In two recent GT events, the Marriage Retreat and Heart Made Whole, God led us through a season of confession and repentance. Directed by Holy Spirit, we wrote on pieces of paper any sin or stronghold, any person we hadn’t forgiven, any offense, lack of trust or unbelief. We wrote down any burden that kept us from connecting to God in a deeper way.
Then with grateful and humbled hearts the men and women placed their papers on the cross. Chuck and I promised we would burn them all at one time but they could immediately claim God’s beauty for their ashes of repentance.
A few weeks later, Chuck and I took an afternoon to burn these confessions before the Lord. It was more sobering than I expected.
Of course, we did not read them. But as we put the stack of papers on the straw and lit the fire, you could see the ink marks scribbled on white paper turn golden for a moment as the fire consumed and then reduced it to gray ash. It was holy ground.
As the flames soared, we released blessings and truth to overflow into the hearts of each person who had gotten honest before God. We thanked our Faithful Father for being willing to exchange, in every way, His beauty for the lies and sin they had been willing to confess. A sense of freedom rose like incense.
Holy. Ground.
Now we are receiving testimonies of new jobs, physical healing, and restored marriages and minds. God is not mocked. He will do as He promised. The prayers turned to ash are becoming miracles.
There is more on this coming later as we consider being a living sacrifice. But for today, look at these photos closely. The intensity of the fire licked up every speck of sin weakness and frailty. God is so beautiful.
So we pray with repenting hearts: God empower us to let go of anything, everything, that doesn’t look like You. In the name of Jesus. Amen