Grief Support – Page 2 – Ask Jerry Mercer

I’m Not Worthy, but I’m Worth It

“I’m not worthy, but I’m worth it, a saying I am sure you’ve heard. Another like it around church-going people is, “I’m not worthy, but Jesus makes me worthy”, very truthful but let’s look deeper into this truth.

As I was praying one morning, this word came up in me, “You’re a wise and worthy God”, and “When I pull from Your wisdom, my life becomes worth it.”

Two words stand out here, wisdom and worth; let’s define these two words in Webster’s dictionary.

Wisdom: Knowledge and the capacity to make due use of… Worth: Equivalent in value to the sum of the item specified… Wow!

My life becomes equal in value or worth it, based on the sum of the wisdom that’s been given to me by God, and my acceptance of it.

So I (we) have a part to play in being worth it. We must humbly seek God’s wisdom and be open to accept and receive it. By doing so our lives produce for us a value in the Kingdom of God! Amazing right?

This leading from God in my prayer that morning was grounded in Colossians 1:9 that says; “For this reason since the day we heard about you we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives”. Amen!

After reading this passage it sparked another word that came up in me; “Wisdom begins in wonder, and is found in the Spirit”. So our worth begins in our acceptance of the wonder of Jesus, but it doesn’t stop there. Hallelujah!

As we continue in the wisdom and knowledge of God and His Word, His Word leads us right into “His will” that we just read about in Colossians 1:9.

God’s will for us requires our wise behavior, which is actually the Hebrew word “tushiyah” (too-shee-yaw). Biblical verses about wisdom can also be categorized in the Latin meaning “wise and powerful”.

Wise and powerful behavior gives us a Kingdom worth that only God can provide in us so that in God’s Kingdom we become totally worth it.

Following God’s character found throughout the scriptures sets us apart as worthy.

We should revisit the definition of worth.

Equivalent in value to what has been specified…

When we line our lives up with God’s specifications we rise up to a worth that is not even measurable on earth, it takes a heavenly measurement to even get an accurate reading of our worth. Wow!

We can then understand the “On earth as it is in heaven” passage that is found in Matthew 6:10, a part of the Lord’s Prayer. Amen!

As a person with wise and powerful behavior, we believe a few things about God; He is God, He is the Creator and Ruler of all things, and that He has placed His divine order within us.

When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior we become saved and wise people, able to operate in moral laws, guided by moral principles, always aware of God’s characteristics working in and through us to uphold justice and make peace!

We must look at the world through the grid of “God’s Truth” we then base our decisions and actions on our inner ability to obey these truths.

The Holy Spirit in us gives us this inner ability and our obedience to the truth brings us through the heavenly measuring system by which we will soon see our Savior and King, and His name is Jesus!

Oh what a wonderful name, and to see Him face to face… Oh My!

So let’s prepare our minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world! Amen! 1 Peter 1:13

If you need a faith boost today, please leave a comment and I will prayerfully respond.

If you liked this content, please consider signing up for my newsletter to receive emails directly.

Scriptures of encouragement and content: 1 Kings 1:52, Mathew 8:8, Matthew 22:8, Matthew 7:21, 2 Peter 3:9, James 1:17, John 3:16, and Romans 12:18.

I will leave you with the Passion Translation of 1 Peter 1:13, “So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of grace will be released to you, Amen!

Let us be found worthy and wanting this amazing grace!

May the Lord bless you while you listen to the song by Chris Tomlin, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone).

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) by Chris Tomlin https://youtu.be/KKo3T0j9qqo

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!

If you need a faith boost today please leave a comment and I will prayerfully respond.

If you like this content, please consider signing up for my newsletter to receive emails directly.

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!

Grief, Abandon it by Faith

Grief at times can be a misunderstanding, a confusion of the circumstances, a failure to see and sense the true happenings of a situation. We need inner strength to console ourselves, a substance of a hopeful future that is grasped “by Faith”.

Faith, our true inner beliefs, our deep-seated knowing, and understanding can lift us up quickly and establish situational clarity.

Clarity allows, or extinguishes our ability to process our grief in a healthy manner dependent on our past choices in regards to what we believe. Clarity is the necessary agent required to deal with, and understand the effects our grief will have on our ability to console ourselves.

This clarity can be defined as soul peace, for God is not a God of confusion but of peace. Soul peace would eliminate the discomforting feelings and emotions and deliver you out of the heaviness and oppression associated with the grief.

Therefore let us make every effort to do what leads to peace. Calling on God can enlist Him to lead you and start the healing process. Amen!

Unchecked grief robs us of our natural healing process, but faith in God propels our healing process by a soothing of the mind, heart, and emotions. Our faith in God becomes the seat of our emotions and that gives us a clear place to sit. Seated with God in heavenly places alleviates the pressure that is causing our grief.

If we continue to leave our emotions unchecked, we will allow our imagination the opportunity to oppress us, burdening us down with fear, anger, or guilt, and this weight will keep us from climbing out of a heightened state of grief.

As grief gets its grip we enter into sadness or a feeling of hopelessness and this is the point where we must look up to, and cry out to God for help.

In times of despair, we need spiritual encouragement and we need it quickly, calling a personal friend, a trusted minister, or a Christian counselor, without delay.

You see at this point we need to be guided in a different direction, set on a corrective trajectory, leading back to that soul peace that we allowed ourselves to drift away from. Amen!

Soul peace is a place where we find our grounding, soul peace is an inherent character of God, and this soul peace ends the agitation that is causing continued grief.

Soul peace is actually the desire of us all, but realizing where it comes from takes words of encouragement, words of Godly wisdom, and a hearing of the Word of God that would lead us back to “Faith”.

A spiritual sensation that would override all our sadness and grief and replace it with hope, a hope of things not yet experienced but longed and looked to ‘by faith”.

Heart faith looks to and accepts the feelings that it is longing for, reaching towards, and then that heart faith lays hold of the substance that it was clinging to all the time, Soul Peace.

Faith is the comforting inner peace that causes us to prevail over sadness and grief, then sadness and grief are replaced by unfailing love and redemptive compassion for others that propels us forward, up and out of our feelings of despair and back into caring for ourselves and others.

Giving and receiving care, being ourselves comforted by God, and then being equipped to care and comfort others, this is the true meaning of our living and being.

Living is being full of life, and life is the condition that distinguishes, our unity with God and others, and leads us on a path of continual change.

By faith, we change from Glory to Glory, and by loving one another as we love ourselves we are distinguished as children of God.

From grief to glory, that is the plight of everyone who chooses to accept God and His goodness over the negative pull that works to cut us off from true living.

So, mourn with those who mourn, even take time to experience and process grief, but remember that rejoicing is just around the corner.

Come back to life today, seek love and help today, while it is still called “today”.

If you need a faith boost today, please leave a comment and I will prayerfully respond.

If you liked this content, please consider signing up for my newsletter to receive my emails directly.

Helpful scriptures: 1 Corinthians 14:33, Romans 14:33, Ephesians 2:6, John 1:12 and Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen” TPT.