Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

...if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.

Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, You did by sending Your own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. (Rom. 8:1-3) Help me to understand that the loving chastisement that might come to me after I have rebelled against You is only in the purest Father's love and is never to be confused with condemnation. (Heb. 12:6)

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.