Come to the Throne of Grace to Receive Mercy & Grace from our Merciful High Priest

Because the Lord Jesus as our High Priest is merciful, today we can come forward to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help; God’s love is the source, He reaches us in His mercy, and He brings us to a position where we can enjoy His grace.

Lord Jesus, we come forward with boldness to the throne of grace today! We come to receive mercy and find grace. Thank You for going through a process to become a merciful High Priest. Thank You for sympathising with us and always being merciful toward us. We come to You today to receive mercy! We come to enjoy You as grace! Amen!

In so many ways, we believers in Christ repeat the history of the prodigal son. By the Lord’s mercy and grace, He has reached out to us in His mercy and has saved us, and we returned to the Father’s house.

We are now in the church life, enjoying the Lord with the saints. But so many times, in so many ways, and in so many aspects, we still backslide, draw back, and spend time in things that are not pleasing to the Lord.

The Father is there, waiting for us to come home, and He sends the Spirit to work in our heart and cause us to come to our senses.

We all can testify that, as we were doing our best to enjoy the things of the world or we were engaged in certain activities that we knew the Lord was not pleased with, we had a deep realisation that we are feeding the pigs in the world, and we are hungry with nothing to eat.

So we remembered the Father’s house, the wonderful church life, where we enjoy Christ richly with all the saints, and where food and drink are in abundance.

This coming to our senses is the operation of the Triune God as the Spirit to seek us, light the lamp of the Word in us, and shine on us to expose our condition.

Then, we repent and we desire to come back to the Lord, even to come back to the Father’s house.

We may have been offended with the Lord or with the saints, we may have been negatively influenced by a particular situation in the church life, or we may have just lost interest over time due to the enemy’s wearing-out tactics.

But the Lord in His mercy reaches us, and when we return, there’s nothing but mercy for us!

The Father doesn’t scold us nor does He remind us of what we have done; rather, we regret the past, we repent, and the Father simply gives us the all-inclusive Christ as our life and life supply, and we enjoy Him again in the Father’s house with all the saints.

What a mercy! How we love our Lord! How we praise Him for His mercy!

Come Forward to the Throne of Grace to Receive Mercy from our Merciful High Priest

In the book of Hebrews we see that the Lord Jesus, though He was God, was made like His brothers, that is, us people in the flesh.

He was made like us in all things so that He mightbecome a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people (Heb. 2:17).

Christ became a man; He was made flesh, and He lived on the earth as a man. He passed through all the human sufferings. He suffered very much, even more than what we suffered.

He suffered things that we will never suffer. He tasted sufferings, and He also went through death, and that the death of a cross. In all these things, God put on humanity, and Christ was made a merciful High Priest.

Now He is in the heavens interceding for us, being full of feeling for us, for He understands us thoroughly. He always lives to intercede, for He intercedes for us according to God (Heb. 7:25).

For Him to be qualified to be a merciful High Priest, He first became a man and suffered very much.

God could never sympathise with us, men, unless He Himself became a man and experienced the human suffering.

Now our God is not just the Creator and the Almighty One who holds all things and who can do all things; our God is also our Redeemer, the merciful High Priest who lived like us and suffered like us.

In all things, He became like us, experiencing what we experience, so that He may be a merciful High Priest.

Now we can come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help (Heb. 4:16). He is on the throne, and to us this throne is of grace.

We can come forward with boldness, based on the blood shed by Christ on the cross, to the throne of grace in our spirit.

There’s a throne of grace that was installed in our spirit at the time of our regeneration, and we can exercise our spirit to touch the throne of grace.

When we touch the throne of grace by exercising our spirit, we receive mercy. Mercy is ready for us to receive.

Our merciful High Priest extends His mercy toward us. What meets us first when we come to the throne of grace is mercy.

We may think we are ok, we may think we are not as bad as before, but what we need is mercy. We can receive mercy today.

Many times we are in a condition in which we need the Lord’s mercy to reach us. When we receive mercy, for we are in a pitiful and low condition, we can also find grace.

Grace is there for us, but we need to find it. Christ came as grace, He brought in the age of grace, and He is grace for us to enjoy.

May we be those who exercise our spirit today to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace in our spirit.

May we not look at our pitiful situation and may we not remain in our low condition; may we simply come forward!

When we come forward to the Lord as our merciful High Priest, we receive mercy and find grace for timely help. Oh, we need timely help! This is help in the time of need. How we need the Lord’s mercy and His grace!

We may think that we don’t need His mercy, but the more we come to the Lord by exercising our spirit, the more we sense the need of mercy.

We need His mercy and His grace! We receive mercy and we find grace. Christ’s mercy is always available to us; however, we need to receive it by exercising our spirit to contact our merciful High Priest.

He sympathises with us in all our weaknesses, and He wants to give us mercy and grace.

Lord Jesus, we come forward with boldness to the throne of grace today! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to contact You! We are not worthy in ourselves, for we fail so many times, but we come forward with boldness based on the precious blood of Christ! Wash us and cleanse us with Your blood. We open to You to receive mercy and find grace. Thank You, Lord, You understand our situation and You sympathise with us. Thank You for becoming like us, putting aside the outward glory of divinity and putting on the flesh to be a man and live a human life. We come to You, Lord, for You understand us thoroughly. You are our merciful High Priest. You were made like us in all things so that You may be a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God! Oh Lord, keep us coming forward to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace! Amen, mercy is flowing, rich and free! Amen, Lord, we come forward to You in spirit to receive mercy and enjoy You as grace for timely help!

