Lifestyle of Grace - November 20
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🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week on becoming poor in spirit, today we’ll explore the concept of living a lifestyle of grace. Many of us struggle with pride and self-sufficiency. But those things are in stark opposition to what it means to live poor in spirit. When we choose the road of humility, we open ourselves up to a life dependent on God’s grace to sustain us, a life fueled by God’s power rather than our own. It is my hope today that we can learn to embrace our weakness, that God may be made strong in us.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 12:9, and today's worship is Here I Bow by Brian and Jenn Johnson.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on becoming poor and spirit, today we'll explore the concept of living a lifestyle of grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Many of us struggle with pride and self-sufficiency, but those things |
| 0:16.1 | are in stark opposition to what it means to live poor in spirit. When we choose the |
| 0:21.6 | road of humility, we open ourselves up to a life dependent on God's |
| 0:25.4 | grace to sustain us a life fueled by God's power rather than our own. It's my hope |
| 0:31.6 | today that we can learn to embrace our weakness, that God may be made strong |
| 0:36.2 | in us. Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9. |
| 0:58.2 | Scripture says, my grace is sufficient for you, |
| 1:02.3 | for my power is made perfect in weakness. |
| 1:09.6 | When we live poor in spirit, who position ourselves to receive the limitless grace of our Heavenly |
| 1:15.1 | Father. To be poor in spirit is by definition to acknowledge our immense total need of God's help. |
| 1:23.0 | And throughout scripture, God declares that his heart is for those who acknowledge their need of him. |
| 1:30.0 | Isaiah 662 says, |
| 1:32.0 | All these things my hand is made and so all these things came to be |
| 1:36.9 | declares the Lord but this is the one to whom I will look he who is humble and contrived in spirit, and trembles at my word. |
| 1:47.6 | God's grace is for those poor in spirit. |
| 1:51.3 | And Paul demonstrated this truth in 2nd Corinthians 12-9 where God told him, |
| 1:56.2 | My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. |
| 2:01.6 | In exhibiting the proper response to God's truth. perfect in weakness. |
| 2:02.8 | In exhibiting the proper response to God's truth, |
| 2:05.6 | Paul says, therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses |
| 2:11.4 | so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. |
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