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John,
“With God, anything can change! Put your hope in God!” What a wonderful, encouraging line! Reminds me of Barbara saying that He is a good, good God!
When I opened my phone this morning, I was so surprised to see the word “mercy “ because the Lord put it on my heart to do a Bible study on the word “tender.” Several times on Wednesday night, in the lyrics of the songs was the word tender, and it stood out to me. I wanted to see where that word appeared in the Bible, so last night I started to look it up. All through Psalms, David talks about God’s tender mercies.
Psalm 25:6 Remember your tender mercies, O Lord, and your lovingkindnesses, for they have been from eternity.
Psalm 79:8 Do not hold past iniquities against us! Let your tender mercies come to us quickly, for we have been brought very low.
Psalm 103:4 He redeems your life from destruction; He surrounds you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalm 145:9 The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.
And in Lamentations 3:21-23:
- This thing will I bring to mind; because of this, I have hope:
- the tender mercies of Jehovah. Yea, we are not consumed because His compassions do not fail;
- they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness!
The definition for tender was soft, gentle, easily moved to sympathy or compassion, kind, affectionate, loving, sentimental, caring, supportive.
After this Bible study, I felt like I was getting to know my God better- just like you encouraged us to do! After Wednesday night, it was a desire in my heart to take in your message, but I wasn’t sure what to do. We don’t need to do anything except what the Spirit leads us to do!
But more than anything, I thank God for His tender mercies and for this encouragement from you to hope in God’s mercy and respond with obedience! Amen!
Carrie
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