UNCOMMON GRACE

Text: Genesis 30:25-27

Introduction: 

Uncommon means usual, something that takes you out of the ordinary. Uncommon means exceptional. Uncommon means in excess of what is normal. It means peculiar.

Grace is unmerited favour. Getting what you do not really deserve. God showing you kindness. Laboring little and reaping much. Other words for grace are: kindness, favour, mercy etc.

Uncommon grace, means unusual grace, extraordinary grace, abnormal grace, atypical grace,  especial grace, exceeding grace, exceptional grace, peculiar grace, rare grace, unique grace.

Jacob served Laban for 14 years for his wives. He was in servitude for 14 years until his breakthrough came.

I don't know if you have been in that situation for a long time.

Elizabeth was barren for a purpose. There is a purpose to your situation. God allowed Jacob to go through this situation so that he can amass wealth for the setting up of the nation of Israel.

After 14 years Laban came to acknowledge the uncommon grace that was upon the life of Jacob.

Now, how do you explain the employee becoming richer than the employer if that is not uncommon and unusual? 

How you explain someone whose wages have been reviewed downwards 10 times now shooting up to become a major shareholder in just a  year if that is not exceptional.

After the 14th year certain things happened to Jacob.

1. His taskmaster came to negotiate with him. Gen. 30:27-30.  This month, all those who despised you and glossed over you, will come to negotiate with you. He recognized that Jacob carried uncommon grace.

This year, those who insulted you will come back and kneel before you.

Jacob was not the only person living with Laban. He had grown up children and even other slaves. But grace singled out Jacob.

Your hands will be so blessed that even your enemy will come begging for you.

2. Jacob now dictated the terms. Gen 30:31-33.

He fixed his salary. He was handed a blank cheque.

This month you will dictate the terms. You will determine what you want. Life will not throw you anything and anyhow but you will determine what you get out of life in every situation.

3. Jacob received divine revelation. Gen 31:11-12.

This very month, God will open your eyes.

You will receive angelic intervention in your affairs.

Jacob was working in the same place for 14 years without much result. After the revelation, his bondage was over.

Jacob was still in the same occupation, the same town, the same employer and the same country. He did not change his location.

What you need is revelation. Revelation gives you insight into what to do, revelation provides a way of escape. The widow that met Elisha had oil, when she got the revelation, her situation changed.

One prayer point you need to pray: Lord open my eyes.

This month will be a season of discovery for you. Inventions are just discoveries. They have been here all along.

One single revelation cancelled 14 years of misery for Jacob. One single revelation is enough.

4. There was wealth transfer. Gen. 31:7-9

Get ready for wealth transfer. Isaiah 60:5; Isaiah 60:11; Isaiah 61:6; 66:12.

ILL. 1. God gave the Israelites wealth transfer when they were living Egypt.

(2) God made wise men to come from the East to give generously to Jesus.

The transfer was for Jacob to have a seed for the beginning of a new nation.

5. The enemy got weaker and Jacob got stronger. Gen 30:41-42.

This month you will begin to grow stronger and stronger. They wanted to chase you out but they will flee before your face now,

The strength of your enemy will diminish. They underestimated you but they will soon regret.

6. God will fight for you. Gen. 31:20-24.

Laban caught up with Jacob on Mount Gilead.  God will fight for you this year.

Before you have been fighting for yourself but it is time to hold your peace because God will fight for you.

Laban pursued Jacob with the intention to do him harm, but God had other plans.

God will fight for you when you are awake. He will fight for you when you sleep. He will fight for you when ou know it and when you don't even know it.

When God fights for a man, He makes his enemies come to sign a peace treaty with him.

God is called Jehovah, the Man of War. He is called The Lord of Hosts. He has never lost any battle before and will never lose any battle. When he fights for you, victory is sure.

SEVERAL WAYS GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU

(I)  He can trouble your enemy. Exodus 14:24-25

May God trouble your enemies and overthrow your stubborn pursuer this year. God will give your enemies flat tyre and empty their fuel tanks.

(II) God can send His angel to fight your enemy. 2 Sam 5:24.

