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So I want to continue with the book of Nehemiah.
I spoke on chapter one last week, but somehow in my spirit I
felt that I have done justice for the prayer of Nehemiah, of
the way he prayed. So I want to focus on just one
part of that prayer. I think it's in verse 6, chapter
one, verse 6, Let your ear be attend to you and your eyes open
to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and
night for your servants, the people of Israel.
I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and
my Father's house have committed against you.
Just want to focus on the word confess.
When will you finish the chapter?
I hope we will finish the chapter with that word.
So the word confess is not totally new because the
Christianity or the faith in Christ depends on the
confession. It begins with the good
confession that He is Lord, He is the Savior, and it all is all
about repenting and confessing our sin.
Everybody knows the word confess.
But now, why do I want to take extra day spend on that word?
Confess here? The news of breaking down of the
walls and the gates sent him into a different kind of a
reaction where he sat down, bought and bite and he wept and
he fasted and prayed for days together.
And then he made this prayer. And in the prayer he has
reminded God about his covenant faithfulness and he reminded
that he's great and awesome and, and, and then with he keeps
covenant with those who love him and obey his commands.
Now so many times we just walk into God's place and give him a
list of things. You know, I am going to this
business meeting. Can you please keep an eye on
it? Or I am going to the hospital
for seeing the doctor where you know, do something there.
You know, just is there a way that you approach God?
How do you approach God? There is a time when you pray a
short prayer, which Nehemiah does in chapter 2.
When he is the presence of the king, he sends a quick prayer.
That is OK. When you are under pressure of
time, you pray. A quick prayer is fine, but you
can't do always the same kind of prayer in your life.
You need to have a protocol. You need to acknowledge that He
is awesome and great and powerful and sovereign, and you
need to praise Him. You need to tell Him that you
love Him. And what does it do?
It prepares your heart to receive from Him what He wants
to give you. Many of us are in a hurry when
it comes to prayer. No, it doesn't work like that.
When you come to God, you need to leave aside all things that
are bothering you and focus on Him alone.
You are worthy, you are awesome, you are great, You're sovereign,
you're compassionate, you're merciful, you are just.
You can go on and in AW. Tozer wrote a book called
Knowledge of the Holy in that he says somebody has praised God of
1000 attributes and someone else praised the God of numberless
attributes. You cannot exhaust God when you
think about Him. So every Christian must be
falling in love with God that you will be able to say
something new about him because he has numberless attributes.
You need to know him. You need to say something new.
It is just a casual conversation we had in the family.
And John raised some issue about some video he showed me and he
says he talked about Jesus being given a name that's so high that
every knee will buy every tongue confess.
And he said that name is the name Yahweh.
And he was trying to argue that Jesus is not the highest name.
But before that, we had a prayer meeting on Friday night.
In the prayer meeting, I was telling God, you have given the
name Yahweh so that Israelites 1 nation can connect with you.
But you're given the name Jesus to Yahweh and brought him in the
flesh so that the whole world can connect with him.
I didn't know when I was saying that to God that this video I'm
going to see after an hour or so and I'm going to bring up the
conversation. But did I say something new to
God? I did in last 45 years.
I never said that to him before. So what I am trying to say is
you must be bubbling with worshipping him, connecting with
him, knowing him that is. That is when we know that you
are alive in Christ Jesus. Sign of life is you will love
this Jesus, you will worship him.
You are something new to say week after week after week is
like in a marriage relationship. Also 40 years you are married,
50 years you are married. You must have something to say
sometimes about the partner spouse.
Otherwise you know it is just dry marriage.
I would say it. So let's make it interesting
when it comes to prayer as well. Now he's talking about
confession. He's saying I confess the sins
we Israelites, including myself and my father's house, have
committed against you. Now why should we confess?
When you confess the the the transformation begins there, the
power of transfer is released. When you confess, walls are
broken down, the gates are burned down and stones are all
burnt out, and there is no hope of see.
That is the the city has lost its protection, has lost its
prestige, and you don't feel proud to be living in Jerusalem
with the walls broken down and gets burned down.
Look at our families. Are there problems in the
family? There could be historical
problems. Sometimes we must have said
something, done something 20 years ago.
We are still suffering because of what we did and what we said.
The walls are broken down, the foundation stones are upturned.
So things, there are always things.
Look at our children's life, how they are in the Lord, how they
are having faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, how they are
walking with God. Or look at many of these
aspects. I tell you, family is the unit,
foundational unit where we need to have the walls in its place
and gates in its place rightly. And the next foundational unit
is a church, the body of Christ. But the individual families are
the stones that form the walls and gates of the church.
