Living a Supernatural Life by God’s Grace

by Rick

(Read Daniel 2:1-16)

 

This morning we continue our series, “Grace that is Simply Amazing” by getting back to our mini-series entitled, “Grace Based Success (Prosperity)”.  The last message I shared with you in this series was about Daniel and it came from Daniel 2:1-11.  King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, he called in his wise men to interpret the dream, they asked the king to tell them the dream so they could interpret it, and the king refused.  The king’s point was that if they were truly wise, they should be able to come up with the dream and the interpretation.

 

King Nebuchadnezzar’s “wise men” were accustomed to using magic, sorcery and witchcraft to perform their work.  But they quickly realized their “dark power” was far too limited to complete the task.  So the wise men said to Nebuchadnezzar, “The king is asking something that is too hard to do.  Only the gods could tell the king his dream and what it means.  But the gods don’t live with people.”  Their response is interesting.  They were basically saying, “Oh king, you are asking us to do something only gods can do.  But since gods don’t dwell with people, it can’t get done.”  What king Nebuchadnezzar’s family of sorcerers did not know is that our God, the only true and wise God, DOES live with mere humans, and He empowers humans to operate in ways that far exceed their humanity.

 

King Nebuchadnezzar ordered to have all the wise men killed.  Somehow, Daniel and his friends were caught up in the fray and they were scheduled to be killed as well.  When Daniel found out about it, he went to the king and asked for time to seek His God about it.  He promised to come back with the answer the king was looking for.  Daniel believed his God would tell him the dream, and also tell him what the dream meant – not by Daniel’s effort or education, but by God’s grace and revelation.

 

So what does this mean to you today?  A few things.

 

  1.  Human ability has its limits.  God’s ability has no limits.  God makes His limitless power available to you by His grace.

 

  1.  There are countless impossibilities with man, but there are no impossibilities with God.  If you open your heart to God and His grace, the impossible becomes possible for you.

 

  1.  When the power and systems of this world fail it creates an open door of opportunity for God and His children.

 

  1.  Where human ability ends the grace of God begins.  God empowers His children, by His grace, to operate far beyond the limits of humanity.

 

  1.  God’s wants to work through you to do what you can’t do without Him.  God has the limitless power.  All he is looking for from you is faith and surrender.

 

  1.  In this season, 2015, I believe God is raising up a generation who is tired of a powerless church.  More and more, people are growing tired of going to church Sunday after Sunday without seeing anything supernatural.  God never intended for us to live a completely human life; a life void of true power.

 

  1.  There is a growing disdain in my heart for the religion and routine that are commonplace in the church of the United States.  In other countries, where people are not as “comfortable” as the U.S., people cry out to God, they totally rely on His power, and the supernatural has become natural.

 

  1.  I believe God is raising up a generation of leaders in the United States who will be so in-tune with God and His grace that the supernatural will be natural to them.  I am part of that generation.  Are you?

 

  1.  If God could do the humanly impossible through Daniel, a young slave without the Holy Spirit, thousands of years before Jesus, then what is it that He cannot do through you?

 

  1.  God is not looking for you to perform the supernatural.  He is looking to do it through you.  All you have to do is believe, submit, and allow God to flow through you to do what you could never do on your own!  This is the type of life God is calling us to live in this season.  Are you ready?

 

Closing Confession:   Father, I thank You for teaching me about Your grace and my requirement to live by faith.  You are holy and I am, on my own, far from holy.  You are perfect and I am, in and of myself, flawed.  You are limitless and I am, in my power and ability, clearly limited.  But Father, You have taken up residence inside of me and You freely give me access to supernatural power.  As a Born-Again, Spirit-filled believer, You expect the supernatural to become natural to me.  Not by my power, but by Your grace.  So my part is to believe and attempt whatever You tell me to do, in faith.  Your part is to do what I cannot do.  Together, we will make a supernatural difference and leave a mark in this world that will never be erased.  I am a believer and supernatural signs will follow me.  And when they do, it will not be because I did it.  It will be because I died to self to the point where Your power was able to freely flow through me.  So as I enter this day and this week I say, “Here I am Father, use me for Your glory.  None of me and all of You.  Speak through my vocal chords, think through my mind, and operate through my limbs.  That Your very power, Your supernatural power, would be manifested in the earth through me, Your child, a willing vessel.”  I believe this shall come to pass.  I believe You will use me for Your glory.  I believe the supernatural is now natural for me.  Not because I am so good, but only because You are; only because of Your grace!  I declare this by faith!  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.


This is Today’s Word!  Apply it and Prosper.

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