Does Grace breed apathy? Let me be sincere. I got saved in 2002 and became friends with Maurice Glory Adero. Both of us were appointed youth leaders that sane year. We were the most "spiritual" guys in the town. We spent sleepless nights praying in church, on mountains and in caves. We preached @ market places every lunch hour. We fasted, tithed, went for missions, etc. In 2007 I got tired and quit. Then I stumbled into my first grace message via godtv. It was The True Nature of God by Andrew Wommack. I stepped down from leadership. All I wanted was to sit and listen to AW alone!!! I shared the goodnews with Maurice and he too quit fasting, praying all, etc. And the church new we backslid.
Slowly but sure, most youths were beginning to listen to AW and losing interest in church. Pastor began to preach against listening to tv preachers!!! But this just made guys 'rebel' more. I began preaching again in 2010 at commuter train. One pastor Peter Kimusyu laid down his ambition to pastor and stopped preaching. He was a great intecessor but he lost it all when he opened his heart to the grace message. Today he is a radical grace preacher and seeing more and better results than he had when he was striving to please God. Time may not allow me to talk about tens of people who have gone this direction, but let me talk about pastor Daniel Kwesi who I met in town about 4 weeks ago and for the last 3 weeks he has refused to preach in his church. He either has me preaching or someone that I send. Last Sunday my friend Henry Christified Minister the minister preached in that church and this coming Sunday 20th Feb am preaching there and the following weekend 25th-26th we have a conference in that church.
If you are new in Grace, beware of people who misquote James where it says faith without works is dead. They try to use it to get you to prove something or to get you back under works. They do not understand what it says! Religion makes people to PURSUE RIGHTEOUSNESS but they never attain it. But Grace gives God's righteousness to people freely by faith. The reason Grace is offensive to religion is because it gets you out of the way and lets Christ alone be the way, the truth, the life. As God told Saul to slaughter all the animals in the land they were conquering but Saul spared the fat and good looking to offer to God, many people have come to grace with the strength they had under the Law. They have slaughtered their lying, stealing, gossiping but they have spared good deeds of the Law as means of justification. They feel qualified to ask God for a miracle when they have fasted or given to the poor but they feel disqualified and begin to beg for forgiveness before they can ask for a miracle if they failed to do something for God. They are not happy and prayer is NOT a delight to them. Where is the joy they first had? It went out when they came in.
Beloved, accept God's verdict over flesh. He says "The flesh profits nothing."(John 6:63) It doesnt matter whether the deeds are good or evil, it matters the source!!! Consider yourself today to be dead to your devotions and all you've been doing to please God. Let the Lord make You lie down and rest!
Slowly but sure, most youths were beginning to listen to AW and losing interest in church. Pastor began to preach against listening to tv preachers!!! But this just made guys 'rebel' more. I began preaching again in 2010 at commuter train. One pastor Peter Kimusyu laid down his ambition to pastor and stopped preaching. He was a great intecessor but he lost it all when he opened his heart to the grace message. Today he is a radical grace preacher and seeing more and better results than he had when he was striving to please God. Time may not allow me to talk about tens of people who have gone this direction, but let me talk about pastor Daniel Kwesi who I met in town about 4 weeks ago and for the last 3 weeks he has refused to preach in his church. He either has me preaching or someone that I send. Last Sunday my friend Henry Christified Minister the minister preached in that church and this coming Sunday 20th Feb am preaching there and the following weekend 25th-26th we have a conference in that church.
If you are new in Grace, beware of people who misquote James where it says faith without works is dead. They try to use it to get you to prove something or to get you back under works. They do not understand what it says! Religion makes people to PURSUE RIGHTEOUSNESS but they never attain it. But Grace gives God's righteousness to people freely by faith. The reason Grace is offensive to religion is because it gets you out of the way and lets Christ alone be the way, the truth, the life. As God told Saul to slaughter all the animals in the land they were conquering but Saul spared the fat and good looking to offer to God, many people have come to grace with the strength they had under the Law. They have slaughtered their lying, stealing, gossiping but they have spared good deeds of the Law as means of justification. They feel qualified to ask God for a miracle when they have fasted or given to the poor but they feel disqualified and begin to beg for forgiveness before they can ask for a miracle if they failed to do something for God. They are not happy and prayer is NOT a delight to them. Where is the joy they first had? It went out when they came in.
Beloved, accept God's verdict over flesh. He says "The flesh profits nothing."(John 6:63) It doesnt matter whether the deeds are good or evil, it matters the source!!! Consider yourself today to be dead to your devotions and all you've been doing to please God. Let the Lord make You lie down and rest!
You will be amazed what things you can accomplish, yet not you but the grace of God working in you.
"For me to live is Christ."(Phil.1:21)
"For me to live is Christ."(Phil.1:21)
God Loves You! Grace Be!
