THE GOD OF ALL GRACE PT3: The Reasons Christians suffer and the root cause of suffering...

Offer is business lexis, a terminology for global engagements. To offer is to embrace global requirement for leadership. God loves offers and respects those who make offers according to His grace template.

Furthermore on offer instead of suffer; from my supernatural definition, I said, to offer is to cease from suffer. To offer is to end the disgrace of disobedience. To offer is to switch from you to Him. To offer is exchange temporal gratifications to God’s eternal satisfaction. To offer is to give up fears and take up His faith. To offer is to engage, experience, and express the grace plan of God. To offer is to cease from how man see’s to how God sees. Also note that the word offer is a business lexis, a terminology for global engagement. To offer is to embrace global requirement for leadership. God loves offers and respects those who make offers according to the grace template.

Why suffering comes: suffering comes when purpose is undefined, suffering comes when decisions are not made to offer, suffering comes when the source of grace is not known or undermined, suffering comes when men limit the power of the God of all grace, suffering comes when vision is misplaced for temporal gratification, suffering comes when men focus on the minor things of life against the major things of life, suffering comes when men chose to be selfish instead of living selfless, suffering comes when religion replaces realities of life, suffering comes when fear is given a place in the soul of man causing him to make weak decisions, suffering comes when sacrifice is often preferred to obedience. Suffering cannot come where there is offering, suffering is overhauled to offering when you have the mind of Christ, suffering is converted to offering with the inbuilt of the mind of Christ, because that is the mind of possibilities. 

Personalities who offered;

Again, permit me here to repeat that life is all about offerings and not suffering per say, it becomes suffering outside the grace plan of God. The Scriptures is full of offerings and offers, persons to God, people to God, God to persons and God to people, it is historic and most importantly prophetic. 

Suffering started with the first man in the Bible when he failed with the grace template in Genesis three verses six. Cain was the first man to make offers to God, but God rejected and declined the offer and his offering because the content housing the offering was not right with God which made Abel the first man to make  acceptable and the right offering to God.

Prophetically in that order, Noah switched off the suffering consequences on man when he offered to God and became the second man to make offering in obedience by Heaven's instructions. Infact, Noah started off prophetic offering in the Bible because his offering came with the content of supernatural mandate. The man who found grace with God in Genesis six verse eight and in Genesis eight verse twenty offered burnt offerings on the altar to the Lord after that the Lord had commanded him by instructions on what to do (vision/purpose); And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. In verse twenty, God revoked the curse He made against Adam because another man made himself available to serve in the grace plan of God when he built God’s altar and offered his all to serve God and humanity and not himself. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake.

Note here; I really did not see God emphatically curse Adam, I mean God did not curse Adam, God did not curse man, if you read your Bible prophetically and not theologically in Genesis three verse fourteen, you will see how God cursed the serpent and punished the woman, in Genesis three and verse seventeen, God cursed the ground and chastised Adam because God cannot curse His own no matter what. Infact, the same ground God cursed to chastise Adam for abandoning His grace plan was the same ground He revoked the curse He pronounced on the ground because someone offered himself and his entire structure to God. Noah offered his will, vision; business to embrace the grace plan of God knowing the capacity of Him that made him and was the secret of Noah’s rising and success on the earth as recorded in Scriptures.

Abraham became the third in the prophetic order of God's grace plan to offer himself to God. He did also offer his service and services to God, his best, his will, his skills and his household; infact his blessings, laughter, testimony “Isaac”. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son - Genesis twenty two verse thirteen.

Jacob we know, despite all his challenges, he came to that point where he chose the grace plan and offered all to serve God and to sincerely serve all even his brethren. Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount, Genesis thirty one verse fifty four. If Jacob inspite of all we read about him can get to the point of knowing the power to make offers and offer to serve and not to be served, no man is exceptional or excused especially as those called of God to serve in the grace plan of God. even when he became Israel, he offered to God on behalf of his father Isaac and for the nation Israel, from the letter of the Spirit, the Bible reveals and linked Israel offered all he had to God from his journey when he came to Beersheba unto the God of his father Isaac; Genesis forty six verse one, And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

The list can go on and on from Moses in Leviticus six verse eight and Leviticus eight verses thirty six to David in second Samuel twenty four verse twenty five; “And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.” Solomon in first kings eight verses sixty three offered in all measure of submission, to offer here to me is to submit to God and not make sacrifices, reconciling your space to Him alone; And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 

 Apostle painted the summary expression of my message here in Acts twenty one verse twenty six; Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

All this men offered their best to have God’ best all in the grace plan of the God of all grace. Jesus made the ultimate offering because also He learnt obedience through the things he suffered. When we suffer, we learn obedience, when we offer, we come into His grace plan making suffering our offering, at the point of offering, it is no longer I who live, but Christ. In Him we live, move and have our being, in Him is the grace plan engaged, experienced and expressed and without Him, we repeat the sufferings so that we can learn the obedience, the how to offer. Truth is we do not need to suffer to learn obedience, we offer to live in His obedience, that is His grace plan and when you live in obedience, you eat the good of the land, which is how to enjoy God who is the God of all grace. 

