![]() I pray all of this in the name and authority of Jesus Christ. I want to use my gifts and abilities to bring others to you, build up the Body of Christ, and bless those in need. Now, dear Father, please help me to use these gifts, experiences, and capabilities for your Kingdom's sake and to bless those around me. Thank you for the gifts your Spirit poured into me when I became your child. Thank you for the capabilities you wove into me while you fashioned me in my mother's womb (Psalm 139:13-16). Loving God, thank you for giving me the experiences I've had. Send me!" God wants us to enter the world redemptively, making a difference in our "public worship" through daily life in ministry and mission (Romans 12:1-2 Hebrews 12:28-13:16). With the world around us caught up in Satan's traps, God wants us to hear his call in our church and private worship and respond to him, saying, "Here am I. We are on earth to glorify God with our lips, lives, hearts, and hands. ![]() As important as corporate public worship and personal praise are, they are only part of our goal for worship. "I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.Church worship is not the goal of our life here on earth. "For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you." ~ Psalm 86:5 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." ~ John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." ~ Colossians 1:13-14 "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." ~ Isaiah 55:7 "And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." ~ Acts 2:38 "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth." ~ Ephesians 1:7-10 "Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive." ~ Colossians 3:13 "And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” ~ Mark 11:25 "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." ~ Ephesians 4:32 "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14 "And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem." ~ Luke 24:47 JLog in to read this devotional and: Have reminders sent directly to your email Record your reading progress Pause your devotional at any time to read at your own pace Log In Verse of the Day A daily inspirational and encouraging Bible verse. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34 - Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. "For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death." ~ 2 Corinthians 7:10 Psalms 118:24 - This is the day which the LORD hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it. "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." ~ Luke 15:7 ![]() God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth" ~ 2 Timothy 2:25 "Correcting his opponents with gentleness. "God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins." ~ Acts 5:31 "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” ~ Luke 5:32
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