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Thursday... Now this is something we need to know!


Thursday... Now this is something we need to know. If you want God to listen and not ignore your prayers, you need to know this.

Psalm 66:16 & 17 (NLT) says, "Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he did for me. For I cried out to him for help, praising him as I spoke." Now that is great. During the difficult times we are going through we need to be able to connect with God, to be able to cry our to him. But then verses 18 - 20a says "If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer. Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer." Now this is really important to know if you want God to listen and not ignore your prayers.

So, if we want God to listen and answer our prayers we need to confess our sins to God. The Amplified Bible says, "If I regard sin and baseness in my heart [that is, if I know it is there and do nothing about it]. the Lord will not hear me." 

David in Psalm 25:16 - 18 (NLT) says, "Turn to me and have mercy, for I am alone and in deep distress. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all! Feel my pain." And here is what he prayed, "Forgive all my sins." He asked God to forgive his sins

Now over in the NT in 1 John 1:8 & 9, we read, "If we claim we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But" Such a great word. If there was no but then God would never hear our prayers. The writer goes on, "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness."

So if you know that you have sinned and you have not confessed those sins to God then that is a great place to start. And this is so very important. So important that God sent His Son Jesus, to die for us so that our sins could be taken care of. In the OT an animal had to be sacrificed to take away our sins so Jesus became our sacrifice.

Psalm 66:15 (NLT) says, "That is why I am sacrificing burnt offerings to you (God) - the best of my rams a pleasing aroma, and a sacrifice of bulls and male goats." Jesus died for us as our sacrifice. God is serious about this.

So just stop and confess your sins and He will forgive you.  Do that right now. In the quietness of your heart, talk to Him, confess to Him, ask Him to forgive you of your sins and He will. And if you do that, it will be just as if you hadn't done them. And that is such Good News! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning    


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