5"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, 6if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
8"Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!'—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD. jer 7:3-11
27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. 28So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. matt 23:27-28
Jesus, would you purify your bride. we come before you as the church, as christians, with sober spirits and humble hearts. forgive us for our hypocrisy. oh the many times we would live in sin, come before your presence saying "we are delivered", only to go back into sin! let us not in a mindset of false grace! forgive us for the ways we are so easily prone to make peace with our sin and compromise with our sin. forgive us for the ways we subconsciously reason our ways around sin. make us unusually uncomfortable with our sin, let us be ones who hate sin and every impure and unholy desire. let us be uncomfortable even with 99% holiness, not that we can ever be perfect and without sin, but that our hearts would be at war with sin, set to pursue complete holiness. let us be 100% holy as you are 100% holy.
Jesus, forgive us for the pharisee mindset we are so prone to live in. woe are we who are like whitewashed tombs (matt 23:27), the ways we think we are okay because we look good on the outside--the ways we appear to be holy with our religious masks, and cover-ups, yet on the inside we are full of judgment, sin, and compromise. oh, the ways we think we are okay just because we are in "ministry", and the ways we hide behind our religious activity and make peace with our own personal areas of sin and compromise. oh God forgive us for the ways we point fingers and judge others when we have a plank in our own eyes! teach us God, how to live from the inside out, and not from the outside in! forgive us for the ways we pursue outer beauty, fame, reputation, and outer acceptance rather than internal purity and internal holiness. woe are we who have turned our hearts, your internal house of prayer into a den of robbers!
Jesus, let us be ones who pray that which david prayed, that you would search us and know our hearts, try us and know our thoughts, and see if there be any offensive way in our hearts, that we would be led in the way everlasting. Jesus, come and let your jealous love root out everything and anything that hinders you from fully possessing our hearts. make known to us our hidden sin, those sins that are not obvious, (you said that even the thought of adultery is committing adultery), the ways we subconsciously judge others or think of ourselves better than others--those sins!
Jesus we repent from our ways. we set our hearts to pursue holiness and purity. give us grace, that we would awaken from our subconscious habits of sin. expose every impurity in our hearts. let us not wait until tomorrow to repent. come LORD Jesus come.
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