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Theme of the Year: A.D. 2020 Our Year of Divine All-Round Sufficiency. (2 Corinthians 3:5; 9:8)
Theme of the Month: Divine All-Round Sufficiency
Topic: Grace for Divine All-Round Sufficiency

Grace is the distinct and unique characteristic that distinguish Christianity from other religions. Other religions may teach some doctrines very close to Christianity. But grace makes Christianity to be unique. Grace is at the foundation of Christianity. By grace the lost are found. By grace God’s children stand in confidence. This morning, I want to bring to your attention that you need grace to have Divine All-Round Sufficiency this year and for the rest of your life.

This year is a season of turn around for good to those of us who key into this year’s theme – Divine All-round Sufficiency. In the Scriptures that offer us the theme, the Lord is drawing our attention to the fact that on our own we cannot achieve much but with Him there are enough provisions to meet our needs. It is obvious from experience that we have no sufficiency of our own. Whatever we have to offer comes from God's grace. There is a dimension of God’s grace towards us that caters for all we need to be comfortable in serving God. Grace is something that requires total dependence on God's goodness and confidence that He sees us favorably and that it is His good pleasure to give us the kingdom.

Mark 11:23 says “For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith”. The more we say it the more He sends it. Our sufficiency will come by what we say. What we .say is a function of the grace that we carry. Our   God “is able to   make   all grace   abound   toward us that   we may   have all sufficiency in all things and abound to every good works” (2 Corinthians 9:8). It is a season of   grace as   we launch out   into the new decade.   We must drink   from the fountain of grace that brought us salvation to experience the transformation that will make us partakers of God’s sufficiency. May we all receive grace to receive all that God has for us.
Ask God for financial grace to be a good sower this year. 2 Corinthians 9:6 says “He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” This refers to sowing plenteously: those who do so shall reap plenteously-they shall have an abundance of God's blessings. The purpose of financial grace is so we “may abound to every good work” and that we might have “all sufficiency in all things”.

I pray for you this year that God will bless you to the extent that you become sources of blessings unto others in Jesus’ name.