Confession of Sin # 2

Confession of Sin

Almighty God,
You are perfectly holy, righteous, and pure. You are the God of all truth. You know everything about me, down to the deepest corners of my heart. I humble myself before you, admitting my sin and my guilt. In the light of your purity, I am unclean. In the blazing fire of your holiness, I am defiled. I confess my sinful deeds, my impure thoughts, my evil desires, my hurtful and careless words. I have loved and served created things more than you, the creator. I have sought to please myself more than you. Oh lord, I have wandered from you, but you have brought the prodigal home. In your overflowing grace, wash me and cleanse me from my guilt and shame. Clothe me with the best robes. Bring me into the banquet hall. I know I am not worthy in myself, but you have made me worthy in Christ. Grant me joy and security and confidence in my relationship with you, knowing that I am accepted in the Beloved. Cause your Holy Spirit to live inside me, transforming me, working on me, burning away the dross, and making me more like you.

In Jesus name, Amen!

Assurance of Forgiveness - Romans 8:1-4

Confession of Sin

Confession of Sin

Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. Have mercy on us according to your love. Wash away our wrongdoing and cleanse us from our sin. we Ask this, not for our merit, but only for the merit of Jesus Christ our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and was raised for our justification. Renew a right spirit within us and restore us to the joy of your salvation. Refresh our hearts with the freedom of forgiveness. And thus freed from guilt, cause us to delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen!

Assurance of Forgiveness- Galatians 2:20

There is beauty in our struggles

There is beauty in this struggle because I find that my hope is in you! Therefore, I will rejoice in my suffering and in this pain. For you Lord are faithful and working everything out for my/our good. You are producing a godly character in me/in us!

Amazingly, one of the clearest evidences of the believer’s security has to do with tribulations, or, more specifically, the believer’s attitude toward them. Filled with peace and hope, he can “glory in tribulations.” He can do so, Paul writes, because he has learned a lesson no unbeliever can grasp—that tribulations are merely a tool in God’s hands for his good. “Christians rejoice in suffering because of what they know about it,” Dr. James M. Boice explains. “God uses our troubles, trials, and tribulations to form Christian character.”

Reflection of Genesis 1:26-30

Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness. Let him have dominion over sea creatures, birds, livestock, and over everything that creeps on the earth. Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. I have given you every seed, plant and beast for food. (***God gave us a holy job/purpose that would glorify him and allow us to enjoy him). 

Before I was saved I had no idea why I was here. But God opened my eyes through the book of John chp 1-4. Shortly after, I studied Genesis and things became even more clear: I was made to worship, love, enjoy and serve God. I was so joyful because He was so perfect. His will and purpose was perfect. I had settled for so many things- and plunged myself into so much darkness and believing lies about who I was supposed to be, but the truth of His creation process pierced through my heart. I was alive. He was alive and glorious! I could see Him in his word. He was so personal and so active. I had no idea that He made me in His image – I was so touched by God’s desire to do this. I’m not like a bird, I’m not like the ocean or the mountains, but I’m like God. I’m like my Father and my Creator- that’s so beautiful. No other creature on earth can say that. Yet, even after man’s fall (now the ability to reflect Gods holiness is lost), we still bear the mark of our creator upon ourselves. However, the restoration of the fullness of the image of God in human beings is accomplished by Christ. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. Now, because of Christ I am being renewed and becoming more like God, like Christ again.

(Note: This act of God must be adorn. God is worthy of worship based on this act to create us and everything else on the earth. He is the God who creates, the God who planes, the God who blesses, the God who gives purpose. He is the God who reveals His glory, He is the God of Love, and He is the one and only true God).

New Poem: Forgiveness

People come and go, they leave their marks and stains
But Lord you’re my rock, my source of joy and my strength- you renew me each day.

Teach me Lord to love them still, to walk in an upright way
And when I feel weak with pain from peoples sin
Help me to forgive thy brother or foe, give me grace to extend to them.

Written by: AAB

Christian Singles Rejoice

For all my Christian singles out there REJOICE because the Lords plans will stand. Whether married or not, may God be glorified and may we delight and put our hope in Him!

Many are the plans in the mind of a [wo]man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

Proverbs 19:21

The New Covenant fulfillment in Jesus

The main point of the new covenant fulfillment in Jesus is that He has entered into the true heavenly Most Holy place in God’s presence, and enabled others to achieve that position in God's very special presence to which only OT high priests formerly had access. Jesus Priestly ministry in His atoning sacrifice cleanses believers consciences to approach God in worship.

Lord thank you for making it possible for me & your people to enter the Most Holy Place through your son Jesus Christ!

Agape Love

Agape love is decisive—an act of the will.

As mentioned previously, often love is thought of as primarily a feeling. When someone says they love a person, that typically means he or she has strong feelings towards that person. However, love may or may not include strong feelings. Love is primarily an act of the will. Listen again to what Christ said in John 13:34: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

This might not make sense to someone who only thinks of love as a feeling. How can you command your feelings? We’ve all heard this said before, “I can’t choose who I fall in love with.” However, Scripture would not affirm this. Love is an act of the will. That is why God can command us to not only love fellow believers but even our enemies. Look at what Christ said in Matthew 5:44-45:

But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

How can someone “love” his enemies? It is only possible because love is an act of the will—an act of obedience to God. We can love because God has commanded us to do so. In fact, Scripture even declares that biblical love is obedient. Christ said this:

If you love me, you will obey what I command. (John 14:15)

Future Glory - Romans 8: Remember Christian this is our hope!
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18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, becauseg the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,h for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

*Note: I look forward to all the relationships I have strained or badly affected to be completely restored in heaven. 

Bitter Sweet Christmas 2017

What a bitter sweet Christmas, yet it’s good to know that I have a high priest who sympathizes with my weaknesses and pain.

Christ is not just an example, a “good person” or “teacher” but he was the Word made flesh. He is the Creator of the universe who came to save his people from their sins. There are so many glorious verses that reveal Christ in the Old and New Testament. But I choose to share Isaiah 53 (plus it’s what I really needed):

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.

3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.

5But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

6All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

9And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief;g
when his soul makesh an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

11Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

12Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

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#KingofKings #LordofLords #LambofGod

Humble Beast- Are they truly humble?

I finally had a chance to buy Beautiful Eulogy’s new album called “Worthy”. Yet, instead of purchasing it on iTunes I decided to go on their actual website to support Humble Beast ministries, but to my surprise all their albums are free to download. You can buy the albums, and other resources as donations (teachings, apparel, etc) but almost everything on their site is for free. I was so stunned for their love for the body of Christ, I cried. (The time, the effort, and creativity to make an album is not cheap). Humble Beast music/ministry has blessed me so much through some of the darkest moments of 2017. I’m going to support them by buying their music, but I was so touched that they would offer it for free. This is so selfless and so generous, I can truly see how thankful they’re for God’s saving grace in their lives. They’re truly gospel centered and a disciple making ministry. Will definitely be supporting them from now on!

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