ILL. he used an angel of death in Exodus to kill the first born of the Egyptians to make pharaoh set the Israelites free.

(III) He will cause your enemy to hear a terrifying noise. 2 Kings 7:5-7

The Syrians fled when the lepers approach them.

Every enemy of your progress will hear a terrifying noise and leave you alone this year.

(IV) He can cause your enemies to have a terrifying dream, judges 7:13-14.

(V) God can cause your enemies to destroy each other, 2 Chronicles 20:23-24.

Those who hate you will cancel themselves out. Your enemies will make mistakes that will lead to your victory,

Laban caught up with Jacob on Mount Gilead. Gilead means hill of testimonies. After battle, you have testimonies.

3 THINGS JACOB DID TO GET UNCOMMON GRACE.

Gen 31:12-13.

Lets look at the vow: Gen. 28:20-21.

A. THE LORD SHALL BE MY GOD.

A personal relationship with The Lord. Some of us have to re-dedicate ourselves to God. You cannot be living in sin and expect grace to abound.  How is your commitment to God and the things of God? Do you serve Him with all our heart or do so when it is only convenient for you.

Do you serve God because of the blessings or do you love Him?   Commit a righteous walk with God from today.

B. THE STONE WHICH I HAVE SET FOR A PILLAR SHALL BE GOD'S HOUSE.

Before that incident, he treated the stone in a very shabby manner. To him it was an ordinary stone. But when he slept God opened his eyes.  Many of us treat church shabbily, whatever you don't value can never add value to your life. Don't let anything keep you away from God's house.

How can you stay away from God's house for more than 2 weeks consecutively? Having personal devotion is not the same as coming to church.  There is a corporate anointing that is present when we gather together.

C. OF ALL THAT THOU SHALL GIVE ME, I SHALL GIVE THE TENTH UNTO THEE

He connected to uncommon grace through giving.

He did something unusual in those days. This is the second time tithe would be mentioned in scriptures. Th first time was when Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek.

When you give an uncommon offering, you will receive an uncommon miracle. To get uncommon grace, practice uncommon giving.h 

PRAYER POINTS

1. All I have struggled to get, Oh Lord, give me with ease this month.

2. I must sit on my throne of celebration in Jesus name.

3. O God of Joseph, give me my Manasseh - that I forget all my toils.

4. O God of Joseph, give me my Ephraim - that I will testify that God cause me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

5. What stopped my father will not stop me.

6. I shall not stop where my father stopped in the name of Jesus.

7. Every barrier to my miracle, scatter in the name of Jesus.

8. Psalm 9:6 Father destroy the foundation of wickedness permanently in my life.

9. In 2014, let my hands be so blessed that the whole world will come looking for my services.

10. Lord open my eyes this year. Grant me revelation and the spirit of wisdom to give an answer to every question that comes my way.

11. Father fight for me this year. Every case the enemy may want to reopen in my life, close it permanently.

12. I receive the spirit of uncommon grace. Let your grace distinguish me this year.

 This session is titled: Power For Restoration

1.     Lord, open doors of opportunity to me through this prayer, in the name of Jesus.

2.      I recover all the ground that I had lost to the enemy, in Jesus’ name

3.      I command all doors of good things, closed against me by the enemy to be opened, in the name of Jesus.

4.      I reject the spirit of impossibility, I claim open doors, in the name of Jesus.

5.      I decree restoration seven fold in . . . areas of my life, in the name of Jesus.

6.      I posses the power to pursue, overtake and recover my goods from spiritual Egyptians, in Jesus name.

8.   Lord, make my life a miracle and be glorified in every area of it, in the name of Jesus.

9.   Let all hidden potentials and gifts that will make me great, stolen from me, be restored 21 fold, in Jesus name.

DEALING WITH PRIDE

 

INTRODUCTION:

The writer of Proverbs tells us that “God hates the proud look” and that

“There is more hope for a fool than a man who is wise in his own conceit.”

 

Think about it, “Do you want God to look at you and see something He hates.” No! Well, He hates a proud look. A proud look is the facial expression that proceeds from a proud heart.

