Often when we speak of haters, everyone shouts, “Amen!” Both the victim and the perpetrator respond with equal enthusiasm. It appears to me that we have ways of justifying our malice toward others. But, wise people know that mercy isn’t meant to be hoarded at the expense of those who need it whether they deserve it or not. We are the recipients of grace that we are often slow to dispense. Let’s change that today! ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy (Matthew 5:7 NIV).” Message: “The Blind Spot” Scripture: Jonah 4:1-11 (NIV)

blind spots blind spots are the places

that we allow ourselves not to be

changed areas that you own allow your

faith to touch where your faith is not

penetrating and you don’t see it

vengeance and anger and hurt create

blind spots I’m not talking about good

people and evil people right people and

wrong people I’m talking about places

where there should be love but there’s a

like maybe your heart I wonder what is

in your blind spot who is suffering in

your blind spot for the lack of

something that you refuse to give some

people are nicer to strangers than they

are to their own family how can you say

that you love God and hate me just

because you’re gifted and just because

you’re anointed and just because you’re

successful doesn’t mean you

that’s because you’ve made a lot of

money doesn’t mean you’re right

you cannot substitute cash for

righteousness if God measures the

saturation of our faith by the way we

treat people how deep is yours

how deep are you really

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what I’m asking you to do is to reflect

the mercy you have been given the reason

I have to be merciful is because I have

received mercy and every time I want to

be judgmental I keep remembering

something that God did in my life

mercy doesn’t end with you

mercy begins with you I think God wants

to make you a sanctuary he wants to make

your heart to save somewhere this is not

about them this is about you God wants

you to be free

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what’s in your blind spot

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