{"id":20760,"date":"2021-02-18T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=20760"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:59:19","slug":"mercy-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2021\/02\/18\/mercy-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy &#038; Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20760-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Feb-18....mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Feb-18....mp3\">http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Feb-18....mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/isa.41.10\">Isaiah 41:<sup>10<\/sup><\/a> \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for I am with you. Don\u2019t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">God can help you. In fact, God wants to help you and God wants to be with you. So, we move from, <i>Can God help me?<\/i> to <i>God can help me<\/i>, and then because we are convinced that God can help us, we move to, \u201cGod must help me\u201d.<!--more--> <i>If I can have God\u2019s help<\/i> quickly, becomes <i>I must have God\u2019s help<\/i>. I must have God\u2019s help because I do not have a plan B, I only have a plan G [God\u2019s plan]. God should not be one of your many options for help. God should be your only option for help. God <span class=\"s1\">MUST<\/span> help me. You may have been relying on different things. But as soon as you see that God can help you do not add God to your list of options. There is no if God fails then\u2026 No!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">You should transition from God can, to God must help me. You must be convinced in your heart that, if God does not help then you are helpless. This is the recipe for transformation. If you want to experience divine transformation, it has to be, if God does not help me, I am helpless. If God does not come to my rescue, I am helpless. Guess what? That is a good place to be because God is full of mercy. There was a time that David had counted the people against God\u2019s will and God was going to deal with David. God spoke to Gad the seer to tell David that he should choose one of three punishments. David teaches us something huge here; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/2sa.24.14\">2 Sam. 24:<sup>14<\/sup><\/a> \u201c<i>I\u2019m in a desperate situation!\u201d David replied to Gad. \u201cBut let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is great. Do not let me fall into human hands.\u201d<\/i> In other words, David was saying, \u201cDo not let me fall into the hands of human beings because human beings are merciless.\u201d May God not put your bread in another man\u2019s hand. Let your bread come from God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">David found himself in a place where he says, \u201cGod must help me!\u201d Imagine you are presented with the option of being flogged by man or being flogged by God. When you compare strength to strength, whose flogging should be more devastating? But when you compare heart to heart, I will always go for God &#8211; always. My grandmother will say, \u201cBecause there is forgiveness with God therefore, we fear God.\u201d God\u2019s mercy always leads to repentance \u2013 always! God is saying to you and me, \u201cI am your only option.\u201d God must help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Please read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/luk.18.1-8\">Luke 18:1-8<\/a>. Jesus is saying, when you show up consistently before God and you seek Him consistently, do you think this unjust judge is better than God? God says, \u201cI am better than the unjust judge.\u201d This right here is what gives me confidence and it is the Word of God. So, it is up to you. It is not a matter of <i>can God help me?<\/i> The question is, have you transitioned to <i>God must help me<\/i>. Help me Lord or nothing else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b> [Hymn]: My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus&#8217; blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus Name. On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 41:10 \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for I am with you. Don\u2019t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.\u201d God can help you. In fact, God wants to help you and God wants to be with you. So, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23,324,274,148,46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-faith","category-god","category-help","category-help-from-above","category-mercy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20948,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20760\/revisions\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}