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daily, Bible-based perspective of hope, encouragement and
exhortation.
Tuesday,
February
11,
2020
We enjoy
this view on our long Donegal Creek nature trail across
from our home. It provides such a peaceful setting with
the sheep grazing in front of the old stone farmhouse.
Brooksyne couldn't get close enough to highlight the
three small lambs.
"His
Mercy Is More!"
Message summary: Our sins they are many, His mercy is more! Listen to this message on your audio player. “O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 136:3). “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Most mornings we listen to WDAC, one of our two local Lancaster County FM Christian radio stations. Today we were blessed by a song we don't recall hearing before and the lyrics of that song inspired this message. What
love could remember, no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all-knowing, He counts not their sum Thrown into a sea, without bottom or shore Our sins they are many, His mercy is more One
repeated line in the song especially blesses us
and will bring deep assurance as we appropriate
this truth; "Our sins they are many, His mercy is
more!"
What a joy today to serve the one and only true Lord and the One whom the Bible calls "the Lord of lords". The Psalmist calls us to give thanks to the Lord and gives a reason that recurs over and over in this Psalm, "for His mercy endures forever". Three thousand years have passed since the Psalmist declared this truth and yet His mercy is still enduring. Today we see many reminders of the awfulness of sin and certainly there are many questions we have that still await an answer. Some will be answered in this life but others will not. And yet we are strengthened by God’s glorious power so that we are “able to pass through any experience and endure it with joy” (Colossians 1:9). The amazing love and endless mercy of God continues to be poured out on the fallen human race. All who turn to Him in faith are recipients of His great mercy in providing salvation from sin and guidance in our daily lives. “In His great mercy He has given us new birth.” His mercy endures even in the hardest, darkest places and during the most baffling of times. We continue to "receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need". Are you serving the “Lord of lords”? Reaffirm your commitment today as you give Him thanks for His mercy that truly endures this day and forevermore! Truly, "Our sins they are many, His mercy is more!" Praise the Lord, His mercy is more Stronger than darkness, new every morn Our sins they are many, His mercy is more Praise the Lord, His mercy is more Stronger than darkness, new every morn Our sins they are many, His mercy is more Our sins they are many, His mercy is more Be encouraged today, Stephen & Brooksyne Weber Daily
prayer: Father, Your infinite mercy is among
the greatest gifts You impart upon Your
creation alongside the marvelous truth that
Your love and compassion knows no bounds. Your
power and authority far exceed any human role
or title established on this earth, yet You
love us personally with an inexhaustible and
enduring devotion. We are never cast aside as
being unimportant or worthless in Your sight,
for You refer to us repeatedly as Your
treasured possession. Your loving mercy is
never-ending, always extended to us in our
time of need. We can indeed declare 'Your
mercy is more'. In Jesus name. Amen.
Today's
Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"His
Mercy Is More" Video Shane and
Shane (Concert style)
"1,000
Tongues/O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing" Video
Calvary Church Choir and Orchestra from this last
Sunday's service. Can you find Brooksyne!
Yesterday's
message had a challenge to pray
for pastors and other leaders prompting this note from a
hospice chaplain reader in Kansas:
About
2 years ago, the Palliative Medicine team with whom I
work was hit hard with 9 of our patients dying in the
course of a week. That same week we also received a
record number of new consults. This was overwhelming for
the team including me, who also was working to care for
the team members as well as the patients. During a time
of desperate prayer, the Lord interrupted me and asked,
"You are missing a resource that you had back in Maine."
As I thought about that He revealed to me that I did not
have a prayer partner for this ministry. He then
revealed to me, after I asked Him, who that prayer
partner was to be. Since that time, every week when I
see Bob at church, he reminds me of two things, 1.) He
loves me an 2.) He is praying for me. Things are so much
better since I know that I have a person behind me
praying each day for this ministry as Palliative
Medicine and Supportive Care Chaplain. In addition to
this, He and many others have prayed for my wife and I
as we walked through the brain surgery that I underwent
to remove a benign brain tumor back in December. I am
now back to work full time (essentially) and full
recovery is expected. As a person in pastoral service,
this is my testimony of how important it is to have my
Christian family bringing me and the ministry to which I
am called before the Lord in prayer. Thank you for this
message today.
Finally
today:
Our
daughter, Ester, reads our daily messages so today I
want to dedicate the theme of this message to her. She
is in Hershey Medical Center as of last evening. Once
again, she is dealing with extraordinarily high INR
numbers testing at 15.7 or higher (it's the largest
number the test results can detect at HMC).
Some of
our regular readers may remember she has gone through
this off and on for many years, the last time being in
July. The doctors removed one of her medications and
thought that the problem was finally solved, but now
seven months later we are at it again. She is
being treated with intense doses of Vitamin K in hopes
that the number will decrease as it should be between
2 and 3.
Ester is a trouper and has been since her birth almost 31 years ago being born with pulmonary atresia, going through five open heart surgeries, and now with her third pacemaker. But as she loves to tell others, "I'm a hupernikomen; that's the Greek word for 'overcomer'". She
deals with Afib, with her heart racing to 222 BPM and
that's why she is on warfarin. She tests with a home
monitor weekly the results of her INR and so I share a
little info below regarding that procedure.
A
prothrombin time (PT) is a test used to help detect
and diagnose a bleeding disorder or excessive clotting
disorder; the international normalized ratio (INR) is
calculated from a PT result and is used to monitor how
well the blood-thinning medication (anticoagulant)
warfarin (Coumadin®) is working to prevent blood
clots. However too high a reading means her blood is
too thin.
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