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Date: Aug 22, 2005


This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                         My Forgiveness

Child of Mine, My forgiveness is total and complete, so why do you pull
away from Me after I have forgiven you?  Why are you afraid to draw near
to Me and to receive My love and My grace?

When you do that, you behave as if the blood of My Son has not cleansed 
you from all unrighteousness and made you pure and holy.  Why do you act 
as if your righteousness was somehow dependent on your own behavior instead 
of on the great sacrifice of My Son, where He laid down His life on Calvary 
for your sake?

My forgiveness is not only complete, it is also instant.  The very second
that you repent, I make you righteous and clean, because of the atonement 
that My Son purchased for you.  Yet you separate yourself from Me for a 
season, as if some time has to pass to 'earn' your purity. Child, you 
cannot earn it.  The soil of sin does not fade away as time passes. It must 
be cleansed and washed away through the blood of the Lamb. That blood does 
not tarry, it is applied and has its full effect the instant you repent. 
There is no time delay involved; there is no waiting period for your 
righeousness to come.  That is because forgiveness is not about you or what 
you have done -- it is about what My Son did for you when He died in your 
place.

Child of Mine, I do not desire for you to sin; I want you to walk in purity
and holiness. But when you do fall, I have made a provision for it.  My Son
has given you the gift of total and complete forgiveness, and He is able 
and capable to deliver precisely that for you.  This means you are cleansed
and made pure and holy again, the instant His blood washes over you.  So
why do you imitate your first parents in the garden and hide yourself from 
Me when you have sinned?  Child, don't you think I know where you are and 
what you have done?  Don't you think that the provision has already been
put in place to purify you and make you clean once again?

Do not run from Me, child of Mine, when you sin.  Rather, repent. That means
you stop what you are doing; you run back to Me and you allow Me to wash 
and cleanse you, then to strengthen you that you might not sin again.  It 
means you purpose in your heart once again to walk in My ways, to honor and 
obey Me and to submit to My will.  Know this, child -- My will is not to 
separate you from Myself or to punish you; My will is to cleanse and restore 
you, that you might once again be in that place of intimacy with Me.  

I have called you from death into life, from darkness into light, from sin
into purity, from decay into glory, from despair into grace.  But child, 
you must receive My grace on My terms.  And one of those terms is that you
are to walk in holiness and purity before Me. It is not possible to do that
from your own strength and merit, no matter how hard you try.  That is why 
I have provided two things to make this possible for you. The first is My 
indwelling Spirit Who changes your nature to better line up with Mine and 
Who strengthens you to walk in purity of thought and deed.  The second 
is the gift of forgiveness that My Son has purchased for you.  It is not
humility to refuse this grace by berating and separating yourself from Me 
when I offer you this gift. No, that is rebellion and it does not please
Me at all.  

Child of Mine, the next time you sin, do not run away and hide -- do not
separate or distance yourself from Me.  Instead, run to Me to receive My 
forgiveness and believe that I have made you clean.  Child, receive the 
free gift that I offer to you.  It was purhcased with a very great price, 
but now it is yours.  So do not refuse My forgivenss and cling to your 
filfthy rags of unrighteousness; exchange them for the white robes that I 
freely offer you.  Do not delay and do not tarry, for My grace and My 
forgiveness are instant. Receive them, Child of Mine, receive My 
forgiveness.