Jehovah-Chesed; The LORD of Mercy
by Gail Rodgers
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A Good God, A Patient God, A Kind God, A Gentle God, A Forgiving God: Psalms 107:1; 2 Peter 3:9; Ephesians 2:7; Isaiah 40:11; Nehemiah 9:17
It’s easy to think of God in terms of good, patient, kind, gentle and forgiving when the sun is shining in our lives. Yet when challenges and surprises come that are unexpected and even unwelcome it’s not uncommon for us to begin to doubt these characteristics of God.
As we explore all God is we are reminded that He remembers, He receives, He restores and reconciles and He revives and rewards. His heart is always toward working redemption in our lives.
When we find ourselves in difficult days we know that keeping a soft heart toward God is very important. Even when we don’t understand what He is doing we can be assured that He is good and He is at work to redeem the situations and circumstances that we commit to His living care.
The God who remembers, receives, reconciles, restores, revives and rewards: Psalms 98:3; Psalms 27:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19: 1 Peter 5:10; Isaiah 57:15; Hebrews 11:6
~Father in Heaven,
I thank you today that You are good and kind. I praise You for being such a redeeming and reconciling God. Your mercies are new every morning. Help me today to recount those mercies and to offer You a grateful heart in return.
With you a day is like a thousand years, a thousand years are like a day. Nothing is outside of Your grasp and You are faithful to keep all that I have committed to You.
Forgive me for doubting Your goodness. Give me patience today and give me grace to walk kindly and gently through my day. Give me wisdom to place each challenge in Your hands to restore and make something new from. I love You Lord and I thank you for Your hand of mercy in my life.
Help me to see Your hand at work in the maze of my circumstances and to be truly thankful that You are my Lord and my God. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
Questions: When we are facing difficult times, how can we keep a soft heart towards God? How has God shown His mercy towards you recently?
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lorlie amen to all that you wrote this is a great place to be.
sharon b
Those of you who prayed for me, I went to the doctor today. Linda, Patti, Donna. . .and others who prayed and I was not aware of it. . . Thank you for your support and prayers. The doctor said it was a plugged gland. It will eventually go away by itself; however, if I start having pain to let her know or put a warm washcloth on it a couple times per day.
Again, thank you for supporting me in prayer and bathing me in the love of Christ.
Love & Hugs, Judy
Thank you for sharing Margaret.
Patti, I liked the part you said about the Heavenly Fathers eyes and I told you I would have to write a poem about it! Well here it is !
It talks about God’s mercy and love for me! It flowed so easily!
I got some healing from this!
My loving Heavenly Father watches overs me
He knew what was before me
He never took his eyes off of me.
The day that I was born
He continued to watch over me
Oh so tiny and helpless I was!
He picked me up and in held me in his arms. I love you
It is okay than placed me in my mom’s arms. I have not abandoned you.
I know it is hard to understand my daughter I love you
At seven I came to know my Heavnely father on a personal name basis at the age of 7. Thanks to my mom and dad who loved him.
All though life my Heavenly until now God was been watching out for me.
I know his hand is on my life A Heavenly Father who can be trusted.
I lift up my hands in Praise to Jesus and thank him for his Love and Mercy shown to me.
I will continue to press on until someday I will at last see my fathers loving eyes. I will hear him say Well done my Child I have never taken my eyes off of you!
Yes I ask him to replace bitterness with thankfulness! My good friends who have helped me have encouraged me to do so!
I am thankful and when a bitter moment comes up I ask Jesus to dissolve it and replace it with thankfulness!
My birth name is Linda. Linda beauitful Marie means bitterness, Margaret means pearl. If I remember correctly! I have come a longs ways! Once in a while it crops up! My sister is expecting (or has the baby already) and she was told to do things backswards because of her age! How things have changed! I don’t have any children and I did it the way you are suppose to! I dashed the thought and I know I have my little boy puppy Pedro.
I am enjoyng the dialogue! Andi!
Yes Margaret, I know that one too. I think that to one degree or another all of us have some type of a ‘bitter root’ that we need to allow HIM to dig out of us. Then we need to allow HIM to replace it with whatever plant HE desires to replace it with. What do you think?
So GREAT to dialogue with you!
