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[spiritsoulandbody]

#DailyDevotion Only God Can Forgive Sins, Make Us Alive & Renew Our Hearts

#DailyDevotion Only God Can Forgive Sins, Make Us Alive & Renew Our Hearts Psalm 51 7Cleanse me from sin with hyssop and I'll be clean;wash me and I'll be whiter than snow. 8Make me to hear joy and gladness; then the limbs You crushed will be glad again. 9Hide Your face from my sins, and wipe out all my wrongs. 10Create a clean heart for me, O God and give me a steady new spirit. David uses some elements from the Day of Atonement rituals when He's asking God to do these things to him. Who alone can cleanse us from sins but God alone. Yet it is necessary for a man to die for this to happen. As such God becomes man, the God-man, Christ Jesus to be the atoning sacrifice that can cleanse us from our sins. He applies that atonement to us when we are baptized. God washes us there of our sin and makes us whiter than snow in the blood of Christ. If we are cleansed from our sins and we have then we can hear joy and gladness. Our bodies no longer are oppressed by our sin and can feel glad when we go to confession and do not try to hide our sins from God and men. Interestingly enough, when we no longer try to hide our sins like Adam when we go to confession, the LORD hides His face from our sins and all our wrongs are wiped out on account of Jesus Christ's innocent suffering and death. If we are to be pleasing to God, He and He alone needs to give us, create in us a new heart. He does this by making our heart alive again because sin has caused it to be dead and stony. He gives us a heart of flesh. God must cleanse our hearts. God must give us steady spirit that does not hide from Him but comes before Him confidently and boldly to do His will. 11Don't banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me. When we refuse to repent and confess our sins, when we stubbornly want our sins to be approved of as good, then we enter a state of mortal sin. We are banished from the presence of God as Adam and Eve were from the Garden when they sinned. Just as they died when they were deceived and rebelled against the LORD, when we commit mortal sin, the Holy Spirit departs from us. When the pastor absolves us of our sins, the blood of Christ is applied to us. The Holy Spirit makes us His residence, His temple again. With the blood of Christ sprinkled on us we can again come before the throne of grace and boldly brink our requests to the Father. 12Give me again the joy of Your salvation and a willing spirit to strengthen me. 13Then I will teach the rebellious Your ways, and sinners will come back to You. Jesus provided for us His Supper, where He gives us His true body and blood for the forgiveness of sins, the strengthening of our faith and perseverance of the same. He brings us into this new covenant where He declares Himself to be our God and we His people. He forgives us our sins and remembers them no more. Having received this He gives us the joy of His salvation and a willing spirit to hear, listen, believe and obey. The LORD's Supper is often called the Eucharist, which means thanksgiving. Having received the goodness of the LORD we offer up spiritual sacrifices of thanksgiving. We want to teach other rebels the LORD's ways so they may return to You and know this joy He has given us. We do not want to keep this good news of the Father accepting us on account of Jesus. We want others to know this joy and strength we have in the LORD. Heavenly Father, we thank you for providing us the atoning sacrifice we needed in Jesus Christ to be cleansed and washed of our sins. We give You thanks for making available the means of grace so we may receive from You life and salvation. Open our lips that we may offer up praise and thanksgiving so others too may avail themselves of this grace in Christ Jesus. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Read the full article

[youngdisciples]

This has been one of the most personal verses in the Bible so far. This just shows complete submission, complete longing and an utter desperation. Adultery and murder has made David lose the joy of God’s salvation in him and got depressed. His sin was overwhelming and made him walk away from God. 

David’s situation was just the same to us. He sinned and it is very overwhelming so it keeps us away from God. It is indeed true that sin causes our cup of joy to leak. As we continue to sin, we can notice that we became more and more depressed because we cannot even feel the nearness of God in our lives. We cannot feel His presence because our sins are very overwhelming. 

This is why this verse is very personal and a desperate call of help. David was desperately asking God to restore God’s joy of salvation in him because he no longer felt glad, joyful and thankful for God’s salvation. Instead, he felt bad, guilty and depressed because of his sin. Indeed, this is the power of sin, it can really make a big wall between man and God. Sin has really become the root cause of our separation from Him. So, David was pleading and begging God to restore God’s joy of salvation. 

He is definitely like us. As sin and death overwhelms us, we often step away from God and run to the corners to hide. We feel so guilty and shame is eating us up. We no longer enjoy praising God; we no longer pray; and we no longer acknowledge God as our source of everything. Instead, we just run to the corners to hide because we are so ashamed and guilty. Our hearts became so far away from Him. 

However, we must remember this verse. Even David, before he became a man after God’s own heart, he was an adulterer and a murderer, yet he still reached out to God and asked God to forgive him and to restore God’s joy of salvation in him. We too, should not just run to the corners and hide but we should reach out to God and beg Him to restore God’s joy of salvation inside us.

We must always pray and just face God with a thick-faced knowing that we are sinful yet we acknowledge that it is only Him who can restore us to His joy of salvation and who can give us our salvation. Jesus said that as long as we abide in Him, He will abide in us. He is our joy, He our salvation. Therefore, we must always abide in Him, so that the joy of His salvation inside us will be renewed everyday.

