A Prayer for Forgiveness of Sins and Renewal Today

 A Prayer for Forgiveness of Sins and Renewal Today

Let's first meditate on 1 John 1:9 and then we'll pray together. It says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 

The first thing that I want us to keep in mind this moment is that one of the most important things to Father God is to have us forsake our sins. 

Father God wants you to let go of your sins and come to him. 

Let that sink in for a bit. 

Let it stay with you. 

The Bible says in 1 Timothy 2:4, "Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth?" 

This has always been the mind of Father God, and it has never changed. 

There is nothing Father God feels more personal about than the issue of our leaving our sins behind and coming back to him. 

I mean, he devised a plan for thousands of years since the time of Adam just to see that we are all saved and that we all have a place in heaven even after the not so glorious fall of man. 

He gave his only begotten son. 

He gave blood for this. 

Our salvation has always been a very important thing to Father God. 

In fact, it is the reason for everything. 

He is always able, willing, and ready to forgive us our sins and our trespasses, no matter how dark we think they are or how unforgivable we think they are. This is the mind of Father God towards us. 

But the main challenge we believers face is that the devil is working overtime to make sure that we don't believe this. 

Devil overwhelms us with guilt so that we are never able to see that our Father God forgives us and we only need to come to him. 

 In fact, there are many that have chosen to stay out of the house of the Lord and out of the Christian fold because they believe that they are beyond redemption. 

But the thing is, no man is beyond redemption. 

We certainly do not have anywhere in scripture a record of someone being beyond redemption and unable to be saved. 

There will never be a place low enough that we can come to that. The mercy of God cannot find and pull us out of.

And believe me, most of those who finally learned to stand strong in Christ fell many times. They fell. They backslid. They sinned again and again. 

But our Father God is the God who restores again and again. He is the God of second chances. 

He has never had a cause to turn a sinner with a genuinely broken spirit away. 

No man who genuinely asks for forgiveness and who is truly broken before the Lord will be turned away. 

The Bible points this out clearly in Psalms 51 verse 17 that the sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart. 

Oh God never rejects a repentant heart. 

 I for one have encountered this God of second chances. 

The God who is not afraid to always forgive us our sins.

3:47 I struggled with staying righteous. When I became a Christian, 3:52 there was always the guilt and the heartache that comes with falling again. 

3:58 That period where you just feel like you are not worthy of God, that you have let him down. And I did go through those. 

4:07 But there was one thing that never changed, however, and that is for as many times as I went back to him, God was ever willing to forgive me. 

That is why First John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 

 He is always willing to forgive us from all our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness as long as we come to him truly repentant. 

Now there is no demarcation with God. 

You may be coming to him for the first time,  accepting him for the first time in your life or coming back after falling because you wish to make your way right with him. 

You wish for a renewal, he welcomes you just the same. 

 There is also something I want you to note as you stand in this place of decision making right now. 

 There will probably be a battle in your mind. 

Even after praying and accepting the Lord or after asking him for forgiveness, the devil comes with his manipulations because the last thing he wants is to let anyone go. 

 The last thing he wants is for you to meet with your Father God.  He is quite content with you being in your sins. 

That is where he wants you. So the doubt will come. 

He will make you doubt that the Lord can truly forgive someone like you. 

He will take your mind back to just how dirty and how sinful you have been. 

He is not called the accuser of the brethren for nothing. 

But the Bible makes our stance in this situation very clear.

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us, "'Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new. 

The Bible tells us in this verse that anyone that accepts Jesus Christ is a new creature. 

Another version says, "The new creation has come. Old things have passed away." 

That is all the sins, all the things that have proclaimed you a sinner. 

Jesus Christ has taken them away and instead all things have become new. 

 That is, you have a new whiteboard to write on. 

A board that has been wiped of all the mistakes of the past. 

That is what your new life in Christ does. 

That is what the Lord offers and that is what the devil is keeping many of us from by keeping us locked in our sins and our guilt.

7:08 He even makes us come to believe that we can't make it out of our sins. Even if God forgives us, we will sin again. 

7:17 He has probably said that to you several times. But you see, the thing with God is that he doesn't just save you. He 

7:25 helps you get out of the sin that has kept you bound. 7:30 He makes a way of escape from it. He takes away addictions. 7:35 He takes away the taste for sin. If we ask him, we just have to ask. When we 

7:41 ask, he forgives, he renews, and he cleanses us. And that is my invitation 

7:48 this morning to as many as are here right now that you ask, not only for forgiveness, but also for cleansing as well, and that he gives you a new heart. 

If you'd like to join us in this prayer, let us pray together. 

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 Father, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ, I say thank you for your words that I have heard this morning. 

I say thank you for your words of salvation, for your words of encouragement, and for opening my heart to see light in your word through this message. I say thank you, Lord. 

Father, I come before you today with a repentant heart. I have sinned.  In fact, I have sinned again and again, and I have trampled on your grace. 

I ask this moment that you forgive me, and that you have mercy on me. I know I am not worthy of your continued mercy, but I know that you give it anyway. 

I also know that you won't turn away a broken and repentant heart. 

I pray that you forgive me, that you take away the sins in my life that have kept me bound. 

I also pray that you take away every feeling of inadequacy, every feeling of not being enough.

For I know that as I step into your forgiving grace today, I become a new creature. I become a new person. 

Father, I also ask that every tendency in me to sin or to return back to my previous sins, everything that has kept me coming back to this spot over and over again, I ask that you take them away from me in Jesus Christ's name. I pray that you deliver me from them. 

I also ask that you step in and deliver me from every addiction that has me bound, everything that will make moving forward difficult. 

Every taste for sin that will cause me to fall again. Even as I try to make progress in my Christian walk, I pray Lord that you help me to get over them. 

I pray today that even as I repent and I am accepted into this new life in you, I walk boldly in it in Jesus Christ's name. 

I stand against every manipulation of the devil to steal my salvation from me or to make me believe that I am not forgivable.

I choose to stand in your liberty, in your Word, and in your sacrifice that makes me worthy. 

I resist every whisper from hell that will still have me out in the world and sinning. 

I pray from this moment on that my heart is protected and shielded by you. 

My thoughts are protected and shielded by you. 

I also ask for the grace to stay in your Word, so that my thoughts and my mind can be renewed. So that I can be filled with your Word richly and I can stand up against the devil when he comes with his mind tricks. And so that I can stand against sin whenever it seeks to tempt me again. 

Help me to renew my mind, Lord, and be consistent with it, so I will no longer conform to the world and the sins that once brought me low. 

I also pray, Lord, that according to your Word in Psalm 51:10, that you create in me a pure heart, that you renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

I pray that you help me stay in your presence. 

Help me to fellowship with your Holy Spirit again. 

And that you restore the joy of salvation to me. 

Heavenly Father, I thank you once again today because I know that you have heard and answered me. 

I know that I am forgiven right now of all my sins and that I am renewed. 

I know that I am delivered of the addictions that have overwhelmed me in the past and from the poor decisions that have kept me from you. 

I thank you because I know that from this moment forth I am a new creature in you. 

Thank you, Father, for giving me new life once again and for making me a new creation. 

And I know that as I have said these prayers today, everything is made new. 

In Lord Jesus Christ's name, I have prayed. Amen. 

If you have said this prayer with us today, I welcome you back to the fold of Christ. And I know that the Lord that has started with you will keep you in  this walk of faith in Him and will keep you from falling away again. 

Thank you God, praise and glory to God for joining us again today. 

We would love to pray for you. 

God bless you and may his peace be with you always.