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Humble Yourself, Pray, Seek God, Turn From Sin
Humble Yourself
Humble- lower (someone) in dignity or importance.
This is a matter of recognizing that you need Jesus.
Many times we try to handle matters on our own apart from prayer and guidance from scripture and the Holy Spirit.
This demonstrates that we can live our lives apart from Christ.
John 15:5
We can do nothing apart from Christ.
We must always engage Christ in the daily decisions we make.
Humbleness is also key in forgiveness of sins.
When we sin, we must come to a point where we recognize that we have sinned against God of our own choice.
We must not make excuses to God for what we did, but confess that we made the mistake and ask for His mercy and forgiveness.
There also must be remorse and shame that accompany our humbleness.
Unfortunately many believe in cheap grace.
This is those who intellectually know that what they did was wrong and ask God to forgive them because they believe He is obligated to forgive if we ask.
Asking for forgiveness without true repentance will not bring about the forgiveness one looks for.
There must be a humbling of your personhood and craving for restoration by the mercy of God.
Pray
Prayer is essential for forgiveness.
When we sin, we must go before the Father and confess our sin.
This is best done by sharing what the Word of God says and how we violated it.
This demonstrates a full understanding of what we did wrong.
This also shows that we agree with God and the holiness of His word and that we transgressed it.
When we don’t adequately confess (agreeing with God’s word) then we are not genuinely sorry for what we did.
This is because we don’t know how we violated God’s word.
When we articulate this through prayer God’s hears and dispenses mercy and forgiveness.
Some believe that they do not need to confess daily sin.
They believe that Christ forgave them of all their sin and there is no need for confession.
This is true when it comes to salvation, but not relationally.
Our sin breaks fellowship with the Father.
Ephesians 4:25-32
Unconfessed sin dulls our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and inhibits our relationship with the Father.
Prayer is the vehicle that we can confess
Seek My Face
When we sin our natural tendency is to run from God.
His desire is that we run to Him.
When we are seeking the face of God, we are not pursuing the ways of the world.
We need the Lord to escape the temptations of the world.
When we just turn our eyes away from the thing that makes us sin and do not seek His face, we just put it on something else that is going to cause us to sin.
Seeking the face of God enables us to overcome sin.
Just because we are a Christian doesn’t mean that we are not prone to sin.
As a matter of fact there are times where God will not even remove the desire for your sin.
He will allow you to walk by that tree of the knowledge of good and evil every day.
God did not promise to take away our desire for sin, but to give us the power to overcome sin. 1 Cor.
10:13
The way of escape is to seek the face of God.
Turn from your wicked way
This requires action.
It is not enough just to humble yourself, or pray, or seek His face.
You must turn away from your wicked way.
Romans 6:1-4
3 Proofs of Repentance
Mind Change- We agree with God that our behavior, words, or attitude was sinful.
It was wrong.
Psalms 51:3-4
2. Our Heart changes - Our hearts are broken for our sin.
Instead of celebrating or trivializing our sin we become broken hearted over our sin.
Psalms 51:17
3. Our actions change- It requires turning away from sin and walking in righteousness Psalms 51:12-13
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