This is indeed very personal because of the urgency and the desperation this verse shows. We should always pray this to God and to always ask Him to renew our joy in Him. As sins entangles easily, we should also draw closer to Him. We must also pray that God may grant us a willing spirit to sustain us. Now, this is very important because we can never be restored to God’s joy if the spirit we have inside is not willing to leave our old self. 

We have to always remember that as Jesus died on the cross and we received Him, God has given us His Spirit that is continually sustaining and renewing us. So, if the spirit inside us is not willing, then we should ask God to take this unwilling spirit and replace it with His Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that is keeping us in check, renewing our joy and is growing our faith day by day through meditating on His Word. 

Therefore, let us not be ashamed to ask God and pray to Him to restore us the joy of His salvation in us. We must always ask this day by day so that we will always be reminded about the salvation we have that was bought at a high price— Jesus Christ’s blood. Indeed, our joy can be taken away from us for sins can make us numb and hard-headed but God is a loving God and He even died for us, so He is always ready to restore us into the joy of salvation with a repentant heart. 

God will also grant us His Spirit that will make us willing and that will sustain us through our day to day battle against sin. So, instead of running to the corners because we know we have sin greatly against the Lord, we must humble ourselves and run towards Him, be on our knees and desperately call for His help. God listens to our every prayer and He knows our hearts, He will without a doubt, restore us and make us a new creation in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Now, let us all pray this together:

Indeed Lord, I have sinned greatly against You and it made me dumb and it pulled me away from You. But here I am Lord, I don’t have anything to offer and all I did was to sin, please help me. I pray that You will restore unto me the joy of Your salvation. Restore unto me the joy and the thankful heart for the salvation You bought for me. Please grant me a willing spirit— Your Holy Spirit to sustain me and to keep me away from future depression and future battle against sin. I have been so away from You, Oh Lord but You have always been there for me. Thank you for Your grace and mercy, in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Amen. 

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'Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things...' - Matthew 6:34

‘Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things…’ – Matthew 6:34

Good evening, Willing Spirits! I hope you had a delightful week last week and I pray this one will be even better by God‘s grace! Last spring, I remember preparing for my exams and started thinking about how different it was going to be, because of Covid-19, which led me to think about whether they would be easier or harder now that they were online. The uncertainty and the idea of a foreign…

[payneandglory]

When you walk in the purpose that God specially designed for you, it's such a wonderful thing to see how He places the blueprint to divine connections and the pathway to favor directly in front of you. Don't stop... there's greatness in you!! #Finishing2017Strong #PayneandGlory #EmpoweredToImpact #PainInThePews #MentalHealthAndMinistry #Praise #WillingSpirit #PurposefulVision (at Payne & Glory, Inc.)

[iheartjesusco-blog]

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:10-12 #pureheart #cleanheart #steadfast #steadfastspirity #rightspirity #holyspirit #holyspiritintheoldtestament #renewme #restoremejoy #willingspirit #sustainme #grantme #psalm51 #psalm5110 #yourpresence #yourpresencelord #joyofyoursalvation

[donnapartow]

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[lovedbyjesus777]

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[msmandafrancois]

Good morning! Wishing everyone a great day! #psalms #willingspirit #blessed #dailybibleverse #gratefulforlife

[youngdisciples]

Rejoicing in His salvation.

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[youngdisciples]

We can find true joy in God alone. In His mercy, in His grace, in His salvation. 

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Extracting the Precious from Nehemiah 🙏 #readmore . . . #biblejournaling #prayer #dailybibleverse #christianlife #christianbook #theprayerteam📖 #godisgood #godlovesyou #bibleverses #verseoftheday📖 #verseoftheday #jesuslives #gospeltruth #churchfamily #manofgod #godsword #jesuslovesme #thebiblepreaching #trustjesus #dailyverse #dailypsalm #christisrisen #putgodfirst #jesuslovesyou #chrsitianbooks #faith #willingspirit — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2YZSmIi

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Glorify God 🙏❤️ . . . . #biblejournaling #prayer #dailybibleverse #christianlife #thewordofgod #theprayerteam📖 #godisgood #godlovesyou #bibleverses #verseoftheday📖 #verseoftheday #jesuslives #gospeltruth #churchfamily #manofgod #bibleverseoftheday #godsword #jesuslovesme #thebiblepreaching #trustjesus #dailyverse #dailypsalm #christisrisen #putgodfirst #jesuslovesyou #changeyourlife #faith #willingspirit — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2G4al9S

[donnapartow]

Another simple prayer. God make me willing to be willing. . . . . #biblejournaling #prayer #dailybibleverse #christianlife #thewordofgod #theprayerteam📖 #godisgood #godlovesyou #bibleverses #verseoftheday📖 #verseoftheday #jesuslives #gospeltruth #churchfamily #manofgod #bibleverseoftheday #godsword #jesuslovesme #thebiblepreaching #trustjesus #dailyverse #dailypsalm #christisrisen #putgodfirst #jesuslovesyou #changeyourlife #faith #willingspirit — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2KDcqOi