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October 10, 2023
He Is All-Powerful
My precious child Christ Jesus, My Son, redeemed you from the curse pronounced by the law when He died on the Cross. He took upon Himself all sin, so you don’t have to, and you can live and walk in freedom! (Galatians 3:13) No matter how great you have sinned when you come to Christ in repentance, He will forgive you of all your sins (1 John 1:9) and bury them into the sea of forgetfulness and remember them no more. (Psalms 103:12) At that moment, He wipes away your past and gives you a brand-new beginning! Free as a bird from the chains that had you bound! Jesus’ sacrificial death removed you from living under the curse. His final plan was to place you in His family as His child and free you from your miserable living conditions.
God is merciful! God is Justice! Mercy means not giving someone something they deserve, and Justice means giving something they do deserve. How in the world can God give someone what he deserves and, at the same time, not give him what he deserves? God is fully just and fully merciful at the same time. These are some of the attributes of God. Attributes are things God is – not just what he does or what he has, and He is merciful and just all the time. “You’re familiar with the law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst.
When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the positive energy of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. God does that. He gives his best – the sun to warm and the rain to nourish – to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. (Matthew 5:43-45) God is 100% justice; that is why He is just. He is 100% merciful; that is why He is merciful. God has all knowledge and is all-knowing – Omniscience. He is all-powerful – He is Omnipotent! God is always everywhere – He is Omnipresent! He is always 100% grace and truth. God gave the law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17) His attributes do not war against each other. God is merciful to every soul! He is all-powerful!
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