Prayer 09 - And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors

 

A series of meditations on prayer

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The 1st Medetation Prayer 01 - Why should a believer pray?

The Previous Medetation: Prayer 08: Give us each day our daily bread

The next Meditation: Prayer 10 And do not bring usinto temptation, but deliver us from the evil one

Prayer 09

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Luke 15 v 17 & 18 HCSB

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger! I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

 In the previous prayers we prayed for our physical need and now we pray for our spiritual need. The prodigal son comes home in this prayer to seek forgiveness from his Father.

 Here we beg that God will not impute to us our crimes and evil that we are still clinging to. We pray here for the inherited guilt that we still cling to as well as our own guilt that we discover under the proclamation of the Word and the testimony of the Holy Spirit. This is an ongoing process, because out of our own, we only make our debt bigger every day.

We beg here that God not impute our crimes and evil for the sake of the blood of Christ. This is an honest confession where we do not deny our sin and guilt. The only reason we can make this plea is the blood of Jesus Christ.

 Forgiveness is a gift of grace. The forgiving attitude in my own heart is the proof of God's grace in my life. Although we receive it out of grace without any merit on our part, it also places a responsibility on us to use and apply what we receive from God. Therefore, we must also have a serious intention to forgive our neighbor.

  In this prayer I come with a sense of guilt and confession to the throne of grace of God and I find forgiveness and forgiveness.

  Keep praying this prayer until we meet before the throne of grace at the Second Coming, perfect and without sin.

Amen