Text: John 5:1-9 KJV After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting […]
Mercy Not Machinery II
Text: 2 Kings 8:4-6 KJV And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the […]
Sustained By Mercy
Text: Genesis 39:21 (KJV) But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. MESSAGE Mercy is not a one-time benevolence received at salvation. It is the main sustaining mechanism to go through our journeys in life without sustaining injuries. Contrary to […]
Mercy: God’s Greatest Attribute
Text: Exodus 34:6-7 (KJV) And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the […]
Mercy Not Merit
TEXT: Romans 9:16 (KJV) So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. MESSAGE Have you done all you know how to do best? Have you applied all the formulas you know and nothing seems to be working? Have you prayed and fasted yet […]
Our Nakedness
With all our preaching, teachings, denominations, organizing, and all, how many souls can we account for as truly converted? Some Churches and denominations have not recorded a thousand new souls in the last twenty years. We are fast becoming a generational Church (children and grandchildren …); not one with newly regenerated souls, does it mean […]