From the desk of Steve Shultz:
In this word about GRACE, Francis Frangipane dives into detail about the subject and how we can obtain the fullness of GRACE. Yes, let's SHOUT GRACE over our lives!
Here are a couple of my favorite nuggets that Francis shares, "The same grace that turned our hearts toward Christ continues to work in us, transforming even our sufferings and trials into virtue and power. Don't postpone your breakthrough. Believe that God's grace is here to release you!"
Don't let another day go by without reaching for and shouting God's unmerited GRACE over you - it's yours to receive and His to freely give!
We've also included a couple of teachings which are full of grace. One is by me, called God Says 'Run To My Throne of Grace Now!' and the other is by Ryan Wyatt, called How to Avoid Insulting the Spirit of Grace.
Blessings,
Steve Shultz
Francis Frangipane:
"Shout Grace!"
We sing Amazing Grace, but I don't think we realize how amazing grace actually is. Grace is God's power, motivated by His mercy, working to fulfill His compassion.
We are saved by grace, but what culminates in a "day of salvation" experience is actually months and even years of God quietly, yet powerfully, working in our hearts. Recall: Jesus said, "No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him" (John 6:44a). Do you remember that drawing power? Before we knew God, divine power was working invisibly within our hearts, drawing and wooing us to Christ.
Yet let me take this miracle of grace further, for after Jesus spoke of the Father's drawing power, He then said, "and I will raise him up on the last day" (John 6:44b). This is the power and commitment of our Father's love: from the days of our sin and rebellion even to the days long after we die, grace continues working to unite our hearts with God's. From our utterly helpless beginnings to our utterly helpless end, from being dead in sin to being dead in the grave, grace carries us to the arms of God.
Unlocking the Power of Grace
"But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that, in the ages to come, He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:4-8).
Paul says that grace saved us "through faith." Faith unlocks the power of grace and releases it to function in our world-and faith itself is another gift of God. The difference between both gifts is, the grace-gift must be activated by the faith-gift. We must believe that God is "rich in mercy." We must accept as true that God loves us with "great love." We must not doubt He atoned for "our transgressions." We must be confident we are "alive together with Christ."
Grace works through faith. Believing the words of grace unlocks the power of grace; the power of grace to fully transform us comes through faith. As it is written, "For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace" (John 1:16). The true stride of a Christian's walk is "grace upon grace." The same grace that turned our hearts toward Christ continues to work in us, transforming even our sufferings and trials into virtue and power.
Are you in a battle? Are you struggling with finances, health, righteousness or relationships? Your grace-miracle has already been created. But you must believe that not only has God created a grace-provision for you, but Christ is motivated by love and actually desires to show you favor.
You may feel like a loser, a sinner, a person others routinely reject - and perhaps you are! The purpose of redemption was so that, in the ages to come, God might display through us "the surpassing riches of His grace." You may be poor in this world, but you can become rich in the transforming grace of God. Believe Him. A day will come in the future world of God when He will point to you and I, once fallen and depraved, filthy and isolated creatures, and display us before Heaven and Earth as radiant, transformed beings - a glory to His workmanship and love. And it will come to pass because we believed in the grace of God to change us.
Who cares what other people think of you? God says He loves you! Indeed, His grace is working to set you free. God knows you have been struggling with desperate issues; that's one reason why He has inspired this message. His grace is reaching to you to deliver you. The means to your victory is not more prayer or more Bible study, but faith-activated grace. Of course, I strongly believe in both prayer and study, but the power to release each of us is a free gift of grace. Don't postpone your breakthrough. Believe that God's grace is here to release you!
What We Cannot Do On Our Own
We've been taught that grace is God's unmerited favor, which of course, it is. Yet unmerited favor is only one aspect of grace. In reality, grace is God's promise to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
The Bible says that "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness" (Romans 4:3). It doesn't mean that Abraham believed there was a God. No. demons believe in one God and tremble! When Abraham "believed God" it meant that he believed what God had promised would come to pass. God promised to do for Abraham what Abraham and Sarah could not fulfill on their own.
The Lord had promised Abraham he'd be a father of many nations. This is the glory of God's grace: it accomplishes what is otherwise impossible for us. You see, grace not only chooses me, saves me eternally and blankets my life with mercy, but grace also works in me realities unattainable without divine help.
Consider Zechariah and the story about Zerubbabel, who was governor of Israel. The Jews had been held in Babylonian captivity for seventy years. Now, they were being restored to Jerusalem. It was Zerubbabel's task to oversee the restoration of the city. In the struggle of the battle, weariness settled on the governor. So, the Lord gave Zechariah a promise for Zerubbabel. He said,
"'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the Lord of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6).
God was saying, in effect, "You have labored, your enemies are many and they are strong, but this work I've set before you isn't about your abilities; it's about what I can do working through you." Likewise, our salvation isn't about our works or power. It's about believing in the Holy Spirit's power and the grace of God.
Then the Lord gave Zerubbabel an important word. He said,
"What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'" (Zechariah 4:7).
Zerubbabel had mountains in his life that were too much for him. He had a task that was beyond his abilities. Yet God promised His Spirit would help, and when it was done, multitudes would be shouting "Grace, grace" at the finished work.
Listen, my friends, don't run from the mountains in your life; face them with faith - and then shout "Grace, grace" to them. Let God make your mountains into "a plain."
Let's not mutter an unbelieving whisper about grace, but shout it out loud. It doesn't say, think about grace, but release your faith and shout, "Grace, grace!" God's unmerited favor has been poured out upon you. Now speak to that mountain of discouragement, sickness or financial need - GRACE, GRACE!
Let's Pray: Blessed God, You have drawn me to Yourself and have sheltered my life in the impenetrable stronghold of Your grace. Forgive me for drifting back into trusting in my works or abilities. Lord, I believe in Your grace! I shout "Grace, grace!" to the mountains that stand before me! In Jesus' name!
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
Email: francis1@frangipane.org
January 12, 2009
Ministerial Fellowship of the Gulf Coast Banquet
Palmetto, FL
Contact: 941-729-3800
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Colorado Springs, CO
Contact: 800-423-5054
April 17-18, 2009
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Ft. Mills, SC
Contact: 800-542-0278
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This 2-CD teaching set by Steve Shultz is from the East Coast Prophetic Conference in August, 2008.
"God's Paradigms of Grace"
Not only will you get a great teaching in this message by ElijahList Founder Steve Shultz on how the prophetic works, but you'll actually find yourself participating in a "hands on" prophetic ministry training session.
You'll gain simple and applicable keys for both receiving and ministering prophetically anywhere at any time. And just as important, this teaching is filled with amazing paradigms of how God does what He does - to us, in us, for us and through us!
"Learning How to Stumble Better into the Will of God"
Do you ever wonder if there is a super special top secret formula that supernaturally causes you to just know and do God's will? If so, then get ready for a whole new view of how often you actually stumble into God's will - all the time!
This teaching by Steve Shultz is both informative - and great fun to listen to. You'll be surprised at just how easy it is to find yourself in the middle of God's great plan - almost accidentally! .... (more)
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We can have an encounter with God anytime we want...if we've trained our senses to perceive Him. In these last days, God is calling together a consecrated priesthood - do you desire to be a part of this move of His Spirit?
In a stirring message, Ryan Wyatt of Abiding Glory Ministries, lays out a clear picture of God's call for His Church as a royal priesthood to position themselves in the place of God's presence to receive. God is calling His people to enter the "promised land" through intimacy and friendship with Him. Ryan shares about the Levitical priests who were to have no mixture .... (more)
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