Creflo A. Dollar : Maintaining Your Victory in the Midst of Discomfort” – Episode 3

Grace That Holds You When You Fall: Staying Victorious in Imperfect Moments

When we talk about victory, we often imagine strength, perfection, or always getting it right. But real victory — the kind that comes from God — is not found in flawless performance. It’s found in grace. It’s found in the moments when you fall short but still dare to believe that Jesus is enough.

Sin is “missing the mark.” And the truth is, every one of us still misses the mark. Not one person walks through life without moments of fear, hesitation, selfishness, or weakness. Sometimes we pass by someone in need because we’re scared. Sometimes our words cut deeper than we intended. Sometimes our pride blinds us. But the miracle of grace is this: Jesus doesn’t abandon us in our shortcomings — He meets us there.

He proved it on the cross. The thief beside Him had no time to pray, to serve, to grow, or to change. He simply believed — and that very day Jesus took him into paradise. Another thief refused to believe, and that same day he remained separated. The difference was not behavior. It was belief.

We often confuse sinful behavior with sinful nature. But Jesus dealt with our sinful nature the moment we were born again. What we’re walking through now is the process of transforming our behavior — slowly, imperfectly, but surely. So how can we judge others as if we’ve already arrived? How can we condemn someone else’s failures when we still battle our own?

Some of us treat grace like a doctrine instead of a Savior. But grace is Jesus. When we say we struggle with grace, we’re really struggling with Him — His forgiveness, His compassion, His insistence on loving people religion tries to reject.

And how often do we hold people to rules God never wrote?

We shame them for struggles we secretly carry.
We elevate traditions above Scripture.
We cling to cultural expectations that crush hearts instead of healing them.

Even our ideas of masculinity, leadership, and roles have been shaped more by broken culture than by the Word. Many men walk around hiding deep insecurity under a mask of superiority because no one taught them how to simply be who God created them to be. Many women are silenced by traditions God never authored. And families suffer because we cling to roles instead of grace.

God didn’t call us to live under the pressure of performing. He called us to walk in love — to discover our identity in Him rather than in the expectations of others.

Your victory is not in pretending you’re perfect.
Your victory is in depending on Jesus every moment, every hour, every breath.
Your victory is in grace — the grace that forgives, restores, teaches, and transforms.

So today, breathe.
Let go of condemnation.
Let go of traditions that suffocate your soul.
Let go of trying to earn what God has already freely given.

Let Jesus teach you how to relate to Him.
Then let Him teach you how to relate to others.

Because you are loved.
You are accepted.
And even in your weakest moments, God is working — not to shame you, but to shape you into who He designed you to be.

Victory is not perfection.
Victory is staying in grace — especially when you fall.