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. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 12 verse 9.

Scripture says,

My grace is sufficient for you,

for my power is made perfect in weakness.

When we live poor in spirit,

we position ourselves to receive the limitless grace of our Heavenly Father.

To be poor in spirit is by definition to acknowledge our immense, total need of God's help.

And through Scripture, God declares that his heart is for those who acknowledge their need of him.

Isaiah 662 says,

All these things my hand has made.

And so all these things came to be, declare the Lord.

But this is the one to whom I will look.

He who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

God's grace is for those poor in spirit.

Paul demonstrated this truth in 2 Corinthians 129, where God told him,

my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

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