Breath of Power - Week 04/04

Week 4: January 19 - 25, 2004

HE REMEMBERS THAT WE ARE DUST

Key Passage: Psalm 103: 8 -14

“The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust”

Mercy is one of the attributes of God. It is one of the greatest treasures one could receive from God. There is no way an imperfect man could relate with a holy God if not because the mercy of God. Man’s way of life is distant from God’s, but it is mercy that connects us to Him. It is mercy that makes God to turn His face upon us and to hear us when we pray. Mercy makes God to seek for us when we are lost in sin and to forgive us when we return in repentance.

The main reason why God’s mercy for man cannot cease is because He knows man from his roots. Man was formed from the dust of the earth, and the dust seems to be the basest of all creation. The dust is symbolic of weakness, shame, defeat, corruption and humiliation, as every being that walks the earth tramples on the dust and its presence in any decent place is considered dirt. What made man a living being and gave him an immortal soul and spirit is the breath of God (Gen 2:7). The result of the dynamics of creation is that man, though connected to divinity through the spirit, is weak and corruptible in the flesh. And the devil knowing this weakness in man buffets him with temptations and trials, with the intention of bringing him to submission and mastering him. Man in the face

God sent His Son, Jesus, because of His mercy and love for Him. When he walked the path of this life, Jesus was always moved by compassion for the penitent, the oppressed, the distressed and the diseased. He went around from city to city seeking and touching the untouchables, the outcasts, the deprived and the disillusioned, and He lifted all.

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi



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	Week 4: January 19 - 25, 2004 HE REMEMBERS THAT WE ARE DUST Key Passage: Psalm 103: 8 -14 “The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust” Mercy is one of the attributes of God. It is one of the greatest treasures one could receive from God. There is no way an imperfect man could relate with a holy God if not because the mercy of God. Man’s way of life is distant from God’s, but it is mercy that connects us to Him. It is mercy that makes God to turn His face upon us and to hear us when we pray. Mercy makes God to seek for us when we are lost in sin and to forgive us when we return in repentance. The main reason why God’s mercy for man cannot cease is because He knows man from his roots. Man was formed from the dust of the earth, and the dust seems to be the basest of all creation. The dust is symbolic of weakness, shame, defeat, corruption and humiliation, as every being that walks the earth tramples on the dust and its presence in any decent place is considered dirt. What made man a living being and gave him an immortal soul and spirit is the breath of God (Gen 2:7). The result of the dynamics of creation is that man, though connected to divinity through the spirit, is weak and corruptible in the flesh. And the devil knowing this weakness in man buffets him with temptations and trials, with the intention of bringing him to submission and mastering him. Man in the face God sent His Son, Jesus, because of His mercy and love for Him. When he walked the path of this life, Jesus was always moved by compassion for the penitent, the oppressed, the distressed and the diseased. He went around from city to city seeking and touching the untouchables, the outcasts, the deprived and the disillusioned, and He lifted all. Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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