Do not lay down your spiritual weapons, your spiritual armor - not for a moment!

'THE description of the Christian soldier given by Paul in the sixth chapter of the Epistle
to the Ephesians, is compact and comprehensive. He is depicted as being ever in the conflict, which has many fluctuating seasons -- seasons of prosperity and adversity, light and darkness, victory and defeat. He is to pray at all seasons, and with all prayer,
this to be added to the armour in which he is to fare forth to battle. At all times, he is to
have the full panoply of prayer. The Christian soldier, if he fight to win, must pray much. By this means, only, is he enabled to defeat his inveterate enemy, the devil, together with the Evil One's manifold emissaries. "Praying always, with all prayer," is the Divine direction given him. This covers all seasons, and embraces all manner of praying.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 62)

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints

Ever at war.

Every waking moment is spent in spiritual warfare.

When we have lulls in our battles, even those can be used as tools of the enemy.  While we are regrouping the enemy does the same.

All our physical wars are nothing compared to the spiritual wars. I don't say that lightly, I say it with truth. Because even as our men and women fight the physical battles they are also simultaneously involved in a spiritual war.

The spiritual battle NEVER ends. Physical battles can end. You can come home from a physical war, but you cannot come home from our spiritual battle, you are in it until our Savior returns.

Can you afford to take a day off from the fight? No.

Can you take a day off? Yes. You can lay down your spiritual weapons, and you can take off your spiritual armor. Will the war pause for you while you set aside your warfare gear? No. It won't pause for even a single moment for anyone. The spiritual war never paused for our Savior as He walked the earth, it's just not possible.  When you choose to lay down your armor and weapons you are leaving yourself exposed to be attacked.  How often do we do this? How often are we left vulnerable by our own choice?

Truly being told this…

'Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit'

… we have to comprehend that it is TRUTH! We are to pray ALWAYS.  Ever ready in prayer.

Can we stress it enough? Never enough.

More tomorrow by the grace of GOD.

Please LORD, please Father in Heaven, please help us to comprehend, help us to be fully Yours in all things.

Help us as we continue to study prayer, bless us, help us please, by YOUR GRACE! In YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!

Trust and Obey- All Through Jesus

'The will must be surrendered to God as a primary condition of all successful praying. Everything about us gets its colouring from our inmost character. The secret will makes character and controls conduct. The will, therefore, plays an important part in all successful praying. There can be no praying in its richest implication and truest sense, where the will is not wholly and fully surrendered to God. This unswerving loyalty to God is an utterly indispensable condition of the best, the truest, the most effectual praying. We have "simply got to trust and obey; there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus -- but to trust, and obey! "

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 61)

Psa_20:7  Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

Psa 37:3  Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psa_143:8  Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Trust and obey.

It would be futile for someone to expect you to obey  without telling you what you are to obey, yes?

When you ask someone to obey you, you are telling them to listen to what you say and then do what you say, right?  You never ask someone to obey you and then turn around and punish them for  not obeying unless they know they've disobeyed.  People have to know what is expected of them in order to be obedient.

God has allowed us to know what is expected of us, He has told us how we are to obey, what we are to obey. When we are told we need to be obedient to God we know what that means, He doesn’t leave us clueless.  He doesn't expect anything from us other than what He has asked of us. And He has told us we will have HELP. He has given us a SAVIOR who makes it possible to obey, He has given us a Holy Spirit who will help us! He hasn't left us helpless. He knows our weaknesses-every single one of our weaknesses.  He would never make it impossible for us to be obedient to Him, never.

1Co_10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it

This is truth.

We want to pray, we want our prayers to be heard, we want to be our Savior's knowing Him and being known by Him. Please, Lord, forgive us and save us! We are truly weak. We know what we are to obey You've made it very plain, very clear to us, You have not shrouded Your truth in darkness. We would be wholly YOURS all by YOUR grace, YOUR love, YOUR righteousness, we depend upon You for ALL things! Guide us LORD, keep us in YOU! Keep us from evil! Please LORD we would trust and obey You all by Your power.

We are told to obey when we are told to keep God's commandments

'We must look well to our obedience, to the secret springs of action, to the loyalty of our
heart to God, if we would pray well, and desire to get the most out of our praying. Obedience is the groundwork of effectual praying; this it is, which brings us nigh to God.

