8th October Wednesday Service: The Impartation of Uncommon Grace - Spirit-Led Impact. By Joel Atuti

Some moments demand more than effort or strategy; they call for grace that rewrites the script. We open Scripture to see how Jesus, full of grace and truth, meets people where rules, scarcity, and long delays have the final word—and then changes the ending. From the pool of Bethesda to the King’s table in Jerusalem, from a hillside with five loaves and two fish to a crowded street where a desperate woman reaches for a hem, we trace how uncommon grace breaks limiting traditions, remembers the forgotten, and brings sufficiency where there isn’t enough.

We share why salvation by grace in Ephesians 2 is more than a doctrine—it’s a new life and a new path, prepared in advance. We talk about stewarding grace through obedience, not to earn favour but to live from it. Paul’s confession, “My grace is sufficient for you,” becomes a practical framework for waiting well: strength made perfect in weakness, courage that outlasts delay, and faith that speaks life. Mephibosheth’s restoration shows the power of covenant kindness; the feeding of the 5,000 shows how gratitude and order turn “not enough” into overflow; the woman with the issue of blood shows how determined faith draws power from Christ.

Along the way, we ground our hope in the authority of Jesus’ name and the shepherding promise of Psalm 23: green pastures, still waters, restored souls, and a table set in the presence of our enemies. If the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, then grace comes to restore, renew, and overflow. Join us as we lean into a clear, practical takeaway—bring what you have, pursue with intent, wait with trust, obey with a willing heart, and expect God’s sufficiency to meet you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Theme: Uncommon Grace
• 2:40 Grace Versus Law: John 1 and 3
• 7:45 Saved By Grace: Ephesians 2 Explained
• 12:20 Stewarding Grace Through Obedience
• 15:35 Grace That Breaks Traditions: John 5
• 23:30 Do Not Lose Hope: Grace Is Sufficient
• 26:10 Remembered By Grace: Mephibosheth’s Story
• 33:20 God Sees, Knows, And Remembers
• 36:50 Grace That Brings Sufficiency: Feeding 5,000
• 44:00 Waiting, Weakness, And Strength In Christ
• 50:00 Pursuing With Intent: Woman With The Issue Of Blood

Transcript

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This month of October, we are doing the uncom the invitation of uncommon grace. We are continuing with what was started on Sunday by Pastor Egan. And we want to continue looking at what the grace can do in our lives. And I want media, please give me John chapter 1 verse 14 to 17 in the amplified fashion. Amplified fashion. And let us read, let me read this word it says, and the word of class became flesh and lived among us, and we actually saw his glory. Glory as belongs to the one and only begotten Son of the Father, the Son who is truly unique, the only one of his kind, who is full of grace and truth, absolutely free from deception. John testified repeatedly about him and has cried out testing, testifying of visually for the lack of God with validity and deliverance. This was he of whom I said who comes after me as a higher lank, and I like an I and has priority over me, for he existed before me. For out of his fullness, the superabundance of his grace and truth, we have all received grace upon grace, spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and the gift heaped upon gift. For the role was given through Moses, but the grace, the unarmed undeserved favor of God and truth came through Jesus Christ. Let us pray. Father, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we want to thank you this evening for your word. Lord, we thank you that Jehovah God, that today we are talking about grace. Lord, we thank you for what you did. Thank you, Jesus, because of the blight price that you paid at the close. You was rich so that we can be rich. We thank you because you became seen, you knew no sin so that we can be forgiven our sins. And Father, we want to thank you tonight that you have a God, your will is going to prevail. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Yes, we are continuing with the invitation of a common of uncommon grace, and we have seen what the Bible talks about. Jesus, who came to this world and he gave himself to die for our sins. He became seen himself so that we can be forgiven. And through him we have received the grace. What a wonderful word. That today we are being reminded that God had good plans for us. He loved us to an extent that he saw it good to give us his only begotten son. To stand in that gap, to pay the price so that we can receive the redemption of sins. We did not deserve this. I was imagining if God said that let what Moses introduced, that is the role, let it continue, and there is no great there's no grace. You know the row of Moses. When he one sinned, already he was condemned. If you were found stealing, the law required you take cut one of your hands as a sign that next time you continue with this, the other one will go will be cut off. But Jesus came and the narrative changed. That you can sin, go back to God and ask for forgiveness, and God will forgive you. This grace is unique. That we can come to God, declare to Him, repent our sins, and He will forgive us. And we thank God for the dispensation of grace. Without grace, we could not be born again today. Just imagine. Look at what you were before you came to class. If it were not for the grace of the Lord, today you could be nowhere to be, today you could not be alive, today you could not be born again. But through the grace, we have received salvation. May they give me John chapter 3, verse 16. For God so greatly loved and dearly blessed to the world that he even gave his one and only begotten son, so that whoever believes and trusts in him as a savior shall not perish, but have internal life. In which you once walked, you were following