Andi
The root of rejection is an awful lie from the enemy! I have been there and I continue to deal with that one. What I am learning (haven’t got it mastered) is to recognize it for what it is a lie and speak the truth and dispel it. It takes a long time to shake it! It has also helped with unnecesary angerI have to know what is causing me to be so angry! find the lie and back off and acknowledge it! I still have a ways to go! I did a lot exploding!in the past~ and not so much now! The misplaced anger is healing ! God is so good! He isn’t finished with me yet!
Margaret,
Thanks for letting me know more so that I can pray more intelligently.
My son’s Uncle did not know that we existed either. [I always had told my son that his father loved us and it was his parents who kept us apart]. When the Uncle heard of us he asked his mother and she told him this very same thing. It helped Mark to heal from his ‘root of rejection’ but he still has a long way to go. Marked walked away from the Lord when he was 16. But we have God’s promise that Mark will return so we stand upon that word! [ a dream God gave to Mark when he was only 4 or 5!]
Doris Mercy drops on us are falling but for the showers we bring! Bless you Doris!
Doris,
How I love the new song HE gives to us when we fully allow HIM to become our Lord as well as our Saviour!
David said it in Psalms over and over: but I like40:3 ‘And HE has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear – revere, and worship – and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord.
God had to give me a new heart before HE could give me a new song.
See Ezekiel 36:26 “A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I WILL take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh….
vs. 27 goes on to say,
“And I will pput my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statues, and you shall heed MY ordinances, and to them.”
Ladies, I just realized why I’m going on and on today! LOL and hallelujah!!!
It is because the subject of God’s mercy touches me so completely.
I am only alive because of HIS mercy and grace.
Thanks so much Andi! My birth parents don’t know Jesus! They are married! They married a year after I was born! Neither do my 2 siblings! My sister/cousin/long story! and brother — cousin don’t know Jesus. I hope my experiences will help others! My adoption was made a family secret and I know now it was to protect me and out of love! Just that some their methods were not the best! It helped me understand the concept of Adoption by God! It has been a long process but the anger I had was a waste of time. There was no need to be so angry and I am glad my Pastor helped me uncover the lies! I was rescued from a protentially difficult situation!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Oh Margaret,
YES I will stand in this prayer for you.
[My son's father committed vehicular suicide when our son was 2 years old. How terribly sad for all of us, especially his parents who did not allow us to marry......but even in this God worked a mighty miracle in my son's life as God brought me, my son and his Uncle together just 5 years ago...long story!] Praise HIM!!! LOL!!!
Father God please reach out to Margaret’s birth-parents. In YOUR way speak healing to their damaged emotions and their injured spirits. Reveal YOUR Father Heart to them. Cause them to be able to understand the deepth of YOUR love for them and to be able to lean into YOU as they begin to forgive themselves.
Lord I thank YOU for Margaret and the peace and joy she has found in YOU as her Father and God. May she always be a reflection of YOU and be able to help in bringing healing to others who have similar experiences as she does. Bless her this day, in Jesus name! Amen
Andi,
God has promised to be the Father to the Fatherless! Let’s pray that the mentality of being a social out cast will be broken for my birth mother! and for my birth father!
I am doing better than I was!!!!
Andi it is good to hear from a birth mothers perspective! Yes it helps! You are right about the social outcast! I am 49. Mom passed away almost 2 years ago. My birth mother kept my brother and than had another one! I am writing a book on my Adoption Journey to Truth! Some of the things I have shared about mom I will now take out and put in my book! It will fill out the book!
Patti, my son was born outside marriage almost 43 years ago. I went against the tide of society and culture and he stayed with me. I could never have forgiven myself if I’d let him go. Perhaps your birth mother was pressured/forced into allowing you to go?
I could not have done it without the support of my parents and one sister; I was a social outcast so had I not had them and a few true friends I’d have been lost. Back then there was no easy way or answer as there seems to be today. I pray these thots from the unwed mother’s side may help you in your prayers for your mum?
When did your adoptive mother go home to Jesus? Was it recent? My mum went 12 years ago and my dad almost 20.
I don’t think we’re ever ready to be an ‘orphan’ no matter what age we are SO that is one more reason I have to be thankful to Father God! HE loves the widows and the orphans and steps right in to take over that roll vacated, when our dear ones are gone.
When I read the replies from other Christian sisters it restores my (sometimes) slipping optimism and gives me a song in my heart. Surely we can say with those who say, “See how these Christians love one another.)
Hey Margaret and Patricia and all who have been responding back to Margaret, you have me in tears this morning. Your love and care for each other is phenomonal!
The scriptures being used are wonderful to lift up and encourage. I’m going to post the Micah one Patricia!
Margaret, as a person who LOVES music, even though I can not play an instrument, or sing on key, I strongly believe in it is as a form of ‘therapy!’
For myself on my bad days I just put on the music and praise HIM and very soon my focus is back on HIM [where it belongs] and off my particular situation that has made me blue or has me down.
When my Dutch born mother-in-law was in the last couple of years of her Parkinsons we bought a DVD of Frisian language songs…….and were all amazed that it didn’t just grab her attention BUT she actually sang along to the songs of her childhood!
This has got me wondering what other triggers we have to refocus our priorities when life gets us down? What do you guys do????
Tiysh, I was also praying for you in my heart as I wept for you also yesterday. May God bring good, life affirming dreams to you dear one!
Romel H; you have blessed me and I think we may have some similarities. I’m looking forward to getting to know you more.
I don’t want to hog the page so will share my stories over time but I can relate to the loss of parents and with serious illness and chronic illness [it is thru illness that God has ministered to me the deepest, so like Paul I have learned to ‘be content’ no matter my state’ and to ‘long to be with HIM but content to stay here until my journey and reason and purpose have run their course.’
Forgive my not being able to address you all by name today, but know this; I am feeling very blessed to have become a part of such a loving, caring ‘Company of Women.’
Andi
Patti when mom passed away I had no regrets! I knew it was mom’s time. Let yourself off the hook. That is a weight that will weigh you down. Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
I had to do that with my birth mother I spoke the truth to her and I was threatened with legal action. When she showed up at the funeral home a cold ness swept through the whole place.
I kept thinking if I hadn’t spoken the truth to her she would’t have been so cold.
A friend pointed out that it was false guilt for me and they were carrying guilt over giving me up. It gave me a picture of love for my birth parents who are tied to guilt. I let myself off the hook and pray that they will some day come to know Christ.
Patti, the hardest person to forgive is often ourselves. But I believe that when Jesus talked about the importance of forgiveness that He meant ourselves as well. If God has told us to do it, it can be done.
I would encourage you to spend some quiet time at the foot of the cross and verbally give all of that quilt to Jesus. He has paid the price for it, now He just wants you to let Him have it so that He can say “It is finished.”
I had to do that too when my mother passed away. It has been two years and the enemy will occasionally try to bring the guilt back, but I simply won’t take it. In His love, Patricia
Patricia,
Thank you so much for your words and scriptures. I made some mistakes in her care…wasn’t verbal enough to the caretakers. I know that ultimately…surely the Lord would not have taken her then unless it was His divine time, but it has been very hard to carry this burden.
It has been six years and I suppose satan still uses this to put guilt and shame on me. I guess I know that God isn’t angry with me….I do know that..I believe I still feel angry with me and it is so hard to let go.
Thank you so much, Patricia..as you have ministered to me….
Dear Patti Just reading the last few comments and noted the one where you speak of regrets about not doing enough for your mother.
The Bible tells us (Romans 8:1) that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It is the devil who accuses us and tries to tell us that we are failures. When these thoughts come let Satan know that you loved your mother and that if you did err in any way Jesus has taken care of it and that he must leave you alone.
Micah 7:7,8 are favorite verses of mine. Whenever the enemy comes at me with condemnation and I am not sure whether I have erred or not I quickly pray asking God to use what I did for His glory if it was right and to forgive me if it was wrong, and then I declare Micah 7:7, 8 to the forces of darkness around me, adding “may” in front of have. Another passage that I will often follow it with is Psalm 6:8, 9
Micah 7:7, 8
As for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I ( may) have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in
darkness, the Lord will be my light.
Psalm 6:8, 9
Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.
Thank you Romel….
