Do you want to delight in grace? In this episode we review all Greek cognates of grace (charis). We discuss the frequency and breakdown of grace as a noun in the New Testament.

Grace in Ephesians teaches how God’s favor results in thankful, joyful, kind, outward-looking ministry.

Finally, we learn how the concept of the mystery of the grace of God was revealed to the world both through the specific language of Greek and also through the concepts of love taught by Christ and his Apostles.

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Grace Words in Galatians

charitoó: to make graceful, endow with grace

Original Word: χαριτόω

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: charitoó

Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-to’-o)

Definition: to make graceful, endow with grace

Usage: I favor, bestow freely on.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 5487 xaritóō (from 5486 /xárisma, “grace,” see there) – properly, highly-favored because receptive to God’s grace. 5487 (xaritóō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 1:28 and Eph 1:6), both times of God extending Himself to freely bestow grace (favor).

Ephesians 1:6 V-AIA-3S

GRK: αὐτοῦ ἧς ἐχαρίτωσεν ἡμᾶς ἐν

NAS: which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

KJV: us accepted in

INT: of him which he made objects of grace us in

Luke 1:28 V-RPM/P-NFS

GRK: εἶπεν Χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη ὁ κύριος

NAS: to her, Greetings, favored one! The Lord

KJV: Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord

INT: said Greetings [you] favored one the Lord [is]

charis: grace, kindness

Original Word: χάρις, ιτος, ἡ

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine

Transliteration: charis

Phonetic Spelling: (khar’-ece)

Definition: grace, kindness

Usage: (a) grace, as a gift or blessing brought to man by Jesus Christ, (b) favor, (c) gratitude, thanks, (d) a favor, kindness.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 5485 xáris (another feminine noun from xar-, “favor, disposed to, inclined, favorable towards, leaning towards to share benefit”) – properly, grace. 5485 (xáris) is preeminently used of the Lord’s favor – freely extended to give Himself away to people (because He is “always leaning toward them”).

5485 /xáris (“grace”) answers directly to the Hebrew (OT) term 2580 /Kaná (“grace, extension-toward“). Both refer to God freely extending Himself (His favor, grace), reaching (inclining) to people because He is disposed to bless (be near) them.

[5485 (xáris) is sometimes rendered “thanks” but the core-idea is “favor, grace” (“extension towards“).]

Ephesians 1:2 N-NFS
GRK: χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ
NAS: Grace to you and peace from God
KJV: Grace [be] to you, and
INT: Grace to you and

Ephesians 1:6 N-GFS
GRK: δόξης τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ ἧς
NAS: of the glory of His grace, which
KJV: of his grace, wherein
INT: of [the] glory of the of grace of him which

Ephesians 1:7 N-GFS
GRK: πλοῦτος τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ
NAS: according to the riches of His grace
KJV: to the riches of his grace;
INT: riches of the grace of him

Ephesians 2:5 N-DFS
GRK: τῷ χριστῷ χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι
NAS: with Christ (by grace you have been
KJV: Christ, (by grace ye are
INT: Christ by grace you are saved

Ephesians 2:7 N-GFS
GRK: πλοῦτος τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ ἐν
NAS: riches of His grace in kindness
KJV: riches of his grace in [his] kindness
INT: riches of the grace of him in

Ephesians 2:8 N-DFS
GRK: τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι
NAS: For by grace you have been saved
KJV: For by grace are ye saved
INT: For by grace you are saved

Ephesians 3:2 N-GFS
GRK: οἰκονομίαν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ
NAS: of God’s grace which was given
KJV: of the dispensation of the grace of God
INT: administration of the grace of God

Ephesians 3:7 N-GFS
GRK: δωρεὰν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ
NAS: of God’s grace which was given
KJV: to the gift of the grace of God
INT: gift of the grace of God

Ephesians 3:8 N-NFS
GRK: ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις αὕτη τοῖς
NAS: this grace was given,
KJV: this grace given,
INT: was given the grace this the

