INSIDE: Receiving grace starts by bringing it all into the light. You can bring your dreams, plans, hopes, sins, and wounds into the light of Christ so you can receive the grace He so freely offers. Listen in for what it looks like to bring it all into the light.
We know there are no formulas, AND we also know God gives instructions and has a teacher’s heart. The Lord wants to give humans practices and principles to make the theoretical and theological practical and applicable.
Which is how this series came to be.
How does one go about receiving the grace God so freely offers?
Every believer has access to God’s grace and the tools and ability to receive it when we:
- Bring our hurts, sins, emotions, dreams, and needs into the light
- Forgive and ask for forgiveness
- Allow the Lord to tend our hearts.
In today’s episode, you’ll receive practical strategies and anchoring truths as you receive grace by bringing it all into the light. We walk through:
- What you can bring into the light,
- How to do it,
- And what it looks like in real life.
Quotes about receiving grace
- “Pushing pain and people away aren’t how I encounter Jesus in real-time in my real life.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “Jesus wants to free you from every sin that entangles you. He wants to heal your heart from the wounds of your past.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “The Lord wants to replace those negative thoughts with the truth of who you are and the truth of who He is.” – Jill E. McCormick
Quotes about bringing it all into the light
- “The Lord wants to give humans practices and principles to make the theoretical and theological practical and applicable.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “Even as we are the light of the world, we hold dreams and needs and hopes, sin, wounds from our past, and thoughts shouted by our inner critic way down deep in the dark.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “Grace-girl, your dreams, sin, wounds from your past, and negative thoughts are exactly what Jesus wants you to bring to the light.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “Redemption, healing, wholeness – in other words – grace are on the other side of naming what we least want to name.” – Jill E. McCormick
- “Sometimes our thoughts feel too ugly to come up to the surface but too true to dismiss altogether, so we just let them lurk in the background.” – Jill E. McCormick
Mentioned in the podcast
#88: What to do when you fear naming what you want [Fear Series]
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