Speaker 1: Greetings and blessings.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, I bring us a devotion titled God's Sufficient Grace.
Speaker 1: God's Sufficient Grace.
Speaker 1: I will read the scriptures from the book of 1 Corinthians, rather 2 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 8 and 9.
Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me, but he said to me my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Speaker 1: Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me.
Speaker 1: God's sufficient grace.
Speaker 1: Three things I want to say about God's sufficient grace.
Speaker 1: Number one this grace comes to us through prayer, and you see, in the text I just read, paul sought the Lord.
Speaker 1: He says three times.
Speaker 1: Three times Prayer is very, very important for us to access the grace of God, god's sufficient grace.
Speaker 1: I don't know how often you pray and I don't know what situation you are going through right now, but I want to encourage you to pray.
Speaker 1: The moment you begin to pray, god begins to move, and so if you want to see God's hand in your life, pray, simply pray.
Speaker 1: Whatever matter that is, just simply convert it into a prayer and talk to God about it, then the grace for that situation will be released.
Speaker 1: This sufficient grace of God is available to us through prayer.
Speaker 1: But number two, through the word of God.
Speaker 1: Not just prayer, but through the word of God.
Speaker 1: Paul was in a situation and he prayed three times.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord spoke to him and he said to him my grace is sufficient for you.
Speaker 1: You know, the sufficient grace of God comes to us through the word of God and that is why we need to spend time in the word of God.
Speaker 1: You know, in Isaiah 40, verse 31, the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord, he shall renew their strength, they shall fly with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary.
Speaker 1: And when you're in a situation where you need God, you know you need the intervention of God and you come to the word of God.
Speaker 1: Then God speaks to you regarding that situation.
Speaker 1: The word of God is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
Speaker 1: And therefore God's grace, sufficient grace, is available to you and me through his word.
Speaker 1: Turn to God's word and God's grace shall come flooding in your direction.
Speaker 1: But number three let me say about this God's sufficient grace is that it is sufficient grace, and this grace is sufficient for any and every situation.
Speaker 1: There is no situation God cannot handle.
Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul was going through something called thorn in the flesh.
Speaker 1: It was something probably very painful, very difficult.
Speaker 1: That was persistent, but he received grace to deal with the situation, first of all through prayer, secondly through the word of God and thirdly through the sufficient grace of God.
Speaker 1: God is equal to that situation, god's grace is equal to the situation and God's grace is sufficient.
Speaker 1: Let me say that God has abundance of grace Saving grace, healing grace, restoring grace, strengthening grace.
Speaker 1: God has it, god has it.
Speaker 1: God has it and it is sufficient.
Speaker 1: It is not in small portions, no, it is abundant grace.
Speaker 1: And therefore, if you want really to experience this God's sufficient grace, then pray, then begin to believe, to look at God's word, then apply it in your situation and you will realize that God's grace is sufficient, like this scripture says.
Speaker 1: So God said to Paul my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Speaker 1: Then Paul responded by saying I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest upon me by this sufficient grace of God.
Speaker 1: May the power of God rest upon you by this sufficient grace of God.
Speaker 1: May you be fully supplied in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: God bless you.