*THE RESTORER'S DAILY GUIDE*

DATE: FRIDAY 16TH MAY 2025

THEME: *ACTIVATE GRACE!!!*

MEMORIZE
Ephesians 2:8
[8]For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

READ
Titus 2:11-13
[11]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,
[13]Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One),

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
*Where knowledge is found, privileges abound.*

MESSAGE
Yesterday, we saw the absolute necessity of allowing the grace of God to make us what God intended us to be in life and in destiny.

Today's text shows that the grace of God is a person who appeared to save us from sin and all it's consequences. His name is Jesus Christ our Lord.

Which is the reason why the apostle Paul argued in
Romans 6:1-2
"WHAT SHALL we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God's grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?
[2]Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?" [Amplified Bible]

If grace has come to help us "OVERCOME" the sin virus and its syndrome and consequences, then we should not remain in sin thinking that grace should abound. It is the abuse and the dishonour of grace.

Secondly, grace came to help us "BECOME" what we were pre-ordained to be by God, which is also why Paul the Apostle proclaimed thus;
1 Corinthians 15:10
"But by the grace (the unmerited favor and blessing) of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not [found to be] for nothing (fruitless and without effect). In fact, I worked harder than all of them [the apostles], though it was not really I, but the grace (the unmerited favor and blessing) of God which was with me."

Therefore, we can conclude that any life that is still wallowing in sin and still struggling with the issue of purpose discovery is the life where God's grace is yet to be activated and engaged.

How then do we activate and engage grace?

1. Through knowledge. Grace is divine privilege, and as it is with all "parallel truths" in life; privileges are activated and engaged through knowledge. What you do not know will not show in your life. [2Peter 3:18]. Every dimension of grace missing in a person's life is largely dependent on a missing knowledge or information. Where knowledge is found, privileges abound. Where knowledge grows, privileges also grow.
2. Action. Nothing activates, generates, and engages grace like the acceptance of responsibility. Where responsibility is lacking, liabilities multiply. Grace can be likened to having food in your home and yet dying of hunger because of one's failure to take the necessary steps in getting the food ready for consumption. Someone can send you money, if you don't withdraw it for your usage, it lies dormant in the bank whilst you stay in need. We have been blessed beyond measures by God, we have no reason suffering when all we need to do to activate grace is to accept the responsibility of obeying God's relevant instruction in His word to activate and engage grace for our benefits.
3. We activate, engage and release grace by speaking. Imagine the creative energy in God that brought about the creation of the entire universe was activated and released by the power of God's Word. He spoke and all of creation emerged. Words are activators and catalyst of grace. When we speak, God works, angels are put to work, grace is activated. We are a moving warehouse of divine energy waiting to be activated by the mere opening of our mouths to speak. Unfortunately, we often activate negative energy by speaking negative words. Watch what you say, beloved. What you say is what you get. [Proverbs 18:20-21]

This is a new day for you beloved, locate your place in God today by knowledge, activate grace by taking pertinent and relevant steps of obedience to God's word and your life will be flooded with practical wonders of God's grace in Jesus name.

Shalom, maranatha!

ACTION STEPS
1. Prayerfully meditate on today's devotional guide again.
2. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you your areas of need for grace.
3. Study discreetly that unique area and activate it by taking relevant steps in line with your purpose and assignment in life.

REMEMBER
*Where knowledge is found, privileges abound.*

PRAYERS
Dear heavenly Father, Thank you for today's devotional guide. I receive grace to accept the responsibility of activating the fulness of God's grace for destiny in my life in Jesus' name. Amen.

AUTHOR: JEDIDIAH DAVID

DAILY READING: Jeremiah 12-14; Mark 12-14; Revelation 18-19;

HYMN
Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty !
Early in the morning, our song shall rise to Thee ;
Holy, Holy, Holy ! Merciful and mighty !
God in Three Persons,blessed Trinity !

2
Holy, Holy, Holy ! all the saints adore Thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea ;
Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before Thee,
Which wert, and art, and evermore shall be.

3
Holy, Holy, Holy ! though the darkness hide Thee,
Though the eye of sinful man
Thy glory may not see :
Only Thou art holy, there is none beside Thee,
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.

4
Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty !
All Thy works shall praise
Thy name in earth, and sky,and sea ;
Holy, Holy, Holy ! Merciful and Mighty !
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!

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