If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) One of the most powerful and often overlooked principles in the Kingdom is that God responds to repentance. He does not respond to performance, religious activity or how long you have been saved. He responds to genuine repentance. When the nation approached John and confessed their sins in the Jordan River, something shifted in the spirit. The sta

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. (Mark 1:4-5) God had a plan for Israel. He was going to send the Messiah, but not into a nation full of unrepentant sin. So, as He always does, He prepared the way first. Seven hundred years before John the Baptist showed up, I

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return