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What is the GRACE of God?

Grace defined : Undeserved, unearned favour and ability of God

Grace is the essence of who He is and is the basis for how He acts on our behalf. His grace is also the empowering force behind who we become and all we are enabled to do for Him.

Any time you go to a sports event, you are watching people who have mastered the basics in their sport. They do it so that when game day comes, they can perform what they practice. Now, we each have a game day, and we need to be ready. We need to go over the basics of faith and grace.

Why do we need to get in sync with Jesus? He has the ultimate purpose and plan for your life. We need to be in sync with Him because we do not want the things we plan to be in opposition to God. Ultimately, God's plans prevail. so we need to be 'synced up' with Him.

Jesus did not come into a world that was having just a bit of trouble, or that merely needed some encouragement, motivation, or a better self-image. Jesus came into a world that was "condemned already” (John 3:18), a world that was “sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, and bound in affliction and irons” However, God’s love for us MOVED Him to action and He sent His only Son to come to this earth in a body.

You are not limited to external joy – you don't have to wait for a specific person to tell you a joke for you to experience joy. It is something which is already on the inside of you if you're a Christian, and you can activate it at any time!

God is not angry with people; He loves people. He arranged it so would have peace with God. God reconnected you to Himself. You could not do it yourself, He had to do it on behalf of you. Now, there is nothing between you and God your Father.

What qualifies something as a good gift? Is it something you want, something of great value, something you need? Hope is one of the good gifts God gave us through Jesus, who's coming restored hope back to all of humanity.

We need to look to and expect God to be good to us. We need to let God be good to us. God satisfies us with good things and we need to hunger after and crave Him. He will fill us with all good things.

Having the conviction and boldness to have your feelings hurt is one of the foundations of love. This sort of love only lasts if Jesus is in the centre of what you call love.