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Greetings,
I have had a wonderful week in Angola, Africa teaching on God’s mercy and grace. Thank you to all the hungry sons and daughters of God who eagerly and willingly came to hear God’s words and to be touched by God’s presence. I have now arrived back in Portugal, and I will travel home tomorrow.
God loves us and the testimony of His love for us is seen in His judgment of mercy in our lives. God’s mercy is a judgment that triumphs over all other judgments. It triumphs over the judgments of sin. It triumphs over the judgment of law. It triumphs over the judgments of being wrong. Mercy is the judgment of our heavenly Father who never stopped seeing us as His children. Mercy frees us from the condemnation that comes by an administration of the knowledge of good and evil. No matter how hard we seek to be good, without a connection to the One who is good, we can never be good. God is good and His glory is to give life, breath, and all things to us. Apart from Him, we all fall short of His glory. Our character, nature, way, power, and authority are less than His without His manifest presence in our lives. God’s mercy is a judgment that frees us from our past shortfall and justifies us to find life through a connection with God in our hearts.
The evidence of grace is change. Without change there is no evidence of grace. Mercy justifies us to live, but grace empowers us to live. Grace is free but we must each come to the throne room of grace to find it. Grace is a testimony of overcoming. Hearing God in our hearts empowers us to stand in the process of grace and see the change that comes as a testimony of God’s salvation that comes in Jesus’ name. Our salvation is not just a salvation of going to heaven one day. Our salvation is a testimony of eternal life that affects our thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires in every aspect of our lives. We need God’s salvation in our daily lives, our marriages, our families, and in every aspect of who we are and what we do. Salvation is a testimony of God’s grace working in us.
What is the process of finding the grace of God? What is the relationship between God’s mercy and grace in our lives.
Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith we have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Faith justifies us to have peace with God. This is a testimony of mercy. There is no gap between God and us. This is peace. It’s not because of anything we did, but everything He did. The once for all sacrifice of Jesus upon our cross put an end to our disconnection from our Father God. Jesus was the scapegoat for our sins. In Him we find forgiveness for our sins. He reconciled us. He reconnected us to our Father. Our sins are forgiven, and we know our heavenly Father and the testimony of His love. We have peace with God. There is no gap between us and Him. We have access to His house. This even describes our destiny when we die. This verse guarantees us heaven when we die. All we need is to hear His voice and come to Him in faith. When we hear Him in our hearts it is made real in our lives.
God’s mercy gave us peace, and this becomes real in our lives when we boldly come to His throne and receive our gift. It is true for all human beings, but each of us must come to Him to receive our gift. When we boldly come and receive His mercy we know His peace. There is no more shame or condemnation. It doesn’t matter what we have done or who we are.
Romans 5:2 …through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Standing implies overcoming. Our standing is in the place of embracing God’s manifest presence in our lives. This is the testimony of grace. Standing is a prophetic term for possessing the land and receiving the inheritance given to us by God. The Bible teaches that the enemy is under the soles of our feet. Jesus is held up in the heavens until all His enemies are placed under the soles of His feet. The feet of Jesus are the feet of the body of Christ. The enemies of God and the life that He gives are to be under the feet of people like us. Wickedness is overcome and we stand upon our possession. We stand upon our inheritance. God wants to transform our self-focused human character, so we no longer act unjust. He wants to change our hearts and minds, so we are not under a law, but we are empowered by grace and our lives cast a shadow that looks like law.
A law looks like you shall not commit adultery, but grace says, Honey I Iove you! You are a one and only! You are the one and only in my life! I could never want to consider thinking of another because my heart is constantly empowered and transformed to love you more. To those who don’t understand this grace, they can look at my life and think I live by a law that says you shall not commit adultery, but it’s really the power of grace that empowers me in my heart and mind to love my wife as I should. Should I lose that passion, I can receive God’s mercy at His throne of grace and His manifest presence can empower me to be transformed by His grace to love again. The manifest presence of Holy Spirit in me gives me grace and the evidence is testified by an internal change and an external testimony. His presence gives me grace, and the evidence is known in my heart and seen in the testimony of my life.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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