Saturday, July 23, 2016

Turning To The Truth

This morning as I was thinking of the Sabbath, my mind drifted to the idea of repentance. It amazes me that our Father is so able to forgive us at all times. We try to do good, but being human, we still fail. This has been true through the ages. And equally true, we can feel that we are unworthy of seeking forgiveness, so we don’t. But that thought is not from our Father.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

So we see that we can have forgiveness. But it is very difficult at times to turn to our Father from something that can grip us.

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Here we see Esau could not escape who he was; he could not turn from his evil ways. To overcome evil we have to continually say out loud what our Father has said, diving us the power to do His will.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King! Let Your kingdom come to earth through us. Bless the name Yahuah! Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins, great or small. Heal us from inside. Deliver us from the one that steals and destroys. Restore unto us one hundred times one hundredfold that which has been taken or held back. Restore us from within. Restore us to a better place than we have ever been, just as You did in the days of the Exodus. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.