Unveiling Grace 2 Women Of Power Conference September 2026 by Rev. Christie Bature: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

This is my soul desire. I pray that it is your hope too, that God will use you to build his kingdom. That's why we are here

One of the things Satan uses to distract us is to make us believe everything else but the very reason we are here

The reason we are here is to enforce the kingdom of God on the earth

Most of the time our attention is drawn away. Money, fame, power, who we know, who we are rubbing shoulders with, the most expensive things, gold

All of these things will tarnish. None of them will go with us where we are going

For me it is not just making it to heaven. I don't want to be told I am somebody's gate man because my works didn't survive the fire

1 Corinthians 3:10-15

You are born again, but your works will be tried through the fire. Take heed how you build. Are you building with inferior materials or with materials that can withstand fire?

Don't let the enemy set your heart on things that do not have eternal value

We are in the world but we are not of the world John 17:14-16

Matthew 6:33

Some of us are doing the kingdom but we are not seeking his righteousness. We think we can do the things of the kingdom and live in unrighteousness. It's not going to work

Our God is a God of standards and he is not lowering them for anybody. The person who will lower God's standard has not yet been born

My only desire is to be used of God to do his perfect will, to work each day and build his kingdom

Celebrating being a woman

God made me a woman and I celebrate it. I'm so glad he didn't make me a man

Illustration: housekeeping money

At the end of the month the man has to produce the housekeeping money, whether he has it or not. That's pressure

I told my husband, even if I become a multi-billionaire, I will never remove the responsibility of housekeeping from you

Women own the scripture on being more than conquerors Romans 8:37. The men go out and conquer the money, then the more than conqueror collects it

Illustration: colors and drawings

Some colors men can never dare wear. Women take that color, add accessories, and it is okay. Men's clothes are boring, trousers and shirts everywhere

A child draws a man as a round head and two sticks. A woman they cannot draw like that. God took his time and put the curves in the right places

The man is just two straight lines, so he keeps chasing the curves

The woman has no elastic limits

The most potent reason I love God for making me a woman is that the woman is the only creature created without elastic limits

Elasticity is the capacity of a substance to go back to how it was after it has been stretched. That is resilience. No creature on earth is as resilient as the female

Two babies look the same at birth. Give them 8 years and the girl begins to stretch, on the chest, around the hips

In marriage she stretches again. Then a microscopic seed is deposited and her body turns it into a full-blown human being in 9 and a half months

Some women have carried six babies in one womb. She is not giving up the journey, because the next generation is depending on her

No position is comfortable, she is throwing up every day, and yet she is not giving up. At delivery she stretches, pushes the babies out and stands up like nothing happened

No man can carry pregnancy for 9 months. It is not because he is defective, it is not his design

The man is designed to start something now, see the result now, and move to the next

If a business shows nothing in 2 months, he changes the business. God made them to do now, now, finish, go

Illustration: the cramp machine

They made a machine that simulates menstrual cramps and tested it on men. None withstood it past level three out of ten, and some were on the ground from level one

That is how we feel when you ask, is it not just menstrual cramps? Menstrual pain is not even up to labor pain. You should be greeting us every day for what we go through

You are not weak

1 Peter 3:7

Small, smaller. Big, bigger. Weak, weaker. You cannot have weaker without weak, so who was weak? It is the men. We are weaker only in comparison to them, it does not mean you are weak

It takes strength to carry a baby. It takes strength to accommodate in-laws

Never agree or believe that you are weak. There is strength in you. You need to activate it

Unusual places where grace appears

• Serendipity: God can arrange what I could never orchestrate
• Strategy: grace can show me what I could never have figured out by myself
• Serenity: grace can give me peace my circumstances cannot explain
• Solitude: grace can meet me when the crowd and the noise disappear
• Sufficiency: grace can supply what my weakness cannot provide

Paul asked God to take this thing from him 2 Corinthians 12:9. Grace is a supply

What if that too was grace?

