Saturday, September 20, 2014

Awesome!

Broken and Contrite Religious PowerPoint

There are so many scriptures that call God's people to repentance. The call is not even to the unbelieving, ungodly, worldly unsaved, but to God's own people. We sometimes get diverted seeing the sin in the world around us, that we forget the call to repentance is to us. It is one of the Father's ways of "delivering us from evil", delivering us from the plots of the enemy, delivering us from His own righteous judgment. It is a privilege and a mercy from a loving God.
"Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me."           Psalm 51:10 
From 2 Chron. 7:13-14, we read this familiar passage:
"When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
A whole nation can be healed and forgiven from the act of repentance of God's own people. Awesome!
In Joel 2:12-14, again, God urges His people to repent:
"Now, therefore, says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him- A grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?"
The repentance of God's people causes God to relent from doing harm, and leave a blessing behind instead. Awesome!
Again from Psalm 51, God desires a repentant heart, a rent heart:
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart-
These, O God, You will not despise." 
There is another example from Ex. 34:6-10:
"And the LORD passed before him (Moses) and proclaimed.
"The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance."
As Moses made this repentance before the LORD, the LORD changed a nation:
"And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you..."
He will make a covenant.
He will do marvels that have never been done in any nation.
All the people around us will see the work of the LORD.
He will do an awesome thing with us.
One man's repentance would cause the LORD to do marvels and wonders and works - awesome things. 
Awesome!

Our Father wants to do awesome things.

"Our God is Awesome!"
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