FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God is attainable when one trusts God and asks for forgiveness. 

2 Samuel 12

There is assurance for one who trusts to receive from God.
2 Samuel 22:31 records: “As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.”
Trust God in God to gain the mercy of God.
Always, God is a good God.
With understanding, it is to trust God to attain mercy from God.
The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5).
Trusting in hope positions one to gain the mercy of God.
With understanding, trusting God is an avenue to receive from God.
Trusting God is looking up to God with no doubt.Trusting God is having hope to gain from Him.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
One who looks to God with trust and hope is set to gain the mercy of God.
Looking up to God with an open heart, one will locate God for His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records,“And they lifted up their voices and said, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful. He does not run out of mercy for one who knows how to trust and lift their voice to Him.
With sin, no one can reach unto God.
Sin sets one apart from God, but mercy belongs to God; He reverses the irreversible to give mercy.
With repentance, one who asks God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God.
Understand and know to repent for sin before God to gain His mercy.
With repentance, God’s mercy is available.
David sinned by having Uriah killed after he violated the wife of Uriah.
God sent Prophet Nathan to David for his sin.
Prophet Nathan asked David, why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him.
In 2 Samuel 12:12, David was told, “For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”
In 2 Samuel 12:13, David responded with repentance: “So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”
It was the mercy of God in response to the repentance of David, not to die a sudden death.
In every repentance before God, there is the mercy of God that delivers.
Deliverance for David was the mercy of God.
Are you with understanding of God to know how to gain His mercy?
The Bible records, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5).
God is good and merciful; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding of repentance that calls for the forgiveness of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the understanding and knowledge to gain the mercy of God be your portion.