The lack of obedience in our lives breaks down our praying. Quite often, the life is in revolt and this places us where praying is almost impossible, except it be for pardoning mercy. Disobedient living produces mighty poor praying. Disobedience shuts the door of the inner chamber, and bars the way to the Holy of holies. No man can pray -- really pray -- who does not obey.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 60)

Joh 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Why… I have to ask why, why would our Savior speak these words if they mean nothing, if His commandments mean nothing?

If we LOVE God, if we LOVE OTHERS we will keep the commandments.

Remember this?

Joh_10:30  I and my Father are one.

If this is true then the Father's commandments are the Son's commandments and the Son's commandments are the Father's.  How could this be otherwise? How could they disagree?

The moral laws will NEVER be done away with, they will remain forever because forever we need to LOVE GOD and LOVE OUR FELLOW MAN.

When we are redeemed to heaven when our Savior returns for us we will have kept all the commandments of our God, of our Savior.  Our love will be perfected in our LORD. We will love God perfectly, we will love each other perfectly!

Here and now we MUST learn obedience.  We are told to obey when we are told to keep, to actively live our lives in perfect harmony with the love of our Savior.

Will our lives be perfect? NO. All around us there is a world of tremendous imperfection and we must live in this world among all sorts of imperfection. The imperfection surrounding us will tear us apart if we aren't in God's hands always! Satan will use every means of evil to keep us breaking the commandments of God, to keep us from Loving God and Loving Each Other.

Please LORD, please help us to be YOURS in perfect OBEDIENCE so our PRAYERS will reach YOU.

All by YOUR GRACE!

Who do you obey?

'The difficulty in prayer is not with faith, but with obedience, which is faith's foundation.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 59)

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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2Co_10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
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Don't you know that to whom you obey as a servant, that's whose servant you are. If you obey sin it will be to death, if you obey righteousness it will be to life-- right?  Seriously, when we think of obedience- who do we obey?  Who? Do you know who you obey?  You can obey sin or God, you choose. So who do you obey?

Our every thought should be in obedience to Christ.  And just thinking about that - the wording- 'bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,' has to make us think!   Bringing into captivity.  When we are bringing something into captivity as a rule it's something that doesn't want to be captive. To capture something we set up traps, we put up snares, we play tricks all to get it trapped. We keep things captive sometimes for their own good, don't we? Some would rather capture the wild creatures that are threatening others than kill them.  When we think about captivity of our thoughts  we are thinking of caging thoughts that would keep us from obeying our Savior. The wild animal of our thoughts, our carnal nature, the thoughts that would keep us from obeying Christ must be brought into captivity. We have to do all we can to capture those thoughts and NOT allow them free reign because if they are not brought into captivity then we yield to disobedience, we yield to sin.

Truly many people will say they believe but then they turn around and disobey, when we read 'the difficulty in prayer is not with faith, but with obedience, which is faith's foundation.'  we have to realize that it's truth!

Obedience.  May God grant us the ability to obey! It is only through our Savior that we can obey. May the Holy Spirit bless us and keep us as we struggle to bring every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ!

By the LOVE of our God.

Just a note here- Thank You Lord for leading Chloe into her long sleep, ending her suffering. Please bless Alena, Diane, Lee, and Seb, and all who are mourning the loss of such a beloved pet, a true family member.

Sin exists because of disobedience to God

'How great and manifold are the misconceptions of the true elements and functionings of prayer! There are many who earnestly desire to obtain an answer to their prayers but who go unrewarded and unblest. They fix their minds on some promise of God and then endeavour by dint of dogged perseverance, to summon faith sufficient to lay hold
upon, and claim it. This fixing of the mind on some great promise may avail in strengthening faith, but, to this holding on to the promise must be added the persistent and importunate prayer that expects, and waits till faith grows exceedingly. And who is there that is able and competent to do such praying save the man who readily, cheerfully and continually, obeys God?

Faith, in its highest form, is the attitude as well as the act of a soul surrendered to God, in whom His Word and His Spirit dwells. It is true that faith must exist in some form, or
another, in order to prompt praying; but in its strongest form, and in its largest results, faith is the fruit of prayer. That faith increases the ability and the efficiency of prayer is true; but it is likewise true that prayer increases the ability and efficiency of faith. Prayer and faith, work, act and react, one upon the other.

