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We Pray You Are Walking in His Peace, Wisdom, Power and Great Victory That Are Yours!
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...in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their sins against them...2 Cor 5:19
...Through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Acts 13:38
"I will forgive their iniquity, I will remember their sin no more.” Jer 31:34b
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Forgiving Yourself – Ken Barnes
But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. (1 John 1:9 NLT)
When we confess our sin, God always forgives us. Even people we have sinned against will sometimes forgive us, but the real problem may be forgiving ourselves.
There is an incident in my life that I chronicle in my book “Broken Vessels.” I said something very hurtful that my daughter overheard. God forgave me as soon as I asked—my daughter almost as soon—but forgiving myself has been a process.
Some of you reading this devotional, like me, have said or done things you regret. You may have hurt others very deeply. You wish you had a rewind button on your life—where you can go back to your transgression, delete it and record it with the proper action or response. Unfortunately, life is not like that. You cannot rewrite history.
Hurting people hurt others, but that is no excuse for our actions. All we can do is repent and take responsibility for our actions and live our lives openly before God and man. Transparency can help others to never make the same mistake. In this way, even flaws in our character can be redemptive.
Our scriptural reference tells us that if we ask, God forgives us. Should we not do likewise for ourselves. God has the ability to forget sin, we don’t, and that is not always bad. It reminds us never to do it again. Nevertheless, morbid guilt is never productive. Christ died to take away our shame and guilt; holding onto them can be unbelief and a slap in the face of God.
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Life of Jesus: The Four in One Gospel of Jesus
Nikola Dimitrov
Have you ever wondered about the chronological order of events in the life of our Lord Jesus while He was on earth? Or have you heard the secular accusations that the 4 gospels in the Bible contradict each other?
"Every so often, it does Christians good to stand back from the four Gospels and get a sense of how the whole story might work as a continuous narrative. Nikola Dimitrov has done a remarkable service in producing this compilation of all four Gospels so that the reader can feel the full impact of the unique and explosive story they tell." N.T. Wright Professor of Testament and Early Christianity
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Great Book To Share With Anyone Who Does Not Believe or To Encourage the Faith of Those Who Do Believe
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