“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

When God places a dream in your heart, you do not need to work endlessly to achieve it. You simply need God’s empowering presence, and everything else is going to flow from there.

Grace is that empowerment. It empowers you to successfully do what God has called you to do. It also lets you do what you could never do on your own. It is by God’s grace that you can do extraordinary things. It enables you to have supernatural results. You can have an eternal impact throughout your life.

You are not only saved, forgiven, and transformed by grace, but you are also sustained by it. I love how the Gospel of John speaks about grace. John 1:16 refers to “grace upon grace.” This grace is a constant and overflowing gift from the abundance of Christ. We have received it to live and work. This gift of grace belongs to you and provides you with rest, divine favor, and so much more.

Instead of suffering and laboring through pain and hardship, you can rest in God’s empowering presence (grace). This lets you work towards positioning yourself for His supernatural ability. It enables the ideas in your heart to come to life in a way that amazes others. It glorifies God. It also brings you extraordinary success.

Recognize what you have inherited from our Lord Jesus (john 1: 16); confess his finished work with genuine faith (Rom. 10: 9) and confidence (1 Cor 1: 31); accept his blessing as you look into his perfect face (Jam. 1: 25); may your whole spirit and soul and body be blameless (1 Thessalonians. 5: 23) – be perfect – because it is possible through Jesus Christ the Lord!

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. Alice Walker