Ephesians 4:7 N-NFS
GRK: ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις κατὰ τὸ
NAS: one of us grace was given
KJV: is given grace according to
INT: was given grace according to the

Ephesians 4:29 N-AFS
GRK: ἵνα δῷ χάριν τοῖς ἀκούουσιν
NAS: that it will give grace to those
KJV: it may minister grace unto the hearers.
INT: that it might give grace to them that hear

Ephesians 6:24 N-NFS
GRK: Ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων
NAS: Grace be with all those
KJV: Grace [be] with all
INT: Grace [be] with all

eucharisteó: to be thankful

Original Word: εὐχαριστέω

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: eucharisteó

Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-khar-is-teh’-o)

Definition: to be thankful

Usage: I thank, give thanks; pass. 3 sing: is received with thanks.

HELPS Word-studies

2168 euxaristéō (from 2095 /eú, “good” and 5485/xaris, “grace”) – properly, acknowledging that “God’s grace works well,” i.e. for our eternal gain and His glory; to give thanks – literally, “thankful for God’s good grace.”

Ephesians 1:16 V-PPA-NMS
GRK: οὐ παύομαι εὐχαριστῶν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν
NAS: do not cease giving thanks for you, while making
KJV: Cease not to give thanks for you,
INT: not do cease giving thanks for you

Ephesians 5:20 V-PPA-NMP
GRK: εὐχαριστοῦντες πάντοτε ὑπὲρ
NAS: always giving thanks for all things
KJV: Giving thanks always for
INT: giving thanks at all times for

charizomai: to show favor, give freely

Original Word: χαρίζομαι

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: charizomai

Phonetic Spelling: (khar-id’-zom-ahee)

Definition: to show favor, give freely

Usage: (a) I show favor to, (b) I pardon, forgive, (c) I show kindness.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 5483 xarízomai (from 5485 /xáris, “grace, extending favor“) – properly, to extend favor (“grace“), freely give favor to grant forgiveness (pardon).

5483 /xarízomai (“favor that cancels”) is used of God giving His grace to pardon. This is freely done and therefore not based on any merit of the one receiving forgiveness.

[5483 (xarízomai) literally means, “to exercise grace, freely show favor,” i.e. willingly (“graciously”) bestow.]

Ephesians 4:32 V-PPM/P-NMP
GRK: χρηστοί εὔσπλαγχνοι χαριζόμενοι ἑαυτοῖς καθὼς
NAS: tender-hearted, forgiving each other,
KJV: tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
INT: kind tender-hearted forgiving each other as

Ephesians 4:32 V-AIM-3S
GRK: ἐν Χριστῷ ἐχαρίσατο ὑμῖν
NAS: in Christ also has forgiven you.
KJV: Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
INT: in Christ forgave you

Transcript for Episode 27

You are listening to Grace and Mercy podcast. This is a podcast for people who want to know the grace of God and how it changes the way we interact with the world. I’m your host, authored Darlene Bocek. And in this episode, we are going to find out what the book of Ephesians has to say about Grace. Some very exciting news about that.

First of all, a little bit about myself. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I posted. I’ve been working on my fiction novel, finalizing revision for that my novel, a dystopian novel… Which I was thinking this morning. It’s sort of a fiction version of this podcast.

So how could a dystopian story be a fiction version of  Grace and Mercy Podcast? Well, if you’re interested in that, take a look at my website, DarleneNBocek.com, and you can find out some more about that story.So I’ve been working on that.

And just now I am sitting in my brother’s car in my fancy podcasting studio here in Washougal, Washington, helping my mom with some moving that she’s going to be doing.

And my son is going to be graduating in a few weeks. And so I came to America for his graduation, came to swing by and see my mom here. And I said, well, since I’ve been waking up at the crack of dawn, I should record in the quiet of the day. But my recording device is telling me that a bird sound is showing. You hear the birds? They’re such early birds.

