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GRACE

2016 is here.
So God gave me the word for that year.
See if it concerns you.

John 1:16 KJV
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Hebrews 4:16 KJV
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Revelation 22:21 KJV
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Psalm 84:11 KJV
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Revelation is the last book of the Bible. The very last verse says 'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.' This is to say that after all is said and done, what counts is the grace of our Lord being with us.

There is a Throne of Grace to take advantage of here before we face the Throne of Judgement. Nobody will stand the Judgement of God if he or she does not have the Grace of God.

Hebrews 4:16 says 'Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need'. How much grace you can find is what will count on Judgement Day.

Take for instance the Great Flood. That was  a kind of judgement, is it not? Noah and his family were the survivors. So what did Noah find that others did not? Grace. See it here.

Genesis 6:5-8 KJV
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

[6] And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

[7] And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

[8] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord .

He found grace in God's eyes at the time when others saw red in God's eyes.

Friends, there is a Judgement Day. That day God will not be smiling. 
Okay.

It won't be fair if I don't show where to find grace. Jesus Christ.

You see, it is of no use dressing the truth. We are all marking time here, eternity will dawn on all of us sooner or later. So if you are sure of your faith, please hold firmly to it. Afterall, some religions keep growing faster the more the animosity against them.

But if you have any doubt, why not stop and think? This is the chance you have to get it right. Is it not?

Grace is found in Jesus Christ.

John 1:17 KJV
[17] For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:24 KJV
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

John 1:16 KJV
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

We say it often in Church 'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ...'

Grace is essentially of Christ. Period.

I am sorry if all of these sound harsh. Grace is not a harsh word, really. Nothing is scary about grace. Grace is friendly. Very very friendly. And God did tell me there is so much of it in the coming year. Amen.

There will be more for me to say about Grace in the days to come.

Stay tuned.

Stay in Grace.

- Adeolu Olumodeji