• That door you happened to walk through, like Ruth Ruth 2:3
• That idea that came when you had exhausted your options
• That inexplicable peace when it didn't make sense
• That season when God pulled you away from the crowd

Illustration: the bus

I heard the testimony of a person who got to the bus park and the last seat was taken by someone who rushed ahead of him

The bus left, and he waited for the next one

On the way they saw that very bus. It had been in an accident, and the man who sat in his seat had died

That crowd that God pulled you out of just in time, what if that was grace?

Perhaps unveiling grace is partly learning to recognize that grace has been present in far more places than we have recognized. Grace is always present with you

Jochebed, when grace looks like mercy and ability

Exodus 2:1-10

Jochebed is the mother of Moses. Grace is mercy and grace is ability. Jochebed looks like both

Pharaoh's decree Exodus 1:22

One of the few times they preferred girls, but for a bad cause

Jochebed had no control over that decree. Her son was born under a death sentence. Immediately he is born, kill him

Many boys were killed. There was heavy mourning in Israel Matthew 2:18. Yet Moses survived

Grace does not always prevent you from being born into trouble. That is how Satan deceives us. Why should I have been born in this family?

When I got born again they preached, give your life to Jesus and all your troubles will be over. When the troubles multiplied we started doubting whether God was real

The devil found a plausible lie and sold it

Jesus never said there would be no trouble John 16:33

Tri means times three. A triangle has three sides. Trigonometry is three-dimensional mathematics. So your tribulations shall be times three, three times the trouble of normal people

Satan knows that if you give expression to what you carry, you would do bad damage to his kingdom. So he occupies you with trouble

Sometimes grace gives you what you need to survive what was already waiting when you arrived

A husband who had not prepared to be a husband, a wife who had not prepared to be a wife

I didn't say what you want. I said what you need. A need is different from a want

Exodus 2:2

This was not ordinary seeing with the eye, something spiritual was going on

There are two actions. She saw something, and she did something

Everybody could see she had given birth to a boy. The neighbors, the midwife, his siblings. But Jochebed saw something in the baby

It takes spiritual discernment to see more than the physical. Many times the grace that somebody carries does not show on the physical

Illustration: the MD of the rehab center

A man came to our rehab center asking to see the MD. I was in leggings and a t-shirt, sitting behind my desk

He said to the one who brought him, I want to see the MD. He was told, that's the MD

He is a professor of neurology and a brain surgeon. He asked, what qualifies you to run this place?

I gave my paper qualifications: electrical engineer, certified life coach, PGD in crisis and trauma management, counselor, polygrapher

I told him that is not what qualifies me. Life qualifies me. I have walked through life with addictions from childhood. I have lived with it, slept with it, breathed it, suffered under it

That's why I run a rehab

His wife, from Russia, wanted to leave. I told her, if you don't stay here I will take you back to your country, and you will die there. She stayed 3 months

The carriers of grace don't look like carriers. The grace of God is not dependent on your physical look or vital statistics. Whether you have big hips or small breasts is not relevant

The grace God gives you is for you anyway. It is without repentance Romans 11:29

1. Grace gave her perception

   Hebrews 11:23

   Is there an improper child? That word is not a physical thing

   The moment they saw something beyond the ordinary, they lost fear of the king's commandment. When you catch a vision, fear will fall away

   Acts 7:20

   Exceedingly fair carries the sense of being beautiful or favored before God

   She recognized something worth preserving before Moses had done anything. He had not divided the Red Sea, confronted Pharaoh, or received the Ten Commandments. He was a helpless infant

   When God drops a dream in your heart it is because he knows it is a thing of significance. There does not have to be accomplishment before we recognize that the dream is significant

   Illustration: when God called me into ministry

   I was about 20. I had been in ministry but thought it would be a hobby

   I sensed God calling me to full-time ministry, so I went to a minister who was vibrant and on fire for God

   He said, where have you seen any single girl in Nigeria doing full-time music ministry? You are just lazy, go and get a job. He deflated me like a balloon

   I came out with my shoulders down, doubting the voice of God. May God not allow you to trust a person who is not sensitive in the spirit for your season

