OPEN HEAVEN [24 JUNE 2019] BOWELS OF MERCIES

Open Heaven 24 June 2019: [Monday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Bowels of Mercies

BOWELS OF MERCIES – Monday June 24^th 2019

Memorise: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1^st John 3:16

Read: 1^st Corinthians 9:19-23 (KJV)

¹⁹ For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

²¹ To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

²² To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

²³ And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Bible in one year: Numbers 30-31, Ezekiel 2:8-3:15, Hymn: Sing hymn 14

Message:-

Mercy is a concrete expression of compassion and love. It means to have pity or to feel concern out of sympathy for someone. 

OPEN HEAVEN 24 JUNE 2019 BOWELS OF MERCIES

Mercy is part of God’s core nature, and it defines that character in Him by which He faithfully keeps His covenant, fulfils His promises, and maintains His relationship with His children, despite our shortcomings, unworthiness and unfaithfulness (Exodus 34:6-7). This is very well explained in Romans 9:15-16, which says:

“I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”

Mercy connotes loving-kindness, goodness, grace, favour and steadfast love. The most prominent aspect of mercy is the compassionate disposition to forgive an offender, coupled with finding a way to help the offender out of his or her sorry situation. These qualities make it possible to lovingly correct fellow Christians who fall into error, instead of passing hostile judgment of them. Here is how the Holy Spirit commands us to deal with each other in Ephesians 4:2-3:

Open Heaven 24 June 2019: [Monday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Bowels of Mercies

“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

Furthermore, while identifying the qualities that the Body of Christ must have, mercy and kindness are prominent on that list. He says in Colossians 3:12:

“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”

God designed mercy to be an essential part of Christian community, because it reveals the state of our heart. It is an intense inner feeling that usually manifests itself as compassionate acts of love and kindness. We are recipients of God’s mercy through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we live our lives in daily anticipation of new mercies from God. The consistent new outpouring of God’s mercy is the seal of God’s love for His children (Lamentations 3:22-23). In responses to past, present and future gifts of God’s mercy, we also must be channels of divine mercy both within the Church and out there in the world (Jude 1:22-22). 

Open Heaven 24 June 2019 Monday Prayer Point

The Bible teaches us to take up the responsibility of showing mercy through the help ministry and assisting the less privileged (1^st Corinthians 12:28). Charitable giving is a proper response to God’s mercy and a mark of genuine spirituality. I pray that you will be a candidate for God’s mercy and a dispenser of it, in Jesus’ Name.

Prayer Point

Father, let Your nature of mercy find expression through me to others, in Jesus’ Name.

Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.Open