Ephesians 4:7
“Everyone” here refers to all believers. Grace is given to every believer according to the measure of the gift of Christ. No one is graceless.1 Peter 4:10-11
Out of the graciousness of Christ, he has given you grace. Galatians 2:7-9
The gift of Christ is distributed or apportioned differently. It is to accomplish the purpose of God which is the same. The grace of God upon Peter was to the Jews while the grace of God upon Paul was to reach out to the Gentiles.
There are two groups of people, different cultures and understanding. It takes grace to be able to minister and be effective in the midst of a different audience.
And that you are anointed and you are graced does not mean you can function the way somebody else will function, this is speaking to functionality not originality.
In Vs 8, Paul said the working of God in the life of Peter worked effectually, the same worked in him. The one that distributed the grace is at work in both mightily.
Whatever grace that is at work in you, there is a distributor behind it and he has what it takes to ensure that the grace given to you is accomplished.
What we should understand is that Grace is apportioned to men. Grace is given to men. What you should not take for granted is to think that the Grace of God upon your life is meant for you to do whatever you wish to do. The matter here is the matter of functionality, matter of audience, who they are sent to not what they are sent to do. And how they can be effective and effectual in what they are sent to do so Grace was given.
The Grace of God upon Peter was that he will excel with the Jew and the Grace of God upon Paul was that he will excel with the Gentiles. Anywhere Paul was persecuted was when he stepped out of the jurisdiction of the Grace of God upon his life. The Gentiles never flogged Paul, he was flogged in Jerusalem.
In the landscape of the mind of God, he knew what each of them is Graced to do so he graced them for the assignment.
When God engrace a man, whatever he does with that grace, he will answer when he meets Jesus. The Grace will attract the kind of people he sends you to, it will bring you to a community, what you then do with that grace is what matters when we meet with Jesus.
What Paul and Peter will preach for the Jew and gentiles will be the same but how they will communicate will not be the same because the culture of the Jew is different from the Gentiles, so it now takes Grace to be able to be effectual because what was given is Manifold grace.
Steward in that Scripture means you will give account of what you did with the Grace of God upon your life. So You can’t determine what you want to do with grace, grace will empower you to do what it wants you to do.
Books are written to the degree of the light you have received. Songs are composed on the basis of the light received same as drama.
The grace of God upon your life in this context is different from the grace you need to grow in. This grace is for functionality. When a man is growing in the grace for functionality and not for stability, he is a disaster waiting to happen. Results are not the basis for authenticity.
We all have a portion of the grace from Christ given to us and in that portion is your fulfillment, rising and lifting. You can’t function outside of this grace. Understand the grace of God at work in you. Stay with it, focus on it, grow in it, walk in it and you will prosper.
Don’t confuse the grace you see in a ministry for the message they preach, it’s just the grace of God. But that grace will be accounted for. When we meet with Jesus, we will need to account for how we used the grace that was given to us.
The fact that one preacher holds his service under a tree and some other in a big hall does not mean that one is better than the other, it’s just different levels of grace.
That’s where the multi dimension of Grace comes from.
I am what I am by the grace of God. It comes to bear that we have received the details of our lives- the details of our journey.
It is part of how God has helped us to evolve and developed. It is for a purpose and agenda.
We must look at our lives and understand how God is taking us. It is also a pointer to what we are. We can relate with the high and mighty.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me (KJV).
We must understand the grace and the dealings of God. What stands out is the dealing of God in all situations we have found ourselves. We have grace. We must understand that grace and grow in the knowledge of that grace.
Paul did not waste grace. He had result. He excelled. We must understand the dynamics of Paul’s grace. He was not with the apostles, neither did he see the Lord Jesus while He was on earth.
He had grace. When the revelation came, the apostles that were with Him could not write as much as Paul. His depth and revelation are much that people that do not understand it began to wrestle and find their feet in. It is called grace.
He was writing the letters and no one knew it will be canonized.
Paul said what is in Peter is in him. The Lord works mightily in him. This is why we must grow in that grace and we will not let the grace of God to be in vain. This is because the grace of God will deliver the right result. If the grace of God is not learned and grown in and as a leader who preaches God, such a person will turn it into witchcraft and for personal benefit.
Grace gives uniqueness in ministry and needs to be honored. When we see it in a believer we must celebrate such grace.
Fulfill God’s calling on your life with the available grace he has apportioned to you. Don’t compete rather compliment and celebrate grace when you see one. When we stand before Jesus we would give account for what we have been given. If you will not understand anything at all but understand that the grace of God was at work in the life of Paul as well as Peter.
When you understand the dynamics around their ministry then you will see that God’s grace has an agenda.
The ultimate agenda of the grace of God on our life is that Jesus is revealed and Jesus is Glorified.
1 Peter 4:10-11
Jesus can’t be glorified if is is not revealed. Wherever he is being revealed you give glory to him. In whatever dimension of grace you operate, it must reveal Christ sns glorify Christ. We are full of grace.
God’s grace covers several areas. Many become what they are by God’s grace.