Grace For Today With Shayne Holesgrove

The Holy Spirit’s ministry in your life is to get you to focus on Jesus and what He did for you - not what you should be doing, haven’t done and are not doing. He doesn’t convict you of how unrighteousness you are... READ MORE

The Holy Spirit deals with our hearts and convicts us of the root of the problem.  READ MORE

How do you know when God is speaking to you? Learn to discern God's voice.

 No matter what you’re going through today, be encouraged because you are not alone and you are not without help. Invite the Holy Spirit into your situation to minister to you. If you’re hurting or experiencing pain, loneliness, anxiety, discouragement or fear, be encouraged knowing that God understands and that the Spirit of God is right where you are, right now, waiting for you to invite Him to supernaturally comfort you. READ MORE

...the power, anointing, gifts and ministry of the Holy Spirit are always present in you and available to you. But they will not automatically flow in your life – you determine their flow... READ MORE

It is possible for you to receive Jesus and be born again without having received the empowering of the Holy Spirit. At salvation, you get the Holy Spirit, but there is a difference between having the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit having you. READ MORE

 Jesus knew that His followers needed supernatural empowering to live supernaturally. He knew that they wouldn’t be able to reign in life, and especially over persecution, without the empowering of the Holy Spirit. READ MORE

We have been chosen by God to be fruitful and bring the Father glory. We are not powerful in and of ourselves but we have authority to operate in His power. We do not have the power to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers and or cast out demons but Jesus has delegated to us all authority to be able to operate in His power.  READ MORE

 True Christianity is all about you being born again and enjoying a relationship with God. Being born again means that you are now born of God. READ MORE

 Legalism takes the "Christmas tree Christian" approach. You put decorations on a Christmas tree but the tree didn't produce those decorations and there is no life in the decorations and thus no life to sustain it. Many Christians are like this. They try their best to produce the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control in their lives but because it's birthed in self-effort it will only last as long as their willpower hold on. READ MORE

Seek first...

 If you see yourself as "a sinner saved by grace" you will live life as a sinner thanking God for His grace. But if you start to see yourself as God sees you, that you were a sinner but now you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, you will start to live free from sin and you will experience righteousness! READ MORE

A lot of us think that because we are now Christians we’ve got to try and get to a place of flourishing. We need to work hard in order to get God’s blessing. But the truth is that the moment that you said “yes” to Jesus is the moment that you start to flourish.  READ MORE

The moment you step into a union with Christ is the moment you step out of all association with any generational curses. You're no longer are under the condemnation of what your parents, grandparents or great grandparents did. Your genealogy is now of God. "If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature." You are now a new creature.  READ MORE

There are really only two reasons why you would have continuous lingering problems in your life. Yes, the enemy might be attacking and yes you might be making bad decisions, but the reason why you’re not overcoming is that you’re not born again or if you are a Christian, you may be suffering because you don’t know what happened to you when you became a Christian.  READ MORE

How to get God's attention

Salvation is all because of God's love. Salvation is all about experiencing God's love. God wants us to live in an experience of the reality of His unconditional love. That's what it's all about.  READ MORE

Learn to hear the voice of God

 If we want to live in and experience perfect peace we've got to uproot legalism right out of our lives... READ MORE

 As long as you feel bad for something, you're not going to experience perfect peace. You need to receive the forgiveness and the unconditional love of God. You need to have a revelation of what Jesus has done for you, and as you do you should be restored to the place where you no longer feel guilty or ashamed.  READ MORE