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GRACE: The Believer’s Provision
- Grace
Creflo Dollar
God’s grace goes far beyond simply forgiving our sins; it is His way of dealing with those who receive Christ. Grace will certainly be waiting for us when we get to heaven, but we can begin experiencing it right now, in our everyday lives.
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About the Author:
Creflo Dollar serves as the Senior Pastor of World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia. He has authored transformative books like Radical Life of Grace and Why I Hate Religion. His award-winning television broadcast, Changing Your World, reaches nearly 1 billion homes globally.
Day 1Grace for God’s Sons and Daughters
God has promised His children to provide for them in this life. This commitment that He made to us as believers isn’t to be taken lightly. God’s grace is life-changing and it’s impossible to remain the same when we’ve received it. He gave it to us in the form of Jesus, who impacts our daily lives in amazing ways.
No more do we have to struggle trying to get good results, because faith in Christ makes those results available to us with no need to earn them. We’ve all made our share of mistakes, and we all have a past, but we don’t have to live there; getting born again means what we’ve done wrong can’t hold us back anymore. Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
The old life is gone, and a new life has begun.
This greatly impacted the apostle Paul, who had a sinful past. Despite his previous persecution of the church, he could honestly say that he had wronged no man, corrupted no man, and defrauded no man. Paul wrote to the Philippians that he chose to forget those things which were behind and reach forth to those things which were before. This allowed him to move forward with a clear conscience.
Like Paul, sin is no longer an issue with us. It doesn’t have dominion over us because we’re not under the law, but under grace. Put another way, sin is no longer our master because we no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, we live under the freedom of God’s grace.
Because of the finished works of Jesus, we can now rest from our fruitless works. We can receive and enjoy all that His labors gave us access to. This elevates our daily lives into the supernatural.
Scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5:17, NLT
2 Corinthians 7:2
Philippians 3:13
Romans 6:14
Romans 6:14, NLT
To aid you on your journey of discovery about God’s grace, grab Creflo Dollar’s 4-message series, Grace: The Believer’s Provision, or his book, Life Saver Sermon Notes: The Grace Edition.
Day 2Grace Has Provided Everything We Need
We all need a little grace from time to time. None of us are perfect; receiving forgiveness and mercy for our mistakes instead of judgment and condemnation makes life a lot more bearable. This kind of undeserved favor from God provides the assurance, stability, and direction we need to continue along our Christian walk without getting discouraged. The knowledge that we’re forgiven, holy, and righteous in His eyes not because of our efforts, but because God said so, is tremendously comforting.
Grace works for our benefit to save, deliver, and change us; God offers it to everyone without distinguishing between people. The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all people. It’s not based on what we do, but on what we believe. By grace we’re saved through faith, but not of ourselves; it’s a gift from God.
We don’t have to earn God’s approval when we accept this gift. It gives us the right to stand before Him because He sees us as faultless. We can now come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in times of need. This option didn’t exist under the law.
Grace drastically changes how we live our lives, because we’ve been delivered from the penalty of sin. The wages of sin are death, and so many people in the Old Testament paid with their lives. Thankfully, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him wouldn’t perish, but have everlasting life.
We can’t save ourselves by anything we could ever do. Our righteous stance is because of Jesus. Christ made us pure and holy, freed us from sin, and made us right with the Father. This is cause for continual thankfulness.
Scriptures:
Titus 2:11
Ephesians 2:8
Hebrews 4:16
Romans 6:23
John 3:16
1 Corinthians 1:30, NLT
To aid you on your journey of discovery about God’s grace, grab Creflo Dollar’s 4-message series, Grace: The Believer’s Provision, or his book, Life Saver Sermon Notes: The Grace Edition.
Day 3Grace to Elevate Our Lives
Getting saved gives us immediate access to God’s undeserved favor. We receive this as a gift; we don’t have to earn it. Grace will certainly be waiting for us when we get to heaven, but we can start experiencing it in our everyday living. Realizing that it’s available to us right now, without having to wait until “the sweet by-and-by,” puts our lives in a new light.
Religion is all about works, not grace. It tells us we must perform perfectly to please God, but discounts the role faith plays in pleasing Him. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into a place of undeserved privilege; we now confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing His glory. Through Him we have our entrance by faith into this grace in which we firmly and safely stand.
