The beginning of a prayer life is understanding that we've been given more than we deserve and that we really need to thank God for the extra blessings. Every day we awaken to life, our blessings are greater than our burdens. Spending all your time thinking about what God has taken from you blinds you to the overwhelming abundance of what God has given to you.
Being made in the image of God is actually two blessings. The first blessing is being made in God's image. The second blessing is knowing that you're made in God's image. If you don't know this, you must learn it before you start believing the worst things hateful people say about you. Is there a purpose to life?
What happens after I die? All these are eternal mysteries, not mere problems, and they deserve our time and prayerful attention. Just thinking about them ennobles, confirms and transforms us.
If we spend our time asking, "Do we have enough cheese? Is what I have done so bad that I will be excluded from forgiveness and the kingdom of heaven? Your poverty of spirit — your acknowledgement of sin and your longing to turn from it — will lead you to repent and turn to God. So be one who loves the truth. The truth shall make you free.
You have such a grace over your life — you can be set free from being a slave of sin, and can be a true disciple of Jesus. John Not only is He able to forgive your sin, but He is also able to save you from sinning. Make use of this grace — He is able to completely save all those who acknowledge the truth about their need. When you receive the Holy Spirit who shows you your sin, He also gives you the power to overcome sin. Then when you die you can go straight into heaven with the assurance of eternal life if you continue on this way!
Yes, you can repent and ask for forgiveness today. God will forgive you, and you can begin on this pathway of righteousness from this moment, with a conscience washed clean and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Read Listen Watch Explore. Home Explore Read Listen Watch. Have I gone too far for forgiveness? But what if one were to repent of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? Is there no forgiveness for the person who repents of this sin?
The answer seems to be that the nature of this sin is such that one does not repent of it, because those who commit it and persist in it do not know that they are sinning. Kaiser, Jr. He is an author of various books, some academic such as Polycarp and Paul , some semi-academic such as What Are Spiritual Gifts? He has a heart for God and ministry, has written many worship songs, and has served as a worship pastor in local church ministry.
Kenneth Berding — November 11, Carmen Imes — November 08, Kenneth Berding — November 04, Carmen Imes — November 01, But no text in either the Old or New Testaments ever says any such thing. Why was their sin against the Holy Spirit and not against Jesus?
Their sin was against the Holy Spirit because it was by the power of the Spirit that Jesus performed his healings and miracles. Jesus himself said in Matt.
The miracles he performed, he performed in the power of the Spirit. Thus their sin was attributing to the Devil what the Spirit did. They simply said, in a remarkable display of hardness of heart and spiritual blindness: the Devil empowered you to do it.
The answer is found in the relationship between Jesus and the religious leaders and how they responded to him. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is willful, wide-eyed slandering of the work of the Spirit, attributing to the devil what was undeniably divine.
These people had seen as clearly as anyone could see and understood as lucidly as anyone could understand that Jesus performed his miracles by the power of the Spirit. Yet they defiantly insisted, contrary to what they knew to be true, that it was Satan who empowered him. The miracles Jesus performed were credentials of heaven. The religious leaders declared them to be the credentials of hell.
According to Matthew , they actually charged Jesus himself with being demonized! They, in effect, declared him to be a demon! His family may have thought he was mentally deranged, but the Pharisees declared him to be morally demonic. This, then, was not a one-time, momentary slip or inadvertent mistake in judgment. This was a persistent, life-long rebellion in the face of inescapable and undeniable truth. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not a careless act committed only once in a moment of rage or rebellion, but a calloused attitude over time; a persistent defiance that hardens and calcifies the heart.
The Pharisees had been present when Jesus healed the sick. They saw him perform miracles up close and personal. They witnessed him raise the dead. They watched with their very eyes as skin infected with leprosy suddenly and decisively became clean and smooth and whole. They had heard him teach with power and authority.
They had watched as demons fled his presence as he set free those in bondage. They watched with their own eyes as he gave sight to the blind.
Notwithstanding all this, they openly and persistently and angrily and arrogantly declared that he did it all by the power of the Devil!
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