Today we continue our series entitled “Living the Grace Life,” where we will learn to embrace and walk in God’s unmerited, unearned, and often undeserved favor throughout 2025.
Key scriptures for this year:
2 Corinthians? ?9?:?8? ?TPT??
“Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.”
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??Galatians? ?5?:?4? ?TPT??
“If you want to be made right with God by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from Christ and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!”
Romans? ?6?:?14? ?ERV??
“Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace.”
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1 Corinthians? ?15?:?10? ?NIV??
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”
Additional scriptures for today:
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Isaiah 43:2 NIV
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 TPT
“Though we experience every kind of pressure, we’re not crushed. At times we don’t know what to do, but quitting is not an option. We are persecuted by others, but God has not forsaken us. We may be knocked down, but not out.”
Setting the Stage:
Over these past weeks, we’ve explored how God’s grace liberates you, transforms you, empowers you, matures you, flows through you, multiplies your impact, and establishes your legacy. Today, we’ll discover how grace sustains you through life’s toughest seasons. In a world that promotes and pursues comfort and ease, God’s grace provides the supernatural endurance to overcome the inevitable challenges every believer faces.
Most of us have been conditioned to believe that if we’re walking in God’s will, life should be smooth sailing. We’ve bought into the lie that adversity indicates something has gone wrong. But Scripture paints a completely different picture. Jesus Himself said, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). The question isn’t whether we’ll face difficult seasons, but how we’ll respond when they come.
Look at the heroes of faith throughout Scripture—Joseph in prison, David in the wilderness, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Paul in prison. What sustained them wasn’t the absence of trouble but the presence of God’s empowering grace. Paul described this perfectly when he wrote, “We may be knocked down, but not out” and “quitting is not an option” (2 Corinthians 4:9). There’s a resilience that comes from grace that cannot be found anywhere else.
As we explore how grace sustains you through every season, you’ll discover that God’s grace is most visibly demonstrated not when life is easy, but when the challenges seem overwhelming.
So, what does this mean to you today? A few things.
1. Life in Christ Doesn’t Exempt You from Pain—It Equips You for It.
Walking with Jesus isn’t always about miracles, breakthroughs, and living on top of the mountain. Sometimes, living in the center of God’s will means facing painful situations with divine resolve and bulldog tenacity. Look at Jesus Himself—perfectly aligned with the Father’s will, yet facing betrayal, mockery, and crucifixion. Grace doesn’t always remove the pain; it empowers you to endure it and overcome it.
How this applies to you:
— You can be doing everything right and still face opposition, hardship, and difficulty. God’s grace doesn’t guarantee an easy life but provides the strength to face whatever comes your way.
— When facing rejection or unfair treatment in your career, grace enables you to respond with dignity rather than retaliation, maintaining your witness even when you feel like Jesus when He was slapped in the face.
— In business, you can make excellent decisions based on solid data and still face unexpected setbacks. God’s grace gives you the resilience to pivot, adapt, and keep moving forward.
— Your spiritual maturity isn’t measured by how many difficulties you avoid but by how you respond to the ones you can’t escape. Grace empowers this response.
— Professional challenges that would crush others (and would have crushed you years ago) become opportunities for you to demonstrate God-given leadership and strength that inspires those around you.
— I’ve experienced seasons where everything seemed to be falling apart despite my best efforts and faithful obedience. I’m human, so I have been in situations where, like most of us, I questioned God. But like Paul, God reminded me that His grace is sufficient. In those moments, grace didn’t eliminate the pain, but it provided a supernatural power to stand firm and push through when everything in me wanted to go in a different direction. If you’re in that place right now, I want you to know that His grace is sufficient—even when it doesn’t feel like it.
2. Grace Provides the Power to Keep Going When You Want to Quit.
The real test of faith isn’t how you start but how you finish. Satan’s primary strategy isn’t to destroy you in a single blow but to wear you down (little by little) until you voluntarily give up. Grace provides the supernatural endurance to keep going when everything in you wants to quit. Paul testified to this when he wrote, “Though we experience every kind of pressure, we’re not crushed. At times we don’t know what to do, but quitting is not an option” (2 Cor 4:8-9).
How this applies to you:
— When facing seemingly impossible situations at work or at home, grace provides supernatural endurance that goes beyond what human effort could ever produce.
— When facing a season of prolonged difficulty, when things have been harder longer than you expected and your friends may be telling you to cut your losses, if the Holy Spirit is telling you to HOLD ON, then God’s grace will empower you (supernaturally) to persevere long enough to see your breakthrough. If God is telling you to PUSH ON, then the only way you can lose is if you choose to quit.
