A COURT CASE IS ON;THE ACCUSED IS WAITING FOR HIS VERDICT TO BE RELEASED, BOTH THE LAWYERS HAVE PUT THE CASE TO REST, THE JUDGE HANDS IT OVER TO THE JURY TO GIVE THE VERDICT, IN SPITE OF NOT BEING GUILTY, YET IS SAID TO BE GUILTY IMAGINE THE PLIGHT OF THAT PERSON & HIS FAMILY.
IS THIS TAKING YOU BACK 2024 YEARS AGO WHERE A MAN CALLED JESUS CHRIST WAS SAID TO BE “GUILTY” IN SPITE OF BEING”NOT GUILTY”.
DID HE RETALIATE? NO! HE DIDN'T.
HE COULD HAVE; RIGHT, BUT HE DIDN'T, WHY? BECAUSE HE KNEW THIS WAS THE REASON HE WAS SENT IN THIS WORLD & BY DOING THAT, HE WAS ACCOMPLISHING HIS ASSIGNMENT GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. DEATH ON THE CROSS WAS REDEMPTION FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
AS BELIEVERS, WE ARE QUITE AWARE THE DEATH OF JESUS ON THE CROSS WAS TO BEAR OUR SHAME, NOT ONLY THE SHAME, BUT EVERYTHING THAT THE ENEMY WOULD THROW AT US, THE SINS THAT WE WOULD KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY COMMIT. THIS WAS THE ASSIGNMENT GIVEN TO JESUS BY HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN TO DELIVER US AT THE COST OF SHEDDING HIS BLOOD, THAT THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SHED BLOOD WE WOULD BE SAVED FROM TORMENTATION AND BEING GROUNDED IN LIFE BY THE ENEMY.
YET MANY A TIMES WE FALL HEADLONG IN THE TRAP THE ENEMY SETS FOR US, THE TRAP OF CONSTANT FEELINGS OF REGRET AND UNWORTHINESS WHENEVER WE ERR AND OVERALL THIS IS AGGRAVATED BY THE LIES THAT COME WITH THE SHAME AND GUILT.
EXAMPLES OF COMMON SELF DEPRECATING LIES THAT FILL OUR MINDS INCLUDE…
*I AM A BAD PERSON
*I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH
*I AM WORTHLESS
*I AM A FOOL
*I DESERVE THE SHAME
ISAIAH 61:7 SAYS- “ INSTEAD OF YOUR SHAME, YOU SHALL HAVE DOUBLE HONOR, AND INSTEAD OF CONFUSION, THEY SHALL REJOICE IN THEIR PORTION, THEREFORE IN THEIR LAND, THEY SHALL POSSESS DOUBLE; EVERLASTING JOY SHALL BE THEIRS.”
HEY THERE! CONFIRMED,”NOT GUILTY”BY THE JUDGE. HALLELUYAH!
PRAYER: FATHER WITH BOLDNESS I COME BEFORE YOUR THRONE AND SAY; YOU ARE MY FATHER AND I AM YOUR CHILD, LET PEOPLE SPEAK OR THINK WHAT THEY MAY ABOUT ME I BELIEVE YOU HAVE REDEEMED ME, DELIVERED ME, HEALED ME, RESCUED ME, HONOURED ME, LIFTED ME.
I BELIEVE YOU HAVE PERFECTED ME TO THE CORE ON THAT CROSS, YOU HAVE WON EVERY BATTLE FOR ME AND I HAVE THE SHED BLOOD FROM THE CROSS, A WEAPON THAT WILL DESTROY THE ENEMY EVEN BEFORE HE TRIES TO ADVANCE TOWARDS ME. IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME I PRAY AMEN AMEN AND AMEN,
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