“Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.” Zechariah 4:7 (KJV)
Some of you have been holding on, looking at a frustrating mountain in your life. God started something in you. He gave you a dream, a ministry, or a vision, but it seems stalled. The prophet comes to Zerubbabel in his discouragement and says just two words: Begin again. Begin again. Believe again. Try again. Hope again. Pray again. Praise again. Reach again. God says to you today: it’s time to begin again.
Zerubbabel had only a foundation. The work was incomplete. There were problems on the outside—enemies, legal battles, and opposition. Even worse, there were mighty struggles on the inside—frustration, doubt, and fatigue. Sixteen years had passed with nothing happening, yet the prophet told him to focus on the headstone, the final stone that completes the building. That headstone represents Jesus Christ, the cornerstone, the one the builders rejected, but the one that makes the work whole.
The prophet didn’t say whisper; he said shout grace, grace! When Zerubbabel shouted grace over the headstone, enabling grace began to flow. Suddenly, people came running with materials, skills, and support from every direction. The work that had been stalled for sixteen years began to move. That’s the power of grace. God’s enabling presence allows you to do what you cannot do on your own. It’s not by might, by cleverness, or by manpower. It’s by God’s enabling grace.
This is your reminder today: the unfinished places in your life, the dreams that seem dormant, the mountains that appear immovable—all of it can shift when you focus on the headstone, on Jesus, and shout grace, grace. God promises that what He started, He will finish. Do not despise the day of small beginnings. Keep speaking, keep trusting, keep declaring His grace. Watch the impossible become possible, and see miracles unfold as you align your faith with God’s enabling power.
Prayer: Lord, I thank You for the work You have begun in my life. Help me to begin again, even when I feel discouraged or overwhelmed. Teach me to focus on Jesus, the cornerstone, and to shout grace, grace over every unfinished dream, every mountain, every obstacle. Let Your enabling grace come upon me, giving me the power to overcome, to persevere, and to see Your promises fulfilled. I trust You to finish what You have started in me, and I declare that Your grace will accomplish it. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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