Mercy and grace are the only ways to get yourself through each week. When the world beats you down, mercy and grace step in. Just a few years back people were not ashamed to approach the throne room.

Phil 4:19

When your walk gets hard and you don’t think you can make it, come boldly to His throne. Ask God for help. He knows your heart and its intentions. Need your bills paid? Come boldly to His throne and request His grace and mercy. When you feel God calling you to be saved, come to His throne and His grace and mercy will save you. 

Eph 2:4

Psalm 23:1-6

When you pray to God do you ask Him to help you to get things? God has already promised His children He would take care of them. We should be praying for those around us and not about ourselves. The lost people should be brought to God in our prayers continuously. If the Christian doesn’t do it then no one will do it. It’s up to us, the Christians! Think back to yourself when you were lost. Someone prayed for your lost soul and asked God to save it. They never gave up on your soul and never stopped asking God to save you.

When we do things on our own we will always mess things up. We should only be doing what He says to do. If we do what we think is right, we will always mess things up. 

God is our strength and our shield. He protects us coming and going. He is the only one who can see what is in front of us. We should be placing all of our faith and trust into His hands.

Do you truly believe that God hears your prayers when you pray? Do you have enough trust in Him that He is hearing you? Just because you pray and the answer isn’t what you wanted, did He hear you? Your heart must first be right with God for Him to hear from your heart. You can’t hide the evil in your heart from God. He knows what’s in there and youmust ask Him to clean it up. That is the only prayer He will hear from you if you have something in the way between Him and you. 

Leviticus 1:9

If the offerings from the Old Testaments God could smell, could He not smell ours as well? He should smell the sweetness of Christ and not the elements of this world.

Coffee has a distinct smell. Some don’t like the smell of coffee while others don’t. Have you ever walked into a house that’s making cookies? What about the smell of bacon frying somewhere in a building? 

Once you’ve smelled something you can’t un-smell it. One can’t walk into a room and say they refuse to smell the cookies baking. Everything that Jesus Christ has done, God honors Him and there is no sweeter fragrance to God.

Thinking of people that we know in our lives we sometimes think of the way they smelt. Maybe it was a perfume or a cologne they wore. When we smell it later it brings that person back to our memory. No matter where a Christian goes we ought to release the fragrance of Christ. 

When we as Christian’s go into the world, our fragrance goes out to those that believe and do not believe in Christ. God still smells Christ in the Christian. Aren’t you glad God doesn’t measure our success on how many people were saved under us? 

We do not have the power to permeate everything, everywhere. God is the only one that can do that. If you worked in a bakery 8 hours a day, when you went home your family could tell where you’ve been all day. You couldn’t help it because that smell just permeates your hair, clothes, and skin. Think about a person who walks by when you can tell what kind of detergent and softener one uses. Your nose is simply doing what it was made to do, smell. No matter where you go the people should know you’ve been in the presence of God and smell Christ on and in you. The lost person does not like the smell of Christ because it smells like death. The lost will hate you and hate to be around you if they smell Christ on you.

We all have to work in order to eat, so we have jobs. Don’t let your job take over your Spiritual walk. When we attend a church service we should pay attention to the man delivering the message. There is usually something in the message for you that has been there for some time in our lives. 

Time with God is more precious than gold.  If you don’t have God then you don’t have anything. You could have all the gold in the world and still have nothing. Don’t ever let God go. We all have to work in order to eat, so we have jobs. Don’t let your job take over your Spiritual walk. When we attend a church service we should pay attention to the man delivering the message. There is usually something in the message for you that has been there for some time in our lives. 

Time with God is more precious than gold.  If you don’t have God then you don’t have anything. You could have all the gold in the world and still have nothing. Don’t ever let God go.

One will always be a slave. The question is, who is your master? 

There are differences between the evil master and the God master.

Matthew 22:10

John 13

A saved individual is proud to be a servant, a slave to Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 23

Hindered and helped. God is always helping while the devil always hinders.

Give and take. The devil wants to destroy while God gives life. 

Burdens are heavy or light. The devil’s burdens are heavy while God’s burdens are light.

Liar and truth. The devil doesn’t do anything but lie while God can’t lie.

Why do we look in other places for relief when Jesus is there waiting. Even if you’ve never experienced the grief or sorrow of life, you will soon be there at some point. Mark this scripture when your grief comes.

Have you ever been troubled to the point that you can’t sleep? We’ve often been there. God can hear when we cry and He understands our tears. He understands it all even though we don’t. He’s never left because He cares for us. No one is exempt from the troubles of this life. Just because you’ve been saved doesn’t mean that your troubles have been removed. What it does mean is that you have someone to help you through them when they come. The enemy of God wants to stop God’s love from flowing but God is stronger. 

When you wake, Jesus should be the first thing you think of. God is always speaking but we should want Him to make us hear Him. It’s always about His love and kindness. For a scared sheep, the best thing it can hear is its loving shepherd. 

Ask God to make you know the way you should walk, the path of where to walk, and what to do. God is a lamp to our feet, a light to our path. How often have you faced a problem and admitted you didn’t know what to do?  We should be lifting our souls to God not because our flesh wants gratification but because our soul yearns for Him.

Ask God to hide you from the enemy so that you can grow and get closer to God. Ask God to show you, and teach you how to do His will. God has shown us His will but we usually are ignorant of how to do it. 

Request from God the power to do His will. If it was all about you then you would already have the power to do His will. How many times has your soul been in trouble and God steps on the scene and restores it. The Spirit is life and when He comes He resurrects the dead.

The key to the formula above is faith. Faith unlocks God and when you pray, your simple requests are being heard and He will help you.

1 Cor 10:13

Jesus went a little further. Most people once they hit a brick wall give up. Don’t give up just because you can’t see the way. God will not fail you, keep going. Stop worrying about the finish line and focus on the current. There will be times when your friends, family, or loved ones will not be there for you, keep going and press a little further.

Jesus bowed a little lower. When the weight of this world begins to press you down, bow down lower to God. Sell out to God and bow a little lower.

Jesus prayed a little harder. There are several occasions that we read in the Bible when Jesus prayed. Luke 22:44; clearly tells us how hard He prayed. Daniel 6:10; Daniel knew if he continued to pray his life was in great danger, but that didn’t stop him from praying to God. In fact, he opened his window and prayed harder.

Have you set a limit on how far you’ll go for God? If so, He will test it.

James 1; there is a requirement for Christians to live holy before God and they do not have a license to sin. Sin will tear your walls down quicker than anything else in this world. The enemy wants to deceive the Christian. 1 John; 2 Cor 6:17; Romans 12:2;  we should not love the world or the things in the world. Never compromise with the world. Once you allow it into your life one time then it will quickly grow and become comfortable with the enemy. 

Nehemiah 2:17

Nehemiah 4:2

Nehemiah 4:6

Nehemiah 4:7-9

Nehemiah 6:15

Nehemiah 8:1