the ways of this world, influenced by this present age, in accordance with the prince of the power of the air, that is certain, the spirit is now at work in the disobedient, the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God. Among these unbelievers, we all once lived in the persons of our flesh, our behavior governed by the sinful self, indulging in the desires of human nature, without the Holy Spirit and the impulses of the sinful mind, we were, by nature, children under the sentence of God's rank, just like the rest of mankind. But God being so very rich in mercy, because of his great and wonderful love with which he loved us, even when we were spiritually dead and separated from him because of our sins, he made us spiritually alive together with Christ, for by his grace, is undeserved favor and mercy, you have been saved from God's judgment. And he raised us up together with him when we believed and seated us with him in the heavenly places because we are because go back a bit, please, because we are in Christ Jesus, and he did this so that in the ages to come he might clearly show the miserable and surpassed regions of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus by providing for our redemption. For it is by grace, God is remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to the class that you have been saved, actually. Delivered from judgment and given internal life through faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves, not through your own effort, but is the undeserved, gracious gift of God. Not as a side of your works, nor your attempts to keep the law, so that no one will be able to boost or take credit in any way for his salvation. For we are his workmanship, his own masterwork, a work of art created in Christ Jesus, report from above spiritually, transformed, renewed, ready to be used for the good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking parts which He set so that we will walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us. He said so that we will walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us. Amen. Now you see the Bible is explaining to us that this grace that we have received, we did not deserve it. But God has given it to us. So we need to take care of this grace. How do we take care of this grace? We have to remain obedient. Obedient to what God teaches us, what God wants us to do, we must remain obedient. And now the definition of grace. Grace is kindness and the love of God, our Savior, towards man, not by works or righteousness, which he has done. This is a summary of the two scriptures, the two passages I have read, John 3 16 and Eversions 1 to 10. It is a summary, it's a divination of what grace is. Grace is kindness and love of our God, our Savior, towards man, not by works or righteousness, which we have done. We have not done anything to receive this grace. There's no price you have paid to receive this grace. We have received it freely from God. This grace is unique. And they continue disobeying God because they know that if I will repent, I'll be forgiven. And therefore, of course, God is faithful. What he has said he will do, it's not a man that he should lie, not a son of one that he should repent. What he has said, that's what he will do. He said that I will forgive you. If you repent and turn away from your wicked ways, he said, I will forgive you. So but taking advantage of the grace, you know, sometimes God is sitting in heaven, looks at us, and is this the way we we behave and says, Oh my, these are my children, but uh I have given them, I have given the grace, so the grace is sufficient. So God continues to forgive us. So now I want us to look at the three graces I have considered for this teaching, and maybe if you can protect them, uh great great. Number one, we have an uncommon grace that plagues traditions. Give me chapter five one to nine. I won't read the whole of it. I know it's we we have read this passage uh many time many times, and many times I mean, and we are aware of what John chapter five talks about. It talks about a man who had an infirmity for thirty eight years, and this man he went to a pool called Petersida, where there were so many sick people. An angel was to come and stir the water, and whoever the Bible says that whoever was the first person to step into that water, water, he will be healed of whatever disease he was suffering from. There's this man who was there for thirty-eight good years. Every time the water is start up, he will rise and make an attempt to be the first one. But for thirty eight years he did not make it. He said, I will wait for another year. Year one, he waited. The angel came, studied the water. Whoever was first to step into the water received his miracle, and he was healed. The second year, third year, up to thirty-eight. By the time Jesus is coming, this guy has was here for thirty-eight years. He started telling him, You see, I've been here for that eight years for that eight years. Every time I make an attempt, I always fail. Someone always goes ahead of me, he receives a miracle, he goes, and I've waited. I cannot, I cannot be there. I have tried, but I cannot make it. Jesus decided to plake the tradition that this guy had. Maybe married with kids, working. This person might have gone to the university, done it several degrees. But now that is that eight years, this man is the same place because he he never wanted to miss this opportunity. He waited. When he was explaining this to Jesus, Jesus told him, I think I have a solution to you. And I want to break the tradition. Jesus commanded him and told him, pick your pack, pick your things and go. And immediately the guy got healed. Instant, he got healed. He picked up his things and he went his own way. They are called the uncommon grace, thirtyplex traditions. What are we going through? What is what what is this thing that it's been troubling us for so long? You have waited for many years, but still