Yesterday, I woke up at one in the morning, fit as a fiddle, ready to go. My jet lag pushed me to stay awake and be so very efficient in my work. And I kept going until ten. I thought if I go to bed at ten, at least I’ll wake up later. So I woke up at three this morning. So I’m dealing with jet lag. And I said, let’s make most of it.

I have a very exciting episode. I took a look at some of the verses that we’re going to be reviewing today. As you probably are aware, this is an exploration podcast, so I don’t do a lot of study beforehand.

I prepare the verses and we explore together to discover what is… Ephesians the case of today.  What is Ephesians going to tell us about grace? So first of all, hat tip to my brother David, who loaned me his podcasting studio on wheels, which is his nice big truck.

So today we’re studying Ephesians. The exciting news I have is… The very first word we’re going to review today is the verse that we saw the very first instance of the word grace showing up in the Bible, Luke 1:28. And that’s when the angel comes to Mary and says, “Greetings favored one, the Lord is with you.”

We know that “hail Mary.” Well, the exciting news is that Ephesians is the only other time that that word is used. And it’s used about you. I know. Isn’t that exciting?

Okay. Ephesians 1:6 says, “He predestined us for adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good measure of his will, to the praise of his glorious Grace, which he has freely given us in the Beloved one.”

Now, the word charatoo is not the one where it says “to the praise of his glorious Grace,” but the one where it says “where he has freely given us in the beloved one.”  When the angel came and said “Hail favored one,” “Hail Mary,” he was saying the same thing that he has given us. The phrase “he has freely given us” is saying to us, “you are the favored one,” you have the grace that he’s gracing to us.

So we have a line up of grace cognates. And the first one I said was this because it’s so exciting that we are included. He’s freely making us objects of Grace. charatoo, again, it means highly favored because of being receptive to God’s Grace. If you’re listening to this podcast, I’m sure you are anxious to be a receptacle of God’s grace.

And we’re going to review some of our terms because it’s been a while since we’ve talked about charis and chairo and charisma. So we’re going to talk about those. But charitoo is “God extending himself to freely bestow Grace.” And we see in that verse in Ephesians 1 that “to the praise of his glorious grace which he has freely given us in the beloved one.” So he’s got his grace and he’s handing it out freely, happily, eagerly handing it out.

And what are we going to do with it? He hands it to us. And in the Charis machine, we remember that we are to pass that out and back up to God. Okay, let’s take a look at those verses.

Charis is the main noun form of Grace that’s in the New Testament, “Grace as a gift or blessing brought to man by Jesus Christ. Favor, gratitude, thanks for kindness.” In the Old Testament, we see it being used as another form of please. The Old Testament doesn’t exactly have this huge term. In a sense, the grace that we meet in the New Testament that we saw when Hail Mary the Lord is with you.

That verse, that word charis. That concept of Grace that we’re studying in this Bible study is developed and explained. In a sense, it is the mystery of Christ, which is God’s Grace coming to Earth. And so the New Testament is the special word. The Old Testament has several different words that convey the same idea.

But the word that they use for please is the one that’s general chen, which is the one that’s generally translated that’s grace from which we get Hannah and my two kids. Two of my kids are named this. Han is named after that grace. And Anya is named after that too, because both of them come from the root chen or grace, and they are God’s Grace to me. So the word Grace, charis in the noun form, favor, disposed to, inclined, leaning towards. So this word is in the times.

I forgot to write the whole total amount of times. I think it’s right here. Yes, 157 times. We see it in the New Testament. And if you look at how long the episodes are, you could find out where the majority of those were, because our Romans episode, our Acts episode, Acts has 17 times, Romans has 26 times.

And in Romans, we meet the depth and width and height of God’s Grace, didn’t we? And take a look at those episodes again, if you want to remember.

I’m going to go through and tell you the top winner of having the most uses of this word Grace is Romans, which has 26, then 1st Corinthians, which has 18, then Acts, which has 17. And that was the interesting one because Acts is a history and it’s the times when the Apostles are preaching Grace to people. And Grace is the message. It is our message, isn’t it?