Man I have just come off the road from twelve hours of crisis calls and what a joy it has been to sit down and read everyones letters. It’s like reading letters from old friends. I love you all so much for your honesty. What a great group!!!!!!!!!!Yall are Blessed…Whether in crisis or not, happy or sad, rich or poor,old are young we are just blessed to be alive and we can make a difference in someone’s life every day if we look beyond ourselves just as you all have done today.Praise God for Everyone. Hi to everyone new. Chris welcome back, glad to hear your computer got fixed, been missing you.
Quoting Patti:
I was struggling with a lot of things about myself and in how the Lord saw me. I could not believe that I could ever be forgiven. I felt that I was lost because of my sins since I had come to know Him.
Patti, it so easy to forget what people said but I would like to give you the verses that will keep reminding you, that once you received CHRIST, you are sealed and no sins or any person can erase your name from the book of the saved. I will give you few verses but there are many more verses that say the same, ok?
Ephesians 1:13-14 NIV
!3- “And you also were included in CHRIST when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in HIM. with a seal, the promised HOLY SPIRIT.
14- Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are GOD’s possession- to the praise of HIS glory.
Another verses are found in 2Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV
21-Now it is GOD WHO makes both us and you stand firm in CHRIST. HE anointed us,
22- set HIS seal of ownership on us, and put HIS SPIRIT in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Peace, my dear sister Patti. – Romel H
What a beautiful story, Margaret….I’ve not really cried since mother died…I remember crying quietly as we left the hospital and drove 70 home in the dark December night or early morning. I didn’t cry at her funeral or even as hard as it was…cleaning out her personal items when her home was sold.
I hope she knew I loved her….
Thanks Patty/ I had talked to a cousin the week mom was so sick. He counselled me to give her permission to go to heaven.They seemed to need that Mom was suffering so much I didn’t want to see her hurting any longer. I told mom it was okay when i prayed and told her I would be okay! She could go ahead! I found later that the Pastor with my sister and brother-inlaw prayed the same thing. After mom was in heaven I cried a lot. The Lord’s peace came over me in the Motel. It was if mom was saying Thanks for sending me to heaven Margaret, it is gorgeous! Mother’s Day I had peace and was able to honor mom all week by saying Happy Mother’s Day! I was able to be in church and I know it was God’s people who were praying for me I had so much peace and even laughter. A memory was jogged during the service of something I hadn’t thought of for a while! It was Father’s Day! I brought Dad breakfast in bed! Their bedroom was in the basement. I brought both mom and dad breakfast in bed. I asked after they had eaten their toast if they would like more! Dad said yes! I climbed the stairs three
more times and finally gave dad 3 slices of toast and he slowed down in wanting toast !
Father God, You created our minds, with all the intricacies of thoughts and memories and dreams. Such a complicated network of brain cells and nerve impulses, working in sync according to Your perfect design! Father, our dear sister Tiysh, needs Your loving intervention to take captive her dream-life, as she struggles with recurring, unsettling dreams. Set her free, Lord, from these nightly assaults, and replace them with sweet dreams that would leave her refreshed and at peace. And, Father, guard her heart as she waits on You for Your provision of a faithful, Godly husband. Give her contentment, that she would use this waiting period to draw closer to You. In Your most Holy Name, Jesus! Amen!
Margaret…you were a wonderful and loving daughter. I know you cherish those memories…even being in the difficult place of her passing. It is the hardest place to be, but we would be no other place….and it is such a precious place to be at the bedside as our loved one is ushered into Heaven!
My mother held on, fighting….as my younger brother asked her to fight…telling her we needed her. When he stepped away from the bed, I had mother’s hand….leaned down to talk with her. I told her that Jesus was in the room and asked if she could see Him. She couldn’t respond, but I knew she was hearing me. I told her I knew she was tired and weary of the fight…..and she could reach out to Him and take His hand….that I would watch over my three brothers.
It was only moments, it seemed that she took her last breath.
I still have difficulty that I didn’t do enough…all I should have done during her illness. I have many regrets and can only pray I have learned from them.
Keep sharing about your mother, Margaret. I love hearing your stories.
I too…find refuge in music. I had to give up piano years ago…but now have unweighted keyboards….I sense His presence thru music, enjoy the praise as well….How thankful I am for that.