We need to have this picture very clearly in our mind.
We are not called to be alone. You are not a Christian on an
island. No.
Gods purpose is to raise a community of believers.
That's why we gather here on a Sunday to worship him.
And that is biblical and that is fundamental right of every
Christian to worship God with other Saints.
Sometimes you can go to a conference and not talk to
anybody. It can be just like a smile and
a shake hand. And then suddenly he says, oh,
I'll come back to you. And he leaves you OK?
You are coming here at a conference to relax, to connect
with people and you just shake and say I'll come back to you.
What are you in a hurry for? So sometimes you are there for
2-3 days and you don't connect. Why am I saying that Is we are
going to the camp, OK, In the camp, let us build
relationships. Let us get to know each other
because that's a time you got no limitation on it.
Afternoon you after lunch and you have a free time and the
free time is the time to connect with people.
Somebody may be very because of age and things that you may want
to have a little rest. That's fine.
But still my purpose, whatever the purpose of the camp, is to
build the relationship to make the church more loving and
strong. We need to have the foundation
made right, and that comes through fellowship.
So camps we need to have, we are having one in a year.
We should have more than one in a year, basically.
But let's see in the future how it goes.
It will be building the church, building the families, building
the community. Yeah.
So confession is very, very important.
So what does confession do #1 it is not a moral reset.
Is not a moral reset. Oh, I've been living insane this
and that. I confess it.
I reset my life again, go with God again, again I fall by, fall
down and sin again. I need to reset.
That's not the point. There is not for moral reset.
Of course it can do that. But that's not the sole purpose
of confession. Is not for a moral reset, it is
for knowing, encountering a holy God who expects, who has
standards for you, who has expectations of how you live for
Him. He has a purpose and a plan and
confession is what is going to bring you into that place, to
receive His plans and purposes planted into you, rewritten into
you and reinforce into your life.
That is what confession will do. Secondly, confession has
transforming power. Everybody says transforming
power. If you don't mean you don't
confess, you don't repent. It should not be shallow.
It is not a shallow experience. Oh, it is not like saying
somebody you, you are walking in on the street and somebody you
know, they are walking behind you and they without their
intention, you know that their foot touches your foot and you
know, you are startled. Who is kicking me from behind?
And that man doesn't want to say sorry because you look back and
say sorry. Does it happen?
It happened to be New York on the on the bridge as somebody I
feel somebody's foot and I look around that girl looks and says
after 2 seconds he says sorry. OK, At least the confession when
it comes to with God is not a shallow confession.
I have to say it. I have to do it.
No, it has to be coming from deep inside your spirit.
It has to come from your soul and it must make you convict of
your shortfalling. It should help you to see the
holy God and X and his expectations for you and say I
am sorry I fall short of your goal for my life, your
expectation for my life. I am so sorry.
And when it comes from the spirit, from inside your soul,
then the transforming power begins.
The transforming power begins. It is like the prodigal son who
said my father has many servants and they have enough to eat and
spare. Therefore, I will rise up and
go. That is my next point.
Confession stirs up your volitional part, the part in you
that will move your will. It is just not emotional.
It is not just not intellectual. That confession has to touch the
depth of your spirit, that volitional part.
Ultimately, what will make you change is that will must be
moved and the confession does exactly that.
It will change. It will push that will to do
what you are not able to do otherwise what you've been not
able to do for years. That is going to change when you
confess. Are we together?
One of the other things we we have understanding the time will
change things. Can we say it together?
Will time change things? It doesn't Time doesn't change
anything when the when you look at the nation of Israel, you've
got the 10 tribes in the north and the 2 tribes of roughly 2
tribes in the S 1st Assyrians came and invaded and captured
the people, took them away and deported them to different
places. It is almost like a place like
in the modern Iraq, the modern Iraq from Middle East.
They were taken away, go up and up and up up to Iraq and they
were settled there. After that all happened 150
years of time. God gave to Southern Judah to
repent and to keep faithful faithfulness to Him, but they
did not learn any lesson. After 150 years, Nebuchadnezzar
came, the Babylons came and attacked and they captured that
was sorry, I got it. What was the year?
