The Throne of Grace

Grace, the noun: Unmerited favorGrace(d), the adjective: living life with a supernatural enabling from the Holy SpiritGrace, also noun: the smile on the Lord’s face when we step into His throne roomLet us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16Our only chance of survival is to approach the King’s throne!Hebrews 10:11-12,14 11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God… 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.Hebrews 10:22 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.The scroll is not enough. You must stand in.Because of Jesus, God’s reaction to you was determined before your actions against Him. “‘Til sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet” -Thomas WatsonThe journey you go on to approach the throne of grace is your redemption storyI delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.Isaiah 61:10 “God can’t get enough of us, that’s why He made us.” Curt ThompsonWhen He sees you, He sees the purity of JesusWalking with Jesus is simultaneously the most difficult and beautiful thing we will ever do‘I will bring him near and he will come close to me— for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?’ declares the Lord.Jeremiah 30:21b Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.Psalm 84:10Romans 5:1-5 (paraphrase) We have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we now STAND