   If it wasn't for the Holy Ghost I would not be in ministry because of that man

   The Holy Spirit said to me, the fact that it has not been done before does not mean it cannot be done

   If your dream is strange, that does not negate its veracity. The stranger it is, the more likely it is to be God

   Sometimes grace is the ability to see in seed form what everybody else will only recognize when it becomes a tree. That man is still alive and now he can see the tree

   Grace helps you give value to the seed while it is still small Zechariah 4:10

   • May you find that place of exceedingly fair, in the name of Jesus.
   • May you see, and because you see, may fear fall away from you.
   • May the Lord bring you to the place where you don't despise the days of little beginnings.

2. Grace gave her courage

   Hebrews 11:23

   Moses' parents were not afraid of the king's commandment. God did not remove Pharaoh

   Some of us refuse to move because we want Pharaoh removed first. Grace enabled them to act despite Pharaoh

   May God teach you to act despite opposition, in the name of Jesus.

   2 Corinthians 12:9

   Sometimes sufficient grace does not change the threatening environment. It changes your capacity to function within it

   Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the capacity to act in spite of the fear

   Grace does not change what is threatening you. It changes you from the inside, and you become a lion

   Illustration: David and Goliath 1 Samuel 17

   Goliath's size scared the grown men. His spear shaft was like a weaver's beam. The same size did not scare David

   David did not see a big man standing. He saw the weak spot in his forehead. All I need is that small spot

   He had been precise enough to fight a lion and a bear and kill them

   Grace does not remove the threat. Grace makes you so big that you see the threat as small

   Illustration: eagles, not vultures

   God likens us to eagles, not vultures. The vulture feeds on rotten dead meat. The eagle never eats stale meat

   That's why you need to come before God every day for the word for the day. Yesterday's revelation was for yesterday

   The eagle is the only animal that can face the sun and not be blinded. For those who are children of God, the Sun of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings Malachi 4:2

   We will not be blinded, we will be illuminated

   In the eagle's eye there is a telescope and a microscope. That is why it can swoop down from a great height and pick fish from the water

   The telescope brings it close, the microscope makes it bigger than it is

   The capacity to see and magnify until you say, I can just grab it. My dream, my vision, my hope. You are an eagle, not a vulture

   Father, put the telescope in my eye. Put the microscope in my eye. Activate them, oh God, in Jesus' name.

   Pharaoh was still Pharaoh. The decree was still the decree. The danger was still real, but grace was also present

3. Grace gave her ingenuity, strategy

   When she could no longer hide Moses she did not simply surrender. Don't give up when it gets tough. Ask God for the strategy, the outlet, the next step

   God showed Joseph 12 bowing before him Genesis 37:5-10. He did not show him the road he would pass to get there. You celebrate being king, then suddenly you are inside the pit

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   If God has given you a vision, the enemy will come after the vision. Don't give up because of opposition. Opposition should prove you are on the right path

   If you don't meet the devil coming as you are going, the two of you are going in the same direction. That's why there is no opposition

   She constructed an ark. She waterproofed it. She placed him inside and positioned him among the reeds. That is grace as ability

   I receive ideas. I receive creativity. I receive strategy.

   Grace can look like an idea. Grace can look like knowing what to do when there appears to be nothing you can do

   God did not build the basket. Jochebed did

   1 Corinthians 15:10

   Grace is with you, but you still labor

   This is the deception Satan uses. God is with me, God is for me, I don't need to do anything, I should just stand still Exodus 14:13

   Grace does not make human participation unnecessary. Grace empowers human participation

   Jochebed had to gather the materials, construct the ark, waterproof it, and release the child. It takes great courage to release a child into that kind of situation

   God supplied providence. She supplied obedience to the wisdom she had. Many times it is not because God has not given us wisdom, but because we will not activate it

   Illustration: the land for the rehab center

   Our land is 100 m by 50 m, a little bigger than 1 acre. We needed a lot of space, so we decided to build three floors up

   For 8 years we prophesied on that land and nothing happened. It was seed in the ground being watered

   One day a pastor came to me. The place his church was using had told them to leave

   His church had been changing the worst of the worst in a community of armed robbers, kidnappers and bandits, and their parents had started coming too

   He said they had found a new place but needed 250,000 naira. Immediately he said it, God said to me, find the money and give him

   I was looking for 400,000 to pay for the plan approval of our building and could not find it. I said, from where?

