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GRC ONLINE DIGITAL CARE GROUP #4
Reign in Life
Main idea
In this care group session, our GRCO Pastors, Pastor Josh Holohan and Pastor Darren Sim, talk more about the theme: Reign in Life.
Take part in this digital care group session on your own or together with your friends and family. Feel free to use this guide to follow the conversation with our pastors, use it for your own personal time of study, or to facilitate more conversations with your community.
This session is based on the book:
- Destined to Reign by Pastor Joseph Prince
Haven’t read Destined to Reign? If you’ve been attending GRCO regularly or consider GRCO to be your home church, we want you to have this book for free. Find out more here.
Key scripture:
“For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.” — Romans 5:17
1. God wants you to reign in life!
The Lord’s desire is for you to reign in life. He doesn’t want you to just survive this life, He wants you to thrive.
- The key to reigning in life is receiving the abundance of God’s grace and His gift of righteousness.
- When you reign in life, you reign over sin. When you reign in life, your addictions don’t. When you reign in life, your bad habits cannot dominate you.
The gift of righteousness and no condemnation gives us the freedom to fully enjoy everything that God has given to us through Christ.
2. The more you believe and receive God’s grace, the more you will reign
When we receive grace into our hearts and our lives, inside-out transformation takes place, causing us to live a life of victory and success over every manner of defeat and lack. Under the law, our best efforts to change or stop a bad habit will still fall short.
- But under grace, our part is to rest and receive all that Jesus’ finished work has done for us.
- It is grace, not the law, that empowers us to overcome every sin and causes us to experience true transformation that happens from the inside out.
- When you know how much you have been forgiven and are loved by God, you will live a life of true holiness.
Say this out loud, “Lord, whatever You have accomplished on the cross, I receive that as my righteousness today. Not because I am good or perfect, but because of Your precious blood that was shed for me.”
3. Own the Word
God’s way is not about achieving, but about receiving. Today, you can reign in life through Jesus Christ by receiving two things from Him: the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
Oftentimes, it seems like the only way to break out of a bad habit, addiction or defeat, is to work harder, faster. The world tells you that the more you do, the harder you work, the more success you will achieve. Yet, God’s way is not for us to be blessed by our own efforts. God’s blessings are based entirely on His grace.
OWN THE WORD
Righteous in Christ
Is there a bad habit, an addiction, or an impossible situation at work or at home that you are struggling with? The solution out of it is not found in you trying harder to break free.
The answer is in the finished work of Jesus that has made you irrevocably righteous and in receiving a fresh revelation of the abundance of God’s grace and His gift of righteousness for you.
In the midst of your struggle, stand tall in what Jesus has accomplished for you at the cross by declaring, “Lord, thank you for making me righteous in You. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. Not because of what I do, but because of what You have done.”
When you find that you have no faith to believe, we want to encourage you to keep hearing the preached word of grace. It is the unveiling of Christ in the Scriptures that will impart faith to your heart. The more you hear Jesus unveiled, expounded upon, and pointed to in the Scriptures, the more faith is imparted to your heart that you might believe.
Check out these additional resources:
- Destined to Reign [Book]
Haven’t read Destined to Reign? If you’ve been attending GRCO regularly or consider GRCO to be your home church, we want you to have this book for free. Find out more here. - The war against guilt [Video]
- Find Freedom From Every Bondage And Addiction (Sep 3, 2017) [Sermon Notes]
- Build your faith and be encouraged by the many testimonies of lives transformed by grace
Questions about Reign in Life
How does grace bring true transformation and holiness in my life?
God’s amazing grace transforms a person’s heart and produces true holiness, which isn’t just outward, but also deep, intimate, and beginning at the very core of a person’s heart. Holiness is a fruit of God’s grace.
The word “holiness” in the New Testament is the Greek word “hagiasmos,” which is sometimes translated also as “sanctification.” The moment you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you were justified by faith and made perfectly righteous. You were also made holy or sanctified, which is to be set apart unto the Lord. And as you grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus, you are progressively transformed into His image from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18). Now, you cannot become more righteous because you are already 100 percent righteous by Jesus’ blood. But under grace, you can grow in holiness in the way you live your life.