God Loves us and He Extends His Mercy to us to Bring us to Enjoy Him as Grace

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16; Rom. 8:35). God loves us. He loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to come and die for us (John 3:16).

God loves us, and He wants us to be with Him, even to be part of His family, the same as Christ as His Firstborn Son.

He wants to make us the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function so that He may obtain a corporate expression, the Body of Christ.

But we are in a pitiful condition. So the Lord’s love comes to us to reach us as mercy (Eph. 1:4; 2:4).

He wants us to come and enjoy Him as grace so that we may be the sons of God, but His grace cannot be our portion when we are in a low, pitiful condition.

When God looks at us, the sinners, He has mercy toward us. The feeling that God has toward us when we are sinners is mercy, and the work He does upon us to make us children of God is grace.

God was merciful toward His people in the Old Testament, and He has been merciful for the past four thousand years. Today, He is still merciful toward us.

He came to be incarnated in the Lord Jesus, who was grace, and who brought us grace. Christ came and accomplished redemption for us, bearing our sins on the cross.

Now we can believe into the Lord Jesus and be saved, having our sins washed away and removed. The source is God as love, and this love comes out to us as mercy and issues in grace.

This is why so many times when we truly touch the Lord, we ask Him to have mercy on us.

In Mark 10:46-52 the blind man was desperate to receive his sight, so he cried out, Son of David, have mercy on me! He didn’t ask the Lord to give him more grace or to heal him; he simply appealed to the Lord for His mercy.

When we are in a low condition, when we are in a pitiful situation, we need God to show mercy to us.

Thank the Lord that we have a merciful High Priest and we can come to Him in spirit, touching the throne of grace, for us to receive mercy and find grace.

Even as believers in Christ, so many times we find ourselves in a condition that needs God’s mercy. God’s mercy and His grace are the expression of His love.

When we’re in a pitiful condition, first His mercy reaches us and brings us into a state where God is able to favour us with His grace.

God’s goal is not just to show us mercy; His goal is to bring us to enjoy Him as grace to be saved in His life and reign in life until we are mature sons of God, members of the Body of Christ to be part of His corporate expression.

So He shows us mercy to bring us into the right position for us to enjoy grace.

Many times when we come to the Lord, we feel that we cannot dare to enjoy Him as grace; we need His mercy.

We may not be able to ask Him to love us or show us His love, for we are in such a pitiful situation.

So we come to Him and simply receive mercy. His mercy is always available to us. We can partake of His mercy, and as we enjoy God’s mercy, we have His shining, His infusing, and His transfusing.

He has mercy on whomever He wills, and when He has mercy on us, His mercy brings us into the condition in which He can favour us with His grace.

On our side, we just come forward to Him (Heb. 4:16). We come forward to Him as we are; we have boldness in the blood of Christ, and we come to the Lord to touch Him. He has mercy on us.

We may not have adequate faith to go to Him and ask for grace or blessing; however, we can touch Him as mercy, and we can enjoy His mercy.

When we touch God’s mercy in such a way, we are filled with appreciation and love for our merciful God.

In His sovereignty, God the Father has had mercy on us; therefore, we praise Him and we worship Him for His sovereign mercy.

We do not deserve this, but He had mercy on us. Every morning we can taste His mercy, for His mercies are new and His compassions do not fail: great is His faithfulness!

We can enjoy God’s mercy ever fresh and ever new. Every morning this mercy is shed upon us and refreshes us as the dew. We can taste God’s mercy and praise Him!

Thank the Father that we obtained His mercy with His love and grace. In His mercy, we can be face-to-face with God, we can remain in His presence.

How we worship and praise Him for His mercy. We praise Him today and for eternity for His mercy!

Father God, we praise You for Your mercy! We enjoy Your mercy ever fresh and ever new. We come to You every morning to enjoy Your new mercies and fresh compassion. Thank You for shedding Your mercy upon us every morning. We love to taste Your mercy and praise You! Amen, we are not worthy, but You love us and You extend Your mercy on us! Father, Thy mercy with Thy love and grace we have obtained! Oh, in Your mercy we can be here, in Your presence, even face to face with You! We praise You, Father! Keep us enjoying Your mercy so that we may be brought into a condition where we can partake of Your grace! Praise the Lord, in His sovereignty God the Father had mercy on us, and now we praise Him for His sovereign mercy! We exercise our spirit to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help! Amen, Lord, we depend on Your mercy. We praise You for Your mercy! We worship You for Your mercy today and throughout eternity!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 28, “The Gospel of God (1),” pp. 32-36, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7 (2025 September ITERO), week 4, Blessed Are the Merciful, for They Shall Be Shown Mercy and Receive Mercy – day 4.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – I come before Thy throne of grace / With hungry heart on Thee to feed, / Thy grace and mercy to receive / To help me in this hour of need. / Here I behold Thy radiant face, / Its light upon my heart doth shine / With healing rays consuming all / The weaknesses and faults of mine. (Hymns #813 stanzas 1-2)
  – Father, Thy mercy with Thy love and grace / Did we obtain; / And in Thy mercy, with Thee face to face, / We’ll e’er remain; / And for Thy mercy we would worship Thee / Through all our days and through eternity. (Hymns #25 stanza 3)
  – Father, we enjoy Thy mercy, / Ever fresh and ever new; / Every morning shed upon us, / It refreshes as the dew. / How we taste it! how we taste it! / Giving Thee the praises due. (Hymns #26 stanza 5)