Faith Family Fellowship

Pastor's March Newsletter

Dear Beloved of Faith Family Fellowship,

    Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

    Beloved, this month I want to share with you on the subject of The Mercy of God. Psalm 145:8 says “the Lord is gracious, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.” The Lord is gracious or literally, He is disposed to show favors. He gets pleasure in bestowing favors and mercies upon us. The Bible does not magnify God’s power but rather His love and mercy. The mercy of God is His willingness to use His power in our behalf to meet every need.

    In Micah 7:18 it says, “He delighteth in mercy.”   This shows God’s attitude toward us in that He delights in being merciful to His children. Lamentations 3:22-23 tells us that God’s mercies (plural) are new every morning. It is implied here that they are available daily. Psalm 103:11 tells us that the depth of God’s mercy is as high as the heaven is above the earth. Verse 17 lets us know that His boundless mercy is from everlasting to everlasting toward them that love Him.

    In Deuteronomy 7:9 Moses declares that God’s mercy is manifested to us in accordance with His covenant (His Word). As we act upon God’s Word in faith, God is faithful to keep covenant and mercy toward us forever.

    Second Corinthians 1:3 calls God the Father of Mercies. Instead of judgment we have received the mercy of salvation. Many times we think of mercy only toward sin and the sinner. However, in Matthew 20:29-30 we see the afflicted asking for the mercy of healing. Healing is as much a mercy as the forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 2:17 says that Jesus is now seated at the right hand of God to ever be a Merciful High Priest to you and me. Therefore, Hebrews 4:16 reveals that we are now in a position to come boldly to God’s Throne of Grace and obtain mercy.

    In Luke 6:36 Jesus tells us to be merciful as our Father in heaven is merciful. Because we have in us God’s merciful nature we are able to express His mercy toward others.

    As you meditate on these particular scriptures and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the mercy of God you will begin to understand the great lengths God went to in order to extend His great mercy to all men. Our Heavenly Father is a God of mercy.
Jesus is our Merciful High Priest. Mercy is a part of the divine nature that was imparted to us as believers at the new birth. Because the mercy of God is a part of us now we can extend that great mercy to others.

    In these last of the last days the need to see and experience the mercy of God is great. We as the Body of Christ have the greatest opportunities available to us to develop God’s mercy in our hearts and lives and extend that mercy (the expression of God’s heart love and compassion) to humanity and to one another.

    Let’s commit today to develop the mercy of God in us and extend it to those who are lost and to one another as the Church.

We love you,

Pastor Ron and Betsy