Did I mention the year just now? OK, the the Babylonians came and
they deported. First deportation happened in
597 BC and he put another guy there as a king or a governor.
He was faithful to him for a while, 2-3 years, then stopped
paying taxes. He comes again, invades him,
captures the people, takes them away again in 586 BC and 582 BC,
and by then the southern Kingdom has completely fallen three
times. He came, captured the people,
deported them, put them in different places.
Now this time he took them to Iran, the modern day Iran.
So Jewish people have got enmity with Iran now.
But there that was a home for a while for 150 plus years and
afterwards they were captured and deported and put there.
After nearly 150 years comes the year 444 BC when Nehemiah is
standing in the presence of the king asking for publisher to
rebuild the walls. Has time healed?
No, time is nothing, time is nothing until we repent, until
we say I am sorry my Lord, we have messed up our life.
Our families are disturbed today because we have made some
mistakes in the past and then God releases His grace and
favor. It is true about everybody,
about its about my life. It's the same thing.
It's not going to be different for anybody.
I need to depend of my past. Are you crazy?
On this Sunday morning? You're disturbing us all.
That's not my idea here. That's not my idea here at all.
I'm not wanting to put extra guilt or anything.
That's not my point. There is power in confession
because it's going to break the power of Satan.
When you confess, what happens? Power of Satan is broken.
We are we are ministering deliverance to a person and I
let that person in a kind of a confessional prayer, I am sorry
I had done this, please forgive me, Wash me in your blood, Set
me free from every spirit that comes from so and so.
And it was going on and I said now let's do some more
confession. Lord I am forgive me and wash
me, cleanse me in your blood and set me free from every spirit
that comes from my father. I told her to repeat she
repeated it. Then I said Lord set me free
from every spirit that's coming from my mother and she said Lord
set me free from every spirit is coming from my Mama.
It was just 15 minutes of Ma it the spirit does not allow her to
say mother. Why the moment she says set me
free from every spirit coming from my mother, that spirit has
to go. She doesn't want to do it.
And she was laughing in between. Why am I behaving like a child?
Why am I not able to say it? And she comes back to normalcy
and then she talks with us and then again, OK, let's continue.
Every spirit coming from your father set me free.
She says it no problem. Every spirit come from your
mother set me free. Every spirit coming from it was
going on, Ma. It took us a long time to make
us say it and to set her free. Why am I giving this
illustration? There is power in confession.
When you confess it, the power of Satan is broken.
Whatever it is, call a spade a spade before God.
You don't say. You don't put some grass on it,
some flowers on it, and say this is not spade, it is just a bunch
of flowers. No, you don't do that.
Call a spade a spade. Sin a sin and and repent and say
I am really sorry. I am really sorry.
And when that repentance happens, 100% repentance, that
power of sin is broken. That demon that has kept taken
captive of your life will be forced out because you have
repented, because you have confessed this power in the
confession, this power in the confession.
SO4 Generations of people have come and gone, but the things
have not changed in the capital of Susan.
And Nehemiah is standing in the presence of the king, but he
cannot ask him. He cannot even mention the name
of Jerusalem, because if he mentions the name Jerusalem, if
he mentions the name Judea, the king will may trigger his memory
and say, Hey, I already told no, why are you asking again?
So he says my parents, my forefathers sepulchre is in
ruins. Isn't he bothered about the
people who are dead and buried? That's not his point.
His point is the city walls. But he says the city where my
fathers have been buried is lying in ruins because he wanted
to start up emotional part of the king.
And he addresses that way and the king walks into the plot and
is gives in to him and says how long will it take?
That's in chapter 2. How long is it going to take?
That means king has is positively wanting to grant his
request. OK that will.
I don't want to rush into the next weeks message but the point
I'm trying to hear is he has spoken to the king in a way to
camouflage the issue and because he if he mentions everything
he's not going to get it. So he just camouflages issues
and speaks to the king and gets his favor.
But then 4 generations the time has not healed things.
It needed a man who had to confess his sins, his family
sins and his nation sins. And the revival comes the
confession. There's power in confession is
the same thing that Daniel did, is the same thing that Moses
did. He confesses sins of Israelites.
God said, hey, these people are rebellious and stiff naked.
They are not going to change. I want to wipe out every one of
them. I will raise you and make you a
nation. And Moses said, God, remember
that you are a compassionate God.
You are a merciful God. Don't forget who you are.
If you do that, people are going
to say that you are unable to bring your people into the
promised land, so you kill them. When our heart is aligned with
the heart of God, your interests will fade away.
Only the interests of God will rule your heart and your mind.
And there is power in confession.
There's power in confession. So you have the story of Jonah.
