The believer's facilitator in all the will of God

Nimes 1 — 7 — 21

Epa­phras, who is one of you, a ser­vant of Christ, salutes you, always labour­ing fer­vently for you in prayers that ye may stand per­fect and com­plete in all the will of God. Colos­sians 4:12.

See­ing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heav­ens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our pro­fes­sion. For we have not an high priest which can­not be touched with the feel­ing of our infir­mi­ties; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet with­out sin. Let us there­fore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Heb. 4:14 – 16.

It is obvi­ous that the set up of things with the seg­ments of dif­fer­ent activ­i­ties in the palace of the Most High in heaven has been of old, even from ever­last­ing. There is God’s supreme throne as well as other thrones in heaven, includ­ing the throne of grace. The throne of grace is where mercy is pro­nounced and obtained. Grace is a mys­tery which under­stand­ing can only be com­pre­hended by the rev­e­la­tion of the spirit of grace because of its many func­tion­al­i­ties and high risks if it’s been received in vain – fallen from it – despised it — removed from it if any man’s name which was once writ­ten in the book of life is erased from it by Christ. Rev.3:5.

Christ came into the world with abun­dance of grace and truth, mean­ing that grace is a mes­sen­ger along­side truth – to assist truth. With­out grace, the works of truth shall not be accom­plished, and the will and pur­poses of God shall not be done on earth in a man’s life. Grace is the facil­i­ta­tor, even as Christ, who was hun­dred per­cent like you and me in the days of his flesh was assisted by it in all the things he did on earth toward God and man unto death.

Grace is indis­pens­able in our walk with God (lifestyles) and in our work for him (stew­ard­ship): where the full­ness of grace is lack­ing in any of these two can be a cat­a­strophic fail­ure as far as heaven or eter­nal life is con­cerned. Mt.7:21 – 23.

Some believ­ers con­tinue to live by think­ing (mind­set) and excus­ing them­selves that as long as we are in this body of sin, it is impos­si­ble to ful­fill all the will of God (that he would grant unto us, that we being deliv­ered out of the hand of our ene­mies might serve him with­out fear, in holi­ness and right­eous­ness before him, all the days of our life — know­ing this, that our old man is cru­ci­fied with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence­forth we should not serve sin.. Luke 1:74 – 75. Rom.6:6) whereby are break­ing the scrip­ture which com­mands us to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and that we put on the new man ‚which after God is cre­ated in right­eous­ness and in true holi­ness. Eph. 4:24.

Jesus took upon our nature of flesh and blood to ful­fill all right­eous­ness and the will of God in his body with­out sin, so that by his death and end­less life as our faith­ful high priest who has gone into the heaven to appear in the pres­ence of God for us, we can receive imme­di­ate grace to help us in time of spir­i­tual or what­ever need to meet up with our chal­lenges and strug­gles to over­come sin when­ever we call upon him on this par­tic­u­lar subject.1Cor.10:13.

In the pre­vi­ous arti­cle (the faith­ful­ness of God in the con­tin­u­ance process of the sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion of his saints) I explained from the scrip­tures that what­ever God made Christ to become unto us (but of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wis­dom, and right­eous­ness, and sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion, and redemp­tion. 1 Cor.1:30) is designed to be lived out by us, and it shall be imputed unto us as right­eous­ness, sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion or holi­ness, wis­dom, redemp­tion if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was deliv­ered for our offenses, but was raised for our jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. Rom.4:24 – 25.

Is God not to us a very present help in time of trou­ble? Psa.46:1. The damnable prob­lem and fool­ish­ness of self-​deceived brethren among us is that they are hard­ened by the deceit­ful­ness of sin and cho­sen to be play­ing the game of con­fes­sion and for­give­ness of sin than to approach the throne of grace before­hand for help and grace for a way out of their sin. These are the sin­ners of God’s peo­ple (Amos.9:10), the sin­ners in Zion (Isa­iah 33:14) the chil­dren with no under­stand­ing who are wise to do evil, sow­ing con­tin­u­ally to the flesh in hope to reap incor­rup­tion. Jere­miah 4:24.

There are dif­fer­ent facets of grace accord­ing to the scrip­ture, but I will only focus on the facil­i­ta­tor grace in this arti­cle. Facil­i­ta­tor grace is not given unless we ask for it in prayer pro­vided we see the need or neces­sity for it. Should the sit­u­a­tion arise and we seek for help in prayer, there is what I will call as an s.o.s facil­i­ta­tor grace from the throne of grace to meet up with the demands and require­ments of God under any given cir­cum­stance with­out fail or fal­ter, just as Christ was tempted in all points in the days of his flesh with­out sin. Is God not the God of all grace? 1 Pet.5:10. This par­tic­u­lar grace is dif­fer­ent from other graces such as the grace of min­is­te­r­ial gifts (Eph.4:7) or the grace of spir­i­tual gifts (Rom.12:6) or the grace of spir­i­tual labor of love (1 Cor.15:10) or the grace of sal­va­tion. Eph.2:8 – 9.

