So also my Heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. Matthew 18:35 God wants us to forgive. Jesus taught about forgiveness. He taught about God’s forgiveness. Even though God freely gives to those who confess and turn away from sin, it also depends on each individual’s willingness to forgive others. A person could lose the chance to be forgiven of their sins. If they are unwilling to forgive others. A person heart can become bitter, resentful, and unforgiving when they refuse to forgive. This is a sad state to be in. This is where you could lose…
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Forgive One Another
For if you forgive others their trespass, your Heavenly Father will also forgive, but if you do not forgive others, their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14 -15 Can you easily forgive others? or is it hard for you to do? Does it depend on what the situation is? God forgives us when we ask, all he asks is that we also forgive others. It doesn’t matter what the crime, hurt, offense is. God asks us to forgive. What does forgive actually mean? According to the dictionary.com, forgive means to stop feeling angry or resentful towards(someone) for an offense, flaw or mistake. Flaw sure is interesting in this…
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Truely Seeking God
if my people who are called y my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn form their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 1 Chronicles 7:14 When we are God’s children, we are called by His name. We are dedicated to God. being a child of god, we must humble ourselves before God. We must realize that we have failures and inabilities. We will have to repent of our sins. We must renew our commitment to follow in the ways of God. His plans, desires, and purposes. Humbling ourselves means to recognize how we need God’s…
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Solomon’s Prayer For Forgiveness
“… whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands towards this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers. 1 Kings 8:38-40 God will forgive His people if they sincerely repent. By this, I mean that they admit their sin and are determined to make a complete change, to turn away…
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Reflection Day
Today is Reflection Day!!! Go grab a journal, a fun colorful pen, your bible, worship music, and your favorite Drink! Quick go do that now!! Let’s pray before we start. You can do your own prayer or use this one and write it in your journal. Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for this time with you. God, I ask that as I spend time with you in worship that you will speak to my heart. God, I want to know you more. I want to receive you grace and mercy. I want a clean heart. A pure, obedient heart after you God. As I dig deeper into our relationship, I…
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Receiving Mercy
Once you were not a people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:10 Once we accept christ as our savior, we yearn for God’s bread of life. His truth which is found in the Bible. God extends an abundance of mercy to His people. We only have a taste of the compassion of God, though. Jesus taught us, his servants, that he is our protection and security. All the christians are a chosen generation. We make one family. We are distinct in the world around us. We are sanctified by Christ. At first, we are in a…
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His Great Mercy
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and which according to His great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 God’s mercy is wonderful. It is much-needed for our salvation. Because of his mercy, he has caused us to be born again. Born again is a spiritual birth – regeneration. Regeneration is God bringing Christians to new life or born again from a previous state of separation from God. His mercy for us, while we are ignorance and guilt, depravity and weakness, shows up in His love and goodness. It’s the…
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Mercy Over Judgement
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgement is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement. James 2:12-13 We are saved by God’s gift of Grace through faith. As christians, we are required to obey Christ. We, christians, will go before the judgement seat of Christ, to be judge by the way we conduct ourselves. We must speak and act that is pleasing to God. We must act and speak in ways that are obedient to God. God will judge those who show favoritism because it breaks the law of love. Verse 12,…
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Mercy Seat Of God
Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in details. Hebrews 9:5 The mercy-seat was used as the cover of the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies. The mercy-seat was sprinkled with the blood on the annual day of atonement. On the annual Day of Atonement both a bull and a goat were used. The bulls blood was used for the High Priest and His family. The goat’s blood was used for the whole nation. This served as an offering for the sins as an offering to God. The Mercy seat is where God would come and…
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According To His Own Mercy
But after the kindness and love of God our savior toward man appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:4-5 God sure does show us kindness and love. We have no excuse for being self – exalted or mistreating of others in thoughts or action. Since God shows us mercy, we are to show mercy to others. Our changed life is attributable to the manifestation of man because of God. He appeared to us in human form. God lived among us to save us, not for the works we…