. Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Matthew 22:37 Before sin becomes an act, it forms first in a thought. This is what we call being tempted. This is when we should cry out to God for help resist the sin. If we don’t then we will fall into the temptation and sin. God has given us a means to escape from sin’s lure and grip. It is the power of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. He convicts us. He calls us to turn around and change the direction…
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Repentance Is Returning To God
Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts. But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’ Malachi 3:7 When we are seeking God, we must seek Him with our whole heart. We must then realize that repentance is not ony an option, but a requirement. In returning to the Lord means that we will forsake sin and obey what God he says. In the Old Testament, the nations of Israel and Judah repeatedly strayed from God. Each time this happened God would send a…
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Repenting To God
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 What images, feelings, or reactions do you get when you hear the word repentance? Why do we blame our circumstances or other people for our actions or our spiritual condition? Let’s take a look at David. Let’s read Psalm 51:1-6. Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned,…
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Humbling Ourselves
Is being humble into days world easy or hard? Is it popular or unpopular in our society? Humility is the first step towards God. Are you wondering how we do this? Lets go to the book of Isaiah 6:1-7- “In the yea that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the saraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, ad with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the…
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Seeking God
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! and see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! Psalm 139: 23-24 Revival is the work of God. He chooses the when and to whom He sends it too. However, there are ways that we can prepare for revival in our lives. We need to prepare our hearts for spiritual renewal just as Joshua told the Israelites to do. In Joshua 3:5, He said, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Are you exciting to have revival in your life? Here is a list…
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Breaking Fallow Ground
Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord. Till he comes and rains righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 Are you ready to have a truth encounter? Hosea prophesied in the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC. He did this during a time. When the morals were wrapped lady cleaning. It ended in destruction by a Syria. But his family was a symbol of God‘s relationship with his people. His wife with a prostitute and it represented spiritual adultery. His children had prophetic names. God said Hosea to prophesied to Israel. The Israelites are God’s chosen people. They were in a spiritual and moral decline. They…
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Continuing On
Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25 Do you meet with you church family? Or do others priorities come first? Koinonia – fellowship with God and other believers, is not an option for believers. It’s not optional for a church. This is a deep level of relationship with God. Having this with God and Jesus Christ produces fellowship with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. When we…
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Return To Me
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there. Nehemiah 1:9 Are you thankful that God lets us return to him when we repent? I am so thankful that when I mess up and don’t keep God’s commandments, he still allows me to return to him. Yes, I do have to change and learn from my mistakes. I am thankful that God is a forgiving God. One that forgives over and over. I need to…
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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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The Lord’s Mercy
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Psalm 103:8 God is slow to anger!! How wonderful is that? He won’t be quick to chide us on our sins, but waits patiently for us to ask for forgiveness. He waits for our repentance. He wants us to be reconciled with him. God is so, so good to us. He has revealed his mercy and grace to the Israelites, His chosen people. Through them he has revealed this to all of us. We have all experienced God’s mercy. Thank goodness it never ceases or come to an end. We can trust in God that when we…