God Forgive Me For My Sins Series

God alone has the power to forgive sins.

One day some men brought Jesus a lame man. And He told this man that his sins were forgiven. The religious leaders though that was blasphemy. “Only God can forgive sin.” Jesus wanted to show them He was God and He did have power to forgive sins, so he told the man to get up and walk.

Matthew 9:6 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins…“Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” NLT

God has all power and all authority over everything including our sins. And He alone has the power and authority to forgive us of our sins.

Luke 7:49 The men at the table said among themselves, “Who is this man, that he goes around forgiving sins?” NLT

Jesus was out there looking for people to forgive. God wants to forgive people of their sins. God wants to forgive you of your sins.

Listen to what the Psalmist has to say in Psalm 86:5 “O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.” NLT

God is a good God, He is a loving God, He is a compassionate God, He is a God that is so ready to forgive us for our sins.

Matter of fact when we ask Him for forgiveness, you know what? He has to forgive us. It goes against His nature to not forgive when we ask.

Psalm 65:3 Though we are overwhelmed by our sins, you forgive them all. NLT

We can get overwhelmed by our sins. They can be so many we don’t know where to begin. Sin can cause depression, lack of motivation and can cause lack of purpose and meaning in life. Maybe there is a sin in your life that you are having a hard time asking forgiveness for, or maybe you don’t believe God could forgive you for it. There is no sin that you have ever committed that God cannot forgive. He forgives all of our sins. No matter how many there are, no matter what they are. God forgives them all. He has all power and all authority to forgive sins.

Psalm 103:12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. NLT

When God forgives our sins. He removes our sin as far as the east is from the west. He throws are sin away. It is forgiven. It is removed. It is no longer part of our life.

Micah 7:19 Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!" NLT

God is a loving, compassionate, forgiving God. God forgives us when we ask Him and He talks our sin and He throws it in the depths of the ocean and He remembers our sin no more.

Jesus is saying here when you pray to God ask for forgiveness because God wants to forgive us of all our sins.

You can be far from God today because of your sins. But you only need to recognize your situation, confess your sins and God will forgive and fellowship with the Lord will be restored.

i.e. – Prodical Son

2. I must daily confess my sins and seek God’s forgiveness.

God wants a daily relationship with us. That’s what He’s after. He wants intimacy with us. Just like God wants us to daily come and ask Him to meet our daily needs, He wants us to daily come to Him and confess our sins so we can be forgiven and continue in uninterrupted fellowship with Him.