1. Finding Grace - For Private Healing And Wholeness
Let us therefore strategy the throne of grace with boldness, so that we might receive mercy and find
grace to help in time of need. ~Hebrews 4:16 (NRSV).
At times we feel such as God's birthing something large in us, and during these times it can feel
overwhelming - the burden of it. This particular that follows came to me personally, contrarily, all of a
sudden in a praise service very recently...
Salvation as an experience comes to all of us from God - and we to it - for at least 2 reasons, one
linked with our pasts, the other pertaining to our futures.
1. God's saving Us from Our Pasts
Our sin, guilt and shame had been dealt with on the cross some nearly two thousand years ago -
that's the fact that the theory associated with salvation works from. The process we have is to ward
towards depressions and other such affilictions for the weightiness of the baggage we perhaps are
still intermittently carrying from those pre-saved days (or even from the baggage of those sins
committed since we were saved!).
The rubberized hits the road of our experience with salvation when we begin (as well as continue) to
trust that God really has dealt with those pasts of ours, and we are truly no longer condemned for
them. God forgives, unconditionally, and so shall we. NObody are we to hold something against
ourselves for which God - the creator of the world, and the author of existence - has forgiven us for?
Sure, we will continue to work out the effects of these sins in our lives, but lord is making the very
best right now out of them. God understands guilt and shame just hinders our spiritual progress and
God forgives all of us so we can be free to move on with our lives. Love would know no other way
than mercy.
The practice of assuaging such guilt or even shame, however, is a journey. We must take the first
step and then the next and so on. Just because it will take years to come to know the completeness
of the healing of the nature doesn't mean we shouldn't start it now. Indeed, all of us shouldn't waste
any time.
And who really knows when the recovery with suddenly break via in major ways... We are assured in
trusting God that it will. And we're doing just about all we can to assist that process and not hinder it.
We ought to know that healing as a idea is a continual need for us. We all need healing.
2. God's Saving Us into Our Futures
Our plans, dreams, hopes and ambitions are at God's stead without situation. We cannot advance on
these without God's engineering situations or otherwise providing us with the capacity or capability on
their behalf.
Sometimes the challenge is around anxiousness. The fact is we're probably very anxious to get on
with things, possibly because of our age, stage or some other pressure, and also the sense of
uncertainty that clings. And if things don't 'move on' we can quickly start to run aground in aggravation
and then we face the reality of despair, which eventually changes us onto depression.
Like the foregoing, we must trust god with complete abandon -- that our only opportunities at real and

2. uncontrived happiness are dependent on the total submit of our plans, dreams, hopes and ambitions
to lord - again, in believe in.
We might ask, "will we really trust the promises of Jeremiah 29:11-14?" Do we trust God to be aware
what he's doing in terms of our futures?
Finding Our individual Measure of Grace
God has trimmed out for us our very own tailor-made outfit of grace accordant to our very exacting
needs. This grace works within an eternal frame; it fits with our pasts, our presents as well as our
futures. But we will only ever know this grace - and obtain its fullest possible measure - if we proceed
boldly, without fear of cost or encumbrance.
God's not holding back; we tend to be.
But, then again - without having to be a disclaimer - god knows the compassion we have to take the
journey a step at any given time. God knows we can keep only so much.
Many christian believers struggle with the idea that if they're preserved they must all of a sudden be
'happy people,' re-made or 'healed perfect' in lord. That's truly the rubbish of Satan talking. People
thinking such things don't consider that the house of the lord - the body of Christ - is not only a place
we're freed to belong to, but it's also a place where we're ministered to... Healing being an ongoing
process under Christ and through the movement of the Holy Spirit within the loved ones that is the
Church.
If we now have a Saviour who was characterized in suffering - that endured so much more than we
ever will - don't we also feel that a key message associated with God's grace is how in order to now
access this custom-made grace for ourselves.
Why is our sadness hidden? these are not hidden from God.
Surely we're to open up to your body - to the trusted souls who are destined to minister the tailor-
made grace of lord to us, God's spirit working through them.
Is it the past that's holding us back or the thought of an unkempt future? whatever it is, let's go
strongly to that throne of grace and receive what was predestined for us.
Copyright (c) 2010 S. J. Wickham.
Jeremiah 29