   Is it not me and you who have been looking for 400 since?

   I went to minister in a church in Lagos. The pastor gave me a check for exactly 250,000

   I said, God, you collected all, you didn't even leave small for me. God said, it is that pastor's money, give him

   I was not a cheerful giver that day. I gave grudgingly. He told me the owners of the new place had said that if he didn't pay, they would give it to someone else

   He had begged for 3 days, and that day was day two

   He said, Ma, you will see God. This was a Tuesday. By Thursday I was ministering in Abuja. One church gave me a check for 350,000, the other 450,000

   They also bought my books in the two churches worth 100,000. By the end of that week I had 800,000 naira

   On Sunday evening the pastor of the first church called me and said, I've been hearing you talk about your land for years and you are just praying over it

   He gave me an envelope with 3 million naira

   God gave me the grace to obey when he said, release the 250. The 250 gave back 3.8 million, and we started building

   Today people see the building online and say whoever built it knows what they are doing. They bring clients from America, Britain, Malaysia, Ukraine, South Africa, Cameroon, Canada

   One man brought his son from Canada. The young man had been to rehab in Canada three times. He has gone back to Canada stable, in the name of Jesus

   Grace supplies providence. You need to bring obedience

4. Grace positioned what she could not protect

   There came a moment when Jochebed's arms could no longer be Moses' security

   Some need to learn how to let go of their children

   They have so protected them that they have prevented them from growing and being what God called them to be, and they think that is love

   Those who are 40 years old and still living in their parents' house, may the Lord remove convenience from them. They should be taking care of their parents

   Illustration: the eagle's nest

   When the eagle kills an animal it dissects it like a surgeon, peels the skin, eats the meat, and lines the nest with the skin. The eagle's nest is lined with real fur

   The children are born into comfort, and because of the luxury they don't want to leave

   The father takes the children out to fly. Before they come back, the mother scatters the nest and throws everything away. When they return there is just empty ground. Go and find your own house

   After they go, the mother rebuilds the nest for her and her husband alone. God likens you to the eagle. You cannot love your children more than God

   For 3 months she said, I can hide him. Then came the day she said, I cannot keep doing this

   Reaching the limit of her ability did not mean reaching the limit of grace. God's grace is made sufficient in our insufficiency

   When her ability to preserve Moses ended, God's providence took over

   The basket the mother built ended up in Pharaoh's house. Pharaoh says kill the Hebrew boys. Grace says Pharaoh's daughter will rescue this one

   Miriam asks Pharaoh's daughter whether she could find a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. Who does she bring? His own mother

   When you release by faith into God's hand, it comes back to you. When I thank God, he reminds me of the points at which I released things into his hands

   He says, this one you got today is from this one you released

   Pharaoh's household pays her to raise the child she hid from Pharaoh Exodus 2:9. Only God can make this kind of sense. That is grace as favor

   Yesterday she was hiding Moses at her own expense. Today the establishment that threatened him is financing his preservation. Grace can make provision come from the very place where the threat came

   May God bring his convoluted strategies to work on your behalf, in the name of Jesus.

5. Grace gave her time

   Maybe this is the greatest grace given to Jochebed. She received Moses back for a limited period, a window

   She could not determine how long she would have him, but she could determine what she put in him while she had him

   I speak to mothers, what are you putting into those lives God has entrusted to you? I speak to fathers, what are you putting into those children?

