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APRIL 2022 FAITH MAIL

Monthly Newsletter

KNOW TO BE PLEADING FOR THE MERCY OF GOD

It is a great privilege of God, His mercy but not a right for one to be seeing the light of a new day or the new month.
The breath of life is the doing of God, the mercy of God, not because of the right of one.
Job 12:10 points out, “In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?”
Job 33:4 testifies, “The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
Without a doubt, it is the mercy of God to see day after day, week after week, month after month, or year after year.
One alive should resolve to praise God for His mercy, the privilege of the breath of life.
Psalm 150:6 speaks to all, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
It is an abuse of the privilege of God to be alive and be reduced to not thanking God, praising God for the mercy of having a life.
The challenge of life reduces one not to be praising God for His mercy at every breath of life.
All should know that challenges are bound to cease where it exists, and the word of God encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19)
With the mercy of God, the affliction of life, the challenge that persists can be a glimpse that is not permanent.
It is worthy to consistently acknowledges God for His mercy.
Praise and thank God at every moment for mercy to be alive.
It is not beyond God for His intervention in times of challenge in life.
Job 14:7 records the encouragement to know that there is hope for one not to abuse the privileged of the mercy of God to be alive.“For there is hope for a tree If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease.”
The mercy of God is enough to reverse any irreversible because God is the unchanging changer, and always good not to ignore when and where He desires to intervene over any challenge.
In this season of life, know to call on the mercy of God.
The mercy of God is not cheap, not of no one to command God for His mercy.
Assuming instead of asking for the mercy of God is an error.
Pleading, asking for the mercy of God in all areas of life, is evidence of not assuming in the place of asking, seeking, and knocking for the mercy of God.
With faith, ask and not assume but plead before God for His mercy in all endeavors.
At this moment in time, all should be pleading before God at the breath of life.
What does one know and not be pleading for the mercy of God?
All should learn and know as documented in the pages of the Bible.
For example, the psalmist knows better to be pleading for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.” (Psalm 123:3)
Learn in the word of God, know to be asking for the mercy of God, not acting like one that is qualified for the mercy of God.
Romans 9:15 record the word of God, “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
Romans 2:11 makes us know, “For there is no partiality with God.”
However, the mercy of God is attainable when one asks or pleads for His mercy. 
Job is one that God declares as none like him on the earth; a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil.
Job recognizes to plead, not assume for the mercy of God as Job 9:15 states, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
The testimony of God about Job did not excuse Job from receiving the mercy of God without pleading for the mercy of God. 
Like Job, Psalmist pleads for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
All should know to plead for the mercy of God to receive mercy from God.
Looking up to Him is trusting in Him.
Lift voices in crying to Him for His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records, “And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful and never runs out of mercy.
Plead for the mercy of God!
Ask that from this hour, the mercy of God shall begin to answer for you more than ever in the life He has given you.
Ask that the mercy of God that brought you this far shall not expire all the days He has given to your loved ones.

DO YOU LACK IT?

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: One having a good conscience is having God in conscience 

1Timothy 1

It matters and counts to have a good conscience before God.
Have a good conscience before God, living obediently, as commanded for all to love.
The commandment of God for all is to love one other. 
Without the love for God, it is not possible to love others indeed and in truth!
1 John 4:8 records, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
Do you love God?
Do you love one other?
Galatians 5:14 records, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Among the reasons for the commandment of God for all man is to love from a GOOD CONSCIENCE. 
1Timothy 1:5-6 states, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” 
One having a good conscience is having God in conscience, and it counts before God to carry the presence of God in the life journey.
It is the will of God for all to have the purpose of the commandment of having a good conscience.
Do you have a good conscience?
Having love from a good conscience will be striving for good conscience to live life for the glory of God.
Having a good conscience is doing right but not doing wrong before God. 
It is a good conscience that governs thoughts and actions.
Conscience is what convicts one to turn from what is not right doing. 
One with no conscience will live life in empty pride, the evidence of no love as commanded by God. 
Conscience convicts not to miss the presence of God.
The act of Pharisees approached Jesus for judgment over a woman caught in adultery, but Jesus ignored the request of the Pharisees. (John 8:7) 
The need for good conscience by the Pharisees was evident in the response of Jesus, “Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one…” (John 8:9) 
Strive for good conscience and not become a victim of a lack of love before God.
Paul, in his defense before Felix, made it known in his statement that good conscience is to strive, “This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.” (Acts 24:16) 
Having a conscience without offense toward God and man is a good conscience. 
With understanding and knowledge, learn, strive to have a good conscience, to love according to the purpose of the command of God.
Consciously examine your conscience, be of good conscience which is pleasing to God. 
Misplacing the purpose of the command displaces and not experiencing God in a challenge.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with a mind full of good conscience.

ARE YOU AWAKE?

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: One that is not awake is not watching and praying.

