Grace — the desire and power to do God’s will.

Pleasing God would be an impossible thing were it not for His grace.

God so wants to be pleased with us that He shows us what pleases Him.

Yet He knows that on our own we could never live according to what pleases Him.

So He offers us both the desire and the power to live according to His pleasure.

That is grace.

“But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ” (Ephesians 4:7).

Just as God fully gave Christ for us, so He has given us grace.

So let me turn often to Him, asking Him to help me live by His grace.

I don’t pray like I ought.

This is one way I want to pray with greater frequency and greater fervor:

“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16).

For myself.

For my family.

For my friends.

I want me and them to be spiritually strong, to be mighty in His Spirit.

We live in terrible times, dark times, perilous times.

Many are being deceived. Many more will be deceived.

I don’t want any of the above to suffer that fate.