Speaker: Rev. Dr. Charles Felix
Text: Rom 9:12-16. “It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and 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.“
In the kingdom of God divine mercy is a major door that leads to other doors. Mercy is not obtained by works or by sacrifice but so much essential in our walk with God. when Moses was building the ark of covenant, the Lord asked him to create within the holy of holies the mercy seat.With the presence of mercy seat the priest can come boldly before the throne of grace to find help in times of need.Heb 4:16.
Whatever you achieve is by the mercies of God: two persons enter school the same time, one graduates the other have carry overs. Two women entered labour room, one came out with her baby while the other one did not come out alive not to talk of the baby, the reason being that one has obtained the mercy of God. The two thieves that were crucified with Jesus, one obtained mercy and the other ridiculed Jesus and went to hell. Did you know that to accept Christ into one’s life is the work of mercy; Paul persecuted Christians and the Lord converted him, while Herod also persecuted Christian but an Angel stroked him dead.
I don’t know who is resisting you, but in the name of Jesus, Let mercy speak for you now! Even if it be ancestral curses, by the mercies of God, it’s over in the name of Jesus Christ!