Obedience to God helps faith as no other attribute possibly can. When obedience --
implicit recognition of the validity, the paramountcy of the Divine commands -- faith ceases to be an almost superhuman task. It requires no straining to exercise it. Obedience to God makes it easy to believe and trust God. Where the spirit of obedience fully impregnates the soul; where the will is perfectly surrendered to God; where there is a fixed, unalterable purpose to obey God, faith almost believes itself. Faith then becomes almost involuntary. After obedience it is, naturally, the next step, and it is easily and readily taken. The difficulty in prayer is not with faith, but with obedience, which is faith's foundation.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 59)

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Obedience to God.

Sin exists because of disobedience to God,  the rejection of perfect love.

How can we imagine we can disobey God, continuing to reject perfect love and yet have God hear us?

Do we one to another like to listen to those who reject us?  Yet we want God to constantly listen to us as we pray to Him while we constantly reject Him through our disobedience.

Eve knew right from wrong and chose wrong, she chose to disobey.

We too are allowed to know right from wrong, God hasn't hidden it from us expecting us to work it out on our own. Plainly we are told right from wrong and once we are told right from wrong we make choices for one or the other.

We choose to obey or disobey.

It is so true that prayer, faith, and obedience are all together, if we fail to see this we are choosing ignorance over truth, we are choosing blindness over sight.

Please LORD, please help us to comprehend all we need to in order to pray as You would have us to pray, to have the faith You desire we have, to obey You as we must all through YOUR LOVE!

By YOUR GRACE!

Rom_6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

'No name, however precious and powerful, can protect and give efficiency to prayer which is unaccompanied by the doing of God's will. Neither can the doing, without the praying, protect from Divine disapproval. If the will of God does not master the life, the praying will be nothing but sickly sentiment. If prayer do not inspire, sanctify and direct our work, then self-will enters, to ruin both work and worker.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 58)

This is TRUTH!

Truly this is the 'circle of life' if you will.  We do God's will and our prayers are effective, we pray and are enabled to do God's will.  They go hand in hand, there is no ONE without the other there cannot be.

People want to stop at whatever sounds best, whatever seems easy. People might be willing to go just so far into something difficult and stop, they set limits on what they'll do so far as believing and living is concerned.

I can't get out of my mind right now how Jesus spoke these words--

Joh_5:14  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Joh_8:11  She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

He was TRULY in fact telling them to go and keep God's law! Because to say go and sin no more means to go and do not transgress the law any longer.

If CHRIST did away with the law, there would be NO sin because there is NO law to transgress from.

People love to say Jesus gave NEW commandments that replaced the old ones.  Soooo what did He mean when He said this--

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mat 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Mat 19:19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 19:20  The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Mat 19:21  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Jesus was quoting what commandments? Where are these commandments taken from?

Exo 20:2  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
ONE Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
TWO Exo 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
THREE Exo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
FOUR Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
FIVE Exo 20:12  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
SIX Exo 20:13  Thou shalt not kill.
SEVEN Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.
EIGHT Exo 20:15  Thou shalt not steal.
NINE Exo 20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
TEN Exo 20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.


Deu 5:6  I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
ONE Deu 5:7  Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
TWO Deu 5:8  Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deu 5:9  Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deu 5:10  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
THREE Deu 5:11  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
FOUR Deu 5:12  Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
Deu 5:13  Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deu 5:14  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deu 5:15  And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
FIVE Deu 5:16  Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
SIX Deu 5:17  Thou shalt not kill.
SEVEN Deu 5:18  Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
EIGHT Deu 5:19  Neither shalt thou steal.
NINE Deu 5:20  Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
TEN Deu 5:21  Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Exo 25:21  And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exo 25:22  And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

Deu 10:1  At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
Deu 10:2  And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deu 10:3  And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
Deu 10:4  And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
Deu 10:5  And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

Jesus is quoting from the TEN COMMANDMENTS, the commandments that were placed in the ark of the covenant. Jesus was telling this man that it was GOOD that he kept them. Jesus did NOT tell the man he no longer had to keep them.  He did tell them that it wasn't ENOUGH just to keep them, there was more needed. Jesus MAGNIFIED the law, He broadened it, He expounded upon it, He revealed the HEART of the law which is to LOVE GOD and LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS.  If we are TRULY loving God and Others we automatically will desire to keep the laws of God. This is fact!

So when Jesus told people to SIN no more, He meant go and no longer transgress the law but live by the law as revealed through HIS compassion something that was stripped from the law by people over time making the law something harsh and loveless even as it tells us to love. The love we imagined we were giving to God was something hollow and lifeless without compassion and true caring.  Saying you love God is not the same thing as LIVING as you love God.  Doing good to others by not hurting them is not the same thing as doing good to others through caring for their needs.  Don't just NOT steal, lie, cheat, hurt but give, be truthful, help and heal others.

