My confession to you
It’s a good, albeit humbling, cleansing method.
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
I am proud: I care what people think and want them to respect and like me.
I want to think I’m better than other people at the things I value.
I am petty: I worry and obsess over things that don’t really matter in life.
I am unforgiving: I sometimes harbor secret resentment toward people who have wronged me. I cover it up by being nice to them, but deep down, I probably don’t want them to prosper.
I am selfish: I think of my own needs and desires first. Even when I serve people, I am often aware of what I’m “giving up.” This is still being self-oriented.
I am forgetful: I focus on the present, to the detriment of the past and all God has already done for me.
I am faithless: I believe that God has great purpose for my life, but when I worry and freak out over the time and effort it takes to obey Him, I reveal how faithless I actually am.
I do not want to be this person. In my Spirit-filled moments, I am. But the rest of the time, I am fighting it. My spirit and my soul are at war.
Heal me, O Lord Jehovah, Rapha and Redeemer!
Only you can take someone as sinful as me
and make me into someone like You.
It’s unimaginable, but I believe it’s true.
Remind me of Your grace and love.
Pour out Your power on me
so that Your power can course through me
and pour out on someone else.
You are that amazing! I worship You and adore You!
Amen.
