Unveiling Grace Conference Part 3, September 2026 by Reverend Christie Bature: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Unveiling grace: what is a veil?

When I think about grace, the first thing that wells up is tears. I can see where I am coming from, and where I am now does not look anything like it.

God interrupted that trajectory and shifted me beyond what I could have imagined

They did not ask me to come and preach to you. They asked me to come and show you what grace looks like

A veil is something that covers. Veils are designed to obscure, block, hide and diminish. You cannot recognize tomorrow a woman you spoke with today if she wore a veil.

What you saw was fabric blocking what she looks like

Whatever we see operating in the physical is already happening in the spiritual.

If there are physical veils obscuring identity and hiding potential, then in the spirit there are veils the enemy tries to put on us

A veil limits the capacity of a person to express. A veil is a mask. A veil can be a disguise. Pretending is a veil.

If I put on an American accent you would think I am American, until I forget it and you say, "This is not the person we are seeing"

May every veil fall from you. Whether it is a veil you put on yourself or one they put on you, may every veil fall off.

May God give you the humility to recognize any veil hanging around your life, in the name of Jesus

Veils the enemy brings

Sickness can be a veil

Ridicule can be a veil. They make fun of you because of how you look, maybe you were born with a deformity

Misfortune can be a veil. Things fall apart, not because you did anything wrong, but because a wicked person ruling the earth called the devil specializes in that

False accusation can be a veil. You are accused of something you did not do and it follows you everywhere

Illustration: the corps member

I read the story of a woman in my country. After university you do one compulsory year of national youth service. Without the discharge certificate you cannot get a job.

A married woman on youth service was pursued by a young man who kept giving her gifts. She kept saying, "I am married."

One day he asked her to come outside to talk and embraced her.

His friends with cameras took the picture from an angle that looked like a kiss and released it on social media

The camp commandant sanctioned her, they called her husband and reported an affair, and she was kicked out of the camp.

It took effort, time and money to prove they used AI to edit the pictures.

They punished the man by sending him out of youth service for one month. She was left with the stigma. How many people who saw the bad news will see the good one?

Bad news travels faster than good news

Family can be a veil. Negative patterns in families can be a veil

Demonic shrouding can be a veil. I shared that anger can make you sick.

Most diseases like ulcers, kidney failure and cancers come from people who stored bitterness in their soul and could not let go, unforgiveness

Someone commented that the cause of most sicknesses is demonic possession, and that I do not want to admit satanic operations on the earth. I replied with Proverbs 26:2.

The devil does not fly in the air to give people cancer. He needs a foothold, and bitterness, anger and malice are the doorway.

I do not need to call him a demon to know sickness comes from Satan. But how does sickness come? We open the door.

The devil has no power over a believer until the believer opens the door. We need to be careful how we conduct ourselves

Our poor choices can be a veil. Death itself can be a veil, because it covers what God would ordinarily do with a person

To unveil is to reveal

To unveil means to remove a covering, to display, to reveal. If someone wears a veil you cannot tell if the person is pretty or ugly

Illustration: the doctor

My daughter was ill during COVID. The young doctor had the most beautiful striking eyes. I was imagining what the rest of his face looked like.

When he took off the mask I thought, hey, wait, what happened here?

Removing a veil is revealing. You are carrying so much inside you, stored up, but veils are covering it. God wants to reveal you

Malachi 3:17

God calls you a jewel. Jewels are not found shining. They are buried and covered by dirt, other useless minerals and rust. When they dig them out they have to pass through process

The hotter the fire, the more pure the jewel that emerges. Low fires deal with external, dismissible impurities. Strong, deep, hot fires deal with the smallest impurities.

God will let you pass through the fire because he wants to expose you as his jewel

Grace is also the capacity to have the perspective to recognize what God is doing per time. It is only grace that can help you recognize that this season is not God crushing me.

It is God removing what is unnecessary so the me he has called will emerge

This is not a shouting conference. It is a learning conference. You get the facts and apply them to your life

What is grace?

The dictionary separates the secular definition from the biblical one. The biblical one is what we are concerned about

Grace is the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God. You do not deserve it

Grace is the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them. If any part of your body or mind is weak, may the grace of God regenerate it

Grace is a virtue or excellence of divine origin

Grace is the state of grace, the condition of being in God's favor. The woman with the issue of blood had a condition of bleeding. Bartimaeus had a condition of blindness.

