Have Confidence in God's Lovingkindness

If you know Jesus Christ as your personal savior—you’ve recognized you’re a sinner and accepted and received Christ as God’s saving answer for you—then you know God as your Father. Continue to learn what He is like. The fact that you even know Him as Father is credit to His lovingkindness. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (Jer. 31:3)

Not only does he draw you with lovingkindness,  He keeps you with lovingkindness. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. (Ps. 40:11)

Yesterday we confessed that sometimes we don’t feel like we deserve God’s loving favor, so we don’t dare expect Him to show it to us. If that’s you today, and you feel like dog meat, be glad that God’s lovingkindness doesn’t depend on how you feel. Just muster enough strength to turn to Him. Following are three starter prayers. Pick one and come to God with it, beginning by repeating the verse to God inserting “me” where it applies:

• Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Psalms 17:7 
• Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Psalms 25:6 
• continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Psalms 36:10 

Here’s the confidence we can have. If we ask anything according to God’s will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears what we ask for, we know we have received what we asked for. (1 John 5:14-15) Understand that if you pray for lovingkindness, that is according to His will. How do you know that? Because His word says He’s a God of lovingkindness. Just pray and ask God to be who He said He is. So, you can know you will receive kindness from God. And we all need kindness. I know, we expect harshness and anger. I don’t know why that is. But be watching today for a breath of fresh air from God.