Good Morning Merciful Overcomers! Huh? Well these two greeting salutations come from two of our devotionals for that loosely thread together. What has God threaded together as you abide and use your Bibles and devos? We are hearers and doers of the Word, by His grace. His grace is sufficient. His mercy great. He is our stronghold and helper--our deliverer too! He promises to be with us always and working all things together for good. He promises to direct our steps if we humble ourselves and invite His wisdom to become ours. What an awesome God we love and serve, There are no other gods like Him! Amen!
We are blessed to be a blessing and as we bless we are blessed back. PTL! So many blessings. May we always steward them all well--time, talent and treasure, health, wisdom, spiritual gifts and all the blessings! Amen! The same goes for mercy that we are shown and sent to share. What's mercy (look it up!) "Compassionate kindness; forgiveness" that God has shown to us and expects us to share. As we do we position ourselves to be overcomers in Christ. He love like Him and he comes and helps us in our troubles and leads us on perfect paths as we humble ourselves and seek Him continually. He has great plans for you and us that we are created and gifted to do. The chief of these is to become more like Jesus and that means being a merciful overcomer! Amen
Check out The Word for You and Daily Bread below and receive His love and mercy. Load up on it and go share it . I'm praying for you! I'd love to hear your story of how God loved through you! Go! Love well. Bless and be blessed. Know joy and peace and share them! Amen!
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Searching for Mercy
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God. Exodus 16:12
Her fans knew her as Nightbirde. Singer-songwriter Jane Kristen Marczewski won a following in 2021 on a popular TV talent show. In 2017, she’d been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. In 2018, she went into remission. She started touring, but months later the cancer returned, giving her little chance of survival. Amazingly she recovered and was declared cancer-free. But on , 2022, Nightbirde died.
During her difficult journey, she blogged, “I remind myself that I’m praying to the God who let the Israelites stay lost for decades. They begged to arrive . . . but instead He let them wander, answering prayers they didn’t pray. . . . Every morning, He sent them mercy-bread from heaven . . . . I look for the mercy-bread . . . The Israelites called it manna, which means ‘what is it?’ That’s the same question I’m asking . . . . There’s mercy here somewhere—but what is it?”
The exodus story reveals much about God’s mercy. First, His mercy was promised to the Israelites. “You will be filled with bread” (Exodus 16:12). And second, His mercy may surprise us. “They did not know what it was” (v. 15). Mercy often doesn’t look like what we think. But it’s mercy nonetheless. For the Israelites, it looked like morning manna. For Nightbirde, she wrote of the gift of a blanket from a friend, and her mother’s hands.
By John Blase
REFLECT & PRAY
How has God’s mercy surprised you? What might it mean for you to look for mercy ?
Merciful God, thank You for Your mercy. Please help me search for it.
The desert sojourn (Exodus 16:11-16) and God’s merciful provision of manna became an example or pattern of God’s intention as a royal shepherd to provide for His people (celebrated annually in the Feast of Tabernacles). The Good Shepherd in the Gospels continues to offer divine provision to believers in Jesus in their deserts (Mark 6:32-44), but only at the end of this present age will He wipe away every form of suffering and want for His faithful followers. Revelation 7 describes this future time: “He who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. ‘Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The will not beat down on them,’ nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes’ ” (vv. 15-17).
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