Thirty Things That Grace Can Do – Part I
From The HeartPublish date: 07/28/2013
1. Grace can save the world.
Genesis 6:8 AMP - But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes of the Lord.
Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
2. Grace can give one all good things.
Psalms 84:11 NKJV - For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
3. Grace can bring men to repentance.
Zechariah 12:10 AMP - And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace or unmerited favor and supplication. And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his firstborn.
4. Grace can impart great blessings.
Acts 4:33 AMP - And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace (loving-kindness and favor and goodwill) rested richly upon them all.
5. Grace can bring salvation.
Titus 2:11-12 AMP - For the grace of God (His unmerited favor and blessing) has come forward (appeared) for the deliverance from sin and the eternal salvation for all mankind. 12 It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world.
Ephesians 2:4-10 NKJV - But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
6. Grace can impart faith.
Acts 18:27 NKJV - And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.
7. Grace can justify.
Romans 3:24-25 NKJV - Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith.
Titus 3:7 NKJV - That having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8. Grace can overcome sin.
Romans 5:20 NKJV - Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.
9. Grace can reign in life if permitted.
Romans 5:21 NKJV - So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
10. Grace can make one God's elect.
Romans 11:5-6 NKJV - Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
11. Grace can give boldness.
Romans 15:15 NKJV - Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God.
12. Grace can make the unclean, clean.
1 Corinthians 10:29-31 KJV - Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? 30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
13. Grace can give power.
1 Corinthians 15:10 NKJV - But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.