No other laws of the many hundreds of laws given in the old testament were put into the ark of the covenant, just those ten commandments, and that was done for a reason we dare not overlook.

Rom_3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Rom_6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Rom_7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

There was a law that was done away with, there was an old covenant that was done away with- that which pointed to a Sacrificial Lamb.  Our Savior is the Lamb of God!

So yes, we need to live our lives in accordance with the will of God and pray in accordance with the will of God.  This is something we cannot afford to not fully comprehend as God reveals it to us. To pray without obedience is to tell someone you love them all the while doing awful things to sadistically harm them- it is wrong and untrue. To obey without prayer is like loving someone without ever communicating with them in any way at all when all means are available to you, there is no real connecting your obedience to your love of them.

Please LORD GOD, PLEASE help us to LOVE and OBEY, to PRAY and OBEY, to live in YOU, for YOU.

Please LORD bless us! Save us from our unworthy, sin-filled selves. Please!

THANK YOU!

Psa 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins

Psa 19:12  Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psa 19:13  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psa 19:14  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

We've been talking about obedience and prayer this past week or so and truly how many seem to believe they can live a blatant life of disobedience and still call upon God.

What do I mean by disobedience? It's not what I mean that matters, it's what God means.

What is God's standard and don't you dare say He hasn't one. Don't get up on your high horses and declare that Jesus did away with all the obeying stuff and put love in its place. Don't tell me that Jesus loved sinners, He went to the sinners and hung out with them so obviously we aren't to be concerned with not being a sinner.   I'm asking you not to tell me all that stuff because it's the stuff of lies. All that nonsense has been propagated by Satan and all those he uses as his minions in order to deceive. Satan wants you to be among the many who cry out to Jesus- Lord! Lord! Didn't I serve You!  And Satan will rejoice when he hears the Savior tell you to get away from Him, that He doesn't know You.

So while you are clinging to the belief that disobedience is the way to go, putting your own idea of what God wants from you in place of the moral laws He created Himself, thinking about the Jesus who walked among the sinners coming back and saying to sinners- 'Get away from me'.  You don't want to think about that Jesus, do you?!  Those are HIS WORDs, that is HIS PROPHECY!  That is Him saying 'Get away!'  It's not Him saying, 'Come unto me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.' Not any more.  The time for people to come to Him and find HIS rest is past, they've either accepted Him and live for Him truly without guile, or they've rejected Him- even those who profess His name and profess love for Him --if it is not in truth and without guile they will be rejected.

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Are you reading Jesus' words? Are you? How do you equate this with the idea that Jesus doesn't care if you obey? He says plainly-  'He that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.'   This is OBEDIENCE!

WHY can't people understand?! WHY must they choose blindness over the truth?! Why do they serve a false God believing they serve the true? Why will they have to cry out that they prophesized in His name, that they cast out devils in His name, that they did many wonderful things in His name never realizing that the One whose name they used never knew them. Why did He never know them? Because they weren't doing the WILL of the FATHER IN HEAVEN, but their own misguided will.

Psa 19:12  Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psa 19:13  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psa 19:14  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Can we understand our errors and cleanse ourselves from secret faults? No, we need the understanding and cleansing that our Savior offers us. We need our God to keep us from presumptuous sinning so that it doesn't rule over us! Only when we have God keeping us from this sinning will we be upright and innocent from the great transgression.  We need our words, and our hearts, our every thought to be acceptable in the sight of our God, He is our STRENGTH, He is our REDEEMER!

God will cleanse us, God will make obedience possible because it is not of our own accord. What is of our own accord is the willingness to yield to Him and allow Him to work in us showing us the ways He would have us walk in.  He wants us to go and sin no more every time He forgives us. He never wants us to go and sin some more every time He forgives us.

And if we are to go and sin no more- He is telling us we should keep His moral laws- because- SIN is a TRANSGRESSION of the LAW, the MORAL LAW! So sinning no more means keeping His law. He wants us to Keep His moral laws! He wants us to go and NO longer break His laws.

1Jn_3:4  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

May we THROUGH the power of our Risen LORD live our lives in obedience to His Father's will!  May HE KNOW US in that Day!

Please LORD, know us undeserving ones, us who are desperate to know and do YOUR will, through YOU and YOUR power!

Please LORD.

Thank YOU!