God also answers prayers of repentance. When we come to Him with a humble and repentant heart, He hears our prayer and forgives us for our sins (1 John 1:9). God loves us too much to leave us in our sin and will always answer the sincere prayers of those who are truly seeking Him...
When I published the book PRESENT in 2015, it came after a season of raw and plain consideration of how distracted I was from what in my heart I wanted more than anything else in the world: to follow Jesus and to do His work in the world. And I found that many of the people I w...
Charles Wesley's text, which we have paraphrased, refers to the humble and contrite heart of Psalm 51. John Wesley was famous for welcoming persons into the Methodist Movement with only the one condition, "If your heart is as my heart, give me your hand," a model of welcome and ...
A humble Spirit and contrite heart is not something you can fake, especially with someone who knows the thoughts and intents of the heart, Heb 4:12 . Paul makes a analogy of being a soldier in 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy 2:3-7 KJVS [3] Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier ...
(2) The one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness, and acknowledges the truth in his heart—(The one who lives “IN Christ”)(3) who does not slander with his tongue, who does not harm his friend or discredit his neighbor,(The one who loves “THROUGH Christ”)(4) who despise...
s plan of redemption. The work that we are called to do is to completely humble ourselves before God, and to fast and afflict our souls to give God the opportunity to cleanse us from any remaining taint of sin. Just as the Day of Atonement is a deadline, we all face a deadline at...
For “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Kneeling is an act of recognition of one’s weakness and insignificance. Also, because strength is found in the knee, to bend the knee is to make oneself weak and vulnerable. As Ratzinger says, to bend our ...
So I returned to the first half of the verse and waited patiently for the Lord.He showed up about eleven minutes late in the vessel of my apologetic and overbooked pastor. I held fast to the promise that the Lord would not despise my broken and contrite heart and spoke aloud the painfu...
WORD FOR NOW: GOD LOVES REAL PEOPLENovember 23, 2024 It's that NEW Season when the Voice of the Common, Every day Person reaches the EAR and the Heart of the Creator Father. It's NOT about "the famous" the "all knowing " or the "prophetically SKILLED' it's about HIM and YOUR SE...
typically using the Ten Commandments as your guide. Then you go in and tell the priest your sins and discuss how you plan to resist temptation and desist from sinning. It is essential that you have a truly contrite heart and truly intend to turn away from sin, and that you make a thoro...