The word of the Lord came to Jonah, go to Nineveh.
I said no, no, no, I don't want those people to be saved.
So he goes to Tarshish under a different direction.
And of course you know the story how God ordered a whale or a
fish or a dolphin or water large enough to swallow him alive and
spit him out on the shores from where he could walk into
Nineveh. And then when he preached the
message he said 40 days, 40 days, the gods judgment is
coming upon this nation only 40 days.
And you he must have been half of his in three days of time.
All the juices from the belly, belly of the fish must have
eaten away his clothes and discolored and spelling fishy
and things falling from his hair everywhere, all his body and his
walking in the seats. 40 days you are going to be destroyed.
40 days you are going to be destroyed.
That news went up to the king is a crazy man saying 40 days the
Kingdom is going to be overthrown.
And king says did he say that? I don't care if he's crazy man,
but let's believe him. And he decreed that everybody
will fast with sackcloth, even the animals, own animals.
You have to put a sackcloth on animal, your horse, your
Buffalo, your cow, your sheep, and the children, babies, they
repented. And then what happened?
God changed his mind to punish the nation.
Is there anything that can change?
God is a contract heart. We opened our worship this
morning with what is the song we sang create in me a clean heart
Ogar that's from Psalm 51, Create in me a clean heart every
song today, you know, I said, oh, this is all my messages all
going there in the every song was addressing it and that is
the Holy Spirit. I, I didn't tell them what I'm
going to preach and they didn't tell me what they are going to
sing. But everything is falling in its
place. And that is the work of the Holy
Spirit. Praise God for it.
Praise God for the worship team. So you've got a King David who
has committed adultery and murder.
You look into the book of Leviticus.
The book of Leviticus talks about different kinds of
sacrifices, offerings for sins committed unintentionally.
You are not plan to do it, you do it.
Then there is a sacrifice to forgive you and to cover your
sin. No sacrifice for willful sin.
And that is the reason why King
David, even though he had committed adultery with
Bathsheba, then God, her husband Oraya, to be killed in the
battle, double sin. But this is willful sin.
There's no remission, no covering, no sacrifice to cover
his sin. He must be put to death.
He must be cut off from the people of Israel.
He must be punished. And he had this child growing in
Bathsheba. And the child is born and the
child died, but became sick and died.
And he was fasting for seven days and everything is all over,
and he thought nobody knows about it until the word of the
Lord came to Nathan and he came and confronted King David.
Until then, he did not realize that he has offended God more
than one year. If it happened to David, King
David, it happened to us. We may not be ready to repent,
but I tell you, good things will happen.
Refreshing times will come. Blessing will come when we
repent. I know.
What is the question in your mind?
Are we not believers? Is not all our sin forgiven?
Why are you talking to me today about confession?
Again, I tell you this part of the confession thing.
We will never come out until the Lord comes.
It was Martin Luther who said there are two kinds of sins,
sins of Commission and sense of omission.
What is sense of Commission? What they should not do You do
the sins of Commission. What is sense of omission?
You don't do what you are supposed to do good things.
I usually give an example like your, your, your, you bought
your ticket, you put your money, has swiped your car and you are
sitting in the bus and you are going and at one stop, one guy
jumps into the bus, doesn't swipe the car, doesn't put the
money and he comes and sits next to you.
If you did not pay your fare, that sends a Commission.
But you saw that that guy did not pay his fare, he didn't
swipe his card. But are you telling the driver,
hey, stop, this guy hasn't put the money, we don't do it.
That is enough omission. Am I communicating?
So he said at the end of the day, Martin Luther is lying down
on the bed and he would say, Lord, forgive me my sins of
Commission and sins of omission. Why all of us committed.
So we need to, we need to confront ourselves every day and
the end of the day, we have to confront ourselves and repent.
Examine how things went. Examine somebody whose face
changed when you said something to them.
Recall, oh, I said it, it hurt them, but I didn't apologize.
Make it good next day, but first with God first before you close
your eyes and sleep. That is how you deal with sin.
You don't let it go for the next day.
You need to repent quickly. And I tell you this, this, this
concept of confession, it goes on through the Bible.
You will come up to 1 John where you say, where John writes, you
know, he's faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness when when we confess our sin. 1 John
19. And then you go into the Book of
Revelation. In the Book of Revelation you
see to the letter 7 letters are written to seven churches and to
Ephesus. He says, Yet I hold this against
you. You have forsaken the love you
heard at first sight. At first consider how far you
have fallen. Repent and do the things you did
at first. If you do not repent, I will
come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Judgment. Why do you have to go through
judgment when there is a facility and available means of
being forgiven? Confess, repent, confess,
repent. You know without repentance,
confession is incomplete. Confession is not only
confession is you agree and say the same thing.
