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Jan 14, 2024 · If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to your question: To come back to God, confess your sins, renew your commitment to following Christ, fill your life with spiritual disciplines like Bible reading and prayer, plug into a church community, and serve others in Christian love.
- Coming to The Place of Repentance
- Step 1: Acknowledge
- Step 2: Uncover
- Step 3: Confess
- Step 4: Pray
- Step 5: Follow
- Step 6: Rejoice
We have a psalm such as this because David traveled down sin’s blood-stained path before walking the repenter’s trail. Some say Psalm 32 is connected to the events of 2 Samuel 11–12 in which David took advantage of Bathsheba, impregnated her, and killed her husband. He kept these wrongdoings under wraps, his sin weakened him, and his strength event...
Psalm 32was Saint Augustine’s favorite psalm because he claimed, “the beginning of knowledge is to know oneself to be a sinner.” No matter how smart we are, if we don’t know the brutal truth of our sin, we have no knowledge of true things. Knowledge of oneself leads to knowledge of one’s sin. When we know we’re a sinner, we stop using soft words. W...
After we acknowledge our sin, we uncover it. We open the door to the rancid basement. We let the light shine in, revealing all. We let Jesus into our temple to do his work, flipping the tables to see the scandal underneath. This step is really embarrassing. Others see what we’ve been hiding. The reactions can be, and often are, more painful than we...
Once we acknowledge and uncover, then we confess. We tell the truth about who we reallyare. If step two is embarrassing, step three is humiliating. Speaking of our evil makes it more real to us, and it breaks the fragile glass of pride into a million pieces. When we tell the truth about who we are, we agree with God about who we are and allow his S...
Steps one through three lay us so low that prayer becomes our only hope. We come to God with nothing in our hands but a simple request for cleansing and healing. We’re dependent upon his mercy alone to make us new. David urges the reader to offer prayer when God may be found. Repentance opens us up to God in new ways and we see both our need and hi...
Repentance leads us not only away from the negative actions and thoughts that ruined us but also into the new path of righteousness that comes from obedience to Jesus. God’s Word instructs and teaches us where we should go (Ps. 32:8), but we must not be like a horse or mule, refusing to be led apart from the bit and bridle (Ps. 32:9). We can be so ...
The ultimate end of Christian repentance is joy. That’s not what we imagine is on the other side in step one when that fragile glass of our pride breaks. But God is in the restoration business, and through his Redeemer, Jesus, we are welcomed back into God’s good graces—not at eighty percent of our previous value but at the fullness of Christ’s. Go...
Dec 26, 2018 · God is going to work on you your entire life. But to start the process, you have to make a decision to repent and, “in view of God’s mercy, to offer your [body] as a living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1 NIV). God desires to be close to you and he promises that when we seriously seek him, we will not be disappointed.
Jan 14, 2021 · Read these 7 biblical truths about coming back to God after falling away & learn how to come back to Christ if you've fallen away.
Apr 23, 2018 · God can only do so much for us. The Lord does His part, and we should do ours. But, what happens when we fail to do our part? What if you fall away from God? Can you return to Him? How can you do that?
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When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.
Aug 19, 2019 · Some Christians slide down the saw faster than others. How quickly depends on how surrendered—or not—they are to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. What Backsliding Looks Like. Backsliding looks like gratifying the desires of the flesh instead of living according to the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:19).
