Is it hard to believe that God doesn’t want you to be conscious of sin? Isn’t sin consciousness what we’ve been taught our whole lives? But think about what happens when we focus on our sin and our flesh. We feel unworthy in God’s presence. We hesitate in awkwardness and struggle to spend ten minutes…

I love the old song we used to sing in the ’70’s, “He Paid a Debt.” It goes like this: “He paid a debt He did not oweI owed a debt I could not payI needed someone to wash my sins away.And, now, I sing a brand new song,‘Amazing Grace’ the whole day long.Christ Jesus…

Since I encountered the Spirit of grace (a day I will never forget), my life has been marked with joy. I know what “joy inexpressible” is now.  There are times that I just can’t find words for the ecstasy I feel inside. It’s like the people who were witnesses to the healing of the man…

Following are some “journal entries” from this glorious unfolding of the revelation of grace in my life. Several years ago during the first year of my ambush of Grace, one morning I wrote down a list of what brought me ecstasy, a river of grateful thoughts to our Lord. Enjoy! Grace Journal, Year 1 I…

The second year after my grace awakening was a year of trials and heartbreak, the most difficult year of my life. The deepest heartbreak of that year was the loss of my mom to cancer. As I lay on the bed with my mom and best friend in her last days on the earth, I…

My Grace Journal, Year Three… Another year passed… and wow! As I beheld the wonder of my God, I saw more and more… As I experienced the joy of my salvation, I went from tears of healing and restoration that seemed like they would never end to an awe that absolutely overwhelmed me every single…

Jesus chose to come for us… In Hebrews 12 we find a familiar verse that we often quote: “for the joy that was set before Him [Jesus] endured the cross.”1 The idea is that the Lord Jesus endured the sufferings of the cross because there was a reward of joy set before Him. This interpretation…

“O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39)1 Aren’t you glad He said “nevertheless”? It shows the nature of love. Love is a choice. That word “nevertheless” is shocking if you think of its implications. It means that Jesus…

Did you know that Jesus came to do the Father’s will? “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them’ (which…

One sacrifice for sins forever… Sometimes I just repeat that phrase over and over. Do I really get? Is it possible to ever uncover how perfect the work of Jesus is for me? Will I ever truly understand the reality that my repeated offerings (even subconsciously) could never purge a single sin? It is finished!…

The devil has been defeated through the finished work of the cross: “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.” (Colossians 2:15) Jesus is seated at the right hand of God, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, having purged our sins and…

When we fight to defeat the enemy, we are revealing our disbelief in what Jesus has already accomplished. We don’t fight him; we resist him with all the authority of heaven, and he flees in utter fear. “…we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne…