Confessing Sin - Jay Sanders

Are you frustrated with your sin?
When we recognize that we have a thought, attitude, or action that dies not line up with the word of God, we must confess it!
1 John 1: 9

When it comes to MY sin, am I willing to open my mouth and confess it??
Here's the thing, God already knows what you did. No one can run from the presence of God! He knows everything.
Until you confess your sin, you will be frustrated because God is omnipresent.
Pray that God will humble your heart, so that you're able to speak to those who have been offended and ask for forgiveness. God did not create us to live a life full of deceit and disobedience. Sin separates us from the fellowship we have with God by faith through Jesus.

Unconfessed sin creates
1) A loss of fellowship
2) A loss of joy (John 15:11)
3) A tear in your witness as a believer of Jesus Christ

But the awesome thing is this: God IS faithful! When we say the same thing about our sin that God says about our sin, the Bible says God will forgive you. God will forgive me. There is no sin that's so deep that God's grace can't reach. God sent his son down as a sinless man to die a sinful death and we ought to be grateful. What Christ did on the cross us big enough to cover your sin if you would just put your faith in him.

The church, as the body of Christ, has an obligation to uphold the standards of our holy God by living righteously. We don't get the privilege of living in sin like the rest of the world. God has called his children to be set apart, holy, to represent him and proclaim the gospel to the ends of the Earth.

How can God use a church who is unwilling to confess their sin? Can he use a church that refuses to humble themselves and repent? More personally, Are YOU useable?? Is God able to use you as a vessel to glorify him and win souls for the Kingdom? I pray that God will prick our hearts and cause unrest in our spirits until we confess all sins to him. We can't grow in Christ if we are holding on to sin. Let go.