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If you have a hard time believing God wants to forgive you; again and again - This episode is for you.

If you notice you’re trying to raise yourself up, reducing what you’ve done to receive mercy – This episode is for you.

Let’s appreciate God’s gift of mercy as a GIFT, freely and generously given, for you right where you are.

Highlights:
It can feel difficult to separate the anger you feel with yourself about your own condition and how God feels about you.

1 Corinthians 6:18 “Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

We have two responses when we feel frustrated with ourselves and/or the cycle we battle: 

1.     Start to downplay the seriousness of what we’ve done by justifying it or spiritualize it. This avoids the significance of what we’ve done and to avoid our own fears and difficulties accepting God’s forgiveness.

2.     Turn on grace. We approach God for grace but in such a way that tries to lift us up and make us worthy in some way of receiving Gods mercy. 

When you begin to pay attention to the deeper waters of your soul; acting out sexually, moving towards any kind of sin is really seeking to repair something, seeking to medicate something, seeking to reverse something that we’ve experienced. 

Gods gifts of grace and mercy and forgiveness and love are gifts.

When we try to lower our need or elevate our worth; we are trying to earn those gifts.

A gift cannot be earned.

Ephesians 2:8 “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.”

Do you trust the gift? Do you trust the gift giver?

1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

“Mercy flows to the lowest places.”

- Andrew Comiskey

Homework

Open yourself to the reality of where you are and what you’ve done. Be clear in your confession then ask God to give you mercy there.

Shift your posture from you to God. Remember, the measure of mercy you’re able to receive is not dependent on you or from you.

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