The good news has been told to us just as it was told to the people in the desert. But the message which they heard did not do them any good. Even though they heard it, they did not believe it.

Hebrews 4:2 (WEB)

 

It is apparent that not everyone experiences the same outcome after hearing the same gospel.

According to the Apostle Paul, a person can hear the message of God's love, goodness, and forbearance without being touched by it. He used the example of what happened to the children of Israel when they left Egypt for the Promised Land, of how they saw God's glory but still rebelled against Him. They did so because they did not have the capacity to receive from God.

If there is no faith to believe the good news, there will also be no capacity to receive all that Christ has accomplished for you through His finished work. To increase your capacity to receive, let go of your need for control and surrender to a victorious life with Christ.

In Christ, you have already received every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3). Everything is yours by grace, but you must learn to receive the fullness of all that is yours in Christ into your experience by faith. Receiving from God is an active process. It entails purposefully taking or laying hold of all of God's promises and provisions fulfilled in Christ. How? Continue to receive everything from God in the same way that you received salvation by grace through faith.

Sometimes we get it wrong. We believe salvation is a free gift, but everything else must be earned. This is why we lack the boldness to ask anything from God because we think it will somehow involve lots of hard work, efforts and sacrifices on our part. And no matter how much we try and no matter how much we want it, we will never be good enough to deserve or receive God's grace.

Grace is always and only for the undeserving.

God will never withhold from you, but God is waiting for you to take what is freely yours in Christ. The truth is, grace releases faith, and the more grace you receive, the more faith you have in God to bring healing, breakthroughs, and deliverance.