Text: Ephesians 3:1-9
Memory verse:
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” ‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

There was a man who spent several years in prison for armed robbery. By his own admission, he was violent, angry, and convinced that life owed him nothing. Church services were just another routine in prison until one night, during a small fellowship meeting, a volunteer read Luke 23:42–43, the story of the thief on the cross.
What struck him wasn’t judgment. It was grace. He said later, “If Jesus could promise paradise to a dying criminal with no time to fix his life, then maybe God hadn’t given up on me either.” That night, he prayed a simple prayer, not out of fear, but out of relief. For the first time, he felt forgiven, not managed.
Something changed after. No one told him to evangelize. No one pressured him to testify. Yet the very next day, he began sharing with other inmates, during meals, in the yard, in whispers at night. When asked why he suddenly cared, his answer was consistent: “When mercy finds you where you least deserve it, you can’t keep quiet.”
After his release, he didn’t become a preacher immediately but became a mechanic. Grace followed him into his workplace. He paid for customers who couldn’t afford repairs. He told young apprentices his story when they felt life was already ruined. Years later, several of those young men credited that quiet witness as the reason they turned their lives around. He once said: “I don’t share because I’m bold. I share because grace was too loud to ignore.”
“We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:20).
People touched by rules argue. People touched by religion advertise. But people touched by grace testify naturally. Grace doesn’t need to be announced; it spills.
As grace turned this man from a prisoner to a preacher, so did it turn Paul, from persecutor to proclaimer. Paul, who hunted believers and imprisoned Christians, believing he was right, became the defender of the gospel. He preached the gospel he once tried to destroy, suffered imprisonment and spent his life building what he once attacked (Gal 1:23; 1 Cor 9:16). When grace rewrites your story, you spend the rest of your life telling it.
Friends, do you know that the worst chapters of your life can become the strongest evidence of grace? So, don’t allow the grace that saved you to end in forgiveness but let it become fuel for service. Let it release your purpose.

Prayer points
1. Father, thank You for reaching me with Your grace; let me never receive this grace in vain, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, let my life be evidence of Your grace; let this grace release Your purpose for my life and to energize me for service, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. I won’t spend the rest of my life proving that I have changed. Rather, I will spend it serving because He has changed me.
2. The worst chapters of my life will remain the strongest evidence of grace.