Step forward

Jesus said to the man with a withered hand “Arise.”  He never said “Arise and I will heal you,” or “Arise and good things will happen to, but “Arise and step into the midst”. The man had to act before he received his healing from Jesus.  He might have thought “I don’t know whether I want to do that; I don’t want to be embarrassed and I’m not even sure that anything might happen. But he first had to repent; to obey the word in spite of his desires and lack of promise from Jesus. Sure, the words of Jesus quickened his faith to believe and act but repentance is where everything starts.  He had to align his thoughts with Jesus thoughts and his miracle started.  His life changed forever. I believe God wants us to align our thinking with the thoughts of God. To align our thinking about, honoring parents; about moral purity and wanting revival in our lives and churches but it must begin with repentance.  If we confess our sin and forsake it, we will prosper!   Forsaking our sin simply means we stop doing it. In other words we prosper because we repented.

Friend, God will prosper everyone who truly repents and heaven explodes in joy.  There are blessings sometimes kept back in heaven that God wants you to have, but they are held back from us because you or I have not repented in a biblical way.