The Spiritual Gift of Mercy Explained

hi it's me again can there with Christ Quest ministries with more about your spiritual DNA the second spiritual gift mentioned in Romans 12 fourth grade is the gift of mercy again there are two sides to this gift there's God influenced positive sign which I've labeled the special abilities and they are very considerate of others feelings or emotions they're able to visualize causes and effects on theirs and others emotions they have an excellent memory for special deeds occasions and the personal preferences of others they're alert to areas of social injustice it's easy for them to silently remain in the background they're attracted to those who are misfits then there's the flesh influenced negative seitan which I've labeled the areas of concern and they are they project irrational fears they assume negative motives of others they have a very suspicious nature they operate on a fear of rejection they closed their spirit to those they feel are insensitive they have a poor self-image they will calculate vengeance when wounded let me offer two examples by using a driving situation to describe the response of a Mercy's sending which will be followed by a christ-like response and even though I'm using male examples I need to point out the behaviors Illustrated may not apply to both men and women but more important is the attitudes that prompt the behaviors that's where the gifting is revealed here's a mercy guide driving down the road and all of a sudden another driver crosses over in front of him and it's close enough that he has to apply his brakes he questions out loud I wonder what I did to him back there that made him want to get even with me his pastor asked him is it possible that he's just a jerk or a careless driver no no the mercy insist he's trying to pay me back gnosis in nature that suspiciously assumes negative motives let me contrast that with a christ-like response when the other driver crosses in front of him he says himself if not out loud thank you God for this opportunity to practice not judging the motives of others and instead be grateful that everything went safely notice the christ-like attitudes they were the results of him recognizing that part of God's teaching method is to produce pop quizzes that are designed to develop the mercies person's alertness to their critical attitudes towards other people's motives so they can guard against them and instead of those critical attitudes owning him he can gain victory over them let me close with that till next time this is kim nair signing off

Channel: Christ Quest Ministries

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Keywords: spiritual gifts, personality quiz, religious eduation, mercy, self help, marriage

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Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 03 2018