In the last Episode we saw that the Grace of God is the unmerited favour and mercy of
God towards us; that it is us enjoying the abundance of God’s riches at Christ’s expense
and without paying for it. We saw that Grace is totally about what God did and has
nothing to do with what we did.
In this Episode, we shall progress on our theme-Grace and Faith with the topic-Faith is
a Response to Grace.
The Grace of God is the totality of all that God has done for us. It consists of Him
creating a beautiful world for us to dwell in and enjoy; to loving us unconditionally; to
sending Jesus Christ to save us from our sins; to providing incredible gifts and
privileges for us; and to empowering us to walk in His anointing. Grace is God’s part of
our Covenant relationship with Him.
Our part of that Covenant relationship is to respond to His Grace by Faith.
Now what exactly does faith mean?
Hebrew 11: 1-3 describes faith as the evidence or the assurance that those things you hope for;
which have been spoken by the Word of God, though you have not seen them will come to pass
because the things that are seen are controlled by the things that are not seen-The physical
realm is controlled by the spiritual realm.
According to this scripture, the world was framed by the word of God. Everything in the
world was created and came into being because God spoke. And whenever God made
a proclamation, something was created.
Just as He created the universe by His Word, God provided salvation to us by His
Word. And He has provided every blessing and privilege we need to live successfully by
His Word. He has provided for all our requirements.
The only part we have to play in our Covenant relationship with God; The only part we
have to play in order to receive and enjoy the gift of salvation and every other blessing
and privilege God has provided for us by His Grace is to respond positively to His
provisions. The simplest and most practical definition of faith therefore is that it is a
positive response to what God has provided. Faith is a response to Grace.
Faith is a response to what God says in His Word that He has done. Faith posseses
what Grace has made available. We are saved by Grace but we got our salvation
through faith when we believed and received the gift of redemption. Grace is God
speaking to us. Grace is God saying, I have paid the price to save you. Faith is us
believing what God said and saying-Lord I accept the price you paid to save me. We are
healed by Grace, but we receive our healing by accepting that Christ has provided for
our healing. Grace is God saying to us-You are healed by the stripes of Jesus Christ.
Faith is us believing and declaring-I am healed in Jesus Name. Grace is God saying- I
have met all your needs in glory in Christ Jesus. Faith is us believing and declaring I will

not lack because God has met all my needs in glory in Christ Jesus. According to
Philemon 1:6, effectual faith is acknowledging every good thing that Jesus Christ
accomplished at the Cross. We acknowledge every good thing in Christ Jesus by
responding in faith to what God says that Jesus provided for us at the Cross. Faith is
our response to the Grace of God. Faith believes God without seeing or touching the
provision because He said so. On the other hand working on your mind to believe
something that God has not provided in His Word is positive thinking, which may be
good, but it is not faith in God. Faith in God is based on the Word of God.
God placed everything we need to live a life of victory in us. He gave us every spiritual
blessing in Heavenly places. He made us partakers of His divine life meaning that a
healthy life is our heritage. He made us heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. He met
all our needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus. He took all our sins, sicknesses
and diseases. He gave us the peace that the world cannot understand.
God provided all of this by His Grace. God’s part is accomplished and completed.. Our
part is to place our faith in His accomplishments, though we have not seen them, so we
can access them. Romans 5:2 states that we obtain access to Grace by Faith.
One aspect of this study I want to stress is the significance of Jesus Christ’s coming to
the earth and its implication to the way we should exercise our faith. In Mathew 5:17,
Jesus said He came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it. By this statement Jesus
explained that He did not come to invalidate the requirements of the Laws of the old
Covenant. He said that rather He came to fulfill the requirements of the Law of Moses.
He came to fully accomplish all the requirements of the law on behalf of His people.
Since Jesus fulfilled all the requirements of the Law, the laws of Moses are not binding
on us. Romans 7:6 states that those who were bound by the law have been released
from the law.
Colossians 2:14 states that Jesus took all our sins away and nailed them to the Cross.
All our sins, sicknesses and sorrows were nailed to the Cross with Him and He declared
It is finished. The Scripture says we were (past tense) healed by the stripes of Jesus
Christ. In Ephesians 1:3, Apostle Paul declares that God has blessed ) past tense) us
with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.
The point I wish to make here is that we do not operate under the old covenant where
the blessings of God were conditional on fulfilling all the requirements of the Law. We
now operate under the New Covenant where the blessings of God are dependent on
the sacrifices of Jesus on the Cross. The New Testament declares that the blessings of
the New Covenant have already been provided for us. Done, completed, accomplished.
Under the Old Testament God always declared-I will bless you. Under the New
Testament, God’s declarations are-I have blessed you-I have healed you. So faith for us
New Covenant believers is different from Faith under the Old Testament. Faith under
the Old Covenant was based on what God would do in the future. Faith under the New
Covenant is based on what Jesus has obtained for us at Calvary. We are qualified for
all the blessings of the New Covenant because Jesus has met the conditions for
qualifying for them on our behalf. There are no more conditions to be met.

This is why it is important to understand that faith for us is a response to what God has
done for us by His Grace. Understanding this is so important for our prayers to be
effective. If you pray for God to bless you according to His promises, you are praying an
Old Covenant prayer because God says you are already blessed. The New Covenant
prayer should sound like-Thank you father for providing for all my needs. Thank you
father for healing me. I receive my healing and command the devil to take his hands out
of my body and circumstances in Jesus Name. And this is why I keep stressing that our
prayers should be based on declaring and confessing what God has said in His Word.
Prayers should not be about begging and pleading with God to do what He says He has
done. Prayers should be about believing in what God says He has done and receiving
them by faith.
Apostle Paul, describing Abraham’s faith Romans 42:20/21 said that Abraham did not
waver with unbelief, but was fully persuaded that what God promised, He was able to
perform. Faith in the word of God is to be fully persuaded and to remain convinced like
Abraham, even as time passes, that God will do what He promised. In our own case
that He has done what He said.
Abraham did not waver at the promise of God. He chose to believe the word rather than
the circumstance. He was fully persuaded. If we choose to believe the circumstance
rather than remain convinced that Christ has done it, then we dispossess ourselves
from receiving what has been provided by Grace
The only part we have to play in the process of salvation and our walk with God is to
appropriate what God has already provided for us. Faith is a response to God’s
provisions by His Grace.