The believers walk is in stages and in phases and at each stage there are challenges and the higher you go the higher the challenges hence the need to daily build up more grace (2 Peter 1:2). The grace you need as a single is different from the one you need as a married person. When you don’t build up grace for the new level, you fall from grace. That is why you see a young man who has kept himself as a bachelor, marry and fall into adultery. The reason is simply because he didn’t build up enough grace to be a chaste married man. Thus the emphasis is this; there must be a daily build up of grace if you must escape hell and death. If you don’t consciously and deliberately build this grace, you will reduce in the grace that you already have. Even the apostles at some point needed more grace to continue in their assignment ( Acts 2:45, 4:18,33).
CHANNELS OF BUILDING GRACE
- Study your bible
- Praying in the spirit and in understanding
- Listening to anointed tapes , etc
TWO MAJOR AREAS TO BUILD UP GRACE
- Grace for tireless obedience to the daily demands of Christ (Deuteronomy 28:1). There is a grace that helps you obey the daily demands of Christ. God demands that you forgive that sister, it takes grace to do that. That is why you need God’s grace.
- Grace to build up the holiness dimension of faith. The holiness dimension of faith is the pursuit after a holy and a chaste life. You need grace to live a holy and a chaste life (Matthew 5:48)
Further scriptures: Jude 1:20, 1 Cor. 10:13, Acts 20:24,32, 2 Peter 3:18, Rom. 1:5
Prayer line: Lord I build up your grace in my life to prosper spiritually, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen