The Grace to Do

Sunday 1 May
READ: Matt. 21:28-31
MORE LESSON: James 1:22-25

One of the first things that was revealed about God in the Bible is that God is a speaking God. Our God is not a dumb and deaf God like the idols of men; He is God of words. In fact God is the Word and the Word is God. So as a child of God, in the similitude of your Father, nothing should shut your mouth in defeat. You must learn how to speak the Word.
I want you to know that God is not just a speaking God, He is a doing God. God is not interested in mere speakers, He is looking for doers. Jesus spoke a parable in Matt 21: 28 – 31 about a man that had two sons. He asked the first son to go work in the vineyard and the son said he would not go but later repented, and went. He spoke to the second son to go and the son said that he would go but he didn't go. Which of these two sons do you think did the will of the father? The father was pleased with the one that eventually went and not the one that said that he would go but did not do so.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves: James 1:22. The Kingdom of God is not for talkers or hearers or even preachers. It is for doers. The Kingdom is in doing. Did you know that it is not even reading the Bible that makes a man mighty? I have seen people who cannot read at all doing exploits in the Kingdom. There are people that cannot speak a fraction of the vocabulary you speak and do not know as many scriptures as you do, healing the sick and raising the dead. The differentiating mark is in taking steps. There are many people who know all the memory verses on tithes and offerings but don't give. You may know all the methods of evangelism but unless you go and take steps no souls will be saved in the comfort of your room. You do not need great preaching to be a great man of God, you only need great actions borne out of great faith. When any man of godly actions speaks on even little things, the Lord breathes mightily on them.
There is a grace that falls upon a man and he is no longer content with talking, theologising and even preaching, he wants to see God at work in his life. It is this grace that must come upon you in your business, ministry and work. When God baptises you with this grace, you become a man of exploits. Today, receive the grace to do great things, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, help me not to be just a hearer but a doer of Your instructions.
* I receive grace today to do the will of God more than ever before.
* I receive supernatural ability to do beyond my natural strength, in Jesus’ mighty name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, thank You for denying Satan his desire to stop me from seeing the fifth month, in the name of Jesus.