Our self-efforts aren’t enough to get right with God. Before he met Jesus, Paul was all about works; afterward, he acknowledged the role grace played in his transformation. Everything he had become was all because God had poured out His special favor on him. Although he had worked harder than any other apostle, it wasn’t him but God working through him by His grace.
Grace keeps us humble. Even though Paul had received wonderful revelations from God, he was given a thorn in the flesh to keep him from becoming proud. He admitted that he would boast only about his weaknesses so that the power of Christ could work through him; when he was weak, then he was strong.
God’s favor also helps us through life’s rough spots. We’re exhorted to come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we can obtain mercy and grace to help in time of need. As believers, we can draw tremendous hope and encouragement from this.
Scriptures:
Romans 5:2, NLT
Romans 5:2, AMPC
1 Corinthians 15:10, NLT
2 Corinthians 12:5, 7, 9, 10, NLT
Hebrews 4:16
To aid you on your journey of discovery about God’s grace, grab Creflo Dollar’s 4-message series, Grace: The Believer’s Provision, or his book, Life Saver Sermon Notes: The Grace Edition.
Day 4Grace to Live Godly
Most people don’t understand the relationship between salvation and grace. They have the religious concept church has taught them that eventually, when they get to heaven, they’ll experience grace. God’s grace will be there, but when we get saved and accept Christ, we receive it right now, with no waiting. Genuine faith in Jesus, who is grace, allows God’s favor to flow into our lives.
Receiving grace hinges on our attitude, not on our works or our self-efforts. It teaches us the humility to depend on God for everything. During His ministry, Jesus told the Jews that He did nothing on His own, but only said what the Father had taught Him.
A humble attitude is important to God. Depending on ourselves is a sign of pride; it’s a grace-blocker. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Jesus emphasized this point with the parable about avoiding taking the best seat at the table at a wedding feast, but instead sitting at the lowest seat so someone could say, “Friend, go up higher.”
Grace does things we’re incapable of doing. It makes us the righteousness of God, which is cause for rejoicing and thanksgiving. The law required self-effort, but no one could ever be made right with God by following its commandments. We’re now made right with God through faith in Christ; God, in His grace, freely makes us right in His sight.
The Holy Spirit, who is the administrator of grace, lovingly instructs us how to live. Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live righteously and godly in this present world. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Receiving what He offers transforms our daily lives in stunning, eye-opening ways.
Scriptures:
John 8:28, NLT
James 4:6
Luke 14:7-11
Romans 3:20-22, 24, NLT
Titus 2:12
John 10:10
To aid you on your journey of discovery about God’s grace, grab Creflo Dollar’s 4-message series, Grace: The Believer’s Provision, or his book, Life Saver Sermon Notes: The Grace Edition.
Day 5Grace to Live Godly
Most people don’t understand the relationship between salvation and grace. They have the religious concept church has taught them that eventually, when they get to heaven, they’ll experience grace. God’s grace will be there, but when we get saved and accept Christ, we receive it right now, with no waiting. Genuine faith in Jesus, who is grace, allows God’s favor to flow into our lives.
Receiving grace hinges on our attitude, not on our works or our self-efforts. It teaches us the humility to depend on God for everything. During His ministry, Jesus told the Jews that He did nothing on His own, but only said what the Father had taught Him.
A humble attitude is important to God. Depending on ourselves is a sign of pride; it’s a grace-blocker. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Jesus emphasized this point with the parable about avoiding taking the best seat at the table at a wedding feast, but instead sitting at the lowest seat so someone could say, “Friend, go up higher.”
Grace does things we’re incapable of doing. It makes us the righteousness of God, which is cause for rejoicing and thanksgiving. The law required self-effort, but no one could ever be made right with God by following its commandments. We’re now made right with God through faith in Christ; God, in His grace, freely makes us right in His sight.
The Holy Spirit, who is the administrator of grace, lovingly instructs us how to live. Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live righteously and godly in this present world. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Receiving what He offers transforms our daily lives in stunning, eye-opening ways.
Scriptures:
John 8:28, NLT
James 4:6
Luke 14:7-11
Romans 3:20-22, 24, NLT
Titus 2:12
John 10:10
To aid you on your journey of discovery about God’s grace, grab Creflo Dollar’s 4-message series, Grace: The Believer’s Provision, or his book, Life Saver Sermon Notes: The Grace Edition.
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