Tag Archive | mercy

Born Again?!

Oct16

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.3.NASB1995

Are  you seeing the kingdom of God at work in the world today?

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:5‭-‬6 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.5-6.NASB1995

Have you been born of the Spirit?

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.1.12-13.NASB1995

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/tit.3.5.NASB1995

🌹Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ezk.36.25-27.NASB1995

To God be the glory for His mercy, grace and salvation.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God is Righteous

Oct3

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.
Psalms 116:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.5.NASB1995

But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth (faithfulness).
Psalms 86:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.86.15.NASB1995

Righteous are You, O Lord, And upright are Your judgments. You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And exceeding faithfulness.
Psalms 119:137-138 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.137-138.NASB1995

The Lord is righteous in all His ways And kind in all His deeds.
Psalms 145:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.145.17.NASB1995

🌹. . . And You have fulfilled Your promise, For You are righteous.
Nehemiah 9:8f NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/neh.9.8.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Temple

Aug13

For the disobedience of King David, God sent a plague upon the land.

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.15.NASB1995

Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing floor played an important site in history. An angel of the Lord was standing on this site ready to pour out destruction on Jerusalem. But God . . . in His mercy relented of the destruction to Jerusalem.

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”
2 Samuel 24:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.17.NASB1995

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.18.NASB1995

David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.

Araunah (Ornan) looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah (Ornan) went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king. Then Araunah (Ornan) said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be held back from the people.” Araunah (Ornan) said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. Everything, O king, Araunah (Ornan) gives to the king.” And Araunah (Ornan) said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
However, the king said to Araunah (Ornan), “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.”
2 Samuel 24:19-24a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.19-24.NASB1995

There is a price to be paid for sin, no matter your stature in life. Jesus paid for our sin.

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
2 Samuel 24:24b-25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.24-25.NASB1995

This took place on the same site where

. . . Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 3:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.3.1.NASB1995

God has a plan. We may not know it but need to trust in His leading.

🌹At the site of God’s mercy and Solomon’s repentance, the temple of the Lord God was built.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Seeking Wisdom?

Jun24

For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.2.6.NASB1995

‭In 1 Kings 3, Solomon, the son of David, was a little child when he became King in place of his father. God spoke with Solomon and said, “ask what you wish Me to give you.” Solomon requested an understanding heart to judge the Lord’s people to discern between good and evil. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. “God said to him, ‘Because you have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart,'”

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.17.NASB1995

🌹But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.5.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Sin Forgiven!!

Jun18

A day without sin is like . . . IMPOSSIBLE!
That is why I am grateful for God’s mercy, grace and forgiveness.

To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins, Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
Luke 1:77-78 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.77-78.NASB1995

🌹How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered!
Psalms 32:1 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.1.NASB1995

‭Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon https://indasharonjesus.org

The Merciful Receive Mercy

Jun3

He (Jesus) opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Matthew 5:1, 7 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.1-7.NASB1995

God’s mercy opened the door to the inheritance of His kingdom.

“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 25:34 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.25.34.NASB1995

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:5 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/tit.3.5.NASB1995

And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
Romans 9:23-24 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.9.23-24.NASB1995

Just as Jesus poured out mercy on you and me, believers in Him, we are to be vessels of His mercy.

For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’
Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’
Matthew 25:35-40 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.25.35-40.NASB1995

Freely you received, freely give.

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:13 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.2.13.NASB1995

The merciful man does himself good (good to his soul), But the cruel man does himself harm (troubles his flesh).
Proverbs 11:17 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.11.17.NASB1995

🌹And His mercy is upon generation after generation Toward those who fear (revere) Him.
Luke 1:50 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.50.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Come, Listen, Live

Feb21

Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.
Isaiah‬ ‭55:3‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.3.NASB1995‭‭

For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah‬ ‭57:15‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.57.15.NASB1995‭‭

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Isaiah‬ ‭57:21‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.57.21.NASB1995‭‭

Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah‬ ‭55:6‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6.NASB1995‭‭

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Merciful Hope

Feb1

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter‬ ‭1:3‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.1.3.NASB1995

🌹Thank You, Father, for Your great mercy that came through the resurrection of Your Son, Jesus. I praise You, God, for this living hope!! Blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ!! Amen.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
http://indasharonjesus.org

30 Days of Thanks – Day 16

Nov16

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
2 Corinthians‬ ‭9:15‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.9.15.NASB1995

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
‭‭so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
‭‭For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Ephesians‬ ‭2:4‭-‬8 ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.2.4.NASB1995

Jesus Christ! The gift of life given by the sacrifice of His own life. Jesus paid the price. He paid the restitution and restored our right to live, to avoid  eternal punishment that we deserve. What an indescribable gift! Thank You, God!!

How can we honor God for this gift of new life in Jesus?
‭‭
walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Ephesians‬ ‭5:2‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.2.NASB1995

‭‭🌹The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
2 Corinthians‬ ‭13:14‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.13.14.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Lord Most High

Sep8

He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
Psalm 47:4 NASB
The princes (nobles) of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
Psalms 47:9 NASB

Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, “Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”
Isaiah 49:7 NASB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3‭-‬5 NASB

Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 49:23d NASB

Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed; Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.
Psalms 25:3 NASB

🌹For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 97:9 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon