Implementing Grace-Based Prayer – Sunday Service

• changes. Well, it’s opportunity for wholeness time, opportunity for prosperity time. If you need an offering envelope, if you’ll lift your hands up, the ushers will get one to you. And as they’re doing that, I want to look at 2 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 6-10 in the mirror translation and then verse 12. 2 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 6-10 in the mirror.
• And then in verse 12, he says in verse 6, we are all familiar with the natural law. There’s a natural law that says stingy sowing will always reflect in the harvest. So does liberal sowing. You’re like, where you going with this? He says, “Every individual must thoroughly thoroughly think this through in their own heart, not with thoughts of possible regret or out of a legalistic sense of duty.
• The agape love of God inspires extravagance of hilarious proportion.” Now understand God’s love inspires our giving. He inspires us into extravagance. It is impossible to exaggerate the dimensions and the detail of the grace of God. You couldn’t do it. I mean God’s grace is so deep and so high and so wide and all the things that he’s already done for us.
• So he says, and notice he started off with giving. No, he he says, “Plunge into the extravagance of grace where he exhibits the extreme dynamics of his bountiful dealings with us. Plunge into that extravagance.” He starts out with that giving. Plunge into that extravagance. We are already advantaged because of what Jesus has already done far beyond any calculation of personal merit to be completely self-sufficient at all times.
• We just some just don’t know that we’re self-sufficient all the time. every possible situation that we might face, we’re we’re sufficient in any situation that we might face. The overflow thereof amply supplies the needs of others in many creative ways to do good. So when that harvest shows up in our life, we’re supplied to be able to do amazing things in the lives of people.
• He says, “Now, here is David’s take on liberal and extravagant giving.” Here’s David’s take. And he takes this out of Psalms in Psalms 112 and verse 9. He says, “He has distributed freely. He has given to the poor. His righteousness consistently triumphs even in challenging times.” This is David’s standpoint.
• And he says, “The inventor of seed and bread is also the one who supplies and multiplies your resources and increases the harvest of your righteousness.” And we know who invented the seed and the bread. It was God. God says, “I am going to supply and multiply your resources and increases the harvest of your righteousness.
• ” Now look at this uh in verse 12. This is such a winwin situation. Not only are the saints endorsed in their I amness through his most practical translation of your generosity, but it is also it also causes an abundant overflow of great gratitude to God. Our giving to others. It causes this great thanksgiving and gratitude to God as the testimony of his goodness finds tangible expression in your gifts.
• And what he is saying here is that God’s goodness is expressed through our giving. That when we give, we are expressing God’s goodness. A lot of times people are giving to see if they can manipulate the system and so we can just kind of you know you know well God you know I gave this and and that happened.
• No God’s already done everything you will ever need. What he’s trying to get you to to do is I want you to express my grace and express my goodness through your giving. and you become a part of that generosity flow. You know, today’s teaching is going to be all about focus. And if distractions can disturb your focus, no matter how loud you shout in church or how far you dance, it’ll end when you finish.