Apos­tle Paul never knew that there was such a grace avail­able to facil­i­tate peace and tran­quil­ity in his sit­u­a­tion in the thorn of his flesh when he prayed three times before God to remove the thorn from him; but the Lord answered by show­ing him the facil­i­ta­tor grace to help him bear up or to cope with his afflic­tion or suf­fer­ing in the flesh which is accord­ing to the wis­dom and will of God to keep him hum­ble against pride and from the destruc­tion of it. It was by this facil­i­ta­tor grace that he was able to rejoice and take plea­sure in his infir­mi­ties, neces­si­ties and reproaches and weak­nesses, so in exchange, that the power of God may rest upon him. 2 Cor.12:10.

In the days of adver­sity, men of unpre­pared heart in the king­dom are ven­er­a­ble to fall and sin, and alto­gether put the blame on their unfa­vor­able and dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion as if they don’t have any option than to sin. Job.23.10 – 12. But, there is a facil­i­ta­tor grace to make one spir­i­tu­ally staunch (loyal, faith­ful and com­mit­ted in atti­tude), not to ever think of back­slid­ing or ship­wreck faith but to sub­mit in obe­di­ence to God under any sit­u­a­tion: but if we don’t ask for this par­tic­u­lar grace in time of need for spir­i­tual, men­tal and moral sup­port and sus­te­nance, we may fail of the grace and pur­poses of God. Apos­tle Paul will go on later to say that ‘I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every­where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hun­gry, both to abound and to suf­fer need. I can do all things through Christ which strength­ens me’. This is the work and power of the facil­i­ta­tor grace, to make you a true yoke bearer in the king­dom. Phil. 4:12 – 13. Phil.4:3.

What­ever the dis­ci­pli­nary mea­sure sent from God to purge and prune us through dif­fer­ent ways of chas­ten­ing that we might be par­tak­ers of his holi­ness with­out which no man shall see him (Hebrews 12:10), grace is avail­able by ask­ing that we may be able to stay put (abide in the will of God) and to weather us through sit­u­a­tions and cir­cum­stances with­out fal­ter­ing to see us through thick and thin of life because of the love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit until we cross over our Jordan.

ccord­ing to many is an unmer­ited favor shown and received by the mercy of God to make us his own – which was right. This grace of sal­va­tion accord­ing to many does not depend on you, nei­ther on what you do right or wrong because you are not saved by your good works, any­way you’ll surely be admit­ted to heaven: this is a damnable error of defiled men of per­verse minds against the call to obe­di­ently work out your sal­va­tion with fear and trem­bling. Note: those who will not live by the truth and for the truth at the expense of grace makes God a liar and there is no truth in them, nei­ther are they in the true grace of God.

Grace facil­i­tates the appli­ca­tion of truth and not to com­pro­mise or excuse truth for what­ever rea­son because (a) noth­ing can be done against the truth, but for the truth: (b) grace, truth and right­eous­ness are insep­a­ra­ble – our God is a God of truth with­out iniq­uity. There is no grace to rebel against the light in our walk with God, but grace is avail­able unto us to accom­mo­date, to adapt, and to fit in with the will of God – to com­ply with the word by its eter­nal stan­dard. Facil­i­ta­tor grace is the pure, timely and per­fect gift from heaven sent to help you to over­come your beset­ting and secret sins if you will ask for help — O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy taber­na­cles. Psa.43.3.

We are called upon to serve God accept­ably with rev­er­ence and godly fear because our God is a con­sum­ing fire (Hebrews 12:28 – 29): should you con­tinue to live like the peo­ple of the world who have their under­stand­ing dark­ened because of the blind­ness of their minds, through the igno­rance that is in them and be jus­ti­fied before God? Eph.4:18. Has God not promised to judge his peo­ple who have done despite unto the spirit of grace, and have trod­den under­foot the Son of God, and have counted the blood of the covenant that sanc­ti­fied them an unholy thing? Surely, the Lord shall judge his peo­ple. It is a fear­ful thing to fall into the hands of the liv­ing God. Heb.10:29 – 31.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17. Grace and truth came by Christ, mean­ing, for every pure word of God which is prof­itable for doc­trine, for reproof, for cor­rec­tion, for instruc­tion in right­eous­ness: that the man of God may be per­fect, thor­oughly fur­nished unto all good works, there is a facil­i­ta­tor grace of God appro­pri­ate to keep us in the path­way of obe­di­ence if we are will­ing to draw strength and help from the throne of mercy and grace for our sub­jec­tion to the gospel of Christ in the appli­ca­tion of the word of God for the accom­plish­ments of God’s desired pur­pose the word is sent forth. God’s com­mand­ments are not griev­ous (1 John 5:3): what­so­ever his word instructs us to do or not to do: to become in the world, or not to become, there is a pro­por­tional grace to abide in the love and will of God – and hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his com­mand­ments. He that says, I know him, and keeps not his com­mand­ments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keeps his word, in him ver­ily is the love of God per­fected: hereby know we that we are in him. 1 John 2:3 – 5.

