It's your time to experience Grace
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Introduction
My brothers and sisters i truly believe we are living in a day and age that’ it’s difficult to find grace, we are constantly under the pressure to be,
The pressure to be a good parent
The pressure to be a good worker
The pressure to be a foo man
With expectations that we have for others and even for ourselves we quick give critic but hesitant to give grace.
Not just with others but some of are even hard on ourselves to we don’t even extend grace to ourselves
By no means am I saying we shouldn’t set expectations or hold ourselves and others to a standard
However what I’m saying is when hold ourselves an others hostage of Olathe past it prevents us from moving forward to where God wants us to be.
The truth of the matter is we all have fam short at one point or another and we needed someone to show grace.
We've been so long in an environment that can be so cruel that we forget how the treat our self
I've got to a place if no body treat me right. I'm going to treat myself right.
If nobody treat you right be kind to yoursel
Yiu gotta learn how to show Grace to yourself
Treat yourself
So it is if we strive to be like God our display of grace should not be based on who deserves it. Because if they deserve your kindness it’s not grace. If they deserve your forgiveness it’s not grace.
Grace is unmerited, it’s undeserved, now there’s the challenge l,
To forgive people who don’t even it.
To to put down the stone when you want rare back and through it.
I’m talking to someone who had cry but hey forgive.
To have been mistreated, misused but still
Chose to be kind.
It’s not that you forgot you just chose to forgive.
It’s often times that there is a blessing in betrayal
If you don’t believe me ask Joseph
His brother Ms threw him in the pit that lead to his elevation.
He chose to forgive his brothers and his response was you meant it for evil but God meant for my good.
He had the authority to harm them but he chose to help.
Real grace is shown when you help what harmed you.
The truth of the matter is that if we want be free we have apply Grace in every aspect of our life.
When we understand this we see how God forgave us over and over again and if had not been for the grace of God where would a be.
Paul said it like Iam what Iam becaus le of the grace of God.
therefore I have no room to brag or boast.
Because the truth be told we all was one light away from Greta dui we
We’re one break away from a fatal accident
We one hit away from an overdose
But God covered us.
If we were to be honest there were some things we did we just didn’t get caught.
Is there anyone glad God covered me.
Don’t look at nobody l, it ain’t rleherybody business what he covered you from.
Just say he covered me.
Ephesians 2:8
Woman who was caught in the very aft..
Not what someone spread.
She did it
Truth of the matter is something’s we actually did so but he covered us.
Gods grace special grace is different from common grace
Common grace- retrains sins and it’s consequences
Common grace is God’s general favor by which he restrains sin and its consequences, maintains human life and culture, and bestows a variety of gifts and blessings to all people indiscriminately
Special grace -
Common grace extend to all special grace is for the elected
Common grace until I received special grace
Special grace redeems us back to our place with God
Williams brother said it like this
Your grace and mercy brought me through
I’m living this moment because of you I want to think you and peace you to yiur grace and mercy bright me through
I believe we understand that Grace pertains to God's activity rather thanbhis nature
Love is God's nature Grace is God's activity
In other word it's an action word that enablea God to confront human rebellion and indeiferancw and ineaxaustvle capacity forgive and bless
So h chose to be gracious toward us.
He don't have to be.
He has to love us but he chose to be gracious toward us
That's why Paul said Lear we continue in sin lest grace abounds God forbid.
So we must be conscious of hat God has an option
He didn't have to do it but he did
He had options
With that we understand that it could have been another watl
In the old testament God reveals himself as the merciful gracious slow to anger and abounding on steadfast love and faithfulness.
So it is my brothers and sisters no other system or believes embassies Grace more than the Bible.
Biblically Grace is in 159 versus of the bible
Noah found grace in his eyes
Jacob found grace in Genesis 33:10
Esau found grace in Genesis 33:15
Shexhumefoins grace in Genesis 34:11
Joesph found grace in gen 39:4
Moses found grace in exodus
David found grace when his prayer was create in me a clean hear oh God and renew the right spirit
My brothers and sisters grace can be confusinf because it's not by works. Romans 11:6
Romans 12:3
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
So we find in the two scriptures read what happens when Grace and time meats.