And after that is Ephesians. So it’s the fourth top-used. The word Grace is used twelve times. So I’m going to read out to you:  Matthew zero, Mark zero, Luke eight, John four, Acts, 17 times, Romans 26, one Corinthians ten, second Corinthians 18, Galatians seven, Ephesians twelve, Philippians three, Colossians five, first Thessalonians seven, Thessalonians four, First Timothy four, second Timothy five, Titus four, Philemon two, Hebrews eight, James two, First Peter  ten, second Peter two,  First John zero, Second John one, Third John zero, Jude one, Revelation two. Why did I list those to you?

Well, first of all, I wanted to know how many times Ephesians had it compared with the other ones. But then as I was going through, my heart was just singing with how exciting it is that everybody, almost everybody’s using this.

And what’s very significant to me is absence in First John of the word Grace. But what word do we see instead? Love. And love is encapsulated by the receiving and the conveying of Grace. The charisma machine is love. When Jesus says, Love God, love your neighbor, love your enemy, love one another. This is Grace. So it is there. It’s just in different words.

So let’s move on to the times that we see the word Grace in Ephesians. Okay, we have Ephesians 1:2, 6 and 7. So as we usually see, as we usually see in Paul’s letters, he introduces Grace as one of the first blessings. So we do see that here Ephesians 1:2, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be Holy and blameless before him in love, he predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious Grace which he has blessed us in the beloved. In Him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His Grace which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on Earth.” So we have it three times. Grace to you, the praise of his glorious Grace and the riches of His Grace. When we come to the other words, we may come back to this chapter as well.

Then we have Ephesians 2. It is in there several times. “But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By Grace you have been saved and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of His Grace and kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by Grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

The essence of Christianity, the essence of Salvation by faith alone. Through Grace alone is this message here that we are saved by faith through this Grace that’s coming down and empowering us for Salvation, changing us from the inside out. And as it comes in and it changes us out, our actions change, don’t they?

We become the hands and feet of God, because do you know what the very next word is? “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” His plan for Grace is for us to be Grace bearers here on Earth, to carry the Grace and to pass it out to people both in loving our enemies, loving our spouses well, loving our children well, being a witness next time we see the word Grace is in chapter three.

Surprise, surprise. He’s talking about it a lot, isn’t he? Chapter Three I feel like I might have to read the whole book of Ephesians, but okay. “For this reason I Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus. On behalf of you Gentiles, assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s Grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation.”

“As I have written briefly, when you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ which was not made known to the sons of men. In other generations as it has now been revealed to his Holy Apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body and partakers of the promise of Christ Jesus. Through the gospel of this gospel I was made a Minister according to the gift of God’s Grace which was given me by the working of his power to me, though I am the very least of the Saints of all the Saints. This Grace was given to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things so that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. So God has a purpose for this and the lesson is for the rulers in the heavenly places.”

There’s another verse–an interesting verse I’m sure that you’ve pondered over–that says because of the Angels women are to honor and respect their husbands and because of the Angels is the first. So there is an aspect of God’s justifying Grace through our actions in the presence of the heavenly places.

We have Ephesians 4:7 which says “Grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.”

And we’ve been talking about that Grace is given according to the measure. So this is in the context of unity and using our gifts for the benefit of the Church. For 4:29 “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouth, but only such as as good for building up as fits the occasion that it may give Grace to those who hear.” It’s like repeating over and over this concept that Grace is coming into us for the purpose of reaching out.

Okay, the last time we see this word Charis as a noun in the book of Ephesians is Ephesians 6:24 and it is in the final greeting. He’s saying it again, “Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible, with undying love. Grace be to us because we love Christ, Grace will come. This is the machine which is a crude way of describing the function of God’s Grace, isn’t it? Okay, so words that we are not going to see in the book of Ephesians, but I wanted to remind everyone about is we have charisma. Charisma is the operation of Grace, the Grace endowment to edify the Church.

