{"id":14160,"date":"2022-01-20T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:21:36","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-1-20-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-1-20-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 1-20-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Micah 6:8 (NKJV) 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you\u00a0But\u00a0to do justly,\u00a0To\u00a0love mercy,\u00a0And\u00a0to walk humbly with your God?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">First, let&#8217;s look at what it means to have mercy on someone.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">It means to continue to show compassion or forgiveness toward someone when it is within that one\u2019s power to punish or harm them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In other words, don\u2019t do to them what others would normally do or expect us to do.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Instead, we choose to do the opposite. We choose to give them a way out from their error or mess-up. We choose to forgive them immediately and move on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">How many times does someone do something to us, and we want to lash out at them, thinking we have the right to do so?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Will we take some time and pray about it before we do to them what we think we should do?<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Sometimes giving it a little time will help us make good choices in the way we handle certain situations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Remember, give it some time and let mercy work. Love mercy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\n49 N Lamplighters Walk<br \/>\nHampstead, NC 28443<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">401-439-3780<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.org\/\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please consider making a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.org\/donate.php\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Donation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get our mobile app here:<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Android:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/oQ6qa7\" data-slimstat=\"5\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/oQ6qa7<\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apple:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/2lZdgYy\" data-slimstat=\"5\">http:\/\/apple.co\/2lZdgYy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah 6:8 (NKJV) 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you\u00a0But\u00a0to do justly,\u00a0To\u00a0love mercy,\u00a0And\u00a0to walk humbly with your God? First, let&#8217;s look at what it means to have mercy on someone. It means to continue to show compassion or forgiveness toward someone when it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[4536,3769,3768],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mercy-2","tag-bible-verses-about-showing-mercy","tag-bible-verses-about-showing-mercy-to-others","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-mercy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14162,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions\/14162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}