Don't Expect a Perfect Repentance - Paul Washer

Many people say that things like “I cannot repent” or “I’m trying to repent” thinking that they need a fully matured, perfect repentance before they can be saved. But we are not saved because we have a perfect repentance, but because we are weak and helpless and cast ourselves upon a perfect Saviour. We cannot expect to see the same depth of repentance from a babe in Christ as we would expect from a person who has walked with God for 30 years.

Paul Washer @Heartcrymissionary

[dashriprock]

The realization I finally came to about true repentance is, though we may never achieve sinless perfection, we have to constantly strive for it.

[misternewman]

Don't put your faith in faith, put your faith in Jesus. -Adrian Rogers

[Dudz]

Please help me lord. I want to feel convicted more about my sin

[jenniferwalsh]

I needed this! Sanctification can slowly put us back into thinking that it’s our doing. It’s all His! Praise God! Thank you Jesus! Free me again from myself!

[DH-vyhw]

One way of discerning true repentance is that it is ongoing.

[pristinepersians]

Biggest revelation about repentance... IT IS A GIFT, NOT A GIVEN. We do not get to decide when we will quit something. I have tried. I never saw change, until I got this revelation. We cannot even bring ourselves to repentance until GOD GRANTS IT!

[SkinCareLuver]

I was crying out to God yesterday and told him I'm sorry but it just doesn't feel like I'm truly repenting but I'm doing it because I know it's the right thing to do but I'm praying to be able to truly repent

[bobbyrice]

My conversion was drastic. Massive loads of practiced sin dropped off day one. But not as much as i wanted. Residual sin remains. Habit, accidental, lustful. I came to christ scared of him and in my growth i have found him and he is mighty and full of generous grace. If it were not for the grace given for my wicked sin i would have lost my gift long ago.

[Da_VINE_Ruach]

Paul Washers sermons are so straight to the heart... & very sensitive & so honest... what a wonderful pastor🙏🏻

[jayfatzthedude]

Father I need you! Please help me I’m lost without you and I need a savior. Walk me through true repentance and forgiveness for all.

[Alifeofadventures]

We can get so caught up in repentance and faith wr put our faith in repentance and faith.

[markdiblasi]

Hebrews 6:1, 2 let us move on to maturity.

[pazaazz]

Amen! Repentance is not a one time work, but a continual work of grace, towards eternity.

[charlesmills]

Thank you LORD for convicting me of my sins. You are holy

[shariceornah]

I use to superficially pray to the LORD for humility. I knew there was something wrong with my heart but I assumed everyone does so I'd pray but shrug it off. Little did I know the LORD would take me up on that offer. He allowed everything that I was so secure in that I used as modes to build my pride at once to come crashing down. It brought me down to my knees for days praying that God would make himself known to me. He did. I thought I was saved at 9 but I was on the floor begging him to save me at 27 and the truth is I don't know what I was at 9 but I can say right now without a shadow of doubt that God is my Father and I am His child and He loves me. "Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered" and "but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the LORD" Praise God for hearing my cries.

[KingdomFreedomMinistries]

This video is 13 years old and still blessing people... I know it blessed me.

[CamilaBenzRojas]

Im a baby believer, I have spent only 5 months since I’ve given my life to God and accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. My mother had cancer when I was 9 and every since then we have read the Bible together. Im 15 now and we still do. I am reading the Bible during my own time in the day so I may meditate on it and pray to God, but sometimes I would think to myself back then, “what if my repentance was not real? Because it wasn’t as good as my mother’s?” As a little context, when my mother repented she told me she went into her closet and started sobbing for hours wanting to vomit because of her shopaholics sins, and vanity. She spend hours, the entire day, just praying to God to forgive her for so many sins that she kept mentioning. And then I felt that since I’ve been reading the Bible for so long, how come I didn’t have that same effect. My repentance happened because I was leaving something precious behind to give it to God because it hurt so much, and from there I accepted Jesus as my savior, because I knew I was going to hell because I’m a sinner ( lived 3 years everyday being afraid of everything and dying, wishing I would have never been born). But over time I spent less time over my fear of hell, and more time wanting to Love God, wanting to know what that is, wanting to suffer for God to understand what he means in the Bible on a deeper level ( since I’ve lived a strong life a ease.)

My repentance was not as spiritually good as my mother’s, but I do see a big change in me. Back then I wanted nothing to do with God, I didn’t love my own family as well. I would get angry when I heard my mother putting pastors on the TV. I used to have fear of any loud noise because I was afraid it was Jesus coming to kill me. Now I trust in Jesus as my savior, and to save those I love too because he is Loving and Good. I spent so much time sinning doing my own will, and ive left that behind to seek Gods will, and praying to him to increase my faith. No matter how many times I try to “redo” my repentance, to see if maybe I didn’t actually do it before, and I could actually do it now, it never feels real. When people ask me, “Have you given your life to God?” The only image was the first time I did it in pain, so yes. I Praise God that he has shown me how good He is, and I am learning more about what it is to be a true christian. I pray that I may love Him more, obay Him more, and have faith in Him more.

[Over-for-now]

Broken hearted doesn't save us. Come to Jesus and HE WILL NOT cast you out----. The work is done and FINISHED for salvation

[mjd.]

Jesus doesn’t want perfection, if that was the case the man on the cross wouldn’t have even been a thought. He meets you at where you are, sees your strengths and weaknesses, and when the Holy Spirit truly is in you, you won’t be perfect even then, but God being merciful and compassion knows every part of you and loves you the same. There is no such thing as a perfect human even after the holy spirit gets in you, but renewing your mind a striving to be and walk how Jesus walked and seeking and loving him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength! He will do the rest! God Bless!

[jpmadison]

Paul Washer is such a gift. Truly a Godly man whom I have nothing but respect for.