Tag Archive | confession

Jesus: The Faithful Hope

Dec4

This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.”
Lamentations 3:21-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/lam.3.21-24.NASB1995

O Israel, hope in the Lord; For with the Lord there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption.
Psalms 130:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.130.7.NASB1995

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
Hebrews 10:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.10.23.NASB1995

🌹The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
Lamentations 3:25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/lam.3.25.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God’s People, Pray

Mar5

and My people who are called by My name . . . pray
2 Chronicles 7:14b NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.7.14.NASB1995

God wants to hear from us. With a humble heart we approach Him praising, thanking and confessing; asking His favor upon our lives so as to bring Him glory.
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Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”
Exodus 33:13 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/exo.33.13.NASB1995


Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive.
1 Kings 8:30 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.8.30.NASB1995

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,
1 Kings 8:38-39 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.8.38.NASB1995

‭‭O God,
Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
2 Kings 19:15 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ki.19.15.NASB1995

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Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You;
2 Chronicles 6:19 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.6.19.NASB1995

God, I pray
‭‭then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men, that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:30-31 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.6.29.NASB1995

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, . . . then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
2 Chronicles 6:38a, 39 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.6.38.NASB1995

“Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

“O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David.”
2 Chronicles 6:40, 42 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.6.42.NASB1995

Thank You, God, for the privilege to come to You in prayer, being reconciled to You and for the joy of fellowship in Your presence through this gift of prayer. In Jesus, our Lord and King we pray. Amen.
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🌹Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 23:40  NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.26.41.NASB1995

pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:17 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1th.5.17.NASB1995
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Confess and turn away from sin . . .
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.
Acts 8:22 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.8.22.NASB1995

For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears attend to their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
1 Peter 3:12 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.3.12.NASB1995

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
Ephesians 6:18 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.6.18.NASB1995

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;
Colossians 4:2 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.4.2.NASB1995

Prayer is vital to the Christian life.

The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
1 Peter 4:7 NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.4.7.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Do You Have The Life?

Dec6

God loved you so much that He made a way for you to live forever!!!

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.16.NASB1995

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John‬ ‭4:15‭-‬16‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.16.NASB1995

By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John‬ ‭4:13‭-‬14‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.13.NASB1995

🌹And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1 John‬ ‭5:11‭-‬12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.5.12.NASB1995

Do you have the life?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Hold Fast Without Wavering

May16

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
Hebrews 10:23 NASB

Brothers and sisters, as partakers together of a heavenly calling, let us consider our confession — Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.
Christ was faithful over His house, whose house we are, so let us hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
God is faithful, calling us into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hebrews 3:1/Hebrews 3:6/1 Corinthians 1:9 NASB

God is faithful to keep His promises. . .

By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.
Hebrews 11:11 NASB

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 NASB

🌹Would you join me in this heavenly calling to boldly confess the hope we have in Jesus so others may also know Jesus as Lord?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Silent Christian

Jan12

“And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God; but he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
Luke 12:8‭-‬9 NASB

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 9:26 NASB

Would you consider “being quiet” about your relationship with Jesus a denial or being ashamed of Him? God truly knows our heart. If Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us why wouldn’t we want to tell everyone we know or see about Him?

🌹Will Jesus confess you before the angels of God?

Continually Seeking Him, 


Sharon 

Seek and Confess

Apr7

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.
2 Chronicles 15:2 NASB

“Therefore, everyone who confesses Me before people, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 

But whoever denies Me before people, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 10:32‭-‬33 NASB

And blessed is any person who does not take offense at Me.”
Matthew 11:6 NASB

🌹How much is God a part of your life? Does He have all your being? Hope is found in  seeking God continually. When walking with Him continually you experience Him and can’t help but confess Him before others.

Continually Seeking Him

Sharon

Old Testament Salvation

Apr23

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take words with you and return to the Lord.
Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity
And receive us graciously,
That we may present the fruit of our lips.
3 “Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds mercy.” — Hosea 14:1-3

I love God’s Word. The salvation message right here in this Old Testament book.

Turn to God: return to the Lord your God.
Turn (repent) from our sin: “take words with you and return to the Lord”
Confess: “Say to Him, ‘take away all iniquity”
Receive His grace: “receive us graciously”
Bring God praises and tell others of His saving grace: “That we may present the fruit of our lips”
And trust in Him alone, not ourselves nor others: “Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses; nor will we say again, ‘Our god’, to the work of our hands;

Thank You Lord God that this orphan, me, has found Your mercy. Have you found God’s mercy and received His grace? He calls you from the pages of His Word, even in the Old Testament.

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon

That IF

Apr18

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. — Romans 10:9-10

Have you?

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon

New Year Resolutions, Part 2

Dec28

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; — Hebrews 10:23

Yesterday’s post offered a resolution for 2015. Today we see why we can keep that resolution. Because He, Jesus, is faithful.

So hold fast to the hope of Christ. He will be faithful to lead you, teach you, and guide you as you read His Word, draw near to Him and confess Him. The fruit of your hope in Christ is that you will find confessing Him before others becomes easy because your heart is so full of Jesus it can’t help but overflow, out of your mouth, for others to hear.

May God bless your New Year by His faithfulness.

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon

Jesus Is

Dec2

Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?” But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ. — Acts 9:19-22

The power of Christ in us. He can transform anyone. No one is beyond His power to transform. No sin is beyond His power or compassion to forgive. Simply by humbly confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of God and admitting that it is really only Him who can give forgiveness and life.

Won’t you allow Jesus into your life and let Him transform you? You’ll never regret it.

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon