Chapter 6 of 14

Section 5

Section 5

pray, "Lord, have Your way. I simply want what You want. I leave everything entirely in Your hands." This is our response to God when we realize afresh that He loves us so and that His love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

STANDING IN THE REALM OF GRACE

Romans 5:2 says, "We have the access by faith into this grace in which we stand." Grace is the realm in which we stand. We must stay where the grace is. You must stand in grace. Whenever you sense that you are out of the realm of grace, return to it immediately. If you are about to quarrel with your wife and sense you are out of the realm of grace, stop what you are doing, re­ turn to the realm of grace, and stand there.

We need not do anything sinful to be cut off from grace. We only need to stay in a place too long and we will sense that we have moved from the realm of grace into another sphere. What should we do in such a case? We should pray, "Lord, forgive me. Bring me back to the realm of grace." We return to the realm of grace by the same way through which we entered it originally. We entered the realm of grace through justi­ fication by faith. We simply confessed our sins

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