I want to share Jerry Savelle's website devotional again today because this is another message that is SO vital ti walking in faith and power!
YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are
saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation)
through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own
doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God. (Ephesians
2:8 AMP)
Have you ever heard someone say, “He got just what he
deserved”? When people say this, they’re usually referring to the negative
consequences that someone is suffering due to their own destructive actions or
wrong choices.
While religion portrays God as an angry dictator, ready to
punish those who disobey, nothing could be farther from the truth. God is our
loving heavenly Father, who gave the life of His Son, Jesus Christ, so that we
can experience the love and grace He so desires to give us.
One definition of grace is “unmerited favor.”
God’s grace is something you didn’t earn; it is a gift from your heavenly
Father. Any time you see the word grace in your Bible, you can
interchange it with the word favor.
Simply put, God’s grace, His unmerited favor, is the
manifestation of God giving you something you do not deserve.
Grace will give you what you did not earn.
Grace will qualify you for what you did not qualify for.
Grace will give you what you do not deserve—praise God!
You can do lot of good things, like spending hours reading
God’s Word or praying and fasting. However, what matters most and gives God the
ability to move in your life is to understand the free gift of His grace. Once
you’ve received this gift, you can know with certainty that you won’t get what
you deserve.
Confession: Thank You, Father, that through the grace
that is in Christ Jesus you give me what I did not earn, what I do not qualify
for, and what I don’t deserve.
HALLELUJAH! We do NOT get what we deserved from God, we get what JESUS paid for! He redeemed us from the hands of the enemy by paying our debt of death for sin! Now everything that we have belongs to HIM! (That's not much) Everything that HE has belongs to us! (THAT is great GRACE!) Let's be all that we can be - IN HIM, which brings GLORY to His Name! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "King of Kings":
Shalom in Him!
