What is grace? It is said that grace is unmerited favour. Paul said, "Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt" (Rom. 4:4). Therefore we can deduct that grace is the reward or blessing that is given to someone when the person did not work for it. It is grace that brought us from sin to righteousness, from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light. The Word of God says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the Gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast" (Eph. 2:8-9). We were saved by the Grace of God when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him into our lives. The Love and Grace of God is seen in what He did for us, in that He raised us up together with Christ Jesus, and seated us together with Him at His Own Right Hand.

"MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN KEPT OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD BY YOUR GOOD WORKS." A startling thought, isn't it? Righteous acts and hard work may be the very things that lock the door to God's salvation, writes D. L. Moody. The faith versus works debate has gone on for two thousand years. Today the confusion continues. How many people, perhaps even you, believe that if they try hard enough, they may be able to escape judgment and receive God's gift of salvation? In God's Abundant Grace, D. L. Moody's words reach forward in time to strip away the layers we've added to God's salvation and lay bare the simple instruction: "To him that worketh not, but believeth to Him,... his faith is counted for righteousness."

As a part of his classic Secret Series devotionals, Andrew Murray wrote this month-long devotional to reflect on the intimate connection between the throne of God and the Lamb and the liberty that we have to ask and receive abundant grace. The Secret of the Throne of Grace also includes Murray’s furthered ideas on love, completing the thoughts that he began in The Secret of Brotherly Love.

As believers, staying in your posture long enough gives you the strength to give birth and see the manifestation that you rightfully earn through God. Bethlehem of Judea is a reminder of the very place we accepted impartation. This is His Glory in your life. What is Glory? Glory is Kabowd in Hebrew. Kabowd means heaviness and weightiness. Bethlehem of Judea is a place you can take off heaviness or weightiness. This place here can handle both at the same time, you receive strength and more submission to His will at the same time. A place of receiving the most earnest presence of God. Why? Because the Messiah was born. Through the graciousness and honor of being in this place, it's a privilege. In this moment Christ invites you in His presence. By welcoming you in to partake in the true worship. Once you experience his presence no one has to teach or preach it to you. It becomes a one on one experience. You will automatically identify and connect with his spirit. Yes, this place is a mirror of perceptions to respond to the activation of the required works in the kingdom. This place is a great place that we need to stay reminded of in our spirits. "Let us therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you" (Philippians 3:15 KJV). "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:14 KJV) Stay reminded Bethlehem of Judea is when you go in broken and come out blessed, then giving a charge to be granted to serve in the Kingdom of God as Jabez.

V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.

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