(Read Daniel 2:31-35)
This morning we continue our series, “Grace that is Simply Amazing” by continuing our mini-series entitled, “Grace Based Success (Prosperity)”. Last week we closed out with Daniel reassuring king Nebuchadnezzar that the Lord had given him the answer the king was looking for.
Daniel said to king Nebuchadnezzar, “King, in your dream you saw a large statue in front of you that was very large and shiny. It was very impressive. The head of the statue was made from pure gold. Its chest and the arms were made from silver. The belly and upper part of the legs were made from bronze. The lower part of the legs was made from iron. Its feet were made partly of iron and partly of clay. While you were looking at the statue, you saw a rock that was cut loose, but not by human hands. Then the rock hit the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold broke to pieces all at the same time. And all the pieces became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summertime. The wind blew them away, and there was nothing left. No one could tell that a statue had ever been there. Then the rock that hit the statue became a very large mountain and filled up the whole earth.” Daniel depicted the king’s dream with vivid detail. The type of detail that could only come from God, by His grace. Daniel had no way of knowing this outside of God.
This reminds me of something that happened in church yesterday. Pastor Cynthia Brazelton preached an amazing message about the grace and power of God. She prayed for several people who needed healing and the power of God manifested healing during the service. After the service she asked for those who needed prayer to come forth and she called the staff forth to pray for them. A young lady came to me for prayer. As she stood in front of me she was visibly distraught. Before praying with her I asked one of our Sisters to give her a hug. As the young lady received the hug tears rolled down her face and her body continued to shake as she released a portion of the pain.
After the hug she came back to me for prayer. I asked her, “What can I pray with you about?” After a long pause, she shook her head and said, “It’s hard to explain. I don’t know how to verbalize it.” She was obviously going through a great deal internally, so I said, “Don’t worry about it. God will show me. God will tell me what to say.” I was placing myself in a position like the one Daniel found himself in – a place where I needed to hear from God.
As I stood in front of her I opened my heart to receive whatever God wanted to tell me about her. God began to show me the young lady as a little girl and He began to speak to me. I simply said what I heard and saw. I said, “You were raised in church. I see you as a little girl. You were raised by a strong Christian family. You were prayed over and many powerful things were spoken over your life. As a girl you believed those things. You spoke them. You prayed about them. You were excited. But then “life” happened. Somewhere along the way you made what you considered to be “too many” mistakes. You got to the point where you no longer believed. You thought you had disqualified yourself from God’s plan for your life. But God says, “No. No daughter. It’s still yours.” See, the giftings and callings of God are without repentance. God will never give up on you. You thought you wrecked your life, but you haven’t. God is still there and He is ready to do all He said He would do through you. Even as I am speaking to you, the Lord is bringing back many of the things you used to pray about and believe Him for. It’s like He is showing you a commercial on the canvas of your mind. He is showing you things, one after one, over and over. These are all the things God wants to do in your life. Not because you have earned them, but only because of His grace.”
The entire time I spoke the young lady kept nodding her head in agreement as the tears continued to flow. She saw all the Lord wanted her to see. Afterwards I prayed for her and she was restored. She came to church one way and she left completely different, by God’s unearned and amazing grace.
So what does this mean to you today? A few things.
- The supernatural is available to you, but you will never tap into the limitless power of God if you don’t believe.
- Remove every artificial limit you have ever placed on our limitless God.
- Stop asking for small things. If you only ask for things you can do, you will never use your faith, and you will never tap into God’s grace to do things you can’t do on your own.
- Your desire must be equal to all God has placed IN you! Your prayers should be the size of your assignment!
- Only God-sized prayers tap into God’s grace for the supernatural.
- Daniel believed God would show him the king’s dream. God did. It had nothing to do with natural power, strength or intellect. This was completely a supernatural act performed by the grace of God, accessed with the faith of Daniel.
- I needed the Lord to show me what was going on with the young lady supernaturally. God did. God allowed me to see her past and to speak into her future. This had nothing to do with me or my power. This had everything to do with God and His grace. But I would have never accessed God’s grace if I did not use my faith.
- You are only limited by your capacity to believe.
- The Bible says, “God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29). God has not turned his back on you. You have not disqualified yourself from God’s best. Do you know why? Because you never qualified yourself in the first place. Jesus qualified you for it.
- Open your heart to receive all God has for you in this season of the Greater Grace!
Closing Confession: Father, I thank You for teaching me about Your grace and my requirement to live by faith. You are a God of no limits. There is literally nothing You cannot do. I am a man/woman of many limits. In my humanity there are countless things I cannot do. But thankfully I am not limited to my humanity. I have divinity living in me. Where I can’t, You can. Where my power runs out, Your grace kicks in. Where my limits hit a wall, Your limitless power kicks the wall down. You have made all things available to me. You gave me Your best when You gave me Your Son. Your Word says that along with Jesus, You will freely give me all other things. I access those things with my faith. I use my faith to access Your grace to do all I was born to do. Not by my strength, but by Your power. I pray God-sized prayer. My desire is equal to my assignment. You placed greatness in me, so I pray for greatness to come out of me. I am dying to self daily. I am minimizing me as much as I can. And the more I do it, the more I get out of the way, the more the supernatural becomes natural to me. I will accomplish all I was born to accomplish. I will leave a mark in this world that will never be erased. I will perform the impossible on a regular basis. I will live a life full of signs, wonders and miracles. I will live naturally supernatural, because I won’t be the one doing all these things. It’s You living in me, You give me the words, and You perform the work! I declare this by faith! In Jesus’ name. Amen.
This is Today’s Word! Apply it and Prosper.
