The Audacity of God's Grace: 10 Strategies To Living Your Best Life Now (30 page)

God Will Grant You That Breakthrough

God specializes in provisions. This is why you must agree with him today and be stubborn for your own success. He will provide that need—he will provide that wife, he will provide that husband, he will provide those children. God will provide that contract approval, he will provide that ministry, he will provide those finances and he will provide that health and healing. God will come for you. He will provide that promotion, he will provide those resources, did I not declare to you that affliction shall not rise again the second time? Did I not decree to you that you are going to live that best life beginning from today? You shall see your grandchildren, you shall ride on those automobiles, you shall fly on that jet, you shall build and finish that dream house, and you shall pass every examination that needs to facilitate your prosperity, for Jehovah-Jireh has favored you! Even if you may have been ignored, you shall be well known. Although you have been close to death, you will live long again. Even though you have been beaten once, but you have not been killed, for as long as there is life, God through his special grace is about to give you the ability to perform the impossible for nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37 NLT). Maybe your hearts ache, the word of God guarantees that now, you shall always have joy.

God Will Give You Peace

Although you may be poor before, now that God is ready to visit you with a blessing attack, you will become a giver, and even give both material and spiritual riches to others. Maybe, you own nothing today except your body as your net capital, God through his grace is ever willing to give you everything because, He is your El Shaddai—the “God who is all sufficient” and now I want you to say this loudly: My God, the God that I serve, shall supply, ALL my needs, according to his riches in glory through Jesus Christ my Lord” (Philippians 4:19 NKJV). I decree that, you shall live your best life even now, because you have Jehovah-Shalom- “The Lord who is our Peace.” Trusting in God’s perfect peace is a sure way to break even in times of difficult life storms. If you can trust in God’s perfect peace over your lives, by giving and trusting that life in Jesus hands, in obedience to His commands over your life, your diets, and your thirst, and your finances, you shall have a perfect peace that comes with the visitation of Jehovah-shalom. God is ready to visit your home. He wants to visit that career that is almost in crisis, that marriage that is in shambles, that child or those children that are turbulent; that job that needs a boost, that school that you need to attend, that debt that cause you sleepless nights, and that pain that makes your heart ache and bleed. I decree that you shall begin to experience peace, God’s perfect peace which shall results in a ‘wholeness’ and newness that surpasses all understanding’(Romans 5:1). And now, because you are perfectly saved by Christ, and created for his glory, all things in your life shall become new. I decree that old things have passed away, addictions have passed away, sexual sins have passed away, lustful desires have passed away, drinking addictive behaviors have passed away, you are now a brand new child of God, and his peace shall pursue you. You shall be compensated. The God of grace shall settle you so you can begin to live your best life now. God has vowed to make you comfortable. You shall live your best life even now by the special grace and mercy of Jesus because Jesus is enough and greater than your situations, for he is El Elyon, “the Most High God.”

God is Greater than Your Problems

The only one who can give you double for your troubles is the El Elyon—that is “The Most-Highest God” because he is the only God who is sovereign and the only God who is in charge of sustaining the entire universe ALL the time. This is why God is ready to step into your situation, if you believe (Psalm 57:2). When El Elyon step into your life, the promised word of God declares that “No weapon fashioned against you shall prosper and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord (Isaiah 54:17). What this means according to Barnes Note of the Bible is that no instrument of war, no sword, or spear; no instrument of persecution or torture that is facilitated toward the child of God will succeed. The sense here is that it shall not have final and ultimate prosperity. It might be permitted for a time to appear to prosper - as persecutors and oppressors have done; but there would not be final and complete success. And every tongue—No one shall be able to injure you by words and accusations. If a controversy shall arise; if others reproach you and accuse you of imposture and deceit, you will be able ultimately to convince them of error, and, by manifestation of the truth, to condemn them.

The language here is derived probably from courts of justice; and the idea is that truth and victory would be on your side when strife comes. This is the heritage - The inheritance which awaits those who serve God is truth and victory. It is not gold and the triumph of battle. It is not the laurel won in fields of blood. But it is, the protection of God in all times of trouble; his friendship in all periods of adversity; complete victory in all contests with error and unjust systems; and preservation when foes rise up in any form and endeavor to destroy you, and to blot out your name and the existence of your success. In order words, when El Elyon is in control of your life, it does not matter who is against, for you shall live your best life even now and none of your fortunes shall be taken away any more. It was for this reason that the psalmist reminded us in the 91
st
chapter of Psalm [NKJV] that:

1
He who dwells in the secret place of

THE HIGHEST GOD (EL Elyon)

Shall abide (remain and find rest) in the shadow of the almighty

2
this I declare about the L
ORD
:

He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;

he is my God, and I trust in him.

3
For he will rescue you from every trap

and protect you from deadly disease.

4
He will cover you with his feathers.

He will shelter you with his wings.

His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

5
Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night,

nor the arrow that flies in the day.

6
Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness,

nor the disaster that strikes at midday.

7
Though a thousand fall at your side,

though ten thousand are dying around you,

these evils will not touch you.

8
Just open your eyes,

and see how the wicked are punished.

9
If you make the L
ORD
your refuge,

if you make the Most High your shelter,

10
no evil will conquer you;

no plague will come near your home.

11
For he will order his angels

to protect you wherever you go.

12
They will hold you up with their hands

so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.

13
You will trample upon lions and cobras;

you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!

