Blog – Page 9 – Ask Jerry Mercer

Live a Life of Love

Love is patient, love is kind, and the love necessary to live in a peaceful habitation is not self-seeking, easily angered, or rebellious.

Anger is always a negative pull that instigates rebellion and leads us into the realm of selfishness, I didn’t get my way, you don’t listen to me, I want all the control of people and situations.

As we seek to satisfy our feelings we are not even remotely in the realm of love, because love is not a feeling. Sacrificial love has transforming power and is volitional rather than emotional. We love because we made a decision to love. Amen!

The Bible tells us to love with our entire being; heart, soul, and mind, and we attain this love by our inherent spiritual attributes gained by yielding ourselves to the inner Spirit of God that dwells in all who choose to believe in His Son Jesus. Amen!

Patience and kindness are some of the attributes that show us that God is God, and when we search inside ourselves we too have a better understanding of the power of love and how it produces acts of kindness.

As patience has its perfect work in you the power of serenity produces a calmness that is necessary to act on and endure in love.

A life of love is also filled with thoughtfulness, which is the consideration for the needs of other people. Then benevolence is found in your acts of kindness and goodness and leads to the good of God being shown out of a willing heart.

When your heart is full of good you are now operating in the love that was shed abroad in your heart through the Holy Spirit. This transformative experience gives us a newfound love for God and His people and completes the never-ending cycle of divine-human reciprocity, which is a mutual dependence on one another.

This mutual dependency would lead us away from judgment and more in line with fulfilling needs. Leniency can exert a soothing influence over every thought and spoken word and lead to a situational value of life.

Good thoughts and kind words omit any wrong that has been done and set us on the path to the love of God that was initially set forth by way of charity.

Charity is thought to be the highest form of love and is actually where we derive the word, love, that we use in modern vernacular. Charity is the reciprocal love between God and man that is manifested when we have unselfish love for one another.

Here is a quote that gives some understanding; “Charity is a virtue which, when our affections are perfectly ordered, unites us to God, for by it we love Him”!

Charity is at the root of every other virtue that has related God to man, and man to man. (Man here, being male or female).

So to have a life of love we must have the desire to remove the burdens people are carrying and help all of those around us move into a benevolent state, and then all of us reaching to those in our communities, states, and countries to bring love to center stage.

We reach the whole by loving those around us unconditionally and then expecting that the love will speak with a new tone, you see our God has a tone and love causes that tone to have some notes and when we sing out or speak out these heartfelt notes, love abounds. Amen!

We must, however, face the fact, I repeat, “we must face the fact” that we don’t naturally have this kind of love in us, we must gain this love from following God’s word and following God’s example of love, His giving us His only Son Jesus, you see giving of oneself is the greatest act of love.

By the love that is in Jesus, we can live this never-failing love life, and have all our relationships transformed into mutual affection, one for another.

We can love even the so-called unlovable, and as we do, things will change because if our love is rejected we just come back with more love. We remain full of faith, abounding in hope, and as we think more charitably, our love never fails. Amen!

Unfailing love removes all self-seeking, all malice, and all the desires to spitefully use others for our gain. As we practice living the life of love, we lead with love again and again and come to a place where we are proficient in love.

Our proficiency advances us into the main principles practiced in the Kingdom of God, and that should be our heart’s desire.

Living a life of love, we know the Way! Jesus truly is our Way Maker! Amen!

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Scriptures of encouragement and content: 1 Corinthians 13, Matthew 22:37, John 6:29, Acts 16:31, Romans 5:5, John 14:6, and 1 Peter 1:22 TPT, “Now, because of your obedience to the truth, you have purified your very souls, and this empowers you to be full of love for your fellow believers. So express this sincere love toward one another passionately and with a pure heart”. Amen! So be it!

Supernatural Increase is Coming!

Superior and above the natural is the increase that is coming on us! Amen!

Superior in multitude and superior in magnitude is the expectation coming on our future.

Supernatural is an existence beyond just visual, it appears to transcend the laws of nature and thrusts us into a realm of spiritual apprehension.

Supernatural financial increase is heading our way, right now in these times. Ask, Seek, and Knock, it only takes one open door to start this increase process.

Superior ability to possess what we profess is coming from spiritual enlightenment that will supersede any natural, physical ability we have garnered in the past.

