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Living prideful is incompatible with showing grace because God opposes the prideful. God opposes the prideful because they are full of themselves and usually oppose the ways of the Lord. Humility or humbling ourselves before the Lord and our fellowman enable us to be repentant and receive God's gifts and grace more readily Being full of pride will prevent us from show the grace God has given us. .

It would seem almost impossible to be grace filled and be stingy at the same time. God has freely bestowed his grace upon us and we should freely give to those in need. After being grace filled we should acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is leading us to be graceful and generous to others. The relationship between forgiving and giving generously is stated Jesus "forgive and you shall be forgiven, give and it shall be given unto you". forgive

The characteristics of a conversation with an unbeliever would be a winning quality or attractiveness that invites a favorable reaction, we are to gracious in our speech toward them. Our guidelines in speaking to unbelievers should be gracious and attractive avoiding negative speech and examples. We can avoid bad examples set for us by our culture and world by not repaying evil for evil or insult with an insult. We are to humble, sympathetic, affectionate and compassionate.

The difference between ethical behavior and grace: ethical grace is one good deed deserves another, grace is treating others to do things to those who do not deserve it as in example praying for your enemies. Radical grace is loving and praying for those who hate you, that despise you, those that curse you. Illustrations of Jesus outrageous grace are feed the poor, visit those in prison, give drink to the thirsty.

My openness to God's grace define my persona by displaying openness to share the gift's God has given me with others. My willingness to share the gifts God has given me helps me to follow Christ ways for my life.

God's grace and the gifts bestowed upon us are a greater blessing to those who attend church because all are edified and share in these endowed gifts of grace. Those who have these gifts becomes selfish when not gathering at church and sharing them with his fellow Christians. When one does not share his gifts with fellow Christians they will become weak in their faith and productiveness or quality of these gifts become diminished.

The responsibilities of God's grace for a steward or trustee is to share the gifts with others and manage them properly. As trusties of the gifts God has given us we are to share them with others. Spiritual gifts and the gospel message are entrusted to us for bringing gentiles to Christ and edification of the church.

There is a close relationship between grace (charis) and gifts (charisma) because with God's free gift of grace comes the power to share your free gifts with others in order to edify the church. The chief characteristic of a generous person is that he shares that which he has with others or gives it away. Spiritual gifts that God has bestowed on us is to channel that grace to others for edification or bring others into the Kingdom of God.

God's power flourishes best when we are weak because regardless of hardships, insults, persecutions or in difficulties we know that God makes us strong in witnessing His word. With God there are no practical limits to grace as long as we remain humble and do not let pride fill us.

We often feel weak in times of sickness because we hurt or ache, our attention is drawn to our own situation, usually we neglect God for healing. We are tempted to stop ministering when we have a physical condition or multiple worldly pressures upon us.. We may often feel there is no help from the Lord, we lose our focus on God's love and mercy.

Some people maybe intimidated when they approach the throne because they have not put their full faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is our mediator before God. We sometimes fear judgement and condemnation when we approach God because we have ignored the Holy Spirits guidance in our life. God's throne is the place where He dispenses "mercy and grace", for those who have come before Him with Jesus as their advocate. At home we often grant grace toward our children because they belong to us, though they may have wronged, they repent of their actions.

There are many assurances of faith in the new testament to remind us that God remains faithful no matter the consequences, we assured of his protection and loving kindness. My favorite promise of God's role in keeping me in Christ to the end is Philippians 1:6 "being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in me will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" This promise in Philippians 1:6 gives me assurance that no matter what difficulties or temptations, the Lord will strengthen me and keep me to the end.

Our faith in God works in conjunction with the Lord who protects and reserves us for His kingdom. Because of God's great mercy and grace and out faith in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ we are predestined to inherit eternal life in heaven.

It is impossible for people to come to Christ without God's action to convict because humanity is in the darkness under Satan's control. They have a heart that is an enemy to God. God's gift of grace to prepare all to be saved, provided they accept this conviction of a sinful nature, illustrates His love for us.

Predestination functions with God's grace because we have been adopted as His sons through the work of Christ on the cross. Predestination is glorious because we have been adopted as His sons in Christ. God's grace is glorious because it has been given to us freely, we have not earned it.

