listeners and persuading them.

So it was not my words that was doing the persuasion. It was the grace of God upon my life. Through the workings of his power. It was tearing the minds of my hearers. It was persuading them. I was speaking ordinary words, but something was upon the words. I was speaking ordinary English, but something was upon the English. I was singing ordinary songs, but something was upon the songs. I was tapped ordinary chants, but something was upon the chant. I was writing ordinary writings, but something was upon the writings.

The grace of God upon my life that has supplied power. It has made me an able minister of the world. So that when I speak, the holy spirit backs up my words. The grace of God upon my life is what the grace of God can do. I might be weak in myself. I might be timid in myself. I might be shy in myself. Don't look at us on the pulpit and think we were born like this. Many of us are not born like this. I wasn't born like this.

I used to be a hardcore stammerer. When I speak and I speak fast, I begin to stammer, but the grace of God can come upon a man. And pick his stammering words. Pick his stammering lips. Do something to it that when he speaks the heart of men begin to burn. It is the grace of God that can come upon a man. Jeremiah five fourteen says, I will put my words in your mouth. My words in your mouth will be like fire. That is the grace of God that comes upon a man. It is mere words you are speaking, but your words can be like fire.

It is mere words you are speaking. Please, if you are outside, you are a part of this meeting. Be with me in spirit. There is something happening here. There are distributions in this place happening here. Really, I'm preparing you for what will happen in the manifest conference, but stay with me. Stay with me. There will be distribution of graces. Stay with me. Stay with me.

Please sit down. And when you see me walking some level of ease, yet not high, but the grace of God. You see me walk in ease in my academics, yet not high. Ease in my business, yet not high. Ease in my finances, yet not high. But man of God, you are saying all these things. I can't see them in my life. God is able. That's why he starts by telling you, the ability of God is not in doubt. God is able.

Listen. Listen. There are people that you look at their lives and you see a level of hardship whatsoever in any area of their lives. I tell you this is how you know that grace is missing. Grace is that component that comes upon a man's life and begins to make things look easy. And when you see this ease missing in any area of a man's life, it is testament that grace is missing. First Corinthians chapter three and verse 10. The Bible says, according to the grace of God, which was given to me, and you see another dimension of that grace again. Now that grace is not bringing power. It's not bringing science.

It's not bringing wonders. He said as a wise master builder. My God. Did you see that again? That grace can give him building wisdom. He can build men by the grace of God. He can take weak men and make them strong by the grace of God. He could travel in Christ until men are built, until Christ is formed in men. Grace gave him the wisdom to build men. So when you see Paul writing, he said I can write these things by the grace of God.

I understand the architecture of building men. I know how to take a weak man. I know what to do with a weak man. Paul is saying, give me six months with a weak man. I'm a wise master builder. I can do something to him. Give me Ephesians three verse eight. Ephesians three verse eight. I want you to do something again. Why don't you tell everybody?

What? It says this grace was given. Now let's look at which grace again. Next verse. Next verse. To make all see. There is a grace to make men see. He says to me that grace was given. All of these graces just because he had a meaning to the Gentiles to make all men see. A teacher needs that grace.

A leader needs that grace. A public speaker needs that grace. Hear me? Hear me? In act of apostles chapter four and verse 33, the bible says the apostles gave witness to the resurrection with great power. And the bible says great grace was upon them all. How many of them? All of them. It means everybody here, great grace can come upon us. Grace rested upon their weakness.

That grace produced power. That grace produced boldness. It was in the same acts fall that they were praying that God should grant them boldness. After they finished praying, the bible now that with great power, great grace was upon them. It means this grace was producing boldness. That as they minister, there was boldness. Are you with me brothers and sisters? That grace produced favor with men. Amen. It made their result unusual.

Hear me? Wherever grace abounds, something of God permeates into human ability and makes it supernatural. Wherever grace abounds, there is grace to labor. A dimension of enablement that can come upon your work, that can give your labor an advantage that ordinary effort cannot explain. You are working, you are studying, you are preparing, you are putting in the hours, yet something of God enters into your labor and causes your effort to produce results beyond your natural capacity. It is the grace of God. That was what Paul was explaining when Paul said, I labored more abundantly than they all. And then trace that result to the grace of God that was within. God was laboring, but grace was laboring with him. There are people who are working, working very hard.

They are getting tired easily Because their strength and their labor is carrying the entire weight of the assignment. God can make the grace to labor abound towards a man. So that the assignment no longer drains you. Your purpose no longer drains you. Your effort becomes more fruitful. Your mind becomes sharper. Your hand becomes stronger. What used to take you years to do can begin to respond differently because grace has entered your labor. There is grace to build A dimension of God's wisdom that teaches a man how to take scattered materials and turn them into something strong. How to take scattered men and bring them together and make them into something strong.

The grace to build. Some men can start things, but they don't know how to build them. Some men can gather people, but they cannot develop them. They can't build them. They can receive an idea, but they cannot create the systems, the structures, the disciplines required to sustain the idea. Paul said, according to the grace of God, which was given to me as a wise master builder. I have laid the foundation. That is the grace to build. There was grace upon him that gave him the wisdom of a builder. By that grace, he could enter into a city.

He could preach the gospel. He could gather people that knew nothing about Christ. Label over them. Teach them. Correct them. Establish leadership. Build structures. Leave the place and the church is still standing. It is the grace to build. Are you with brothers and sisters?

Grace can teach you to build a ministry. Grace can teach you to build a business, to build a family, to build people, to build systems, to build something that will remain even after the excitement of starting has passed. Grace can teach a man. Hear me? There's grace to lead. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Leadership places the weight of the people, the divisions of the people, and even their consequences upon a man. There are divisions you must take as a leader even when you don't have all the information. There are people you must carry on you even whilst you're also dealing with your own pain and your own battles.

There are moments where everyone is looking to you for direction, and even you are asking God for direction. But there is grace. Grace that can rest upon a man and give him wisdom to know what to do. Give him courage to do it. Give him patience to carry people. Give him discernment to understand seasons. Give him strength to bear the burden of responsibility. There is that grace without collapsing on light. There's grace to minister. There's grace to speak.

There's grace that can take the words of a man and make out words, carry life, carry conviction, carry healing, carry deliverance, carry transformation. There's that grace. And a person is speaking with a human voice, but the holy spirit is backing the words. Ordinary words but carrying power. Ordinary words but carrying life. That the sermon can enter a place in the hearts of men that ordinary world cannot reach. Yet our heart not born whilst it spoke to us. The word that you speak can find a confused man and give that man direction. He finds a wounded person and brings healing to the wounded. He finds a bound person and something starts breaking because you are speaking.

He finds a sleeping believer and begin to wake the person's spirit up. You as the minister might not even know every battle present in the room you are ministering in. But grace knows where every person is sitting down and what must reach them. Jeremy, there's a grace to endure. There are seasons in a man's life that the prayer you need is the grace to remain standing. That the situation has continued longer than you expected. The answer you're expecting is taking time to to come. Your position you are facing is refusing to disappear. Your emotions are already beginning to become tired. Yet there is grace.

There is grace that can hold a man together under pressure. That the same circumstance that should have broken you meets a strength that does not originate from you. That what the enemy thought would break you, a grace comes to strengthen you. Persecuted but not forsaken. We are pressed on every side. Hard pressed on every side but not in despair. We are perplexed, but not in despair. We are not shaken despite what we go through. There's such a grace that can come upon a man. I'm waiting for God to answer my prayers, but the answer is not coming when I expect it to come, but I'm still not broken.

There's a grace to endure. Paul said I know how to abound, how to abase. God can give a man grace that keeps your faith alive. That preserves your joy even under pressure. That protects your mind. That strengthens your hand until your season changes. You remain fasting. You remain strengthened. You are unshaken. You are unmoved.