How then, can we stop the power of sin and grow in greater holiness? The answer is found in preaching Jesus and the gospel of grace. Under grace, when you experience the love of our Lord Jesus, you will end up fulfilling the law (Rom. 13:10) and being holy! Grace produces true holiness.
When the love of Jesus is in you, you can’t help but fulfill the law. When your heart is overflowing with God’s grace and loving-kindness, you will have no desire to commit adultery, lie, or covet. You will have the power to love your neighbor as yourself. Where does this power come from? From your being firmly rooted and established in the grace of God. You have the power to love, because He first loved you (1 John 4:19 NASB)!
Ultimately, this journey with God is all about His love for you. It is His love for and in you that results in inward heart transformation. First experience and taste the grace of God and His love will surely cause you to live a holy life!
But isn’t overcoming sin all about having the willpower to do the right thing and atoning for my wrongs?
Many believers, in their zeal for God or their pride, are trying to please God and become righteous through trying to keep the law. They don’t understand that God makes a person righteous solely by grace through faith. They reject God’s way and cling to what they think makes them righteous—their obedience to God’s laws. Yet the irony of it all is that in trying to keep God’s laws to be righteous, people might end up producing works of the flesh such as adultery, fornication, hatred, heresies, and drunkenness (Gal. 5:18–21). Why? Because “the strength of sin is the law” (1 Cor. 15:56). The law stirs up the sinful passions within our flesh.
In truth, your willpower is no match for sin. The more you try to say no by your own efforts, the worse it becomes. The apostle Paul describes this struggle, which he himself experienced: “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” (Rom. 7:19 NLT). So the answer is not to depend on your willpower to say no to temptation, but to depend on God’s grace and say yes to Jesus!
The more you grow in grace—the more you are washed, again and again, by the water of the Word of God’s grace—the more you grow effortlessly in sanctification and holiness, and the more you allow the Holy Spirit to correct habits and thinking that keep you in bondage. When you experience the grace of our Lord Jesus, the allure and passing pleasures of sin fade in the light of His glory and grace.
Does grace give us the license to sin?
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Comments from Facebook & Live Chats
I’m super excited to be part of GRC Online. This is an answered prayer. Ever since I heard the Gospel of Grace on TBN, 8 years ago, I’ve been doing church online. It’s great to actually have a platform where I can gather with the saints. To God be the Glory, May God continue to bless Pastor Joseph Prince, New Creation Church and all of its affiliates. It’s great to hear from other Pastors as well. I’m loving the live worship services. God is moving in NJ and all over the world. Thank you Jesus.
I have been a Christian most of my life, but Pastor Prince, through his book Destined to Reign, introduced me to Jesus. I’m 77 years old…thank you, Pastor Prince.
Knowing I am to reign n in life because of grace and the gift of righteousness through Jesus Christ in is so liberating to my mindsetl. I feel like I am getting to walk with Jesus.
Yes! All of Christ, none of self! Thank you, Pastor Prince for this clarification…thank you Jesus, for Your grace!
Amen Carla, amen!
Watching from Los Angeles, CA
Welcome Arthur! So good to have ya here
I am so grateful for Jesus bringing His Grace and Truth into my life! Im so grateful that we now have a community and format in which we as believers can be filled and encouraged by other believers who know the Gospel of Grace and The finish work of Jesus at The Cross! Thank you Lord for seeing our needs and answering every need and prayer! I speak life into every believer that is apart of this community and the entire body of Christ!!!!! In Jesus name I pray Amen!!!!!
Would love to see a Grace church start in Charlottesville VA
I’m praying for God help.
Thank you pastors❣️
I just watched the service, late but enjoyed it. How can I get the book give-away Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince?
Hi Lucia, you can go to gracerevonline.com/reign 🙂
I am searching for a Church like your Church in South Africa
Florida, I’m looking for good church like pastor prince.
