Old Testament Scripture Reading: Micah 6:6 – 8 (KJV)
Mic 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
Mic 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
New Testament Scripture Reading: James 5:16 – 20 (KJV)
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Jas 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Jas 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Jas 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jas 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) The human soul is that system given to each of us by God through the process of “procreation” (The miracle of human conception) which is in charge of every decision to make choices for the body, which consists of the mind, the will and the emotions; and is the portion of the “trichotomy” of each human being which is charged with moral responsibility.
2) Micah the Prophet understood this principle and spoke in the Holy Spirit as he considered by what means or mechanism could sinful mankind approach an infinitely Holy God, considering the deep magnitude of the depths of the soul which even when we are at our very best there remains deep-seated imperfections that convict us and presents us as an unclean thing in God’s sight.
3) James tells us that it is in the fellowship one with another that we who have embraced God’s gift of His Only-begotten Son as the ONLY ACCEPTABLE offering for us making it possible for the Holy Spirit of God to indwell us, that we can rest assured that God Himself via the blood of Jesus His Firstborn will be with us for every mountain, trial, difficulty, and any other item that works against us; and that there are no weapons formed against us that are greater than His LOVE!