 

Think about it, “Do you want God to look at your life and see something that will cause Him to resist you?” No! Well, the Word of God says, God resist the proud!

The problem with PRIDE is its middle letter. It is the self-centered life. It is the “Big Me” and “Little You” type of thinking. So in this message I want to make you hate the thing that God hates. The way I am going to attempt to do that is by reminding you of what Pride will cause in your life:

 

 

1. Pride will cause you to miss God and find trouble.

Proverbs “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

 

ILLUS—One of the more recent technological developments has been the Global Satellite Positioning device, or GPS. You can look on a map and then see where you are in relation to where you are going. If you don’t know where you are going, you can just check it as you move and see the direction you are headed and then you can know where you are going.

 

Similarly, you can look into your life and if you see Pride, the Bible tells you that you can know where you are headed—toward destruction and a fall.

 

2. Pride will cause you to see the faults of others but not your own.

Luke 18: 10  "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  11  "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, `God, I thank You that I am not like other men--extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.  12  `I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.'  13  "And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise [his] eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me a sinner!'  14  "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

 

QUESTION--In the above story, who got attention? Both of them did. One got man’s attention. The other got God’s attention.

 

Even the world is turned off by a boastful arrogant individual who thinks they are better than everybody else.

 

There is a principle in the above story. The man who makes himself tall will in the end be made small.

 

3. Pride will cause you to have a faulty view of God and self--this is what   happened to the devil.

 

1 Timothy 3:6  not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the [same] condemnation as the devil.

 

ILLUS--In other words, PRIDE blinds us to who we really are. Therefore we become too self-important and begin thinking the earth actually rotates around us. Remind you of someone else? Reminds me of what happened to Lucifer who fell from Heaven. Yep, he got to looking at himself and comparing how much more beautiful he was than the other angels, and then the next thing you know, he thinks he should be God. What happened? He fell. What awaits him? Eternal destruction.

 

Pride will cause you to follow the wrong set of footprints dear friend!

 

4. Pride will cause God to resist you.

1 Peter 5:5  Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to [your] elders. Yes, all of [you] be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for  "God resists the proud,  But gives grace to the humble."  6  Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,  7  casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

 

Illus—In a football game we often see a running back put out a stiff arm to keep a defender from tackling him. To me, this is the picture I see in the above verse. God stiff arms the person who has pride. In other words, whatever God is carrying, you can’t get to it if there is pride in the way.

 

5. Pride will cause you NOT to submit to God and NOT resist the Devil.

James 4: 6  But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:  "God resists the proud,  But gives grace to the humble."  7  Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  

 

NO SUBMISSION TO GOD

-Pride is a prayer killer.

Prayers from a proud heart go no further than our own ears which is why the proud person prays anyway, to hear himself.

 

NO RESISTANCE TO THE DEVIL

 

Illus—There is a terrible flu season going on this year. People are being encouraged to have their flu shots in order to create resistance to the flu virus going around. People take the vaccinations because they don’t want the flu to attack them if it comes near them.

 

 

If there were no other reason to avoid PRIDE it would be enough to know that PRIDE will take away your resistance to the Devil. You do not have the power to overcome and defeat the Devil with PRIDE in your heart. PRIDE I self-reliance and you can’t defeat the Devil without relying on the power of Jesus Christ.

 

CONCLUSION—I am calling on this church to be filled with hatred! Yes, hatred! May God help us to hate PRIDE when we see in our lives.

 

God hates pride, therefore we should hate pride.

 

Proverbs 6:16  These six [things] the Lord hates,  Yes, seven [are] an abomination to Him:  17  A proud look,

BENEFITS OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES

1Corinthians 14:39, 40.

Speaking in tongues can be defined as a supernatural utterance by the Holy Spirit in languages never learned by the speaker, and may not be understood by the hearers.

To have all that God intends for you to have in the realm of spiritual power as a believer in Christ, it is very important that you see the value of tongues as it taught in the scripture. 

Tongues is a blessing from God to every Spirit-filled born again child of God, as a "sign"of Holy Ghost baptism a "gift" of the Holy Spirit.  Both sign and gifts are very important and there are GOD'S will for every believer in Christ Jesus and it is GOD'S plan for the church, each one of them must take its proper place. 1Cor 14:39.

