Grace experienced

This Sunday during service I had a much needed encounter with God. Lately I’ve been struggling with my relationship with the Lord because I just couldn’t understand how or why He loves me. I have wrestled a lot of doubt and had a lot of questions for the last several weeks. How could God love me when I don’t even like myself sometimes? I really was just having a hard time believing I was worth it to Him, and feeling that I have made too many mistakes to be His child.

Well, this Sunday, as soon as the sermon began it was as if God was talking directly to me. God just began to reassure me of His love, that I was the one He left the 99 for. His presence began to crash over me like a wave. And I had never done this before but I just felt led to ask God to look at me like we were having a conversation and I was trying to get His attention, and all of a sudden I 100% heard the Lord in my spirit say, “You always have my attention.” The presence of the Lord just overwhelmed me as we sat together in that moment.

Since yesterday I have experienced a new confidence and reassurance in my relationship with Jesus because as we learned His grace is a gift, it can’t be earned or maintained by us. It’s available to us only because The Lord is good, and He is who He says He is! Come on Jesus! - Aaron