things seem to remain the same way they were many years ago. If this gentleman lost hope, if he lost hope, I am very sure if at some point he said I've waited for 38 years, I am going back home. Let me go and die. Because now I'm not receiving my miracle. Because every time I make I make an attempt to step into the water, always there's someone who goes before me. If this guy rose to hope, if he went back home, Jesus, maybe Jesus could have found someone else who was waiting, and he this person was going to receive that miracle. So, what uh what is this thing that you have waited for so long? When Paul, when Paul was going through a difficult situation, there's something that was disturbing Paul. And Paul prayed several times and said, Oh God, that you can take away this thing. Paul testifies that he prayed and asked God to remove that thing, but God did not remove that thing. And God told him, My grace is sufficient for you. So I'm reminding us tonight that no matter what you are going through at this time, the thing that you have waited for God to change, and you see, and it seems to be persistent. The word of God is reminding us tonight that we if we keep waiting, his grace is sufficient for us. Amen. So let us keep on waiting. Let us keep on waiting on this Lord. He's a faith of God. Just wait. The same way he met this guy at the at at um at the bull, waiting for the water to be starred. The same way he will find you waiting, trusting, trusting in him, he will come true for you, he will give you victory. And at the end of the day, you will give him glory. Amen. Let us move to the second the uncommon grace that causes one to be remembered. 2nd Samuel chapter 9 1 to 7. 2 Samuel chapter 9 1 to 7. And David said, Is there still anyone left of the house of the family of Saul to whom I may show kindness for Jonathan, Jonathan's sake? There was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Sippa. So they called him to David, and the King David said to him, Are you Sippah? And he said, I am your servant. And the king said, Is there no wrong or anyone left of the house of the family of Saul to whom I may show the goodness? Gracious of God, Siba rebright to the king, there's still a son of Jonathan, one whose feet are crippled. So the king said to him, Where is he? And Siba rebright to the king, is in the house of Marchal, the son of Amir, in in Debat. Then King David sent a word and had him brought from the house of Majah, the son of Amir, from Rodiba. May Bibos it, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David and fell face down and lay himself down in respect. David said, May Bibos said, and he answered, Here is your servant. David said to him, Do not be afraid, for I will certainly show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and restore to you all the land, your grandfather Saul, and you and you shall always eat at my table. When David went to fight, when he immediately was anointed the king, he went and to lead a troop, and he successfully killed quite a number. And when he was coming back from the war, the women started singing to him, Oh, David has killed ten thousand, and Saul has killed thousands. This thing annoyed King Saul because he now started seeing that the kingdom was now being taken away from him, and he started becoming jealousy of David. Because now people were saying David has killed ten thousand and Saul has killed thousands. So he started feeling jealousy of David. And Ducatus told, sorrow was seeking to kill David. He was anointed by Samuel to become the king. And God filled him with the holy with the Holy Spirit. That even whenever Saul, when he was having some issues with the spirits, David will praise some music to him, and he was revived. But that did not stop Sauron from pursuing to kill David. And when David realized that Saul wanted to kill him, he sought to run away. But Jonathan, the son of King Saul, had a covenant with him and said, I will protect you. And actually, when David had planned, when he was having a party, and he he planned to kill David, Jonathan gave him an intelligence that Saul was not really good up to whatever he wanted to do. He had an ill motive and he wanted to kill him. And he had to give him some signs that uh when I when you see this happening, please go because you have now confirmed that my father is willing to kill you. So they had a covenant. And when you read the Bible, you you will see that they they reached a point that they now agreed on what to do. He said, You have to protect me. Because just Jonathan was very sure that David was taking the kingship. And therefore, the father, Saul was losing it, David was getting it. So he knew that at some point he would need the help of King David. So when a time came that now Saul was dead, Jonathan was dead, he remembered and said, Is there anyone still left in this family of Saul that I would show him goodness and kindness? And a time came he remembered, and I mean he was told that this one called me bepo said, Who is crebled? He said, Bring him here. See, the Bible is it's even saying that this guy is a creeple. So Yanni, he he did not deserve what David was planning to do. But David said, Bring him, whether he's creeped or not, bring him here. And the boy was brought to him. He was given the grace he never expected. He was told, from now onwards, you will come and stay with me, you will eat with me, and you will have all the privileges that a son can have. A king's son can have. So he was given these privileges, and he was favored. So this is why I would say that this uncommon grace that causes one to be remembered. May God remember you in your situations. Amen. Yeah, he's afraid of God. He remembered. There is no, you know, the Bible says that God knows, he even numbers the air that we have. None of them can drop without him knowing. Therefore, he knows. He knows you. He knows where you are. He knows the needs that you have. Be patient. Wait upon him. He will show him