My condition is God's favor.

My difficulty is God's favor resting on me. How special is that

Grace is moral strength, the grace to perform a duty. If you minister every Sunday and midweek in music and think it is just your job, it is grace

See grace as an all-encompassing enablement from God in every aspect of your life. I wake up most mornings praying, "Lord, let your grace rest upon me"

Grace and peace: Paul's signature

Paul's characteristic opening is "grace to you and peace". No other blessing word appears more consistently in his greetings. Grace normally comes first. Once grace comes upon you, peace should follow

How come you say you enjoy grace and have no peace? Peace is not the absence of conflict. Peace is a result of conflict.

Peace is having revelation of who is around you and inside you.

1 John 4:4 Because you have a revelation of who is inside, outside may be raging but inside is governed by peace, because grace is operating in your life

May grace and peace be unto you

Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:3, Galatians 1:3, Ephesians 1:2, Philippians 1:2, Colossians 1:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:2, Philemon 1:3

1 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:2

Paul expands it to grace, mercy and peace

May you receive God's grace this week, and His mercy this week, and peace this week

Grace and mercy sound alike but are not the same thing

Paul not only begins his letters with grace, he repeatedly ends them with grace. 1 Corinthians 16:23, Philemon 1:25

We say it every day when we are leading, but it was a powerful ending to every letter Paul wrote

Is there another blessing word that dominates Paul's greetings more than grace? No. Peace comes very close because it is paired with grace, but grace is Paul's unmistakable signature.

And he wrote most of the New Testament.

If grace were not such a critical thing, Paul would not saturate all his letters with it

Paul, the man whose past should have disqualified him, became the apostle whose vocabulary was saturated with grace. Paul did not deserve grace. He was a killer and the organizer of the killings.

The Bible says a murderer will not inherit the kingdom. But here is Paul, the one least qualified, with a vocabulary saturated with grace. Why? He understood

Why grace is hard for us to accept

In Africa we pay for everything. You cannot go to a native doctor, a sangoma, a juju priest, without being told to bring something.

The root of African traditional worship is idols, spirits, deities and shrines. We come from a mindset where before we get anything we have to give something

Now we come into a kingdom where, while we were yet sinners, before we knew we needed help, God went ahead and paid the price. It is difficult to accept that it is free

Even in the secular world, especially women, you merit a promotion and someone says, "If you don't give me your body you will not get it." Many women have compromised.

So it is hard to understand that grace is unmerited. You do not have to earn it

Grace has come to you wrapped like a gift. A gift left in a corner is not enjoyed. You have to unwrap it.

Many have not unwrapped it because they feel they do not deserve it

The former persecutor does not introduce himself by reminding people who he was or what he had accomplished. Again and again he walks into every room saying, "grace to you", because he understood grace.

He had entered grace and was living in grace

We are not introducing grace, we are unveiling it

To unveil is to remove the covering so that what was already there can be seen

Grace is a given. It is already on the ground as foundation. All we are doing is to expose it and reveal it so you can see the full picture of what grace is

We are not introducing grace. Grace has always been there. We are just unveiling it

There are things about grace that we have enjoyed without understanding. We have called it luck. We have called it talent, personality, opportunity, strength, coincidence. We even call it survival. But perhaps it was grace.

All of these things are functions of grace

You who think you do not have much grace resting on you: do you have any talent, any gift, any capacity, a beautiful personality? Do people tell you "I like you"? That is grace

Do not let the devil make us think it is one big thing. If I am not wearing a bishop's cap then I do not have grace? The cap just shows you have an office.

That cap is not where the grace is

Grace is bigger than "thank God He did not punish me", which is what we think grace is: the forgiveness of God, the unmerited favor of God

Grace can be:

• Favor
• Mercy
• Strength
• Capacity
• Giftedness
• Divine enablement

I receive favor. I receive mercy. I receive strength. I receive capacity. I receive giftedness. I receive divine enablement

What grace looks like

Perhaps what needs unveiling today is not grace itself, but our understanding of what grace looks like

Hebrews 4:16

Grace appears twice in this verse, and mercy is there too. They are not the same thing

1. Grace is the throne from which God rules

   Scripture could have called it the throne of God. It says the throne of grace. A throne represents government, authority, rulership and judgment.

