GRACE,
POWER OF

THE POLICEMAN has a law book. The policeman shows up because a law has been broken. But the book does not take you to jail. The book does not condemn or go after the person who’s hurt you. All the codebook does is give you the guidelines by which the laws can be manifested.

When somebody is breaking in your house unauthorized, you don’t need a codebook. You need a person who represents the codebook. That is, you need the codebook brought to life in an individual. You need a person to bring alive what’s been written in the law book against trespassing on private property. You can’t say to the criminal, Here is the law. You’re trying to break in my house, let me read to you what the law says: “Thou shall not trespass on private property.” While you are right with the law, there is no power in simply reading it. You will have to pick up and dial 911 because you want the law enforced by somebody who’s got the power to pull off what the book talks about.

The grace of God has appeared. It teaches us from the book what’s godly and what’s not, but you’re looking to the officer to enforce the book in the context of your environment. When you get the combination of the written Word connected with the Living Word, you get to experience the engine called grace.429

[Bible; God, Power of; Holy Spirit, Power of; Power, Accessing]

John 1:14