Have you been paralyzed by the failure to confess?
When I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable and groaned all day long.
Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them.
I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the Lord." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
Therefore, let all the godly confess their rebellion to you while there is time.
Psalm 32:3-6 NLT
Confessing instead of hiding
We find many ways to get around admitting our sin. We rationalize our sins away. We try to drown out the guilt with all types of distractions. But over time, our sins deplete our will to pray. David was intimately familiar with all the ways one can try to hide sin. He had exhausted himself covering up his own sins. But everything changed when he finally gave up running away from his sin: "Finally, I confessed all my sins to you."
Like David, we can find our prayer life renewed when we freely confess our sins to God. Confess your sin and let God restore your prayer life to what it can and should be.
Prayer for today:
Dear Lord, I don't want to hide my sins anymore; I want to confess them to you today
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On the other hand…
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them quite so much.
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So true...the more you cover up, the harder it is to remember what you said in the first place and then you get caught up in those lies and they always catch up with you. Always.
Living with secrets filled with so much guilt that it was like a poisonous infection eating at my heart. I tried all sorts of things, none of them good, to make myself feel better ... make myself forget.
Then I found out that our secrets keep us sick. Once we let them out into the light they shrink and their power goes away. They only get power from my fear of them being revealed. If I reveal them ... their power is gone.
Good thoughts Barry ... I especially like the idea of forgiving my enemies. I love to annoy people and forgiving them keeps them from living rent free in my head.
I was carrying so much garbage around and I never realized how much it was poisoning me until I got down on my knees and confessed it all to the Lord. He knew it. But it was soul-cleansing to just admit it all to Him. That was a huge step towards my deliverance and my healing.
May God bless you richly Barry.
Proverbs says: "If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you." I am all for rewards from the LORD!!! :)
Thank you friends, for picking me up.
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