The Blessings of Confession Podcast Show Notes 1. The Answer to true guilt – REPENTANCE – True repentance includes: a. Confession b. Change (1) In your mind (intellectual) (2) In your desires (emotional) (3) In your will and actions (volitional) 2. What are the…
Do You Feel Accepted by God?
Do You Want to be Guilt Free? Show Notes Step 1: Understand the Problem – Observation and Identification of the Problem (PROBLEM) 1. Introduction – What is Guilt? a. Guilt lives in the courtroom where you stand alone before the judge. It says, “You are responsible for wrongdoing and legally answerable.”…
Our Debt Has Been Fully Paid
Anchored in Grace or Doom to Failure
Grace –Grace means unmerited favor. Unmerited Grace – entirely separated from human ability or merit. Unsurpassed Grace – Rom 5:20 Unassailable Grace – “grace enough” – “sufficient grace” (2 Cor. 9:8, 2 Pet 1:3) Peace – peace with God and peace of God Notice though that grace precedes peace. You cannot have peace without God’s grace. Question to Consider Do…
Do You Entertain Sin in Your Life? Quote to Ponder Here is a challenging quote by John MacArthur regarding how we should handle our sin and the great cost that was paid to free us from it. Question to Consider How seriously do you take dealing with the sin in your life?
What Abounds in Your Life, Your Sin or God’s Grace? Do you ever feel as though the weight of your sins is greater than the grace of God? Today, so many Christians live under a heavy burden of condemnation and guilt. They live their life focused more on their sins and guilt rather than on…
Showing Grace Do you struggle with offering forgiveness? Would people consider you a gracious person? Here is a challenging and yet encouraging quote about demonstrating and displaying grace. I hope it blesses you.
Freedom From Guilt and Condemnation I had the opportunity recently to share the following with a friend. The beauty of justification is that you are declared not guilty. It is the opposite of condemnation. It implies deliverance from the curse of God because the curse was placed in Christ. It means you are forgiven and…
When was the last time someone said thank you to you? When was the last time you said thank you to someone else? So many people today struggle with a lack of thankfulness and ingratitude. This leads to struggles with complaining, criticizing, and comparing. Gratitude and thankfulness provide a powerful remedy for these problems. This gratitude journal helps us to identify what we should be grateful for and what we do as a result of seeing life as a gift.
Do you struggle with applying the truth that you learn during your study of God’s word? This God’s grace prayer journal will allow you to focus on gratitude and live in contentment in life. The journal pages encourage you to observe what you are learning from the Bible text, evaluate how you have failed to live according to the truths stated, seek forgiveness, and develop godly plans for change.
Do you struggle with the lack of hope? Do you find yourself struggling with doubt and insecurity during times of great challenge? During those times, you need to find your rest and assurance in pondering, personalizing, praying, and practicing what God’s Word says. In the short devotional, spend time meditating and studying each of these passages. Write down whatever comes to mind in the spaces below. And let God speak to you.
One of the keys to growing in Christlikeness in our lives is to unearth and discover, and biblically evaluate our thinking patterns, speaking, and acting. This worksheet will help you be honest and specific about areas in your life that are not meeting biblical standards in thinking, speaking, and acting.
The God who began a good work in you will continue it through your lifetime and will finish it when we meet him face-to-face. God works for us, and God works in us. He enables us to become more like Christ every single day. This work is progressive and continual in this life. This worksheet helps us review and evaluate gains made during counseling and discipleship, show gratitude to God for what he has done, and develop plans for future growth and change.
There probably is not a day that goes by that we do not have some level of conflict with others. This worksheet helps us focus on the problem and not the person. It helps us evaluate how we have handled a dispute and how we should deal with it moving forward.
Do you ever struggle with doing a Bible study or journaling the key ideas from your reading? This Bible Study Note Sheet will encourage you to ponder and meditate on Scripture. Also, God’s Word is meant for you, so this worksheet will help you personalize what you are learning. It will also guide you in learning to pray God’s Word, and finally, it will encourage you to put into practice the principles and promises you find in reading the Word of God.
Anger is a significant issue for so many people. People often stuff or spew their anger, but very few learn to study their anger. This journal assignment will help you to do just that. It will help you understand, evaluate, and respond to your anger in better ways.
Do you ever find yourself getting overwhelmed with problems? Do you find yourself struggling with thinking clearly during a challenging situation? This four-step approach to rethinking a problem will help.
Problems can seem overwhelming. When we are in the midst of a significant crisis, many of us struggle with defining the problem and implementing helpful solutions. This worksheet helps us to identify three unbiblical and unproductive ways of handling problems. It also encourages us to destroy problems, not people, as we deal with issues in a biblical and God-honoring way.
