This week on Live the Promise, several of our guests highlighted that gifts offered to us by Jesus Christ when we enter into relationship with Him.
A true definition of power
What does it really mean to be powerful? Mark Batterson shares that there are two different definitions for power in the New Testament. One is dunamis, the power to do things beyond your ability. The other is exousia, the power to not do something that is within your power to do. Mark says that while Jesus is well known for his miracle-working, His ability to not do something completely within his power is equally as valuable.
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Grace
Through relationship with Jesus Christ, we are offered grace for when we fall short. Although grace is a free gift, Kyle Idleman says that as Christians, we often believe lies that prevent us from experiencing God’s grace in full. One of those lies is the assumption that Jesus wants nothing to do with me because of my sin. Other times we believe that Jesus’s offer of unmerited grace is simply too good to be true. Kyle says the beauty of God’s grace is that no matter where you are, it will meet you there.
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A way out
Have you ever felt like you were deep in the valley of the shadow of death with no way out? After the death of her best-friend to breast cancer, Mandisa says she fell into a deep depression and she thought she might never get out. However, she says Jesus met her in her depression and offered her a way out. She says that Jesus always offers everyone who calls on his name a way out.
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Truth amidst the lies
Have you ever noticed the way you talk to yourself? Jennifer Rothschild says that for many of us, if we took the time to examine our self-talk, we would be appalled. Most of the things we tell ourselves, we would never say to anyone else. Satan wants us to speak destructive words over our lives because it lessens our ability to make a difference for Christ. However, Jennifer also says Jesus Christ offers us truth amidst of the lies that we tell ourselves.
Listen to the conversation here.
