To consecrate yourself is to answer God’s call to spiritual consecration. This means making a conscious, willing decision to dedicate your soul, mind, heart, and body to God. This decision must be one of will, intelligence, and affection. Only you can make the decision to consecrate yourself to God.

Consecrated life is a state of life in the Catholic Church lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way. Consecrated persons are not part of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, unless they are also ordained clergy.

Some common synonyms of consecrate are dedicate, devote, and hallow.

A very special act of consecration is that of the Eucharistic gifts bread and wine in the Holy Mass, which according to Catholic belief involves their change into the Body and Blood of Christ, a change referred to as transubstantiation.

The difference between Consecrate and Sanctify When used as verbs, consecrate means to declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy, whereas sanctify means to make holy.

Sanctification is initiated at the moment of justification and regeneration. From that moment there is a gradual or progressive sanctification as the believer walks with God and daily grows in grace and in a more perfect obedience to God.

Certain traditions and denominations teach the possibility of Christian perfection, including the Catholic Church, where it is closely associated with consecrated life. It is also taught in Methodist churches, in which it is usually known as Christian perfection or entire sanctification.

Justification is a word used in the Scriptures to mean that in Christ we are forgiven and actually made righteous in our living. The Christian actively pursues a righteous life in the grace and power of God granted to all who continue to believe in Him.

1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin. 2a : morally right or justifiable a righteous decision. b : arising from an outraged sense of justice or morality righteous indignation.

God’s Word says that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by our own efforts or works (Ephesians 2:8-9). We receive that grace through faith alone. God even gives us the faith that trusts him. We are not saved by obeying a list of do’s and don’ts, but by grace through faith in Christ.

Justification, in Christian theology, either (1) the act by which God moves a willing person from the state of sin (injustice) to the state of grace (justice); (2) the change in a person’s condition moving from a state of sin to a state of righteousness; or (3) especially in Protestantism, the act of acquittal whereby …

As Ephesians 2:8–9 says, “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. It is not from yourself or anything you’ve done, but the gift of God.” Salvation, therefore, is a free gift of grace from God. Protestants see the act of praying the sinner’s prayer as the trigger that brings salvation into a person’s life.

“Justification” is the transition from sin to right-relationship with God. “Faith” is the belief that God will keep his promise.

His central teachings, that the Bible is the central source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism. Although Luther was critical of the Catholic Church, he distanced himself from the radical successors who took up his mantle.

the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.

We are saved by God’s grace (grace is the ground and agency of our salvation) through faith, which is the means by which we receive the gift of salvation. Faith is viewed as that way by which God’s gracious gift of salvation is received — through our faith — the way water flows through a pipe.

By the grace of God, through faith, we receive the forgiveness of sins. And yet, even the faith itself which the Holy Spirit creates and strengthens in us is the unmerited gift of God, and therefore ‘by grace’. Your received grace even before you had faith.

In Western Christian theology, grace is “the love and mercy given to us by God because God desires us to have it, not necessarily because of anything we have done to earn it”.

Absolutely Yes! God’s grace is for everyone. Once we recognize the magnitude of our Sins we become increasingly more aware of God’s grace that he has lovingly shown to us time and time again!

+ Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. + James 4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Grace is the undeserved favor of God, in that all sinners can be saved by Christ’s Blood. Blessing is the gifts God gives us in all areas of life, mental, emotional, spiritual, physical & “stuff/material things.” We must be in God’s grace/favor to receive His blessings.