Mothered By Mercy" 10-May-2026 10AM

And the Old Testament language where mercy carries the image of a mother's womb, that it's deep rooted compassion on the inside where you feel another person's vulnerability like it's your own. That's why these women didn't kill these children, church. The deep compassion that they had would not allow them to detach themselves from the skin of their humanity. They said whether or not these are Hebrew children or Egyptian children, we can't kill them because they're God's children. [01:37:54] (35 seconds)  #WombMercy

Blessed are the merciful. The scripture says, for they shall be shown mercy. I'm telling you how you're making it right now. I'm I'm telling you how you're making it right now, mama. Every morning you wake up, god says, here goes a fresh order of mercy that's gonna get you through this day. I know you didn't get all the sleep you wanted to get, but here goes some new mercy. Just enough energy you need to get to 05:00. I know you woke up to bills, but here's some new mercy. You stand in mercy, God's mercy stands with you. [01:59:18] (55 seconds)  #FreshDailyMercy

And that principle shouldn't be ignored, but here's the promise. The promise of the text is this, that the favor of god is manifested in the lives of those who align themselves with god's mercy because the text says god dealt with the midwives well. So here's my question. What what what where is mercy this morning calling you to stand in your home, in your family, in your community? [01:32:29] (32 seconds)  #MercyCallsYou

Mercy says, if god trusted my hands with something, I cannot become so careless or irresponsible because everything I do with what god gave me carries consequences that go beyond what I can see right now. I I I see this. You don't believe me, so let me help you. The midwives had no idea that one of the boys that they were gonna help save would eventually become the leader, the liberator, and the law giver of their entire race. [01:46:03] (44 seconds)  #StewardshipMatters

And on this Mother's Day church, this is what makes the response of Shipra and Pua so relevant because we recognize that what they embody reflects something deeply spiritual. Hear me. They are not the biological mothers of these children. But because they have a spiritual consciousness, they step into the work of protecting lives beyond themselves. They become what I call mothers of mercy. They become caretakers of a future they they did not create. [01:25:14] (41 seconds)  #MothersOfMercy

Whenever power feels threatened, it often responds by targeting the vulnerable and the unprotected people to make itself feel great again. What do you do, child of God, when the system around you, political, social, family, and otherwise, demand something from your spirit that you can't agree with? What what do you do when you are legally permitted when what you are legally permitted to do is not the most righteous option? [01:28:38] (36 seconds)  #ResistUnjustSystems

It is likewise our call to become people whose instincts are and impulses are shaped by the mercy we imitate from the god we've come to know in very personal ways. We gotta move beyond this kind of mercy that just sees something wrong and say, I'm a just offer my thoughts and prayers. Now we gotta intervene, overstep if we need to, if that means being obedient to God. So what does that mean about mercy then? To be a person who extends mercy. It means that mercy can be dangerous spiritual work. [01:31:47] (42 seconds)  #DangerousMercy

And because this pharaoh does not remember Joseph, he has no regard for Joseph's people. This is a little plug to let us know and always be mindful of the fact that history matters. It matters, history does, because it feeds into memory, and memory, for the sake of our time today, is what keeps mercy alive. When memory is erased, people become disposable. And as the text shows, eventually, when memories when memory is erased, policies toward those people can become predatory. [01:17:47] (47 seconds)  #RememberHistory