Acts 12

Sleeping in the spirit is as dangerous as fasting from the word of God.
One sleeping is not watching and praying.
Praying and not watching is not complete to prevail in the world of wickedness. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 admonishes, “Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
The devourer of all, the father of all lies, is the number one enemy for all and no exception.
The weapon of the number one enemy of your life is your inability to please God.
The inability to please God can be rooted in sleeping in the place of watching and praying to live life for God, denying the enemy from having a place in one.
Sleeping at the wrong time opens the door for the enemy.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares testifies that sleeping opens up for the enemy to scatter where it is supposed to be gathered.
Matthew 13:25, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.” 
One that sows and falls asleep makes self the enemy of self, not pleasing God.
One that is not awake is not watching and praying.
Watching and praying before God is connecting with God for direction.
Are you awake or asleep in your prayer before God? 
Luke 21:36 warns against not watching and praying, “Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” 
Watching and Praying before God is having communion all day with God, not sleeping spiritually.
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares said, “but while men slept, his enemy came…” (Matthew 13:25) 
Stop sleeping wrongly to seal up to deny the enemy from taking over.
Watching and praying before God in this wicked world is the will of God for all.
Are you sleeping, not knowing that you are slipping off for the enemy to gain into your life?
The summation of the consequence of sleeping is captured in the parable,  “So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this…” (Matthew 13:27-28)
Stop deceiving yourself to know if you are sleeping and not awake before God. 
Learn from it that, in the parable, sleeping allowed the enemy to do evil with no remedy against the enemy until the day of harvest when God will separate good and evil.
Wake up from sleeping, stop slipping off the presence of God for deliverance and preservation over your God-given life.
Prayer for today: Ask before God, “Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death.” (Psalm 13:3)

GOD IS GOOD!

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: The grace and mercy of God is the evidence of His goodness.

Isaiah 26, Revelation 22

With an acronym, is the description of the GRACE of God: G is for God; R is for Riches; A is for At; C is for Christ; E is for Expense. 
Indeed, and in truth, God Riches is At Christ Expense. 
The Grace of God is an unmerited favor in place for all. 
The grace of God is the gift, the love for all by God.
The Grace of God for all is divine assistance of God for restoration (rebirth) or sanctification.
Dictionary describes the theological meaning of the grace of God as: “The unmerited love and favor of God toward human beings; divine influence acting in a person to make the person pure, morally strong; the condition of a person brought to God’s favor through this influence; a special virtue, gift, or help given to a person by God.”
The description of the grace of God and the mercy of God is often mixed up only because of similar expressions of favor and love of God.
However, grace and mercy possess a clear distinction. 
The grace of God: When a man experiences the grace of God, such shall receive favor which man does not deserve. 
The mercy of God: When a man experiences the mercy of God, such shall not get the punishment that man does not deserve. 
For example, Lot experienced mercy that excused him from the punishment of destruction. 
Genesis 19:19 records, “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life…” 
Grace is what God has shown to all to obtain.
Isaiah 26:10 buttresses, “Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.” 
Jesus, the grace of God, is shown to all to obtain, but all hardly behold the grace of God. 
Ezra 9:8 also states, “And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.” 
Jesus is the gift of God, the grace of God for all to see and receive Him.
Do you believe Him to receive Him?
Jesus is the GRACE of God!
Is He (Grace of God) with you?
Regardless of this wicked world, the grace of God is in place for all to seek and find Him.
Noah is an example of one that found grace from God.
Genesis 6:7-8 records, “So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
You can become the Noah of your time.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall live life for the glory of God.

GOD ON YOUR BEHALF

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you waiting on God to act on your behalf?

Exodus 33, Psalm 33

LIVING RIGHT IS WAITING ON GOD TO EXPERIENCE THE ACT OF GOD
Righteousness is living right, doing according to the word of God. 
Are you doing right before God?
One that is doing right according to the word of God shall experience the act of God.
One living right before God is the evidence of having the fear for God. 
Acts 10:35 confirms, “But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him”
To fear God is living righteously before God.
Are you waiting on God to act on your behalf?
Waiting on God is with having fear for God.
God will act for those who fear Him evidence of living right to experience the act of God.
It is right doing to fear God. Psalm 33:18-22 testifies, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You.” 
Do the verses above speak to you?
The blessing and condition to gain from God are in the word of God. 
Be righteous before God to experience the act of God.
REMEMBERING THE WAYS OF GOD SHALL EXPERIENCE THE ACT OF GOD
The testimonies of Moses, by his journey of life, are the evidence for why he waits on God to experience acts of God.
Documentation of Moses in his journey points out that Moses knows God to wait for direction not to be a failure. Exodus 33:12-14 records: “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 
The way of God is His Word, and His word is His presence.
Remember the ways in the word of God, gives self to God to experience the act of God.
Moses was with the character of waiting on God to experience the act of God. 
Psalm 103:7 testifies for all to know the need of knowing God for waiting on Him, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” 
Remembering the way of God is the direction to arrive at the assignment. 
Wait before God by rejoicing, doing right, and remembering His ways for Him to act.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled seek God to find Him.