2011 has been a
year in which The Lord has taught me what true repentance is. Yesterday
when I was communing with The Lord, He told me repentance must start
from the heart and it must be backed by action. What was so unique about
King David? The Lord referred to him as a man after His own heart.
David loved The Lord with all his heart. David knew contrition which
made him different from those around him. David had deep regret anytime
he transgressed. He knew the consequence of sins in his walk with God.
He had to adopt the contrite approach to keep him walking with The Lord.
2 Samuel 12:7-13(AMP)
7Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king of Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8And I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added that much again.
9Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, doing evil in His sight? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have murdered him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because [you have not only despised My command, but] you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your a own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.
13And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
When David committed adultery with Bathsheba The Lord sent Nathan to convict him of his sin. When David fell under the conviction of The Lord he got broken. Psalm 51 shows the heart of David. He knew what true repentance meant. What does The Lord require from us when we sin?
Psalm 51: 17.
My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
He requires we bring sacrifices of brokenness of heart and a spirit of contrition. Often we become so infatuated with a particular sin which makes us insensitive to His conviction. As we continue to ignore Him our hearts become numb.
Isaiah 66: 2
For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands.
The Lord is looking for people who have contrite spirit. A person with a contrite spirit is quick to repent when he sins. He knows the effects of sins in his walk with The Lord.
Let us look at the city of Nineveh. The Lord had planned to destroy the city because of their sins. When Jonah went to preach to them, their hearts were cut. They had great remorse over their sins. They demonstrated their remorse through fasting, wailing and the wearing of sackcloth.
Jonah 3: 5- 10.
5So the people of Nineveh believed in God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6For word came to the king of Nineveh [of all that had happened to Jonah, and his terrifying message from God], and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe aside, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh, By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor drink water.
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us [when we have met His terms], and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not.
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His [sentence of] evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it [for He was comforted and eased concerning them].
Anytime The Lord sent Israel into captivity for their disobedience, He was patiently waiting for them to admit their sins and turn back to Him. When they realized their transgression The Lord heard them and brought them out of their bondage.
What does The Lord require from this generation? The Lord has been teaching me a lot on repentance and confession of sins. Often we rush when confessing our sins. We should be specific in our confession. If you told a lie and you are confessing your sins don't generalize . Tell The Lord the lie you told. If genuine confession is not made, how can The Lord deal with us? Daddy is merciful to forgive but He is also interested in dealing with our sins.
2 Corinthians 7: 10.
For godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death].
Today call out to Daddy to pour out a spirit of repentance upon your life. Call upon Daddy to break you so He can fix you. Call upon Daddy to pour out meekness upon you. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He will chastise you to make you better. He loves us so much and He desires we become more like Him. When Daddy uses His rod to discipline us we should thank Him. He says He will look at the man who has a contrite spirit.
Glory To Daddy King Jesus
2 Samuel 12:7-13(AMP)
7Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king of Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8And I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added that much again.
9Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, doing evil in His sight? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have murdered him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because [you have not only despised My command, but] you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your a own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.
13And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
When David committed adultery with Bathsheba The Lord sent Nathan to convict him of his sin. When David fell under the conviction of The Lord he got broken. Psalm 51 shows the heart of David. He knew what true repentance meant. What does The Lord require from us when we sin?
Psalm 51: 17.
My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
He requires we bring sacrifices of brokenness of heart and a spirit of contrition. Often we become so infatuated with a particular sin which makes us insensitive to His conviction. As we continue to ignore Him our hearts become numb.
Isaiah 66: 2
For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands.
The Lord is looking for people who have contrite spirit. A person with a contrite spirit is quick to repent when he sins. He knows the effects of sins in his walk with The Lord.
Let us look at the city of Nineveh. The Lord had planned to destroy the city because of their sins. When Jonah went to preach to them, their hearts were cut. They had great remorse over their sins. They demonstrated their remorse through fasting, wailing and the wearing of sackcloth.
Jonah 3: 5- 10.
5So the people of Nineveh believed in God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6For word came to the king of Nineveh [of all that had happened to Jonah, and his terrifying message from God], and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe aside, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh, By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor drink water.
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us [when we have met His terms], and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not.
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His [sentence of] evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it [for He was comforted and eased concerning them].
Anytime The Lord sent Israel into captivity for their disobedience, He was patiently waiting for them to admit their sins and turn back to Him. When they realized their transgression The Lord heard them and brought them out of their bondage.
What does The Lord require from this generation? The Lord has been teaching me a lot on repentance and confession of sins. Often we rush when confessing our sins. We should be specific in our confession. If you told a lie and you are confessing your sins don't generalize . Tell The Lord the lie you told. If genuine confession is not made, how can The Lord deal with us? Daddy is merciful to forgive but He is also interested in dealing with our sins.
2 Corinthians 7: 10.
For godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death].
Today call out to Daddy to pour out a spirit of repentance upon your life. Call upon Daddy to break you so He can fix you. Call upon Daddy to pour out meekness upon you. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He will chastise you to make you better. He loves us so much and He desires we become more like Him. When Daddy uses His rod to discipline us we should thank Him. He says He will look at the man who has a contrite spirit.
Glory To Daddy King Jesus
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