TURNING BACK THE ENEMY AT THE GATE - PART 2

TURNING THE ENEMY BACK AT THE GATE

PART 2 

A second scripture I would like to share with you as you turn back your enemy at the gate of entrance to the new is Zechariah 4:7. 

“What are you, O great mountain?  Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’” 

What is significant about grace in this hour is that the same grace you need to move your mountain is the degree of grace you need to maintain the new place/platform/position that Father God is releasing to you.  As much as we do not like opposition, its purpose is to strengthen us in the Lord so we are equipped for new responsibilities.  Our flesh wants to simply maintain but the Spirit of God within us leads us to higher realms of function in the Kingdom of God.  Another purpose of opposition is for us to realize that 1) our lives are not our own and 2) we do need supernatural help to fulfill God’s will for our lives.  After all, the co-laboring we do is with God Himself, not mere man.

Most of us know that it is God’s grace through Christ that abounds to us for the remission of sins.  It is important to realize the grace that saves us is the same grace that empowers us to become what Christ has declared for our lives and to do what He purposes for us to do.  We must not labor in vain with our own efforts.  

That is what grace is all about, not cheap grace that gives us a license to sin without repentance, but an empowerment from Christ Himself for us to become who He says we are to be and to do what He would have us do. 

So at this time of entry into the new, shout “Grace, grace” to your mountain and watch it move. 

Luke 3:5-6 – Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough roads smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.