SunMay222011
Not Going Back - Love Unleashed
Love Confesses
Nehemiah 9
Todd Dugard
If I love God enough to confess my sin,
...my heart must really be in it (v. 1-2a)
...leaving nothing out (v. 2b)
...keeping my focus on him at all times (v. 3-5)
...and fully grasping (v. 6-38)
.....who I am - a needy sinner
.....and who he is - a faithful and loving Saviour
Confessions:
Father, please forgive us as members of your church
at Harvest Bible Chapel Barrie…
1 For spiritual pride in thinking more of ourselves than we ought to have rather than humbling ourselves before the Lord
1 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 4:7; Galatians 6:3; 1 Peter 5:6
2 For times when we thought that the preaching of God’s Word was for someone else or we failed to consider “the whole counsel of God” and instead preferred the opinions and perspectives of ourselves or others;
Acts 2:37; Acts 20:27; Ephesians 4:14; Hebrews 4:12-13
3 For times when we have hindered our own worship of Christ and that of others with our attitudes, actions and words
Philippians 2:3
4 For our lack of prayer
Ephesians 6:18
5 For distractions and personal agendas that have kept us from our mission to glorify God in the making of disciples
Matthew 28:19-20; Luke 6:62; Acts 1:8
6 For times when we, as leaders past and present, have neglected to properly feed and care for the sheep
John 21:15-17
7 For our failure, as members past and present, to submit to the leaders you have placed over all of us, and for our neglect of our members’ covenant and not letting our ‘yes’ be ‘yes’
Hebrews 13:17; Matthew 5:33-37
8 For robbing you of our tithes and offerings and failing to be generous
Proverbs 11:24-25; Malachi 3:8-10; Matthew 6:19-24; 2 Corinthians 8:1-15; 9:6-11
9 For failing to decisively deal with sin in our midst
Ephesians 4:15; Galatians 6:1-5; James 5:19-20; Revelation 2-3
10 For all corrupt talk, gossip, slanderous and deceitful words that have been spoken
Ephesians 4:25; James 3:5-12
11 For times when we have questioned the integrity of others and failed to love by not thinking the best of them
1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Galatians 5:15, 26
12 For times when we have wrongly judged the motives of others
Matthew 7:1, 25
13 For actions that have hurt the weaker brother—guests, children, youth, new believers, and the unbelieving searcher—by not demonstrating the love of Christ to them
Romans 14
14 For holding on to hurts rather than freely forgiving and extending grace as you have done to us through Christ
Ephesians 4:32
15 For allowing divisions to take root in this church despite your Son’s prayer that we “would be one”
1 Corinthians 1:10-17; 3:1-9; John 17:20-21; Ephesians 4:1-16; Proverbs 6:16-19
16 For failing to give God the glory in all things
Isaiah 42:8; Ephesians 3:20-21