As we prepare for this guided prayer, allow yourself but a few moments of focus, reprieve, ease, rest, and reflection.

This moment is in fact now dedicated to you and your God connecting.

Hebrews 416 declares this about our God.

Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with confidence

so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help

in our time of need.

God is available to you right now. You have access.

You have an invitation.

You have an audience.

And you have his focus. He sees you, he hears you, and he waits for what you will

share next, and the request you will make, and the declarations you will share.

Let's start this guided prayer by thanking God with all that he controls and all that he upholds,

that he is a faithful to you and to me.

Take 20 seconds now and to me.

Take 20 seconds now and thank God for the access you have to him

and his willingness to be available,

interested, and engaged in your everyday life. Hebrews declares that his availability affords us mercy and grace for help.

That he will help us with mercy and grace.

Grace is receiving what you don't deserve,

and mercy is not receiving what you do deserve.

Both come from the availability and the generosity of God.

God thank you for your mercy and for your grace.

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