Given Grace: Gratitude and Glory

Duane Brooks, expresses gratitude for the grace of the Lord and discusses the struggles and pressures we face. God provides comfort. Paul, while facing challenges developed resilience in spreading the gospel. We can rely on God's grace in difficult times and finding strength in His power. We can reach a point where we rely on God completely and experience the power of grace in sustaining believers. Listen for words of encouragement, reflections on God's deliverance, and the importance of depending on Him rather than ourselves. Message based on 2 Corinthians 1:8-11; 4:7-15.🕊️✨ #GivenGrace  #Encouragement #Faithful #ThankfulQuotes:Dallas Willard: Grace is not opposed to effort, but to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace is not just about forgiveness — if we had never sinned we would still need grace! Grace is God acting in our life to do what we cannot do on our own.Charles Spurgeon wrote: The trials of Christian life you shall find heavy, but you will find grace will make them light.Jonathan Edwards:  Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected.N. T. Wright: We are not to be surprised if living as Christians brings us to the place where we find we are at the end of our own resources, and that we are called to rely on the God who raises the dead.W. Paul Jones:  What one sees depends on where one sets up one's shop. Mine is at the entrance of the empty tomb. Henry Van Dyke: Gone From My SightI am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speckof white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone." Gone where? Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,hull and spar as she was when she left my side.And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voicesready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"To discover more messages of hope, go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on X and YouTube @tallowoodbcFollow us on Instagram @tallowood.baptistFollow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist