Join this missionary who ministers to the almighty God in poems (just like David) in Berlin this Sunday, at the Stone Church. Behold how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together.
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The Wonders of MERCY!
27 NovSunday Service today at Jubilee Christian Centre was an awesome experience…now that the annointing is still fresh and hot upon me, I better download the transcript of my sermon note right now. I believe God that you would be blessed just as I am, as you follow Pastor Adebayo Patrick in this exploration of THE WONDERS OF MERCY.
The message:
The journey to greatness can be very difficult outside the mercy of God. Romans 9:13-16
The Bible describes the mercy of God in 5 ways:
1. God’s mercy is GREAT.
Isa 54:7 7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
2. The mercies of God are SURE
Isa55:3 3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
3. The mercies of God are ABUNDANT
1Pet1:3 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4. The mercies of God are described as TENDER
Psalm25:6 6Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
5. The mercies of God are NEW every morning
Lam3:22-23 22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Without mercy, your destiny will be a mess-up. What gives meaning to life is the mercy of God.
What is mercy?
Mercy means Divine Partiality
God decided to break protocol for certain people in the Bible. When mercy is at work you will be the last to come, the first to go.
Mercy means Divine Favouritism; Overruling human law; Divine acceptance against human rejection- when you are ruled out and deleted from the list, mercy puts your name at nos. one. Mercy means Divine Interest. Unusual intervention in human affairs.
In Mat17:1 -2, Jesus singled out 3 disciples out of the 12. The same way, Mercy will single you out before the end of this year in Jesus name. We can be at the same level, but Gods mercy puts us in classes.
Esther 2:15 – 17 “now it was the TURN OF ESTHER”
Don’t be afraid of people who have gone ahead of you. The fact that they are ahead of you does not mean that they would get there before you. Before the end of this year god will give speed to your feet. Life is a mystery.
It is not your make-up that makes you up (ladies). Being on Facebook does not put your face in the book – the king loved Esther above all the women. Vast I vacated. Whoever is occupying your place in destiny will vacate now. When Esther appeared before the King, something went ahead of Esther, mercy prepared the way.
Among all your competitors, mercy will put you in a class of your own.
It is not your location, it is God that gives you allocation. Put me anywhere on this earth and leave me with God’s mercy.
Psalm 52:8
Sometimes the best doesn’t receive the best, it is mercy that settles the case. Any satisfaction via the mercies of God comes in the best time.
Heb4:16- mercy is obtainable
Without mercy, after graduation, you will be grounded. Don’t leave your house anyway without asking for the mercies of God.
When mercy is speaking for you, your life cannot be explained- people can’t understand how it works. Parents, what gives success to your children is not the money you have spent on them, it is mercy. It is not who you know that matters. It is not everyone that got to the top that struggled to get there- mercy speaks. In this life, the only thing that is constant is the mercy of God. Until people begin to envy you, you are not blessed. God blessed Isaac and the Philistines envied him.
The 10 Wonders of his Mercy
- You will be preferred above others
- Mercy makes your life attractive. It is a magnetic force that adds attractiveness to everything you do. It draws the right kind of people to you
- Mercy singles you out of the crowd
- Mercy links your path with your helpers, ode that will bless you, those that will assist you Psalm 118:7 kjv I am too blessed to be common.
- Mercy commands supernatural favour. Mercy precedes favour. Favour will not come until they have mercy on you
- Mercy gives you access into places you ordinarily couldn’t enter
- Mercy covers your errors – you will make mistakes but they don’t notice it. May mercy overrule your errors
- Mercy prevails over deserved judgement James2:13. There are people around you called fault-finders. They publicise and announce your mistakes. They that wait for the day of your shame, they will be disappointed in Jesus name.
- Mercy gives you divide settlement – your parents can be there, but can’t take you there
- Mercy silences your adversaries. Mercy humiliates your adversaries. It makes them change their testimonies about you. What my enemies want me to be, I will disappoint them
MERCY!
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What do they say?
8 NovI was having my devotions this morning and got drawn to Deuteronomy 9:1-3. It says:
“Listen, O Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land belonging to nationsmuch greater and more powerful than you. They live in cities with walls that reach to the sky! 2 The people are strong and tall—descendants of the famous Anakite giants. You’ve heard the saying, ‘Who can stand up to the Anakites?’ 3 But recognize today that the Lord your God is the one who will cross over ahead of you like a devouring fire to destroy them. He will subdue them so that you will quickly conquer them and drive them out, just as the Lord has promised.”
When I read that passage this morning, I reflected on life and its many SAYINGS. A lot of people have heard different kinds of sayings, “you can never do well in life”, the doctor says, “you have only 3 months to live the cancer is fast spreading”, the teacher says, “you are so dumb, you’ll never get to college”, some parents says, “you are so ugly, who is gonna marry you or bear your kids”…
I don’t care what you have been told that is shaping your life and who you are. If you have Jesus, then the God of impossibilities is on your side and he will devour your enemies, abstract and live alike.
Perhaps, you’ve really heard the saying, “who can stand up to the Anakites?”, RECOGNISE that the Lord God is the one in charge of fighting your battles and he is more than able. I pray for myself and you that we receive our victory today in the name of of JESUS.amen.
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Unanswered Questions
24 Aug“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
I am analytical by nature. When it comes to figuring out how something works so that I can use or fix it, or to getting to the root of a problem so that I can move forward (and to helping a friend do the same), that characteristic serves me well. But when trying to figure out the “whys” of life that have no humanly-known answer, or have answers I’m not yet supposed to know, it has caused me much wasted time and energy.
A number of years ago the Lord showed me the futility of trying to figure it all out – why some who live upright lives suffer in unthinkable ways; why some faithful Christians struggle financially; why some marriageable people never find a mate; why some with big hearts are never blessed with children; why some parents of young children are taken away by death or divorce; why some who delight themselves in the Lord seem not to be granted the desires of their hearts; the list can go on and on.
After experiencing an excruciating disappointment in my life and trying to figure out why it had all happened, a wise person told me, “I’ve found that these things never have only one reason; they happen as a result of many reasons, some which we can figure out, and others that we never will.” I’ve thought of those wise words often. Realizing that some things can never be understood has helped me to let go of many of the questions that have no answers and relieved me of the angst of over analyzing.
But our inner peace regarding unanswered questions can go far beyond this simple embrace of the unknowns. Recently a friend shared this nugget of truth from Proverbs 20:24, expressed in the paraphrase of the Living Bible: “Since the Lord is directing our steps, why try to understand everything that happens along the way?”
Indeed, why should we? Even more than the fact that there are questions that can’t be answered, is the fact that God is directing our steps. As the One whose ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9), we have every reason to trust that He knows what He’s doing, that He knows the answers to all of our whys, that He knows us better than we know ourselves, that He knows the purpose He has for our lives, and that He will faithfully direct our steps accordingly. Our job is to trust Him, to follow Him, to lean on Him, and to let Him carry us when the way gets rough.
I think of Job and his friends and their attempts to reconcile his godliness with his suffering. Unknown to all of them something was happening in the spiritual realm that would have answered all their questions. If nothing else, the story of Job reveals that as mere mortals there are many things we don’t know about, let alone understand, but that God has under control.
We learn to trust God as we encounter situation after situation that we don’t understand and choose to embrace the unknowns as part of life, trusting that He is directing our steps and will reveal what we need to know in His timing, and to keep concealed what we don’t.
© 2010 Fern Horst
SUNDAY FICTION: False Weights and Unequal Measures
7 AugSure the reverend preached on adultery, hollered about pride and screamed over the ladies and their short dresses but he ain’t never preached on personality cos personality’s something everybody got to work on – whether they Christian or not. Every Sunday, he’d dance around the church, weaving and heaving like he couldn’t give up either and Deelon would nod dutifully at the good Lord’s message.
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As far as Deelon was concerned, he did all that was right in the sight of the Lord. Take for example Mrs Robinson who always sat right at the front soaking up reverend’s spit like it was the Holy Spirit he’self. After each service, she’d waddle up to his mama asking about his daddy in that irritating voice, ‘‘Lawd ha’ mercy! Sheriff Bill still aint released him yet? How you doing Wilma?’’ But she aint care about his daddy; all she care about was knowing more than her gossip buddy Mrs Turner.
‘‘Mama?’
‘’Hmm?’’
‘‘I suppose God hate Mrs Robinson.’’ His mama have that look on her face like she itching to slap some sense into him but she just ask what he mean.
‘‘Well, reverend say God don’t take too kindly to gossip but Mrs Robinson, she just be running her mouth . . .’’ Before he know to duck, Deelon staggered from his mama’s punch.
‘‘Don’t you let me hear you speak ill of the elderly boy! She old and you not so it ain’t matter what she do, you gon’ show some respect! Your daddy and I aint raise you without sense boy so don’t act like it!’’
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Mama walk in front of him now cos she mad but she always mad even though he know the Bible say somewhere how angry people be fools. He don’t want to accept it but his mama act like a fool sometimes. When Sheriff Bill come for his dad, she shout the sheriff down fixing to fight him herself when she know sheriff got the right. But Deloon, he just continue his dinner cos he know God aint like angry people: people who curse and pray with the same mouth like his mama. He reckon that’s why God aint answer her prayer and his daddy still locked up. Or maybe cos his daddy be a criminal cos he KNOW for sure the good Lord aint like criminals.
In the Bible, the Lord say not to hate but Deelon sure hate his papa. All the coloured folks in town proud of him like their personal Doctor King but to the white folks, he just a no good criminal like the rest of them Negroes.
‘‘Everybody proud of me Wilma?’’ he ask his wife when Sheriff Bill let them in and Deelon know he did it for the wrong reasons. He become a criminal just so the coloured folks can praise him; not because he want change. His papa don’t look like a man sad to see jail instead, he happy and proud – it’s all he talk about.
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‘‘Boy! You should have seen yo papa! Went right into the cracker’s house and shat in his toilet. Sheriff Bill tell me the old man built a new toilet. Had to go in his garden for a while – even for number two!’’ His papa laugh and laugh and refuse to ask his mama how she doing. His papa like King Saul so God gon’ hate him like he hate King Saul.
‘‘False weights and unequal measures, the Lord detests double standards of every kind.’’ Proverbs 20:10
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