GOD'S GRACE FOR ME TODAY

Friends and Family:

A dear friend of mine i will call her 'Thelma Louise' shares the daily devotional with me from a purpose driven life and one of them she sent me really caught my eye it was dealing with God's Grace. I always thank GOD for his GRACE because i know that i personally use it all up in one day and have to get my brand new GRACE and MERCY the next day if i am gifted by GOD to have a next day. So i want to share this with you because it is important to me that we all grow in Christ..and let's slow down and read our WORD and pray with each other . We get so busy in the day GOD has given us we forget. He is not asking a lot of us just RESPECT, DEDICATION , COMMITTMENT AND CERTAINTY that we are not ashamed of the GOD we serve and we show in our Words, Thoughts , Deeds and Actions. Let us also pray for GOD'S GRACE in the lives of others. So many times we forget that we wrestle with spirits when we come in contact with other people. They are sometimes nasty , flip and short with us but we should remind them that we see the enemy at work here and we are not going to let him use US to make them act more out of GODS WILL. Sometimes they have just had some negative experiences before they cross our paths and they have not been able to shake it off and keep going. Let's all work on trying to show more Mercy and Grace towards others. Sometimes it seems they are not even aware that what they said or how they said it is not the best way or tone to use . We are guilty of this sometimes also so it is best to ask GOD to show us ourselves and help us to pray for ourselves and for others. NOW i will share with you a word of encouragement that was passed along to me from a dear friend and a sister in CHRIST.

In other words, the very power of God – the very strength we need, the very testimony we were meant to model – emerges in troubles, hardships, and distresses (2 Cor. 6:4).
Let’s pray together that we stay at our posts in these uncertain times and not waste the grace God has given us. What now?
· Receive God’s grace now – For God says … “‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2, NIV)
· Accept that life is hard – There will be some difficult times in your Christian walk. God won’t necessarily take you out of them, but he’ll always walk you through them. (2 Cor. 6:4-10)
· Squandered? – What do you think of when you think of squandering God’s grace? 2 Corinthians 6:1 (MSG): “Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don't squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us.”
· Validation – How is your life validated by staying at your post? In the details of being a servant? (2 Corinthians 6:4 (MSG): “Our work as God's servants gets validated – or not – in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly ... in hard times, tough times, bad times ....”