CONFESS YOUR SINS/ RETURN TO GOD & RECONNECT WITH HIM
"SEARCH ME, O GOD, AND KNOW MY HEART; TEST ME, AND KNOW MY ANXIOUS THOUGHTS. SEE IF THERE IS ANY OFFENSIVE WAY IN ME, AND LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING."
- PSALM 139:23,24---
LET GOD SEARCH FOR HIDDEN SINS & MOTIVES & HABITS THAT YOU'RE NOT EVEN AWARE OF.
- PSALM 139:1-6
- "THE LORD SEARCHES EVERY HEART AND UNDERSTANDS EVERY MOTIVE BEHIND THE THOUGHTS." - I CHRONICLES 28:9
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"Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.” - Oswald Chambers
WE MUST HAVE A
PURE HEART AND A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN ORDER TO SEE & KNOW GOD, AND TO HAVE INTIMACY WITH HIM:
- "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY WILL SEE GOD" - MATTHEW 5:8 - 2 CHRONICLES 7:14,15
- " THE LORD IS FAR FROM THE WICKED; BUT HE HEARS THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS". - PROVERBS 15:29
- PSALM 66:16-20
IF YOUR PRAYERS ARE NOT BEING ANSWERED,
DON'T BLAME GOD. IT COULD BE SIN IN YOUR LIFE. YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE AWARE OF THE SIN.
- "BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED YOU FROM GOD; YOUR SINS HAVE HIDDEN HIS FACE FROM YOU, SO THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR." - ISAIAH 59:2
WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT OUR SIN IS
PERSONALLY AGAINST GOD:
- "AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY, HAVE I SINNED & DONE EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT" - PSALM 51:4
GOD WANTS US TO HAVE THE RIGHT
HEART ATTITUDE: TRULY SORRY THAT WE SINNED AGAINST HIM, AND TO HAVE A REPENTANT HEART:
- PSALM 51:10; 16,17
WE ARE
ASSURED THAT IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS WE WILL BE FORGIVEN (GOD WANTS US TO REPENT & TURN AWAY FROM THE SIN AND TURN TO HIM: (See I JOHN 1:9)
"REPENT, THEN, AND TURN TO GOD,SO THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE WIPED OUT, THAT TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME FROM THE LORD." - ACTS 3:10
REPENT: "A CHANGE OF MIND, OR A TURNING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION."
