Repent: To turn from sin, and to resolve to reform one’s life. Confession: An admission to something, to declare one’s sins. Salvation: Being Saved, deliverance from sin and damnation.
Many of us have found ourselves repeatedly confessing the “same” sin to God, wondering why we can’t overcome it! In times like these we feel trapped and as if we are not worthy to call on God for deliverance (this guilty feeling is a trick of the devil to love us away from Christ). Paul writes in Romans 7:15 [For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice but what I hate, that I do]. We know wrong from right and we want to do right, but we keep falling short…so what should we do??? 1 John 1:19 If we confess our sins, He (GOD) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness! So to answer the question, we are to confess to our God who is Faithful and Just, and He will forgive us! This has to be heartfelt, genuine repentance! So when satan whispers in your ear that you’ve screwed up big time and God won’t forgive you, rebuke him in Jesus’s name! Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sin should be preached in His (Jesus) name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. Before Jesus ascended into heaven He instructed his Apostles to proclaim Repentance for the forgiveness of sins in His (Jesus) name to all (for the whole world)!!! God leaves none of us out, we are all included if we choose Him, if we repent of our sins. Revelation 2:5 What will God remove from our lives if we don’t repent?? The LIGHT, (that LIGHT being our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST), I don’t know about you but I Don’t ever want to lose my Saviour…Amen? After repenting He wants us to do “The First Works“. What is First Works? Teaching His Word to the world, showing the world the Way, helping them come to the Truth and the Life (JESUS CHRIST). Once we are Saved we have become ambassadors for CHRIST(an ambassador is diplomat who is sent to represent his country, or his parties interest in a matter) and as ambassadors we are being sent out to represent GOD’S interest,(Jesus told His disciples in Mark 16:15 – Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”), but to represent Him we have to walk as Children of the Light. He said so in Ephesians 5:8 “For you were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light”. There can be no flaws in this representation or no one will take us serious. Jude 12 says “These are spots in your feast of charity (love), when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear (respect); clouds are without water, carried about of winds trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots”. We have to do our best not to have these spots (sins) or be selfish…We must always respect God or all that we have and do will be nothing and amount to nothing. We can’t lead if we have no Light to lead the Way with!
So the next time you find that you’ve messed up, don’t wait to repent, it only gives satan more time to plant his thoughts in your head. And as long as we keep our every thoughts on God there is no room left for satan to bud in anywhere!!! Him being a roaring lion nothing if he doesn’t have any Teeth and Claws…and he can only get them if we give it to him! Satan I rebuke you in the name of my Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, you Can’t have my family, my children and you sure can’t have Marvin Calvin Jones Sr. I’m a child of the Most High GOD…Hallelujah, Thank You JESUS!!!!!!!!