   Yet the throne the believer is invited to is the throne of grace

   I have read through the Bible every year for 25 to 30 years, so I see this scripture every year. But the Holy Spirit makes something jump at you.

   I only saw this a few days ago. It is not the throne of anger or punishment. It is a throne of grace

   Not the throne of rejection, humiliation, neglect, vilification or "I told you so". Some of us think God sits on His throne saying "I told you so" when we make a mistake.

   God is not a man

   He is not a governor who changes his mind: "I wanted to favor you, you came late, I withdraw it, go to my secretary."

   That is how we approach God, and it is why we cannot see how free He is

   Look at who is invited: people who need mercy and help. It is not for the high and mighty. You do not have to arrive with everything together.

   That is Satan's deception, that you have to be okay before you come. Having a need is part of the qualification for approaching the throne.

   The devil tells us every time that we are too needy

   Illustration: children asking

   When your children ask you for something and you do not have it, do they go away? They say, "Mommy, you have to find it." They do not care that you are under pressure.

   Matthew 7:11 How much more the Father of grace

   I am not shouting and jumping, I am helping you see differently. The devil has stolen from us for so long because we cannot see grace for what it is

   My son said, "Mommy, I need money. Where is your card? Put it in the ATM and money comes out." If you have not put money in, the machine swallows the card.

   The child does not know that, and that is how God wants us to come to Him

   Our God can never arrive at a point where He does not have. That is the difference between earthly parents and the heavenly Father. What you need is never unavailable

   When we fail we run away from God. Grace says run toward the throne, not away. It is one of the ways Satan steals from us

   Once we make mistakes, Satan enters his office as the accuser of the brethren.

   He says, "What you did is too shameful. After 30 years as a Christian, you can still do that? You better hide and wait for His anger to pass."

   Says who? God is wiser than us. He does not keep anger

   God has placed your sin in the sea of forgetfulness. You are the one who keeps reminding Him, because you agree with the devil. Once you say, "Lord, I am sorry," it is done.

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   He is not looking for sackcloth and ashes, tears or feelings. We are not moved by feelings

   Same with prayer. You say "I don't think I prayed through, I felt nothing in my chest." Who told you the answer to prayer is based on feelings?

   Did you want clouds floating in your room?

   It is easy and free to draw from His grace, and the devil will stop stealing from us

   Mercy deals with what you did. Grace supplies what you need next. God says remove your eye from what happened and face here. The windscreen is big and the rear view mirror is tiny.

   If you keep your eye on the rear view mirror you will have an accident. Leave your past in the past

2. Grace does not always remove weakness. Sometimes it makes up the difference

   2 Corinthians 12:9

   Paul asked God to take it from him, and this was God's answer.

   What a reverse psychology: he glories in the infirmity, not to magnify the infirmity but so that the power of Christ can rest on him.

   If the power of God rests on me, how can infirmity stay? Grace takes your focus from the wrong thing and places it on the right thing.

   This is why you should pray for grace every day

   A weakness does not disqualify you. It is an opportunity for God to make up the difference. A man on two legs runs to rescue a child who fell in a pool.

   A man with one leg jumps into the water and the child is saved. Who gets more glory? The man with one leg. Our weakness is an opportunity for God to showcase His power

   Paul wanted removal. God offered something greater than changed circumstances: sufficient grace

   Lord, give me sufficient grace, in the name of Jesus

   Sometimes grace will deliver you from the trouble. Many times grace gives you the power to go through

   Psalm 23

   God did not take the valley of the shadow of death away. He said walk through it. What is assured? His presence. I am not walking in that place alone

   Illustration: my daughter

   I gave birth in 1996 in America. They told me the child had an incurable disease and medical science had no answer. She would not live to 10.

   They gave me medicines for one year, to be given morning and evening for as long as she was alive. I should bring her back at one year.

   They said this was the healthiest she would be and from there she would deteriorate until she dies.

   I cried like any mother told her child will not survive. Then I started pleading with God to change the diagnosis

   I called my husband. He asked, "Are you crying because you believe the doctors, or because there is something Jesus can do?" Something shifted in my head. Whose report have I been believing?

   I choose the report of the Lord. Psalm 127:3, Proverbs 10:22

   The medicine was not going to cure her, only help her cope. So we decided to go to the one who can cure her.

