SABAOTH WINTER 2021 FORESIGHT OF THE MASTER PLANNER – The Eternal Purpose
The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart
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Faith – Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
In the series The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart we have looked at Conviction – Empowerment To See The Spirituality of God’s Law. Where we saw that Just as insufficient power from a dead battery to the starter motor of a vehicle renders it unable to start itself; as no food can in any way provide energy for a dead man; although it is the function food to give energy;
Spiritual truth cannot provide Spiritual liveliness to a mind that is dead to righteousness; as such the mind is unable to capture the essence of the truth and similarly, Spiritual truth cannot make an unregenerate will to believe.
We will continue our look at:
Faith – Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
Repentance – Empowerment for a yielded will to turn away from sin to God.
The Eternal Value of A Sound Conscience
Confession – Its Power to Remove The Sting of Sin
Circumcision of The Regenerated Heart.
Mortification – Empowerment to Crush Indwelling Sin.
Vivification – Empowerment to live a righteous and Godly life.
The Consecration, Quickening (or Awakening), Faith and Repentance Needed For Revival
God’s Way of Restoration & The Cleansing That Leads To Joy.
Faith – Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (Romans 9:16-18)
The Conversion Process which follows regeneration (at point of quickening) is Faith (Saving Faith) and Repentance working hand in hand in an indivisible process. Saving faith is trust in Jesus Christ as a living person for forgiveness of sins and for eternal life with God. It is faith that propels one to take the next step past simply having knowledge of Christ and believing in the facts presented.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:24-26)
Saving faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of one’s understanding of the fact that he/she is a sinner who is in the process of making the personal decision to trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and receive the salvation Jesus Christ earned for us on the cross. (this process being one you cannot physically see) and the conviction of the reality (perceiving as real what is not revealed to the senses) of this fact being made real to you by your seeing yourself hidden in Christ Jesus who became for us wisdom from God.
But when the kindness and the love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life (Titus 3:4-7)
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:30-31)
Prayers:
We continually pray:
- Lord, that The Holy Spirit will open the eye of our heart in order that we may see the true state and condition of our heart. (Jeremiah 17:9)
- Lord, that as we are convicted of our own sins; the Holy Spirit of conviction and Holy Spirit inspired repentance will flow through us to others in our surroundings and beyond. (Acts 2:37-38)
- Lord, that You will circumcise our hearts, that we may be able to enter the covenant of being Your people, who are fully joined to You and fully submissive to You. (Deuteronomy 30:6)
- Lord, that You will work in us to replace our heart of stone that is cold and unyielding with a heart of flesh that is alive and responsive to You. (Ezekiel 11:19)
- Lord that as being indwelled by You is the great joy of salvation; You would grant us this honour; put Your Spirit within us O Lord and choose to take residence in us. (Ezekiel 36:27)
- Lord, for there is ONLY ONE WAY; ONE WAY ALONE and You are The Way; The Truth and The Life and no one comes to The Father except through You. Reveal Yourself to unbelievers deep down in their heart that they may see You and be relieved of their burden of sin. (John 14:6; Matthew 11:28-30)
- Lord, that you will initiate, empower and open the heart of the unconverted in order that they can in turn believe and respond to the Gospel. (Acts 16:14)
- Lord that the Holy Spirit will convict the unconverted of the facts of their being bound by sin; being slaves to sin and that Your power is more than enough to set free. (Romans 6:17)
- Lord that the Holy Spirit will move upon the mind of the unconverted to give them spiritual sight, so that they might be able to see and comprehend the Gospel. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
- Lord that the Holy Spirit will move upon the will of the unconverted to give them the enabling grace to repent so that they may be led to the knowledge of the Truth that will set them free from the snare of the enemy. (2 Timothy 2:25-26)