Great and wonderful. 2 Cor 2:14 in full manifestation…..
Thank you, Pastor Josh and Darren. I love Martell’s story. I used to live in the US. We are still on your mailing list. So thankful for that. Just like Martell, we believe that we see God’s healing in our son’s life. A lot of people say, that after 10+ years of believing, give up. But now more than ever, we believe (also because of Pastor Princes ministry), more than ever, we and people all around will see God’s power and glory in our son’s life. Because we are highly favored. And with Jonathan’s healing , an overflow of this Grace to all those around. Yes, the truth has set him free. In Jesus name Amen
All glory to God! Thank you al!
Thank you so much for sending me all these biblical teachings, they are truly In filling food for me that give me strength inside out. I want to share this particular one to bless others as I am blessed if you won’t mind please.
Glad to be a newbie in the community! Not sure when this posted but glad that I found you all. I’ve been a giving to GPM for awhile. I just recently became an official partner until I find a local church.
God bless you all!
Awesome. Watching from Nairobi Kenya.
,Watching from Auckland New Zealand. In a local house group I heard the gospel of grace 9 months before I had a bad stroke while visiting my son in France in 2013. How wonderful it was to know that I did not have to make my healing happen. Jesus showed me his great love for me in so many ways on my slow path of recovery. I am waiting for full manifestation of healing. Jesus took the stroke and cancer to the cross and I am healed though I am partially paralysed and have pain syndrome. Because I am not stressed and am resting in Jesus,I knownot seeing or feeling my healing does not mean it has not happened.,God does not lie. And others say that my eyes, face shines. Not me but He.
My sister, keep your faith in God. I am too believing God for my healing and deliverance. And it has been nearly 3 years but I am standing on faith too that my full healing will be manifested.The Lord will bring it to pass. I believe praising God before your full healing comes will be a very powerful testimony , even though it is not easy. But I think when we are joyful in the Lord, it makes good medicine for our body too. You can also look up Dodie Osteen’s healing testimony on you tube. She didn’t get an immediate healing, but her full healing came through eventually after meditating and speaking God’s word over her body. It was a very wonderful testimony,
Thank you for the wonderful message and testimony. I can feel the love of God that is shed abroad in their heart to everyone that is listening.
A wonderful testimony!
Yes
Thank you so much for the prayer against depression! Amen!
I am searching for a Church like Pastor Prince and your Church in Olympia or Lacey Washington if someone can help me
Praying with you Tammy 🙂
Maryland
I wish to REIGN every day FOREVER
STEVEN FROM EARTH
Bronson Florida
Blessed by Pastor Prince’s ministry! Awesome testimony from Martel. Thank God for Pastors Darren and Josh!
We discovered Pastor Prince about 6 years ago. The Power of God was there so we decided to listen to him only. Knowing that.this is the True gospel, that this is radical and what has been missing for so many years.
So now we Finally have a church, because for 6 years we have been asking God where to go, and it never worked out. Thank you we now know that Gracerevonline is NOW OUR CHURCH😊❤
God has answered my prayers. The new has come. Thank you, Jesus. Pastor Prince, the Lord continues to bless you and your family richly beyond words can describe it mind can imagine. In the Mighty Mighty Name of Yeshua Hamashiach, I pray.
Amen! Don’t live in your carnal self. Reign with Christ in eternity now! Just exist in His loving presence!
Wow! I have watched this several times when it first came out by myself. Today I just shared it with the group that meets in my home called “Beholding Jesus”! We were all blessed and touched in individual ways. The wild thing, was that two days ago, I was in chapter 8 of Destin to Reign while writing the study guide. On the exact same page Pastor Darren had on the screen. And yes that is one of the questions in the study guide! Context is soooo important for understanding His perfect love and superabounding Grace to flow in our lives! Love u all so much! And thank YOU JESUS!!!!!
Wow…Incredible testimony from Martell…
Pastor Josh and Pastor Darell; excellent ministry and exposition of the word. Thank you