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"LORD, HAVE MERCY." : His faithful answers to my flippant prayer

July 26, 2016 Abbey Wedgeworth

My frustrated utterance came not from faith or desperation but a love of ease, desire for control, and craving for a sense of accomplishment. But good  ol' Webster reminds me of the posture I should take in this prayer. I am "someone having no right" to kind and gentle treatment. And yet....

 

HIS MERCY IS ALL OVER THIS MOMENT

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