Restoring Grace 1

Hello Everyone,

Your relationship to Jesus Christ is like any other relationship. It has to be maintained. No relationship ever stays the same. You're either growing closer to the Lord or you're drifting away.

You never just stand still.

You're either having your heart grow warmer every day or it's growing colder.

The good news is that God offers to us “Restoring Grace”. When we blow it, when we walk away, when we stumble, when we fumble, God says, "You can come back to Me."

We can pray the prayer that was prayed in Lamentations 5:21, Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old

When we fall short how do you get the joy back in your Christian life?

First, I want to identify some common causes of why people fall away from the Lord.

In Mark 14 the Bible tells us the story of Peter, one of the disciples, and His denial of Jesus on the night Jesus was betrayed and arrested.

In that story, we have an example of four common causes of why people fall away.

You know the story. Jesus had been in the upper room with His twelve disciples. They had had the Passover together which He turned into the Lord's Supper.

Then He shocked all of the disciples by announcing, "One of you is going to betray Me." This shocked everybody. They all began to say, "Lord, is it me? Is it I? Did I do it?"

Peter, in his typical foot-in-mouth way, says,

"Everybody else may stumble in their faith but I will not."

This week we will look at these four causes of why people fall away.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!