November Newsletter
This is an exciting edition of your Grace Message e-Newsletter because in it you’ll find out just how spiritually rich you are in Jesus. You’ll also get to see how your partnership is helping others embrace the liberating message of God’s grace.
Enjoy!
The Grace Message
You’ve Got it All… Right Now!
In Christ, every blessing you need is yours already
There’s a lie going around in some Christian circles… maybe you’ve heard it.
This lie says that being saved is a good start, but it’s just the first step. It’s just the first blessing, and that you need a second blessing—the Holy Spirit.
In other words—according to this belief, when you receive Christ you are still incomplete, still lacking something. And too many people wear themselves out chasing after or pleading for that second blessing from God.
I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to chase anything. The truth is that by God’s grace, which He has lavished upon you, you already have what you need.
Look at what Paul says right out of the gate in his letter to the Ephesians…
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3)
This should put to bed any thought that you somehow need another blessing once you’ve been saved. Paul says clearly that, in Christ, you have been blessed with every spiritual blessing.
Not most. Not a few. You have been blessed with every spiritual blessing.?
So you don’t need a second blessing. You are now in Christ and complete in Him.
This means you don’t have to go chasing after more. It means no more begging, pleading, hoping, waiting, or shopping for something new and better.
You are complete in Christ, not because you have done the right things or behaved like a “good Christian.” It’s because of what Jesus did.
So the next time you hear someone talking about a second blessing, or the need to do or be more so that God can bless you, tell them about Ephesians 1:3 and give them the Good News of God’s grace…?
In Christ, we are complete and already have every blessing we need.?
You’re Helping Reach More People on TV and Radio!
Your prayers and partnership are driving a new season of growth for the radio and TV outreach of The Grace Message.
Yes, your support means that The Grace Message program is expanding to new stations across North America and growing its reach on Sirius XM Satellite Radio with a Sunday morning sermon broadcast that reaches all fifty states and Canada.
In addition to the reach on radio, your support is helping to launch a new Sunday morning sermon on TBN television network to share the message of freedom in Christ across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
Thank you for touching so many people through your partnership, and please pray that God will use this expansion to transform countless lives through the powerful Gospel of God’s grace!
Want to listen when you’re traveling—or share the program with a friend or family member? Find where to tune in here!
The Ripple Effect of Your Partnership—Helping Others Help Others
Your support impacts more lives than you can imagine! Check out this testimony from a counselor who simplified his approach to counseling because of what he discovered through The Grace Message:
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“Hello, Andrew, I want to thank you again for the great help you have been to me. Ever since I’ve had a better understanding about grace, counseling is so much easier now. We used to go back and try to find peace about the past in people’s lives and pray over every issue, one by one. I got so tired that I did not want to counsel anymore! But with a better understanding of God’s grace, I love to counsel and share God’s truth and watch people experience freedom in the Lord. And it’s so fun to help people become Jesus-focused instead of sin-focused or problem-focused. Whereas I used to need to spend about eight hours counseling a couple, now I only need to spend about one to two hours. Thank you again, and I will keep praying for you, your family, and your team.”
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Thanks for helping spread the message of freedom in God’s grace to more people!
Discover Your Immeasurable Inheritance in Christ!
In his new series FULLY ALIVE: Awakening to Your Spiritual Riches in Christ, Andrew Farley unpacks how God freely bestows His grace upon us and pours out spiritual blessings that are better than you could ever imagine.
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This new 9-message series in Ephesians, including a bonus study guide download with questions designed for individual or group study, will leave you in awe of who God is and the immeasurable blessings He has bestowed upon you!
FULLY ALIVE is our thanks for your gift of support this month to help more people discover the goodness of God’s grace and the freedom that’s already theirs through the finished work of Christ.
In Ephesians 5, Paul says we are to be filled with the Spirit. To understand what he means, you have to look back at Ephesians 3…
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.? (Ephesians 3:14–19, NASB1995)
Do you see what Paul is saying? Being filled with the Spirit is about the power to know something. It’s power to know Christ’s love. It’s not a coming and going of electricity. It’s not a visitation of God’s Spirit. Paul is saying, “Father, I pray that you would grant them the power through your Spirit to know Your great love.”
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That’s what being filled with the Spirit is about—and that’s God’s longing for you and me and every saint, so that we’ll know God’s love and be radically inspired by His powerful presence within us.
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Far too many Christians are living beneath their means. And no, I’m not talking about their financial decisions.
I’m talking about those who don’t fully understand and live from their spiritual blessings in Christ.?
In Ephesians 1:3, Paul says that God “has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in?the heavenly?places?in Christ.”
We’ve all, as Christians, been given every spiritual blessing.
And yet, many Christians go through life unaware of this wealth of blessing they have in Christ. So they live beneath their means, never fully enjoying all that God’s grace and the finished work of Jesus make available to them.
Friend, I want to encourage you to take advantage of all the rich blessings you have in Jesus. And here’s some incredible news—it is impossible for you to live above your means in this area. You just can’t do it!
You will never need more blessing than what God has already given you in Christ.
That’s the truly Good News your support of The Grace Message helps share with people across North America and around the world. And I’m so grateful for you!
Coming Soon—NEW Book from Pastor Andrew Farley!
Prepare for an electrifying jolt with Gospel Zero: Reclaiming the Radical Message of Grace?by Andrew Farley and John Lynch. This book is a rebellious rallying cry against the mundane and mediocre that have hijacked true faith. It’s a call for a revolution back to the radical grace of God.
Keep an eye out for more details coming soon, or pre-order your copy today at Amazon.com and be among the first to receive it!
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