The Mercy of God
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Say this out loud:
I’m bought and paid for. My healing is bought and paid for.
I don’t have to do one thing to earn a healing.
It’s already completely bought and paid for. It is a mercy. If it was based on us getting good
enough to get healed, none of us would ever be healed. So, it’s a mercy.
When people say, “I don’t deserve for God to heal me.” Right! Didn’t you already know that? “I
just messed up. I made mistakes, and I just don’t deserve to be healed.” Exactly. That’s why it’s
by His mercy. Mercy means you don’t get the judgment and the punishment that you should
have gotten, and it means you do get the good things, the blessings, that you shouldn’t have
gotten. It’s mercy. Thank God for His mercy!
All smart Christian children learn that word early on when they get in trouble and are about to
get punished. They say, “Mercy! Mercy!” Sometimes they don’t realize this punishment is mercy
compared to what they should be getting.
The blind men said, “Have mercy on us,” and what did they get? They got healing.
The Lord is still having mercy on people.
Psalm 86:15 says, “But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering,
and plenteous in mercy and truth.” He has plenty of mercy.
What people don’t realize is when they’re saying it might not be God’s will to heal them, they’re
saying it might not be God’s will to have mercy on them. Isn’t that what they’re saying? We’ve
proven healing is a mercy, and we’re going to prove it even further. It doesn’t sound right to say
that it might not be God’s will to have mercy on someone. That can’t be. “He’s rich in mercy,”
the Bible says, “to all that call on Him,” no matter what you’ve done.
So many people in the world don’t believe that, and it grieves me, and I know it’s because the
Spirit of God is in me. It grieves the Lord when He tells people, “I’ll forgive you. I’ll make it
right. You can put it behind you. We’ll go on. I’ll still use you. I’ll bless you. I’ll give you
blessings. I’ll heal you. I’ll meet your needs. I’ll get you out of trouble,” and people look up and
say, “Yeah, but You don’t know what I’ve done, or how bad...” He knows everything. He knows
things when you don’t know how bad it is, and He still told you He’d forgive you and He’d have
mercy.
Don’t you know that Peter felt bad standing out there by that fire where He had denied three
times that he even knew the Lord? (John 18:25-27) And he was the one who was the loudest
saying, “I’ll die with You! I don’t care, I will never deny You!” (John 13:37) But when it came
down to it and the pressure was on, and he was asked, “Aren’t you one of His?” he answered,
“No, no.”
“You’ve got to be. You have the same accent as the Galilean.”