When we cooperate with the Holy Spirit and place tongues in its divine order, God's plan and purpose will be fulfilled.

The following are just some of the many benefits of speaking in tongues.

1. Speaking in tongues in the initial proof that you have received the Holy Spirit Baptism. Acts 2:4; Acts 9:17; 1Cor.  14:18.

2. Speaking in tongues gives you an awareness of GOD'S presence, for it is His Spirit that gives the ability to speak in supernatural languages. Acts 2:4; Acts 10:46; 1Cor 14:18

3. Speaking in tongues makes you available for God's use in the purest form of spiritual worship.  At any time, anywhere, under any circumstances, you can commune with God in words adequately. 1 Cor. 14:1; Rom. 8:26,27.

4. Speaking in tongues gives you a vocabulary that the devil cannot understand, for you are speaking mysteries in the spirit.

5. Speaking in tongues permit Christ to search our heart and cleans us as the Spirit makes intercession through us. Rom 8:26-28; Eph. 6:18; Jude 20.

6. Speaking in tongues gives you a God impacted ability to bring edification to your own life. "He that speakers in an unknown tongues edifieth himself. 1Cor. 14:4.

7. Speaking in tongues places you in the realm of Supernatural. Spiritual communion with God, that only you and God understand. 1Cor.14:2

8. Speaking in tongues helps you to "give thanks" to God in a way that it pleases Him. 1 Cor 14:17-18.

9. Speaking in tongues strengthens and renews your inner man so that the devil cannot over power and conquer you. Luke 11:12-16.

10. Speaking inn tongues brings to you the rest and refreshing of the Holy Spirit.  As you commune with God in tongues, your body and mind are relaxed.  The Spirit communicates with God the father through you in perfect communion. Isaiah 28:11-12.

11. Speaking in tongues enables you to sing and glorify God in the spirit. 1Cor. 14:15, Eph. 5:19.

12. Speaking in tongues will help you to maintain constant flow and fullness of the Holy Spirit in your Christian life. Eph. 5:18-19.

13. Speaking in tongues will help you to bring your own desires under control and learn to trust God more completely as a child of God. Rom. 8:26-28; 1Cor 14:14-15; Jude 20.

14. Speaking in tongues conditions you to hear God's inner voice and causes you to be more sensitive to His word. For the Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible. 2peter 1:21; 2Tim 3:16.

15. Speaking in tongues makes you to be aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life.  As you permit Him to speak through you, this awareness is increased daily in your personal Christian life, you also learn more and more how you yield to him in worship and in prayer.

16. Speaking in tongues will help us to submit our own minds to the mind of Christ. It will renew and purify our minds which control our words, and our words determine our way of life. James 1:26, James 3:1-8; Eph 3:24,29; Rom. 12:2

17. Speaking in tongues in addition to the gift of interpretation is a means of building other believers in Christ. 1Cor. 14:5.

18. Speaking in tongues is an exercise that shows your spiritual growth. Through tongues, you are building up yourself on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Jude 20. This brings your emotions in tune with God's emotions.

19. Speaking in tongues gives a believer boldness to stand in times of trials, hardship, temptations and difficulties of life.

20. Speaking in tongues will make a believer to be alive in the Spirit always.

21. Tongues will help the man of God in his preaching and teaching ministries. The effectiveness of his ministry depends on the power of the Holy Spirit in his life.

22. Tongues is the entrance into the realm of the miraculous. 

23. Tongues charges your spiritual battery. And keeps you spiritually fit.

24. Tongues is praying things concealed to be revealed.

25. Speaking in tongues is speaking the language and will of God.  

26. Tongues renders you to be God-inside minded.

27. Tongues gives you unstoppable progress that enemies cannot deny.

28. Tongues helps you to develop our prayer life.

29. Tongues reverses demonic assignments against your well being. 

30. Tongues helps in living effectively in the last days,

RECOVERING YOUR EXCHANGED DESTINY

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

Wherever they exchanged your glory, I hear the sound of recovery for you.

