When grace locates you, it compels wondrous things to happen in style in your life, and you naturally become a man that cannot be ignored. And, with grace on your side, you become too loaded to fail, too relevant to be sidelined, and you break all odds to fulfill your life's mission.
Grace as Power for Living
2 Corinthians 12:9: Jesus says to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 1 Corinthians 15:10: “By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain"
Four Types of grace
prevenient
justifying
sanctifying
glorifying.
How does Jesus define Grace?
The spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favor in the salvation of sinners, and the divine influence operating in individuals for their regeneration and sanctification.
GRACE is also an acronym representing five attributes:
G is for generosity, the will to do something more for others.
R is respect, the dignity of life and work.
A is action, the mechanism for change.
C is compassion, the concern for others.
E is energy, the spirit that catalyzes us.
Saved by Grace
By God’s grace, sinners are saved and reborn into the family of God. God offers eternal life to all who believe in His son, Jesus. Through Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross, God pronounces “not guilty” all who repent, confess their sins, and believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. As sinners, we deserve to die in our sins, but God’s grace gives us everlasting life through Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:11 But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will. (ESV)
Romans 3:24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. (NLT)
Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! (NIV)
Ephesians 1:6-7 … to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (NKJV)
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. (NLT)
Titus 3:7 Because of his grace he made us right in his sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life. (NLT)
Ephesians 2:5 That even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) (NLT)
Ephesians 2:8-9 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. (NLT)
Prayer Point
O Lord my Father, please help me to be saved by your divine Grace. in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen.