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The Mercy of God
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He said, “How much do you owe?”
I said, “Do you really want to know? Do you need to know?”
He said, “Yeah, the Lord’s dealt with me about it.”
I said, “Well, we owe $10,000.”
He kind of looked down. He said, “Okay. We’re going to send you $1,000 a month until it’s paid
for.”
And they did! Glory to God!
We had another debt, of $5,000, and during that same week, the people we owed called us and
said, “Forget about that. We want to sow that to you.” We didn’t ask them to do that. They said,
“Forget about it.”
So in one week, we got $15,000 worth of debt and back taxes paid for, and it wasn’t because we
were so smart and had so much faith. What was it? It was mercy, the mercy of God. Does God
have mercy for your finances even when you’ve messed yourself up? God has mercy for
forgiveness of sin. He has mercy for financial mistakes. He has mercy for marriage and family
mistakes.
So many relationship problems are self-induced, from people running their mouths and saying
and doing selfish things and just sabotaging their own relationships. There are people who just
mess themselves up and are estranged from family and loved ones. But God has mercy for that,
too. Even though you’ve messed it up and blown stuff, He can fix it. He can put it back together.
Some might argue, “Yeah, but you don’t know what they did.” Yeah, and you don’t know about
the mercy of God—how powerful it is and how strong it is. “But you don’t know, man. We
really had a blowout last time.” I don’t care. If you’ll believe God, you can have mercy.
We’ve seen it. We’ve seen relationships that were just done, where the people didn’t just
not love
each other, they despised each other. They didn’t want to be in the same room. But now they
adore each other. How can you get from hate to adoration? By the mercy of God, it can happen.
We’ve seen it. There is nothing too far gone. There is nothing too bad that God cannot fix it.
You’ve got to have faith in His mercy, and you need to know that it’s not because you did
everything right but because of His mercy.
God also has healing mercies, doesn’t He? In Matthew 9:27, two blind men were following
Jesus. Notice what they said. “Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.” What did they want?
They wanted their eyes to be opened, didn’t they? They wanted their eyes healed, or they may
have been born with something missing and wanted a creative miracle in their eyes, but they
wanted healing miracles. Why didn’t they just ask for it? Why didn’t Jesus correct them and say,
“What do you want? I thought you wanted healing, don’t you? Why are you asking for mercy?”