The very idea of giving up!
You have been given a ministry from Jesus Christ when He raised you from the dead! Get up! Don't you lay down! Greater is He that is in you! Nothing is impossible with God! Nothing is impossible to him that believes in God!
You've caught mercy! Don't fumble it! Your family is depending on you. People all around you await to hear the mercy that God has shown you.
Luke 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
Luke 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
Luke 7:38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
Luke 7:40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
Luke 7:41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
Luke 7:42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
Luke 7:43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke 7:44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Luke 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
Luke 7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
Luke 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Luk 7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
We are like those that owed the debt, it was more than either could pay! Their master chose to forgive them both! They received mercy! Just like those of us who have repented of our sin and have believed in Christs' work on the cross for our salvation!
Mercy! Something that we can never earn or deserve!
Just as the two debtors, we owed a price, our life! But God, who in his great mercy, loved us and gave His Son! To die for your sin and my sin! I must realize that it was my sin, that nailed Jesus to that cross!
But thanks be unto God! I have received mercy!! I may feel low at times but Jesus is My glory and the lifter of my head!
I will look unto the hills from where my help comes, my help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth!
The woman that came into Simon the Pharisee's house where Jesus was asked to come and eat, she came weeping behind Him and washed His feet with her tears, she dried His feet with the hairs of her head, and then she took the precious ointment from the alabaster box and anointed the feet of Jesus!
1Corinthians 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
This woman was willing to lay down at the feet of Jesus what was to her in her day, her glory! What was her covering she used to receive His covering!
"She received mercy!"
4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Once we have received mercy, the love of God that is shed abroad in our hearts, it causes us to walk in the light as He is in the light!
We've received a ministry of mercy!!!! We have a gospel to preach!
4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
You can't allow yourself to become complacent in this hour! Souls are dying! And you have received this ministry!
4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
No longer do you belong to yourself, you've been bought with a price! Therefore, glorify God in your spirit and your body which belong to God!
4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Is wasn't you that initiated your mercy, it was God!
He commanded the light to shine through the darkness that you were in!
He caused His marvelous light to come to you while you sat in darkness, helpless and hopeless!
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
We are His' workmanship.
I weep as I think of the great mercy that God has given to me.
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
I've received a ministry of mercy! I can't sleep spiritually in this hour! I've received mercy! Something that I never deserved but yet God in His great love has given me mercy!
I must walk circumspectly (like a person who has received mercy) and not as a fool( a person who says in his heart that there is no God). I used to walk that way, but I've received mercy!!!!!I don't have to walk and act like a fool!! I've received mercy!!! Hallelujah!
I don't want to be under the influence of no drug, no alcohol, not anything other than being filled with His Spirit!!!
I don't need no American Idol! I don't need to spend my attention on the latest reality show! I've received mercy!!!!
I want the Only True God, Jesus Christ who said He would walk in me and live in me! He said He would be my God and all that I would ever need!
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
I've received mercy!!!! I know I'm risen with Christ! I want to seek those things above where Christ sits at the right hand of God!
I'm dead! My life is hid with Christ in God!
Christ is my life!! When Christ, who is our lfe, shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory!!! That's mercy!!!
I got it! You can have it too! Thank God He gave it in Christ!
To sum it all up. You can't give up, you can't even think about quitting a ministry that God has given to you before the foundation of the world!
You have received mercy. "Walk like it".
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