Patricia: I am glad for your encouragment! I had gone to the Alzheimers Society to find out how to communicate to mom and I was doing most of the things they had sugguested!
I touched mom right to the end! I was able to be say goodbye to her!
Even in her state ( she was in a lot of pain broken her shoulder) I told her I would be back the next day she waited for me to come!
The nurse told me she was waiting for something and it was me. 20 years earlier when my dad was on life supports from a massive heart attack mom encouraged me to sing to dad.
I sang Rejoice in the Lord always.
So yes for me it has been music that has softened my heart during hard times. God’s people and the scripture!
This has been healing for me to share and hope others will learn from what I experienced.
It seems that you did all the right things Margaret. We always told people who were with dying residents that hearing and touch are the last senses to be lost and encoujraged them to keep talking and keep touching right to the end.
That means a lot Patricia coming from a Nurse.
I always tried to make sure i sat close to mom so she could see me. I would sit on the chair and would be close as I could. It was worth the pain afterwards sitting on the floor. I tried not to move too fast as It frighten her! I held mom’s hand a lot! I tried to sing, pray and read to her everytime I came and I sang the same songs, and would pray that she would know I loved her and that she was loved! Your right a lot of people do stop seeing their loved one. I did it because I knew becasue she was my mom and I am so glad I did! Another point is I always told mom how special she was! We all need to hear this but when a person has Alzheimers disease they have lost everything but the ability to love! They need to built up as well!
For Margaret and others who may be, or have been, spending time with people with dementias I would like to share this.
As a nurse in a personal care home for 28 years I often heard family members say something like “I don’t know why I visit, she forgets I was here the moment I leave.”
My response was usually “What did you have for dinner last Friday?” And then I would explain that that meal had nourinshed their bodies even if they couldn’t remember what it was, and that when a loved one visits someone that time together nourishes their soul and sense of well being even if they don’t remember it later.
That interaction with someone they have emotional ties too, even if they may not put the right name to them, meets an inner need that no staff member can fill.
Margaret, it does seem that you not only nourished your mother, but that she nourished you in return when she responded to your love.
May God bless you for being there for her.
Quoting Andi:
Romel and others how do you ‘let go’ and ‘let our great God of mercy minister to you’ as you journey thru this life w/all the trials, illness, etc? For my answer I will try to state it this way: It is a result of practise in giving over anything to HIM, of practising believing/standing on the promises HE has given in HIS Word; then as time and years have gone past it became a habit that is integral to my hope, faith and trust in HIM, our Merciful Lord! Does this ring true for any of your experiences in your walk with HIM?
You just struck bulls eye! Yes, HE is a character molder to whom who would let HIM. And it becomes easier and easier each day as we truly let HIM take over in our lives.
Every morning, I start saying and pleading to HIM to take over and reign in my life till I go to bed again and control my mind when I’m awake. Not unless I surrender my mind as my living sacrifice, I know it’s so easy to fall on my face. But when we mean business with GOD, experiences might hurt for a moment but we know GOD is at work and HE is able to kick another ghost out of our lives that we have innocently let in but only as we submit ourselves wholeheartedly to HIM. So Yes Andi, keep it up. All the forces of heaven is on our side. We are walking from victory, not towards victory.
Praise the LORD!
The fathers eyes I long to see the love in my Heavnely fathers eyes. I know in my spirit and heart he is close by! You gave me an idea for a poem Patti! What a thought Patti! Glad you enjoy hearing about my mom! I like talking about my mom and it is healing for me to write these down and share ! Mom was my mom for 47 years.
My birth mom is still alive but we don’t have a relationship. She is filled with a lot of guilt giving me up. I hope one day she will come to faith like my mom did!
When I first discovered this blog, I was struggling. Actually that is an understatement.
I was struggling with a lot of things about myself and in how the Lord saw me. I could not believe that I could ever be forgiven. I felt that I was lost because of my sins since I had come to know Him.
One of the very things several of you said to me…over and over was that “His mercies are new every morning”. It took me a while for that to sink in….Tho I had heard it, I had never applied it to my life. I had such a hard time relating, personally to that.
