Unsealed lips...

Psalm 51:12-15 (NLT) 
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. 
13 Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you. 
14 Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness. 
15 Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you. 

Good Morning Father,

Day 5 of the 21 days of prayer and fasting. "I REPENT" This focus covered the span of three days, revealing to me that repentance is a process. The act of repentance is a simple one, a true act of confession and a true act of forgiveness follows. While that happens all at once in the presence of a loving God. If we bring it up later, our God would have no record of that conversation. All has been forgiven! It's our own conscience that takes time to accept forgiveness. There is a time to be restored, there is a time to be taught why we don't want to continue in a pattern of sin, there is that moment when we know we have been completely forgiven, and something begins to stir inside of us, a joy, a song. Our lips no longer sealed. Our mouth full of praise!

There is no greater song than the song of one who has been forgiven. This kind of forgiveness wrapped in a love that we know is undeserving. There was nothing we could do to earn it, no act of service, no act of giving something in return...the state of knowing that love has been set on you. Just as you are. JUST AS I AM...

JUST AS I AM...No more to be said about that!