Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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Hey, welcome back. I'm so thankful that you're listening today. I need to begin by just expressing

some Thanksgiving. Last week, I sort of poured out my heart

on pursuing holiness through this simple but crucial sequence of grace to faith to life.

We talked about how immense and incredible God's grace is, all of that which he poured down from

above into and around your life and continues to lavish upon you.

The more the eyes of our heart are enlightened to this, something changes inside of us.

That thing is called faith.

We begin to love him and trust him and believe that all of his promises are real. The result of this is the

pursuit of a daily, godly life, not to accumulate some credit to purchase his grace, but as the

natural result of it. I got the most wonderful and encouraging feedback all throughout last week,

so if you took action reaching out to me directly,

or passing the message along, or just praying for me and others, I just wanted you to know that I'm

thankful for you. Okay, so today on the heels of that discussion about grace leading to faith,

leading to life, I want to ask this follow-up question. How do you know if

all of that is going well? In other words, what fruit is being born in your life in a very real way

as the result of God's infinite mercies transforming your heart and redirecting your life. There are probably a lot of good answers to that,

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