By Your Grace

[Sue J Love]

This is a prayer to the Lord for him to be to me all I need in order for me to serve and obey him. I am asking him to change my heart to be more like Jesus, and for him to guide my steps each day.

He changed my heart when I responded “Yes” to his invitation to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of my life years ago, but he continues to change my heart day by day, and to make me more like Him. Like Paul, I am a work in progress. I don’t have it all together. I am not aware of any sin in my life, and I have sought the Lord concerning this, but I know I am not perfect, and I have not yet arrived. So, like Paul, I press on toward the goal of heaven, choosing to forget the things now past, and to believe God for what he has for me yet in the days which lie ahead. It is ONLY by the grace of God that I am who I am, and that I do what I do. If it were not for him, I don’t think I would even be here today.

By Your Grace / An Original Work / June 27, 2011

Speak Your words to my heart,
Let Your grace and love impart.
Be to me all I need
To love and serve Christ my King;
To love and serve Christ my King.
Change my heart; be like You;
Let me love and serve in truth.
Guide my steps ev’ry day,
As I bow my knees and pray;
As I bow my knees and pray.

Love You, Lord. You love me.
You died so that I’d go free
From my sin; pure within;
By Your grace I’m saved from sin;
By Your grace I’m saved from sin.
Invite You in my heart;
Now I have a brand new start.
Repented of my sin,
So that I’d be cleansed within;
So that I’d be cleansed within.

Live for You ev’ry day,
List’ning to the words you say.
Make You Lord of my heart;
Be Your witness, grace impart;
Be Your witness, grace impart.
Obey Your ev’ry word;
Do the things I’ve seen and heard.
Your word, Lord, in me burns,
While I wait for Your return;
While I wait for Your return.

By Your Grace | Original Works

 

[Curtis]

. I am not aware of any sin in my life, and I have sought the Lord concerning this, but I know I am not perfect, and I have not yet arrived.

Sister, maybe you are not aware of any sins in your life because you have been walking in his "light"

1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

 

[Sue J Love]

Sister, maybe you are not aware of any sins in your life because you have been walking in his "light"

1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Curtis, I do walk in his light, and I know that I am not willfully sinning against my Lord, but that does not mean I am without sin. I am forgiven, yes. Amen! I am delivered out of the bondage of sin. Hallelujah! I am saved from the punishment of sin and I have eternal life with God in heaven. But, as long as I live in this body I know that I am still capable of sin. I pray that I would not sin. Daily I surrender my life to my Lord, but he is still working on me to make me who he wants me to be. He still teaches me things, and he still challenges my heart in new directions, and he still shows me areas where I need to be more like him and where I need to deny self. We are being transformed into the image of Christ, and it is a process which will be complete when Jesus returns. Yet, I am willing for him to keep conforming me into his likeness.

 

[Curtis]

Curtis, I do walk in his light, and I know that I am not willfully sinning against my Lord, but that does not mean I am without sin. I am forgiven, yes. Amen! I am delivered out of the bondage of sin. Hallelujah! I am saved from the punishment of sin and I have eternal life with God in heaven. But, as long as I live in this body I know that I am still capable of sin. I pray that I would not sin. Daily I surrender my life to my Lord, but he is still working on me to make me who he wants me to be. He still teaches me things, and he still challenges my heart in new directions, and he still shows me areas where I need to be more like him and where I need to deny self. We are being transformed into the image of Christ, and it is a process which will be complete when Jesus returns. Yet, I am willing for him to keep conforming me into his likeness.

I agree, The Lord only holds us accountable for the light we have, which is why his blood continually cleanses us from all sin when we are walking in his light, which would be the light we now have. Unto much it given, much is required. The more we know the more we are required to do. Of course the more we know the more blessed we are.