Your measure of grace empowers you to serve others as a good steward of grace and to please Jesus.

“Having then gifts [charisma] differing according to the grace [charis] that is given to us, let us use them” (Rom 12:6)

“As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace [charis] of God.” (1Pet 4:10)

“for it is God who works [energeo] in you both to will [thelo] and to do [energeo] for His good pleasure [eudokia].” (Phil 2:13)

“that you may walk worthy [axios] of the Lord, fully pleasing [areskeia] Him” (Col 1:10)

“My grace [charis] is sufficient for you, for My strength [dunamis] is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power [dunamis] of Christ may rest [episkenoo] upon me.” (2Cor 12:9)

“of which I became a minister according to the gift [dorea] of the grace [charis] of God given to me by the effective working [energeia] of His power [dunamis].” (Eph 3:7)

“and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” (Eph 1:19)

“from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working [energeia] by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” (Eph 4:16)

“who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working [energeia] by which He is able [dunamai] even to subdue all things to Himself.” (Phil 3:21)

“To this end I also labor, striving according to His working [energeia] which works [energeo] in me mightily [dunamis].” (Col 1:29)

“buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working [energeia] of God, who raised Him from the dead.” (Col 2:12)

“Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please [aresko] God” (1Thes 4:1)

“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please [aresko] men? For if I still pleased [aresko] men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.” (Gal 1:10)

“just as I also please [aresko] all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.” (1Cor 10:33)

“But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing [aresko] men, but God who tests our hearts.” (1Thes 2:4)

Reading: Rom 10-12; Matt 7