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What is the spiritual gift of mercy?



    
    

Clarify Share Report Asked July 01 2013 Mini Anonymous (via GotQuestions)

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, one of the Beatitudes is "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7). Mercy is what we express when we are led by God to be compassionate in...

July 01 2013 2 responses Vote Up Share Report


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Mini James Kraft Supporter 74 year old retired pipeline worker
We should always treat others the way God has treated us. My wife and I were traveling down the highway when we ran in to road construction. There was a girl standing there holding the stop sign waiting for the pilot car to come back. She looked tired and hot and without thinking my wife handed her an unopened bottle of cold water we had brought with us. 

Right away I remembered Jesus said the even a cup of cold water given in my name shall be blessed. Many times it is not the great things we do but the small things that God sees. I also believe it was the work of Jesus through my wife it was so spontaneous. 

We all wonder at times when we do something and wonder why we just did that. It can only be the work of Christ in us and through us. I marvel at His grace to people I do not know but He does. He has used me to give money to people on street corners holding a sign needing money to get home. I have no idea what they used the money for, but the Lord wanted me to give it to them anyway. 

Jesus has been so forgiving of my sins, how can I not forgive others their sins. I have found the best way to relate to others is how merciful God has been with me.

June 11 2015 2 responses Vote Up Share Report


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My picture Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Someone once or twice told me that I forgive easily. Mercy is one of the common graces of the Christian character.
It may be related to giving to the needy & giving to the Lord's work.

Like the gift of ministry, showing mercy entails succoring the sick and afflicted. The act of succoring is something that Christ did for us (Heb. 2:18).

September 06 2020 0 responses Vote Up Share Report


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