Forgiven Livin' DeLIVERS !

Forgiveness is for giving.  Jesus gives forgiveness for all our sins forever, for all time if we BELIEVE Him.  It's all about Him, this Forgiven Livin' !

Why do we need our sins forgiven?  1John 2:12 tells us it's for His names sake. So how do we do
Forgiven Liven' ?  These are some tips I've found in the Bible that seem very powerful to me.

Start from that broken-hearted place of sorrowful repenting.  Lay it all down before the cross.  Turn
your tear-stained face to Jesus and look full into His wonderful face.  You are forgiven.

Start to live anew and stand on those Bible promises you remember.  Look them up using your
index.  Fill yourself with His cleansing word.  Strengthen your courage to believe and move-on out in faith.  Memorize the promises and worship the Author of the promise being submitted to His timing and
delivery dates.  He alone DELIVERS !  Don't enclose the promise in your own limitations - truly
trust His unlimitedness !  Depend on the fact that God cannot be limited by us, our ways or thoughts -
no not ever !  Watch out and fight your own tendencies to limit and enclose the promises by your
own understandings - our own understandings don't ever go far enough !  Good news !  We're
designed to need to go beyond our own understandings in order to trust His ways - they are
beyond our own !  This is really a good thing.

Start again and again until you're moving forward.  Never lose heart or trust your own heart.  Follow His
heart by looking for His heart everyday and everywhere in His word.  Fight "loser" thoughts.  Bust
your pride problems wide open.  Give yourself away.  This is called Surrender.   Surrender all.   All
means all and that's all, all means !  You can trust Jesus.  Jesus is who He says He is and He says who
He is in His word !  Go there alot.  It is alive and a place of life.  It is a way of life.  It is Jesus, the
Living Word.  Learn His voice so that fakers can't fake you out !  He cannot lie to you.  Cannot.  He
speaks to us in His word and through prayer and however He wants !  Don't miss it !  Be alert in Him.

Start forgiving wrong choice making from your past - even five minutes ago - this is so yesterday -
leave it there.  Resolve to chose wrongly no more !  Make right choices especially after every wrong
choice - the quicker the better.  You can judge your right choice making by your turn around time.
Your growth can be measured by how quickly you correct and redirect compared to how you used
to defend and hold on to your former 'wrongness'.

Choose betterness over bitterness and loving over losing.  Give thanks for every rotten bit of
wrongness you've done and now given up.  Give thanks that God wastes nothing and no tear
drops without His loving notice.  Devote now to His redeeming plans.  Redemption and reconciliation
color our whole lives with heavenly pathways !  Do not avoid those roads !  Head on into redemption
full speed ahead and when redeemed - SAY SO !  Let the redeemed of the Lord say So !

His ways are not our ways they are higher.  He made us for His own.  Not to trip us up, but to make
us whole, like Him, faithful, hopeful, holy bits of human dust indwelt by the Holy Spirit Himself.
By His stripes we are healed, never to be lost or separated from His endless heart of love.  Loser
thoughts touch us all, but loserness and lostness is not our doom !  Loser thoughts are never from Him.
They are from hell actually.  Thoughts of defeat from self focused eyes slither away at the fact of the cross and the saying of His name.  Jesus, Jesus, JESUS.  Look how His name puts us where He wants
us - in HIM !  JES - us .  See - - we, us, we're in JES - US !  He thinks of everything !

So, Forgiven Livin' is all about JESUS and His saving love for all of US !  Thank You Lord !
Spend no more time in self condemnation or condemning others.  Spend more time in His Word !

Check out:  Romans Chapter 8,  Isaiah 55:8,9 and 11,   Isaiah 53  and Jeremiah 31:34 !  Glory !

He makes us holy bits of human dust placing us righteously forgiven in Him,  Jes-us, Jesus, Jesus !
He remembers we are but dust - it is we who pridefully forget that !  Forget about who you think
you are and devote yourself to WHO HE IS !  You will find yourself royalty, daughters and sons
of the King of Kings !

May we live in abidement - abiding lovingly in His heart of love being be known by His love,
marked by His cross and led by His Spirit, wholly His, living forgiven.  Amen

As you can see by the length of this writing, sin and forgiveness are very familiar to me.  My advice ?
Deal with it all.  You will glorify Him because He's already done all the hard work at the cross.
We fight from Victory to Victory because of His completed work on the cross.  We give thanks
and praise.  Surrender all and live in Victory !