Whoever stole your destiny, shall release it back to you in the name of Jesus.

- Evil exchanges are the satanic manipulations by the enemies in the lives and destinies of men.

The bible says while men slept the enemy came and sow tares.

While men are sleeping or unaware, the enemy is busy  exchanging their marriages, stars, destinies, businesses, etc.

I come as an oracle of Jehovah and I prophesy: whoever exchanged your glory or destiny shall surrender to you in the mighty name of Jesus.

From the scripture Eccl. 10:5-7, we gathered that there is an evil that is going on under the sun, which means there are evils being done on the face of the earth. What are these evils?

Many destinies have been exchanged. Many people are living lives that are not theirs.

Many people are eating crumbs while they are supposed to eat full bread.

Many people are living unfulfilled lives. Only few people are living according to God's standard for their lives.

I.  WHAT IS DESTINY?

1. Your destiny is what God has created you to be, right from your mother's womb.

2. Your destiny is GOD'S original plan before you were created.

3. Your destiny is God's divine purpose before you were created.

4. Your destiny is GOD'S placement in your life.

5. Your destiny is your divine assignment on earth.

6. Your destiny is the picture that God had in mind before He created you.

Jeremiah 1:5

Before you were born, God knows already who you are,

You are specially created to become a solution to the world.

Before God gave you life, He already chose you for greatness.

You were not born by mistake, but by divine will of God.

You might be useless in the eyes of men but you are useful in the eyes of God.

You might be nobody in the eyes of men but you are somebody in the eyes of God.

You might be rejected by men but you are somebody in the eyes of God.

It is not the name which people are calling you, but the one that The Lord has named you. He says in Isaiah 43:1

You might be asking

1. If truly God created me to be a solution to this world

2. If truly God created me to be great.

3. If truly God created me to be the head and not the tail.

4. If truly God created me to be a light to this dark world.

5. If truly God created me to be a lender and not a borrower.

Why is my life like this? Why am I finding it hard to eat? Why am I not able to secure even an ordinary job? 

Why is there no husband/wife to marry?

Why is my life full of struggle?  If the word of God is true, why is my life contrary to what God has said in His word? 

The answers to your questions can be found in Matthew 13:24-28.

The good seed, the Bible is talking about here, are the good things which God has put in your life.

Genesis 1-2, talked about how God created everything and He saw that it was good.

When God created you, He saw everything good and perfect. In God there is no  imperfection.

Fruitfulness is the kingdom of God.

Good health, prosperity, salvation, peace, righteousness, love, joy and the Holy Ghost is the kingdom of God.

3John 3:2,  John 10:10

The plan and purpose of God is to fill our lives with happiness.

The tares which the bible is talking about here are the evil exchange which the enemy has done over your destiny.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

There are forces of darkness and they only operate in darkness. Their assignment is to change people's destinies.

They are all over the place in our houses, offices, environments, families, etc.

There are wicked personalities using other people's destiny in order to prosper.

ILL. 1

A man had tenants who could hardly pay their rents. The landlord prospered while his tenants remain wretched. To exchanged their destinies.

If you live in a house and suddenly everything about you become difficult, pack out.  ILL. A couple remained barren till they packed out of their apartment.

ILL. 2. A man married his three daughters in coven and they could not marry physically.

ILL. 3. A man programmed the destiny of his nephew to a goat.

ILL. 4. Man who was going to FESTAC for all night and saw an evil priest programming evil into a man's life using a goat as a point of contact.

ILL. 5. A man wanted to be rich at all cost and was told to sleep with his sister. He did and started prospering in his business and the sister started behaving like zombie, saliva was gushing out of her mouth and the more he prospered, the sister's case got worse. A prayer point was raise one Monday. "Any power using my virtue to prosper die in the name of Jesus".  The elder brother died on Wednesday and the sister started to get better.

II. WHAT THESE POWERS DO

1. They exchanged your vision with frustration.

2. They exchanged your strength with weakness.

3. They exchanged our prayerfulness with prayerlessness.

4. They exchanged your progress with stagnancy.

5. They exchanged your increase with decrease.

6. The exchanged your confidence with inferiority.

7. They exchanged your life with death. It is not only physical death, but it can be financial death, marital death, academic death, health death, etc.