   Children come to our rehab center and I ask, what are your family values? They look at me blank. Most of our children would not know what to say because we haven't taught them

   Hebrews 11:24-25

   How long did his mother have? Not long, but enough time to build his identity in him

   She put it so powerfully that even in Pharaoh's house, when they said, Pharaoh's grandson, he said, no, I am a Hebrew

   Illustration: the boy and the mosque

   I saw a video recently of school children about 8 or 9 on an excursion

   The last thing in the mosque was to bow down and pray like Muslims, supposedly just to show them how Muslims pray. All the children did it

   One boy stood with defiance on his face and his hands in his pockets. He said, this is not how we pray in our house. I'm not bowing, I'm not a Muslim

   Even if it is just acting, I can see it, I don't have to do it

   Somebody had done a good job of telling that boy who he is. Can your children take such a stand?

   You are busy chasing the things of the world and leaving your sons to the spirit of the age

   Somebody had given that palace-raised boy an identity stronger than the palace. We cannot prove from scripture exactly how or when that identity formation happened, but Jochebed's early access to him is highly suggestive

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   A parenting application: grace may not give you control over your children's entire future

   Sometimes grace gives you a window to put enough truth in them that when they enter environments you cannot control, they still know who they are

   Illustration: my daughter at university

   One of my daughters went to university in Boston at 17. She called me, shocked. Every day a different group came offering her weed, saying it would help her relax and focus

   They said, you are no longer in your parents' control

   After the first exam the highest users could not pass, and some dropped out. Even those who passed still tried to convince her

   She told them, if I needed it to concentrate I would not have passed my O level exams

   The pressure was so bad that one day she smoked it, and then said, get out of my face, and they left her alone. But that was dangerous

   Sometimes it is only one time you try it and the devil takes you over. My sister smoked once and could not stop, from age seven till she was 44, and she died from smoking

   Put something in your children that allows them to fight when there is need to fight

   Proverbs 22:6

   In Africa, once we hear train, we think of the cane

   Illustration: the seat belt

   A little child refused to wear a seat belt on a plane and the flight was cancelled because of that one child. African parents said, bring that child to Africa, one slap will reset him

   We have different slaps for different levels of reset

   But the word train is a Hebrew phrase that means equip for the future

   Your children will be released into a world where bad is called good and good is called bad

   Where everything in the Bible is being challenged, where they say marriage is no longer between a man and a woman

   where they say God is subjective, all of us are gods, the ground is God, the TV is God

   What are you putting inside them that helps them to stand for the truth?

Jochebed embodies grace

• Mercy, because Moses' life was spared
• Perception, because she saw something in him worth preserving
• Courage, because she defied a king's decree
• Wisdom, because she knew hiding him indefinitely would not be sustainable
• Creativity, because she built an ark where there appeared to be no way out
• Strategy, because she positioned what she had built in the river
• Favor, because Pharaoh's daughter found Moses
• Provision, because Jochebed was paid to nurse her own child
• Opportunity, because she received precious additional time to shape him
• Purpose, because the child she preserved became the deliverer of the people Pharaoh was trying to destroy

Grace was not only saving Moses, it was preserving Israel's future. When God allows grace to walk into your life, it is for more than just you

You cannot afford to be a reservoir. Reservoirs stink because they just contain the water. God wants you to be a conduit pipe

Water is always passing through, so it has no rust and no smell

In Nigeria we call hoarders akagum, glue hands. Anything that enters the hand does not leave. Get everything you can, can it, and sit on the can

Jochebed thought she was trying to save her son. God was preserving his deliverer. She was protecting one baby, God was preparing to rescue a nation

You may never know how much future is contained inside the thing grace has given you the ability to preserve, but preserve it anyway

Living under grace

We do not appropriate grace by trying to reproduce Jochebed's circumstances. We do it by recognizing that the same God who gave her mercy, discernment, courage, wisdom and capacity is still the God of grace

Don't say, this was Bible times. It's us who divide time into BC and AD. Before God a thousand years is like a day

He is the same God in the days of the Bible and now

He is no respecter of persons, so he is rich unto you too Acts 10:34-35, Romans 10:12

1. Recognize grace in forms other than rescue

   I escaped that accident by grace, I got the job by grace, the test came back clear by grace. Grace is more than rescue

   Jochebed teaches us that the idea for the basket was also grace. The ability to recognize what was in Moses was grace. The courage to act was grace

   The wisdom to know when hiding was no longer the right strategy was grace

   What if the answer to the grace I have been praying for has already arrived as an ability that God has given me?

