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DEVOTIONS HOME Lord, Have Mercy! [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:36). “The personal God has a heart” (Karl Barth).[/perfectpullquote] When I discovered that we were going to write about God’s attributes in 500-word devotionals, my first thought was, “Lord, have mercy!” That’s a prayer God delights to answer: “He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy” (Micah 7:18). There are several words in Scripture that…

DEVOTIONS HOME God is Just [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is He.” — Deut. 32:4 “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” –Mic 6:8 [/perfectpullquote] “That’s not fair.” — me…

DEVOTIONS HOME God is Good [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“ And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.’” – Mark 10:17-18[/perfectpullquote] When I was in high school, I had a teacher who would consistently ask me how…

DEVOTIONS HOME God Is Faithful [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NASB)[/perfectpullquote] It is hard for me to describe God’s faithfulness without talking about the other attributes being discussed through this study, and more. These are not independent attributes of God. There is not one that is greater than the rest. He is fully faithful, fully knowing, fully just,… What is faithfulness…

DEVOTIONS HOME The Wisdom of God [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]. . . the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.  James 3:17-18[/perfectpullquote] In the last six verses of James chapter 3, their is a description of two types of wisdom. James starts the passage with a question,…

DEVOTIONS HOME God is Omnipresent When things do not go as we had planned, we evaluate why things did not go as planned When things go wrong time and time again or it’s something big, I think it’s normal for us to begin to question God. My first trip as a Youth Director was to the creation music festival. We borrowed a 15 passenger van from a family in our church and while on the way to the festival I…

DEVOTIONS HOME God Seez [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, ‘You are a God who sees’” (Genesis 16:13).[/perfectpullquote] My license plate reads, “GOD SEEZ.” Someone had already taken “GOD SEES,” but I still thought this summed it up (and would be a warning to other drivers — to little avail). No matter the time, place, or circumstance — God sees. One of God’s marvelous attributes is that…

DEVOTIONS HOME God Is Omnipotent Today’s Scripture Passage: John 10: 7-18 The topic today is God’s omnipotence. This is a term that does not occur in the bible, but the bible does refer to God as being almighty. In fact, one of the Hebrew names for God – El Shaddai – can be translated to mean God Most Powerful or God Almighty. And as you read through the scriptures, you can see God proves this over and over again. Let’s…

DEVOTIONS HOME God is Self Sufficient Acts 17:24-25 [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“ The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.” – Acts 17:24-25[/perfectpullquote] Self-Sufficient – “able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid: capable…

DEVOTIONS HOME God is Immutable HE NEVER CHANGES “Malachi 3:6” “Romans 8:35-39” WHAT ARE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD DEFINITION OF GOD’S ATTRIBUTES: Specific characteristics of God that are ‘unique’ to God. AN EXPLANATION OF ‘IMMUTABLE’ FROM “BIBLE STUDY TOOLS (BST) and CROSSWALK STAFF”.  “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.” (Malachi 3:6) “God does not change. Who He is never changes. His attributes are the same from before the beginning of time into…