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(05/11/2000) revelation of His grace


Hello prayer warriors, 1. Prayer note: revelation of His grace [2 Corinthians 12:9-10] 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. I've heard a lot about grace but I've always found it difficult to explain because grace encompasses so many things. We are saved by grace not by our works. I heard a good explanation of the difference between mercy and grace. Mercy: when you do not get what you deserve Grace: when you get what you do not deserve. I've just had a revelation of what His grace meant and a phrase that I can identify with to describe His grace. I got this revelation from the story of Moses which my pastor tells very often. Moses spent the first 40 years of his life discovering what he can do. He was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. Then, when he began to identify with his roots, he fled to the desert and spent the next 40 years discovering what he cannot do. It was at the backside of the desert, at mount Horeb, that he had an encounter with God (the burning bush experience). God asked him to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and Moses' response was "Who am I?". [Exodus 3:11-12a] 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; That encounter started the change in His life, when Moses discovered not who he is, not what he can do or cannot do, but discovered what God can do in His life. Doesn't this sound very familiar to most of us? We spent the beginning parts of our lives discovering what we can do, we spent the next discovering what we cannot do, and hopefully now, we can look at our lives and discover what God can do in our lives. That is grace and those of us who find His grace easier to understand are those of us who have been broken. We experienced brokenness when we realised that our destiny is not in our hands and many things are out of our control. Then, in our brokenness, we can come before God and say and believe "Your grace is sufficient for me for Your strength is made perfect in my weakness". To me that is what grace is, in one phrase: discovering what God can do in my life. 2. New prayer requests: i. Doing God's will not my own -- Ronda I feel like God is speaking to my soul for me to do something for others, but I want to make sure this is of God and not of myself. Please pray that it is what God wants me to do and if so then God will also impress His will on my husband. If this is of God then my husband and I must come into agreement due to funds that will need to be spent. We are all ready on a very tight budget. Thank you, Ronda. http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=165&table=prayer&reptable=replies 3. Continue to pray for: i. marriage problems -- guest To All, I am requesting your prayers to help me and my wife over come problems and become a family again. We have both made some pretty big mistakes in our 9 years of being married. We have 2 beautiful children and I want us to overcome our differences and work together. http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=162&table=prayer&reptable=replies 4. Number of prayer warriors: 169 We welcome junefields, benleroy, marilyn5346, bhong, ronda, congaman, jody and tonyayve into our prayer group. in Christ, waihun
Thursday, May 11, 2000 11:59:15 AM waihun

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