I’m so thankful for that promise. It is so true! Without His mercy, where would I be!
Margaret, I love that old hymnn and wish I could hear you sing and play it, along with your little puppy. Your stories of your mother touch me so……I miss my mother every day of my life and how I long to see her. The first one I want to see tho, is Jesus. I can’t even imagine the love in His eyes……..
Judy ,Pedro the puppy has sung with me since the day he came ! He also lets me put his paws on the piano keys and if I get them on the wrong key he gives me quite a look. You have to laugh when the puppy sings. He is particial to Blessed Assurance Jesus is mine! So am I ! What an assurance know Jesus is mine! It touched me one day when I was in a lot of pain. I started to sing it!
As I write Pedro is kissing my fingers. Another memory of mom was I use to pray that mom would know I loved her and that God loved her. I’d tell her. I love you and I got the biggest hugs. This was when the smiles would kick in. On Mother’s Day one year two years before she died she tried to formed the words together Hi, Margaret, Hi Maurice. What a gift she gave me and she would say yes when I said I love you mom. Once I told mom that I teased my husband a lot but he is a nice guy! As clear as she could be she said He sure is a nice guy! I tend to agree!
Oh, Margaret, I loved your sharing of your visits with your mother! How precious are those memories you have.
I can “see” you and your puppy singing together. :-) I have a puppy, too. She doesn’t sing (since I’m not a singer) but she helps me vacuum . . . she barks and barks while I vacuum the house.
He shows his love and mercy to me speaking to me through his word. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning, Great is thy Faithfulness. I try to sit down and play the piano and sing to the Lord ! It helps keep your mind in perspective who God is. Spending time with the Lord and listening to his voice. When mom had Alzheimers disease I would go once a month to visit and it was 2 hours down the road. I use to come out and would start to cry until I started to pray before I went ! It was difficult because she couldn’t respond by talking to me! I found singing to her helped both her and me connect. Her eyes would shine and her face would light up. Now I continue to sing and know she is praising the Lord in Heaven. Our 8 month puppy sings up a storm while I am singing and sometimes outsings me. GOd is so loving and merciful. He has helped me to shake a bad headache so I could sing and talk and share today!
Thank you, DonnaL. How are things “down under”? How is your husband doing today? How advanced is his Parkinsons? I pray for him and you, Donna. THe caretaker needs prayer, too.
JudyD,
You are in my prayers…..
just around the time i had my first menses, i started seeing sex in my dreams, and till today,at 30, i still see those dreams.after my first relationship ended{about 10yrs ago}, i’ve not had any stable relationship.
if anyone comes my way,he seem to be seriouse,but in no time he’ll loose interest with no apparent reason.
i hate to think its as a result of these dreams but i feel it is.
i’ve gone through a lot of deliverance sessions and counselling and in no time the dreams keep comming
ladies please help me in prayers as i keep praying about this. for i know, the enemy have no other choice but to give way for God to have his way in my life.amen
Chris – did you happen to pray that God would reduce your swelling? The result is that you were up during the night to “release” the fluid. It really is an answer and a blessing! Maybe you’re able to get some rest today and have your heart beat a little easier. PTL!
Ladies, sometimes the answer to prayer seems like a curse, or an affliction, but God can work wonders through these frustrating moments. “A few bad moments does not a bad day make!” I have schooled myself through the years to find the good in every situation. Initially it wasn’t so easy to find the good, but after many years of practise, it gets easier and easier.
Recently I spent a time of disobedience to God. I purchased two puppies for therapy dogs for the developmentally disabled population with which I work. I did not pass this through my husband beforehand and ignored all of God’s prompting to do so. I wanted those dogs and I was going to do good things with them! I can be so stubborn! It took about 6 weeks before I could have a full relationship with God during that time. How did He “reconcile” my heart?
I awoke one morning with a song on my heart that I had heard on Christian Radio. I don’t know who it is that sings it, but it still rings in my ears. “He said, son (daughter) do you know that I love you!?!” It rang over and over in my ears. “He said, son do you know I still love you!?!”
His mercies are new every morning and from that day forward, I dwell in the knowlege that He loves me and forgives me when I don’t deserve it. That what mercy is to me! Oh, and my husband has forgiven me too, even when there are two piles of pooh on the kitchen floor!