14
The L
ORD
says, “I will rescue those who love me.

I will protect those who trust in my name.

15
When they call on me, I will answer;

I will be with them in trouble.

I will rescue and honor them.

16
I will reward them with a long life

and give them my salvation.”

You Are A Winner

The devil—our greatest enemy has blindfolded many into believing that they cannot live their best lives now in terms of having their material needs met, as if God is not interested in our material well-being. He convinces many of such people to think that they have got to accept their unpleasant conditions, because they are church people. Many people who bought this costly lie sold to them by the enemy, began to agree that they don’t have to amerce wealth, we don’t have to pursue the good things that add fun to life; and it is not good for them to live in that spacious house, and too bad for them to own one of those good houses in the pricy or expensive neighborhood. For such people, it is not good to own that latest Mercedes Benz or BMW Suv. Like I discussed earlier, they accept that it is illegal for them to live in affluence, and it will be too much of a worldly show or even an abomination for them to own a private jet, should they be in need of one. The devil has successfully tied the mind-set of a great number of believers to think that way. It is sinful to become that next millionaire in town, not to think of becoming that billionaire. Now the question is why not? Who told you that God is against your wealth or your ability to presently live a life where your physical and material needs are met daily? You are a winner.

“You cannot continue to live the way you have lived and expect miracles or different results.”

Be stubborn with your success. God has longed for you to reach out to him and begin to dream new dreams and achieve new heights. You can make it big by the special grace of God.

Winners Don’t Live In Captivity

Your ability to be stubborn with your success is the only way forward for you to achieve prosperity. This is why winners don’t live in captivity and must understand that God is not against their prosperity or promotion. Now, the sad thing that I want you to notice is that while the enemy ties people down with the thoughts of poverty and the spirit of poverty, he also keeps them in the prison of want. Those who are in the prison of want never help others. When for instance, the need arises to help a family member, a church member, a beggar on the street, or an unemployed neighbor, those in the prison of want cannot help because, they are in themselves in captivity of lack. It only becomes a wishful thinking to help others since majority of those who are in the prison of want can never give unstintingly. When we want to help those newly married couple who are struggling, those orphans, or those homeless guys across the street we cannot, not because we don’t want to; but because the devil keeps us in the prison of want since we don’t have any material solution to people’s needs, instead we are looking for where to get things and help for ourselves. When we desire to help that church, the church of God, the expansion of the building project, we cannot, yet we want to. When we are called to help in fund raising to build for instance—a nonprofit up-to-date medical center where a great majority of the poor people from the populations who lack access to basic healthcare can access standard health with up to date medical practices and yet, we cannot. When we need to help those poor students in our churches or in our neighborhood who needs scholarship, we cannot, it only becomes a wishful thinking.

You Can Be Liberated

The good news is that you don’t have to be poor and remain in the prison of want for life because many poor people who remain prisoners of want will be unable to live their best life now. You can be liberated from that limitation and be delivered from that mind-set today if you are not yet delivered. You can be bailed from the devils prison of want. If you can believe God right now, you can be liberated. You don’t have to belong to that prison perfected by the spirit of poverty. You cannot remain a prisoner of want for life where you keep wanting and wanting and never have enough to give out to others in need and be a person of significance. Like I have stated before, poverty send many people to their early graves. I have seen a number of folks who die preventable deaths because of scarcity of material resources due to poverty. Poverty many of the times abides with people with small minds. Many people who remain like this will encounter a lot of difficulty on their journey to heaven because a lot of poor and even rich people who remain in the prison of want do mischievous things and follow short cut in an effort to survive. Poverty for many people is more a problem of, or product of their mind, than it is economics or economic disenfranchisement indeed. But thank God that his grace of abundance is able to set you freed for life. If you believe in poverty, you will always be poor in life and it can become generational as you mentor your children with the mentality that leads into defeat instead of victory and curtail their material health, happiness and ability to go to higher places. What you don’t believe, you will not become.

It’s Up To You

In Psalms 23, King David while the king of Israel observed how the spirit of poverty infected most people as they each were wanted more and more and more and how much these people were unable to release in the lives of others and bless them. The nation was under siege, many enemies of Israel collaborated with the citizens and elites in the political class of Israel. Those at the helm of the political class and the vast majority of corrupt leaders and their followers among the masses wanted more and more to fatten their personal pockets due to greed and all sorts of corruption that would destroy the national economy of the great Israel nation.

The king faced much opposition even from within; as a result the king begins to write Psalm 23. He wanted to differentiate himself from these people who have been subjected to the prison of wanting more and more and more without satisfaction. As one who had led the sheep before, he saw the relationship between those who are subjected to the prison of want with the sheep who utterly are dependent on wanting more and more and more. As a result, King David rejected the sheep mentality and instead challenges his audience to embrace the shepherd mentality which is about taking audacity in the leadership of God’s grace, the great provider and sustainer who is able to provide satisfaction and keep us from failing. When King David used the metaphor of God as his shepherd leader and king, he was reminding his readers to be stubborn with their success and embrace the mentality of the shepherd-leadership of God who unlike the sheep that wants more and more and more is ever willing to be a giver and an overcomer of all enemies of his progress. For this reason King David wrote Psalms 23 [NKJV], persuading his followers to boldly embrace the shepherd leadership and mentality. I encourage you to do the same by reciting it out loudly if you will: