TRUE REPENTANCE
Beloved child, it grieves Me so deeply when you sin the same pattern over and over again throughout your years. I have disciplined you, allowed you to reap seeds you sow, and you are still choosing sin. I understand your upbringing, your needs, all of your pain. I also understand how difficult it is for you to face these issues and not run from My intense gaze. Never give allowance or an excuse for your sin, thus allowing scar tissue to build up between us. Shame is not repentance. Guilt is not repentance. Condemnation is not repentance. Suffering gross darkness and oppression is not penance. Giving up hope for change is not repentance.
Passionate, godly sorrow produces repentance. True repentance is offering your broken heart with tears as the sign of the great agony in your flesh in utterly failing Me, yourself and others. Beloved, I will not scorn you when you are so deeply broken. Cry out to Me to give you that new heart and let My love change you. When you have a new and repentant heart, you will do everything you can to make things right, for you will not want even one tiny thing between us.
Remember David, who had one of the highest anointings and authority in the land. He abused his authority by covet, pornography, lust, adultery, lying, and murder. He paid dearly for his sins and learned to fear Me. He did suffer a genuine broken heart and knew My discipline of losing My intimate Presence. In that discipline he matured to the place that he wanted My Presence more than he wanted sin. Beloved the only way to crucify your flesh is through loving Me more.
2 Cor 7:10 NLT
Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! …. You showed that you have done everything you could to make things right.
2 Cor 7:8-12 NKJV
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance . For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Ps 51:17 AMP
My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
Heb 12:3-4 NKJV
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
Heb 12:11 NKJV
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
