You've repented of your sin, intending to forsake it, yet you don't feel forgiven.

Nancy DeMoss Woglmuth explains how to approach those feelings of condemnation.

Those thoughts, those emotions, they aren't rooted in truth.

And so what do I do? I transfer my focus from the thing that's not true and discipline my mind

to think about the thing that is true.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, September 12, 2016. Believers in Christ have been forgiven, yet so many doubt that it could really be true.

Over the last few episodes of this podcast, Nancy has been offering great insights on what it means to be forgiven.

A group of women have been listening along, and they

have some comments and questions based on Nancy's teaching. We'll start with our friend Holly

Elif. What do we do when we have forgiven? And then when those sins, again, revisit you,

and the accuser brings them to mind and says, yeah, but remember, you did this.

Even though it has been forgiven by the Lord, I think one way to think about that is like a shark with no teeth.

You know, that memory can come back, but you can remind the enemy, you cannot

come after me with that, because that has been dealt with before the Lord. It has no teeth in my life.

It has no effect in my life. As those memories flood back, I have the perfect right to stand there

and say, you have no right to accuse me about that thing.

That is gods.

And so it takes the teeth out of that memory, even though it comes back to my mind.

Does that make sense?

And you know, the whole point of the book I wrote, Lies Women Believe, is that we get tormented and ultimately end up making

wrong choices when we believe things that aren't true. And so if I'm believing this sin that I have

confessed, that I have, for which I've sought God's forgiveness with the intent to forsake it,

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