When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.
I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.
Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
Psalms 32:3-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.3-6.NASB1995
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
Proverbs 28:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.28.13.NASB1995
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.1.9.NASB1995
How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
Psalms 32:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.1-2.NASB1995
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
Psalms 103:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.103.12-13.NASB1995
Don’t be caught in the flood of disobedience as those in Noah’s day. Deliverance from sin is just a prayer away. He is patiently waiting.
🌹You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 32:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.7.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
Tag Archive | sin
Compassionate & Forgiving
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Psalms 103:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.103.10.NASB1995
Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear (revere) Him.
Psalms 103:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.103.13.NASB1995
🌹Thank You, Lord, for Your compassion and forgiveness.
🙏LORD GOD, do not give me what I deserve.
Sanctify me in Your righteousness, for Your namesake. Humbly I ask in the name of Jesus, amen.
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Grace
He (Jesus) said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks (temptations to sin) come, but woe to him through whom they come!
Luke 17:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.17.1.NASB1995
Be on your guard (Take heed to yourselves)! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”
Luke 17:3-4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.17.3-4.NASB1995
Grace is difficult. . . until I recall the many times in a day I ask forgiveness for my sin. God’s grace was poured out on the cross for all peoples. Jesus paid the ultimate price already. . . so can I follow His command, His example, to forgive?
🌹Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
Matthew 18:21-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.18.21-22.NASB1995
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Grace, Master Over Sin
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Romans 6:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.8.NASB1995
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:9-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.9-11.NASB1995
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.12-13.NASB1995
🌹For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.14.NASB1995
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Prayer of Cleansing
Purge me with ¹hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that You have broken rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Psalms 51:7-9 MEV
https://bible.com/bible/1171/psa.51.7-9.MEV
Are you walking in the depths of sin? Jesus is waiting to cleanse you. Jesus is waiting to bring you joy and gladness. Jesus is waiting to hear from you. . .
🙏
God,
May You purify me, that I may be clean.
May You wash me, that I may be whiter than snow.
May You make me hear joy and gladness.
²For Your eyes are on all my ways; they are not hidden from Your face, nor is my iniquity concealed from Your eyes. Forgive me of my sin and clothe me in Your righteousness, Jesus, for I have no righteousness of my own. Lead me in Your truth. In Your way. For Your glory!
🌹“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.
Isaiah 1:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.1.18.NASB1995
Thank You, Father, in the name of my Savior, Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
¹For further study: do a word search of hyssop in the Bible. See what it was used for. It is found in the Old and New Testaments.
²Jeremiah 16:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.16.17.NASB1995
Do You KNOW Him?
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:9-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.7.9-11.NASB1995
Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”
Jeremiah 7:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.7.19.NASB1995
But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Jeremiah 7:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.7.23.NASB1995
What does the church look like today? What does our walk with God look like?
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Matthew 7:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.21.NASB1995
🌹but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.9.24.NASB1995
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Love Covers . . .
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:19-20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.5.19-20.NASB1995
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
Galatians 6:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.6.1.NASB1995
“If your brother sins , go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
Matthew 18:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.18.15.NASB1995
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.4.8.NASB1995
🌹Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions.
Proverbs 10:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.10.12.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
P.S. Thank you to all who have taken this journey with me through the book of James. I barely touched the surface of the deepness of this book. I learned a lot and hope you did too.
Sincerely, Sharon
Prayer Offered in Faith -2
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
James 5:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.5.16.NASB2995
Confession of our sins to one another is not for condemnation but for healing by the power of faithful prayer for one another.
Jesus paid the price for our benefit, to be healed from the power of sin and to live in righteousness.
🌹and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
1 Peter 2:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.2.24.NASB1995
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Showing Mercy
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:8-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.2.8-11.NASB1995
No matter the sin, big or small, sin is a transgression of the Lord’s law.
If we do not love our neighbor – anyone who is not us – we sin.
If we show favoritism to some; looking down on others, we sin.
Abiding by all the laws yet neglecting one, we are transgressors, sinners, of the entire law.
for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.2.10.NASB1995
🌹So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.2.12-13.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
11. Journey to The Cross – The Promised Holy Spirit
“But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;
John 16:5, 7-8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.16.5-8.NASB1995
🌹But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 14:26 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.26.NASB1995
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