Boldness Before God’s Throne

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<p id="viewer-c0dgf"><strong>Boldness Before the Throne of God</strong></p>

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<p id="viewer-epb4n">The believer has covenant rights in prayer, as well as other covenant rights. Yet there is one outstanding problem that defeats believers in their prayer life. When we come to God, we have a feeling of inferiority, a sense of sin-consciousness.</p>

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<p id="viewer-4lb48">Heb 10:2 says God does not want us to have sin consciousness when we approach His presence. But what is Sin Consciousness? It is the feeling we have that suggests that God has no interest in us or that God still sees us as a sinner. Let me illustrate:</p>

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<p id="viewer-ekc8q">When you begin your prayers with words like "I'm so weak and unworthy," and then harp on your weaknesses and unworthiness throughout the prayer, you are carrying a sense of sin consciousness. Truth is, since</p>

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<p id="viewer-19o1h">the day we became born-again, God addresses us as righteous, holy, victorious etc. There is nothing weak and beggarly about the way God describes us.</p>

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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="viewer-9ngae"><p><strong>Truth is, since the day we became born-again, God addresses us as righteous, holy, victorious etc. There is nothing weak and beggarly about the way God describes us.</strong></p></blockquote>

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<p id="viewer-82gm1">When you come into the Presence of God describing ourselves with appellations different from how He sees you, you talk yourself out of faith and into condemnation. We won’t have any assurance that God has heard us or not.</p>

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<p id="viewer-fcjpl">But look what God said: "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins" (Isaiah 43:25). God said He would blot out our transgressions for His own sake—so He could bless us. He couldn't have blessed us without it.</p>

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<p id="viewer-6lktq">When we know that He blotted out our sin and that He doesn't remember we did something wrong, we can come to Him with confidence. We can come with faith. We lose sin-consciousness and instead have Son-consciousness! Or Righteousness Consciousness.</p>

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<p id="viewer-dhdjc">We don't have to sit on the curb in front of our heavenly mansion begging for favors. We can go boldly through the front door and enter the throne room to fellowship with God.</p>

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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="viewer-bh44j"><p><strong>We don't have to sit on the curb in front of our heavenly mansion begging for favors. We can go boldly through the front door and enter the throne room to fellowship with God.</strong></p></blockquote>

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<p id="viewer-8hnd8"><strong><em>“Therefore let us [with privilege] approach the throne of grace [that is, the throne of God’s gracious favor] with confidence and without fear, so that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find [His amazing] grace to help in time of need [an appropriate blessing, coming just at the right moment].”</em></strong></p>

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<p id="viewer-fl1io"><strong><em>‭‭HEBREWS‬ ‭4:16‬ ‭AMP‬‬</em></strong></p>

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<p id="viewer-7o7tn">We are sons and daughters of God, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. We are covenant people. And we have a legal right—a Body of Christ right—to go into the Presence&nbsp;of God the Father with the same confidence and assurance that Jesus has. And we can do it boldly!</p>

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