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The Mercy of God
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The Spirit of God said it exactly the way it should have been said through Paul. What happened
to Brother Eppy? “God had mercy on him.” Now you have to understand, if you’ve always done
everything perfectly, you don’t need mercy. You can get by on justice. But, the very fact that
Paul said God had mercy on him means what? It means that Eppy didn’t get some judgment he
should have gotten, and he did get some blessings, in this case healing, that he shouldn’t have
gotten. Why? Do you think a fellow traveling with Brother Paul and helping Brother Paul would
need mercy, with all that faith around and all that revelation? You know it! You’re never going
to find anyone or be anywhere where you’re not going to need mercy.
Never think you can just ride someone else’s coat tail and someone else’s faith through
everything and for everything. God expects something of you. I don’t care who you are and how
much you love them and how much faith you think they have or how much you think they know
God—don’t think other people can do all of your praying for you and all of your believing for
you.
“But what if I feel like I don’t know enough and I don’t have enough faith, and I’m in trouble?”
Remember the “M” word. Remember it when you realize, “Man, I’ve messed up. I’m on the
wrong road. I zigged when I should have zagged. Here I am…” Just put your nose in the carpet
and say, “God, have mercy on me.” I’m telling you, it worked every time. You see it in the
Bible, every time any man or woman did it, they got what they needed, every one of them.
Brother Eppy was sick. He was Paul’s preaching sidekick. They did meetings together, but he
about died, and he
would have
died. With all of Paul’s faith, revelation, and multiple visitations
from the Head of the Church, and with all of Eppy’s faith, knowledge, and preaching, he still
would have died except for one thing: the mercy of God.
This will get you through when you don’t know what to do. When you have come to the end of
yourself and the end of your road, this is what you can do. You can fall on His mercy and say,
“Lord, help me. Help me. I’ve run up against something, and I don’t know what to do with it.
Help me. Have mercy. I know I don’t deserve it. I know I haven’t done everything right. I know
I can’t earn it or merit it, but I also know I don’t have to. You are a merciful God, and I’m asking
You for mercy. I’m asking You that I don’t get the bad things I should get and I’m asking You
that I can get the good things that I shouldn’t get.”
He said he was at death’s door, near unto death, but God had mercy on him, and not just on him,
“But on me also,” Paul said. What is Paul saying? He said I am personally thanking God that He
had mercy on me because Eppy is my helper. He’s a brother. He’s a fellow soldier. Paul said
God had mercy on Eppy when He healed him, but at the same time, He had mercy on him, too.
Thanks be unto God.
He is every bit as merciful with you and me as He was with Brother Eppy and Brother Paul. He’s
the Great Almighty I Am that I Am, Who never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and
forever, and if He had mercy on him, He’ll have mercy on you and on me, which means we
know it’s God’s will for all of us to be healed.