When Grace and time collies healing take place. When Grace and time collide deliverance takes place.
And even when we don’t know what God is doing we must understand that at the right time he is going to work it out for our good.
May I suggest to you that Grace is not just an act but the timing of the action.
What would be kind and appropriate in one occasion maybe cinciseess no in other that's why ephesians 3/1 says there is a time and season for everything under the sun.
So it's not that God wasn't kind it was just that certain season yiu had to go through until it was his time
Eccleston 3:11 says he makes everything beautiful in his time
So in the text in mark it displays a time line of Jesus showing grace
That's why ephesians
Context
We find in Mark
Mark is a story line of Jesus moving with grace
The seas are settled is stilled
Cast out demons into the swine
Jairus’s daughter healed
Text
He arrived at the woman with the issue of blood a women who had not experienced much grace in her time. She was often pushed to the side. She was misused abused and confused. Mark describes a woman with a hermitage Had spent all she had from doctors to doctor She was considered unclean. She Was not allowed to participate in ceremonial feasts and sacrifices. She was an outcast from society. No one showed her grace. On top of that she became financially distressed because she spent all she had on her healing that she didn’t get. She did not get better but only grew worse
For 12 years she suffered from this horrible disease. I believed she had heard of the healing of Jairus’s daughter. I believe she heard of the demons being cast out. I believe sh had heard of the miracles before and decided she would press to experience the healing grace of Jesus. She did not miss the miracle of the moment. We have to learn to catch the grace of the time because there’s a miracle when the beauty of God’s timing meats Grace.
Question to ask the text:
How many people did she see healed in the 12 years
How many times did she think about giving up in those 12 years.
How many people left out of her life in those 12 years
How many people gave up on her in those 12 years
But it took 12 years
12 years In perspective
12 years agi
12 years ago the iPhone 4 was released
12 years ago the first iPad was released
12 years ago Uber went live for the first time
12 years ago Lebron left he cavs and went to the heat
12 years ago instagram launched
Is there anyone in here that can say. I refused to let all these things things change in 12 years and I remain the same.
I decree and declare that it’s my time for grace.
She had to press herself to grace.
She has to move around the crowd to get to grace.
Whatever you got to do…don’t miss grace
She did not let it pass by. She said if I could just touch the hem of his garment I will be made whole.
She made up in her mind it was her time to experience grace.
I came to encourage you that its your ti
God has a plan. We just can’t miss it. Just because he has not came through when we think we should, how we think he should where we think he should does not mean that he will not come through. He may not come when we want him to come but he’ll be there right on in time.
Come here Dottie peoples..He’s an on time God yes he is.
When God shows up he shows up on time and its important for us to understand that we may not know when he’s going to show up but he’s going to show up. However my brothers and sister its possible for him to finally show up to our situation and we not even know he is there.
My brothers and sisters in the body of Christ we often make references to waiting on God, We use the scripture that they that wait on the lord shall renew their strength they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint they shall mount up with wings as eagles.
We use scriptures as in Wait I say on the Lord. My brothers and sister by no means am I telling you not to wait on God. Ill be the first to tell you to wait on the lord and be of courage. Ill be the first to tell you to that patience is a virtue. However, I think just as waiting on God is important its equally important to know when God is shifting some things in your favor, Just as waiting on God is important it is equally important to know when God is shifting your seasons. To often my brothers and sister we spend our life waiting and Weiss the train because we are operating and moving on our times.
To often we miss our moments because we are not able to shift with the timing of God. My brothers and sisters, true enough God doesn’t change, but time does.
There was a story of a man who had to catch an 8:01 train. He runs up to the train station and speaks with the staff a the station and asked the staff when does the 8:01 train leave? The worker with a grin on her face gently replied at 8:01. The man said well the clock on the wall says 7:57, and my watch says 7:59. The man replied which time am I going by, The worker replied neither because the 8:01 train has already left.
Yes, he is the same today yesterday and forevermore, but look at somebody and say but yesterday ain’t today, (You will catch it when you get home)
He’s the same but he changes time yesterday unto today, and he changes today to tommorow.
