I've understood Prevenient Grace to be that which "goes before" we accept Him into our lives. God's Grace is God's unmerited favor for us. We can never be good enough to ever earn it, even at our very best, we mess up; at our worst: get out of the way. But from the time of our conception He knows us as we are and wants to have a relationship with each of us.
...but how is He able to woo us into that relationship before we acknowledge Him?
One way, and maybe a primary way was dramatically related to us this Sunday by Pastor Debbie. Without retelling her powerful (true) story let me say that it is through others. In her story, she heard an inaudible voice that lead her to one who needed Him. She was able to witness to that person by her presence and opened him up to the relationship with God that God had been wanting for this person's whole life.
So it is through people that God works to woo others to Him. Last week I described why I am a Methodist. I live under God's Grace now, but it was through specific individuals, mostly Methodists in my case, that brought me to Him, but it was His Grace and Love that moved them to action.
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