   Every morning I brought the medicine out, showed the baby and said, "See what the doctor says I should give you, but hear what the Word of God says."

   Then I put the medicine back in the bottle

   Each time I spoke a different scripture over her: Isaiah 53:5, Matthew 15:26

   They told me she would never gain weight. She is number four of my seven children and the fattest baby we ever had. We were waiting to see the sickness.

   They said she would not keep up with her age mates.

   She left them in primary 5 and went to secondary school, finishing before she turned 15

   She told me, "Mommy, they said I would not keep up. I'm going to university and I'm doing the degree in 3 years and I'll make a first class."

   I thought she was joking. She did it in 2 years and 9 months with a first class. The university gave her a scholarship. She had her masters before she was 21

   The sickness did not go away. She did all of that sick. God did not answer by taking the sickness away. He answered by defying every prediction of the doctors.

   That was my daughter walking through the valley, and God was with her

   At 24 medical science had an answer: a bone marrow transplant. October 2022 to October 2023 we were in the hospital. The transplant failed.

   That was the valley of the shadow of death, because everything looked like it was going smoothly. We were not expecting to hear it failed.

   In 2024 we did another transplant in another hospital in another city in America and it succeeded.

   She was 27. They told me she would not live to 10

   If she was still sick I would not be here, I would be with her in the hospital. She is well, living by herself in her own house in the US.

   Jehovah walked with us through the valley of the shadow of death. Sometimes grace will deliver you from, but sometimes grace gives you sufficient grace to walk through.

   Do not mistake that season of walking through for God abandoning you. He never abandons His own

   She turns 30 in October.

   I want to take her back to that hospital, not to shame them but to show them what my God can do

   When I brought her back at one year old the doctor looked shocked. He said, "Madam, you are here." They expected her to die before one.

   They told me 10 just to comfort me when they saw me crying. They did not mean 10, they meant one. He said, "She's got baby blood."

   I said, last year you did not say anything about baby blood.

   She does not have baby blood, she has Jesus blood. Call me anything you want, everything you said did not happen. There is a God and He is in charge.

   What you told me was fact. There is something higher than fact, and it is truth.

   The truth is what has spoken over my child John 14:6, Matthew 8:17

   Today my daughter is perfectly well. Grace gave us the strength to go through. Do not call going through a lesser miracle.

   Being delivered from something is not greater than the grace that allows you to go through. Both are great miracles

   Grace makes up for our weaknesses. Where strength finishes, grace does not finish. Where your natural capacity reaches its boundary, grace supplies what is missing. Paul eventually understood that 2 Corinthians 12:10

   When you are weak in faith, hope or emotions, you are actually strong because grace is carrying you. You are not alone

   Change your thinking

   Romans 12:2

   Culture here is not just tradition. It is also your way of thinking. When the Bible says renew your mind, it means change your thinking

   Grace operates in my life like play. I live in a joy bubble and a grace bubble. My stories sound like lies but they are not.

   The first transplant, in a research hospital, we did not pay for. When it failed we went to a hospital in California where the cost was $1 million.

   Miraculously the grace of God brought my bill down to $6,000. Not 60,000, not 600,000. $6,000 for a $1 million transplant

   I am a living, breathing witness of what the grace of God can do in the life of a person

   Weakness is not disqualification

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   Paul discovered that weakness does not necessarily mean disqualification. It can become the place where another strength is revealed, and that is God's strength. God does not require your perfection to demonstrate His power

   Mark 9:24

   The man brought his son and Jesus asked if he believed. He said he believed, but the very next sentence was a cry for help with his unbelief.

   Part of him said, "I don't know if it can happen."

   Did Jesus ignore him because of that? No. He honored the small belief and saved his son. God does not need your perfection to show you grace

Grace reigns

Romans 5:20-21

Grace does not just visit. Grace reigns. Sin reigned. Sin had authority, dominated, dictated, controlled, produced consequences. Then Paul says grace reigns also. Grace is not a frightened little force trying to survive against sin.

Grace has a throne

Not merely abounded, much more. Grace is bigger than sin. The throne of grace is higher, more powerful, more potent, more alive than the throne of sin. Your history may be complicated, grace is greater.

Your failure may be great, grace is greater.

Your mistakes may have consequences, grace is greater

This does not make sin insignificant. It makes Christ sufficient. Enough for any sin, any failure, any mistake

There is a woman here. Before you came to Christ you had three abortions. You have been in Christ but cannot move forward because Satan keeps you in the realm of accusation.

