What you can boldly expect from God!

I was S.O.A.P.ing the other day and had a renewed view of a scripture that continues to encourage and inspire me.


Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)


16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

2 Things we are promised when we go to God boldly:

1. Mercy will be received.

• When I think of mercy, I think of the past because most of us need mercy because of something in our past.  We've sinned, blown it, or messed up and realize that only because of the mercy of God can we be forgiven.
• Mercy is received, which means He gives it to us, it's not something that we earn or deserve.
• Sunday, I talked about the fact that we were once a people who hadn't received mercy but now our identity is that we are a people who have received God's mercy.

2. Grace will be found to help.

• If all we ever did was to fall and get mercy, we are not taking advantage of all the God has promised us from His throne.
• We will find grace to help us when we need it. 
• This helps us not to make the same mistakes over and over again.  You don't have to wander around the same mountain in the wilderness for 40 years.
• Grace is God's gift that helps us out in a supernatural way.  
• There can be a grace to endure, or a grace to change or a grace to believe. 
• What do you need to not fall into the same rut?  Ask for that grace today, and you'll find it.

These 2 things are inseparable and you need one as much as the other.  Together they hold the key to your future in Christ.  The best is yet to come.