{"id":827,"date":"2008-07-14T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=827"},"modified":"2008-07-14T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T12:00:52","slug":"how-to-get-grace-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/07\/14\/how-to-get-grace-from-god\/","title":{"rendered":"“How to Get Grace from God”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does that title startle you? It should.<\/p>\n

“Getting Grace from God”<\/a> by Jim Berg, BJU Dean of Students, was the formal title of the sermon that made the rounds on campus when the Spirit started poking me awake way back when<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Again — listen<\/a>. Don’t take my word for it. Just look at these words carefully. And get out your Bible and read what it really says. It isn’t this.<\/p>\n

There is even a more pointed definition [of grace] that we could, we could take, and that is from Philippians 2:13 even though this verse does not even mention grace. But Philippians 2:13 talks to us about the work of God in our lives–this divine help. And, and broadly speaking we could call grace divine help, divine enablement. But Philippians 2:13 kinda gives us a little better window into a working definition of what it is like when God is enabling us and working in us.<\/p>\n

And Philippians 2:13 says, “for it is God that worketh in you both to will”–creating a willingness, a desire–and giving us the power, He says, “to do of His good pleasure.” So when God is working in us, He’s doing two things He says here: #1 — He’s giving us, He’s creating desire in us to do His will and He’s giving us power to do His will. And I think that’s about the best definition I’ve ever heard of grace. It is that God is working in us, creating in us a desire and a power to do His will. When God is working in us, giving us his grace, we have desire to do things we normally wouldn’t want to do. And we also have the ability to carry out those things that seem impossible to us.<\/p>\n

And there are a lot of times in my life when I’ve looked at what I have to do, and I had no desire to do it. I’ve looked at it all and said, “I just want to close the door and leave the office and not come back for a week.” And you’ve had situations like that. There just is no desire. I just don’t want to do this right now. and I have no power to carry it out.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s because I’m lacking God’s grace at that time<\/strong>. And we’ll talk in a minute about how to get it (2:38+).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you know, your life and my life ought to have the stamp of the Supernatural on it. That somebody looks at that and says, “How on earth does all that get done?” And we ought to stand back with them and say, “I don’t know either. Except for one thing, God is doing something amazing here. It’s supernatural desire and power to do His wil<\/strong>l” (5:50+)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is Grace for everything. And God says I will give you the divine help to do whatever you have in front of you. . . . if<\/strong> you’ll turn on the faucet. And we’ll talk about that (12:46+).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have to do right and be sweet about it anyway, and we can with the Grace of God!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason you’re so bitter is because you don’t have Grace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not a problem with the rules, it’s the problem that we don’t have grace. It’s not a problem that WorkBrain<\/a> has changed our life. [laughter] It really isn’t, folks. Nah, I mean there’s some bugs that have to worked out occasionally in any kind of new thing. But anybody who’s sitting around griping about that, whether it’s in a faculty lounge or in a room, and complaining doesn’t have the grace of God!<\/strong> I mean, again we may as well wear a t-shirt that says “I don’t have the grace of God right now” because that’s exactly what we’re saying to everyone that’s watching. “I’m in a hard situation that I don’t like and I don’t have the grace of God and I’m upset.” I tell you what, if our Lord was on this earth and had to use Workbrain, He wouldn’t be fussing at it like some of us have. He wouldn’t do that . . . because He has the grace of God (18:46+).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that we’re so frustrated and so upset shows that we don’t have the Grace of God because He’s promised that He will make all grace abound toward us<\/strong> (19:43).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re losing the moral battle, folks, you have no Grace from God <\/strong>(21:39+).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stubborn people have no grace.<\/strong> The faucet does not come on. That’s why all kinds of little things and big things irritate the fire out of them. There is no grace. . . . God says, “if you wanna go down My path, I will give you all the grace you need. But if you wanna go down your path, I’ll let you go down that path. I will take away all the desire to do My will. I will take away all the power to do my will. And furthermore, while you’re going down that path, I’m gonna shoot at you! I will give grace only to the humble.<\/strong> The one who says ‘God can be God in my life!'” (28:19+)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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