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 does not have to define your life at this moment because God is the one certainty in your life.”
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 concerns the future.
“Change is a part of life and history; but the difficulty in the midst of change is the uncertainty, because there is no certainty as to what will happen as a result of these changes,” said Adefarasin.
While teaching 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,” he said.
The senior pastor House on the Rock said grace is how God expresses his love; grace is how he manifests his love. “God’s love appears to man through grace,” said Adefarasin, stating that God’s 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. “Grace only answers to faith. If you stay under the law, you cannot receive the benefits of the rich exceeding largess of God toward you,” Adefarasin further said.
The Word Conference 2020 focused on building the believer’s faith in God through Christ as indicated by Creflo Dollar, the American televangelist in one of the messages delivered at the conference.
“Faith is made void when you are under the law. When you choose self-effort or are trying to perform to please God, you void your faith and you make the promises of God of no effect.
“Self-effort will literally make your faith useless and vain when you try to obtain the finished works of Jesus by performance”.
Held virtually, the Word Conference 2020 creates a significant opportunity to learn about God’s plans for the believer and how He has provided His exceeding grace to carry mankind through these uncertain times.
