Romans 6:11 – Be ALIVE TO GOD, alert to Him, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
HE TOOK DECISIVE STEPS TO HELP US OUT! God’s first step was to promise them deliverance from the curse which Satan and sin had brought on them. Genesis 3:14-15 So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of…
Every one of us, like Adam and Eve, have chosen to sin and disobey God! Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all…
When God created man, it was His desire to have a family of men and women in His likeness and in His image, with whom He could have fellowship, share His life and His love. God spent the first five days of creation preparing a home for this family. He created all the things that…
If you sense that God’s wave of repentance is beginning to stir in you, don’t resist it. Get alone in some place if possible and as He brings before you the sins you have committed LIST THEM on a sheet of paper. Then CONFESS each sin as a sin to the Lord. Be specific. Ask for…
The tree of repentance has three major branches: REMORSE: this involves a feeling of regret for a sin or a wrong committed. 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from…
How does one then come to have faith for repentance? The Bible teaches us that when we hear the Word of God; when it speaks to our hearts, a miracle takes place inside of us and faith is supernaturally released in us to be able to report and accept God’s offer of salvation. Romans 10:14 “How…
In Acts 5:31 the apostle Peter says, “Him (Jesus) hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for TO GIVE REPENTANCE…and forgiveness of sins”. In other words , Jesus gives to us the gift of repentance. Humanly speaking we are incapable of repenting. Repentance is a gift that we…
This is perhaps the most frightening aspect about repentance. You see, you cannot repent whenever YOU want to! It’s like catching a wave. If you launch yourself in front of the wave too soon, the wave washes over you. If you move too late you also miss the wave. Be sure to repent when God’s…
The clear message of the OLD TESTAMENT is “TURN” Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the Lord your God…
Sin BLINDS us! 2 Corinthians 4:4 …whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. Sin SEPARATES us from GOD! Ephesians 4:17-18 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that…