— The Holy Spirit gives you the power to endure situations that would have destroyed you years ago. If you walk with Him and allow Him to walk with you, God will develop resilience in you that will become one of your greatest leadership assets.
— Grace enables you to maintain vision during the valley experiences, remembering that your current challenge is just one chapter in a larger story God is writing with your life. “NO” is not “NO” forever, and the season you are in will eventually shift. You just can’t give up before it does.
— When others around you are burning out or giving up, grace provides a sustainable source of strength that doesn’t depend on your circumstances or emotions. Your enduring is fueled by the JOY OF THE LORD!
— You recognize that the only way you can truly lose is if you quit. Since God is ON you, IN you, WITH you, and FOR you, stopping you would mean stopping God—and God cannot be stopped!
3. Grace Transforms Your Pain into Purpose.
One of the most profound aspects of grace is its redemptive power. What I mean by this is that God can turn situations around for our good. What the enemy intended for your destruction, God can transform into the very platform that propels you into your destiny. Joseph recognized this when he said to his brothers, “You intended to harm me, but God turned it around for good” (Genesis 50:20). Grace doesn’t just help you survive your pain; it can turn it around and weave it into your purpose.
How this applies to you:
— I don’t believe that God has to orchestrate bad situations in order to teach us a lesson. God does not tempt us with evil. But I do believe that God will take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it around for our good!
— Your greatest personal and professional setbacks, viewed through the lens of grace, often create opportunities for platforms you couldn’t have accessed any other way. It’s like, the more satan messes with you, the stronger you get. If he knew any better, he would leave you alone. Since you refuse to give up, every attack is propelling you higher!
— The wisdom gained through business or personal failures becomes invaluable because it is wisdom you couldn’t have gained any other way.
— The empathy developed through your own struggles equips you to lead with a compassion that theoretical knowledge alone could never produce. In other words, since you endured that pain, God will use you to minister to others who are facing it now. What you overcome becomes the very thing God uses to help others overcome.
— Paul stated it clearly: “I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10). This is all about recognizing that your assignment is worth the pain associated with it.
— No one whom God used to change the world lived a pain-free life. There is pain associated with your purpose. But just as long as you know you’re suffering BECAUSE of your assignment, you can find divine pleasure in it.
4. Your Greatest Attacks Signal Your Greatest Assignment.
If you’ve been facing unusual resistance or opposition, it may be confirmation—not contradiction—of your calling. Jesus faced His most intense opposition precisely because of the significance of His assignment. Satan doesn’t waste resources attacking those who pose no threat to his kingdom. Grace helps you recognize that the intensity of your opposition often reveals the importance of your assignment.
How this applies to you:
— The professional jealousy you experience may be confirmation that God has placed you on a path of unusual influence and effectiveness.
— Those who criticize your vision most vocally often unconsciously recognize its potential to change things on a level they find threatening. In other words, the anointing associated with your calling makes them seel insecure becuase they don’t know who they are. But don’t worry, their poison cannot stop your purpose!
— Grace provides discernment to distinguish between constructive correction and spiritual opposition, helping you respond appropriately to each.
— The reason why Jesus was attacked so much is because He had a world-changing assignment. I can say the same about you. You are powerful. You are anointed. You are appointed by God. You are called to make a difference. That is why satan will move through people to talk about you, accuse you, lie about you, and attack your character. But don’t get upset. Please take it as a compliment. Satan only attacks those worth attacking!
— If satan is working overtime on you, it is because he is scared of the impact you are called to make. The attack is against the assignment! The greater the assignment, the greater the attack!
— Don’t worry, satan’s overreach will become his undoing with you. Just as the crucifixion that seemed like Christ’s defeat became satan’s ultimate defeat. When Jesus was going to the cross, satan thought he was winning. But when that first drop of blood hit the ground, it sealed his fate! In the same way, the very attacks intended to destroy you will become the platform for your greatest victory and testimony.
Declaration of Faith:
Father, I thank You that Your grace sustains me through life’s toughest seasons.
When the pressure seems unbearable, Your grace gives me the power to keep going when I want to quit.
I recognize that the attacks against me are not signs of my failure but confirmation of my assignment.
Your grace transforms my pain into purpose, my struggles into strength, and my wounds into wisdom.
No season I face is wasted when viewed through the lens of Your redemptive grace.
Living this way, I experience THE GRACE LIFE in 2025, and I know GREATER IS COMING FOR ME!
I declare this by faith. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
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