A Door of Hope – Page 19 – Obtaining Mercy

It’s a Fearsome Thing

January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, Uncategorized

Fear, that is. Fear is crippling. Fear is defeating. Fear is debilitating. Fear freezes our natural impulses and thwarts our ability to respond to life.

“The person who is fearful approaches everything with the anticipation that they cannot do what God has told them to do…

“Because I anticipate God intervening, I have a desire to go through with it. Because I believe that God is going to help me, I have a desire to do what He would have me to do. Fear makes excuses. Faith takes steps of obedience, no matter how bad the odds are.”

~from Weathering the Storm by Dennis Corle

II Timothy 1:7 – For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Step out in faith today. Ignore the circumstances, forget the odds, don’t worry about failing…just step out and do what God has told you to do.

When You Are Feeling Shattered

November 19, 2015 by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, A Season of Thanksgiving, How Great is Our God, Just My Thoughts, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized

“God said, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee,’ for in your weakness My strength is made perfect. In your brokenness, My light shines forth. In your affliction, My power flows out. In your brokenness and insufficiency, My sufficiency is evidenced. In your lack of power, My power is seen.”

“Many times those who are unbroken sit in judgment of those whom God has broken. He has shattered them and leveled them and taken all their pride away. Now they are more useful than ever. Instead of us praising God for His grace and the usefulness, we sit in judgment of the shattering experience.”

“Those that have broken hearts and shattered dreams, those whose lives have been leveled, make the best servants of God because they realize that they have nothing of their own.”

“God can get more glory out of you when you praise Him in brokenness, than when you praise Him on the mountaintop. Anybody can praise God in the good times, but when you are broken, your will is broken, your life is broken, your dreams are shattered, and you praise God, He gets more glory.” (excerpts “Weathering the Storms of Life” by Dennis Corle)

In this season of Thanksgiving, even if you are broken and shattered, give God the glory. He is preparing you for great things when everything that YOU are is out of His way to make room for all that HE is.

When Others Judge My Broken Heart

September 2, 2015November 19, 2015 by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, How Great is Our God, Just My Thoughts

[67] Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
[68] Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
[69] The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
[70] Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
[71] It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

“It is a rather humbling thing when God begins to break us. Sometimes the very thing that God uses to make us good Christians is the thing that everybody else will sit in judgment of.”

~ Dennis Corle from Weathering the Storms of Life

If God is working in your life…let Him work! Don’t be embarrassed by what He is doing, even if He is chastening you. That chastening work, when you respond to it properly, will make you more like Christ. Ignore what others say, and what their opinions are of your brokenness.

Let Christ work to make you more like Himself, that He can draw others to Himself, through the light that is shining out from your broken vessel.

All that He is = All that you Need

August 1, 2015August 1, 2015 by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, How Great is Our God

He is everything you need.

He is healing to the sick.

He’s sight to the blind.

He’s life to the dead.

He’s salvation to the lost and forgiveness to the fallen.

He’s rest to the weary.

He’s peace to the troubled heart.

He’s hope to the hopeless.

He’s love to the unlovely.

He’s deliverance to the captive.

He’s grace to the broken heart.

He’s everything thing I need in crisis.

Nothing takes Him by surprise.

There is nothing He can’t handle.

He is everything I need.

~ Weathering the Storms of Life by Dennis Corle

It’s Time For Making A Decision

August 11, 2014 by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, How Great is Our God, Just My Thoughts

I read these verses this morning, and thought "That could have been pulled from today's headlines!"

Psalm 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Things will ever be the same for the nation of Israel, until the day that Christ returns to earth and sets things right for His people.

Before that day, however, there will be a calling away of Christians, a gathering together of all the saved to Heaven. Then we will return with Christ on the day that He overturns the enemies of Israel.

Will YOU be ready for the rapture, for God's calling up to Heaven those who have been saved, redeemed from their sins by the precious blood of Jesus, shed on Calvary?

If not, my friend, I hope that you can take a look around you, at the things that are happening daily around the world, and realize that your time is short. Jesus will be calling us out of here to Heaven just any day now!

Why delay turning your life over to the Lord? There will come a day when time for repentance will run out. The timetable of God's rescuing Israel will be put into motion, and those who are not FOR God will be AGAINST Him.

Make your decision today to trust Him for salvation from sin and Hell, to everlasting life with Him in Heaven

The time for making that choice is quickly running out.

II Corinthians 6:2 – (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)