The Journey to reconcile to God may appear to be difficult. It is important to Understand some basic principles about God.
1. God LOVES you and I with an everlasting love and nothing or noone can change his love. Not even backsliding (Romans 8:39)
2. God accepts us because of Jesus Christ. (Eph 1:6)
3. When we repent, God forgives! (1 John 1:9)
4. God does not condemn those who are in Christ Jesus(Romans 1:8)
5. God himself will heal the backslider. I encourage you to read this annointed sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon.
Remember, A period of spritual cleansing and purification is encouraged. Be led of the Spirit of God.
It is the backslider's responsibility to:
1. Turn away from the things, people, places, activities and attitudes that are not helpful to the cleansing and healing process.
2. Ask for God's help in identifying and removing the soul ties and strong holds in your life.
3. Seek after God with all your might.
4. Forsake self, pick up your cross and follow Christ.
5. Let the joy of the Lord be your strenght.
6. PRAY, PRAY, PRAY.
7. Read God's Word
8. Ask God to lead you in all your daily walk.
9. Have a strong support network. Your network does not have to big; but it has to be strong.
10. Be accountable to someone.
11. If dealing with an addiction of any kind, seek the appropriate help.
12. Take one step at a time and praise God for each step that you take.
I trust your heart is encouraged. You are surrounded by love and by people who want you to succeed. Most of all, you have an Advocate who sits on the right hand of God making intercession for you! Always remember to agree with the intercessory prayers of Jesus that he prays for you before the Father.
May God Bless You.
I love you with the love of Christ. I am praying for you.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding
I am called of God to preach His Word. I loved the Lord with all my heart, but had taken my eyes off of the high calling of God. I found myself living in the most destitute state of open sin. But thank God, the word teaches whom God loves he chastises. Truly, like a lost sheep, I kept wandering farther and farther from the fold of the pasture. But, like the loving shepherd, my Lord pursued me. I kept running. But by providential circumstances, He brought a crisis that halted me and cause me to see my sinful state. Not that he had not done that before, but I was so intent on following the idols of my heart that I could not see what I had become, a backslider.
Praise God today, I have repented from my sin. I have asked God to break the ungodly soul-ties and to breakup the templates of my mind that held the patterns for the memories of my sins. God was merciful.
The reconciliation back to God was beautiful! But, I noticed that a part of me still had longings and I had the tendency to ‘validate’ those longings. Then, I heard a song and I realized that though I had repented, though God had forgiven me, I still had idols in my heart. I had to ask God to remove the idols from my heart. I give my idols to God.
Of course, to me, the spiritual restoration appears to be the easy part, when it is compared to having to live, work, and exist in a community in which you openly sinned. The good news is that somehow the condemnation that I thought I might feel, is not there, just a quiet patience to wait on the Lord.
I started this blog so that if there are believers, who for any reason, have walked away from their faith and the communion with God, that I might share my life, testimony, and journey back to God, to help to encourage them in their quest to be reconciled to the Kingdom of God.
I am confident that God truly loves you and that He is married to the Backslider, and that He himself will heal your backsliding.
I am called of God to preach His Word. I loved the Lord with all my heart, but had taken my eyes off of the high calling of God. I found myself living in the most destitute state of open sin. But thank God, the word teaches whom God loves he chastises. Truly, like a lost sheep, I kept wandering farther and farther from the fold of the pasture. But, like the loving shepherd, my Lord pursued me. I kept running. But by providential circumstances, He brought a crisis that halted me and cause me to see my sinful state. Not that he had not done that before, but I was so intent on following the idols of my heart that I could not see what I had become, a backslider.
Praise God today, I have repented from my sin. I have asked God to break the ungodly soul-ties and to breakup the templates of my mind that held the patterns for the memories of my sins. God was merciful.
The reconciliation back to God was beautiful! But, I noticed that a part of me still had longings and I had the tendency to ‘validate’ those longings. Then, I heard a song and I realized that though I had repented, though God had forgiven me, I still had idols in my heart. I had to ask God to remove the idols from my heart. I give my idols to God.
Of course, to me, the spiritual restoration appears to be the easy part, when it is compared to having to live, work, and exist in a community in which you openly sinned. The good news is that somehow the condemnation that I thought I might feel, is not there, just a quiet patience to wait on the Lord.
I started this blog so that if there are believers, who for any reason, have walked away from their faith and the communion with God, that I might share my life, testimony, and journey back to God, to help to encourage them in their quest to be reconciled to the Kingdom of God.
I am confident that God truly loves you and that He is married to the Backslider, and that He himself will heal your backsliding.
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