Excerpts from the Message

GRACE FOR EVERY NEED (WE ARE IN THE DAY OF HIS POWER) – Sunday 3^rd August 2014

Psalm 110:1-3

This phrase – which is also in Heb 1 – refers to God the Father telling God the Son (Jesus) immediately after He had paid the price for our sins and had ascended to sit at His (God the Father’s) right hand until His (Jesus’) enemies are made His footstool.

The way God makes Jesus’ enemies His footstool is simple, Christ is the head and has conquered (exercised God’s power, dominion and victory over) the devil, now God empowers the rest of the body of Christ to have the same kind of victory that the Head has. We are the body of Christ, and God wants the enemy to be completely under the body (not under the Head), to be a footstool, so that the least part of the body would have dominion over the enemy.

We as the body of Christ are commissioned and empowered just like Christ to have the same effect He had on the earth. This is the present ministry of Christ (what God is doing right now through Christ).

Eph 1:19-21

The same power God manifested in Christ is at work in us, and if we do not know this, we will not be able to experience it. We are seated together in Christ far above principalities and power, our spiritual location has changed. Of His fullness, we have received grace for grace – John 1:16, as we increase in our consciousness that we are just like Christ, we begin to experience more and more of that grace in our lives. The more we are conscious of us being just like Christ (raised up with Him and having the same life that is in Him - 1John 4:17), the more we experience his fullness in our lives. This is where our power, authority, dominion and greatness lie. We are no longer in the fallen man; we are now in the risen man.

Back to Psalm 110:1-3,

God is making the enemies of Christ His footstool; that is what He (God) is doing now. Christ is the head to the church. His authority, power and dominion are for us the church. He took our form so that we would take His. God is empowering us – the body of Christ – to have the same authority as Christ, to fulfil His word (Psalm 110:2, Obadiah 1:21). We are the saviours the bible refers to, going forth in the strength of Christ. God is sending us into different fields, mountains, worlds, until the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

God’s priority is for His kingdom to come, and His will to be done in every field and sphere of life on the earth, and the way for this to happen is for us (the body of Christ) to go into these fields and professions and colonize the people (change their thinking), and exercise the dominion of Christ.

The type of grace God is releasing is the grace for us to do everything we need to do. Grace can be broken into three parts; Mercy, Favour, and Ability, and it is this ability – the ability of Christ – that God is stirring up in the church.  Grace to have the ability as Christ, to do His will on the earth; it’s about strength. It is divine ability to carry every duty and responsibility we have. We are in the days of His power, we will manifest the power of Christ and the gates of hell will not prevail against us. Even if the gates are closed against us, we will do what Samson did and pull them up (Judges 16:3), causing people to wonder about the source of our strength. God is releasing the grace of ability; we will not lack strength whenever we need it. The strength of Christ is arising in us as we keep doing his will.

God will anoint our eyes by His Spirit, so that we can see the way God sees (1Sam 17:26, 2kings 6:15-18), He will anoint our ears to hear His voice (Isaiah 30:21), and our mouths so that we can speak like Him.