SPRING FORTH NOW 2025

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

My heart spills over with thanks to God for the way he continually empowers me, and to our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, who found me trustworthy and who authorized me to be his partner in this ministry.  Mercy kissed me, even though I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor of believers, and a scorner of what turned out to be true. I was ignorant and didn’t know what I was doing.  I was flooded with such incredible grace, like a river overflowing its banks, until I was full of faith and love for Jesus, the Anointed One!  I can testify that the Word is true and deserves to be received by all, for Jesus Christ came into the world to bring sinners back to life—even me, the worst sinner of all!  Yet I was captured by grace, so that Jesus Christ could display through me the outpouring of his Spirit as a pattern to be seen for all those who would believe in him for eternal life.

I Timothy 1:12-16 (TPT)

Paul looks back at his life and realizes that everything he is now is because God’s mercy caught him when he didn’t even know he needed catching. The Hidden Manna here is that grace doesn’t just forgive you—it upgrades you. It puts strength where weakness used to live and purpose where confusion once sat. I Got It means understanding that your past doesn’t disqualify you; it actually becomes the backdrop that makes God’s mercy shine even brighter. Paul says he was the worst of the worst, but God used him as a living example of what grace can do when it takes over a willing heart. Today, let this truth settle into your spirit: if mercy could kiss Paul, it can kiss you, too. Walk boldly, knowing you’re living proof that God specializes in turning unlikely people into unstoppable purpose.