The Fall Deepens (ii)
The Lord does not forgive excuses; He forgives sin. He is always ready to forgive us if we repent. To repent is to acknowledge that it is our fault, and we made a mistake. Blame-shifting instead of repentance is to further build the barriers between ourselves and God, and ourselves and others. It takes humility to admit that we were wrong, but God gives His grace to the humble. Genuine humility is genuine repentance.
We can blame our mistakes on other people, or on our environment, but it will never deliver us from the consequences of those mistakes. There is no genuine repentance until we accept the responsibility for our actions. Only genuine repentance results in forgiveness and reconciliation, with God and men.
In recent history, fallen men have released a seemingly continuous stream of philosophies and psychologies that try to shift the blame for the depravities of man to things such as environment, how we were raised, etc. It is true that these things do have an influence on us, and can have a significant impact on the makeup of our character, but the way out of this maze is not to blame someone else, but to start taking personal responsibility for our problems and failures.
- Proclaim Isa 30.27-33 over your territory declaring the judgment of YHVH over wickedness in every gate of society.
- Praise HaShem and join the heavens in declaring this glorious triumphant victory over the kingdom of darkness the dragon and all his surrogate spirits when Yeshua rose again Rom 16:20, 1 Cor 2:7-8 Col 2:14-15.
- Pray that kingdom citizens who continue to diligently wait upon HaShem for victory over various bondages, oppression from the enemy, will experience in this season a level of breakthrough in those areas of deliverance and inner healing