I believe every person in human kind has at one time or other has the opportunity to believe and come to faith in the true God. In predestination God knows who the believers are, but being a just and righteous God he gives everyone the opportunity to believe or reject Him. Coming to faith in Jesus, God gives us his grace of salvation, in turn our good works testify of our faith.

The Spirit works in us after we are saved to form Christ in is by convicting us of our worldly desires, this is called sanctification, this begins to produce actions in us that reflect our growing faith. The process of working out our salvation, is displayed in love, peace and harmony in our life toward others, it is our sanctification process in fulfilling that which God has prepared for us. I would expect a persons life to change when they put their faith in Jesus, because they have put away their own earthly desires to fulfill that which god has prepared for them through the Spirit. If there i no discernable change in a persons life after coming to Jesus, then they has decided to keep most of their earthly desires and are not fulfilling God's purpose for them, thus they have become numb to the convictions of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit works in our lives to help prepare us for salvation by the persistent conviction that we are sinful. Without the Holy Spirits revelation of our sinful nature we would not be drawn to God the Father and his gift to the work of Christ on the cross. Without the Holy Spirits conviction of sin we would not say yes to the Father drawing us to him. I have seen the Father draw people to Christ because they finally realize they are spiritly lost

The idea of earning salvation by being good enough for God has completely annulled the gospel. The gospels teach us that Jesus taught that by faith you are saved and that is a gift of God, not by works or obedience to the law. By this scenario we are spiritually dead, relying on law or our own idea of worthiness before God, thinking that would be good enough to earn our into heaven. By contrast Jesus has taken our unworthy sinfulness upon himself by giving his life for us, that those who come to faith in him will receive salvation from his works on the cross. Realizing and receiving the work of Christ on the cross our salvation changes our perception of self righteous, pride and instead of looking down at others we love them as Christ has loved us. Works righteousness is so ingrained in a lot of people because they believe there is a God, but believe there is no way God would condemn them if they did good works and helped others. The understanding of salvation through grace helps us realize that we cannot be justified before God for our own righteousness, only by faith we understand what God has done for us. It is only through faith that salvation by grace has been granted to us.

Being rescued by God's grace has kept us from being opponents or enemies of God. We are all victims of Satan's lies and deceits, God through his mercy and love has rescued us from eternal damnation. Before knowing Christ, God rescued me from my evil and unjust ways, thinking of only myself. Reading the bible and hearing God's word, I realized how much he loved me. Through his favor he granted my salvation through faith in the death and resurrection of his beloved son.

God had presented his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Jesus who knew no sin gave His life for many, that those who believe in Him will be saved from the judgement of God. Only through blood could atonement be made for our sins. In the old testament a perfect and blemish free animals were used for the atonement of an individuals sins and had to be performed annually. God sent His only Son to be a sacrifice for our sins who was without blemish and knew no sin. He became the sacrificial Lamb provided by God Himself, Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to redeem us from our slavery to sin.

We have been redeemed from slavery by a payment of a purchase price. Human nature is flawed and we are an enemy and unjust before God, therefore through Jesus Christ we are freed from the slavery of sin. The price of our freedom comes from Jesus Christ who paid for out redemption with his life as a sacrifice for our sins. We are free from this sinful world and have been forgiven for our sins and have become participants of the Kingdom of God, however being we still live in a world of sin we may at times fall to its evil paths. Only with the Lords help can we overcome the trials that come our way.

Even though humankind was created in the image God, we have fallen into sin and have become morally corrupt. Mans heart is hardened and is opposed to Gods righteousness. Though some good resides in man he is incapable of pleasing God unless God helps him through the holy spirit.

The story of the rich young ruler displays that regardless of one's position in society or their wealth and ater keeping the law he must follow the lord to enter heaven. Jesus uses this parable of the rich man because many believe they enter heaven by being good. Only God can show how his grace for us can cleans us of our sins so we can have eternal life with him in heaven.

The story of the thief on the cross illustrates that faith in Jesus Christ is enough for his sins to be forgiven. The story also illustrates that Gods grace triumphs for the forgiveness of our sins even we do not deserve it.