Good morning, Precious Family:

The Holiday season is in full swing. Decorations, gifts, shopping, preparing for a new year, and the food and parties. A good time had by all. That is what it’s all about, right?

Over 2000 years ago, Grace took the form of a little baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Mary and Joseph watched over the Anointed gift as the angels of heaven proclaimed and celebrated his birth.

In the New Testament, in the 12th chapter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul was explaining that he asked God to remove what he called a “thorn from his side.” Paul said the he asked three times and this was the answer he received:

Scriptures of Grace

2 Corinthians 12:6-10

New International Version

⁶ Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, ⁷ or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. ⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Worship Songs of Grace

Family, in 2024, may we learn to walk in the graceful strength of God. When something seems insurmountable, ask God for the boosted power of his grace of his strength to flow through you.

Allow God and Grace to lead the way. Make 2024 the year of God’s Grace. As Paul said, in our weakness, through God’s grace, we are made strong.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington/Atlanta, GA