Grace of God
Explore the many facets of God’s love through “Grace”:
Prevenient Grace, Saving Justifying-Convicting Grace,
Sanctifying Grace, Assurance, and Glorifying Grace.
The Grace of God
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“No one can come to me
unless the Father
who sent me draws him.”
John 6:44
Everyone who listens to the Father
and learns from him comes to me.
John 6:45
“I am the way
and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father
except through me.”
John 14:6
God was thinking of you...
long before you were thinking of Him
Recognizing God's Miracles
The Grace of God
God’s Grace are God’s Gifts freely given to us that we did not deserve, earn, or merit.
So too, at the present time
there is a remnant chosen by grace.
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works;
if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
Romans 11:5-6
The Colors help us to see and recognize the wonders,
the blessings, and the miracles of God in our everyday life.
We do not want to be “spiritually colorblind.”
"My Grace is sufficient for thee."
2 Corinthians 12:10
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.
10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:8
The Grace of God
Prevenient Grace
We are not capable of coming to God
without God enabling us to come to His calling.
"...I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
Jeremiah 31:3: (KJV)
Saving Justifying Grace
We receive God’s forgiveness when we repent of our sins,
and profess our faith in Jesus Christ,
and we are Reborn, made into a new creation,
and we begin to live Christian life as new believers.
Sanctifying Grace
Sanctifying Grace is our long journey, our walk with Jesus to grow in the faith,
to be more “Christ” like.
Assurance
Assurance of faith and salvation through Jesus Christ.
Glorifying Grace
Glorifying grace is the presence of God's grace with us at the moment of death. Our bodies on earth are just our temporary tents. Christ has prepared a room for us in His Father’s house. Christ has prepared a place for us in heaven.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 14: 1-4
"We love him, because he first loved us."
1 John 4:19
The presence of God’s love and grace are with us for our lifetime; before we were born, the days of our lives, at the moment of death, and even salvation through Christ, life everlasting after our death.
“...To grasp how wide and how long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge –
that you may be filled to the measure
of the fullness of God”
Ephesians 3:18
Your love has captured me.
There is no turning back now...
You have brought me too far.
I am far from where I started...
But I still have a long, long way to go.
White represents the sinless pure virgin birth and Jesus
the unblemished sinless Lamb of God.
Gold represents the Preciousness, the greatest of all gifts, the Gift from God to us; Jesus Christ.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your strength.
These commandments that I give you today
are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children....
Tie them as symbols on your hands
and bind them on your foreheads.
Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 adapted
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein
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Comment
Grace Upon Grace by Gregory S. Neal
is an extraordinary look at God’s Grace.
www.revneal.org
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