To All,
 
Please read the following PDF, only three pages.
 
http://www.thelordsgrace.com/resources/GODLY%20REPENTANCE.pdf
 
 
When we are saved there is an act of repentance involved in that salvation moment. Some turn from drugs and alcohol, some from sexual promiscuity, and others from tribulation which we cannot overcome.
 
 
Repentance is not, however, a once and done experience in our Christian walk. If we are honest we must continually repent and "Change our mind". As the Author above puts it;
 
"Paul said that repentance leads to salvation. This does not mean you need to be saved again, but it means you will experience your salvation in a greater way-healing, deliverance, freedom, and joy."
 
Each time we repent, our minds will become closer and closer to the will of God, and we will become One. As Jesus prayed for in his high priestly prayer: (Read John 17 here)
 
Peter, was the expert in the topic of repentance having denied Jesus thrice. It is he who spoke when the Holy Spirit came upon the church at Pentecost. His message was of repentance. The Jewish people fifty days earlier were yelling, "Crucify him" and that very day three thousand joined the church. These people had their "minds changed". In His second epistle he uses the phrase "chōreō metanoia" ( 2 Peter 3:9). This literally means to leave room for, and receive having your mind changed. Isn't it ironic as well that it was Peter who had his mind changed on the gentiles, and it was him who spoke up at the Jerusalem council, in defense of Paul and his ministry to the gentiles and the requirements of the "circumcision Party".
 
Recently, I had posted a PDF to Frank Molver on "Bewitched churches" dealing with the Jezebel Spirit. It had the following quote on Page seven:
 
http://christsbondservants.org/Church_Alive/wys-End.jezebel%20spirit.pdf
 
"What Jezebel Hates
Jezebel's worst enemies are the prophets; her worst fear is that the people will embrace repentance.
Jezebel hates repentance. Though this spirit will infiltrate the church, masking its desire for control
with true Christian doctrines, it will hide from true repentance."
 
Is this not what Satan and his minions want more than anything else? That the Prayer of Jesus will not get answered, as Found in John 17? That we will fight amongst each other, and stubbornly entrench ourselves in pride and lean on our own understanding as opposed to trusting in God to "direct our paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6)? Is not the result of this "the love of many growing cold" (Matthew 24:12)? Do we as believers have room for repentance, or are we just full of ourselves?
 
I was taught at a young age that the prayer found in Psalm 139:23-24 is the most powerful prayer in the Bible.
 
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    Try me and know my thoughts![c]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting![d]
 
If you pray this prayer, be prepared to have your mind changed, because he will lead you in the "Way everlasting". I have prayed this many times, and have been stunned by my sinfulness, and amazed by his grace, as he has led me down the road to be Christ like....The sanctification of his Word. David had written this after stating the fact that he "Hated and Loathed the enemies of God." But Christ himself said we are to love our enemies, why? For even our enemies through our Love for them will learn to repent, for if we are truly honest with ourselves, we are all enemies of God as sinners, Yet he still loved us, "While we were yet sinners".
 
I write the above, because having contended with one who is an enemy of God, I am in need of this repentance, and he has led me to understand this through his word. (James 5:9-11)  " 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. 10 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful." As this person is trying to "persecute" me, I have desired to go back in anger and defend myself, But he has changed my mind, and now my desire is to face that persecution with Joy, as the Apostles and as Christ had done. (Matthew 5:11-12)
 
 "When he (Jesus) was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly." (I Peter 2:23, as per Isaiah 42:2)
 
Thank you for "listening", God bless. All glory to God, who through his Son made a "way" for each of us.
 
David H.