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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God
before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for women Life
(00:22):
in the Overflow. Today's teaching will explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his
kingdom and usher in a new era of glory. But
before we get started, we have a promotion exclusively for you.
Grab your free gift today. Just go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free resource, a manifesto
(00:44):
by Bishop Harry Jackson while supplies last. Now for today's
message from Apostle Michelle, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey everybody, this is Michelle Jackson. I am I'm so
excited that you're here with me today and I want
to talk about overcoming offense and I want to administer
to you today from the theme of the power of repentance.
The power of repentance, we talked about how offense and
(01:19):
unforgiveness are ways that stifle walking in divine favor, meaning
it's hard to walk in the favor of God while
holding on to offenses and walking in unforgiveness. And so
I thought it would be good, especially around the holiday
time Christmas is in a few weeks, for us to
(01:41):
talk about mending fences and walking in the power forgiveness.
I don't know about you, but you know, family times
and extended family sometimes it opens up opportunities for us
to walk in a greater level of forgiveness. I literally
got a call today. We did a whole so let
(02:03):
me back up and tell you the whole story. So
I got a call today from one of the ministers
in our church and she was just sharing with me
how a panel that we held for father about fatherhood
and the father's heart really ministered to her and how
even though her brother has passed away, she really needed
(02:25):
to release forgiveness to him so that even as she
prays for his children who are still alive to receive
the Lord, that those prayers are not hindered by her unforgiveness.
And she was unaware that those things were even in
their heart. So that's kind of what I want to
(02:46):
talk in her heart. So that's kind of what I
want to talk to you about today, because it's so
important that we remember that sometimes we have emotional baggage,
and it's just because we were all bored into this
in and shaped into iniquity, and so none of us
are perfect, and none of our families are perfect, right,
(03:06):
and so sometimes we can have shame about where we
come from or shame about the things that we've been through.
But it's God's desire that we're able to leave our
baggage with him and allow ourselves to walk fully in
repentance and forgiveness and not have any offenses. And so
we had this powerful panel a part of our midweek
(03:27):
service where some of our elders talked about their upbringing
and their interactions with their fathers and how they learned
how to interact with the with the Lord as their father.
And I think it's important for us, even as we
wrap up our time talking about Joseph and walking in
divine favor, that we have a power source that allows
(03:51):
us to overcome everything because of what Jesus did on
the cross. So our power comes from our power to forgive,
our power to be healed. From emotional baggage. To deal
with regrets comes from the blood of Jesus. It comes
from the throne of grace, and so that power is
(04:13):
available to us today so that when we confess, when
we like this minister did, she went before the Lord's
throne and she just said, Lord, I need to forgive.
I need to forgive my brother. I need to forgive
these things. Lord, and forgive me too for holding onto
these things. And thank you for your sovereignty, so that
I can be made whole and cleansed in this moment
(04:36):
and be able to really pray without any hindrance for
the family. It's important that we do that, So Joseph
in Genesis forty five, you know, we talked about the
lessons of reconciliation and restoration a couple I think a
week ago, but I wanted to bring it up because again,
(04:56):
because we can only us through the power of God.
It's only going to be through the power of God
that we see ourselves walk differently with our family and
to be able to really handle walking in forgiveness. Romans
five tells us that we were reconciled to God through
(05:19):
the death of Jesus Christ, and it's only that we
are being saved and that He is saving us through
the life of Jesus. So it's really partnering with the
Lord and really standing on his word that allows us
to be able to walk in a level of forgiveness
(05:41):
and repentance that is really reflecting the heart of God.
So what Joseph did for his brothers is what Jesus
does for us. So he goes ahead of us and
he makes a way for us. So remember Joseph was
sent to Egypt by the Brothers in bondage, that all
(06:06):
that happened to him, false accusation, all that happened to him,
and he lived a sacrificial life, and he went ahead
to prepare a way of escape and salvation for his brothers. Well,
that's what Jesus did. He stripped off immortality, he stripped
off royalty, and he came here to walk the earth
(06:27):
as a lowly servant, to be beyond sin and to
go ahead of us to set up the plan for
eternal life for us. And so it's important for us
as believers now that we are in the way of grace,
we are in and walking in the way of the Gospel,
that we recognize that we cannot nurse our regrets as believers,
(06:50):
because Jesus doesn't look at us at our at our guilt,
because he wants that to be covered by his blood.
So he wants our whole heart, and he wants our guilt,
our shame, our past, our past regrets, our resentments, all
(07:11):
of those things to be under the blood of Jesus,
which means to confess those things, to release those things
to his care. Some of the things that even may
come up pains, pains that we have about how we
were raised or how we're spoken to or treated in
our family. You know, those things kind of come up
in the holiday time because we're not really sure what
(07:33):
we're going to walk into. You know, I know that
there have been several gatherings over the course of my
lifetime that I've gone to and it's like, you have
a little bit of anxiety because you don't know what
you're going to be facing when you go. But I
want to encourage you that as you give your whole
heart to the Lord, as you allow his blood to
(07:55):
cover your past and to really get into those places
that maybe don't even want to talk about with anybody,
as you let the love of God into those areas
he begins to cause you to be renewed from the
inside out. In those places that were painful in the
past now have His presence in them. That's the only
(08:18):
reason that Joseph could say to his brothers, what you
meant for evil, God used for my good. Come on.
There's no way that you can say that unless God
has done a deep inward work in you. Because when
we go through challenging times with our family, we have
(08:40):
the scars, and if we don't allow God to heal them,
heal the wounds, we carry the pain and the scar
So we all have scars from life. But we want
God to be able to go in and bring the
healing and where we need it, so that where once
(09:00):
was pain, the presence of Jesus has come and we remember,
but we don't remember with the same perspective and the
same soul hurts that we had. But we really have
received the healing presence of the Lord. You know, it's
so important even as we want to believe for others
(09:21):
to be healed, that we also believe for ourselves. I
saw this post recently from doctor Caroline Leaf, and she
was talking about the fact that we need the things
we most readily recognize in others are the very things
that we need in our own life. And so I
just want to encourage you today that just from Romans
(09:46):
chapter five today, that you know we were powerless when
Christ died for us. He didn't die for the righteous.
He died for the ungodly. He died for the wicked.
He di for the sinner. He died for the one
who was unjust. He died for the liar, he died
(10:07):
for the thief, he died for the vagrant. Come on,
he did not die for perfect people. And so we
have to be willing to receive all of what being
in the way means one hundred percent cleansed. And so
(10:28):
repentance really loses the power of God. And I just
really sense that today as we pray, it's like we
want to just repent and ask the Lord to just
cleanse us from any level of pride that we might
have any level of feeling like we're better than anyone,
because the Lord he died for us when we were
(10:50):
yet sinners. And let's be honest, it's very rare that
anyone would die for a righteous person, right, So when
we look around in society today, we you and me.
We are very easily. We can very easily point out
(11:12):
the flaws of our leaders, the flaws of if we
look in politics, or we look in entertainment, or we
look in the church, we readily point out the flaws.
And yet, why would a good person die for good people?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Jesus died for people who needed saving. And so today
I think it's important that we recognize and remember that
we need repentance, that it's still a part of our
walk that we're You know, a lot of a lot
of people today believe that repentance happen when we come
(11:52):
to Jesus, when we come to him initially to receive
him as Lord and savior of our lives. But I
want to urge you that we continue in the pathway
of repentance. And so, you know, when Joseph encountered his
brothers again for the first time, the brothers had hidden
(12:13):
their past sins against him. They hadn't told their father
exactly the true story of what had happened with Joseph.
But because Joseph was willing to get real with them
about their family's past and to bring light upon it,
it could be dealt with. And so you cannot heal
wounds like if you think about a gunshot, you cannot
(12:33):
heal a gunshot wound until you've actually gotten the bullet
out right. And so it's important that we recognize that
Jesus wants to deal with not just our sins, but
he wants to deal with our family hurts. He wants
to deal with our broken hearts. He wants to lead
us into the future and allow us to complete those
(12:55):
good things that He's prepared for us in advance. But
it's going to take us being willing to look at
those things and to remember that repentance is a part
of our daily journey. And so we are justified by
the blood of Jesus, and we're saved from the wrath
of God. You know that the Lord stands against evil.
(13:20):
You know the flesh of man is an enmity with God.
We know that right. But we're in the process of
being saved in our daily life. As we walk out
our daily walk before Christ. We as we pick up
our cross, as we choose to follow his word, as
we choose to lean on his understanding, his principles, and
(13:44):
not our own understanding, we are able to continue in
this walk with Him. But I just want to encourage you,
like repentance is needed, and it loses a power, the
power of God, and it releases a power that's beyond
our ability to resolve things. And so, you know, during
(14:05):
this holiday season, I want to challenge you. I want
to challenge you to continue to walk in repentance, to
be gracious to your family, to be gracious to those
in your community, your friends, your colleagues, those around you
that sometimes you may recognize pain in them that you
(14:27):
can readily see and ask the Holy Spirit, say Lord,
there is that in me? You know, Because it's important
for us to always be willing to be first partaker
of his grace, first partaker of his his righteousness, more
than being self righteous and always trying to minister to others.
(14:51):
There's a time for them, and there's a place for that,
but it's important for us to be willing to let
Jesus lead us right where we are in each and
every day. So the power of repentance is needed in
this hour. And Joseph, he was willing to walk in repentance.
(15:14):
He did not hold anything against his brothers, he did
not hold anything against his father. Imagine he could have said,
you know, Dad, you were wealthy. You could have gone
after me, you could have searched for me. But no,
he walked in a heart of forgiveness. He turned away
from that path of holding onto any resentment against his family,
(15:41):
and he was able to be restored in fellowship and
relationship with them. And the Bible tells us that his
sons received a double portion blessing from his father in
the days ahead, walking forward. So I just want to
encourage you today that as you are walking out your walk,
(16:03):
that repentance is important. It means to turn to God,
to turn away from the direction you were walking in,
and to turn to God. And so many of us
have had paths like Joseph in our life. We've had regrets,
we've had betrayals, we've had brokenness in our family relationships.
(16:26):
We have felt rejected by parents, we have felt ashamed,
we have felt less than. All of these are things
that Joseph went through. But when he began to walk
in repentance, it means he turned his path to God's path,
and in that path he was able to see that
(16:47):
in God's eyes, in the eyes of the Lord, he
was not rejected. He was accepted by the Father that
he had no reason for shame because God had a
plan for all that he was going through, and he
could be totally affirmed and accepted in who he was
and who he was called to be by God. And
(17:10):
so repentance is between you and the Lord. Where you say, Lord,
I lay down my fight and my right to go
this way, and I choose your path. Lord, lead me, Lord,
guide me right, and the Lord as we repent, the
Lord begins to cleanse us and wash us, and he
(17:34):
releases his forgiveness, and then we're able to then say, okay,
now that I have it right with the Lord. All right, now, Lord,
help me to walk in forgiveness with myself and others,
that I would not hold myself hostage in a place
where you've released me from. And I believe that Joseph
(17:56):
was able to walk in the dimensions of leadership and
grace because he was able to face his family's past
but then also allow himself to live beyond that narrative.
There are many narratives that we've written for ourselves, many
narratives that we've written for ourselves in our life, and
(18:16):
God wants to give us an abundant life exceedingly abundantly,
and some of what we will have to let go
are the narratives and the stories that we have written
for ourselves that God wants to take us beyond. So
let's just pray today, Father, I thank you today for
the power of repentance. I thank you that today we
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can get on a new path, that by repenting, by
turning to you, by turning away from our way of thinking,
by turning away from our way of living, and turning
to you, Lord, that you can deliver us, that you
can set us free and we can begin to write
this new story, this new chapter with you. Lord. I
(18:57):
pray for the one who is facing who is facing
offenses and troubles in the family. I pray for the
one who is facing challenges of the past, traumas and
past hurts. God, I pray that you would pour out
your oil and your wine today, that you would go
into those deep, deep places, Lord, places where regrets are,
(19:21):
places where guilts are, where shame is. God. I pray
that you would cover their past with your blood, Lord,
as they expose their whole heart to you today. Lord,
I pray that you would wash them clean today, Lord,
and direct them into the right way that they would go. Lord,
I thank you that you do not want us to
(19:41):
carry the weight of past hurts and past wounds, or
even past sins. But as you reveal to us the
places that you want to heal our heart, God, that
you're ready to cleanse us, to make right, to set right,
and to cause us to know your perfect will for
our lives. Lord, help us in the holiday season to
(20:03):
shower grace where we've been showered. Lord, that we would
be able to extend the same grace to others that
we've received from your throne of grace. Lord, I thank
you that you loved us when we were yet sinners,
and that you sent your one and only begotten send
for us. Lord, even as we enter into this Christmas
holiday time, maybe remember that you are Emmanuel God with us,
(20:27):
and that we can walk in the power of repentance
and be cleansed every single day as we pick up
our cross and follow you. I thank you, Lord for
what you're doing in our lives and in our families.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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a friend today
Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God
before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for women Life
(00:22):
in the Overflow. Today's teaching will explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his
kingdom and usher in a new era of glory. But
before we get started, we have a promotion exclusively for you.
Grab your free gift today. Just go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free resource, a manifesto
(00:44):
by Bishop Harry Jackson while supplies last. Now for today's
message from Apostle Michelle, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey everybody, this is Michelle Jackson. I am I'm so
excited that you're here with me today and I want
to talk about overcoming offense and I want to administer
to you today from the theme of the power of repentance.
The power of repentance, we talked about how offense and
(01:19):
unforgiveness are ways that stifle walking in divine favor, meaning
it's hard to walk in the favor of God while
holding on to offenses and walking in unforgiveness. And so
I thought it would be good, especially around the holiday
time Christmas is in a few weeks, for us to
(01:41):
talk about mending fences and walking in the power forgiveness.
I don't know about you, but you know, family times
and extended family sometimes it opens up opportunities for us
to walk in a greater level of forgiveness. I literally
got a call today. We did a whole so let
(02:03):
me back up and tell you the whole story. So
I got a call today from one of the ministers
in our church and she was just sharing with me
how a panel that we held for father about fatherhood
and the father's heart really ministered to her and how
even though her brother has passed away, she really needed
(02:25):
to release forgiveness to him so that even as she
prays for his children who are still alive to receive
the Lord, that those prayers are not hindered by her unforgiveness.
And she was unaware that those things were even in
their heart. So that's kind of what I want to
(02:46):
talk in her heart. So that's kind of what I
want to talk to you about today, because it's so
important that we remember that sometimes we have emotional baggage,
and it's just because we were all bored into this
in and shaped into iniquity, and so none of us
are perfect, and none of our families are perfect, right,
(03:06):
and so sometimes we can have shame about where we
come from or shame about the things that we've been through.
But it's God's desire that we're able to leave our
baggage with him and allow ourselves to walk fully in
repentance and forgiveness and not have any offenses. And so
we had this powerful panel a part of our midweek
(03:27):
service where some of our elders talked about their upbringing
and their interactions with their fathers and how they learned
how to interact with the with the Lord as their father.
And I think it's important for us, even as we
wrap up our time talking about Joseph and walking in
divine favor, that we have a power source that allows
(03:51):
us to overcome everything because of what Jesus did on
the cross. So our power comes from our power to forgive,
our power to be healed. From emotional baggage. To deal
with regrets comes from the blood of Jesus. It comes
from the throne of grace, and so that power is
(04:13):
available to us today so that when we confess, when
we like this minister did, she went before the Lord's
throne and she just said, Lord, I need to forgive.
I need to forgive my brother. I need to forgive
these things. Lord, and forgive me too for holding onto
these things. And thank you for your sovereignty, so that
I can be made whole and cleansed in this moment
(04:36):
and be able to really pray without any hindrance for
the family. It's important that we do that, So Joseph
in Genesis forty five, you know, we talked about the
lessons of reconciliation and restoration a couple I think a
week ago, but I wanted to bring it up because again,
(04:56):
because we can only us through the power of God.
It's only going to be through the power of God
that we see ourselves walk differently with our family and
to be able to really handle walking in forgiveness. Romans
five tells us that we were reconciled to God through
(05:19):
the death of Jesus Christ, and it's only that we
are being saved and that He is saving us through
the life of Jesus. So it's really partnering with the
Lord and really standing on his word that allows us
to be able to walk in a level of forgiveness
(05:41):
and repentance that is really reflecting the heart of God.
So what Joseph did for his brothers is what Jesus
does for us. So he goes ahead of us and
he makes a way for us. So remember Joseph was
sent to Egypt by the Brothers in bondage, that all
(06:06):
that happened to him, false accusation, all that happened to him,
and he lived a sacrificial life, and he went ahead
to prepare a way of escape and salvation for his brothers. Well,
that's what Jesus did. He stripped off immortality, he stripped
off royalty, and he came here to walk the earth
(06:27):
as a lowly servant, to be beyond sin and to
go ahead of us to set up the plan for
eternal life for us. And so it's important for us
as believers now that we are in the way of grace,
we are in and walking in the way of the Gospel,
that we recognize that we cannot nurse our regrets as believers,
(06:50):
because Jesus doesn't look at us at our at our guilt,
because he wants that to be covered by his blood.