If God says you are told a lie, when you confess you are say I
told a lie. If God says you committed a
murder, you say I committed murder.
That's confession agreeing and saying the same thing that God
is saying about you. But repentance is you go, you
are going this way and when you repent, you make a 180° turn and
go the other way. That's repentance.
So you need to confess and repent together.
It makes one complete act. I have talked to so many
families, every family, one person is ready to say sorry.
Another person is never ready to say sorry.
It just happens. All the families have seen I
already have come across not even one.
I cannot say even one family where both are ready to say
sorry and not come across one. That is just the nature, human
nature. But the longer we hold back to
say I'm sorry so long, you're depriving joy in the family, joy
in the family stolen. They will come and picks up the
joy and goes away, disappears until you say sorry.
It is not going to be changed. It is not going to be changed.
We should ask for grace to say sorry when it has to be said
right time, quickly delaying is not going to help.
We should ask God, Lord, give me grace to repent.
Give me grace to say sorry. Give me grace to confess.
This is very important. I am telling you, you can't
learn about it. After 100 years of age, Now I am
old. I can't do anything.
I will learn to say sorry now. No, that's not the time it is.
Now is the time we have to learn to say sorry and then revelation
another church Pergamum, never that.
I have a few things against you. There are some among you who
hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the
Israelites of sin so they ate food, sacrificed idols and
committed sexual immorality. Likewise, you also have those
who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Repent therefore. Otherwise I will soon come to
you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Now that is a higher degree of God becoming your enemy and
fighting against you because you are not willing to repent.
As a church we must repent as well.
Theatra he writes again to make it quick.
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is
unwilling. So there's going to be judgment.
And then he talks to Sardis. I know your deeds.
You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Wake up. Strengthen what remains and is
about to die. For I have found your deeds
unfinished in the sight of my God.
Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard.
Hold it fast and repent. If you do not wake up, I will
come like a thief. So what does the repentance do?
What does confession do? It makes you awake.
It keeps you alert to the plan of God, action of God, heart of
God. And I have tell you, it makes
you sensitive, it makes you responsible.
It just makes life easy for you and for others.
So when we confess what happens is here in to the Levodicia.
This is a church that was neither neither warm or not not
hot. Those whom I love a rebuke and
discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Here I am. I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in
and eat with that person and they're with me.
Repentance restores fellowship with God.
You want to enjoy fellowship with God.
Look, examine what needs to be confessed.
And then he says, I'm standing at the door and knocking.
When you repent, say I'm sorry. I will come into your heart and
I will eat with you, you with me.
Intimacy with God is the ultimate goal, and repentance
helps us achieve it. And Nehemiah understood it and
began the right way, confessing the sins of the people, his
family, nation, so that good times may come.
And you know what is very interesting about Nehemiah?
He is like many Christians, modern day Christians.
He did not have a vision like Daniel had, like Joseph had
dreams. Nothing, no dreams, no visions.
Yet you have a man who is sold out to do the will of God and
who stands by faith and wages the war by faith and goes and
rebuilds the walls. In 52 days six of the gates have
been set up, walls have been replaced, burnt stones removed
and reinstated. In 52 days.
You ask Nehemiah, when you go to heaven, did you have a dream
that one day you are going to do this thing?
No, no, no, I never had any dream.
Ah, did you have? Thus says the Lord, I am
appointing you a man to go and rebuild the walls.
No, there is no revelation from God for Nehemiah.
What made Nehemiah success is his heart aligned with the heart
of God. When the things of God are not
in the right place, your heart is grieved and God says that is
my will to restore and he. You don't need another word to
come, no revelation you need, you don't need a dream.
You just stand up and do the will of God and God will go
before you and fight for you and support you.
Repentance is the key. Refreshing times will come.
Walls will stand up, gates will be restored, honor will be
restored. When we begin with repentance,
sometimes the consequences are too far out that we may not be
able to control them. Things that have happened 20-30
years ago. But when we say, Lord, I'm
sorry, I repent. God who is outside the timeline
can put his hand on what happened 20 years ago, 30 years
ago, and set right the consequences in the present time
so that your future will be a blessing.
That is our God. That is our God.