   Illustration: Burna Boy

   The secular musician Burna Boy was my son's classmate in primary school. His mother is my friend

   The ability was already in the boy. How he channeled it is up to him

   There are abilities in you and in your children. Don't let anybody tell you, you were not born from the right side of the city and your parents are not rich

   Illustration: my husband's money

   Some women are dying because they have not put certain things into perspective. Part of what Christ did for me was to teach me how to view my husband's assets

   I never say we are rich, because it's not my money. I say my husband is rich. If he gives me, thank you. If he doesn't, no offense

   If you say it's our money, then when he doesn't give you, you say this man is stingy. Are you the one who worked for the money?

   While I'm saying he is rich, I'm making my own

   I called my children together. Their father's father was a poor carpenter, so how did their father get his money? He worked hard. Anybody can work hard and make money

   I told them, remove your eyes from your father's money. If they give you five pennies from his inheritance, collect it and go. If they give you nothing, walk away and make your own

   I have seven children, all industrious, working with their hands

   In Nigeria we have jara, the small extra the market woman pours on top of the corn after measuring. Make so much money by yourself that anything from your father's inheritance will just be jara

   Sometimes we are asking God to do something while God has already given us grace to do something

   Testimony: growing up where women have no value

   I come from the part of Nigeria where women don't have value. My father complained that my mother was having female children. My self-esteem was zero because my father stripped it from me

   I had to begin to see myself from where God sees me Galatians 3:28. Spirit is spirit. The essence of me is not flesh

   I am encased in a gender called female, but that's not my identity

   Philippians 4:13

   Grace does not always appear as God doing it instead of you. Sometimes grace appears as God enabling you to do what the situation requires

   Psalm 137

   Captivity required a song from them. Where else will you sing the Lord's song, if not in a strange land?

   If you sing it in familiar land, they already know it, it has no power. God needs you to sing the song in a strange land to introduce him to strange people. Wipe those tears from your face, because crying never solved any problem

2. Identify your goodly child

   It does not have to be a literal child. What has God placed in your hands that you have discerned has value and must be preserved? By all means, at all cost, preserve it

   • A calling
   • A marriage worth fighting wisely for
   • A ministry, an idea, a business, a gift
   • Your faith, your integrity, your emotional well-being
   • A relationship with your children
   • An opportunity
   • A vision God gave you years ago

   Fight for your marriage wisely. They cannot be carrying a knife every day to come after you while you say, I am fighting for my marriage. Only somebody who is alive can fight

   If they stab you to death, which marriage are you fighting for

   There is no reward for arriving in heaven early. If they kill you on earth, God will be so angry, because you have not finished what he sent you to do

   There are men suffering in marriages who can't talk because we make mockery of a man suffering at the hands of a terrible wife. We call him weak. We need to change that narrative

   There are men dying at the hands of wives, terrible women walking the earth. Our own is usually worse

   We have a womb, and the womb incubates. It takes a small thing and magnifies it to a full-blown human being

   If we carry wickedness, bad character or a bad mouth, we cook it and magnify it, then unleash it

   Jochebed saw before she acted. Before you ask what should I do, ask, what am I supposed to see?

   Lord, help me to see properly.

   Illustration: the sister who sent herself to America

   She said it was God who sent her. No. Ask first, what am I supposed to see, before what am I supposed to do?

