"Sin no longer has power over us. We can turn from it and say no!
Jesus has extended mercy and empowered us with the grace of God. We don't receive the judgment we deserved. We are forgiven and born anew out of death and into life. Beloved daughters, the enemy of your souls doesn't want you to know this. He wants you to remain in shame and therefore bound to sin. He wants to make you think you have no dominion over sin, but that just isn't true. Certainly, in our own strength we will try and fail, but we are no longer along in our battles. We are in Him, and our weapons are mighty!
I am afraid that for too long grace has not been taught as the power to overcome sin. We have not been brave enough to believe we could ever fulfill Jesus' command to sin no more. We have forgotten that in Him and with Him nothing is impossible, and we have shamed His mercy by preaching grace as a license to sin rather than as a spiritual equipping not to."
~ Lisa Bevere
Kissed the Girls and Made them Cry
4 comments:
What a thought-provoking quote, Katrina. Thanks for sharing! I think it's about time for the church, beginning with myself, to return to grace and what it really means. The Gospel is really very simple, isn't it? :)
I hope each day has been filled with the wonder of knowing the Lord.
Hello Katrina,
thanks for this post. It was really encouraging!
Juliana
Thank you Katrina! We serve a merciful God,and I am so thankful he chose to save me.
"...we have shamed His mercy by preaching grace as a license to sin rather than as a spiritual equipping not to." Very true!
Romans 6:1-2, 11-18
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
...Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness."
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