Reflection of His Grace

Reflection of His Grace

 

Dear Champions,

 

The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the Scripture is in the excerpt.

 

There were three seasons of Paul s life where he got so desperate and was in such pain that he fasted and prayed and asked God to give him some relief.  He was a man with amazing faith who ended up dying for what he believed, yet there was a period in his life when God was silent.  He was in the dark as to why God would not hear or answer his prayers, and some of us have mistaken God s silence as His absence.  Although he was a rock star in Christianity with perfect faith, God let him wander around in the dark for a while, and he got No for his answer.

 

2 Corinthians 12:9 But God said to Paul, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

 

Every single one of you has something that we wish God would change and apparently He is not going to change it.  Are you going to shake your fist and walk away, or will you accept No for an answer and lean hard on Him?  Paul said, my faith is not based on an answer to prayer but on the fact that Jesus is the Savior of the world and that He rose from the dead.  I am not going anywhere, but if you are not going to remove this, then I am trusting that your grace is going to empower me to keep on going.

 

When God says No, it is not a reflection of your faith; but if you respond correctly, you will become a refection of His grace, because it takes more faith to endure a No from God than to acquire a Yes.

 

Champions, have a great week!-David Vining