This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Repenting of sins from the previous year.
I think the Christian life means constantly repenting of our sins. The battle against sin isn’t easy!
When we think back of our last year we should think about our weakness and also go to God to ask for grace to change. But before change happens we need to confess our sins (1 John 1:9). According to 1 John 1:9 it is confessing our sins to God that God then forgives us and cleanse us. Never forget the importance of confessions to God as part of the means of Grace for change!
Confessing our sins we should ask God to also give us grace to turn away from the sins and struggles we have.
Again Christians should regularly confess and repent to God. But with a new year its good to think of the past year and taking stock of where we are spiritually and morally; and its a great time to ask for God’s grace to repent.
This is a great way to begin a new year.
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I am thankful for the exhortation. Praying for your service, meeting today. Lots of love and blessings to you and yours in 2023.
Happy New Year! Praying for your church service, for you and Nathan as well!
Great suggestion, and the right way to start a new year. Thank you. And happy New Year to you!
Happy New Year brother Andy!!
Yes brother! This is a good idea indeed, the New Year is a great gift and opportunity for us as children of God. May we shake off the sinful dust and draw closer to Him who Redeems us. May 2023 be a blessed year for you and your family Jim.
Amen: “May we shake off the sinful dust and draw closer to Him who Redeems us. ” Big Amen!
Thanks for this good exhortation, brother! It’s good to regularly take stock of where we’re at in our spiritual walk, repent of our failings and disobedience, and “redirect” with God’s grace. There have been times in my past when I got down on myself for not following the Lord better than I did. And we know how people notoriously fail at New Year’s resolutions. But God doesn’t want us depressed and defeated. If we were perfect we wouldn’t have needed Him!
Your words hits it in the nail! I want this post to encourage spiritual renewal with confession, evaluation and repentance, and done so by God’s grace! This is the greatness of the Cross and the Gospel, we can go to Him for forgiving and sanctifying Grace!
The post was very appropriate for today, January 1st!
Amen, “wash me with hyssop and I shall be as white as snow’ and “create in me a clean heart and renew a right Spirit within me” .
Amen! I prayed those words when I read your comment; God bless you sir!
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What a great way to start the new year.
“Master Jesus the Messiah, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”
Amen!
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What a great post to start the year !! You want to be right with God to receive all the blessings God promises to those who are living “Spirit-filled”, Christ-centered lives !!
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May we all have a blessed and joyful new year repenting of our sins from the past year to live closer to the Lord in this new one.
Amen hope you are having a blessed day today Frank!
May the joy of your salvation be ever bursting, may His countenance ever astound, may His light continue to shine brightly through you. Enjoy a healthy and active 2023 and be free ‘in Him’.
Aww thank you for these words of Blessings Barbara! May your 2023 be a year of blessings!
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Amen.
Happy 84th birthday (belated)!!!
Thank you.
Thank you for this post, Pastor Jim. Asking for forgiveness is a continual part of a Christian’s life as you have stated. Asking God to forgive us for our continual nature of waywardness is, indeed, a great way to being the new year!
Amen there is an important relational forgiveness we seek regularly with God! Have a blessed New Year!!
Thank you, Pastor Jim. I wish you and your family and blessed New Year as well!
Make a list. pray, then burn it.
That is a good practice thanks for sharing that!
Great post to start the year!
Thanks! Have a happy new year!!!
So true, repentance ought to be a daily staple in the Christian life. We are broken people but God’s grace is sufficient.
Amen we need to be renewed regularly with His grace! How did your New Year day go brother?
Amen! Blessings Pastor Jim for these encouraging words. As we walk our imperfect lives, we need to repent often for our transgressions.
Beautiful