This is what we call the charisma machine, the functioning of the operation of Grace or of favor. And that is not as a word mentioned, but we’ve seen it as a concept, haven’t we? Chairo, which is the verb form of charis (that is not here) as a verb form. The verb form chairo means favorably disposed, leaning as a verb to lean toward properly, to delight in God’s Grace, to rejoice. So generally it’s translated as to be glad to rejoice, but it’s experiencing God’s Grace and to be consciously glad for his favor.

Chara is the noun form of that. The noun form of rejoicing is joy, and we see it as properly the awareness of God’s Grace. Grace recognized as a noun.

Sugchairo. This is rejoicing together with others. I like that one. Rejoicing sharing God’s Grace with another person so that both rejoice together is what and a lot of these definitions and things I’m getting from Bible Hub. So take a look at Bible Hub anytime or even as we are studying this on the podcast. And then the other two are now mentioned. So we’re going to talk about eucharisteo and charizomai.

I’m going to take a sip of my coffee, which is getting cold here in this portable podcasting studio. It has begun to rain. The sun is coming up.

All right. We have eucaristeo. Do you know that is the word for Eucharist? And we saw it when Jesus lifted the bread and gave thanks. And that’s what it means. It is to give thanks, but it has right in the heart of it, Charis. And why is the word charis in the heart of it? Because we’re giving Grace back to God.

I do want to point out that we’re talking about the language of Greek. We’re talking about how the word Grace was functional in the Greek language.

And I’m going to do some specific research about this because I want to bring as much information as I can or next time when we’re in the New Testament, because the Graces were actually a God in the Greek pantheon.

But what God did with the Greek language is he put it in there and then he used it for his glory. So kind of like using the Roman roads. He used the Greek language to teach us about Grace, because now the use of Greek in the New Testament was a specifically chosen language to convey to us these special ideas. And Paul, being fluent in Greek, was able to convey. We see a lot of it right here in Paul is speaking Greek, and New Testament is written in Koine Greek.

So God is using the Greek to explain some things to us. And the fact that Charis is right here in the middle of eucharisteo is telling us to be received, that we give thanks, that we receive with thanks that Grace is in the middle of that. But if you break this word, EU CHARIS TEO. Eu means good . Charis is Grace, and Teo is the verb form, right? So good Grace, Eucharisteo.

And so when we say Grace… if you go back to the very first episode, why are we doing this podcast? One of the questions I was like, how is Grace dancing? People dance with Grace, and we say Grace at the table, and then we say the Grace of God through Christ. And so the definition for saying Grace is when we sit down for a meal, we hold up Christ held up the bread and gave things right. We hold our hearts up to the Lord and we say, thank you for giving this food to us.

This is good Grace that you’ve given us. And the word Grace can be given to God. We saw that in some of the other episodes to give to God. We give back to God. We acknowledge that God’s Grace works well.

Good Grace and that’s the Eucharist right? Christ lifted the bread, gave thanks. This is my body broken for you. That is the essence of God’s Grace. He gave,  lean toward his people. He gave them what they needed. So we have two times the word Eucharisteo is in Ephesians.

We have Ephesians. I like this one. “I do not cease to give thanks for you remembering you in my prayers.”

This reminds me of the role of the Church in God’s Grace, the role of being a member of God’s Church, being a functioning person in God’s Church, in the Church of God, the fellowship of believers. You give thanks for each other because you are conveying that Grace to each other in your interactions and you’re listening and you’re praying for each other. Church is not only about hearing, it’s about participating in this Grace, giving of Grace to each other.

And Paul, who is this fountain of wisdom? He is God’s Apostle forthtelling  as a Prophet. He’s speaking forth the word of God, and he gives thanks for these people because they are a blessing to him and he remembers them. And his prayers repeat, sending the Grace and sending prayers up for them for their Grace.

We have here also Ephesians 5:20. “Speak to one another with Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord. Always giving thanks. Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Giving thanks always. So we speak to one another with Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Do you see Grace in there? You see this functioning of Grace.