You are married with no child and he says it is because of the abortion. It is a lie. The time for you to have a child is now.

God is releasing you from that stranglehold. I do not care how many abortions you had. Jesus is sufficient

Grace is not permission to live carelessly

Romans 5:21, Romans 6:1-2

How does grace reign? Through righteousness. Some preach what they call hyper grace: grace covers the sin of the past, the present and the future, so you can live anyhow. That is a lie

Grace reigns by righteousness, not by unrighteousness, intentional disobedience, intentional sin, careless riotous living, debauchery or inordinate desires

God forbids that we live in willful sin. Then grace will not reign. Grace is not God's permission for dysfunction. Grace is God's power for transformation

Grace says, because of what Christ has done, you are no longer condemned to remain where you are.

If you are experiencing grace it should change you daily to conform to the image of the Son. It should not leave you where you are or let you slide backwards

Refuse the lie. Matthew 24:5, Matthew 24:12, Matthew 24:24

Better make up your mind. My name is not many. My name is Christie. I will not be deceived.

Even the elect will be deceived if they are not vigilant

I will keep my gaze on scripture. I do not care how fancy you are or how convincing. If what you say does not line up with scripture, you are a liar.

The size of your congregation is not proof God is with you. James 2:19, 2 Corinthians 11:14

Grace does not merely forgive what I did. Grace empowers me to become different. If I was a gossip, a liar or a deceiver before, grace has empowered me not to be anymore

Titus 2:11-12

The grace that brings salvation also teaches us how to live

Grace is not only a rescue operation. Grace becomes a teacher. Grace receives me as I am, beaten, broken, dirty, messed up, defiled, but loves me too much to leave me as I am.

So He changes me

Grace looks like ability

Romans 12:6

Grace is not only the favor of God coming upon you, it is also ability operating from your inside

Now grace takes an unexpected turn. We have moved from mercy, from help, from strength, from righteousness. Now grace has become ability

Paul connects gifts with grace. Some of what you call your ability may be an expression of God's grace on your life

Why can one person teach with unusual clarity, so you say, "Is it the same Bible I have been reading?" Why can another organize what everyone finds chaotic?

Why is another such a strong leader that people follow without knowing they are being led? Why can another paint a human being that looks exactly like the person?

Why does another have an extraordinary capacity to give? It is the grace you carry that expresses itself in your gifts

I am carrying grace. I am a carrier of inordinate grace, powerful grace

We do not carry the same expressions of grace. Do not despise someone because their grace does not look like yours

Illustration: the cobweb and the shoes

My husband is very organized. He will say, "This cobweb has been here for 4 days, somebody bring a broom." I do not see it, I am not interested in cobwebs.

One of my shoes can be in the kitchen and the other in the sitting room, and I know where both are. When someone organizes it I cannot find it.

I used to get angry with him for being too organized until I saw what being organized was bringing for him. My being disorganized does not stop things coming to me either.

God made us like that

The bullfrog croaks in the night and the butterfly flies by without a sound.

There are choir women singing in harmony and there is grandma singing off key, and the Lord does not mind. Off key or on key, you are carrying your own grace

Grace explains why everyone does not function the same way. If we did, many of us would not be necessary on the earth. That is why God gave us different fingerprints

Romans 12:6-8 lists different expressions:

• Prophecy
• Ministry or service
• Teaching
• Exhortation
• Giving
• Leadership
• Mercy

Different people, different capacities, different expressions, same grace. It should cure us of unhealthy comparison and competition

A woman of God from Zambia stands up to express her gift. Her experiences are totally different from mine. How foolish if I think, "The people respond to her, why is mine not like hers?"

She is speaking from the sum total of:

1. Her experiences with God
2. Her experiences in Zambia
3. Her interpretation of those experiences

How can I come and compare what she carries with what I carry? They are just different. There is no basis for comparison

You need what I carry. There is nothing wrong with needing it. But there is everything wrong with saying "my own is not good enough."

1 Corinthians 12:31 It is okay to covet good gifts and ask the Lord to add that to me. It is not okay to say "she is better than mine"

Your own is unique

Illustration: my voice

When I was a child they abused my voice and used it to curse me. They mocked it and told me not to sing when others sang.

