Father! Will You Accept Me Now august 28th Devotional

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Romans 15:7

Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God

On April 26 2007 around 10:00 p:m in my prayer time, I was worshiping the Lord in song and music. The Lord began to speak to me about being accepted by him. I laid my guitar down and began to pray and humble myself before the Holy Spirit. I prayed a prayer that God would help me to believe that he is for me. I began to weep before the Lord, and God spoke to me, “Son, stop presenting the gifts that I have given you to be accepted by me.” It’s only by faith alone that we are accepted. The Holy Spirit is grieved by this. Lord, here is my teaching gift. Do you accept me now Lord. Lord here is my attendance to church. Here is this and here is that. Now we do these things unto the Lord, but we need to have the right motive from why we do these things. Maybe you just love the idea of God than God himself. My friend, God accepts you because you repented and was made new in Him. We do the things of God not because we do them alone but rather because we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit helping us by His grace to do the things that we need to do. It's so easy to get to this place and God has His hands out to you today to bring you back to that first love with Him, a love that surpasses the idea of God, our gifts, or anything else that we seem to enjoy and move in apart from the inner strength of Christ within us. It’s by faith alone, and that faith alone will cause our father to shine his love down upon us as sons and daughters of the most high, and with that anointing of God will come the strength and desire to walk in the spirit. It will give us that assurance that he does love us, and he does care for us. When we don’t feel like he really cares for us, we may be very well walking the works of our own righteousness. It’s not the question of will God accept us, but the realization that he already accepted us when we accepted him as our Lord and Master. Now let’s worship him with that realization that he has accepted us. Let’s present our gifts to the body of Christ to encourage and come into the unity of Christ Jesus as one. It is very important what we bring into the presence of God. We need to understand who we are in Christ Jesus, and we will understand that the Father God does accept us.

Prayer

Lord we come to you in your name and thank you that we are accepted by you, not because of the things we necessarily do alone, but because of who you are within us, and who you are within us will help us walk in your spirit. Thank you Lord for the gifts and talents we have, but most of all we thank you for who your are. Amen.
by Keith Edwards