Life Audio.

Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the

words you need to connect with your father and heaven. No matter what is going on in your life today, you can trust that God wants to hear from you.

Right after the short word from our sponsor, we will pray through today's prayer,

a prayer when you don't have enough grace for the day.

Grace is such a beautiful word.

The Greek word for grace is Cheris.

Its basic idea is simply unearned favor, an unearned gift, blessings or favor bestowed as a gift,

freely and never as a reward for work performed.

Grace is receiving what we do not deserve. In our busy, crazy, and upside-down worlds,

grace is something that we all desperately need. We are not perfect.

We are humans living in a fallen world and we don't deserve forgiveness or grace. We make mistakes

every day and no matter how hard we try to achieve perfection, we will always fall short.

The good news is that when Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to die for our sins,

our shortcomings and wrongdoings were washed away. He died so that we would live under his umbrella of grace.

It's easy to beat ourselves up when things go wrong or we make

mistakes. We spend hours wishing things were different, hoping we would have said something

different, or maybe nothing. We run scenarios repeatedly in our heads, trying

to make sense of them, and find the grace for ourselves that we so desperately need.

We are in a toxic downward spile of condemnation, but we don't have to give ourselves

enough grace. We can rely on the free gift of grace that Jesus gives us.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because

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