Our Lord and Saviour offered it all and once and for all perfecting the grace agenda of God for man; “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”; Hebrews nine verse fourteen and that is the reason I am here to talk about the God of all grace and His grace agenda for this dispensation. 

Offer Wisely;

To offer wisely is to offer by Faith to God, it cannot be done with your human emotions or feelings; it is by total trust in God with the knowledge that He is the Author and Finisher. The reveals to us how by faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Hebrew eleven verses seventeen. Faith in God exempts us from the fears of failure, even when it appears like or looks like failure, our established trust and faith in Him alone reassures us that He has not failed before and we cannot fail.

Beware how you make your offers like said earlier; if God is not in it, do not go ahead, selfish offers are not healthy in the grace agenda of God. Service providers in Nigeria for example must understand and come to the place true service and not selfish service to God and to the people they provide service for. Most service providers who feels rendering service is doing is doing the people a favour is not wise but foolish. Rendering service and genuine service should be seen first as a privilege by the provider and not the other way round; this is a misconception of service in this part of the world. It is difficult to say you can serve the people well when your service to God is not defined and not cordial, such service will be like Leviticus ten verse one; And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. If God is minus from the content of that offer or your offering and offerings, it can lead to strange fire, that will be unacceptable offering or offer, suffering can set in, so be careful, ensure grace is in it. So, it should be first the offer or offering you and not your money or substances, that act can mean giving sacrifices in the place of obedience. In this present dispensation, it is fully the offering of self to grace the grace plan of God else, it will be the kind of experience this fellow had in Acts eight verse eighteen And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, it will be the right motive for the right purpose to offer money or any other substance when you have offered your heart to God.

My mission here is not on the topic “offering” as it connects offering of animals, substances etc as practiced from the first economy grace plan, but the submission of human failing wills that is built on self-centeredness and motives. My mission here with the revelation of the God of all grace is to portray the very activation provision and the Supernatural abilities of the same God and His grace plan teaching humanity “offering in the place of suffering”. The revelation of His divine timing system and schedule to enable you fit-in into His process or processes to see beyond the letters of Scriptures through to the Spiritual and Prophetic content of His now revelations. 

The revelation here is supernatural perspective to First Peter five verse ten; But the God Of All Grace, who hath called us unto His Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while (offer), make you perfect (seamless, sanctified), stablish, strengthen, settle you. God called and He still calling many to SERVICE and not to be served, because when you sincerely serve, you will be surely served, he that watered shall be watered back also, this is the principle Jesus is helping me here to present to someone. People suffer or come to suffering when priorities or principles are misplaced for selfish motives; His grace plan is about Him and not about you, but to give you His best and future. 

People ask why we suffer as Christians. And I said it is the misconception of Grace as license to living a careless or carefree life with God and people. Grace cannot be putting your finger(s) in a burning furnace to tempt God and still expects the same God to stop the fire, no that can’t the grace here. But let the enemy try to put not just hand in the fire but the whole of you or your entirety in the fire, then you will see the intervention of the God of all Grace and this is just an instance to many instances. Grace plan or template is engaged, experienced and expressed from the point of offering your will and not suffering your will and if you have missed it from the activation point to suffering, then learn obedience, retract to offering your heart and all to God and move to the next phase of the plan. Do not suffer fool gladly; else you will join in their foolishness and folly, second Corinthians eleven verses nineteen; For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you,

Why do we offer “suffer”?

We offer ourselves and our will to gain Christ and His graceful will for us. We offer to reconcile with our lives and spaces to God. Offering comes to get man on the right path of life even seeking God early enough. Offering comes to set forth the agenda of God not the agenda of man, because the grace plan of God is the ultimate agenda of God for man. Grace was made the provision and constitution of God for man; Jesus said let your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

The height of our Lord ministry was not fully expressed until He offered, and He made the highest and total offering, the Zenith of all offer, completed for you and me. Jesus was offered for us to find our path to offer our best without strict condition and the following highlights the who, what, when, where, how and why we offer;

1.     For Kingdom And Christ Purposes: But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. First Peter four verves fifteen to sixteen.

2.     We Offer Our Will To Gain God’s Ultimate Will; Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done; Luke twenty two forty two

3.     To Know Christ More And Better: I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death Philippians three verse ten. 

4.     To Establish Our Faith, Believe & Trust As God children or elect of God… Second Timothy one verse twelve; For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me Matthew ten verse thirty eight.

5.     To Comfort Others: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. Second Corinthians one verse three verses four.

6.     For God’s Glory & Hope: Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Romans five verses three to four; I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans eight verse eighteen.

7.     To Make You A Leading And A Living Example Of The Light Of God: But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.  First Peter two verses twenty two; I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles. Acts twenty six verses twenty two to twenty three.

8.     Blessings: But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.” first Peter three verses fourteen. Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty Job five verses seventeen. 


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Pastor Buchi Thomas- Your Supernatural Host. 
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