{"id":10415,"date":"2026-03-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:00:56","slug":"the-wisdom-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-wisdom-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"May grace and mercy be multiplied unto you, dear readers of our “Everyday Word for Spiritual Edification”!\r\nFor several days we have been talking about the wisdom of repentance, about the privileged opportunity to repent of our sins.\r\nYesterday we mentioned several advantages of a repentant life. One who lives such a life becomes blessed, because his transgressions are forgiven and his sins are covered. We also talked about the fact that if a person repents of his sins and does not hide them, it brings health to his whole body.\r\nToday I would like to look at what happens to us if we do not repent of our sins and also what advantages we will see if we choose to repent of our sins.\r\n
\r\n\u00abFor day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, \u201cI will confess my transgressions to the Lord,\u201d and You forgave the iniquity of my sin\u201d\u00a0(Psalms, 32:4-5).<\/h6>\r\nIf we do not confess our sins to the Lord, it affects our blessings. In the Scripture above it says that \u201efor day and night Your hand was heavy upon me\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Heaviness of the Lord\u2019s hand is not a sign of blessing; it is a sign of a curse. An unrepentant life takes away the opportunity to move forward in any area of our lives. When we refuse to repent we lose vitality and power and drought comes instead. Vitality is a sign of a blessing, prosperity, but drought is a sign of curse. According to the Bible, in order for us to flourish and prosper and to gain riches, we must have vitality or power (Deuteronomy, 8:18). The lack of repentance in a person\u2019s life deprives him of this power.\r\n\r\nIn the New King James Bible it says that “my vitality was turned into the drought of summer.”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0You need moisture for anything to grow and flourish. When a drought comes, hunger and poverty come along with it. So the lack of repentance leads to starvation and poverty and deprives a person of his blessings.\r\nHowever, when we confess our sins to the Lord, He takes away our guilt, and we don\u2019t feel the heaviness of His hand upon us.\r\nIf we do not confess our sins, it is as if we go against God. If we do not repent of our sins, it is not pleasing to Him.\r\nUnconfessed sins sooner or later lead a person to poverty not only in a spiritual sense, but in all other areas and at all levels. By refusing to repent, a person goes against God, and because of that he won\u2019t succeed.\r\n
\r\n\u00abHe who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy\u00bb\u00a0(Proverbs, 28:13).<\/h6>\r\nThe one who does not repent of his sins won\u2019t prosper, and this is a law.\r\nEvery one of us should realize how crucially important it is for us not to hide our sins and transgressions before God.\r\nMay God bless you!\r\nWe will continue tomorrow.\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We do not confess our sins to the Lord it affects our blessings. In the Scripture above it says that \u201efor day and night Your hand was heavy upon me\u2026\u201d Heaviness of the Lord\u2019s hand \u2013 it is not a sign of blessing; it is a sign of curse. An unrepentant life takes away an opportunity to move forward in any area of our lives. When we refuse to repent we lose vitality and power and drought comes instead. Vitality is a sign of a blessing, prosperity, but drought is a sign of curse. According to the Bible, in order for us to flourish and prosper and to gain riches we must have vitality or power (Deuteronomy, 8:18). The lack of repentance in a person\u2019s life deprives him of this power.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silhouette-photo-of-jumping-person-during-twilight-hour-1228396-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40652,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions\/40652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}