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Mercy Culture Church

The Posture of Radical Love

The Posture of Radical Love

Mercy Culture Church | Senior Pastor Heather Schott

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Mercy Culture Fort Worth

1701 Oakhurst Scenic Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76111, USA

Sunday 9:30 AM

Sunday 11:30 AM

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The new biblical value for Mercy Culture is:
Gratitude!
2025 is the Year of Radical Love!

Radical Love is when we love God for no reason and no reason can take our love from God away!
Christianity is a RADICAL type of love!

Our response to this radical love is gratitude!

Gratitude Pleases the Lord | Heather Schott | MC Fort Worth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5Ba4i5cko
Gratitude
IT'S A LIFESTYLE

Gratitude pleases the Lord. No matter what we face - valleys or mountaintops - gratitude is the answer. Gratitude is the heart posture that seeks in all things to be thankful and glorify the Lord, because it brings you and keeps you in the presence and favor of the Lord. Because He first loved us, we will forever be grateful!

Hebrews 12:25-29, Romans 1:21-25,2 Timothy 3:1-9, Psalm 30:1-12, Psalm 5:11-12, Psalm 28:7, Luke17:11-19, Colossians 2:6-7, Psalm 100:1-5
Hosea was sent as a prophet to warn God’s people of their idolatry and adultery.

The Israelites were unfaithful to God and turned their back on their first love.

Hosea learned how to radically love like God despite betrayal because God gave Him His heart by showing Him what it felt like to love a bride that is in love with other lovers!
God loved His bride before we loved Him!
Radical Love will bring mass salvation!
2025 PROPHETIC WORDS

This is a year of Salvation.

Spiritual fruit will bring a harvest of salvation.
Your fruit of the Spirit and radical love in everyday life will lead people to salvation.

There will be more salvations that happen outside of this house than happen inside this house.
This means that as you radically love the Lord your God, the second part of the greatest commandment, is that you would love your neighbor, or those that don’t know Him!
Question: How do we love those that curse us? How do we love those that don’t believe in our God? How do we love those that betray us? Are evil? Are worldly?
Evidence of an intimate relationship with the Lord is loving others radically!
God gives us warnings in Scripture for the times we are in so that we truly walk out faithfully what He is calling is to.
The ones that radically love (despite wickedness multiplying), their relationship with Jesus does not grow cold!

The ones that radically love do not grow cold and in the end will be saved!

The ones that love does not grow cold continue to testify to bring mass salvation!
Warning: Your love cannot grow cold!
Practical Advice: Look at people as the Lord’s!
Mercy is seen through kindness and love to those that are wicked and ungrateful!
It’s wild that God uses the word ungrateful with the wicked! Why?
acharistos: ungrateful, thankless, ungracious, unpleasing.
Ungrateful ones are:

1.Those that have received blessing, favor, miracles, answered prayers, radical love from God, a Savior that died on a cross for them…
Yet they live a life of stealing glory from Him, a life lacking praise and thanksgiving to Him that He is jealous for!

2. Those that aren’t thankful for the unanswered prayers, the loss, the thorn in your side, because your full trust isn’t in Him that He is so deserving of and because you don’t love Him for no reason!

3. Ungrateful ones are those that see everything in a negative perspective, blinded by frustration and cannot see all the good He has done, and when they cannot see all the good He has done, they cannot walk in gratitude and therefore steal his glory!
But the beautiful news is this:
He says in Hosea, "Show them mercy!"
His mercy is undeserved kindness, or an undeserved love… a radical love!
Jesus received what He didn’t deserve so we could receive what we don’t deserve!

The only response the Church should have to a God like this, is gratitude!

A heart of gratitude brings Him all the praise and glory!
The heart posture and response to radical love is gratitude!
Questions: God has radically loved each one of us, have you radically loved Him back? Have you had a heart of gratitude overflowing with thanksgiving for no reason at all?
Your gratitude should not come from receiving what you want first, gratitude is an expression of your radical love for God, a love that is for NO REASON!
Have you showed gratitude to God for the things you deemed as difficult?
The ones with great fear begged for Jesus' presence to go!
The one with great gratitude begged to stay in the presence of Jesus!
Those that do not know Jesus, will be spreaders of fear!
Those that know Jesus, will spread the radical love of Jesus!
Value says: We will forever be grateful because He first loved us!
Prophetic Warning: Fear is coming in a different form than before! Now it’s a fear that will steal your gratitude for the Lord which steals the glory from the Lord!
Your testimony is a vehicle for gratitude!
The more you testify, the freer you become!
Get you out of the way! It's not about you! It's about Him and a hurting world out there hungry for a savior!
Your testimony brings glory and gratitude to God because your testimony is what He has done for you!
Many of you have been fleeing at the sound of a demon's voice instead of speaking to that demon to flee!

This year it's time to stop it! Its time to rise up in the authority of the radical love Jesus displayed on the cross and bring glory to your God through testifying, preaching the gospel and radically loving God and others!
Your testimony is a vehicle for gratitude!
Everywhere you go, everyone, to the ends of the earth, tell them about Me!
Radical love will bring mass salvation!
Hosea = Salvation
We are in a window of mercy for mass salvation and deliverance!
This is the posture of gratitude!

The woman and man Jesus delivers couldn't care less about anyone else around them. They just wanted to be in the presence of the one they loved and show Him gratitude!
Gratitude brings you and keeps you in the presence and the favor of the Lord!
Grateful ones desire to stay in his presence!
Gratitude is the way we come into His presence, into His courts.
Gratitude is a lifestyle!

Gratitude brings you and keeps you in the presence and the favor of the Lord!

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