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 4:7 NIV
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”
Zechariah 4:6 NIV
“So he said to me, ‘This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.”
Setting the Stage:
In our journey through “Living the Grace Life,” we’ve explored how a great deal about God’s amazing grace thus far. Today, we’ll dive deeper into understanding grace as our access point to God’s limitless, supernatural power – power that is entirely His and never ours.
Many believers have a limited understanding of grace, seeing it only as God’s forgiveness or unmerited favor. While these aspects are certainly true, grace is much more. Grace is the divine conduit through which God’s extraordinary power flows into ordinary vessels like you and me. It’s not just God’s kindness toward you; it’s God’s power working directly through you – making you a container for His glory!
The Apostle Paul captured this profound truth when he wrote, “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).
So, what does this mean to you today? A few things.
1. The More Empty of Self You Are, the More Room There Is for God’s Power.
The paradox of accessing God’s power through grace is that it operates inversely to human logic. The less of you that’s in the way, the more of God’s power can flow through you. This isn’t about self-deprecation but about honest recognition that God’s power works most effectively through vessels that are empty of self-reliance, self-promotion, and self-directed ambitions.
How this applies to you:
— The moments in your professional life when you feel most overwhelmed and inadequate are the exact moments when you’re best positioned to experience God’s power, because you know you can’t rely on yourself.
— When you come to the end of your wisdom, strength, or resources, you haven’t reached the end at all – you’ve arrived at the beginning of experiencing God’s unlimited power through grace.
— The Law was designed to get man to the end of himself. The Law was intended to prove to us that we are not good enough and that we are incomplete without God. The Law served its purpose. It proved to us that we needed a Savior, that Savior came, and His name is Jesus.
— While The Law was designed to get us to the END of ourselves, unfortunately, many Born-Again believers have too much of THEM in the way for the Holy Spirit to use them. The more you insist on contributing, controlling, or getting credit, the less you will rely on the Holy Spirit, and the more you are actually cutting yourself off from God’s power.
— Acknowledging your weaknesses, limitations, and inadequacies does not create obstacles to God’s purpose; it actually opens the door to opportunities where His power can be displayed more prominently in and through your life.
— When you stop trying to be the source of power and embrace being a conduit for God’s power, you experience freedom from performance pressure and the joy of being used by Him.
— God will often allow you to reach the end of yourself before displaying His power through you, ensuring that when results come, there’s no confusion about who deserves the glory.
— The prayer that positions you for God’s power isn’t “Lord, make ME stronger” but “Lord, empty ME of MYSELF so there’s more room for You.” This is how you live THE GRACE LIFE!
2. Grace Is Your Access to God’s Power, and God Wants All The Glory For It!
Grace provides the access point through which God’s supernatural power flows into your life. The power I am talking about today isn’t an enhancement of your natural abilities or a supplement to your human strength. It’s entirely God’s power, flowing through you as a vessel. This understanding transforms how you approach every challenge, not with self-confidence but with God-confidence.
How this applies to you:
— If you walk with God long enough, believe His promises, and are crazy enough to live by faith, you will face seemingly impossible situations because the Holy Spirit will lead you into them. When He does, remember that God did not lead you to the situation to fail. God did not set you up for a letdown. But if the problem is truly humanly impossible, then the only way to succeed is by relying on the grace of God to give you access to God’s power, which has no limitations.
— The pressure to perform disappears when you genuinely understand that the results, in a given situation, have nothing to do with you. At that point, you are totally depending on God’s power working through you by His grace. In other words, if you know the situation requires things that you simply cannot do, then you have no pressure to perform. All you can do at that point is believe!
— In moments when you feel completely inadequate for the task before you, you’ve actually reached the perfect starting point for grace to operate – because God’s power is made perfect in weakness, not in your competence.
— The outcomes that bring glory to God are never those you could have achieved through education, experience, or natural talent – they’re the ones that are so clearly supernatural that others know it must be God.
— Success through grace means experiencing God’s results, not yours – results that exceed what human effort could ever produce and point unmistakably to Him as the source.
