The Possession Of Jesus

To me personally, Grace was such a women~ I’m not just saying this as someone who didn’t know her it was my privilege to know her the last six years of her life.

When I meet her she was always a Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus ~ a person who spends quality time with Jesus whether in the chapel with others ~ in service~ in her own home. Grace’s door was always open, not only to Jesus but to family and friends~ her home was a shelter and a haven to many. You would always take grace as you found her in her home. But her home was open to Jesus to family and friends.

She would make you feel very welcome she wouldn’t rush around but sit with you, she would listen, really care and minister we often spent time in prayer together also.

She loved Jesus make no doubt about it and I’ll tell you why, at the side of her chair was always her daily readings , her Bible and other books one such book was on the life of Jodi Erickson Tada who knew great tragedy in her life but through it all trusted in the Lord. Grace too was a women who known great tragedy and yet through it all was as resolute as Jodi to be devoted to Jesus~ she was a fine example of a women devoted to Jesus. .

• A Saint does not know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. The experience of life, whether they are everyday events or terrifying ones, is powerless to “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:39). Oswald Chambers

• I often went to minister to Grace and she would truly minister to me too.

3. The greatest possession is the grace of God and the favour of Christ.

We see Jesus speaks tenderly speaks to Martha, “Martha, Martha you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed – or in deed only one.”

Jesus is saying to Martha that bread for our bodies may well be important but that food for our souls is more important and that Mary has chosen that good part which is better. (Jesus bread of life!)

Grace was a women who came to realise that nothing that she could do ~ could ever win the affections of the Lord Jesus ~ nothing she could do that could ever repay her Lord for what He had done for her – she was devoted to Jesus as a result .

I imagine when her own mother and father gave her the Name Grace~ the prayer must have been that their daughters life would be touched by the Grace of God. Because her name magnifies Gods Grace.

Grace: God’s undeserved kindness had been bestowed upon her at a young age she had come to know Jesus as her Lord and Saviour and she had the greatest possession of all in her life ~ For t is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— Eph 2:8.

As a tribute to Grace she would long for us all to come and experience the Grace of God too through the Lord Jesus Christ. & today you too are invited to sit at the feet of Jesus to stop being distracted by the things of this world, stopping fretting about others, and trust for yourself in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour & Lord.This is the greatest possession the grace of God the favour of Christ in your life!

He died that you might live! He rose that you might rise too. Our dear sister Grace is today sat at the feet of Jesus we too can join her wont you come?

AMEN