Posts Tagged ‘ Repent ’
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:9, ESV
We either complain that God is not doing enough to stop evil or is too mean to those who choose not to believe Him.
Yet we see God’s grace in waiting to end this world for the sake of those who will yet believe before He finally returns to punish all wickedness.
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38, ESV
When we repent and believe in Christ, we receive the Holy Spirit, and He helps us glorify Christ by loving others and sharing the good news of Christ.
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.
Proverbs 13:6, ESV
Christ’s righteousness has cleansed is and declared us blameless, but those who choose to remain in their sin only have wrath to face. May we pray they find Christ.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 11:13, ESV
When we sincerely seek the forgiveness found in Christ, we get what the Holy Spirit – Christ in us, God with us. We become one with the Chirch and have hope for eternal life.
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning”
Joel 2:12, ESV
We must lament our sin, desire the change in our hearts and minds, and seek the only One who can cleanse us and give us peace within and with Him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9, ESV
We must confess our sins to God. It is helpful to confess to each other, as well, which is one of the reasons we need the Church.
Confess and be clean.
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out
Acts 3:19, ESV
We are guilty of sin and killing our God.
Turn from sin and to God. Let the Holy Spirit change your thinking. Let the Church help you grow.
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 18:20, ESV
We call out sin. We repent. We glorify God.
Together.
In Christ.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son
Colossians 1:13, ESV
Being found in Christ is truly seeing, freed from the oppression of sin into the glorious light and life of Christ.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2, ESV
When saturated in the culture, it is easier to be like everyone else. Move with the Spirit to be made new in Christ in every moment.
a simple man of God 