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many women—wives and mothers—who’ve come to us and shared how right believing in God’s amazing grace has set them free of daily struggles in their relationships with their spouses and children. They told us how entrenched mind-sets that used to trip them up and bring tension into their family life just began to inexorably dissolve when they let the grace of God wash over them and began to believe in His goodness. Things they had tried for years to change on their own, like an explosive temper or perpetual anxiety over their performance as a parent, just disappeared effortlessly. Many also expressed how, as they tasted and rested in their heavenly Father’s love for them, the guilt and frustration that came with the stress of daily parenting simply gave way to peace, to a permanent sense of God’s joy, and subsequently to healthier relationships with their husbands and children.
    My dear reader, whether you’re trying to quit an addiction or want to be a more loving and forgiving spouse or parent, your answer is found in the person of grace and in returning to His grace every time you feel weak or fail. That’s what true repentance is all about. When you’ve made a mistake, remember and receive afresh the forgiveness and righteousness that Jesus has provided for you at the cross. Believe He is still with you, loving you, and workingin you to walk in His victorious and abundant life. This is how you practice returning to His grace. The Lord’s amazing grace will bring deliverance, a fresh start, and new ways of living and loving that will radically transform your life, your marriage, and your parenting for His glory.

CHAPTER 3
HEAR THE WORD OF HIS GRACE
    T rembling at the thought of discovery, the man with leprosy crouched beneath a stone slab—one of the many that dotted the slopes of the picturesque hills that framed the Sea of Galilee. He had come to see the man they called Jesus, Who he had heard was a healer. The man’s name had been on everyone’s lips, and how He traveled with His band of disciples, teaching in synagogues and open spaces, was well known.
    But mostly the people had talked about how Jesus healed—how everyone who had gone to Him for healing, whether from the Decapolis, Galilee, Jerusalem, or east of the Jordan River, received their healing. He turned none away. Whatever their conditions—fevers, paralyses, deaf ears, or demonic oppression—He healed them all.
    Jesus turned none away. Whatever their conditions—
fevers, paralyses, deaf ears, or demonic oppression—
He healed them all.
    All
. That little word gave him hope that perhaps even he might bemade whole. And so he had listened for where he might find Jesus. And that was how he had heard that Jesus was heading to the hills surrounding the Sea of Galilee.
    By the time this man reached the hills, a large multitude had gathered on the slopes to listen to Jesus teach. Desperate to be healed of his terrible condition, yet terrified of being seen and stoned by the crowds, he had decided to hide himself.

God Is Willing and Able
    This poor diseased man couldn’t see Jesus from where he was hiding in fear, a safe distance from the crowds. But because of the unique acoustics of the hills, he could hear every word that Jesus was speaking to the multitudes:
    “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?” (Matt. 6:25–26 NLT ).
    He listened attentively—the timbre of Jesus’ voice and every word He spoke carried an immeasurable depth of understanding and empathy for his everyday fears. Embers of hope that he had thought long dead suddenly flared to life, fanned by the authority of Jesus’ words. Whereas he had initially