You are unperturbed. You know these things will change. It will change very soon. I'm not discouraged. I'm not frustrated. Men can be mocking me, but I'm not ashamed. There's a grace that can come upon a man that can keep that man standing. You will look at him and say, Kai, if I were you, I would have crumbled and I can't stand this. And he would look at you and say, couldn't stand it too, but there is something working in my life. That your hope stays alive onto your hands carry your joy.

You will keep on celebrating other people, and men will keep on asking you, when will your own come? When will your own come? There's a grace to endure, to endure the torment and the shame that can come with having to wait. There is grace for it. You attend people's wedding ceremony. You are their bridesmaids. You are their groomsmen. And they are asking, won't you marry yourself? It's becoming a shameful thing. There's grace to wait.

Wait until your own perfection comes. Until your own perfection comes. Until your own testimony arise. There is that grace. There's grace to finish. There's grace to finish. Many people have excitement to begin, but they lack discipline. They lack strength. They lack staying power required to finish what they've started. Their lives are filled with unfinished books, unfinished courses, unfinished projects, unfinished instructions, abandoned visions.

They begin their idea when it is exciting, but they disappear. They are nowhere to be found. When repetition becomes necessary, when discipline is needed, when consistency is required. But there's grace to finish. There's grace that keeps a man faithful when the excitement of starting has left him. There's grace that give him discipline to continue. The wisdom to adjust, the humility to learn, the strength to complete what God committed into his hands. There is grace. God can make grace abound towards you until your life stop becoming a barrier ground for abandoned assignments. There is grace to stand under pressure.

Responsibility has weight. Growth has weight. Influence has weight. Ministry has weight. Marriage has weight. Leadership has weight. There are things you prayed for that will require a stronger version of you to carry them. God can place something in your life that enlarges your capacity so that what would have overwhelmed you on a normal day can now rest upon your shoulders without destroying you. There's grace to carry responsibility without losing your mind, without losing your convictions, without neglecting your family, without becoming bitter towards the very people that God has called you to go and serve. There's grace.

There's grace. There's grace to recover from loss. A man can experience something painful enough to convince him that his best days are behind him. A man can lose time. A man can lose money. A man can lose access, relationships, opportunities, confidence of men. He can make mistakes and begin to believe that his life will always be interpreted by what went wrong in his life. But there's grace to recover. There's divine empowerment that can enter a man's life, enter into a broken life and begin to rebuild it. God can restore strength.

God can restore courage. God can restore opportunities. God can restore the wisdom even. God can cause your next season to be greater than the season that you even lost. The loss has happened, but grace can ensure that the loss does not become the final chapter of your life. There's grace to recover. There are men that lose. They lose relationships. They lose loved ones. They lose business contracts, lose opportunities, and they give up right there.

There's grace to recover from loss. There's grace to do what your current strength tell you is impossible. Because there are assignment God can place in your hands that are larger than your current capacity. When you examine your money, your intelligence, your connection, your experience, opportunities available to you, you'll find out that nothing around you looks sufficient for what God has placed on you. Yet grace can come upon a man. God can begin arranging people. God can begin arranging resources, ideas, favor, opportunities around your assignment. That what looked impossible when you calculated it. Only within the scope of your strength begins to look different when divine ability enters the equation. It is called grace.

There is grace that produces favor with God and men. Luke two and verse 52. The bible says Jesus increased in wisdom and stature in favor with God and in favor with men. There is favor. Favor is a real operation of grace. Favor can cause people to see in you what every other person overlooks. Favor can cause your name to enter into rooms where your leg has never entered. It can cause someone to remember you, people to recommend you. Favor can do these things. It can cause men to choose you.

It can cause men to speak for you, to defend you, to create room for you, to stake their integrity on you. And then there is a grace for speed. Hear me? You are excellent oh. You are excellent oh. Oh, my God. You are excellent. All the earth. Are excellent. Are excellent.

