- TODAY WE SHALL SPEAK OF GOD’S MERCY AND GRACE
- THE NUMBER FIVE IS THE NUMBER OF GRACE
- GRACE IS THE UNMERITED FAVOUR OF GOD,GRACE AND MERCY CHARACTERISE GOD THE FATHER
- MOSES UNDERSTOOD THAT THE NUMBER ONE NATURE OF GOD THE FATHER IS LOVE AND COMPASSION EXODUS 34:5-9
- MOSES USED TO APPEAL TO GOD’S MERCY, NUMBERS 14:1-20,
- THE BIBLE SAYS GOD IS LOVE 1 JOHN 3:16-20;JOHN 3:16
- THE GOD KIND OF LOVE IS DESCRIBED IN 1 COR 13:1-13
- ALL THE GENUINE SERVANTS OF GOD UNDERSTAND THIS GOD KIND OF LOVE JOHN 3 :1-16 AND GOD LISTENS TO THEM IN TIMES LIKE THIS
- JESUS CHRIST WAS CHOSEN AS OUR HIGH PRIEST BECAUSE HE HAD COMPASSIONATE HEART LIKE GOD THE FATHER HEB 5:1-10 LUKE 7:11-16
- HE TAUGHT US A LOT ABOUT COMPASSION AND FORGIVENESS MATHEW 15 :32;MATHEW 18 ;23-27
- WE ARE PRESEVED FROM SICKNESS, JUDGEMENT AND DEATH BY GOD’S MERCY – LAMENTATION 3:17-26
- THE LORD DOES NOT DISSAPOINT THOSE WHO HOPE IN HIS MERCY PSALM 147:11, “The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
- PROVERBS 23:18 “For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, EPHESIANS 2:1-10, TITUS 3:4-5
- WE ARE ALSO SANCTIFIED BY GOD’S GRACE TITUS 2:11-12 “
- JESUS PRAYED FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF BELIEVERS IN JOHN 17
PRAYERS
JOHN 17:11-12 AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD, BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD, AND I COME TO THEE. HOLY FATHER, KEEP THROUGH THINE OWN NAME THOSE WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE.12: WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD, I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME: THOSE THAT THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE KEPT, AND NONE OF THEM IS LOST, BUT THE SON OF PERDITION; THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED.
JOHN 17:13 – JOY OF GOD “: AND NOW COME I TO THEE; AND THESE THINGS I SPEAK IN THE WORLD, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES.
JOHN 17:14 -17 “I HAVE GIVEN THEM THY WORD; AND THE WORLD HATH HATED THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.15: I PRAY NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT THOU SHOULDEST KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL. 16: THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.17: SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH.
JOHN 17:20-21 “NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE, BUT FOR THEM ALSO WHICH SHALL BELIEVE ON ME THROUGH THEIR WORD; 21 THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE; AS THOU, FATHER, ART IN ME, AND I IN THEE, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE ONE IN US: THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT THOU HAST SENT ME.
JOHN 17:22-26 “AND THE GLORY WHICH THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM; THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE: 23: I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE MADE PERFECT IN ONE; AND THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT THOU HAST SENT ME, AND HAST LOVED THEM, AS THOU HAST LOVED ME. 24: FATHER, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO, WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY, WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME: FOR THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 25: O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE: BUT I HAVE KNOWN THEE, AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT THOU HAST SENT ME.26: AND I HAVE DECLARED UNTO THEM THY NAME, AND WILL DECLARE IT: THAT THE LOVE WHEREWITH THOU HAST LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM, AND I IN THEM.
PRAYERS FOR MERCY – PSALM 136
PSALM 130
PSALM 86
PSALM 146
PRAYERS FOR RELATIVES
2 CHRONICLES 30:9
OFFERING PSALM 112