All God’s gifts reflect His grace, and the fact that they are gifts means that they are free and cannot be earned..
The gift of GRACE is the wonder of the Gospel, giving you a quality of life you don’t deserve..!
It is the work of God in our lives not because of who we are, but because of who He is..
It empowers you to become all that God wants you to become..
Its liberating power lifts you & brings you into seasons of favour..
It empowers us to live godly lives that bring glory and honor to God..
It trains us to renounce and reject worldly passions, corrupt desires belonging to this present age..
It trains, instructs, and teaches us to renounce ungodliness, live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this world..
It teaches us to pursue godliness even in the midst of difficult circumstances..
It enables us to choose Him while the world tries to persuade us to do otherwise..
It is a power that helps us become the productive, fruitful, and contributing people God created us to be..
We don’t pay for grace, manufacture it or earn it..
But, when we don’t respond to God’s grace it is costly; it costs us peace with God, the peace of God, the joy of knowing that we belong to God, and the power of God working in our lives to accomplish what we simply cannot accomplish on our own..
“For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was His plan from before the beginning of time—to show us His grace through Christ Jesus.….” (2 Timothy 1:9)
January 21
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good