Mercy, Peace, Love...🕊

Inspiration 👏🏾 & Praise 🖐🏾

Jude 1:2

"May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you."

Jude's greeting to his readers includes the desire that they would experience an overflowing amount of mercy, peace, and love. Again, he uses a threefold construction. To combat false teaching, Jude's readers would need to experience God's mercy—His compassionate help. They would also need a strong sense of wellness (peace) and supernatural love—specifically a love for God and others. They would need God's compassionate help while under attack from the apostates.

Hebrews 4:16 promises this mercy in answer to prayer in difficult situations. These words would also motivate Jude's readers to try to win those who wandered from the truth. After all, those who receive mercy should be merciful to others. Peace, meaning a strong sense of wellness, would enable them to feel secure in troublesome times. Philippians 4:7 describes God's gift of peace as transcending all understanding and as being a protective guard for the heart and mind. Love for God and others would keep Jude's readers close to God and actively engaged in defending and sharing the truth.

Loving Father,

We lift before You all those that are called and chosen by You to be Your children.

Bless each one and may Your grace and mercy, peace and love be abundantly poured out on all that trust in Christ as Saviour

Merciful Lord, it is you who us all as we pray ceaselessly in the difficult days in which we live, as we contend earnestly for the faith of a mustard seed.

Lord, in you alone, this World can find that peace that surpasses all mortal understanding and we ask that you pour your spirit upon us without measure.

In Jesus' name, we pray...

AMEN 🙏🏾