A prayer of a man who lacks revelation of God's grace and love:
"Father forgive me for I have sinned
Please show me mercy
Which I do not deserve
Don't abandon me to
Shame, despair and punishment
I promise to do better
Lord, will you forgive me again?"
Are you afraid to fall asleep
Without asking for forgiveness
Are you afraid of where you'll go
If you die in your sleep?
What happens if you sin today
And fall asleep before confession
Will your soul be lost outside of time
'Cause you didn't repent
Convicted by your crime
No, My child it isn't so
Your faith is all I need
To know you want to be with Me
My forgiveness is your creed
Does it mean you will choose to live in sin
Not thinking of repercussions?
No, it means you don't have to be perfect in life
Your sin died with Me
My atonement is valid day and night
Your heart My one request
If asleep, if awake
Nothing at stake
I'm your shelter through the night
My atonement is valid day and night
Your heart My one request
If asleep, if awake
Nothing at stake
I'm your shelter through the night
What happens if you sin today
And fall asleep before confession
Will your soul be lost of outside of time
'Cause you didn't repent
You have been set free
From condemnation and guilt
And their paralyzing effects
To live holier by chance
Than ever on purpose
You are signed by the Son
Sealed by the Spirit
Delivered from sin and strife
Your name has been written
With everlasting ink
Into the Book of Life
You are free to leave
But I'll never forsake you
No one will ever be able to snatch
You out of My steadfast hands
Your feelings may say
I have left, gone away
Learn to refuse those lies
In My Word, find advise
If you let your faith
Depend on emotions
You will float around
Like a log in the oceans
Instead, let your faith be
A sureness of mind
The rock under your feet
If you let your faith
Depend on emotions
You will float around
Like a log in the oceans
Instead let My Word be
Your sureness of mind
The rock under your feet
(VOICE OF ERIC CLAYTON:)
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them
Which are in Christ Jesus,
Who walk not after the flesh,
But after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
Hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do,
In that it was weak
Through the flesh,
God sending His own Son
In the likeness of sinful flesh,
And for sin, condemned sin
In the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law
Might be fulfilled in us,
Who walk not after the flesh,
But after the Spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh
Do mind the things of the flesh;
But they that are after the Spirit
The things of the Spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death;
But to be spiritually minded
Is life
And peace.
(Romans 8:1–6)
AMEN