Grace and Glory

ZChurch Message for May 4, 2024 (full service:    • Grace and Glory  )

ZChurch Prayer Leader, Terri Branham, shares an inspiring message titled “Grace and Glory” from Psalm 84:11. Her message focuses on four key points – presence, power, passion, and purpose – that can help us receive God’s amazing grace and experience His glory. Terri has a gift for bringing the Word to life in a relevant and practical way. Get encouraged and equipped to walk more fully in the grace and glory God has for you.

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Psalm 84:11  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give GRACE and GLORY; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly,

Eph. 2:8  (AMP)  For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith.  And this is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 (NKJV)  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

John 8:49 (AMP)  Jesus answered, “I do not  have a demon.  On the contrary, I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.  50  However, I am not seeking glory for Myself.  There is One who seeks [glory for Me] and He is the judge.”

Acts 26:15-18  (NKJV)  So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’  And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.  16  But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.  17  I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,  18  to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Philippians 3:10-14 (AMP)  For my determined purpose is that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection, and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]  11 that if possible I may attain (or some versions read “obtain”) to the  resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].  12 Not that I have now attained or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of me and made me His own.
13  I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet, but one thing I do:  forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14  I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.

 Luke 1:54 (AMP)  He has laid hold on His servant.. [to help him, to espouse his cause, in remembrance of His mercy]
John 17:9-10 (AMP)  when He prayed for the church:  “I am praying for them.  I am not praying for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You.  10  All things that are Mine are Yours, and all things that are Yours belong to Me; and I am glorified in (and through) them.  [They have done Me honor; in them My glory is achieved.]

Isaiah 60:1 (AMP)  Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you

2 Timothy 1:6-7 (NKJV)  Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.  7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind.

Song of Solomon 1:4  (NKJV) Draw me away!  We will run after you.  The king has brought me into his chambers. (the place where transformation takes place, just like that butterfly)  We will be glad and rejoice in you.  We will remember your love more than wine.