In Exodus 34:5-7, the first attribute of the NAME of the LORD which He Himself proclaimed to Moses, was Mercy. He wants us to love Mercy as He Himself loves it and even delights in it. By choosing to go boldly to the Throne of Grace to receive it in...
It's not difficult to grasp that "God loves loving us" when we realize that Love created us. And Love so loved all that He gave us His Son so that we could be reconciled to Love, live in fellowship with Love, manifest Love, and be secure and kept in the...
What do we do when we know the Lord has called us to offer up, or rise and stand up, or go up, or look up, and not give up ... even if we are alone in our obedience to Him? Will we respond as Isaiah did to God's question:...
Faith works only by Love; and knowing the Love God cherishes for us + the Faith of the Son of God in us + our free volition to choose to believe His Word = JOY unspeakable and full of Glory! So as Paul implored us, "Let us be full of...
Job and Peter recognized Who the Lord was in the midst of their failures. This caused them to look away from themselves and unto Him, remembering His Love, His Nature, His integrity. Motivated by their renewed fellowship with Him, they received Mercy to cover their failures and Grace to go...
Could it be that the Lord had the Apostle John pen five times in his Gospel that he was "the disciple whom Jesus loves" so that we who would follow would know that it was possible for us to be called the same?! John was fully persuaded of the Love...
In II Samuel 5:20 David called the Lord "the God of breaking through" and indeed He has proved Himself to be just that, as seen throughout the Bible. His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension comprised the greatest "break-through" in the history of mankind, giving unlimited access to the Father and...
Whether it be Isaiah, Jeremiah, the Apostle Paul, most importantly the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, there is a Divine plea to all of God's people to rise up out of spiritual sluggishness and inactivity and obscurity. How? As Jeremiah did, we find the Words of God, we eat them by...
Perhaps the single most important factor in being established in a proper identity is being persuaded of the Love of God for us. If we don't believe He loves us, it will be difficult to believe and live by His Word, which is the only "mirror" that will tell us...
Why did God choose David to be the Prince of the Millennium? Could it be that he understood, trusted in, and received and extended Mercy like few in the history of mankind have or will? He knew the Name of God (Ex.34:6) and he knew that his God was a...
