. I pray all the time to be able to forgive myself.
Hi there Sunshine of our Lord's Dearly Beloved
,
You needn't 'try' nor 'pray' to forgive yourself as Christ via HIS once Perfect Offering of Himself on that scourging post whipped till not one iota shred of skin left of His body has paid for you Much more than your entire life sins on His Own Body Nailed to that Cross.
Must give you Scriptures for what i've said yes? There you go:-
2 Corinthians 5:21
21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
When an Israelite brings an animal as his sin offering, he lays his hand on it before killing it. (
Leviticus 4:14) By
laying his hand on the sin offering, his
sins are transferred to the innocent animal. The animal
dies for his sins and he goes free.
In contrast, during the burnt offering, when the Israelite lays his hand on the animal (Leviticus 1:34), the beauty, worthiness and acceptance of the unblemished animal are transferred to him. God accepts the perfection of the animal sacrifice on his behalf to make atonement for him. Because God accepts the unblemished burnt offering, the offerer now has right standing before God.
Do you know that the two offerings speak of Jesus one offering of Himself when He hung on the cross? He is both our sin offering and burnt offering For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us [as our sin offering], that we might become the righteousness of God in Him [as our burnt offering]. The moment you put your faith in Him, just by His one sacrifice, your sins were transferred to Him, and His righteousness was transferred to you. That is the grace of God toward you!
As our sin offering, He offered Himself once and for all. (Romans 6:10) The sin offering was never a daily offering because God does not want His people to be sin-conscious. However, the burnt offering was both a morning and evening sacrifice (2 Chronicles 13:11) because God wants His people to be righteousness-conscious.
Beloved, God wants you to lay claim daily to Jesus as your burnt offering and say, Father, I thank You that Jesus is my burnt offering. All that Jesus is before You His righteousness, excellence, beauty and perfection has been transferred to me. Jesus has Your unclouded favor, so I enjoy Your unclouded favor in my life. Jesus is the righteousness of God, so I am the righteousness of God in Christ. As He is before You, so am I.
Because Jesus became your burnt offering, what He is to the Father today, you are! That is what it means to be in Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:30
30But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption
When the devil accuses us of having done wrong and tells us that we dont deserve Gods blessings, what should we do? Well, the Lord showed me one day what we are to do. We are to point everything back to Jesus, who qualifies us for all of Gods blessings.
So when the devil says, You are not righteous enough, just look to Jesus and declare, He is my righteousness!
When the devil says, You are not holy enough, just look to Jesus and declare, He is my sanctification!
When the devil says, You dont deserve to be healed, just look to Jesus and declare, By His stripes I am healed!
When the devil says, You dont qualify for the blessing, just look to Jesus and declare, He is my qualification!
Each time you point everything back to Jesus, the devil has nothing to say because Jesus qualifies you for all of Gods blessings. In and of yourself, you do not qualify. Without Christ, there is nothing good in you which can qualify you.
But with Christ, your disqualification becomes your qualification for the undeserved, unearned and unmerited blessings of God. And because God puts your life in Christ (Colossians 3:3), who is the all-deserving one, you become all-deserving. Because you are in Christ, you are qualified.
Jesus qualifies you because He died for you and gave you a blood-bought right to every blessing of God. You have a blood-bought right to a life full of meaning, purpose and abundance. You have a blood-bought right to walk in divine health. You have a blood-bought right to prosperity even when the economy is bad. You have a blood-bought right to preferential treatment because God favors you. You have a blood-bought right to the good life!
My friend, you have a right to all these blessings not because you are good, but because Jesus shed His blood and qualified you to have them. So dont let the devil or anyone tell you that you cant expect to walk in the blessings of God!