29/09/2024
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Genesis 50:20
Scripturally, I almost lost heart as the bible states. But God...
The bible tells us that many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us out of them all--there it goes again, but God...
God gave me this scripture when I first got saved, maybe about a year into to the journey of relationship with Jesus Christ. I have made both good and bad, scriptural and unscriptural choices. I have sinned against God, I have been sick, I have had my heart deeply broken, I have had many tell lies, or tell the truth with changes about me, some things may have been true with a lie twist.
In the past, I have experienced times where I was disgusted with life as a person because I thought the plan I had was God's plan too. Only to find, that God's plan was completely different than mine. After all, I surrendered to Him wholeheartedly. When I had surrendered to Christ it was wholeheartedly, honest, pure, glorious, and full of joy.
I have received deliverances, miracle after miracle, prophecies, many blessings, and even have seen family members come to Jesus Christ since I the Lord saved me. I am blessed. But here is where you can learn a thing or two from me. And yes, to the very religious folks out there, I was fasting, praying, and repenting through all of it. I deeply and still deeply want God's change to transpire in my life in every area and on a daily basis (thank you Lord).
I was never a hypocrite, because I feel that honesty was the best policy in our relationship--so I stayed honest with myself and God. I battled spiritually, emotionally, and physically. The entire time, God was there, holding me by the hand in every circumstance and choice I faced. Each and every time God dealt with me, he used people to do it, who were completely wrong in situations, 100 percent, there was no doubt about it, outsiders saw it and insiders ignored it.
Admittedly, there have been many times, when I was 100 percent and completely wrong no doubt about it and God forgave me, so I, in turn, forgave. with the attitude, if I remembered it, I was not truly forgiving. However, in forgiveness you can maintain boundaries for your own mental health.
I determined not just to forgive, but I forgave to the point that God does, relentlessly, effortlessly, tirelessly, and purely. He removes what we do wrong with our moral failures and departures as far as the east is from the west and forgets it in instantly.
I admit that in cases of active forgiveness, that type of forgiveness is hard and yet that is what we do with God every day. We make him actively forgive us because we repent, but we need to overcome that things we are turning away from--sometimes with great ease, sometimes with great difficulty.
We make God, I make God actively forgive me. We all need to repent and turn away from our sin--we can't be like Jesus heal me forgive me--but oops don't touch this thing or that thing, it hurts too much. We (I) have to surrender that thing to him.
All we have to do is ask with a pure intent tell the truth and talk to him. He is the wonderful counselor; he is the God who heals and delivers--a true miracle working God. The beauty of that is that he will forgive us if we are just honest with him.
That is how I live my life. I backed away from the right thing to do for a period of time, but in that time, I learned more about just how beautiful God's forgiveness is and how much it is not because I am a good child--Jesus is not Santa. It's not based on our works, but on God's only son on the cross then off the cross.
Personally, my journey has been rough, but the road has not been so ragged that I have lost sight of what's important. In fact, many things I once placed a great significance on is now changed exponentially.
I have repented moved on, and am living in active forgiveness, and praying against anything I may have done to hurt the Lord and myself. If you are reading this wrong and you feel sorry for me based on this share, you need to look deep inside are you strong enough to declare that you need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
Everyone's heart's been broken, everyone has committed sins, and not one person in this world, outside of Jesus Christ, who was God come down in the flesh and God raised him from the dead, can say they have not sinned.
I am so grateful for "But God." None of it is based on me and my goodness, it's all about forgiveness.
Pray This Prayer for Salvation (and forgiveness):
Lord, I admit I am a sinner. I need and want Your forgiveness. I accept Your death as the penalty for my sin and recognize that Your mercy and grace is a gift You offer to me because of Your great love, not based on anything I have done. Cleanse me and make me Your child. By faith I receive You into my heart as the Son of God and as Savior and Lord of my life. From now on, help me live for You, with You in control. In Your Jesus name--Amen.
Bible Verses about Salvation
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit
Romans 10:9
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Acts 4:12
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Acts 16:30-33
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
