the fellowship that is found through being part of the family in Christ is such a great blessing and has been thoroughly fun! It's great to know that we go through this life not alone, but with friends and family to pull us through, and not forgetting the One who lives inside of us that connects us all together!
1 Samuel 7:3
3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
A very simple that just spoke to me again.. the message of repentance, by turning back towards the Lord through the actions of putting away the foreign gods(everything in our life that is placed above God), preparing our hearts for the Lord and no one else, and serving Him only! Very important that no compromise is made, and that the Lord is made number one again in our lives, and in our hearts(with no if's, buts, or strings attached). Only then will He deliver us from our enemies, which was what happened in the passage.
A very common problem that i found in my own life was that at the end of each day, i would look back into what i did the whole day, what i did right, and what i did wrong. When i know that i had sinned, i would pray and ask God for forgiveness because i know that sin should not be in my life. But after a while, praying for repentance(not neccesarily the same sin) becomes more like a habit, or a routine..which just totally defeats its purpose!
What i learnt was that true repentance had to do with the heart. In the verse above, the word 'heart' is mentioned twice. Once is to return to the Lord with ALL our heart(easier said than done, but possible), second is to prepare our hearts for Him. I always go sloppy on the second part..after returning to Him, i tend to prepare my heart to not do it the next day, or maybe even the day after. But after a while the sin always somehow sorta comes back! I believe to really repent, we have to prepare our hearts so much so that we drill it in so much that our heart becomes so concious of what we are doing, and we will always try to avoid that sin. e.g we know that stealing is bad, because we have been taught from young and it has been said so many times that it is gone into our hearts. But for other sins, things we tend to overlook, or see as not as important, which is still sin.. we tend to go slacker on them. To really break that cycle or bad habit, we have to prepare our hearts by drilling it in from head knowledge to heart knowledge till the point where we treat it as fire. Where once we touch it, we know that we will get burnt! Realise that one tiny sin, can drag us all the way down.. We have to take it very seriously!
1 Samuel 7:3
3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
A very simple that just spoke to me again.. the message of repentance, by turning back towards the Lord through the actions of putting away the foreign gods(everything in our life that is placed above God), preparing our hearts for the Lord and no one else, and serving Him only! Very important that no compromise is made, and that the Lord is made number one again in our lives, and in our hearts(with no if's, buts, or strings attached). Only then will He deliver us from our enemies, which was what happened in the passage.
A very common problem that i found in my own life was that at the end of each day, i would look back into what i did the whole day, what i did right, and what i did wrong. When i know that i had sinned, i would pray and ask God for forgiveness because i know that sin should not be in my life. But after a while, praying for repentance(not neccesarily the same sin) becomes more like a habit, or a routine..which just totally defeats its purpose!
What i learnt was that true repentance had to do with the heart. In the verse above, the word 'heart' is mentioned twice. Once is to return to the Lord with ALL our heart(easier said than done, but possible), second is to prepare our hearts for Him. I always go sloppy on the second part..after returning to Him, i tend to prepare my heart to not do it the next day, or maybe even the day after. But after a while the sin always somehow sorta comes back! I believe to really repent, we have to prepare our hearts so much so that we drill it in so much that our heart becomes so concious of what we are doing, and we will always try to avoid that sin. e.g we know that stealing is bad, because we have been taught from young and it has been said so many times that it is gone into our hearts. But for other sins, things we tend to overlook, or see as not as important, which is still sin.. we tend to go slacker on them. To really break that cycle or bad habit, we have to prepare our hearts by drilling it in from head knowledge to heart knowledge till the point where we treat it as fire. Where once we touch it, we know that we will get burnt! Realise that one tiny sin, can drag us all the way down.. We have to take it very seriously!
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