What is Grace?
Grace is the concept of receiving something from someone and passing it on until ALL around you begin to change and TRANSFORM into God’s image. Grace is God's life, power and righteousness given to us. It is through grace that God works effective change in our hearts and lives. Grace gives us a new life which is not condemned by God. Grace is the entirety of revealed truth. It enables us to cultivate our faith and trust, to surrender, sacrifice, forgive, serve with compassion, to be thankful and to bless others. Grace is the way whereby God regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. Grace is God showing goodness toward those who have no reason to expect it and may not even deserve it. Grace is the gift of the work of the Holy Spirit toward our salvation and God’s purpose. It’s the divine influence that operates in us for regeneration and sanctification.
By Sister Patricia Smith .
Colored by Sister Myrtice Robinson
Dearest Heavenly Father, our Grace,
We come together to celebrate Your Grace of giving. We give Praise, Honor, Worship and Glory to You for Who You are.
We come humbly before You surrendering all of our concerns to You because we trust You to take care of all of our needs. We open our hearts, minds, and spirit for You to pour Your grace inside of us in mighty measure. We believe IT will keep us for as long as we live here on earth.
Thank You for graciously sending Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior and our intercessor that sits at Your Right-Hand interceding for our presence sins.
Thank You, for graciously, allowing your Holy Spirit to live inside of us and speak to us, revealing Your Word to us and making it alive to us. Thank you for graciously touching our hearts and renewing the right spirit in us.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
To each one of us, grace has been given.
Ephesians 4:7
Grace Transforms
G
Glory
(2 Corinthians 4:6)
R
Refined
(Job 23:10)
A
Attractive
(Ephesian 2:10,
1 Peter3:3-4)
C
compassionate
(Ephesians 4:32)
E
Elegance
(Psalm 36: 5-8)
Stories in the Bible that depicts God's grace.
“He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”
1. The Birth of Jesus and The Crucifixion: “For God so loved the World that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3: 16
2. God’s grace infused Noah’s Story.
“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord”
Genesis 6:8
3. God’s grace endured in spite of Abraham and Sarah’s unbelief.
“And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed”
Genesis 12:3
4. God’s grace for Joseph gave him strength to persevere.
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good”
Genesis 50:20
5. Moses doubted God at every turn, yet God graciously guided him. “But Moses said, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else’
Exodus 4:13
6. The Israelites repeatedly rebelled against God, yet He graciously rescued them. (The parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21)
“And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer”
Judges 10:16
7. Rahab bravely asked God to save her (despite her sins) and He did!
“The Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below” Joshua 2:11
8. David lusted, stole, fornicated, lied, and killed, yet God saw his heart and loved him. “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin”
Psalm 51:1-2
9. It was the grace of God that provided Ruth a husband and a home after the loss of her husband. (The book of Ruth Chapters 1-4)
10. The thief on the cross during Jesus's crucifixion when he was given grace.
Mark 15:27 Luke 23:32-43 Matthew 27:38
Researched and complied by Grandmothers of Hope Board Members
When Grace is rightly and fully understood without any apprehension, it is powerful enough to do what?
It is powerful enough to transform us into the image of Jesus. The Holy Spirit gives us the power and wisdom to accomplish the purpose of God.
Once we have been “born again” and have a heart that is now inclined toward God, the grace of God will irresistibly draw us to put our faith in Christ and be saved.
This irresistible grace draws us and makes us want to come to God, then the Holy Spirit helps us to understand the gospel so we can and will believe it. God’s grace is the transforming power of the Holy Spirit whereby He takes sinners dead in our sins and gives us spiritual life so that we can recognize the value of God’s offer of salvation. Then, having been set free from the bondage of sin, we may willingly come, without apprehension, to Christ.
Grace is an enabling power. It enables the recipient to do and to be what he or she cannot do and cannot be if left to our own means. The Lord’s grace is sufficient to lift us from death and sin and to endow us with eternal life. It is sufficient to change you, transform you, and perfect you. It is sufficient to enable us to fully realize our divine potential as a child of God.
Researched and written by Sister Patricia Smith - To God Be The Glory!
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