May 8, 2025
A distinguished and fervent teacher of grace, Pastor Tunde Jaiyebo, Senior Pastor of Charis Family International Church, has urged Christians and all who desire a meaningful life to terminate wrong patterns and embrace the “unforced rhythms of grace,” a dimension of divine ease, peace, and result-oriented living that flows from a deep walk with and surrendering one’s life to Jesus Christ.
He stated this during the opening session of the 2025 Charis Nigeria Convention at the headquarters of Charis Family International Church, located along Cultural Centre Road, Mokola, Ibadan.
The four-day convention, scheduled from May 8 to 11, brings together a diverse gathering of attendees united by the theme: “Unforced Rhythms of Grace,” offering an enriching atmosphere of spiritual renewal, divine empowerment, and transformative teachings that inspire and elevate their faith journeys.
Preaching from Matthew 11:28–30, Pastor Jaiyebo declared, “Sometimes we get to a stage in our lives when we are tired. So, God understands when you are tired. Don’t feel bad, you are tired. You only need to know what to do. You’ve used all your resources, and nothing works. What you need to do is come to the Lord. Don’t stay in the crisis.”
He described grace as God’s willingness to help, giving supernatural access to divine resources, saying, “Grace gives you access into the availability of God. There is no answer Jesus can’t answer. So, if you access grace, you begin to operate in the realm of God.”
Quoting Isaiah 40:30, he reminded the audience that even youths can faint and fall, but those who wait on the Lord renew strength. “Men have problems. God has solutions,” he declared.
He said those who desire to walk in divine grace must deliberately terminate wrong patterns, listing the following negative patterns believers must break:
A pattern of abortion: Failed projects.
“You started well, but now you have stopped it, and it is not the first time. If people helped you first, second and third time, they won’t want to help you again because it makes you look unserious. Failed projects are part of it. There are abandoned businesses. If you don’t deal with the wrong pattern, you cannot connect with the right pattern. Terminate wrong patterns. It is an abortion.”
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Cycle of good and evil together.
“You are happy today, you are sad tomorrow. Today, people help, tomorrow they don’t help you. You don’t have a consistent pattern of good. Happiness and unhappiness. It is a pattern you must break.”
No tangible results.
“There is no evidence of Matthew 5:16 in your life. What is in your life that we can say is of God? Psalm 126:1–2. God turned again, which means He has done it before. Don’t be discouraged that you have lost time, He is a God of again and again.”
You don’t have a history of success.
“It is a pattern of failure.”
Series of bad luck.
“People promise you something, they change their minds. It is your time, they change the rules. You need to check yourself. The rhythms you allow determine how your life will be.”
He stressed that until such negative cycles are broken, access to grace cannot manifest fully.
On the other hand, he explained that grace produces a recognisable rhythm of consistent good, marked by divine interventions and supernatural favour.
“When we look at your life, there is a pattern of grace. For some people, when you look at their life, you conclude by saying that this can only be by the grace of God.”
He cited Psalm 126:1–2 to describe the transformation grace brings: “When grace works for you, it is like you are dreaming. Grace brings attention to God.”
He warned, “If there is no grace, there is disgrace. If men don’t praise God for what they see in your life, you are graceless.”
Expounding further on Matthew 11:29–30, Pastor Jaiyebo said Jesus Christ offers rest and ease, not pressure and stress: “He said we should learn from Him, the ‘unforced rhythms of grace.’ My yoke is easy, if it is not easy, you have missed God. Once the area of your life is hard, you have missed grace. Every burden that is not of the Lord is shifted in Jesus’ name.”
He declared that grace must be visible and provable. “Talk is cheap, we need the results. Let your light so shine before men,” he declared, referencing Matthew 5:16 and 1 Peter 2:9.
Quoting 1 Peter 4:10, he taught that grace comes in different dimensions: “Grace has many sides. Use the gift you’ve received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”
He encouraged the congregation to access grace boldly, especially in times of need, referencing Hebrews 4:16: “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Pastor Jaiyebo concluded with a prophetic word over the convention: “If we are to do all that God wants us to do, it will demand us to operate in the unforced rhythms of grace.”
