without grace none of us would be here you know it is because of the grace of god that
that we get a chance to even extend the grace of god you know without his grace
we we wouldn't be saved it's through it's through his grace that we have salvation
you know and so the gift of grace is priceless really it's nothing you can really compare it to
because uh again like i said without it we don't get a chance to live or live again
you know and so i'm just so grateful for the gift of grace because the gift of grace for me it pulls
me up yeah you know it always lifts you up and and that's that's one of the beautiful things
to me about the grace of god sometimes i i think about the grace of god and i you call it a lot
of different things or i have over the years but i think about it mostly like the it's like holy
spirit anesthesia you know it's like the things you it's impossible for you to go through and yet
somehow and there it is the somehow somehow i made it through that that's the grace of god
somehow i didn't go under when everything happened so horrible and the situation was so ridiculous
and yet the holy ghost anesthesia caused me to keep walking keep moving but the thing
about grace for me is that it's always given and it's a gift but i still have to receive it right
because if i don't receive the gift then it's not mine it may be everybody else's but it's not mine
until i receive it so the grace of god for me has been that thing that somehow thing that takes you
through those times when there was no way to go through it i could go so far back in my life
and start with when i first received the grace of god and i knew it lying in a hospital bed being
told i'd never walk again 32 places broken in my left thigh my back broke and been through the
windshield i'm laying in the hospital 11 years old knowing what the grace of god is i'm still here
i can still keep moving even though at that time i physically couldn't yeah but the grace of god
carried me sometimes when you can't walk grace carries you it's like god just
picks you up in his arms and he keeps you moving forward in your life there's no way
i could have survived this without the grace of god all the disciples talk about growing in grace
it's who god is on the inside of us and it empowers us to do what we're called to do
and it transforms our desires it transforms our motivations it transforms the way we act
our behavior all of that because it says to grow in grace and isn't that what we're supposed to
be doing every day i'm thinking of my brother my niece was in a horrible accident october the 16th
2020 and it caused a brain stem traumatic brain injury uh doctors saw no hope for her to live
told my brother my sister-in-law just to let her go on to heaven but they held on and it was the
grace of god that gave them the ability to hold on now here we are they're still believing god
for her to swallow they're still believing god for her to speak they're still believing
god for her to move her right side but i see so much grace on them the grace of god on them that
carries them through the daily the hourly even the minute by minute there's so much grace as
they as lori said they're growing in the grace of god and you can literally see the grace of god so
so many times people feel like the grace of god you know i know it says the bible says about grace
but i don't feel it maybe you don't feel it but other people can see it on you yeah you know the
bible says uh in hebrews 4 6 it says let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace
and that's a throne with the quality and the character and the inclination to treat people
better than they deserve that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in the time of
need and that's what we do we draw near to that it grows we draw near it grows we draw near it grows
and it's just that we may find a well-timed help and that's i think what we encounter as believers
through our whole story through our whole journey of faith is that when we're in in need we can draw
with we can draw close with confidence to the throne of grace for a for an undeserved help
in the time of need i love i love that because we can count on that every single time
every single day no matter what happens you know when i think of grace you always think of you know
i think in the dictionary it talks about being refined you know such a dainty word
um but it's but grace but grace is strength it's a powerful word you know just like she said we grow
old um we age with grace not grow old we gr we age with grace and it's it's it takes grace is a
grace is a strength it is it is full of empowering you know yes it is very empowering and i think we
have to remember that it is a merited favor but it is a it is a strength like she said that will
carry you when nothing else will god's grace will kick in and it's like oh my god how did
i make it through this and it was because of the grace of god that carried you the strength of god
yes grace is power it it absolutely is power and that that's the most beautiful part to me about
the grace of god it's power it's power to overcome its power to go through its power not to quit
its power not to lay down and say i'm done right we just keep moving with the grace of god
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