MERCY

Our God is so gracious and merciful. He understands our human frailties and the fact that without his mercy none of us can make it. So, he provides us with a guarantee of mercy. The mercy of our God is inexhaustible. The mercy of God for us is automatically refreshed every day. 

Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV

“Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness”.

The reason why we can trust God’s promises of mercy is because of his faithfulness:

Deuteronomy 7:9 NKJV

“Therefore, know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments”.

CONSECRATION

The act of dedicating yourself to the service and worship of God. It also refers to holiness or to dedicate oneself to a higher purpose.

Leviticus 20:7 NKJV

“Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God”. 

We do not deserve the mercy God has shown us:

I John 4:10 NKJV

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins”.

Since he died for us, the life we live now is not ours anymore but his. So, we are compelled to dedicate our lives to him who actually owns us: 

II Corinthians 5:15 NKJV

“and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again”

PRAYER POINTS

• Thank God for his great mercy that has caused us to be born again (1 Peter 1:3)
• Begin to declare with confidence that you draw near to the throne of grace, where we receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16) 
• Begin to confess any sins you remember; he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) 
• Ask the Lord for the grace and strength to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly before your God (Micah 6:8).
• Pray for the grace to be merciful unto others, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven”. (Luke 6:36-37)
• Declare this scripture ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever’ (Psalm 23:6)
• Lord, please help me to present my body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you, which is my spiritual worship (Romans 12:1)
• I am a chosen person, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a person for his own possession, that I may proclaim the excellencies of him who called me out of darkness into his marvellous light. (1 Peter 2:9)
• In Jesus name, I will not present my members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but I present myself to God as one who has been brought from death to life. I present my members to God as instruments for righteousness. (Romans 6:13)
• I was bought with a great price, so I glorify God in my body (1 Corinthians 6:20)
• Oh Lord make known to me how great are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in me, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)
• Lord anoint and consecrate me, that I may serve you. (Exodus 30:30)
• Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)

Pastor Hilary Ikpe