This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to Morning Glow. Trusting the Lord to bless you this beautiful day, this awesome day. I believe God is here to touch you, to make today a day of favour, a day of testimony, a day of the outstretching of His hand, a day of healing, a day of power.
Heavenly Father, we give glory to Your name for the breaking of another day. We magnify You. Awesome God, powerful God, mighty God. Our healer, our deliverer, our joy. We give all the praise to You today. Bless us in Your word. Minister to us, let the entrance of Your word brings light and understanding to the simple. Let Your name be glorified in the name of Jesus.
Praise the Lord.
From wherever you have joined us from around the world, I trust the Lord that today will be special in your life with His favour, blessing, grace and power. Church Gist. I believe God that you will have a testimony. Your life will never be the same in the name of Jesus.
Welcome to Morning Glow. We will continue our sharing and receiving from the Word of God on the subject of ‘Mercy’. Today we will continue to prophesy into our lives, into your life, prophesying the mercy of God.
Let me specifically talk about God’s healing mercy. Specifically many times when people hear about Jehovah God, some think of Him like a heavenly policeman who is waiting for someone to make a mistake and hit them on the side of their heads. They think if they make a mistake also, God is going to just slap them or do something that will befall them to their detriment. But that is not what the Bible says about Jehovah. I think we preachers also need to balance and help people to find true healing for their lives, healing for their minds, healing for their spirits.
In Psalm 145:8-9, the Bible made us to understand that God is gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy to all people. Church Gist. The word compassion and mercy there are translated from the Hebrew word that means the same thing. So mercy and compassion come from the same root. In other words, to be merciful means to be full of compassion.
So the God who sits upon the mercy seat, sat there because He wants to show man His compassion. That is God’s character. Unfortunately, fallen man tends to want to impose their own nature on God. I don’t want to push it too far but, many times when you see a very critical person, they tend to also see God as the critical one who is just looking for who to whack on the side of their head. Now this does not mean that we have taken it to the extreme and you could do what you like, that is not it but rather at the same time, we are saying that God is a God of mercy and in His character, He is loving.
There are quite a few people who think God’s mercy is only in the area of salvation for sinners. Yeah, thank God, His mercy saved us, if it has not been for His mercy, we cannot build enough to get our salvation.
Many years ago, I flew in first class of the British Airways flight out of Africa with an Indian billionaire, a gentle man in his 70s and he began a conversation and was talking about spirituality and he said he’s given away a lot of the things he has, his goods. He said after he has given away so much billions and some of his factories, he was into textile making in Africa, his guru told him, he is now 5% good. He looked at me and said, how about you? I said, my guru said I am 100% good and he is thinking, boy, what do you do to be 100% good? I said it is not what I did, it is what my guru did, my guru is Jesus. He showed me mercy and forgives all my sins.
So Psalm 145:8-9 makes it very clear that God is merciful. Thank God for His mercy and then 2 Corinthians 1:3, the Bible calls God, the Father of mercies, so it is not one mercy, it is mercies. We see this again in Psalm 106:7, the Bible says of the Israelites, that God did not remembered the multitude of their sins but then, they did not remember the multitude of God’s mercies. The mercy of provision, the mercy of protection, the mercy of His healing, the mercy of His deliverance, the mercy of turning their enemies to be like nothing before them.
So everytime you think of Jehovah, you need to understand that His mercies are multiple. It is His mercy that protects us, it is His mercy that provides, it is not your strength. You may work hard but except the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it (Psalm 127). God’s mercy was shown in the wonders and miracles He performed in delivering them out of Egypt, where they have been held captive.
The Psalmist called those wonders, God’s mercies and those mercies encompassed all the Lord’s provisions including one which I want to emphasize a little bit this morning and that is His healing mercy. Hallelujah!
This our God heals by mercy. Jesus on earth didn’t just heal to prove His diety, He could have just gone around and say, ‘I am God, be healed’ but He healed us because when He met people with sickness and diseases, compassion moved from Him to them. Mercy moved from Him to them, He saw them needing Him. So the truth here is that we are as the Body of Christ, need to realise that God heals because of mercy, just as He forgives because of mercy.
He shows compassion because of mercy and I am praying that this morning, as we take the time and minister to you, someone watching this morning will experience healing by mercy.
In Mark 1:40-41, we see Jesus showing mercy and healing a man from a virus, from leprosy. Remember I told you the word compassion and mercy in the Old Testament often come from the same root. You see, the dictionary defines compassion as to love tenderly. Compassion is to pity, compassion is to show mercy and be full of eager yearning, that means that, Jesus, full of tender love, pity and eager yearning to help and bless him. He laid His hand on this leper and gbam, the man was healed.
- Someone is watching this morning, God will touch you and He will heal you.
