The Mercy of God
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obey God,” and “You opened the door here,” and “You messed up here,” and “You did
something ignorant here,” and “You disobeyed there,” thank God for mercy. Mercy covers all of
that. Mercy makes up for all that.
Say this out loud:
I have faith in the mercy of God.
I believe in the mercy of God.
We are sure it’s God’s will for all of us to be healed today because of the mercy of God. Jesus
used to be moved with compassion and heal people. It’s still happening today. People used to ask
for mercy and get healed every time. It still happens today.
Now, you must not come for healing or any other thing saying, “Lord, I served You faithfully,
and I’ve done everything You told me to do, so You owe me this.” No! Don’t even think it,
much less say it.
Even though we didn’t earn it and we didn’t merit it, He bought and paid for it and offered it to
us by grace, through faith. It is a mercy.
One thing I like about the Bible is it is absolute truth. There is nobody trying to color things and
cover things to make themselves look good; it’s the way it is. It’s the truth, and the truth makes
you free.
Paul had a man helping him whose name was Epaphroditus. I will call him “Eppy.” In
Philippians 2:25, he said, “Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother,
and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my
wants.” Paul calls this man a brother, a fellow soldier, and a companion in labor. This man is a
minister, and he’s their messenger. He’s the one sent from their church to Paul to assist him.
Verse 26 says, “He longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that
he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death.”
Some people might say that this man on Paul’s team is sick—not just sick, but about dead, at
death’s door. Well, why couldn’t Paul heal him? Paul never was the Healer.
Sometimes people think just because I believe in healing and because God uses me to minister
healing to people, that means I’ll be automatically healed the rest of my life. Well, ministers are
especially anointed to minister healing, but we have to receive it just like everyone else does, by
faith. And if you presume that the anointing on you is going to automatically take care of you all
of your life, you’ll get into trouble.
So, Epaphroditus was in a bad way. But what happened? Did Paul, who had such amazing faith
and wrote a lot of the New Testament, by that apostolic anointing that was on him, get Eppy
healed? No. Did Brother Eppy, because he had so much faith, blast through this thing and live?
No.