— Our God is a jealous God. He does not want His glory to go to any other god, nor does He want YOU taking the credit for what He did. So, many times, He waits until the situation is so bad that when He shows up, no one will even think it was you. This way, He will get maximum glory!
— True humility comes when you realize that anything of eternal value that happens through your life is 100% God’s doing, with you merely serving as the container He chose to use. If you live this way, willing to give God ALL the glory, then there is no limit to what God will do through you!
3. Grace-Accessed Power Always Glorifies God, Never the Vessel.
The ultimate purpose of God allowing His power to flow through human vessels is for Him to get the glory. When supernatural results flow through ordinary people, it becomes undeniably clear that God is the source. This is why Paul emphasized that we have this treasure in “jars of clay” – to show that the extraordinary power is from God, not from us.
How this applies to you:
— The professional success or ministry impact that comes through grace will have a supernatural quality to it. People will know it was not you. It will be something that can’t be explained by your credentials, connections, or capabilities. This way, God gets ALL the glory!
— When people compliment what God does through you, you’ll find yourself genuinely redirecting and deflecting praise to Him, knowing for sure that you were merely the container, not the content.
— True success in God’s economy isn’t measured by what you accomplish but by how clearly others can see it was God, not you, who accomplished it through you. In other words, when you stand before God in heaven and your works are tested, it won’t actually be about how much YOU DID. It will be about how much DIED TO SELF so the Holy Spirit could do, through you, what God intended before the beginning of time.
— The most powerful testimony isn’t “Look what I did for God” but “Look what God did despite me.”
— Living THE GRACE LIFE life means becoming increasingly transparent as a vessel, so that when people look at your life, they see less of you and more of Christ in you.
— God wants you to experience Kingdom achievements that come through His grace. These all have an unmistakable signature that says, “This had to be God because no human could have produced these results.”
— The greatest compliment you can receive isn’t “You’re amazing” but “Your God is amazing, and thankful that He uses you the way He does.”
4. Living in “The Grace Realm” Means Complete Dependence on God’s Power,
Not Yours.
The theme for our church this year is “The Grace Realm” – a dimension where complete dependence on God becomes your normal way of living, not the exception.
How this applies to you:
— You enter each day with a profound awareness that apart from Jesus, you can do nothing of eternal value, yet through His grace, you can do all things through His strength.
— Prayer becomes less about asking God to help you with your agenda and more about aligning yourself with His agenda and becoming available for His power to flow through you.
— You approach challenges not by relying on your strength but by acknowledging your weakness and positioning yourself to be a conduit for God’s unlimited power.
— Decision-making shifts from relying on your wisdom to becoming a vessel through which God’s wisdom flows, leading to conclusions that have supernatural results.
— Rather than exhausting yourself trying to make things happen, you learn to rest as a vessel, allowing God’s power to accomplish through you what human effort never could. You labor to enter into God’s rest (Hebrews 4).
— In THE GRACE REALM, success and failure are redefined. In God’s Kingdom, success is about simply doing whatever the Holy Spirit leads you to do, regardless of the visible results and without regard for people’s opinions. Failure comes when you attempt to be the source instead of the conduit. This means that even if things work out well and you get the results you wanted, if you did it self-centered, full of pride, then in God’s eyes, you still failed.
— You stop measuring yourself against others and start focusing on becoming the purest channel possible for God’s power to flow through unhindered by your ego, agenda, ambition, or efforts.
Declaration of Faith:
Father, I am simply Your vessel – an earthen container designed to showcase Your all-surpassing power and glory.
I empty myself of self-reliance and self-promotion so Your power can flow unhindered through me.
I release all pressure to perform, knowing results depend entirely on Your power working through me by grace.
True success is measured by how clearly others see You, not me, in everything I accomplish.
I face every challenge by positioning myself as a conduit for Your unlimited power, not my limited strength.
“Not by my might, nor by my power, but by Your Spirit” is my declaration for every situation I encounter.
My life’s purpose is to become increasingly transparent so others see less of me and more of Christ in me.
Living this way, I experience THE GRACE LIFE in 2025, where my emptiness becomes the stage for Your fullness! This is why I can declare, GREATER IS COMING FOR ME!
I declare this by faith. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
This is Today’s Word! Apply it and prosper!
