People who sincerely desire to be conformed to the image of Jesus are the ones with the greatest potential to experience His empowering grace. Grace is not only God’s mercy—it is His supernatural help. It is the power to do what you cannot do in your own strength so that you may partake of His divine nature, which is exactly God’s will for you.
The devil loves it when people become enslaved to sin. He loves to see people become habitual liars. He loves when people fall into pornography, sexual immorality, disease, and destructive relationships fueled by lust. He rejoices when people become trapped in addictions, waste precious time, squander their gifts, or sabotage their finances through alcohol, drugs, gambling, or reckless spending — digging a hole so deep they feel they can never escape.
He loves to afflict people with sickness and then lie to them that God is the One behind it. Because if someone thinks it’s God’s will, why would they fight it?
But slavery to sin is exactly what Jesus came to destroy.
1 John 3:8 (NKJV) — “…For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”
In our desire to change and become more like Jesus, it is God’s grace — His supernatural help — that empowers us to break free from the sinful patterns that once enslaved us. The first chain that must be broken is the lie that you are enslaved. You are not.
The moment you received Jesus, Satan’s power over you was broken.
That truth is empowering, and acknowledging it is the first step in taking your life back. God’s Word reveals that His power now dwells within you — the power that sets you free and ignites new godly desires. His grace gives you strength to say yes to what is right and no to what He wants you to refuse.
2 Peter 1:3–4 (NIV) — “His divine power has given us EVERYTHING we need for life and godliness… He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may PARTICIPATE IN THE DIVINE NATURE and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
As long as you sincerely seek God’s help and trust the Holy Spirit within you, He will change your thinking and give you inner strength. He will fill your personal journey with testimonies of His faithfulness and transforming power.
But when you decide to change, don’t expect the devil to step aside quietly. Habits and mental strongholds will try to pull you back into familiar patterns. But now they no longer have the same power — not when you walk in the revelation of God’s abundant grace and peace.
Temptation will come — but the outcome will be different.
In that moment, if you look inward and lean on God’s grace — God help me — you will sense His strength by faith. And then you simply choose to receive it. Temptation loses its grip. You can say no, and mean it. You will walk away and choose what is good instead. You will choose better friends. His Word will speak louder. And slowly, steadily, you will begin to make the devil pay for every attempt he ever made to destroy you.
That’s when you realize the change has already begun.
Your faith is growing.
You are embracing God’s grace and power.
And you are stepping into the freedom Jesus died to give you.
In His strength, you can become more like Jesus and experience more and more of His divine nature. That inner transformation becomes a force the devil must reckon with as you live purposely for God in this world.
Romans 5:17 (NIV) — “For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned… how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.”