So he shifts times, and seasons in our life.
We live this life in seasons, often we have good seasons, sometimes we have not so good seasons, someone once said that, that’s why we should let our highs get to high or our lows to be to low, Because God in an instance has the power to change your situation. You can be up today and down tomorrow, You can be down today and up tomorrow. You can be weeping today and have joy tomorrow.
I heard the song writer Veshawn Mitchell sing a song that it wont always be like the lord will perfect that which concerneth you, and sooner or later things will turn in your favor.
Do I have anyone can agree that God can turn something’s around your favor, not tomorrow, not next week, but right today.
I don’t know what it is that you’re dealing with, But why don’t you open your mouth with a voice of triumph and cry do it GOD.
God has a way of shifting things in our life when the time is right.
My brothers and sisters the beauty of God’s time is that it has a way of talking without speaking, Time has a way of revealing with showing. Time has a way of showing without telling. There is an old saying that time will tell. That’s why we have to stop wasting time trying to prove ourselves to people who don’t see your value. Stop wasting your energy on folk who can’t see the call and the anointing on your life. Because time will show that even when they misused you, your heart was right, time has a way of showing what we cant gather the words to say.
God’s timing, is unexplained, unimagined and incapable to figure out.
It was 40 years for the children of Israel
It was 38 years for the man who sat at the pool of Bethesda.
Abrahams was a 100 and Sarah was 90 before God gave them what he promised.
When we are on God’s time we can’t become impatient or forceful . We have to be sure that we don’t interrupt what God is doing but let everything happen on Gods time.
The older saints said it like this. He may not come when you want him to come but he will be there right on time…
It is remarkable how God can start from scratch and create the heavens and the earth then form the earth from voidness and create everything beautiful, Genesis says he gave light to the earth after he formed it name the light day and name the darkness night. Put a name on 12:01 am and call it morning, figure out when it's 12:01 pm and call it afternoon, realize the sun is going down and call it an evening.
My dear friends, God is the master of creation and although he gives us time. He is not bound by time or controlled by time because he is the creator of it. He creates time, not for his sake but for our sake, yes believe it or not God knew some of us are likely to be late, God knew he had to give some of us time because we would just show up when we wanted to.(Like Some of us did today lol)
Time creates order
If there is no time there is no order..
That’s why we have a time on our work schedule because if they didn’t give us a time we’ll just show up when we want to there will be no order.
Even in the service on tonight…the first thing was asked was what time.
Because once you place it in order as to your schedule.
So when things are done in God’s timing it’s done in order he is a God of order.
So when things don’t happen in your time God is just making sure it’s in order.
He placing it in order and when it’s your time it’s your time.
You don’t have to worry about doubters and haters if it’s your time it your time and God is going to love how he wants to move in your life.
Psalm 90:4, Moses used a simple yet profound analogy in describing the timelessness of God: When he says “For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”
The eternity of God is contrasted with the temporality of man. Our lives are short and frail, but God does not weaken or fail with time.
The Greek word Kairos and Chronos are often translated as time in the New Testament
Kairos which means an appointed time
Chronos which referees to a duration of time….
In the New Testament, the word ʿôlām is used to describe age which refers to “extended time.
As Christians, we have to learn master all three.
Because we don't know when God is going to come through
The duration of time because we don't know how long God will keep us in somethings
And extended time because we don't know how much time God gives us
For the Bible says no man knows the day or the hour he's coming back
It goes to say he is coming back for a church Without a spot or a wrinkle.
So in reality when we were born we were introduced to time, and every day from that point on is extended time.
Is there anyone here that looks back over your life and say, I’m glad God extended my time? It was no goodness of my own but when I didn’t deserve it, he gave me extra time. It was not the best of my own but because of his grace and mercy, we are not consumed.
Although things dont always happen when we think they should work out it’s because God has a time and season for everything under the sun.
David used the time to reference his sorrow when he said weeping may only endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Paul got a little geeky when he said I reckon, that the suffering of this present time is not able to be compared to the glory that will be revealed.
