'PREVENIENT GRACE'

Prior to our awareness of God, God prepares us to turn to HIM.

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Jesus said, "No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me." (John 6:44; see also Jeremiah 31:3; 1 John 4:10) 

These, and other scriptures, are clear in demonstrating that God cultivates our hearts long before we have any inclination to turn to God. 

Even amidst the tattered shreds of our sinful existence, as fallen creatures totally incapable of even desiring to turn to God, the Holy Spirit creates within us a desire for a relationship with God. 

This gracious activity takes place well ahead of our consciousness of it; indeed, we often believe that our returning to God is something that we cook up within our own souls. 

Quite the contrary, scripture makes it plain that it is God's gift of grace which, initially, sparks are thought, interest, and desire to come to God:

Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV): "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you..."

Jeremiah 31:3 (KJV): "...I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."

Ezekiel 34:11, 16 (ESV): "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out...I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak..."

Luke 19:10: "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."

John 6:44: "No man can come unto me, unless the Father who hath sent me, draw him..."

John 12:32: "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”

Romans 2:4: "...the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance..."

Ephesians 1:13 (NASB): "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise..."

Philippians 2:12-13: "...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do."

1 John 4:19: "We love him, because he first loved us."

Titus 2:11: "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men."

ABBA FATHER...

My focus now is unabashedly on 'HIGHER THINGS'...in HEAVENLY PLACES. 

PRECIOUS HOLY SPIRIT, 'i' surrendered everything 'i' am, have and hope to be.

Not 'even' concerned about what any man can do to me...

Not 'even' concerned about that inheritance...promised the redeemed...

As my worship and praise is not based on those 'things'...

'i''ve touched the hem of YOUR Garment and the flow of my despair, hurt, my most hidden iniquities was not just healed..but made WHOLE...by YOUR Sovereign and personal declaration and decree over me...

SO please, HOLY SPIRIT, jus' allow me one moment in eternity to pour out my oil and tears from that Alabaster Box of my overcoming testimony on our KING OF KING'S FEET.

That is the only reward I humbly seek...

PLEASE.

DEALING WITH THE SPIRIT OF OFFENSE...

FATHER, in the Name of JESUS, I have seen in Your Word, that I have to let offenses go.

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FATHER, Your Word says that I must forgive those who have hurt me because You forgave me.  

I repent of the 'sin of offense' and I ask for YOUR forgiveness.

I now know I cannot forgive them completely in my own strength. 

FATHER, I submit to your Precious HOLY SPIRIT as I submit my will and deepest desire to forgive to YOU.

Therefore, as an act of my will, I choose to forgive. 

As the Heavenly Father has freely forgiven me of my sins:

I freely forgive [begin to name all the people the HOLY SPIRIT brings to mind] for the injustice I feel they have done unto me. 

I forgive them. 

I release them.

I LET IT GO!!! 

The debt has been paid in Jesus' Name! According to Your Word, I believe that the original, unsayable debt against me has been paid. 

I am free! I am free! 

I declare that I am free in Jesus' Name!

Yes and AMEN.

~CONFESSION~

I love God's Word, above my feelings. 

I love God's Word above making myself feel satisfied at holding a grudge against someone who hurt me.  

I love God's Word, and because I love His law:

• I'm going to have great peace in my life.

• I'm NOT going to allow any person or anything to cause me to stumble.

BREAKING UNGODLY SOUL TIES...

The Breaking Soul and Spirit Ties: Fornication

Father, in the name of Jesus, I am acknowledging that I have sinned against myself and against you by defiling my body through the sexual sin of fornication. 

Right now I need to repent of this offense and ask forgiveness of my sin. I am also repenting that I have defiled my former:

lover/husband/wife/partner by agreeing with him/her to commit the sin. 

I ask for the Blood of Jesus to cleanse me from the sin of fornication. 

Father God, as I commit to turn away and completely cease all sexual sin in

imagination and in action, I receive your forgiveness and I receive the power of the Blood of JESUS CHRIST to cleanse me from every defilement that comes with THE ACT of fornicating.