One out of a million instances we can use is the case of a student in school who's got exams but but hasn't had the time to study. Or perhaps has had time but just hasn't had the will.
And then a day to that test, he flips through the pages of his textbooks, goes for the test, aces it, in fact, in some cases, he has the highest grades. Some people would think the teacher is just giving him preferential treatment or that he's doing something to influence his grades, but that's one example of the interventions of grace.
So we can say that grace is what happened for you in moments when your prayers didn't match your preparation, when your results supercede your effort, when you needed divine help to meet your goals.
Sometimes when people attempt to use your approach to these same circumstances, they never get away with it, they dont have it as easy. Some people have to work hard, while some have the grace of ease. It's not luck. It's God's favour, God's grace, making you enjoy preferential treatment, making you enjoy speed, bountiful harvests and making people go out of their way to bw good to you.
"Thou anointed my head with oil, (oil makes things shine/flow/swing smoothly) my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days of my life..." psalm 23: 4b
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