We understand and receive grace and forgiveness daily from God, and we can extend that grace and forgiveness to our spouse.
Mercy is when you don’t get something you deserve. Grace is when you get something you don’t deserve.
Eight Ways to Show Grace to Your Spouse
1. Grace is patient, kind, and seeks to understand.
2. Grace serves, it doesn’t keep score.
3. Grace is patient and thinks of the other person
4. Grace appreciates when a spouse tries to help (…even when mistakes are made)
5. Grace is rejoicing in the spouse you have, not the one you wish you had (…”I picked you. I’m for you. I love you.”)
6. Grace handles expectations well.
7. Grace supports and encourages through the ups and downs.
8. Grace forgives (…”I said I forgive you, and that’s the end of it. I love you, and I am for you.”)
3 Steps to Implement a Grace-Filled Life with Your Spouse
1. Resolve to show grace
(You can choose to show grace and be kind to your spouse).
2. Rely on the spirit
(Ask God for the desire and the spirit to obey Him)
3.Remember the gospel
(We should all be objects of God’s wrath, but we woke up today with His grace. The person you married is His son or daughter. Show them grace).
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Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
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