The God Factor
When a farmer sows seed in good soil and waters it, a
process of growth and fruitfulness follows. The process is a gift from God. The
Apostle Paul acknowledged in his ministry that even though he planted and
Apollos watered both their effort was nothing. What mattered was achieving the
intended result of planting and watering which is increase or harvest. Paul
therefore needed two kinds of grace. First, he needed grace to be able to do
his part to plant. Second, he needed grace in the form of God’s essential part
to bring about increase.
You can acquire educational qualifications, competencies and
capital, and implement the seven steps from a good book and the three or five
keys from a sermon you heard. Through it
all and at the end you need the God factor. That divine work of grace for
increase. God opens the doors. The earth and its fullness belong to Him and He
cares for you.
Anything you receive from God is by grace. We were saved by
grace through faith[1]. Grace is all that you need. Faith is the
human side of grace. Grace is the God side of faith. ‘For this cause it is of
faith that it may be according to grace’[2].
Grace is what you need from God for faith to work. And faith is what God needs
from man for grace to work. Grace is therefore useless without faith. Faith is
useless without grace. Grace is God’s hand extending unmerited favor to
humanity and faith is man’s hand receiving undeserved favor from God. Fruit is
found where grace and faith meet. Grace
is a gift from God. Grace was however very costly but thank God, Christ paid
for it in full on the cross. As taught, GRACE is God’s Riches at Christ’s
Expense.
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