Dominion Mandate Daily Devotional Friday, March 18th 2016

You Must Forgive Yourself
Hebrews 12:1-11

You have heard quite a lot about forgiving those that have offended you – and that you must do. It happens often that the person you must really forgive is yourself. You may have committed an offence or a sin and your conscience has condemned you, just as the Holy Spirit has chastised you. You may also have repented of this sin, confessed it to God and resolved not to go back that way. But you discover that the heaviness, clouded vision, and the erosion of confidence occasioned by the sin you committed continue to weigh you down.

At such moments, you need to make another type of confession to God in order to regain your liberty from the weight that holds you down. You have to confess your unbelief in His word that says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

When you have genuinely repented of a sin and confessed it to God; and you have pleaded for cleansing by the blood of Jesus; and for washing by His word, you should believe that God has heard your prayer and has forgiven that sin. The proof that you have repented of the sin is that you resolve not to go back to it. When the repentance is a mere lip-service, the Bible warns in Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” In proverbs 28:13, the Bible also says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”

If you genuinely repent, confess and forsake your sin, God will break the weights that pull you down and lift the dark clouds that obstruct your vision. When God has forgiven you, you must forgive yourself.

Repent and confess the hidden sins in your life.

CONFESSION:
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Sin shall not have dominion over me.