Repentance softens the heart, makes it more playable like a
play DoH in the hands of God. You become useful in the hands
of God when you repent. Repentant does not go unnoticed.
When a person is repenting, he is changing, His heart is
changing, his mind is changing. Nobody can say he is the same
guy. I have seen him for 20 years.
No, the change will be visible to everybody.
You cannot contain the flashing of the Thunder and the
lightning, and you cannot hide A repented heart.
You cannot. Everybody will know that you are
a different person and they will gravitate to you.
They will connect with you, they will relate with you, and it's
going to be beautiful. Repentance is not a feeling,
eating, feeding on the guilt. It's not feeling, eating,
feeding on the guilt. It is like a rope someone who is
drowning hangs on to. When somebody is drowning and
you throw a rope and he clutches the rope.
The moment he clutches the rope, death is cancelled.
Life begins the same moment. The time you grasp that rope,
the death is cancelled and the life begins to operate in your
life. Hope begins to operate in your
life. Light comes into situation where
everything was dark before. Do you know what it is like to
drown in the water? It will confuse your mind.
You will be breathless, you will be forced to drink water and
then when you are pulled out they are going to push on your
belly and bring out the water again.
Its just traumatic. But if you grab the rope, all
those things will be cancelled. You are going to begin to see
light. Demand is not feeling, eating,
feeding on guilt. It is just broken.
I just want to share with you
that rope is a lost mercy. That rope is a lost mercy.
CS Lewis is a very great thinker and a writer and a philosopher
and he has many things to say about repentance.
In his book called Mere Christianity.
He writes now repentance is no fun at all.
Its not fun. What does he say?
Its something much harder than merely eating humble pie.
It means unlearning all the self conceit, self will.
It means undergoing kind of death.
You will be demolished and a new person comes out like a sphinx
from the ash rising from the ashes.
That's the power of confession. Repentance is not something God
demands of you before He will take you back.
It is simply a description of what going back is like.
It doesn't make that a condition, but that's what it is
all going to happen when you repent and turn to God.
In other words, repentance isn't a toll we paid to earn.
Gods love is the very path that leads us back into His arms.
Repentance is very important. Repentance is not believing in
self. But abandoning self is not going
on saying hi Ramana, hi Ramana, no that Ramana has to die.
When we repent, that comes an end of self will, self
determination and it is like a rebellion.
When a man is rebelling against a king, he has a sword in his
hand, bow and arrow in his hand or rifle In the modern days
AK47. But when you repent, you put
your arms down and raise your hands up and surrender.
That's the song you are singing today.
I surrender it all. Confession is not about shame.
Oh, to say sorry, you think, oh, I'll be so ashamed to say I'll
be put down. No, it is not about shame.
It is power. Power to restore relationship,
power to restore future, power to change things.
It's not to put you put shame at all, but forgiveness,
reconciliation, restoration, joy and peace.
Repentance opens the door for forgiveness. 1 down 19 brings
healing and renewal. 2nd Chronicle 714 King Solomon when
he built the temple, he said when people look at look towards
this temple and pray, be attentive, listen, open your
ears, hear their prayer and answer.
That's repentance. It's not emotional,
intellectual, but a volitional elements of repentance.
I will rise and go. And you know, there is a song by
Jonathan and Melissa Hessler Hilson they called ABBA.
And that song, I listen to it every day before I begin to
pray. The first song that plays is
ABBA. And what you see here is that
you see that father coming running after the prodigal son
with a ring and a robe. Ring stands for authority, robe,
forgiveness and righteousness. The Father is not ashamed of his
son. He is not ashamed.
He he is saying, the son is saying I am not worthy to be
called your son. Make me a slave, make me a
servant in your house. And father says, son, stop that.
Here is the ring and here is the room.
I tell you, every time you pray and you play the song, your
prayer is going to change. I don't know how long it will
hold on somebody's attention, but try it.
ABBA. But Jonathan and Melissa Helser,
I'm asking Joseph to sing it for us now.
And as a song is playing, look with a intentionally look at
your past life, all the past, and look at the things that you
need to repent and say sorry to God.
And you want this renovation to happen.
You want a refreshing time to come.
You want the new foundation to be laid.
You want the vast to be built. You want the guest to be set up.
You want that protection to come.
You want the blessing to come. You wanted the joy and peace of
God to come and change the life of your family, yourself, and
the community and the church. Just do so you can come to the
front and surrender yourself to Jesus.
Surrender to him. Thanks for.
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