There's a grace for speed. First Kings chapter 18 verse 46. The bible says, then the hand of the lord came upon Elijah and he gathered up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. Please understand what happened here. Ahab was riding in a chariot. Elijah was running on his legs. Naturally speaking, there should have been no competition there. The chariot had horses connected to it. It had wheels. It had momentum.

While Elijah only had his feet, he was running with only his legs, but the hand of the Lord came upon him. Elijah still ran, but something entered his running. He still ran. Remember what I told you about the microphone? That he still ran. He was still running. It was not as though it didn't run. Yes. It was running normally. That you are doing the same thing everybody is doing.

You are running normally. They just cannot catch you. That is the grace for speed. It causes a man to make progress in ways that cannot be explained. That people might have even started before you. They might even have more resources than you, more connections, even a better background than you, an easier environment than you. Yeah. The hand of God can come upon a man's life, come upon his labor that he's just running, but something is running with him. Grace can redeem time. Grace can compress a man's years of struggle.

It can compress a man's years of difficulty. Grace can connect you to the right information at the right time. It can bring you before the right people. It can save you from costly mistakes. It can teach you things in one moment that others spent years trying to understand. When the hand of God enters your journey, your beginning no longer has the authority to determine how you end. It's grace for favor, relationships, access. Access to rooms, access to men. All these expressions might appear different, but the source is one. It is still God entering into human situation and supplying an ability, an advantage, a wisdom, an empowerment, strength, provision that the person cannot generate in and of himself.

When something of God enters your labor, something of God enters your family, enters your business, something of God enters your mind. Your mind begins to conceive ideas with the immediate power of execution. Something of God enters your hands, and your hands begin to prosper. It's what grace does. It's the same God. It introduces divine ability into human insufficiency. It causes the result that you have to exceed what you could have had by yourself. And the Bible says, God is able to make how many? All grace. He didn't say all graces.

That the operations are different. They can search through your life and check, what do you need? Because Paul captures everything. He says my assignment was to the Gentiles. But for that assignment, there was grace to make men see. There was grace to be a wise master builder. There was grace that made his words not come with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of power. All grace. Let that word enter into your spirit. All grace.

God is able to make all grace abound towards me. Say it to yourself. That means God can look at your life right now and identify the exact dimension of grace that is currently in short supply. He knows the area where you are struggling. He knows the part of your life where effort has produced little. He knows where the door have remained shut. That's part you have been knocking for long. He knows responsibility that have become too heavy to bear. He knows the instruction you have struggled to complete. The repeated pattern you are trying to break out of, God knows.

A man might have grace to see but have... But lack the grace to execute. You may have grace to to begin but lack the grace to finish. You may have skill and competence, but lack access and relationships. You might even have access, but lack the wisdom to maximize it. You might have excellent ideas, but lack financial proficiency. You may be building successfully in ministry while your family is crying for wisdom. You may be strong in prayer, but weak in discipline. You might have competence, but favor is in short supply. God sees the imbalance.

He knows the exact grace that must be increased for your life to move to the next season. So the Bible verse, God is able to make all. All. How many? All. The word all means there is no area of your life that is beyond the reach of this supply. All. God can make grace abound in your spirit. He can make grace abound in your mind. He can make grace abound in your finances, in your body, in your relationships, in your work.

Grace can abound in your ministry. The answer to the shortage of grace is an abounding supply of grace. God is able to make all grace abound towards you. All grace. The grace you... That you know that you need. The one you don't know you need. God is able to make all grace. Hear me? That is the reason why God arranges apostolic convergences.

That's where I'm going. That's why God arranges apostolic convergences like the manifest conference. It is so where you are in short supply of grace, grace is made to abound. Are you getting this thing I'm saying? God announces a meeting because there are graces he wants to introduce. There are graces he wants to awaken. There are men he wants to strengthen. There are great things he wants to multiply amongst his people. That's why he sends his anointed. Anointed men and women are vessels through whom dimensions of divine enablement are communicated.

