Saturday night, I mentioned several things we can do to be sure that we are amazed by grace. The first is: pray the truth about grace. By this, I simply mean devoting space in your prayer time to reviewing what grace is and how it has come to your life.

Here’s one way this could work: next time you sit down to pray, hold off on the requests for a few minutes. Devote your time simply to giving thanks for the grace that God has shown you in and through the gospel. If you can’t think of anything to pray, you’ve got a wonderful guide in Ephesians 2:1-10, and other verses like it. Just review the truths contained in the verses and thank God for how you’ve been changed. A prayer from Ephesians 2:1-10 could sound something like this:

Father in heaven, I need to be reminded that I was once dead in my transgressions and sins. I rebelled against you by doing what you have forbidden and failing to do what you have commanded. BUT YOU made me alive in Christ Jesus. Thank you for doing for me what I could never do for myself. Thank you for doing for me what I would never have dared to ask. I have been saved by your grace alone: I am a trophy of the immeasurable riches of your grace in kindness toward me in Christ Jesus. Thank you for grace. And thank you for the grace to believe. You are a good God, and the giver of good gifts, and I give you all my thanks!

Now try your own. Ask your parents what other verses you can pray from to promote gratitude toward God for His grace.

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