I read this devotion today and it touched me. So many times I have just deleted the devotions in my mailbox lately because I felt God wasn’t listening. It was me not listening to Him. Thanks for this message. I will keep earnestly praying for my family and our situation. God is good.
yes God is good and merciful all of the time
God is good, faithful, loving, and just. As Loreli wrote, “His mercies are new every morning”. I am finding it is so important to praise Him for His mercies. . . . for His gifts . . . For His love, and, of course, for His Son.
I am learning it does not mean He will wave His powerful hand and presto, my world will be like a princess and with no more problems or pain. I am learning that when I desire and put Him first in my life and not give Him the leftover time left, my life can be the daughter of a King, in spite of my earthly situations and afflictions, whether they are physical, emotional, financial, or spiritual attacks. I read and listen to our dear ladies who pen our daily devotionals and, also, glean from the sharing of our glory girl sisters on the blog and there is so much wisdom to be learned. I pray that I could retain it. (It is a difficult task for a stroke survivor with no short term memory.) So when you talk about His mercies being new every morning . . . that is what everything is for me. :-) (I am chuckling!)
Chris, I am glad your computer is fixed and you are back online. It seemed empty without you and I bet it was empty of your end, too. I pray for you dear sister daily. Your name is written in my prayer book.
I do have a prayer request, my sisters, please. I found a lump and have a doctor’s appoint on Thursday at 11:50. Thank you for your prayers and support. May the Lord bless your day. Blessings, Judy
looking forward to hearing your replies!
Andi
Greetings to you all. Thanks for the warm welcome Janet and Romel H!
It is a joy to read the thots and encouragements & prayers you have for each other. Romel and others how do you ‘let go’ and ‘let our great God of mercy minister to you’ as you journey thru this life w/all the trials, illness, etc? For my answer I will try to state it this way: It is a result of practise in giving over anything to HIM, of practising believing/standing on the promises HE has given in HIS Word; then as time and years have gone past it became a habit that is integral to my hope, faith and trust in HIM, our Merciful Lord! Does this ring true for any of your experiences in your walk with HIM?
God is every faithful, ever loving. HIs mercies are new every morning and today We praise him for his goodness. Another new month starts today and although it’s April Fools we serve a God that never tricks us or even gets pleasure out of our fears, how cool.He is all about us!!
Yes, Chris T, HE is. And you are in my heart and prayers.
((((((Chris T ))))))). I love you my sister.
FATHER, I pray that YOU will surround Chris today with YOUR loving arms. The house of our soul and spirit is not saved and get attacked by the enemies. Give us the grace to let go our house to YOUR care as YOU build us up inwardly. I commit my dear sister to YOUR care and mercy my LORD and all who are connected to her. In CHRIST name amen.
Quoting Gail:
When we find ourselves in difficult days we know that keeping a soft heart toward God is very important. Even when we don’t understand what He is doing we can be assured that He is good and He is at work to redeem the situations and circumstances that we commit to His living care.
That is so true and cannot be emphasized enough the importance of what you have said Gail, thank you. I just would like to let you know how much I enjoy your devotional. The LORD bless you a hundred fold and more as you faithfully bring forward GOD’s truth.
GOD bless!
IT IS HARD SOMETIMES TO REMEMBER THAT GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD WHEN WE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS. I KNOW I FEEL LIKE THAT WHEN I AM IN PAIN AND HAVE BEEN FOR MANY DAYA AND IT JUST DOESN’T GO AWAY. OR THE FUILD JUST WON’T GO DOWN LIKE JUST RESENTLY. I HAVE SPENT MOST OF THE NIGHT JUST GETTING RID OF A LOT OF THAT FUILD WITH GETTING UP AND DOWN AND GOING TO THE BATHROOM. I DON’T AT TIMES FEEL GOD IS THERE WITH ME BUT WHEN I START TO FEEL BETTER I KNOW I WAS WRONG. HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON MY PROBLEMBY DOING JUST WHAT HE WAS DOING.
I KNOW IN MY HEART, SOUL AND MIND THAT GOD IS THERE WORKING ON MY PROBLEMS TOO.