questions for your journey: living by grace

Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

When we could not save ourselves or do anything for ourselves, God did everything we needed. That truth is something hard to understand, but it is so important to grasp. God did for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves. Literally God reaches out to us and seeks to transform our lives before we take one step toward Him.

There are two kinds of faith. There is what is natural for humans to understand, and then there is the super-natural faith that is it hard to understand or believe. That is where God comes in the mix.

2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

By accepting what Jesus did for us, the grace that God made for us, God makes us brand new, gives us power and authority to live a blessed life. It is important that we claim what God has done and what that means for our lives. We are blessed. We are children of God. We receive what God has done for when we accept Him. We don’t have to believe it to receive it. We have already received it.

The difference between our faith and the faith that Jesus demonstrated while He earth is that we are weak, and Jesus never comes to the place where He is weak. We crumble under pressure. Yet that is the time when we ought to soar high by trusting Him more.

What is it that helps our faith get stronger? Dealing with sin by being honest grows our faith. When we forgive ourselves and forgive others, our faith grows by leaps and bounds.

Sin has no claim on our lives any more. It is time to lay down what we cannot control. It is time we let God deal with our weakness with His strength. It is time to live in the grace that God offers us and that has been offered to us since long before we came to God. Praise the Lord that He always pursues us, loves us, accepts us, forgives us, encourages us, holds us and helps us all the time. That is His grace.

Romans 5:21 NASB

so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Walk in super-natural grace as you continue your journey.

Catalyst ticket arrived

My ticket to the Catalyst Conference, in Atlanta Oct 8-10, just arrived. I'm excited!

Have you heard of EDITH BURNS?

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas . She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you ...

wash feet, sharing hope

John 13:4-5,14 NLT So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him… 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. Jesus set the example we follow. He served. He valued and gave value to others. That is why we choose to serve. For 18 years our church has shared an outreach called back2school, and for 16 of those years we have chosen to give students brand new shoes and socks as well as washing their feet. It is one of the most important parts of this event. Washing feet is a humbling experience where both the give and the receiver learn how to share some moments that might change their lives. Jesus said we should do this. See the verse above. Follow His example, do what He did, and give far more than you will ever know....

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