GRACE TO HELP
“For daily need there is daily grace; for sudden need, sudden grace, and for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace.”
1Pet 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Manifold in our text meaning: much variation or having many colors or facets.
I think daily, sudden and overwhelming graces pretty well cover us!
DAILY: Deut 33:25 (b) As your days, [so shall] your strength [be]. Grace on a daily basis. Grace PRN. Grace to cover the incidental and the unexpected in the everyday. Grace to fit your day! Grace on call…all day!
SUDDEN: Gen 22:13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind [him was] a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. Abraham was about to offer up his son to God. Isaac asked the question, “Father, there is fire and there is wood, but where is the sacrifice?” Abraham said to Isaac, God will provide for Himself a lamb.” God opened Abraham’s eyes and he saw the ram caught in the bush! Sudden Grace!
OVERWHELMING: Isa 59:19 (b) When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. I believe the comma should be placed like this: “When the enemy comes in,” then, “like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him!” There is a flooding and overwhelming grace that comes to confront and overwhelm our enemies! I am eyewitness to this on many occasions! When we humble ourselves before Him, there is a Grace to help, that flows to your every kind of need! HALLELUJAH!
Every blessing!
—Tom