Week 30: We Are Forgiven

Hebrews 10:2

"... For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. "

What are we more conscious of today? Our sins or the fact that we have been forgiven? In the New Covenant, God do not want us to be sin-conscious. Instead, He want us to be conscious of Jesus and His finished work. The Lamb of God has taken away all our sins at the cross, so count on the fact that we are forgiven child of God!

No matter what has happened or what we have done, God want us to know that because of His Son’s finished work, He will be merciful to our unrighteousness, and our sins and lawless deeds He will remember no more. (Hebrews 8:12). Amen!

For that reason, we should not be conscious of our sins. In fact, when we are sin-conscious, the devil brings in condemnation, and the more we receive it and condemn ourselves, the more we will find ourselves unforgiving toward ourselves and even others.

A lady, who had cancer on her face, asked for prayer for healing, the Lord revealed to her that it was self-hatred that was keeping her from receiving her healing. She could not forgive herself and was full of self-condemnation.

When she realized her problem, she counted on the fact that God was merciful to her unrighteousness and that she was already forgiven. She received the love of God. Then, right before the pastor’s eyes, her whole face changed — she received her healing that very moment!

Something happens when we believe that we are forgiven. There is peace in our conscience. With that peace conscience, we do no try to please God with our doings. Instead, we set ourselves free from our own doings. We are no longer under the bondage of our own efforts, That is why God says “I want you to believe that all your sins I will remember no more. I want you to believe that you are My child enjoying My mercy and that you can always count on My forgiveness.”

Let's remember that all our sins have already been paid for by Jesus on the cross. And the more we count on the fact that we have the Father’s forgiveness and that He does not condemn us because of Jesus’ finished work, the more sin and its effects — sickness, hatred, lack and so on — will lose their grip on us.  We will find ourselves walking in greater measures of God’s grace and blessings! Amen. Hallelujah!