Page 49 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2011

~JUNE 2011~ 49
OR
PART SIX OF NOT
TO BE!
THE BEATITUDES:

“BLESSED ARE

AH,
TO BE!

MERCY JUDGMENT

FOR THEY SHALL

“THE MERCIFUL Matt. 5:7 BUT
MAN HE WHO
IS CRUEL
DOES GOOD TROUBLES
FOR
HIS HIS
OWN FLESH.”
OWN SOUL,
Prov. 11:17

Mercy is not an emotional act of spontaneous combustion, it is a willful choice to be made in spite of
how stirred up one’s emotions become in life’s difficult moments. Look carefully at the two contrasting
scriptures above and you can see the calming effect that a merciful attitude produces compared to the
disturbing results of choosing the pathway of responding with cruelty. We can either choose to do good
for our soul or we can trouble our own flesh with a flesh-based response. One is a path of decisive
action while the other is an emotionally-based reaction. Most of unregenerate mankind feeds on the
“rightness” to be retaliatory, vengeful, and spiteful when they determine that they have been wronged.
Here is what God is looking for in His people:

“BUT I SAY UNTO YOU WHO HEAR: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU,
BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU…

THEREFORE, BE MERCIFUL,
JUST AS YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL.”

Luke 6:27-28,36