puricare chronicles: GRACE TO KEEP GOING - Difficulties in life are unavoidable. We need a daily dose of God’s grace if we are to walk through trials with confidence that there is great reward on the other side. The Lord’s grace releases His supernatural power within us so we can endure life’s hardships with a godly attitude. We’ll even be able to rejoice in what He is doing in us through the adversity. Grace builds our confidence in the sovereign Lord. Nothing looks hopeless when we focus on Him instead of on our problems. We discover the assurance of God’s sustaining presence as He walks with us every step of the way. Because we’ve experienced His care for us, we are able to show empathy and love to others facing hard times. During fiery trials, grace works to transform our character.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

GRACE TO KEEP GOING - Difficulties in life are unavoidable. We need a daily dose of God’s grace if we are to walk through trials with confidence that there is great reward on the other side. The Lord’s grace releases His supernatural power within us so we can endure life’s hardships with a godly attitude. We’ll even be able to rejoice in what He is doing in us through the adversity. Grace builds our confidence in the sovereign Lord. Nothing looks hopeless when we focus on Him instead of on our problems. We discover the assurance of God’s sustaining presence as He walks with us every step of the way. Because we’ve experienced His care for us, we are able to show empathy and love to others facing hard times. During fiery trials, grace works to transform our character.

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Grace to Keep Going

Charles F. Stanley

Acts 15:7-11

As believers, we readily attribute our salvation to God’s grace, but what does “this grace in which we stand” mean to us now (Romans 5:2)?

How does it work out in everyday life, especially when we’re going through periods of trial or suffering?

1. The Lord’s grace releases His supernatural power within us so we can endure life’s hardships with a godly attitude.

In fact, we’ll even be able to rejoice in what He is doing in us through the adversity.

2. Grace builds our confidence in the sovereign Lord. Nothing looks hopeless when we focus on Him instead of on our problems.

3. We discover the assurance of God’s sustaining presence as He walks with us every step of the way.

4. Because we’ve experienced His care for us, we are able to show empathy and love to others facing hard times.

5. During fiery trials, grace works to transform our character so that others can see Jesus reflected in us.

Difficulties in life are unavoidable. So we need a daily dose of God’s grace if we are to walk through trials with confidence that there is great reward on the other side.

If we rely on our own strength, however, obstacles will appear insurmountable, leaving us discouraged and ready to give up.

Too often believers rely on Christ for their salvation but then try to go solo.

If God’s grace was needed to save us, then logic says we would also need it for the rest of our days.

Only through a continuous infusion of His sustaining power can we live a victorious Christian life.

For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org.

And Listen to Dr. Charles Stanley at OnePlace.com!

Charles F. Stanley is the founder of In Touch Ministries and a New York Times best-selling author. While his teaching is transmitted throughout the world to millions of people, Dr. Stanley has been said to demonstrate a practical, keen awareness of people's needs and provide Christ-centered, biblically-based principles for everyday life.

Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”

https://salvationprosperity.net/grace-to-keep-going-in-touch-november-21/

Acts 15:7-11 The Message (MSG)

^“6-9The apostles and leaders called a special meeting to consider the matter. The arguments went on and on, back and forth, getting more and more heated. Then Peter took the floor:

“Friends, you well know that from early on God made it quite plain that he wanted the pagans to hear the Message of this good news and embrace it—and not in any secondhand or roundabout way, but firsthand, straight from my mouth.

And God, who can’t be fooled by any pretense on our part but always knows a person’s thoughts, gave them the Holy Spirit exactly as he gave him to us.

He treated the outsiders exactly as he treated us, beginning at the very center of who they were and working from that center outward, cleaning up their lives as they trusted and believed him.

^10-11“So why are you now trying to out-god God, loading these new believers down with rules that crushed our ancestors and crushed us, too?

Don’t we believe that we are saved because the Master Jesus amazingly and out of sheer generosity moved to save us just as he did those from beyond our nation? So what are we arguing about?”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+15%3A7-11&version=MSG

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