Two or 3 weeks ago somebody called my phone and said, "Sir, can I speak to your wife?" My voice is big. I said, "I'm the one on the line."

Then I said hello and he said, "Oh, Reverend Christie, good afternoon"

1 Corinthians 1:27

How like our God. The devil knew this voice was a preacher's voice, so he tried to shut me down before it found expression.

Pharaoh tried to kill Moses because he knew he was the deliverer. It is the same voice they mocked that you are listening to.

Does it matter that the voice is fat, loud or not smooth?

You are listening to it. How foolish to look at what I carry and say it is not good enough

The first day my father heard me sing was my wedding day. He asked, "What happened to that voice?" I said, "Papa, God happened to my voice"

Allow God to happen to anything they have mocked in your life. Allow God to sit upon and brood upon anything that has been mocked in your life, in the name of Jesus

Now I sing and people say, "Wow, you can sing."

Before, if people were singing and I wanted to open my mouth, they would stop me: do not sing, you will make everybody go off key

You can spend years envying somebody else's grace while neglecting the grace upon you

• Father, focus me on the grace I carry.
• Let it not be about anybody else's own. Let it be about the one I carry.

1 Corinthians 15:10

Paul knew his history, his weaknesses, his accomplishments and how hard he worked. Yet when he had to explain himself he arrived at one conclusion: grace

Do not receive grace in vain

1 Corinthians 15:10

God's grace toward Paul was not in vain. That suggests a frightening possibility: grace can be received without being maximized. I refuse to be that person

Talent can remain undeveloped. Opportunity can remain unused. Access can be taken for granted. A calling can remain unanswered. A gift can remain buried.

Favor can open a door and lack of discipline will close it

If God gave it, I am not merely a beneficiary, I am a steward

Someone said God told her to marry a man and now they are divorced. God can speak and the will of man can get in the way.

In Eden God came to the first man face to face. They walked about in the garden together and God spoke to man. What did man do?

The will of man truncated the plan of God. Genesis 2:16-17, Genesis 3

If God gave you grace you can receive it and not maximize it. You can lock it down

John 5:14

Jesus healed the man at the pool of Bethesda who had been there 38 years.

Later Jesus met him in the temple and said, if you go back to the things you were doing, a worse thing will come on you. If Jesus healed him it should be permanent.

But if you go back to the things that broke you and gave the devil inroad, what the Lord has done for you will be temporary

Change the question from "God, why have you not given me more?" to "What have I done with the grace you already gave me?"

You spent your whole life complaining, murmuring and having a pity party, wondering why God has not given you more. He gave you one and you did nothing with it.

Why do you think you deserve a second? You did not give expression to the one that is obvious. Why would He expose the hidden ones to you?

Illustration: the book

Ministry for me was singing for 10 years. Then I had one of the worst crises of my life as a woman, and out of the ashes God launched a preaching ministry.

Nobody remembers I sing now. Wherever I preach I sing first, because I cannot forget where I am coming from

My husband and I visited an archbishop's church and went to see his wife in her office. She stood up and said, "Where is your book?"

I said, "Mama, I am not a writer, I am a singer."

She said, "I know you. The next time I see you if you do not show me your book you will be in trouble."

I told my husband, "Is mama confused?" The Holy Spirit said, "No. There are books sitting in your spirit"

Because of the fear of that woman I wrote my first book in one week. I have written 13 books now. Some are on Amazon and published in the US.

I am writing three at the same time. God has a way of pulling things out of you.

If you do not give expression to the first one, He will not trust you with the next.

Luke 16:10

Manifold grace

1 Peter 4:10

Man here is man in creation, both male and female. Every woman has received a gift

If she received the gift of teaching and I received the gift of service, imagine the wastage if I operate like her. I cannot be her because I do not have the gift.

I can only attempt, and the one I have meets no one's need. That is two layers of wastage

Manifold means many facets, manysided, varied, grace with different expressions

Yes, we are saved by grace, but the grace that saved you is not the only grace operating in your life

• Grace to serve
• Grace to lead
• Grace to give
• Grace to endure
• Grace to teach
• Grace to build
• Grace to begin again
• Grace to remain standing
• Grace for the assignment
• Grace for the season
• Grace for your weakness
• Grace for your calling

Stop looking for grace only in the places where you failed. Look for grace in the places where God has equipped you