(“What’s So Amazing About Grace?” Reprised)
Several times this May 2023, the pull to pen something on the concept of grace was strong, but I resisted each time. A two-part series on the subject furnished more than enough to build upon in personal study last year if any reader so chose. The subject is not fully comprehensible and wholly inexhaustible (in this writer’s opinion); indeed, there abound a plethora of sermons, books and Bible study tools with which a person can pursue deeper insights into this concept on which the believer’s salvation and every other benefit are premised.
Another impulsion came a couple of days ago, this one much stronger and including specifics. Concluding that someone may need a reminder of the wonders and glories of God’s limitless grace, I willingly capitulated, noting with pleasure the perfect timing as the fifth month comes to a close.
Below is a reprised excerpt of one of last year’s grace articles. The goal is not to reinvent the wheel or re-post the entirety of what was shared originally. For study beyond the cursory, please see the May 2022 archived articles on the subject.
Spotted her recently? Enjoyed her attention? Her benefits package too expansive to mention. This five-letter endowment too priceless to miss, You’ve come to God’s kingdom for a time such as this!
Noticed her style? Simple and understated. Observed her impact? Poignant, yet underrated. She often arrives without pomp or fanfare, But once she’s around, you will know that she’s there!
Getting a whiff of her fragrant perfume? You’re in great company – she’s arrived in the room! Get ready, get set, …. here are the traces …. That you’re about to encounter God’s manifold graces!
Grace’s Many Faces
(Your Grace for All Seasons)
o Abiding Grace (2 Cor 13:14; 2 Tim 4:22; Heb 13:25)
o Abounding Grace (2 Cor 8:7; 9:8; Rom 5:17, 20)
o Abundant Grace (1 Tim 1:14)
o Acquitting Grace (Rom 3:24)
o Accessing Grace (Rom 5:2; Eph 2:18; 3:12; Heb 4:16; 10:19-22)
o Adopting & Accepting Grace (Ephesians 1:5-6)
o Believing Grace (Acts 15:11; 18:27)
o Benevolent Grace (Num 6:25; Heb 2:9; 2 Cor 8:9; Eph 1:7; 2:7)
o Bequeathing Grace (1 Pet 1:7; Acts 20:32)
o Building Grace (Acts 20:32)
o Calling Grace (Gal 1:15; 2 Tim 1:9)
o Comforting Grace (2 Thess 2:16)
o Empowering Grace (Acts 4:33)
o Enabling Grace (James 4:6; Tit 2:11-12)
o Endearing Grace (Gen 6:8; Ex 13:33)
o Enriching Grace (2 Cor 8:9; 9:7-8;11; Eph 1:7; 2:7)
o Establishing Grace (Heb 13:9)
o Exceeding Grace (Eph 2:7)
o Excelling Grace (1 Cor 15:10)
o Favor-compelling Grace (Esther 2:15b; 17; 5:2-3)
o Favor-distinguishing Grace (Gen 6:7-8; Esther 2:17)
o Finishing Grace (Zech 4:7-9)
o Forgiving Grace (Eph 1:7; Col 1:14)
o Gifting Grace (Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10; Rom 12:6)
o Giving Grace (2 Cor 8:7; 9:7-8)
o Gospel Grace (Acts 20:24)
o Growing Grace (2 Pet 3:18)
o Great Grace (Acts 4:33)
o Helping Grace (Heb 4:16)
o Industry (Laboring More Abundantly) Grace (1 Cor 15:10)
o Inheritance-Conferring Grace (Acts 20:32; 1 Pet 1:3-4)
o Justifying Grace (Eph 3:24; Tit 3:7)
o Lifting Grace (James 4:6; 10; 1 Peter 5:5-6)
o Ornamental Grace (Prov 1:9; 3:22; 4:9)
o PESS {Perfecting, Establishing, Strengthening & Settling} Grace (1 Pet 5:10)
o Proliferating Grace (1 Pet 1:2b; 2 Pet 2:1)
o Promise-Evoking Grace (Rom 4:16)
o Reigning Grace (Rom 5:21; 6:14)
o Remnant-Preserving Grace (Rom 11:4-6)
o Saving Grace (Acts 15:11; Eph 2:5; 8-9; Tit 2:11; 2 Tim 1:9)
o Seasoning Grace (Col 4:6; Eph 4:29)
o Strengthening Grace (2 Cor 12:9; Eph 3:16; 2 Tim 2:1; 1 Pet 5:10; Heb 13:9)
o Sufficing Grace (2 Cor 9:8; 12:9)
o Surpassing Grace (2 Cor 9:14)
o Supplicating Grace (Zech 12:10)
o Transforming Grace (1 Cor 15:10)
o Upholding Grace (Rom 5:2; 1 Pet 5:12)
For Your Grace-Receiving & Listening Pleasure
*Christ Be Magnified (Cody Carnes)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DaF0bwaurX0&feature=share
*For Your Glory (Tasha Cobbs Leonard)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uHR9zMnjjbk&feature=share
Your Grace Still Amazes Me (Phillips, Craig & Dean)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpLIcuWwPA&feature=share
Amazing Grace/My Chains Are Gone
(Chris Tomlin/Louie Giglio)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZgXXUW08Q&feature=share
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KKo3T0j9qqo&feature=share
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DxgCHQUeuUg&feature=share
Bonus Track
**Mercy Came Running (Phillips, Craig & Dean)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lIk1_j_5J7M&feature=share
*Neither song expressly mention grace, but allude to and exude receptivity to it as the heart’s natural response and in grateful reciprocity of the love from which it flows …
**Because there’s no grace without mercy – grace’s defining backdrop and the reason and catalyst for its existence …
Thanks be to God for this indescribable gift!