Title: What Believers Should Become After They Become Christ Followers
Text:
Ephesians 4:32 (ESV)
32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Observation:
One of the things that we should always remember is how much we have been forgiven by God.
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, this is what He taught them about forgiveness.
Matthew 6:12 (ESV)
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
This daily prayer for forgiveness is not about justification. This was settle by Jesus on the cross at Calvary.
Romans 5:1 (ESV)
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
What is in view when we pray for daily forgiveness is for the sin in our heart that cases us to be out of fellowship with God. We need forgiveness every day, and every hour to maintain a right relationship with God, and with others.
I make these verses my daily prayer of repentance of present sins, and my hope for today and tomorrow.
Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
1 John 1:7-9 (ESV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Thy name; there is no name in heaven or on earth that is greater than the name of the Lord.
Father, I am so grateful for Your love, and for the gift of forgiveness that I have received from Your heart and hands. Father, help me to be as forgiving to others as You have been to me. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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