By Adeola Ogunlade
The senior pastor, House on the Rock, Paul Adefarasin, has urged believers to build their faith in God amidst the socio-economic challenges of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), on the back of the lockdown initiated to curb the spread of the pandemic. “Uncertainty do not have to define your life at this moment because God is the one certainty in your conner.”
Adefarasin stated this at the recently concluded Word Conference 2020, themed, ‘Exceeding Grace in Uncertain Time.’ According to him, the shutdown in itself was a problem because everything across the world was shutdown, which created a general feeling of anxiety resulting in general uncertainty as it concern the future.
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“Change is a part of life and history; but the difficulty in the midst of change is the uncertainty, because there are not certainty as to what will happen as a result of these changes,” said Adefarasin.
Whiling teach on the place of faith and grace in christendom on the final day of the conference, Adefarasin said great faith receives great grace.
According to him, faith is that violence force (spiritually) to take anything that grace has made available to the believer. “Exceeding faith receives exceeding grace, that is, you cannot work in exceeding grace in certain time unless you feed your faith in certain ways correctly,” Adefarasin said.
The senior pastor House on the Rock said grace is how God expresses his love; grace is how he manifest his love. “God’s love appear to man through grace,” said Adefarasin stating that his love for us is not based on what we are, but on who he is.
According to him, grace has many ways to free believers, hence in receiving grace, believers must appreciate that the law impedes their faith for grace.
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