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Previous Daily Devotional About receiving grace Romans 5:17 . For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. (NIV) We receive grace and we receive the gift of righteousness because of the decisions we make. We cannot go buy grace and righteousness at a discount store. We cannot go to a school, a church, an office, or a web site and get grace. We cannot "get" or buy anything that is of God. With God, we must receive. We must be able to open our heart, mind, and soul into a receiving position to receive whatever it is God wants us to have. Receiving implies an opening of our heart, mind, and soul. This opening or positioning requires we totally abandon all that is worldly. It is not the worldly physical bills, the worldly physical money, or the fear of poverty that enslave us in chains, it is the greed and selfishness that money brings that put our heart, mind, and soul in prison. We cannot possess what is in the world and what is from heaven at the same time. We cannot possess grace and money at the same time for money will put our soul into prison while grace is found only by abandoning the worldly chains of financial slavery. |
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