Some days, you feel just as mashed as the potatoes you're preparing for Thanksgiving dinner.

Between looking after the kids and your aging parents, juggling demands at work and trying to squeeze in time for your own projects, you're spread as thin as the gravy that refuses to thicken.

Okay, we'll stop with the food metaphors...

But in all seriousness, you've probably been there before, right?

That's when it's time to hit pause and take a good, long look at your heart. It's easy to get trapped in work mode. You may be doing all the "right things," but you're doing them by your own blood, sweat and tears. Perfectionism and trying to follow legalistic rules is a FAST trip to burnout.

And we as believers seem to live that way pretty often—even though Jesus offers us His grace.

The amazing thing about grace is that it's totally undeserved, so you don't have to check enough things off your list to qualify. It's a free gift from Jesus to you. All you have to do is accept it.

Before you nod and move along, thinking you've heard all this before, it's about more than salvation and making it to Heaven one day. It's about living in everything God has for you right here and now.

A life of burning the candle at both ends just to get everything done isn't God's best for you. Constantly feeling like you never measure up isn't His heart for you either.

Yet if you've been living that way for a while, how do you step out of the vicious cycle and really accept God's grace?

It starts with getting His Word into your heart, where it can change your deepest beliefs.

If you're at the end of your rope, you can declare Hebrews 4:16, saying, "I go to God boldly and receive His mercy and grace when I need help."

If you're bone-tired, you can speak 2 Timothy 2:1: "Today I'm strengthened and empowered in the grace of Jesus."

And if you're in a tough situation that's wearing you thin, claim Psalm 107:8: "Regardless of what's going on around me, I'll give thanks to the Lord for His loving-kindness and the great things He has done."

Especially in the busyness of the Thanksgiving season, it's important to get your heart grounded in God's grace. Because it's His grace that empowers you with EVERYTHING you need.

To help you go back to the basics and lay that foundation, here's this month's Walk in the Word. It's a PDF with a collection of declarations pulled from Scripture, and this one's all about grace.

Click here to download your Walk in the Word PDF. Then print it out and hang it somewhere you'll see it often. Like in your kitchen, where you can stir that gravy until it's the perfect consistency—and speak God's promises at the same time.

His grace is just waiting to pour in and refresh your heart!

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