The Exchanged Life: Grace and Grace Alone!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Grace and Grace Alone!

The more you understand that everything (every prayer answer, every gift, every favour) is all done by Grace which means it has nothing to do with your own effort or ability!

GRACE is undeserved, unmerited favour!

If you say "I gave $30 to the church (building) in a offering (tithe) and the next day my boss called me in and gave me a raise! Boy it was a good thing I gave yesterday!

HOGWASH!!!

Because GOD wont take 2nd place to your own flesh and pride!

HIS gifts are HIS gifts - in fact the scripture says 'every good and perfect gift comes from the FATHER above. James 1:17

So, if something good comes your way did you know that GOOD is GOD? (GOD is GOOD)
(GOD is LOVE) etc.. that good is favour from FATHER and had nothing to do with your own merit or behaviour. If it did, then you could brag/boast or 'glory' in it because you did it (without GOD).

HE (GOD) doesn't share HIS GLORY with anyone but you can share 'in' HIS GLORY. You can praise and really glory means 'boast'. You can boast in HIM for what HE does!

More on GRACE soon and More On Glory soon!

-eric

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A few of my favourite quotes:

Most of these quotes the LORD has given to me over the years, unless otherwise noted.

1) The Exchanged Life: JESUS took all that I deserved so that I can receive all that JESUS deserved! -eric

2) The Cross is the Great Exchange (all of me, sin and curse) for (all of JESUS, righeteousness and blessings). Note: that is why the Cross looks like a 't' or a crossing, where two connect or meet. -eric

3) What are you afraid LOVE is going to do to you? -eric

4) Everything you die to, is replaced by HIS LIFE! -eric

5) If you think anything you can do (or the good that you've done) will determine your right standing with GOD cuts you off from GRACE. -eric

6) Its only GRACE and you get it by FAITH (trusting) HIM alone dont expect to get answers to your prayers or miracles any other way! -eric

7) HE (JESUS) loves you and all your sins are eternally forgiven (if you believe this) all sins - Past, Present & Future Sins (ALL taken care of at the cross)! -eric

8) The Church isn't an organization its an organism!

9) You can't go to a place that you are. Church happens when people are in fellowhip / unity with each other and JESUS.

10) JESUS plus anything is sin - but JESUS only is GRACE! -eric

11) Seeing the invisible and ignoring the obvious. -eric

12) GOOD and EVIL are persons not character traits. -Norman Grubb

13) The fruit of the SPIRIT and the gifts of the SPIRIT go together, if you see what appears to be one without the other - then its false. -eric

14) Knowledge from a western world perspective is WAY different from knowledge from a Jewish or Biblical perspective. -eric

15) The devil likes to 'divide what GOD wants to unify' and 'unify what GOD wants to divide'. -eric

16) When you were young you were taught how to talk/speak then when you got older you had to learn how to listen (speaking less, listening more). Its the same with prayer. When you were young you learned how to pray and now you have to learn how to listen! -eric

17) There is only darkness in nature. Darkness only exists when the natural is put in the place of the divine. - Smith Wigglesworth.

18) Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie Ten Boom

19) I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. - Hudson Taylor

20) The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New. - Augustine, A.D. 354-430

21) The answer resides in the question - Glenn Clark

22) What you are willing to relinquish, you are able to keep. - Glenn Clark

23) Christ came to bring the kingdom of God, and we settled for the church. - Kevin Beck

24) LOVE is the fuel of FAITH. LOVE is the benchmark of WISDOM. LOVE is the key to JOY. LOVE is the tonic of PEACE. - eric

25) Prayer is not overcoming the reluctance of an unwilling God. Instead, prayer is laying hold of the willingness of God. - Maurice Berquist

26)"The soul is driven to its knees because there is nowhere else to go." Abraham Lincoln

27) The CHRISTIAN LIFE is simply a "Rest Walk". -eric

28) "The self-deception of self-effort is just as subtle as the self-deception of self-righteousness" Mrs. Gerlach, as also quoted by Rufus Moseley.

29)In the natural - you see or hear and decide to believe it or not. (knowledge of good and evil)

30) When you see 'the beauty' of something, you truly love it. -eric

31) In the spiritual - you first hear, then you see then you believe! (LIFE) -eric

32) DAD (GOD) spoke to me saying this: "The problem with praying to the universe, is not bad in and of itself as a place to start, but you won't get too far, because you need intimacy and love to get results...faith works through love, everything works through love...deep intimacy only comes from personal life sharing and passion" -eric

33)Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. - Michel De Montaigne, Essays

34)Some people complain because God puts thorns on roses, while others praise God for putting roses among thorns. - Author Unknown

Note: quotes coming from eric, really are quotes the LORD JESUS speaks to eric, as we are taught by the SPIRIT. (The BREATH of GOD)

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