Past principles are being ramped up and as we increase our faith levels our new daily principles will supernaturally overtake our past measures of security.

As supernatural financial security takes over our thoughts and we trust more and more in God, we will see a difference in ourselves versus those around us.

Supernatural financial increase will flow out of our heart, we will have brighter ideas, enlightened processes, and procedures, and we will have the ability to walk above what we see happening, by faith.

It will be like going from door to door as a salesman, but the provision at every door will be increased by God and provided according to His Word. Amen!

This supernatural financial increase and all these newfound ideas and abilities will come out of God but be found in us, found in the soundness of our minds, found in the depths of our hearts, and will be launched into by a newfound inner ability. An inner ability that up until now has been untouched, it was so deep in us that it was not readily available, but by God and by looking to Him, it will be drawn out and physically held onto.

It will take revelation and Godly wisdom to know the instructions and the steps to change what the devil meant for harm and turn it into supernatural increase. It comes as a seeing into, a knowing, a vision of possessions not yet held but totally in store for us as we dare to believe to draw it out.

Things that were all the time present but until this moment laid hidden, hidden but always available.

As we retrace our steps we will be guided forward, yes a supernatural forward flow developed by our past deposits from the Spirit. These deposits will manifest into a supernatural explosion that will catapult us into future financial, physical, and spiritual gains.

Financial indebtedness will be replaced by financial freedom, sickness and disease will be replaced with health and wellbeing, hard-heartedness and confusion will be replaced with a grandeur spiritual awakening. Amen!

We are gaining on this supernatural increase in all areas of our life, one scripture at a time, one lesson at a time, one moment at a time, and one anointed Word of God at a time.

Supernatural increase is an active entity, it is held for us in folds of grace, distributed to us by steps of faith, and realized by staying in our place.

Our supernatural place is that place where we put aside every weight of doubt and unbelief; we put aside every trivial or minimal thought that doesn’t have the power to raise a supernatural expectation. You see, our supernatural increase will be allotted based on our supernatural expectations, and our supernatural expectations will fuel the increase.

How do we attain this supernatural increase, By Faith!

It takes our faith to draw it out of the depths of our inner selves and tap into the faith bank. Withdrawals are made by asking God, seeking God, and knocking on the vault door of God’s provision, it is full and ready for tapping. Amen!

See you at the Bank.

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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Matthew 7:7-8,

Malachi 3:18, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 3:6, John 1:31, Job 8:7, Isaiah 54:2, Ephesians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, “But it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

Grief, Don’t Be Distressed

Grief is suffering a loss or experiencing an unfortunate outcome. What we do next has everything to do with our ability to process the sadness we feel. Our choice of what we dwell on will be of huge significance in overcoming grief.

Grief by definition is not disabling, although it is distressing, disabling would make us inoperative where distressing would cause high anxiety and even sorrow.

What we choose to dwell on in our grieving situation has to be changed into a magnification. What we magnify must be God, by magnifying God we make Him bigger than our anxiety and bigger than our pain. Amen!

Come magnify the Lord with me, exalt and extol Him; before and after my Mother’s funeral, God led me to have the song, “I exalt Thee” sang at my mom’s funeral, it was a favorite of hers but was also strong in my heart. It was a yearning in me to make God bigger than the situation! Amen!

By exalting the Lord it changed the entire atmosphere for me and led me on a path of grateful recovery. God started showing me that He was with me throughout the suffering that my Mother and I were experiencing, (her leading up to her death) and (me now).

God removed the barrier of sorrow and fear and replaced it with restoration and hope. Faith must be involved to totally abandon fear; you see faith replaces the fear. Amen!

As I put the magnifying glass on His Word and on His character, He became the biggest part of my healing process. When God’s grace appeared then Jesus was present to guide me into hope and into His living presence that heals and restores, everybody, every time.

People taken from us suddenly or by a process of time, always leave an open wound and our job is to salve the wound not magnify the wound. By exalting God to His place of honor which is above every other place and situation, we magnify the solution and get our minds off of the situation. We allow God engagement into our deep-seated emotions and by His guidance, our instability becomes changed into control.

We gain control of our mind and by this control we allow God to reel us into His love and care. His Word is all the time fishing for people, people that will speak magnifying words of faith right in the middle of all the adversity our distress is causing.

Billy Graham once said, “The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity”. Amen! This spiritual maturity comes on us when we magnify God over our fear and anxiety. Before we know it God is using people to comfort us, allowing our healing process to begin. We go from faith to faith; we meditate on all the good things and quit magnifying our feeling of loss and distress. Loss is an emptiness felt as well as a physical missing of a cherished loved one.

We can then start magnifying the place in our hearts that this person captured, we can start exalting God for the blessing they were to us, we can truly process our love, and that love does not dwell on the magnification of the loss.

With God, we are always gaining on the victory set out before us! Amen! He has set us on a path of freedom from bondage again to fear, you see fear always causes torment, but by the grace of God we press on towards the triumph we have in Christ and the manifestation of the sweet aroma that knowing Him brings.

God is our very present help in time of need, every time I look to God, I see Him helping me! Amen!

I asked God to give me another blog on Grief Support to help you and me, and He gave me this one. So come magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name together!

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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Psalm 34:1-3, Colossians 1:27, Acts 27:25, Romans 1:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:57, 2 Corinthians 2:14, and Psalm 46:1, DBT: “God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found”. Amen!

Take Some Word and Hold Your Ground

If we ever want to move the mountain that is blocking our progress, if we are ever going to advance around or through it, we must hold onto the ground we have taken and continue to move, up and forward.

The word of God places us in a mountain-moving position, a position of victory, and our enlightened spiritual condition improves our stamina and holding power. Amen!

Strengthening our position sometimes requires overcoming a very strong headwind. Once I witnessed a flock of birds trying to fly against a strong wind that had kicked up, what I noticed was, some fought and fought against the wind and made it to a billboard on the side of the road. They found a resting place while others were swept away by the wind, hopefully not to their demise.

What was revealed to me out of this occurrence was that as we become stronger in our belief in the word of God, we take more and more ground, we hold our place by fighting the good fight of faith, then we fight on to arrive at a temporary resting place. The keyword is temporary; we have weathered the current storm by taking some Word and holding our ground. Amen!

As we continue our plight we must examine our resting places, analyze the steps that allowed our strengthening, and continue to prepare for our next, wind, or mountain.

We take control of our thinking by renewing our minds daily, looking deeply into the mysteries of God, His plan that was previously hidden but is now made plain to us in the word of God.

Holding our ground by faith, not what our eye has seen, not what our ear has heard, not even what we have imagined, but what our heart has gravitated towards, the pull of Love. Amen!

This grounding love is found in God’s word, His love story to and for us, His victorious plan for us, His mountain-moving, wind ceasing, water walking, we can do this by faith because it’s in my heart story. Amen!

The love of God has in it our holding power, we take hold of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, we stand on His promises, we say what He says about our situations, we take Him at His word, and we dig in and hold our ground.

God is an earth-shaking, like a mighty wave breaking, gale-force wind blowing, mighty love bestowing, wonderful, peaceful, quiet voice that takes reverence to hear, King of King’s who is my Rock!

How do all of these mighty and quickening powers come on us? By taking some of God’s Holy words and holding our ground.

I read a quote from another faith minister that went like this; “If you knew what was on the other side of your mountain, you would move it”. Mountain moving faith comes by taking a little ground and holding onto it, taking a little more ground and holding onto it, then remembering the Word that is holding you in place and stepping out on it.

Faith is the grounding place that is right smack dab in the middle of; “life is hard and God is good”. So faith is the substance that keeps us grounded! Amen!

I am going to release to you the greatest power that is available in the world today; “the power of choice”. The power of choice, by faith, is not a decision deducted from the facts around us, faith is not an instinct and it’s certainly not a feeling. Amen!

Faith is a choice, taking the word of God and believing it is the first step in holding your ground, the more ground you take the greater your revelation becomes, at this point the mountains seem to shrink. As you step towards the mountain you must maintain your foothold which is keeping one foot on faith and one foot on love. Amen!

God spoke that to my heart when I first started out on my faith journey, it always seems to be my launching pad as well as my grounding rod. “Keep one foot on faith and one foot on love”.

So I ask you today to keep one foot on faith (you believing you receive) and one foot on love (God’s Word).

Take some love and hold onto your faith! The same as take some Word and hold your ground.

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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Hebrews 3:14, 2 Timothy 4:7, James 1:12, 1 Peter 5:8-9, 1 Corinthians 2:16, John 1:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, and Ephesians 6:14-17, “Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness, For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God”.