Renewed Mercies: Embracing God's Faithfulness Daily

1) "But right in the middle of these five chapters of, and the reason most of you like Lamentations, we don't really enjoy reading Lamentations, right? You know, because it's all this sadness. It's all this sadness and all this grief, but right in the middle of that, sandwiched right in the middle of that, Jeremiah reminds us that right in the middle of darkness, God is still a God of hope, amen? Right in the middle of all this chaos, amen? His mercies are new every morning. Jeremiah calls on the people of God to repent and turn back to him, but in Jeremiah, in Lamentations 3 .23, he says, He wanted to remind the people of God, and I want to remind you here today, that God's faithfulness, his love, his mercy, his compassion, they are constant, even in the midst of your trial." [09:47] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "Every morning demonstrates God's grace. Come on, a new beginning in which darkness has to flee, amen. You don't have to look any further than the breath in your lungs. Come on, his mercies are new every morning. You don't have to look any further than the sunlight which you drove to church in today. Come on, his grace and mercy are new every morning. The food on my table, the shoes on my feet, hallelujah. His grace and his mercies are new every morning. There is no expiration date on God's mercy to us. New every morning means those mercies are perpetual. They're always available to those in need." [09:47] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "Now, throughout the Old and New Testament, we can see that God's mercy flows continually from his forgiving nature. We see it in his protection and deliverance of the people time after time. He shows mercy whenever he chooses to be slow to anger and overflowing in his love. Mercy, hear me though, folks, don't forget this. It is not a benefit based on our merit or something we did to earn it. Come on, it is a gift from God. I don't care how many little old ladies you walk across the street or Girl Scout cookies you buy. You still don't get to deserve the mercy and grace that God gives to us, amen." [15:00] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Some mornings you might get up on the wrong side of the bed, but guess what? Even on that side of the bed, you can find God's mercy and his grace. Now, throughout the Old and New Testament, we can see that God's mercy flows continually from his forgiving nature. We see it in his protection and deliverance of the people time after time. He shows mercy whenever he chooses to be slow to anger and overflowing in his love. Mercy, hear me though, folks, don't forget this. It is not a benefit based on our merit or something we did to earn it. Come on, it is a gift from God." [15:00] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "Here's another way we receive God's mercy. Sometimes we have to slow down and wait. And folks, this is a hard one. Right? Psalm 46 and verse 10. Be still and know that I am God. For some of us, that is a hard thing to do. Be still and know that I am God. I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world. I said recently in one of our services, I don't know when it was, it was a few months ago, I think, that sometimes one of the biggest acts of faith in our lives is waiting on the Lord. Amen. Come on, we think faith, we always think about the big stuff, right? All the action steps and all the things that we do. But sometimes the best step of faith that you can take is just to stand still and wait on the Lord to operate." [20:29] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "Here's the stop. Stop being so easily offended by the sins of other people. All right, I'm gonna put my pastor hat on for a minute amen and by the way praise team come on up because we're gonna leave a little music for this one amen come on you can't look at people and say go clean up your life and then I will accept you that's not how mercy works come on aren't you glad Jesus didn't do that to you well if you clean up your life I'll take you amen if you'll stop doing this I'll take you if you just quit saying those things or laughing at those jokes or watching those come on Jesus didn't do that to us we got to stop being so easily offended by the sins of other people amen you cannot minister to people if you're always looking down on them from you your perch in your heavenly high places by the way what are you doing up there come on down with the rest of us amen right come on down to earth with the rest of us" [20:29] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)