HAVE THE DESIRE TO GAIN THE MERCY OF GOD

The dictionary describes mercy: Mercy is the compassionate treatment of those in distress, especially when it is within the power of one to punish or harm them. 
With God, mercy means His compassion and kindness toward people. 
His mercy shows up in believers at salvation, and God continues to show mercy in forgiveness. 
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Mercy is deep and describes a caring God.
Only God that mercy can no one measure, a glorious character.
Know to do well by giving all to God to gain and retain His incomparable mercy. 
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the mercy of God has been consistent to see you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
The mercy of God is with forbearance that does not run out.
The mercy of God is His loyal love; it is the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God. 
For to experience the mercy of God is not by merit but by the goodness of God to be received.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creations to receive His mercy.
The mercy of God is not attainable by the work but by walking with God. 
God testifies to His mercy in Romans 9:14-16, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
The mercy of God is in place for all, and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one that God will visit.
With mercy, God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In the given days that you have by the breath of life, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God as the Bible records His word.
God alone will have mercy on whom He chooses to, but He will also have for one who lives by His command.
TO OBTAIN THE MERCY OF GOD:
Live by loving God.
Obedience to the word of God is evidence of love for God that will always provoke God for His mercy. 
The story of Joseph points out that Joseph kept the commandment of God by forbidding adultery when he fled away from sleeping with the wife of his master. 
Joseph reacted against the temptation of the wife of his master to experience the mercy of God as the Bible mentions, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21).
Joseph loves God to obtain the mercy of God.
Know to plead for His mercy.
God identified Job as a man with none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil. 
Despite the stand of Job as a man of integrity before God, he knows to plead for mercy before God: “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
Just like Job, the Psalmist had to plead for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Know to plead for mercy before God.
Know to trust God for His mercy.
The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5). 
With trust is to lift voice to gain His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records, “And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful.
Ask for forgiveness to gain the mercy of God.
With repentance, one who asks before God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God. The Bible records, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5). God is good and merciful; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding that calls on God. 
To gain mercy, Proverbs 28:13 encourages, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsake them will have mercy.” God is merciful to respond with mercy for one who trusts God and knows to ask for forgiveness.
To do good gains the mercy of God.
Do no evil, but do good at all times. 
The Word of God in Proverbs 14:22 confirms, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. 
Devise good, but not evil will attain the mercy of God.
What one sows and to fear God will gain His mercy.
Among doing, to gain the mercy of God is to gain what one would like to sow.
Hosea 10:12 buttresses the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
Above all, fear God to gain His mercy.
Psalm 103:17 records for learning, “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him…” Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
To fear God will provoke all to do to gain His mercy.