The text this week is Jonah 4, in which we find that Jonah is a lot less merciful than God. God asks Jonah “Who are you to second guess My mercy and grace?” The worship theme will be the mercy and grace of God, and the visual theme will be vines, after the vine that grew up on Jonah’s shelter.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 171022 Heart Prep
Worship:
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
The God of Abraham Praise – Hymn #34
Exodus 34:6-7 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
2 Chronicles 30:9 (ESV) 9For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalm 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Joel 2:12-13 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Offertory:
Deliverer by Audrey Assad
Benediction:
I Will Sing of the Mercies
Before the Throne of God Above
Bonus: Brand new lyric video with Harvey and Crisis Response imagery
Your Labor is not in Vain
