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Secret Sin

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. – Psalm 51:1-2

Psalm 51 is associated with one of the hardest experience of David’s life, the aftermath of his affair with Bathsheba. David’s call for mercy is the only appropriate request for a confessing sinner. No sinner should ask for justice, that’s why Grace came, so we would not get what we deserve. Mercy and forgiveness is God’s gift to the confessing sinner. Read More

The Battle Is The Lord’s

So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord – 2nd Chronicles 20:4.

Jehoshaphat’s reforms were not hollow religiosity, and they did not break under the strain of sour circumstances. As soon as he heard of bad news from the north, Jehoshaphat sought God and proclaimed a fast. He knew that success required God’s favor and if God was for them, they could not lose. Read More

Return to God

For lo, He that formeth the mountains, and created the wind (spirit), and declareth unto man what is His thoughts, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord, The God of hosts, is His name – Amos 4:13

No matter how God warned the people through famine, drought, diseases of crops, locusts or war, they still ignored Him. Because they didn’t get the message, they would have to meet Him face to face in judgment. No longer would they ignore God; they would have to face the One they had rejected, the One they had refused to obey. Read More