Praying for Mercy (3 of 6)
Series: Great Prayers of the Bible
Jim Perdue
Psalm 57:1-11
Intro/Attention
*A guy had his picture taken. He was very upset with the photographer and with the picture. He rushed back in to the photographer and said, ''Look at this picture of me! This picture does not do me justice!'' The photographer looked at him and said, ''Mister, with a face like yours, you don't need justice, you need mercy!'' That's exactly the situation we are in. We don't need justice, we need a whole lot of mercy.*
You know what mercy is, don't you? Millard Erickson says, ''God's mercy is His tenderhearted, loving compassion for His people. It is his tenderness of heart toward the needy.'' There are several different words in the Old and New Testaments that are translated in our Bibles as ''mercy.'' In this instance, David is asking the Lord to show Him favor, to look upon him graciously in his time of need, and to deliver him from his enemy. David is Praying for Mercy. READ TEXT
*Elizabeth Elliot lost her first husband, Jim Elliot, when he and four other men were martyred as they tried to take the gospel to the hostile Auca tribe. She lost her second husband, Addison Leitch, to cancer. In an address to the Urbana Missions Conference (December, 1976) she told of being in Wales and watching a shepherd and his dog. The dog would herd the sheep up a ramp and into a tank of antiseptic in which they had to be bathed to protect them from parasites. As soon as they would come up out of the tank, the shepherd would grab the rams by the horns and fling them back into the tank and hold them under the antiseptic for a few more seconds. Mrs. Elliot asked the shepherd's wife if the sheep understood what was happening. ''They haven't got a clue,'' she said. Mrs. Elliot said, ''I've had some experiences in my life that have made me feel very sympathetic to those poor rams-I couldn't figure out any reason for the treatment I was getting from the Shepherd I trus ...
Series: Great Prayers of the Bible
Jim Perdue
Psalm 57:1-11
Intro/Attention
*A guy had his picture taken. He was very upset with the photographer and with the picture. He rushed back in to the photographer and said, ''Look at this picture of me! This picture does not do me justice!'' The photographer looked at him and said, ''Mister, with a face like yours, you don't need justice, you need mercy!'' That's exactly the situation we are in. We don't need justice, we need a whole lot of mercy.*
You know what mercy is, don't you? Millard Erickson says, ''God's mercy is His tenderhearted, loving compassion for His people. It is his tenderness of heart toward the needy.'' There are several different words in the Old and New Testaments that are translated in our Bibles as ''mercy.'' In this instance, David is asking the Lord to show Him favor, to look upon him graciously in his time of need, and to deliver him from his enemy. David is Praying for Mercy. READ TEXT
*Elizabeth Elliot lost her first husband, Jim Elliot, when he and four other men were martyred as they tried to take the gospel to the hostile Auca tribe. She lost her second husband, Addison Leitch, to cancer. In an address to the Urbana Missions Conference (December, 1976) she told of being in Wales and watching a shepherd and his dog. The dog would herd the sheep up a ramp and into a tank of antiseptic in which they had to be bathed to protect them from parasites. As soon as they would come up out of the tank, the shepherd would grab the rams by the horns and fling them back into the tank and hold them under the antiseptic for a few more seconds. Mrs. Elliot asked the shepherd's wife if the sheep understood what was happening. ''They haven't got a clue,'' she said. Mrs. Elliot said, ''I've had some experiences in my life that have made me feel very sympathetic to those poor rams-I couldn't figure out any reason for the treatment I was getting from the Shepherd I trus ...
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