Reaching Your World

Step 2: Be Sure There Is No Unconfessed Sin in Your Life

Dr. Bill Bright

God promises: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (I John 1:9).

He also promises: "Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more" (Hebrews 10:17).

If you want to be used by God, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you anything that is displeasing to Him in your life. Consider:

Have you offended a friend, and not asked his forgiveness?
Have you violated a command of God's Word, and not asked God's forgiveness?
Have you lived in anxiety or worry? Cynicism or negativity?
Have you been unloving to others at home, work, church, or elsewhere?
Have you been dishonest in your finances or work habits?
Have you dwelled on lustful thoughts?
Have you failed to tell someone about Christ when the Lord was prompting you to do so?
Have temporal pursuits (work, money, pleasure, "things") dominated your thinking and lifestyle?

Make a list of these specific sins on a piece of paper.

Then claim God's forgiveness by writing I John 1:9 across these sins.

Tear the page up and destroy it to symbolize the fact that God forgives us and remembers our sins no more.