Chasing the Word of the Lord for 2021 (October Newsletter)

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Dear Partners, greetings, I pray that this month’s newsletter finds you blessed. We are looking at conviction, repentance, and forgiveness. “The understanding of the power of forgiveness.” Our study begins this month in Lev. 5:1-5. Three statements are made, “he bears guilt,” “when he realizes it,” and “he shall confess.” This is a cycle that all of us can relate to. We all have areas in our lives where behavioral patterns produce these three fruits. I feel we are in a time of illumination that is calling us to pursue victory. Wherever the pattern of our behavior is producing affliction, that produces guilt, we must be willing to realize it and confess it. Otherwise, the cycle of guilt and affliction, affliction, and guilt will never stop or be broken. Normally if there is something in our heart that hasn’t been dealt with, there will be repeated behavior usually associated with trauma. Trauma will be triggered by something familiar to the trauma. This is when we must call in Luke 4:18, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” We can come out of the cycle of guilt by being healed from behavioral patterns that lead us back to affiliations and guilt. Until we forgive or be forgiven, what we are carrying will cause reproductive cycles. Ps. 31:9, Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; My eye waste away with grief, yes, my soul and my body! For my life is spent with grief, and my years with signing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Until there is forgiveness and healing, we are left to reinvent ourselves, and it’s not in the image of Christ. I see the church chasing so many fades that comfort the soul temporarily. Some say that King David saw Bathsheba before that fatal act, (2 Sam. 11) Whether he did or not, what was in his heart came out. David at this time was out of position, he should have been out at war. I encourage you to monitor your heart, your thought life, your feelings are in conjunction with your thoughts. Our position in prayer and daily time in God's mirror, His word, will keep us sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Whether it is our time with Him alone in our prayer closet or being in church hearing the word of God preached, we can have an opportunity to realign our hearts and actions. Prophets like Nathan can be sent to us, prophets will be sent, especially when God knows we will repent. David’s willingness to repent brought an understanding to him from the Lord, 2 Sam. 12:13, “the Lord has put away your sin.” I think David’s lifelong anguish was from many unresolved moments from his childhood to his adulthood. The good news about true repentance is the voice of the Lord is real loud. God is close to the broken spirit and a contrite heart. Ps. 51:7-17, tells us that his bones hurt because of his actions, Grief had gripped him like he had lost a family member, his son. Ps. 34:18-20, The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the affiliations of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards his bones, not one is broken. In true repentance, God is closer than we might have ever let Him be before. One thing that the Lord can’t do is lie. Not one bone was broken in Jesus’ body on the cross. Bones are symbolic of promises, and not one promise has ever been broken. When God forgives our mistakes, He also forgets them!

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