Merciful: full of compassion, favor, tender mercy, pity
Gracious: showing kindness, full of compassion, to bestow
God blessing upon us
As you may know, names speak of nature. By "nature" I mean, ones own
character or type. "Merciful" and "Gracious" always work together to bestow God's nature and blessings upon us. Friends, that's just who God is; He's not some
mean God that sits on the throne just waiting to beat us over the head when we
do something wrong. No, the God we serve was merciful before sin; He is merciful during sin; and He will still be merciful after sin. He is the same today, yesterday, and
forever.
Exodus 34:5-7 tells us " And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The
Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in
goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children,
unto the third and to the fourth generation."
The Lord stood by Moses and proclaimed the names of the Lord.
He wanted Moses (and He wants us) to learn and get familiar with His names or His
nature, so that when we are in the midst of our storm, we can just call on the name.
When we need God's mercy, we must call on His merciful name - in Hebrew, that's Jehovah
Khaw-oom. When you do, His mercy is going to show up and keep those things back that I so rightly
deserve. When we need grace, we should call on His gracious name - Jehovah Khan-noon - and He will show up and graciously give us what we don’t deserve. If you are not familiar
with His Hebrew names, just call on "mercy" and "grace," God knows His names (even if we don't).
However, we must call on His name with believing-faith and He will show-up and show-out on our behalf.
Let me share with you a testimony of my own: my formal pastor went to the
doctor with his daughter, who wanted to have a specific procedure done that day. The nurse at the
doctor's office said, "no, we can't do that procedure today; you'll have to wait another
month." He and his daughter left, but while they were on the elevator he asked his daughter if she really
wanted to have the procedure done that day. Of course she said yes. Guess what they did
next? They called on the merciful - Jehovah Khaw-oom - and the gracious - Jehovah Khan-noon - names of God. When the elevator reached to first floor, he told his daughter, "let's go back up." So, they did just that - they went back to the doctor's office and told
them again what she wanted to have done. You better believe that the second time the nurse said, "Can you come back
this afternoon? We will do it today." That's what I mean about "believing faith." God's names are powerful; all we have to do is use them. They are full of
compassion and tender mercy!
With all that said, let the Church say Amen… and AMEN!
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