The facil­i­ta­tor grace is to make the truth applic­a­ble in our lives – to give us imme­di­ate vic­tory over sin. Those who will not avail them­selves of the means of grace to have power and domin­ion over sin (know­ing this, that our old man is cru­ci­fied with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence­forth we should not serve sin. Rom.6: 6 &14) have tes­ti­fied by their works that they are of the devil as Christ says, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a mur­derer from the begin­ning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44.

Note: if we are not liv­ing to ful­fill the scrip­tures to the glory and praises of God’s name (for your obe­di­ence is come abroad unto all men. I am glad there­fore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and sim­ple con­cern­ing evil. Rom.16:19): the word shall be ful­filled against as us as a stone of stum­bling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stum­ble at the word, being dis­obe­di­ent: where­unto also they were appointed because the scrip­tures can­not be bro­ken. 1 Pet.2:8.

Believ­ers are called as the objects of God’s mercy because of the grace that saved us (Rom 9:23), good to say that one grace leads the way to another grace as it is writ­ten that of the full­ness of Christ have we all received grace upon grace. John.1:16. What­so­ever sin we are not over­com­ing, and what­so­ever we are not doing accord­ing to the will of God is because we are not will­ing to obey – not will­ing to receive facil­i­ta­tor grace to ful­fill the word of God.

At Geth­se­mane, because of the weak­ness of the flesh, Christ was not will­ing to face the painful death on the tree until he prayed for help that the will of God should be done (for though he was cru­ci­fied through weak­ness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 2 Cor.13:4) as the scrip­ture reveals the power of the facil­i­ta­tor grace which was sent to help the Lord in time of need to die on the cross, for an angel appeared from heaven and strength­ened him, so that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9.

When you know the will of God like apos­tle Pau did that death is wait­ing for you in your next city or coun­try of your assign­ment for God, but you are will­ing to face the death for the Lord’s sake, this is the work of the facil­i­ta­tor grace. Acts 21:11 – 14.

If there is the time of a great need in the his­tory of the church, it is this end time or the last days we are in. To keep your first love with increas­ing fire burn­ing on the altar of your life requires the sup­ply of the facil­i­ta­tor grace. To be stead­fast, faith­ful to the word of God, and unmov­able, always abound­ing in the works of the Lord in the time when iniq­uity is increas­ing in the world and in the church, when the love of many wax cold: when brother is betray­ing one another in the Lord, and believ­ers shall be hated by all men for the Lord’s sake, you must invoke your right from the throne of grace to receive facil­i­ta­tor grace to stand up for Jesus, just as some of the faith­ful brethren of old had trial of cruel mock­ing and scourg­ing, yea, more­over of bonds and impris­on­ment: they were stoned, they were sawn asun­der, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wan­dered about in sheep­skins and goatskins; being des­ti­tute, afflicted, tor­mented; of whom the world was not wor­thy: they wan­dered in deserts, and in moun­tains, and in dens and caves of the earth. Heb.11:36 – 38.

What­ever cost you have to count, and what­ever tri­als and dif­fi­cul­ties you have to endure, and what­ever sac­ri­fice you have to make or things to for­sake for the Lord’s sake, the facil­i­ta­tor grace will help you to get them done if you will ask for the sup­ply in prayer. When I newly got born again, I found it extremely dif­fi­cult to sep­a­rate from cer­tain friends in the world, being guilty of unequally yoked. Their influ­ence in those days was so pow­er­ful over me until I pray for power to over­come unequally yoked and sin­ners’ friend, hav­ing received bold­ness to insist that if they will not fol­low me to the church, I will also dis­con­tinue my asso­ci­a­tion with them – we peace­fully parted ways.

Be not con­formed to the world – love not the world, nei­ther the things which are in the world — friend­ship with the world is enmity against God – keep your­self unspot­ted from the world – come out of the world, and be ye sep­a­rate – strive to enter in through the straight gate – if a man strive for mas­tery, yet is he not crowned, except he strive law­fully – with­out holi­ness no man shall see God – blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God….all of these things require the help of the facil­i­ta­tor grace. What­ever is lack­ing in your faith (prayer­less­ness, declin­ing soul winner’s work of evan­ge­lism, lack of appetite or desire for per­sonal bible read­ing and study etc) you can obtain help from the facil­i­ta­tor grace if you so wishes to ful­fill the will and word of God in your life. What­ever seems dif­fi­cult to do in order to walk and to please God, grace is avail­able to facil­i­tate your walk and to make it accept­able before him.