HOW TO TAP INTO GOD'S GRACE IN ALL SITUATIONS OF LIFE: Give Yourself Permission to Hope For Victory

By Melia Wood

In How To Tap Into God’s Grace In All Situations of Life, Melia Wood shares powerful insights on how the flow of God’s grace can transform despair into hope for victory in every battle life presents to you. She demonstrates the effectiveness of hope to guide your prayers and the Word of God to guide your actions, for your good and God’s glory. In the process, you will gain lifelong skills on how to present your hope and faith requests unto God for: GOD’S GRACE IS ALWAYS SUFFICIENT.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Apr 4, 2024
• ISBN: 9798385017218

Melia Wood

Melia W. Wood is an ambassador for Christ. Although she holds a Master of Education, she is most thankful for the Christian Bible colleges she attended where she learned how to study and deliver the Word of God from the Word of God. Melia and her husband, John, have a blended family with four children and reside in Louisiana. This is her second book.

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HOW TO TAP INTO GOD’S GRACE IN ALL SITUATIONS OF LIFE

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO HOPE FOR VICTORY

MELIA WOOD

Copyright © 2024 Melia Wood.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 04/03/2024

To the younger me, to the newest Christian convert, to Christians who struggle in life from a lack of godly wisdom, to those who are single, to the couple whose marriage is about to end, to the person who feels trapped by the circumstances of life, to the parent concerned about their children, to everyone who believes in the power of God to change, forgive, and reset their lives, and to those who believe in the hope of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: God’s Grace Gives Us Hope

Chapter 2: Hope for Life’s Journey

Chapter 3: Hope for Love

Chapter 4: Hope for Friendship

Chapter 5: Hope for Salvation of Loved Ones

Chapter 6: Hope for Healing

Chapter 7: Hope for Marriage

Chapter 8: Hope for Your Gift

Chapter 9: Hope for Forgiveness

Chapter 10: Hope for Happiness

Chapter 11: Hope for the Next Generation

Chapter 12: Begin Your Day with Hope in God’s Grace

Afterword

About the Author

INTRODUCTION

Victory. It was in elementary school that I first felt the thrill of victory. It was May Day, the celebration of spring, and I signed up for spelling, math, and running competitions that would take place before the fun activities began. I felt I would place first or second in the academic competition, but I knew for sure the physical race was mine because I practiced it physically every day at recess and mentally all weekend. In each race, I knew my competition because we were classmates, all second graders. The results were one first-place blue ribbon for the race and two second-place red ribbons for the academics.

The same year, the next month after the May Day celebration at school, I embraced a victory I did not have to compete for, victory in Jesus. Jesus won for me and all humanity that believes in him, the victory we needed most to win, eternal victory over sin and death.

But I remained unlearned for many years about the power of God’s grace connected to our salvation. However, I have since discovered through reading the Bible, attending Bible study, and praying daily that the power of God’s grace is available to his children to tap into any time for all situations of life. God loves to bless his children.

Because of Jesus’s victorious mission of searching, rescuing, and reconciling us with God, we can now tap into the grace of God whether we are right or wrong. Our sovereign God has grace that provides love, correction, and forgiveness for all of his children who seek to honor and obey their heavenly Father. Like natural children, we are not perfect, but the Holy Spirit within us is on a transformational mission: helping us to grow spiritually strong and characteristically more like Jesus, the only perfect Son of God.

Grace is God’s goodness and mercy toward us. We cannot earn grace, and often we do not deserve grace, but grace describes God’s perfect love for humanity (John 3:16–17).

So many people give up on life, stop dreaming, or stop living because they have not learned how to tap into God’s grace to correct, heal, deliver, or bring peace to their unhappy situation. But through God’s grace, you can hope for a divine transformation of a bad situation. You can hope for favor and victory in the things you endeavor to accomplish. You can hope to recover what was lost. You can hope for healing when the doctors have done their best to help you regain your health. God’s grace can do so much more than we can ever think to do in our lifetime. Flesh and strength will fail, but the flow of God’s amazing grace is unstoppable.

