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[Deleted member 37474]

Can someone explain grace. Is it the Holy Spirit entering into you and washing away all sins and purifying your heart without you even asking? As someone that experiences guilt and self blame due to trauma, I have been having a hard time with "forgiveness." But I felt God's presence one day and it felt like something was pouring over me and cleansing me. Is that odd? Was that grace?

 

[The Albatross]

Have offers, need continued prayers so as to find a place in the new location so that I can relocate with two dogs and 4 pets.

 

[Changing4Best]

Can someone explain grace. Is it the Holy Spirit entering into you and washing away all sins and purify...

Grace is unmerited favor from God, who is also the Holy Spirit and Jesus. That is the way it has been explained to me. In other words, we did nothing to EARN it, God gives it to us because He loves us and wants us to be in tune with His plans for us. If we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior then the Holy Spirit comes to us, especially when we ask Him to, but also when we believe in Jesus and all that He did for us too.

I have also been told that guilt is a tool of the devil, one that he tries to use to separate us from God. But there is a Bible verse that says NOTHING in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

I hope this helps to explain things for you. I am not a pastor or anything like that, just a devout Christian who cares.

 

[Changing4Best]

Have offers, need continued prayers so as to find a place in the new location so that I can reloca...

Dear Father God, Please help The Albatross with her plans to move. Let there be a place for her and her beloved pets. I pray in the Name of Jesus, Amen!

 

[Changing4Best]

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
1 John 4:11-12 NLT

 

[Changing4Best]

For the commandments say, “You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not covet.” These—and other such commandments—are summed up in this one commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.
Romans 13:9-10 NLT

 

[VioletButterfly]

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7

Pray continually. Thessalonian 5:17

 

[VioletButterfly]

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wise and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16-19

 

[VioletButterfly]

In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

 

[VioletButterfly]

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Psalm 32:8

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Psalm 23:4
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me

 

[VioletButterfly]

Yes I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. Psalm 73:23