Grace Revolution: Experience the Power to Live Above Defeat by Joseph Prince

condemnation.
    This is the new and life-giving way God wants you to live by, one where you can confidently approach His throne of grace at any time to receive His mercy, favor, help, blessings, and life! My friend, whatever your challenges, if you will actively possess your perfect and complete forgiveness in Christ, you can overcome them and enjoy life at a whole new level, with greater boldness and confidence!

CHAPTER 6
WHY PREACH GRACE?
    I wrote this book to help you build a strong foundation for lasting breakthroughs. Whatever defeat you may be struggling with now, I want you to really anchor yourself in God’s grace by receiving and understanding the gospel of grace from His Word. Don’t base your understanding of God’s heart toward you on hearsay or man’s opinion. Base it on the unshakable and eternal foundation of His Word. My heart’s desire is to see you live a glorious and victorious life, not a life entangled with sin, doubt, apprehension, and defeat.
    You may have made many mistakes. You may think that it is too late now for God to turn things around for you. You may even think that you deserve to be in the mess you are in and that God has given up on you. My dear friend, those hard thoughts are not God’s thoughts about you. His Word proclaims that His thoughts toward you are good:
    “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
    —Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
    God has an amazing plan, purpose, and destiny for your life. Your past need not determine your future. No matter what your story maybe, your greatest and best days are ahead of you. I believe that the more you build a rock-solid foundation in your relationship with the Lord Jesus and press in to understand His gracious heart of love and passion toward you, the more you will find security and experience lasting breakthroughs in life.
    Your past need not determine your future. No matter what your story may be, your greatest and best days are ahead of you.
    In the last few chapters, we focused on how to live with greater confidence and boldness. I centered my teaching on helping you to grow by showing you the importance of knowing beyond any doubt that when you become a believer of Jesus Christ, all your sins are forgiven. Forgiven people are not looking for an excuse to sin. Forgiven people find freedom and liberty from sin by coming to the Savior whenever they fail. Repentance is all about turning to the cross and returning to God’s grace, and allowing His words to wash and renew your mind.
    Many sincere but depressed people are living in deep remorse and regret over their past mistakes. But instead of running to the Lord, they are running away from Him. They find other ways to numb their pain or escape from it. Why are they doing this? Because they don’t understand God’s heart of grace. That is why we need to preach His glorious grace with boldness. Precious lives are imprisoned in crushing defeat not because victory isn’t available to them, but because they don’t know how victory can be theirs!

Let the Gospel Change Your Life
    Anyone who says that the preaching of God’s grace produces a license to sin probably doesn’t fully grasp the power of God’s transforming grace. Grace lifts a person who is struggling in sin out of their life of defeat. Grace produces true holiness. By true holiness, I mean holiness that is lasting. Not an outward form of holiness that is transient, but an enduring holiness that is birthed from a transformation that begins in the person’s heart. Grace doesn’t
condone
sin; it provides lasting freedom
from
sin. How can anyone think that to come under grace is to turn a blind eye to sin, when grace opens our eyes to see that it was our sins that put Jesus on the cross and cost Him His life?
    Grace doesn’t
condone
sin; it provides lasting freedom
from
sin.
    I have shown you from Scripture after Scripture the Father’s