up. No matter how long it takes, God will show himself up. He is going to show himself strong on your behalf. Amen. Yes, he will. He is capable. He has all the power. Number three, the uncommon grace that brings sufficiency. Matthew chapter 14, verse 13 to 21. The Bible says that when Jesus heard about John, he left there privately in a port and went to a secluded place. But when the crowds heard this, they followed him on foot from a bit back. And when he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and felt profound, compassion for them, and he healed their sick. When evening came, the disciples came to him and said, This is an isolated place, and the hour is already late. Send them, let the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and pie food for themselves. But Jesus said to them, They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat. They replied, We have nothing. Yeah, except five roughs and two fish. And he said, Bring them here to me. He then ordered the clouds to sit down on the grass. And he took the five roaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples. And the disciples gave them to the people. And they all ate and were satisfied. They picked up the twelve full baskets of the leftovers broken pieces. There were about five thousand men who ate besides women and children. I don't know why the Bible says that there were five thousand men. The Bible, yani, men were considered to be more important in that community than women and children. Because the Bible is saying that and five thousand men who are fed, besides, yani, they don't want to count the ladies, they don't want to count the women, they don't want to count the children. Besides, they besides. Now we have read this passage several times, and we know what happened. Yes, a time came now, the crowd was angry, at time was raised, but now the disciples are saying, you know, we are we are in an isolated place, and in this place there's no food. There's no people cannot lodge here because they are not lodging here. So can we release these people so that they can go home? Jesus told his disciples, they don't need to go away. Give them something to eat to eat. Now, if it were you, Jesus telling you, give them something to eat, and you don't have anything, what could you have done? You could have asked the same question, then we don't have anything here. But God had already prepared a boy who came with five robes and two fees. And now, even if the disciples are saying, What do we have here? We have got five roves of bread. Five. We have got two feasts. So the number of people we have here exceeds the number of feasts we have here and the number of roughs of bread we have here. So, how possible is it going to be that these people are going to eat? Jesus, he knew what he was going to do. But the disciples got troubled. They got troubled. I mean, he's telling us to give them food. Where is the food? Can two fish and five loaves of bread be enough for these people to eat five thousand men, besides women and children? They didn't know what God wanted to do. Jesus and what Jesus wanted to do. Jesus told them, tell the people to sit down on the grass. That means calmness. When people sit down, they remain calm. So let them sit down and be calm. He told one of his disciples, bring the two fish and blood here. Let me show you what I'm capable of doing. The Bible says that he took the fish and the bread and gave thanks. He lifted and said, Father, I thank you. And told them, Now start breaking the bread. The Bible says that they ate and got satisfied. The Bible does not say that out of the five thousand men, besides women and children, there's one of them who was not fed. All of them fed. They ate the bread and the fish. God married the pride. God did a miracle. He caused what was so little to become much that everybody ate. And they got satisfied. So when we look at sometimes when you look at what we have and when you look at the punk statement and we start asking ourselves, so I have a project to do. So how am I going to make it? What I have is so limited. I cannot manage to with manage with what I have. And as and sometimes we might start doubting God. Is God really telling me that He will supply all my needs according to His riches in glory? But we are reminded today that God has given us the uncommon grace that brings sufficiency to us. He told Paul that my grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will glory rather in my infirmities, then the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in privations, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. This is what Paul resolved to do. He said that when I'm weak, then I am strong in the Lord. And the Bible says, Let the weak say that I am strong. And let the sick say I am healed. It is about the conversions that we make in our lives. God is of course saying that the abundance is there. Wait. Waiting is a process that you cannot avoid. Because when that process is uncomplete, you will not get what you desire until that process is complete. God knows why. And patience will give you a reward. Be patient. Wait upon the Lord. He will give you sufficient. He says that he's the one who gives us more than we can ask or imagine. Sufficient. He will sufficiently supply our needs. He has said so. He has said so. You know, the Bible says that God is not a man that he should lie. Not a son of one that he should repent. You know, what he has said is what is what he is. He is what he says. When he says, I am your healer, he means it. That's what he is. When he says, I am your provider, that's what he means. He is your provider. When he says, I'm the one who will order your steps, he is the one who would order your steps. He's so faithful. He will give us the uncommon grace that brings the vision into our lives, into our situations. If only we will wait upon him, if only we will believe in him, if only we will have faith in him. The woman who had the issue of blood for 12 good years, he waited. 