So he wants our whole heart, and he wants our guilt,
our shame, our past, our past regrets, our resentments, all
(07:11):
of those things to be under the blood of Jesus,
which means to confess those things, to release those things
to his care. Some of the things that even may
come up pains, pains that we have about how we
were raised or how we're spoken to or treated in
our family. You know, those things kind of come up
in the holiday time because we're not really sure what
(07:33):
we're going to walk into. You know, I know that
there have been several gatherings over the course of my
lifetime that I've gone to and it's like, you have
a little bit of anxiety because you don't know what
you're going to be facing when you go. But I
want to encourage you that as you give your whole
heart to the Lord, as you allow his blood to
(07:55):
cover your past and to really get into those places
that maybe don't even want to talk about with anybody,
as you let the love of God into those areas
he begins to cause you to be renewed from the
inside out. In those places that were painful in the
past now have His presence in them. That's the only
(08:18):
reason that Joseph could say to his brothers, what you
meant for evil, God used for my good. Come on.
There's no way that you can say that unless God
has done a deep inward work in you. Because when
we go through challenging times with our family, we have
(08:40):
the scars, and if we don't allow God to heal them,
heal the wounds, we carry the pain and the scar
So we all have scars from life. But we want
God to be able to go in and bring the
healing and where we need it, so that where once
(09:00):
was pain, the presence of Jesus has come and we remember,
but we don't remember with the same perspective and the
same soul hurts that we had. But we really have
received the healing presence of the Lord. You know, it's
so important even as we want to believe for others
(09:21):
to be healed, that we also believe for ourselves. I
saw this post recently from doctor Caroline Leaf, and she
was talking about the fact that we need the things
we most readily recognize in others are the very things
that we need in our own life. And so I
just want to encourage you today that just from Romans
(09:46):
chapter five today, that you know we were powerless when
Christ died for us. He didn't die for the righteous.
He died for the ungodly. He died for the wicked.
He di for the sinner. He died for the one
who was unjust. He died for the liar, he died
(10:07):
for the thief, he died for the vagrant. Come on,
he did not die for perfect people. And so we
have to be willing to receive all of what being
in the way means one hundred percent cleansed. And so
(10:28):
repentance really loses the power of God. And I just
really sense that today as we pray, it's like we
want to just repent and ask the Lord to just
cleanse us from any level of pride that we might
have any level of feeling like we're better than anyone,
because the Lord he died for us when we were
(10:50):
yet sinners. And let's be honest, it's very rare that
anyone would die for a righteous person, right, So when
we look around in society today, we you and me.
We are very easily. We can very easily point out
(11:12):
the flaws of our leaders, the flaws of if we
look in politics, or we look in entertainment, or we
look in the church, we readily point out the flaws.
And yet, why would a good person die for good people?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Jesus died for people who needed saving. And so today
I think it's important that we recognize and remember that
we need repentance, that it's still a part of our
walk that we're You know, a lot of a lot
of people today believe that repentance happen when we come
(11:52):
to Jesus, when we come to him initially to receive
him as Lord and savior of our lives. But I
want to urge you that we continue in the pathway
of repentance. And so, you know, when Joseph encountered his
brothers again for the first time, the brothers had hidden
(12:13):
their past sins against him. They hadn't told their father
exactly the true story of what had happened with Joseph.
But because Joseph was willing to get real with them
about their family's past and to bring light upon it,
it could be dealt with. And so you cannot heal
wounds like if you think about a gunshot, you cannot
(12:33):
heal a gunshot wound until you've actually gotten the bullet
out right. And so it's important that we recognize that
Jesus wants to deal with not just our sins, but
he wants to deal with our family hurts. He wants
to deal with our broken hearts. He wants to lead
us into the future and allow us to complete those
(12:55):
good things that He's prepared for us in advance. But
it's going to take us being willing to look at
those things and to remember that repentance is a part
of our daily journey. And so we are justified by
the blood of Jesus, and we're saved from the wrath
of God. You know that the Lord stands against evil.
(13:20):
You know the flesh of man is an enmity with God.
