{"id":1988,"date":"2013-01-14T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2013-01-14T01:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T06:07:54","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-01-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/14\/pearls-of-wisdom-01-14-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 01-14-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE WORD OF GRACE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Acts 20:32, Amplified Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care].\u00a0 And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor].\u00a0 It is able to build you up and to give you [your rightful] inheritance among all God\u2019s set-apart ones (those consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).<\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite scriptures because of the meat in it.\u00a0 I know some of you are thinking that I say this about all scriptures.\u00a0 Well, you are right.\u00a0 I love all of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 However, this particular one is very special to me.<\/p>\n

We are deposited in God\u2019s care.\u00a0 He is in charge of us.\u00a0 That means that we can trust Him to protect us and take care of us at all times.\u00a0 There are no \u201coops\u201d times with God when He says:\u00a0 Oh my, I didn\u2019t have time to take care of you during that time of difficulty.\u00a0 I was too busy with your neighbor down the street.\u00a0 No, God is always right there for us.<\/p>\n

Here in this scripture His Word is called the Word of His grace.\u00a0 Grace is God\u2019s ability released to you through Jesus, because of His great love for you.\u00a0 It is God\u2019s gift of Himself to you, with all the \u201cperks\u201d of heaven given to you to live life more abundantly, to accomplish what you were designed to do while you are here on this earth.\u00a0 That\u2019s why God told Paul that His grace was sufficient for him.\u00a0 What more do we need.\u00a0 There is nothing else to help us.\u00a0 That\u2019s it—–GRACE!<\/p>\n

Look what His Word of grace does for you:\u00a0 it is able to build you up and to give you your rightful inheritance.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 The Word of grace, God\u2019s gift to you and me of Himself personified, builds us up.\u00a0 That Word of grace gives us our rightful inheritance.\u00a0 What is that rightful inheritance?\u00a0 Everything that God has and is!\u00a0 We are special to Him.\u00a0 He is our Father.\u00a0 He loves us with a total love, and until we understand that He loves us dearly, how can we trust Him and believe that He does care for us?\u00a0 Yes, He does love us and yes, He does take care of us totally (that is, if we will let Him).<\/p>\n

Take this scripture this week and put it where you can see it often and remind yourself of how special you are, whether you feel like it or not and whether you think you deserve it or not.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with how you feel or what you think.\u00a0 It just IS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE WORD OF GRACE Acts 20:32, Amplified Bible And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care].\u00a0 And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor].\u00a0 It is able to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}