8429	Forums / Main Forum / The Definition Of Forgiveness	on: September 24, 2006, 09:09:42 PM
Quote Glory, I praise God that He has given you clear answers. You are so Good and Faithful God.  How can we ever doubt you? Donna Just want to write one more thing. One of the reasons we are so unsure of our position in him,( and really i am not talking to you personally but just as what i have experienced.) , is that we are not clear in our prayers as to the difference between the desires of the wicked and the desires of the righteous. And so we are left to wonder so much about just who we are in Him. So we must consider our position in Christ. We must begin to develop a set of longings that mirror His work on our behalf so that what we pray for is one with what His wills. We should see how all of these temptations, the wickedness in society and all of the humanness that we carry around have an effect on that pearl we have in us. That new life in the Holy Spirit, which begins with all of the holy desires that are averse to our natural state in sin. We are not like what we think we are in our natural selves, but  we are new! We are not surrounded by things that bring us down as if they had a power over us. We are not under the law as if it were beating us to submit. We are free to worship ,adore, desire in HIs will what ever He wants so that we are looking into the face of Christ in our prayers and we are becoming more like Him. Oh what advantage we have to go to the psalms and pray like the psalmist. Tarry there a little while, and then ask for a double portion of His Spirit! Say to Him, show me your salvation, say to me I am your salvation, oh speak sweet Spirit, grant me more grace to desire you more than water! What ever we are experiencing in our humanness is not sin! We cannot talk ourselves out of His good graces. He knows our frailty! He even comes in our weakness and brings a strength to long for more of His grace so that our weakness becomes a pleasure of being set free to communicate to Him from the deepest part of our cries. Cry to Him to elevate your experience so that you will know that He is gracing you in your weakness! He must speak!