Changed in His Presence - Sam Hinn
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Come to the Mercy Seat<br />
to God. He placed himself <strong>in</strong> a position of total<br />
yield to God's mercy.<br />
David then wrote "Blot out my<br />
transgressions." Hebrew for blot is machah, "to<br />
stroke or rub, to erase." He asked for God to<br />
"stroke, erase, rub out my transgressions, all my<br />
rebellion, s<strong>in</strong> and trespasses."<br />
"Wash me thoroughly from my <strong>in</strong>iquity." The<br />
word wash <strong>in</strong> Hebrew is kabac, which means, "to<br />
trample; hence to wash by the stamp<strong>in</strong>g with the<br />
feet." When we ask God to wash us thoroughly<br />
from our <strong>in</strong>iquity, the process is not very<br />
pleasant, because it means He will deal with<br />
that <strong>in</strong>iquity as if He were stamp<strong>in</strong>g it out with<br />
<strong>His</strong> feet. Praise God, though, when He deals<br />
with it, it is done.<br />
David cont<strong>in</strong>ued <strong>His</strong> prayer with "and<br />
cleanse me from my s<strong>in</strong>." Cleanse <strong>in</strong> Hebrew is<br />
naqah, mean<strong>in</strong>g "to be made clean, to be<br />
<strong>in</strong>nocent." Don't you love the look on the face of<br />
an <strong>in</strong>nocent child? Once we have s<strong>in</strong>ned and<br />
rebelled, we can never ga<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>nocence back on<br />
our own. But when the Lord cleanses us, He<br />
gives us back our <strong>in</strong>nocence.<br />
Then he prayed, "For I acknowledge my<br />
transgressions, and my s<strong>in</strong> is ever before me."<br />
David was responsible for his behavior and<br />
fully accepted the guilt.<br />
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be<br />
clean;<br />
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br />
Make me hear joy and gladness,<br />
That the bones You have broken may<br />
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