Posts Tagged ‘ Mercy ’
Have mercy on those who doubt
Jude 1:22, HCSB
We keep God’s Word, and this can be shown in being compassionate and merciful on those who doubt, including ourselves. In the Old Testament and in Jesus we see God being patient and working through doubts with people, and so should we.
Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3:22-23, HCSB
God is our source of life, peace, and rest. We can trust in Him when loge is most difficult by knowing that He became one of us, was tortured and murdered, and He still overcame.
Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
Luke 6:36, HCSB
God wants to give us all good things, and it begins with mercy when we ask. It also means that we show mercy to others just as He has to us.
The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He saves those crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone are we declared righteous, and our realization and sadness over our sin is what drives us to our Savior who lifts us from sin and shame.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone are we declared righteous, and the world will try to suppress God’s righteousness. Yet, we have the blessed hope that Christ is making all things new and will make the struggles now appear insignificant, like the pain of childbirth and holding the newborn.
But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
Amos 5:24, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone are we declared righteous, Christ taking on God’s wrath for us so that justice was fulfilled and we receive His righteousness through the Holy Spirit.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
Matthew 6:33, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone we are declared righteous and sons and daughters of God. We seek His righteousness alone, infused by the indwelling Holy Spirit from the moment of faith.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
Psalm 103:13, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone are we declared righteous, from that moment we fear God’s wrath more than our sin, when we love God for who He is and all He has done more than our own desires.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9, HCSB
With faith in Christ alone are we declared righteous before God, when we are able to confess that we are sinners in need of His righteousness to attain eternal life.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17, HCSB
God has redeemed us from death and sin through the cross of Christ, and we know have received freedom from their power by the indwelling Holy Spirit and the fellowship in the Church.