My brothers and sister if one was to ask what is the most precious gift to life, I would have to say time. Why do you ask? Because time is the only thing that once it is lost can’t be recovered.
when we understand that timing of God it decreases, stress, depression, and worry,
God’s timing requires-
God’s timing requires endurance-
Galatians 6:9, Don’t grow weary in well doing in due season we shall reap if faint not.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 ~ The race is not given to the swift or to the strong but to the one who endures to the end...
God’s timing requires patience-
Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29wisdomunderstandinganger
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.Ephesians 4:2lovehumility
Better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32peaceself-control
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14trustcourage
The Lord is patient with us-
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9salvation
The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
Psalm 103:8
My brothers and sisters not only should we be patient with God but we must also be patient with people, Because God was faithful to us
God’s timing requires discipline-
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
God’s timing requires discernment-
Closing:
The last part of Romans 3:11 states that he creates things in the beauty of his time that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
He makes somethings a mystery because he can’t do the miraculous and he makes something mysterious.
The mystery sets you up for the miracle.
The song say I don’t know how, I don’t know when. But I know God is going to do it.
If you could do it yourself you wouldn’t need God.
Something’s require the mysteriousness of God.
I decree and declare.
The thing that has been a mystery is about to turn into a miracle.
Look at somebody and Say God is about turn your mystery into a miracle.
While you trying to figure it out. God already worked it out.
There is not issue in your life that can out run Grace.
There is Grace for it.
There is grace for sickness.
There is grace for family issues.
There is grace for sickness.
There is grace depression.
There is grace for stress.
There is grace for worry.
I came to tell you that its your time to experience grace for whatever you going through.
It was Daniel that found grace in the lions den.
It was shadrach, and abednego that found grace in the fire furnace.
but the beauty of God’s time turned it into a miracle.
It was Jonah that found grace in the belly of sheol, when the whale had to spit him up.
When your operating with the beauty of God’s timing, the lions cant eat you, the fire cant burn you, the whale cant swallow you. Worry cant consumed.
Your graced for this.
Its your time to experience Grace.
Hebrews 4:16
(A)Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
It was Jesus that died and was taken to the grave, he stayed there one day, he stayed there two days, but the beauty of God’s timing is that he early the third day morning he got up with all power in his hands.
Etc.
He said come onto me all he who are weary and baby laden and I’l
2nd 12 Paul had a thorn in his fled
But God my grace is sufficient for yiu my strength is made perfect on weakness
All of us have a thorn
But his grace is sufficient.
Your weakness allows God to reveal his power.
dis·en·fran·chise·ment
/ˌdisənˈfran(t)SHīzmənt/
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Jesus grade tour he showed let those ehwho didn't know grace to experience his kindness
Examples:
Woman at the well
James 4:6 stayed he more grace
I needed more grace
I was in the more grace
When we recognize that we need grace God gives us more grace
He resists when we feel like we got it all together.
Scriptures back me up when it says he resists the proud
But gives grace to the humble
Humble your selves and he shall lift you up.
Jesus responds to the acquisition.
He ignored it---
They wanted Jesus to pick a side
He put the idea back to them
That required self reflection
This is not the first time that the people attempted to confuse Jesus….
Healing of the sabbath was one example—
Te intent for their intent for their accusation-
Their true intent was not to persecute the woman but their true intent was to crucify..
Their intent was just as bad as her accusations…
Jesus intent was to save her and not to accuse her…
When we realize that its not the purpose of Jesus to accuse us he defends us…
Revelations 12:10 calls satan the accuser
ne of Satan’s primary goals is to accuse us, laying before us all of our sins in hopes that we will sink deeper into despair.
God wants to forgive us but Satan wants to condemn us.
When we understand this we can understand why Paul says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places.
We have to understand that it is Satan’s job to accuse you. But we can’t gall to the trap of condemnation of ourselves and other. That’s why the Bible says lest satan should get an advantage of us we are not ignorant of his devised.
That’s what its just as important for us to stay before God because the enemy is defiantly staying before God with accusations against you.
That a why
She nep going until she go
What she needed
She don't get the credits she deserves
What's your issue
Keep coming with yiur issue