A God-Worked Repentance

Believers need a work of God leading to repentance among our people.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org!   ~~~   Solid, biblical teaching will aid us greatly in our understanding of repentance and in helping us see our need for repentance, and examples of people living repentantly may motivate us to emulate their lives, but the only source of repentance is God himself. (Repentance, by Richard Owen Roberts, p. 106). Psalm 60:1 “O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us.; you have been angry; O God, restore us!” Psalm 51:10-13 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation.” Acts 5:29 “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging him on a cross. He is the One whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” Acts 11:17-18 “God has granted also to the Gentiles the repentance that leads to life.” 2 Timothy 2:22ff “Refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s bond servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.” Oh how we need a work of God leading us to repentance among us today. We need the work of the Spirit of God, using the word of God to lead us to repentance. You need to pray for it, beg for it, plead for it, cry out for God’s kindness to lead you to repentance. There is no other type of repentance within the biblical framework that restores us to fellowship with God, except for the repentance that comes from God and leads us back to a recognition God as authority. We need to fall on our faces today and cry out before Him to grant us repentance. We need to recognize that repentance that is granted from God to us changes our hearts and minds towards sin. Do you see still love your sin; do you still think of it as innocent, not hurting anyone? Then there has not been repentance. Biblical repentance is when we start to think God’s thoughts towards our own sin.