God’s grace can finish the good work you started because sometimes when we think God has put a period after someone’s date of death, God’s grace can put a comma, demonstrating that the good works you started will go on. Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech is a message of hope in God’s grace to bring about justice and racial equality for all people, which is what Dr. King fought and prayed for. God gave Moses the grace to see a vision of the promised land when Moses forfeited his right through disobedience to enter the Promised Land. God’s grace can also bring a lost child home and heal a broken heart.

Sometimes it may seem that God is not listening, but not only is God listening, he is also working things out to give us the best results. Sometimes God has to do a work in us or the person who will help bring about the blessing we desire. We must learn to wait on God and keep hope alive, as Isaiah 40:31 explains, those who wait on God shall receive renewed strength to carry on. Do not give up on God. Hope and ask God in Jesus’s name for the good things you need or want. God has grace for you.

Hope is believing or expecting that something you want with all your heart will happen. It is manifested in your confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, actions, and patience. I had hope when, as a child, I asked for a dollhouse I saw in the Christmas catalog. I told my cousin, friends, family, teacher, or anyone who would listen. I never thought about whether Santa Claus or my parents intended to give me a dollhouse for Christmas. I just wanted one. And I reminded my parents often. I made space in the corner of my bedroom to put the dollhouse. That is what hope looks like for a child, and it should be the same mindset for a true child of God. Hope, ask, believe, give thanks, and prepare for your blessing.

Adults have hopes and dreams too, or at least they did as a child. I am sure you have heard someone say, Things never work out for me. Rather than living life with hope and expectations, they begin to take life as it comes. Friends, that is the beginning of living a hopeless and defeated life, not at all like what Christ died for, absolutely not the life almighty God wants for his children. I can hear God say, No child of mine needs to live life without hope for I am God, king of possibility.

Wherever there is a need or a dream, you can have hope because God’s grace makes hope possible. When you have hope, you work through concerns, trials, and difficulties with a picture in your mind of what you want the outcome to look like. Then you get into the Word of God to find scriptures that relate to your situation and remind yourself of the love, power, and grace of the Father God you serve. Then your hope connects with your faith that all things work together for your good (Romans 8:28).

Because of God’s grace, we can have hope in all aspects of our life. Hope helps to keep us humble because we understand that there are some things that if God does not intervene on our behalf, the expected results will not happen.

One of the key objectives of this book is to inspire you to trade in despair for hope in anything that concerns you. For whatever concerns you also concerns our heavenly Father and Christ Jesus, the founder of the church, the shepherd and bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25).

In any and all situations, keep hope alive in your heart. And remember, God always knows what is best for us and always does what is best for us. I am sure that I, the quiet but inquisitive child I was, needed reprimanding somewhere during the time I repeatedly requested the dollhouse and excitedly awaited the arrival of Christmas morning when gifts were revealed under the Christmas tree. But not only did my parents bless me with the dollhouse, there were some added features: a dollhouse-sized family to occupy the house along with two other gifts. That is the kind of Father God we serve, and that is why we can have hope in God’s grace: God blesses us because he loves us even when we do not necessarily deserve it. Why? Because God knows our heart, he knows our condition, and he knows that, along the way, we will change and our life will bring him glory.

Hope, ask, believe, give thanks, and prepare for your blessing. You never know where God will show you his grace, so ask and believe always in the name of Christ our Savior.

Whether you need a drip, a stream, or a powerful flow, God’s grace is there to help in the time of need (Hebrews 4:16).

Chapter 1

GOD’S GRACE GIVES US HOPE

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work.

—2 THESSALONIANS 2:16–17

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VERCOMERS, THAT IS WHO WE

are in Christ Jesus. Jesus came not just to offer us hope for eternal life, but to give us hope to overcome every situation in our daily life. Because of God’s grace, we can hope for an abundantly better life right here on earth. We do not have to wait to get to our heavenly home to have joy. God wants us to live and enjoy the earthly life he created for us now. That is why the Bible teaches fairness, love, compassion, and forgiveness so we can live in peace with each other, and God’s grace gives us that hope.

Hope is the ability to desire, believe, and feel things will turn out right, no matter how bad it looks or how hopeless the situation feels. Anyone can have hope. A hopeful person is