The vessel is not the source. God is the source, but God chooses to carry his treasures in earthen vessels. Paul told the Romans, he said I long to see you. Romans one verse 11. It says, I long to see you that I may impact to you some spiritual gift that you may be established. So what is in short supply here? Establishment. He's saying the real... I have I have checked and I'm seeing that there's a lack of establishment. Don't worry.

I know what you need. I'm coming. So when anointed men come, they come because certain things can be in short supply. And God sends men directly to you to provide grace where grace is in short supply. Are you with me? That's why Ephesians four verse seven, the bible says, but to each of us, grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. And what do we do with that grace? First Peter chapter four verse 10, Peter was the one speaking there, and he calls believers stewards of the manifold grace of God that will steward it. Stewards of the manifold grace of God. This all grace.

As each one has received the gift, minister it to one another as stewards. So when we come, we have come as stewards to minister grace. So that we don't take for granted what happens in meetings like this. Grace is being ministered. When we invite apostolic ministers to come minister in in in in in platforms, it is because we understand that they are carriers of grace. What we are saying that they should come and do is minister grace. And as they begin to minister, what happens? Wherever that grace is in short supply, wherever it is there but needs to be multiplied, the bible says grace and peace be multiplied onto you. Are you with me? Are you still with me?

Yes, sir. So God places measures of the manifold grace of God upon people so that they can serve it to others. So when God sends an apostolic voice, understand that God does not gather people only to give them information. No. He gathers them so that words can become vehicles of spirit and life. That's why Jesus was speaking and he said, my words are spirit and they are life. So as the men are speaking, impartations can take place. Dormant graces can be stared. Limitations can be broken. People can return carrying what they did not arrive at that meeting carrying.

Are you still with me here? Someone can enter into that meeting with zeal and passion, but his life is lacking wisdom terribly. Sometimes even himself might not even know that he's lacking wisdom. The bible says God can make grace abound. Someone can come carrying visions that God has shown him, but all the visions he has seen lack resources, lacks favor, lacks access. God can make grace abound. There's someone who can come for that meeting that might have worked faithfully for many years, have labored faithfully for many years under a closed heaven. And when they come to the meeting, grace shatters the heavens open. They go back and they are carrying a cloud they did not come with. There are depositions that happen in meetings that your eyes must be able to see, which is why I'm teaching you what I'm teaching you right now.

God can cause favor to abound. I've seen people who are gifted but they are slow. Gifted but is distracted. Gifted but is inconsistent. God can release the grace for discipline, for speed, for completion. All he knows is that the power of God settled upon his life. He went back doing the same thing. If what he was doing was running before, he left the meeting and continued running. But now the hand of the Lord has come upon Elijah. He will begin to experience This is what happens to us when we come for meetings.

There are deposits of graces. There are releases of graces. It's being transferred from one person to the next. That's why we place value on meetings like this. Every meeting doesn't carry the same emphasis, doesn't carry the same weight, doesn't carry the same implication, Doesn't carry the same divine intention. There are seasons when God gathers the people because he wants to shift the measure under which they have been living and operating all along. And God says, come. Gather these people together. Something has to shift. A supply of grace.

There are meetings in which God confronts smallness. God breaks away old ceilings and introduces men into dimension of grace that will define the next season of their lives. There are meetings like that. Are you still with me? Take all of me and make it yours, holy ghost. Take all of me and make it yours, holy ghost. Take all of me and make it yours, holy ghost. Ay ay ay, Manifest conference is such a season for us. The thing, the prayers, the sacrifices, the man of God being sent, and the expectations being raised, all of them are announcing to you that God wants to make all grace abound. We are coming before a God who can study every life in that room.

Who can see exactly what has been in short supply. Who can release the grace that answers the shortage. What is happening to her is happening to about 10 more people. Is the spirit of prayer. Is holding them from the inside. Eruption oh, eruption. Power in this place. Help her. And it's moving. Thank you for listening.

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