Three Steps To Spiritual Restoration
"The goodness of God leads you to repentance." Romans 2:4 NKJV
Satan wants to convince you your failures are so bad that they disqualify you in God's eyes, that you're unworthy of His love and grace, and that you should avoid God altogether. Don't believe him. Here are three steps that lead to spiritual restoration: (1) Repent. Acknowledge your sin, renounce it, and trust in the shed blood of Jesus to forgive you. God loved you when you were a sinner, and He loves you no less as one of His redeemed children who has blown it. (2) Restitution. When your actions have hurt someone, Jesus tells you what to do: "If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift" (Matthew 5:23-24 NKJV). If you want to walk in God's blessings, follow His instructions. (3) Refocus. "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV). When you focus on yourself and your failures, you're looking in the wrong mirror. When you focus on Christ and His unfailing love and grace toward you, you're looking in the right mirror. And you will be changed into the image you're focusing on. And blessedly, the change agent is not you but the Holy Spirit who lives within you. He will keep working in your life to make you more and more like Jesus.
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
Satan wants to convince you your failures are so bad that they disqualify you in God's eyes, that you're unworthy of His love and grace, and that you should avoid God altogether. Don't believe him. Here are three steps that lead to spiritual restoration: (1) Repent. Acknowledge your sin, renounce it, and trust in the shed blood of Jesus to forgive you. God loved you when you were a sinner, and He loves you no less as one of His redeemed children who has blown it. (2) Restitution. When your actions have hurt someone, Jesus tells you what to do: "If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift" (Matthew 5:23-24 NKJV). If you want to walk in God's blessings, follow His instructions. (3) Refocus. "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV). When you focus on yourself and your failures, you're looking in the wrong mirror. When you focus on Christ and His unfailing love and grace toward you, you're looking in the right mirror. And you will be changed into the image you're focusing on. And blessedly, the change agent is not you but the Holy Spirit who lives within you. He will keep working in your life to make you more and more like Jesus.
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
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