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One day early in the morning I went outside to do some chores. I was feeling kind of down. My thoughts were about all the things that were going wrong. I looked up and saw the whole ground covered in white newly fallen snow. It was not a lot, but enough to cover everything in white and the Lord spoke to me He said mercy.
Later that day I was pulling something out of the oven and my finger touched the pan briefly. I got a blister and the next day at the sink the blister hurt. The Lord said that is what excessive criticism does. The first comment hurts and if untreated or if too severe the comment can hurt even more. We must be careful about how we teach or criticize others it is for building up, edifying or helping someone that might have stumbled. Showing mercy can provide a person and ourselves with victory in a situation.
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Matthew 5:7 (KJV)
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Exodus 34:6 (KJV)
6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Deuteronomy 4:31 (KJV)
31 (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
2 Samuel 22:26 (KJV)
26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
2 Chronicles 30:9 (KJV)
9 For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
Nehemiah 9:31 (KJV)
31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Psalm 18:25 (KJV)
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Psalm 37:26 (KJV)
26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Psalm 57:1 (KJV)
57 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalm 67:1 (KJV)
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Psalm 103:8 (KJV)
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalm 116:5 (KJV)
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
Psalm 117:2 (KJV)
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Psalm 119:76 (KJV)
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalm 119:132 (KJV)
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Proverbs 11:17 (KJV)
17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Joel 2:13 (KJV)
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Luke 6:36 (KJV)
36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful
Hebrews 8:12 (KJV)
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.