According to Your Mercy Remember Me

Text: Psalm 25
30 September 2018

SEEKING THE LORD IN PRAYER

1. Vital

a) Principle
b) Practice

2. Significance

a) Personal
b) Church ministry

3. The wisdom of learning to plead the mercy of God

a) For pardon and forgiveness
b) For leading
c) For deliverance
d) For blessing

MERCY- AN ETERNAL ATTRIBUTE OF GOD

1. Revealed by the Lord God Himself

2. Proclamation of the name of God

3. The Attributes of the LORD God revealed   (Exodus 34:6-7)

a) Merciful
b) Gracious
c) Longsuffering
d) Abounding in goodness and truth
e) Keeping mercy for thousands
f) Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin

THE PLEA FOR MERCY

1. According to Your mercy remember me   (Psalm 25:7b)
2. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth   (Psalm 25:10a)
3. Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me   (Psalm 25:16a)

FOR WHOSE SAKE?

1. For goodness’ sake (not man’s!)   (Psalm 25:7c)

“Good and upright is the LORD
Therefore He teaches sinners in the way”   Psalm 25:8b

2. For Your name’s sake   (Psalm 25:11a)

“For the LORD will not forsake His people, for His great name’s sake
because it pleased the LORD to make you His People”   1 Samuel 12:22