We’re sending out the thankful joy of God’s favor. We’re sending that to other people through our Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord. Giving thanks always for everything to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Giving thanks always eucharisteo being thankful okay. And our final word charizomai.

That sounds like a fun word. charizomai. This is a verb  ending verb, and this is specifically related to forgiveness. It has to do with favor that cancels. It’s used of God giving Grace to pardon it’s freely done, not because of merit or because one deserves it. It literally means exercising Grace, freely, showing favor.

And so this kind of favor is the one that is from the New Testament ten favor. If it be your favor, if I find favor in your sight, that’s the one we see all the time in the Old Testament, if I found favor in your site and they used it for please. And in the Old Testament, we see that it’s the space between please and thank you. Requiring or requesting some sort of a favor.

Now, what is favor? It’s leaning toward, right? Like you want to forget about the whole party favor thing. Favor is when somebody’s heart leans towards you and gives. Giving is a part of favor. In this case, the favor is about forgiveness. Freely giving favor to grant forgiveness or pardon, extending favor where there is an offense.

Okay, so the verse, we have it’s twice in this verse. This word is two times in the book of Ephesians, and it’s both in this verse.

When I was a girl, I was at a Church and somebody would always ask, what’s your favorite verse? Well, when you’re, I don’t know, eight, you don’t know the whole Bible. How do you know? What’s your favorite verse? I didn’t really have a favorite verse because I loved to the Bible, but how am I supposed to have a favorite verse? And then I came across this verse and I said, I like that verse. That’s a good favorite verse. Ephesians 4:32.

Do you know it? Have you memorized it? “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you.” So we see it forgiving one another and Christ forgave you. There we see it two times.

But inside of this verse, we have be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another. And why? Or how? As God in Christ forgive you. The soft heartedness, tender hearted, the leaning toward, the kindness, the forgiving that’s part of that as God and Christ forgave you. We are God’s Grace comes down and we spread it out.

So I still think that this is a very good verse for me to think on more. I think the older we get, the more we forget. Just simple things like being kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgive you. Let that be encouragement to you all today.

It is good to be back. I hope to be able to do another episode about a week to ten days. And until then, I did want to say apparently people listeners are a little shy of sending messages. I do get messages every so often, but send me a note, I don’t have to share it or I can share it. If you say you want me to share it, but send me a note to let me know what you think about Grace. But what I really need is if you could click on to iTunes or Spotify wherever you’re listening, just write a review.

Just say, I like this. If you like it. If you don’t like it, why would you be listening today? So why don’t you put a review there and I will be blessed and other people can find this podcast and learn with us. We’re probably about halfway through the Bible here and they can learn with us the Grace and mercy in the Bible.

All right, friends, let’s pray. Thank you, Lord, for mornings and for rain and for people who extend Grace to us. And thank you for your word that you’ve given us as a guide and power to live this difficult life that we have ahead of us and around us. Thank you for your Grace. Thank you for giving Christ to us and for forgiving us and leaning toward us and caring about us. As you remind us of what you’ve done, I pray that you would give us likewise the power to be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving other people, that we would convey your Grace to this world, to our friends who know you at Church and around and friends who don’t know you use us in bringing your Grace to them.

Bless everyone who’s listening. I pray that they will be touched today and will grow in depth and appreciation of you and your great kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

Thank you for listening to Grace and Mercy podcast with author Darlene Bocek. This has been episode 27 of season three. You can find the show notes for this episode including links to everything we talked about at graceandmercypodcast.com.

And I wanted to remind you again, if you want to find out about my fiction work, you can take a look at darlenenbocek.com. And those will also be linked on the show notes page. All right, friends, you have a great day. Good to see you guys. Looking forward to hearing from you guys. Okay, take care. Bye.

Resources:

Bible Hub: use this resource site to discover the original Greek and Hebrew for the words in the Bible.

PrayerMate App: this is a fantastic app to keep yourself organized and faithful in prayer, and it also has free downloadable devotionals.