We know that right. But we're in the process of
being saved in our daily life. As we walk out
our daily walk before Christ. We as we pick up
our cross, as we choose to follow his word, as
we choose to lean on his understanding, his principles, and
(13:44):
not our own understanding, we are able to continue in
this walk with Him. But I just want to encourage you,
like repentance is needed, and it loses a power, the
power of God, and it releases a power that's beyond
our ability to resolve things. And so, you know, during
(14:05):
this holiday season, I want to challenge you. I want
to challenge you to continue to walk in repentance, to
be gracious to your family, to be gracious to those
in your community, your friends, your colleagues, those around you
that sometimes you may recognize pain in them that you
(14:27):
can readily see and ask the Holy Spirit, say Lord,
there is that in me? You know, Because it's important
for us to always be willing to be first partaker
of his grace, first partaker of his his righteousness, more
than being self righteous and always trying to minister to others.
(14:51):
There's a time for them, and there's a place for that,
but it's important for us to be willing to let
Jesus lead us right where we are in each and
every day. So the power of repentance is needed in
this hour. And Joseph, he was willing to walk in repentance.
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He did not hold anything against his brothers, he did
not hold anything against his father. Imagine he could have said,
you know, Dad, you were wealthy. You could have gone
after me, you could have searched for me. But no,
he walked in a heart of forgiveness. He turned away
from that path of holding onto any resentment against his family,
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and he was able to be restored in fellowship and
relationship with them. And the Bible tells us that his
sons received a double portion blessing from his father in
the days ahead, walking forward. So I just want to
encourage you today that as you are walking out your walk,
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that repentance is important. It means to turn to God,
to turn away from the direction you were walking in,
and to turn to God. And so many of us
have had paths like Joseph in our life. We've had regrets,
we've had betrayals, we've had brokenness in our family relationships.
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We have felt rejected by parents, we have felt ashamed,
we have felt less than. All of these are things
that Joseph went through. But when he began to walk
in repentance, it means he turned his path to God's path,
and in that path he was able to see that
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in God's eyes, in the eyes of the Lord, he
was not rejected. He was accepted by the Father that
he had no reason for shame because God had a
plan for all that he was going through, and he
could be totally affirmed and accepted in who he was
and who he was called to be by God. And
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so repentance is between you and the Lord. Where you say, Lord,
I lay down my fight and my right to go
this way, and I choose your path. Lord, lead me, Lord,
guide me right, and the Lord as we repent, the
Lord begins to cleanse us and wash us, and he
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releases his forgiveness, and then we're able to then say, okay,
now that I have it right with the Lord. All right, now, Lord,
help me to walk in forgiveness with myself and others,
that I would not hold myself hostage in a place
where you've released me from. And I believe that Joseph
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was able to walk in the dimensions of leadership and
grace because he was able to face his family's past
but then also allow himself to live beyond that narrative.
There are many narratives that we've written for ourselves, many
narratives that we've written for ourselves in our life, and
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God wants to give us an abundant life exceedingly abundantly,
and some of what we will have to let go
are the narratives and the stories that we have written
for ourselves that God wants to take us beyond. So
let's just pray today, Father, I thank you today for
the power of repentance. I thank you that today we
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can get on a new path, that by repenting, by
turning to you, by turning away from our way of thinking,
by turning away from our way of living, and turning
to you, Lord, that you can deliver us, that you
can set us free and we can begin to write
this new story, this new chapter with you. Lord. I
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pray for the one who is facing who is facing
offenses and troubles in the family. I pray for the
one who is facing challenges of the past, traumas and
past hurts. God, I pray that you would pour out
your oil and your wine today, that you would go
into those deep, deep places, Lord, places where regrets are,
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places where guilts are, where shame is. God. I pray
that you would cover their past with your blood, Lord,
as they expose their whole heart to you today. Lord,
I pray that you would wash them clean today, Lord,
and direct them into the right way that they would go. Lord,
I thank you that you do not want us to
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carry the weight of past hurts and past wounds, or
even past sins. But as you reveal to us the
places that you want to heal our heart, God, that
you're ready to cleanse us, to make right, to set right,
and to cause us to know your perfect will for
our lives. Lord, help us in the holiday season to
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shower grace where we've been showered. Lord, that we would
be able to extend the same grace to others that
we've received from your throne of grace. Lord, I thank
you that you loved us when we were yet sinners,
and that you sent your one and only begotten send
for us. Lord, even as we enter into this Christmas
holiday time, maybe remember that you are Emmanuel God with us,
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and that we can walk in the power of repentance
and be cleansed every single day as we pick up
our cross and follow you. I thank you, Lord for
what you're doing in our lives and in our families.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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