Gloria Copeland

God’s mercy is great. Not only does it last forever, but
it is holy. This is true because love, the source of mercy
and compassion, is the basis of holiness. Every time we
remember how holy God is, we are to give thanks and
praise because “His mercy endureth forever.”
Psalm 30:4-5 says: “Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints [...]

Mercy is the reason we worship God. It motivates us to
walk holy before Him and gives us confidence that we can
come before Him without fear. We can rest in knowing that
the mercy of God is greater and stronger than anything
else. It has unlimited endurance. Psalm 136 declares this:
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he [...]

Jesus experienced the same compassion that causes a
mother or a father to overcome the fear of personal harm
for the sake of their child. A father will take on all the
forces of hell and wade into odds far greater than himself
when his family is threatened. His mercy and compassion
is far greater than any danger he sees [...]

Today, we are no longer restricted from the presence of
God’s glory. The New Covenant tells us very plainly that
the God who shined out of darkness has “shined in our
hearts, to give [us] the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6-7).
God put His glory in us [...]

Since the Garden of Eden, God has had to deal with man at
arm’s length because of the glory surrounding His being. It would
overwhelm man if God appeared to him in the full manifestation
of His power. He once revealed to Moses that no man could look
into His face and live and then only allowed him a [...]