How does He keep from remembering your sin? Well, He’s God! You and I aren’t God, so it’s hard for us to keep from remembering.
Thank You, Father, that I can come into Your Presence as though the sin never existed.” But thank You, God, You said in Your Holy Word that You blot out my transgressions and will not remember my sins. No, put God and yourself in remembrance, saying, “Yes, I’ve failed. If you entertain the thoughts the devil brings, you will begin to think, There’s no use for me to go to God He’s not going to hear me. It’s important to remind yourself of God’s forgiveness, because when you go to God in prayer, the devil will try to bring all of your past failures and sins up before you. ” God doesn’t forget His Word or His promises, so why does He tell you to put Him in remembrance? When you remind Him, you also remind yourself. And He tells us what to remind Him of: “I am He that blots out your transgressions, and I will not remember your iniquities. Well, God said for us to put Him in remembrance. What does God mean when He says, “Put Me in remembrance”? In other words, He’s saying, “Remind Me.” Now, if God tells me to remind Him of something, I’m going to remind Him! ISAIAH 43:26Ģ6 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. And He couldn’t bless us if He didn’t blot out our transgressions and forgive our iniquities. God did it for His sake! One reason He did it for His sake was, He wanted to bless us. I used to think that He blotted out my transgressions for my sake and that for my sake, He wouldn’t remember my sins.
Notice that God made the statement, “… I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake…” (v. And Hebrews 9:12-14 explains how the blood of Christ has blotted out our transgressions! God, through the prophet Isaiah, spoke this passage to Israel, but it applies to us because we are now God’s children (Rom. (26) Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. ISAIAH 43:25,26Ģ5 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Isaiah 43:25 and 26 gives us insight into the authority we have in prayer. I want to look at a passage in the Old Testament that teaches us something further on prayer. But there are conditions that have to be met in order for our prayers to be answered: “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you…” I believe in receiving answers to prayer, all right. Have you ever noticed that many of God’s promises are conditional? If you want answers to your prayers, follow the instructions that have been given to you: If you abide in Jesus, and His Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.
But Jesus added, “And My words abide in you.” If Jesus had just said, “If you abide in Me,” we Christians would automatically have it made because we all abide in Him as believers. This verse is all-inclusive, because Jesus said “My words.” Therefore, any word the Bible teaches on the subject of prayer is covered by John 15:7. The second text is John 15:7, which says, “If ye abide in me, and MY WORDS abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” The first text I use is Ephesians 6:18, in which Paul is writing to the believers at Ephesus. These two texts will cover anything you want to teach on the subject of prayer. The reason I choose these two for my main texts is because I don’t believe there are any better. In teaching on prayer for so many years, I always take two particular Bible texts.