Pastor and Bible teacher, Dr. Michael Yusak.

What is the gift of mercy? Listen carefully.

It is the empowerment by the Holy Spirit to joyfully and cheerfully manifest and practice compassion toward the body of Christ first

because the Bible speaks of the priority of the household of God and then show it to everybody

else. Relationships often require extending mercy, which is usually, if not always, difficult.

Today on leading the way, Dr. Yusef shares a message he's called The Gift of Mercy

and is from his life-impacting series called Who Me Gifted? I know you'll be encouraged to use

your unique giftedness to draw others closer to Jesus. So listen with me as Dr. Michael

Yousef begins today's leading the way audio message.

Some of you might have read in history about the Turkish massacre of the Armenians.

And there's one particular story comes out of that horrible time in the history of the Armenian people.

It's about a nurse and her brother who were fleeing the Turkish massacre.

But this particular nurse and her brother got trapped in an alley.

Her brother was brutally murdered before her own eyes, but she managed to climb a wall and escape.

A number of years later, while she was nursing in a hospital, she recognized one of her patients.

There was no other than the very man, the very soldier who brutally killed her brother.

And the first thought that came to her mind that this is justice, that this is time for revenge.

As it happened, she doesn't have to do anything because the man was literally hovering between life and death.

And the slightest bit of neglect on her part, the man would die.

And the good news to her was that nobody will know.

Nobody will know.

She didn't have to do anything.

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