Today is a day of grace. It is time to learn and understand how to give and receive My grace. Without grace you are vulnerable to the many pit falls the enemy uses to his advantage. It is time to wake up and see what he is doing and how this is causing so much chaos and disunity not only in your personal lives but also in My church. It is time to actively show one another grace just as I have shown and continue to show grace, before you cannot find My grace on this earth.
Grace works hand in hand with love. There are many of you little ones that are struggling with your love walk in Me and most of it is because you have very little or no grace for those around you. You leave no room for growth or expansion or second chances to get it right. You expect an overnight change and turn around and this is not always the case. My children are to be kind, gentle, understanding, patient, and long suffering. Without My grace you are cannot produce these things or walk in them. The fruit is dying on the vine because it is not being used or nurtured with grace.
When you forget what I have done for you and how much grace I have shown you, it tends to fizzle out and become nothing. You become judgmental and always look at your situation and not the ones around you. You are always in defense and attack mode because you think it is all happening to you and everything is conspiring against you. This is not at all what is happening and you need to wake up and seek My face and allow Me to silence what the enemy is speaking so loud into your ears.
When you are walking in My grace you are able to see past the lashing out and the wrongs done to see what is behind what is going on. You can discern the reason and root cause that brought forth the action. With grace you are able to look past these things and have compassion for that person that has caused you some type of harm and forgive them, love them, be gentle with them, and guide them back to the Body to take their place where they are to be. You are able to efficiently help them with a clear mind that is not judging them for their actions. With grace you are able to see past all of this and it makes it easier to love the person in the midst of what they are going through. You can be patient and help them get back to where they need to be. Grace is not ignoring the problem but getting to the root and getting it fixed instead of just giving up on the person and continuing to watch them drown themselves in the pit of the enemy.
With grace you are able to correct out of love and correct in a way that is not by human guidelines but by My guidelines which brings results. My grace will silence the frustration and overwhelming feelings of offense, defense, frustration, stress and anxiety that is unnecessary if you are just walking in grace.
You ask Me, how will I know when I have shown too much grace? If you are actively seeking Me and listening to what I am telling you to do with a particular person, I shall tell you it is enough and they are in My hands. It will then be between them and I and you will be freed from the whole thing. This is why it is so important to seek Me and study My word because it gives you guidelines on how to live and handle situations. You must get confident in Me that you are going to be able to do all that I ask you to do. Whether to walk in grace and teach, be firm and correct, or to wash your hands of it and place it in My hands.
But today, I want you to see where your weakness is in your love walk and that is having and carrying My grace and using it towards those around you. Let Me download into you today, My grace. Let Me change the heart and mind to be able to actively show and give the grace that I am giving you. You must understand that My grace is going to be lifted from the world for a time and the only grace that will be found is that which I am placing in My people. Be a grace carrier, My little ones. To walk in love that I have called you to walk in, you must have grace. And love is a commandment that I have given My children to live by and I have not changed My mind.
Receive and walk in My grace this day. Really learn what My grace has done for you. Let the Holy Spirit show you My true grace and make it part of you and then give it out to those who so desperately need it around you. Grace is the forgotten ingredient in love. Learn My grace and watch how much your love walk will strengthen and change.
“28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important? 29 The most important one, answered Jesus, is this: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:28-31
“32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:32-36
“32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32
“13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13
25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” Mark 11:25
“14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3:14-21
“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:1-3
“9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other. 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’” John 15:9-25 (NIV)34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.” Luke 23:34