In order to make contact
with God, and expect to get answers to our requests, we need to understand how
to approach Him correctly. To just ask for something without the correct
attitude is to build in failure.
The first realization we must understand is that
God is desires to answer our prayers.
Hebrews 11:6 But without
faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe
that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
We must ask ourselves,
do we really believe that God exists? We then must be convinced that He will
hear and answer our requests. Do you believe that if you diligently seek after
God He will reward you with His favor?
John 1:17 For the law was given
by Moses, but
For most of the years of
our life we have placed our compliance to the laws of God would bring us favor
with Him. This is a incorrect understanding of how to
gain recognition from God.
It is utterly impossible to gain favor or
forgiveness from God through compliance to His laws.
We see then that our efforts to earn favor with
God by keeping the law will not work.
Grace
as:
1. The
unmerited favor of God
2. Divine influence acting in a person to make
the person pure, morally strong, etc.
3. The condition of a person brought to God’s
favor through this influence
4. A special virtue, gift, or help given to a
person by God A word that is closely linked to grace
is the word mercy.
1. Refraining from harming or punishing
offenders, enemies, or persons under one’s power
2. Kindness in excess of what may be expected or
demanded by the law.
3. The power to forgive, clemency,
We are saved by grace.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Our approach to God must
be based on mercy and grace. There are no other grounds that we can use to
contact God. Our keeping of the law will not gain us acceptance with God. Our
good deeds will not gain us favor with God. The only basis we can ever approach
God is under the grace granted us.
If we have been granted grace, we must have done
something that requires us to have a need for grace. All of humanity were born
sinners and under the direction and control of
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it.
We were all born under sin and under it’s control. When we are born again, we are under the
direction of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
We are become new born babes in God’s family.
Humanity is utterly lost and totally without hope in the world. Any and all the
efforts of humanity to become acceptable to God are impossible. When we receive
grace for our hopeless condition we also recognize that we are part of this
sinful world.
Only when we recognize our common sinful state,
can we become eligible for God’s saving grace.
Daniel
9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for Thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are
called by thy name.
20:
And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the
holy mountain of my God;
21:
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man
God bless you, as you
approach the throne of God with faith, and in meekness.
Have
a GOD day!
