“This is why the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God’s promise arrives as pure gift. That’s the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father — that’s reading the story backward. He is our faith father. We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was nobody. . . . Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. . . . He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he said.” Romans 4:16-21 (MSG)

GOD is bigger than your situation. To have complete confidence that nothing is impossible for God is of faith which doesn’t look at the obvious. Faith believes God to make something out of nothing, even on a very personal level. The grace of God is a gift; the favor of God upon those who trust and believe in Him is a gift. Anything earned for good works or good behavior is a reward which isn’t a gift. God’s gift of right standing by the finished work of Christ Jesus is of His grace; the miracle of salvation is by God’s grace; every right and privilege fully restored to those made sons & daughters of God the Father by the blood of Jesus is of His grace; every miracle manifested by the power of the Holy Spirit is a free-standing gift of God the Father. The grace of God has nothing to do with our good works because divine love – God’s kind of love is unconditional. The purpose of the whispers and/or fiery darts of the enemy are to keep us from seeking God’s face but upon comprehension that God’s grace is sufficient even in our weakness we run to the throne of God. That is, the confidence that the more better covenant received by the finished work of Christ Jesus is of God’s grace, I run to the throne of (often unabashedly jumping onto His lap); we take that to which we are entitled through Christ Jesus by faith.