   Discernment itself is grace. Some people abandon things because they have not recognized the value of those things

3. Don't confuse grace with passivity

   Jochebed could have said, if Moses is God's chosen child, God will protect him, and done nothing. Instead she hid, she planned, she built, she waterproofed, she positioned, she released

   So many of us Christians are passive. If the Lord wants me to have it, he will bring it. If that's the woman God has for me, he will bring her

   Then you fold your hands

   Proverbs 6:10-11, Proverbs 24:33-34

   Grace is not an excuse for inactivity. Grace is divine empowerment for appropriate activity. Ask God to help you know what to do per time

   Grace does not eliminate discipline

Grace: the ark God provides before the storm

Zechariah 4:5-7

Zerubbabel had an assignment and was face-to-face with a mountain of opposition to dreams and visions, a mountain standing in the path of progress designed to keep one localized

The only answer to making that mountain a plain was grace

God never lets the flood come until he has first provided an ark. As many years as Noah was shouting about the rain, rain never fell until the ark was ready Genesis 7:1-10

If rain is threatening you, God has already provided the ark. Your responsibility is to locate the ark

It was the same day Noah entered the ark that the floodgates of heaven opened. I never seem to locate the ark in a flood because I keep my eyes on the waters

While the enemy points to the flood, God lovingly points to the ark, the place of security, protection and deliverance

The ark is a demonstration of grace present to deal with the problem

There is a mountain before a man and God says to him, shout grace Zechariah 4:7. The mountain becomes a plain

Who are you, O mountain before Christie? I shout grace. I call grace. As I focus on that mountain, right before my eyes it becomes a plain.

Whenever any mountain confronts you, just start saying grace. Grace can level any mountain. Grace cannot be exhausted

Grace is strength for the race

Hebrews 12:1-3

God's business is to make me whole. Satan is in the borehole business. He tries to strike out the w and leave a hole of emptiness behind

If I add g to race, I have grace

The race is not a 100 meters dash or sprint. It is a marathon, and it requires speed and more of stamina Ecclesiastes 9:11

I wonder, can I make the next lap? My muscles, my eyes, my legs and my head all enter into a contest of protest, yelling at me to give up, give in, let go

My mind brings suggestions of a false finish line

When I feel my heart will burst with the next step, grace picks up the fight. Grace reinjects vigor, life and strength for the race

I become like a car that is refueled for a long journey, and I sing a new song

Don't be so full of doubt and unbelief to deny tiredness and weakness

Even Jesus, who had boldly and calmly declared his death on the cross, had a change of countenance when the hour drew near Matthew 26:36-46

He went to a secluded corner and asked that the cup pass from him, and sweat dropped from him like blood. Twice he rebuked his disciples for sleeping

The situation had not changed on the outside, but something had changed on the inside of Jesus. He had made contact with grace

Paul had a vibrancy that came from receiving grace from God to carry on Acts 26

Grace is the secret code for distinction

1 Corinthians 15:1-10

Grace is the secret code for excellence and outstanding performance in whatever calling or endeavor. Paul said, I am what I am by grace

The last and the least of the apostles was catapulted to the top by grace

Grace is the conveyor belt to distinction Ecclesiastes 9:11, Proverbs 21:31

When grace is upon a man, it can be mistaken for expertise. The world calls him an expert, a guru

But there are expert engineers, teachers and thieves, and there are no experts in the kingdom, only carriers of grace. Believe me, grace will make something out of you

Wherever grace is operating, performance is cheap. Grace is the oil that removes friction from the engine of our enterprise. It does not eliminate labor, it simplifies it, and it delivers results at alarming rates

Most physical frames do not portray the amount of grace in the vessel. It is not in looks or stature, it is a pure gift from God

• May grace in you become like the fire that was shut up in Jeremiah's bones Jeremiah 20:9, that will take you to places you never thought you would get to.
• May the fire in you shout grace every time. May every mountain bow before you with a shout of grace.

• Thank you for your grace, Lord. Grace that comes upon us as mercy to deliver us from, and grace that comes upon us as ability so we can do.
• You are the one at work in us both to will and to do of your good pleasure Philippians 2:13.
• Let your grace rest upon each one, the child, the adult, the male, the female.
• Let this Women of Power Conference mark a turning point in the lives of people.
• Let grace make our way easy, victorious, powerful, with great effect, oh God, in the name of Jesus.
• As we go, teach us to confront opposition with grace, hostility with grace, strongholds with grace, demonic attacks with grace.
• Teach us to confront doctors' prescriptions and pronouncements with grace, in the name of Jesus.