July 25, 2022 -- Deep cleansing confession -- I John 1:7-9

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But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I John 1:7-9 ESV

What blocks your walk with fellow Christians and blocks your walk with God the Father? According to John, the one who walked with Jesus Christ during Jesus’ earthly ministry, it is unconfessed sin. Such sins make believers walk in darkness, stumbling around. Struggling to see the point of anything. Sin is like a cave-in where boulders and dirt cascade down blocking the entrance to the light, leaving the sinner in a dark tunnel, starving for light, air, water, and food. Confession is the dynamite the Spirit uses to blast through all the detritus, which is too much for the believer to clear away on his own. It takes the All-Mighty power of the Spirit to clear the heart. What a promise is offered today, confess you sins, for He IS faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

MERCIFUL LORD,
Pardon all my sins of this day, week, year,
all the sins of my life,
sins of early, middle, and advanced years,
of omission and commission,
of morose, peevish and angry tempers,
of lip, life and walk,
of hard-heartedness, unbelief, presumption, pride,
of unfaithfulness to the souls of men,
of want of bold decision in the cause of Christ,
of deficiency in outspoken zeal for his glory,
of bringing dishonour upon thy great name,
of deception, injustice, untruthfulness
   in my dealings with others,
of impurity in thought, word and deed,
of covetousness, which is idolatry,
of substance unduly hoarded, improvidently squandered,
   not consecrated to the glory of thee, the great Giver;
sins in private and in the family,
in study and recreation, in the busy haunts of men,
in the study of thy Word and in the neglect of it,
in prayer irreverently offered and coldly withheld,
in time misspent, in yielding to Satan’s wiles,
in opening my heart to his temptations,
in being unwatchful when I know him nigh,
in quenching the Holy Spirit;
sins against light and knowledge,
against conscience and the restraints of thy Spirit,
against the law of eternal love.
Pardon all my sins, known and unknown,
felt and unfelt, confessed and not confessed,
remembered or forgotten.
Good Lord, hear;
 and hearing, forgive.
"Sins" The Valley of Vision: Puritan Prayers and Devotions,
ed. A. Bennett. Carlisle, PA: THE BANNER OF TRUTH
TRUST, page 158.

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