{"id":276409,"date":"2022-06-27T03:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=276409"},"modified":"2022-06-27T03:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:11:18","slug":"drawing-on-the-grace-of-god-now-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/drawing-on-the-grace-of-god-now-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing on the Grace of God\u2014 Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We\u2026plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.<br>\u20142 Corinthians 6:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed. \u201c\u2026in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses\u201d\u2014 that is where our patience is tested (2 Corinthians 6:4). Are you failing to rely on the grace of God there? Are you saying to yourself, \u201cOh well, I won\u2019t count this time\u201d? It is not a question of praying and asking God to help you\u2014 it is taking the grace of God now. We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that in the Bible. Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don\u2019t say, \u201cI will endure this until I can get away and pray.\u201d Pray now \u2014 draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God\u2019s grace through prayer.<br>\u201c\u2026in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors\u2026\u201d (2 Corinthians 6:5)\u2014 in all these things, display in your life a drawing on the grace of God, which will show evidence to yourself and to others that you are a miracle of His. Draw on His grace now, not later. The primary word in the spiritual vocabulary is now. Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself. One of the greatest proofs that you are drawing on the grace of God is that you can be totally humiliated before others without displaying even the slightest trace of anything but His grace.<br>\u201c\u2026having nothing\u2026.\u201d Never hold anything in reserve. Pour yourself out, giving the best that you have, and always be poor. Never be diplomatic and careful with the treasure God gives you. \u201c\u2026and yet possessing all things\u201d\u2014 this is poverty triumphant (2 Corinthians 6:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2026plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.\u20142 Corinthians 6:1 The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed. \u201c\u2026in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses\u201d\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}