8. They exchanged your light with darkness.

9. The exchange your health with sickness.

10. They can exchange someone's financial life with financial death.

11. They can exchange your prosperity with poverty. You were rich and all of a sudden, your wealth begins to disappear.

12. They can exchange your wisdom with foolishness.

13. Your vigilance with ignorance.

14. Your hardwork with laziness.

15. Your fulfillment with frustration.

16. Your focus with distraction.  If you look at the opposition you will lose our position. The secret of success is to be focused. Many people fail today because they allowed themselves to be distracted.

God told Abraham to look at the East, West, North and South and as far as he can see he will possess. 

If your destiny could not have been tempered with, you could not have been where you are today.

If you want your God ordained destiny to be restored, you need to pray the kind of prayers which others are not praying.

III. WHY DO THE ENEMY EXCHANGE DESTINY?

1. Because the enemy wants to conquer you.

2. Because the enemy wants to suppress you.

3. Because the enemy wants to contend with your destiny.

4. Because your destiny is threatening the existence of another person.

5. Because your destiny is an eagle destiny.

6. Because you are trying to escape from the hands of a slave master.

7. Because somewhere somehow some prisons, powers or personalities do not want to see you prosper.

IV.  HOW CAN I ESCAPE FROM THE HANDS OF DESTINY EXCHANGER

1. Repent from unknown and known sins.

2. Pray destiny restoring prayers.

3. Pray destiny rebuilding prayers.

4. Cancel all the evil transaction done against your destiny.

V. SYMPTOMS OF EXCHANGED DESTINY

1. Heaviness of the body

2. People begin to develop hatred for you

3. Profit less hardworking

4. Door closing before you arrive

5. Stagnancy in life

6. Poverty. Even the poor call you poor.

7. Untimely and premature death.

8. Loss of menstrual circle.

9. Nothing works for you no matter how hard you try.

10. Inability to get married.

11. Vehicle goes to mechanic every now and then

12. Sickness that defy medication

13. Barrenness.

14. Low sperm count

15. A house/store that everything gets tougher and harder for you. Etc

BIBLICAL EXAMPLES

2Samuel 16:1-4. Ziba strove to shine with Mephibosheth's star by lying against him.

- for years Haman shone with the star of Mordecai.

- Absolom took the throne of his father David and raped his father's wives on top of the roof.

- Adonijah wanted to take over the destiny of Solomon.

- the case Solomon settled when a harlot exchanged her dead baby for a living one.

ILL. Man whose female children die while giving birth at Dadin Kowa Jos.

 

PRAYER POINTS

1. Any power from my foundation, contesting over my destiny, die in the name of Jesus.

2. Every destiny exchanger assigned to exchanged my destiny catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

3. Thou destiny exchanger in my family line which has succeeded to exchange the destiny of my family members, my destiny is not your candidate, catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

4. Wherever my destiny has been caged, wherever the destinies of my spouse/children have been caged, I command you now to be released by fire, in the name of Jesus.

5. Wherever my destiny has been hidden, I command you now to appear and locate me, in the name of Jesus.

6. I recover my destiny from the hand of destiny exchangers in the name of Jesus.

7. My destiny be released and locate me in the name of Jesus.

8. You star of my destiny arise and shine, in the name of Jesus.

9. Every satanic transaction done over my life while I was in the womb, perish by the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

10. Anything stolen from my life while I was in the womb, be restored by fire in the name of Jesus.

11. Every serpent of darkness which has sucked my virtue, through sex with any satanic agent, vomit my virtue and die in the name of Jesus.

12. Every power from my foundation which has buried my family, my destiny destiny is not your candidate, die in the name of Jesus.

13. Thou ancient of Days rebuke the devourer for my sake in the name of Jesus.

14. Any personality that the devil has replaced with, be roasted by fire in the name of Jesus.

15. My exchanged destiny, be restored by the blood of Jesus.

16. Any power assigned to exchange my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.