12 good years breeding. I don't know whether the doctors by that time were giving up blood so that they can replace what was lost. I don't know how that woman survived. 12 good years that she was breeding, yeah, one breeding until 12 years, until Jesus came to meet her and give her a miracle. She was breeding continuously. Night day, day, night. All the times was breeding. But this woman said, once Jesus is around, he said, I will break some traditions here. I will make sure that I've touched them of that garment and I'm going to make them a miracle. She pursued. He was among so many people around who around who are around Jesus, and she had to find a way. When the other people are saying telling her, you know, you are smelling. You know that you know you are you are dirty according to the Jewish traditions. That time that woman was dirty. She was not supposed to come into contact with the people. She was not supposed to intermingle with people. So she was dirty. So, I mean, she broke all the protocols. She said, Whether you people you want to stop me or not, I have decided that I'm receiving my miracle today. She pursued. Until she said, I let me touch this home. She touched the hem of Jesus and she received the healing. And she said, Who has touched me? And you know, Peter is asking, I mean, what do you mean? You are talking, you are saying that who has touched. We are in a we are you not surrounded by the crowd. Are we not? But he said, Peter, I have perceived power going out of me. And uh, and and someone has touched me. The lady said, It is me. It is me. He said, My daughter, your sins are forgiven. You receive the grace, she received uncommon grace, which are the which are the people that discipline of Jewish could have not allowed her to access, but she pursued with intent. We must pursue with intent. We are living in a world that is full of problems. We are not the exception. We can we cannot say that we cannot face this. These challenges are there, and we will meet them on our way. As much as you want to remain holy, you will find someone in your family pulling you back. You will find someone in the family offending you, you will find someone at your working place pulling you behind, biting you, fighting you. I'm using these examples because they are very common in our lives. So, when these things come, you're not supposed to lose faith, you're not supposed to lose focus. Our focus is our Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, the one who came, the one who God had prepared before the foundations of the world, that he was going to become a redeemer, that he was going to save our lives by dying at the cross for you and for me, so that we can receive the grace and common grace. Hallelujah. So we will keep on waiting on our Lord. We will keep on waiting on, we will keep on focusing on our God, we will not remove our eyes from our Lord because He is our source, He is our Redeemer, He is the one who will give us internal life. The enemy, the Bible says that the enemy comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. That is John 10 10. He comes to steal to kill and to destroy. So that is his mission. But the part B of that descripture gives us a solution that Jesus came so that we can have life and have life in abundance. That's what God intends to do to us. There's no sotic about it. We have the victory, we are more than conquerors. He has given us the authority. He has given us the authority in this name. We have the authority in this name. He did it for us. He has given us a name. The Bible says that we have received a name that is above every other name, that every niche shall shall power and every tongue converse that Jesus is Lord to the glory and the honor of God the Father. He has said that if you ask anything in this name, Aja Kwambia, he has noticed on another ask in this other name. He has said, is very specific. If you ask anything in the name of Jesus, that I will do. Ask anything in my name that I will do. So that the Father is glorified through the Son. I thank God that He loved us to this extent that He gave us His one and only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. That He died for us. For us to receive the grace. Amen. Simon Mosuri. God is good. Hallelujah. And because of time, I wish to end here. And may dear please give me a Psalm 23. I want us to uh all of us read this uh Psalm 23 as we do our benediction. Benediction today. Right? I give it uh in uh amplified, amplified please. Amplified fashion. Okay. One, two, three days ago. The Lord is my servant to feed, to guide, and to seal me. I shall not want. He lets me lie down in the green pastures. He leads me beside the steel and the quiet waters. He fleshes and restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of liciousness. For instance. Even though I walk through the sunness, sunless valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me, your Lord, and to protect, and your staff to guide. They comfort and console me. You prepare a table before in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refleshed my head with oil, my cobbler overflows. Surely goodness and mercy and unfailing love shall fall me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell forever and forever, throughout all my days in the house and in the presence of God the Lord. Thank you. Father, we want to thank you for your word, and we lift up your name because you have encouraged us tonight. Let all the glory and honor come back to you. As we disperse from here, we ask for your divine protection. I cover each and every one of them with the precious blood of Jesus. Even those ones who are watching online, I cover them with the precious blood of Jesus. Father, I pray that Lord you will continue to enable us to understand, to trust, and know that you have got good plans for us. That plans, my father No Man, cannot change. In Jesus' name we pray and believe. Amen. God bless you.