Wednesday, May 06, 2009
@ 10:52 PM
Heart Attack ( Guilt )
-Anger says you owe me, guilt says i owe you
- this discomfort (guilt) is part of the healing in our life. God want to heal us and strengthen us periodically
-we don;t wait for the
hearts to be health to exercise, we exercise to make our heart healthy
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in order to lose weight (getting something done) we need to sweat it out and do something about it
-it requires us not
only to pray but also to work it out with the power of the Lord
- thus, if we want to have a strong heart and not get a heart attack, you need to work it out
- in our life, there is some bad habits that we ought to change, but not just plainly find another excuse to cover it over
WE GOT EXPOSE IT TO GOD
- we cannot allow our confession habit to support our sin habit
confession is not about guilty relieves but is to seek for forgiveness from God and change (repent)
-confession is just the first step in a sequence of steps towards change
- this is an insult to god when to go back to the sin that we once
committed after we confessed
- what comes after confession is life changed and not going back to the sin once committed
Three things that you need to know about confession:
1)
Restitution- Numbers5:6-7 :
- confession is not to make you feel guilty-free but is to change
2) Repentance
- Mark 1:4-5
- Public confession, public repentance
3) Restoration
-Luke 19:8
EXPOSE TO MAN
- James5:15-16
-when you start to expose to man, it is no longer a hidden sin and it will make you have the motivation to overcome the sin
- when you expose your sin to the light, the devil flee
- Matt 5:23-24
- open confession has the power to break he cycle of Sin