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Dr. Jim Denison's 2013 collection of Lenten devotionals is entitled, "If My People..." and comes at a time that he believes "a Fifth Great Awakening is sweeping the nations, as more people are coming to Christ than ever before in Christian history. How can you join this great movement of God's Spirit?" He goes on to write, "in this year's Lenten devotional guide, we will walk each day with King Solomon as he leads his nation into God's presence and glory. We will commit ourselves to our Father's purpose and experience his transforming power. And we will claim his promise: 'If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land' (2 Chronicles 7:14). 'If My People ...' is more than a Lenten guide - it is God's invitation to intimacy with him. Please join us on this joyous journey."
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Friday, March 22
Have you been cleansed by God's grace?
During the Cold War, some sympathetic West Germans threw food and clothes across the Berlin Wall to their starving, shivering neighbors in the East. The Communist government was enraged, and threw mounds of trash across the Wall to the West. The West Germans put a sign on the trash which read, "Each gives what he has."
We are fallen people living in a fallen world. Each of us has "sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). But our holy God is also our loving Father (1 John 4:8). He stands ready to forgive every sin we confess to him with genuine repentance (1 John 1:9). And so our Scripture continues: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin . . ."
If we receive this gift, we can say with the Psalmist, "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). Then God will "tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19). Then we can claim his promise: "I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more" (Jeremiah 31:34).
Repentance and forgiveness are essential to spiritual renewal. Have you been cleansed by the grace of God today?
Prior to founding the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture, James C. Denison, Ph.D., was pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church, a 10,000-member congregation in Dallas, Texas. He also pastored churches in Midland and Mansfield, Texas, and in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University. He is also the the author of seven books.
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