Text: Psalm 51:1-12
“It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.” ~ A.W. Tozer
Write out a prayer of confession:
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Ask the Lord to help you come to Him with a heart open to honesty and a willingness to be shifted by Him.
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Confess the sin that has been weighing on you and ask the Lord to give you eyes to see the things you need to confess that you may not see.
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From the heart, express grief over sin, thank Him for forgiveness, confident of His pardon, and ask Him for the grace to walk as a new woman, since you are freed from the power of sin and death.
It's amazing how I can feel God's glory and joy so intensely one moment, and then feel his conviction so strongly the next moment. I am actually on day 13 of this study, and just finished reviewing the devotional on day 3 about practicing praise. Then i reviewed this day- practicing repentance, and oh what a wake up call… Last night I brought up something with my husband about his past that severely tested our relationship when we were engaged, but i brought it up in a joking manner. I keep telling him (and myself) that i have forgiven him, and my flippant comment was meant to be a joke, but i didn't realize how it affects him every time i bring it up, even if i am joking around, because it used to be a serious issue btwn us. Whenever i bring it up, he feels guilty and unforgiven. I do not need to keep bringing up those feelings in him. If it were the other way around and he kept constantly bringing up something i had done wrong that affected our relationship in the past, i would feel unforgiven also. I am not doing my job as his wife and truly forgiving him from my heart. The issue is in the past, and it is over and done, so making light of it is not an acceptable way for e to cope with it, even if i still feel the hurt sometimes. It is not acceptable for me to make those comments to him, even if i am not doing it out of anger. Thank you Lord, for revealing this to me so I may repent and change my ways.
I must remember and am praying for help "forgetting myself and my selfish ways" for I want all I say and do to reflect the love that God has so greatly given! Holy Spirit please show me all the negative and unholy ways I live my life and show me how to remove them!
This is my first study and my first post with SRT. Coming in a day late because I really had to reflect… I’m so thankful for Gods increased presence in my life and filled with such joy lately that I found it quite hard to get down to the heart of true honest focus and conversation with God on my sin.
Lord of all my heart is this, that you would humble my heart towards my sins against heaven and my lack of love for the people you have charged me with. I need you to guide my thoughts and your strength to switch my focus off of self. I need to be ok with not being ok. I need to realize every day my NEED for you. In your mercy provide me that wisdom! Enable me to only operate out of love and belief in you-Almighty. Forgive me for the times I knowingly or unknowingly don’t.
"I need to be ok with not being ok" — great, great words. I really need to take that in & reflect on it, so thank you for sharing that thought. I hope this community will encourage & inspire you to know God's special presence & desire just for you. This community has changed my life! Have a wonderful day!
Welcome Megan! I am running behind on this study too, but I’m catching up today. What a great study this is, and the wisdom flowing is definitely of our Loving Father. It is the perfect choice to start with, because learning to have strength through prayer is a mighty weapon!
Oh Sisters! You really warm my heart and I appreciate you and all of your wonderful advice! Just reading your posts relieve a tension I didn’t even know was there! I guess I THOUGHT I’d let it go, and when I realized I hadn’t, it made me very shaky with my thoughts on the whole matter…I DO so want to
forgive and use good, fair judgment regarding this. Thanks Ladies for good, solid advice, my load is definitely lighter!! :)
Blessings to all of you- as you have blessed me! XOXO
I stumbled upon this site a few weeks ago and have been so so blessed to find sisters around the globe yearning to know God more!
I struggle to see my sin as the ugliness that it is and this study is encouraging me to just continue pleading with Father to reveal the layers of ME that are running from Him.
Reading your comments has helped me to see areas of my heart that I need to bring before my Creator and Sustainer. My pride, selfishness, unloving thoughts, areas of my mind that wander, seeking vanishing pleasures rather than Jesus himself, living apart from the reality of who I am in Christ! Thank you sisters for being open and encouraging each other to press on to know Him more!
Welcome, Josi!! You are among friends!
Here I am to worship here I am to bow down Here I am to say that your my God. Your altogether lovely all together worthy altogether wonderful to me.our God is an awesome God. Yes to all my sisters thank you all for your sincere prayers. I Love you all from the bottom of my Heart.:-) my soul is truly blessed to know that I have sisters from all over the world praying for me as I am for you. I love you all and one day in Heaven we will all meet and sit and talk about this night around Jesus beautiful feet:-) I love you all and I love Jesus even more for setting my heart free :’) Singing out loud with the voice of truimph!!m Hallelujah!!!!!
Yes it is. Carolynmimi. Thought i.d catch up on the postings. Good night and meet you tomorrow……sometime. X
Ellen MR. One step at a time. Do the business with God first….. Then when its truly done the rest Will follow. Remember God has a plan and a purpose a hope and a future for us. If your brother is part of the bigger picture for you then theright time…Gods time Will come, but first the most important thing to do right now is DO THE BUSINESS WITH GOD FIRST.
Carolynmimi and LaurenC you need to let go , holding on means you are short changing yourselves on Gods blessings for you. Trust me… I have and still walk the walk, once in a while, but although i.m not where i should be, THANK GOD i.m not where i used to be…. You can do it Ladies do THE BUSINESS WITH GOD truly’, take off the the’ i need to hold on to’ glassesand see what blessings come…..
Will be praying for you all. X
I hear you, Tina and know you are right. Do business with God first…I love that.
Thanks for praying.
Side note: aren't you in th UK? Must be really early Sunday Morrning.
Amen!