We find this same compassion in Matthew 20:30-34, notice here in this passage that these two men asked for mercy from Jesus. He casted out demons because of mercy, He healed them because of mercy. Jesus asked them, what do you want me to do for you? They said, Lord, open our eyes. So these men asked for mercy of having their eyes opened and Jesus granted them the mercy, the compassion of healing.
- I speak into someone’s life this morning, that the mercy of healing will flow to you, the mercy of healing will deliver you. The mercy of healing will silence the work of the enemy in Jesus name. If that disease has killed others, mercy will speak for you and break you out of the attack of the enemy.
You see, when we say the mercy of healing, we know that it is something you receive by faith but then we are saying the mercy of healing and we are saying, God just show you mercy. He could have killed you but He showed you mercy. He could have destroyed you, but He showed you mercy.
Divine healing is a merciful act of God so that He does it and listen, even if nobody had never been healed from that disease, at least, Jehovah has shown mercy before, so you will have a testimony in the name of Jesus.
Throughout the Gospel, we see again and again how Jesus, moved with compassion towards man. In Matthew 14:14, it says, go home to your friends, tell them how great things the Lord has done for you and has shown compassion to you. Mark 5:19, it says, go and tell them how mercy was shown to you. So Jesus was plenteous in mercy, plenteous in compassion to all who needed healing. It is amazing how you go to some places today, they just love to show that Jesus is not merciful. ‘The Jesus who is looking for you to make a mistake so that He can knock you on the side of your head’.
God and Jesus are the same, they show mercy. So this morning, when we begin to prophesy the mercy of God in different areas apart from healing, there will be testimony in your life. That is why Jesus said in John 14:9, he that has seen me has seen the Father. Jesus was Jesus of compassion and mercy, God is the God of compassion and of mercy.
- Mercy is flowing to you house today.
When we begin to pray, you will have a testimony and so is God’s healing mercy for you? Listen, I pray for you right now that this will be a rhema for somebody who is watching and this will provoke your healing and your deliverance in the name of Jesus.
How far does the Lord’s compassion and mercy reach? Only to the forgiveness of sin? No! The Bible says, the Lord is good to all and His tender mercies are over all His works (Psalm 145:9). Church Gist. So if you are in Christ, then you are one with God and you are His work (Ephesians 2:10). Because you are God’s workmanship, so you are entitled to the mercy. Praise the Lord.
So Jesus is just as compassionate, loving, merciful now as He was in Bible times. So I want you to begin to see healing as a mercy gift from God. Don’t try to base it on works or anything else but faith in His mercy.
Many times when mercy is shown by even men, it is often to be who do not deserve it. So we say, He had mercy on him, He showed him compassion. The President uses his office, he has power once in a year to forgive people in prison, that is mercy. The law says life imprisonment, the president says mercy. Same thing, sickness says I will kill you, Jesus says mercy.
So this morning, somebody is going to walk in the mercy of God, someone is going to have a testimony, someone is going to have the hand of God touch them in the name of Jesus. You will see mercy manifest in your life. You will receive it.
- I decree and declare that someone who has issue with their heart, maybe the heart rate is too fast and they’ve done everything for you, they don’t know what to do, this morning I declare that you will be heal because of the power and compassion of Jesus.
- Anyone who is connected to this altar, today as we begin to pray mercy, you will be giving the kind of testimony you have never given, an uncommon grace and an uncommon favour. You will see the doors open and the Lord will cause you to have reasons to magnify Him in the name of Jesus.
Lord this morning, I pray for everyone connected to this altar who needs healing, receive your healing. In the mercy of God, the doctor says you cannot carry your child, mercy will smile on you, mercy will change your story, mercy will shut the mouth of the devils. Mercy will reverse the word of the experts, these experts, they based it on statistics, if they have seen 99 out of 100 who did not get healed, so they just assumed and say nobody can ever but you will be the number 100 with a testimony in the name of Jesus. Healing will belong to you, power will belong to you, glory will belong to you in Jesus name.
This morning as we prophesy mercy into your life, God will go ahead of you and give you uncommon testimony.
- Wherever you are around the world, I declare and decree that mercy right now is speaking for you today.
- (Psalm 102:12-13) I speak the mercy that gives access to favour into your life. The favour that comes out of mercy shall flow to you. Church Gist. Because of the mercy of God, God will send people that are bigger than you, better than you, greater than you, achieving than you to show you compassion, to help you in your journey in the name of Jesus. These people will rise, they will wipe your tears, they will fill your mouth with laughter, they will cause your life to celebrate in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Mercy also opens the doors of divine guidance (Exodus 15:13). When mercy comes into your life, you cannot get lost in the wilderness of life, you cannot get lost in the jungle of life. Mercy opens the door of divine guidance so that you will hit your target.
- Heaven will guide you to hit your target because of mercy in the name that is above all names.
In today’s world, we see nations performing crazy things. I was watching a documentary about China, they have made guided missiles. They can shoot the missile which can go as far as 10700 Km, which means anywhere in the world because from China to America, cannot be longer than that. All they need is to put an address on this thing, it will dodge the cloud, dodge the aeroplane, dodge everything until it hits the target. Then I watched another one, it was drones with no human, flying over a place with bomb, and the drone, somebody somewhere controling it, will press a button, the drone will release the bomb, the bomb will go at least 1700KM. How much more Jehovah? When He decides to guide you, He will bring you into His purpose, into His will, into His counsel.
- This morning I lift up the voice of mercy, I cry to the Lord on your behalf, you will not waste your life, your will not waste your time, your destiny, your purpose. God will guide you, God will lead you. You will hit the target in the name of Jesus.
Mercy also releases the forgiveness of God (Numbers 14:18-20). This is the mercy of God even when people have wronged Him, He shows them mercy. You see, the word sin in English language, there are like six words for sin, there is transgression, trespass, sin, iniquity, let stop at those four. Iniquity is different from trespass, trespass is different from transgression, transgression is different from sin. Iniquity in this place means not just that the person is a sinner, they are also have a crooked nature and character. But then the mercy of God forgives and heals their character.
- Jesus upon this altar today, anyone who is held down by limitations in their character and the enemy is using it to condemn them, we bring healing, we bring deliverance. Lord cleanse with Your precious blood, forgive. Let Your people find purpose after today.
- Everyone on this altar, the devil has been condemning you, I pray for you today, you will not walk in unforgiveness. The Lord Jesus forgives you, washes you with His blood and who the Lord has forgiven, who can hold anything against them?
- From today, we free you from the grip of iniquity, from the grip of trespass, from the grip of transgression, from the grip of sin. Be free in the name of Jesus. Live your life in the liberty in Christ, you will enjoy doing His will in Jesus name.
Mercy also enhances, establishes divine convenant. What do we mean? God has made a covenant with His people that He will bless them, He will heal them, prosper them, build them, do great things for them. Mercy comes and beautifies that convenant (Psalm 89:28).
- Today I pray for you that the mercy of the Lord will stand in your life, the grace of Jesus will increase for you and you will have testimony. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Every mouth that rises against you in judgement shall be condemned.
- I speak into your life today that the mercy of God will enhance, beautify the covenant God has made with you; the covenant of mercy, protection, healing, mercy will make it to happen. The covenant of prospering you, mercy will make it to happen.
- Today I pray for you, mercy will enhance the covenant of God and open doors you don’t even qualify for and bring mercy and blessing you don’t deserve. Anyone trying to touch what belongs to you, God will fight them on your behalf, God takes possession, takes territory, silences the mouth of the enemy and shut the mouth of the devil.
- Mercy will work for you, mercy will establish divine convenant in your life.
Mercy also gives you access to the glory of God. When by mercy you cried to God, glory comes (2 Chronicles 5:13-14).
- I pray for you today that the glory of the Lord will invade your life, invade your worship, invade your prayer life, invade everything concerning you.
- I speak into your life today that by reason of mercy, you will be a carrier of the presence and glory of God.
- I declare and decree in this day of your life that mercy will make God’s glory, God’s presence to be awesome in your life in the name of Jesus.
Mercy also gives you access to rest from all sorrow and all bondage (Isaiah 14:1-3).
- Today I declare into your life that you will receive healing from all sorrows, you will receive rest in the name of Jesus.
- Today I speak into your life, as you go out into work, as you go to various places, may the mercy of God gives you uncommon rest in your spirit, uncommon deliverance from sorrow, bondage. At work, may you know rest. At home may you know the rest of the Spirit in Jesus name.
Mercy also makes you to obtain healing.
- I want you to lay hand on any area of your body that you need healing right now. In His mercy, in His compassion, God will touch you, God will heal you, God will give you breakthrough in the name of Jesus.
Mercy brings deliverance from trouble (Psalm 9:13).
- Somebody is watching today, they’ve set you up, they’ve are still setting you up, mercy will cry for you, bring you out of the situation. Break their intention, cancel all their lies and turn the situation around in the name of Jesus.
Mercy makes you to be remembered for good (Psalm 25:7).
- Someone on this altar today, God will remember you for good in the name of Jesus.
Mercy brings deliverance from oppression (Psalm 56:1)
- Today I speak into your life, the mercy of God delivers you from oppression in the name of Jesus.
- From today, God delivers you from all kinds of oppression in the name of Jesus.
Lastly this morning, mercy builds your wall of defense against every challenge of life (Psalm 59:10).
- Go into today, protected by the mercy of God, go into this week protected by the mercy of God. Go into the rest of this week protected by the mercy of God. Go into the rest of this month, rejoicing, basking in His mercy and go into the rest of this year, covered by the hand of God’s mercy in Jesus.
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