A Merciful God

God is merciful and acts mercifully. Knowing, understanding, and remembering this characteristic of God, will should cause us to erupt in praise and thanksgiving, it should alter our approach to God and condition our treatment of others.

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1. God is merciful.  Deuteronomy 4:31 

Mercy is His compassion, pity, and kindness toward sinful men.  Mercy always operates in the realm of or toward those woh are in distress, miserable, hurting, in trouble, or in pain.

2. Four practical affects of knowing and applying the mercy of God to my life.

God intends for His mercy to alter my life in some significant ways:

a. He intends for His mercy to alter our treatment of others.  1 John 3:17; 2 Corinthians 1:4; Matthew 18:33

b. He intends for His mercy to remove any hinderance in my coming to Him in my time of need.  Hebrews 2:17;  Hebrews 4:15,16

c. He intends for His mercy to enable me to endure affliction. James 5:11

d. He intends for His mercy to motivate me to a total dedication of my life to Him.  Romans 12:1