Change, can a man or woman change on their own? Can a man or woman repent on their own? Do you possess the power to change? Do you possess the power to truly repent?
What is the power? I am glad you asked, for the power is truth, but if you lack the knowledge of truth, then you lack the power to change!~
(Jeremiah 13:23) Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
(Ezekiel 36:24-28) For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Brothers and sisters, It is impossible for a man or woman to change on their own, it is also impossible for a man or woman to repent on their own, because you cannot truly repent or change without the knowledge of truth!
Show me a man or woman who has changed one their own or claims he or she has changed on their own, and I will call them a liar to their face!
Show me a man or woman who says or claims they changed, and I will show you a man or woman who had a confrontation with truth, and the truth they were confronted with is what changed that man and woman!
We can talk about repenting from sin, tell men they need to repent from sin, and even tell men they need to change, but if the men you are telling these things to do not possess the knowledge of truth which is the power to change, then you might as well be talking to a brick wall!
Knowledge is power in the kingdom of GOD, the same way carnal knowledge is power in the world, and many of GOD’S people die in the world, and in the church, simply for a lack of knowledge!
Brothers and sisters, we as true believers in CHRIST JESUS all know JESUS is the way, the truth, and the life, but if you truly examine the lives of all the disciples of JESUS CHRIST, then you can see that none of them had experienced true change or repentance until JESUS came into their lives, and they were confronted with the absolute truth!~
(Zechariah 3:1-8) And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke you, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him.
And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the angel of the Lord stood by.
And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying,
Thus says the Lord of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you wilt keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
(Psalm 51:1-19) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Brothers and sisters, As great as King David was he knew he could not change on his own, so he asked GOD to change him, to give him a new heart, to renew the right spirit within him, and to cleanse him from all unrighteousness, but he knew GOD, and he could only ask GOD these things because he had a personal relationship with him through revelation knowledge!
Change, can a man or woman change on their own? Can man or woman repent on their own? Do you possess the power to change? Do you possess the power to truly repent?
What is the power? I am glad you asked, for the power is truth, but if you lack the knowledge of truth, then you lack the power to change!~
DILIP says
AMEN
Kennedi says
True repentance is turning back from your sins and NEVER turning to them again!
http://www.repairingthebreach.info has all the details
Timothy Hannaman says
HOLY HOLY HOLY HES OUR LORD ALMIGHTY.
JESUS SAYS.
I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. KNOW ONE COMES UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.
THE DEVIL IS A LIAR”! THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM.
RESIST HIM. (Temptation)
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
No power on earth no scheme of MAN” SHALL EVER pluck me from my father’s hand.
GOD BE WITH YOU ALL.
IN JESUS’S HOLY NAME I PRAY. AMEN
BE STILL”
WATCH”
BE READY”
OR SAVIOR CHRIST JESUS RETURNING.
Reese Kemp says
Amen, and amen!