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devotional content, and blog post we would love for you to join us at I believe.com. A prayer for awareness of sin, written by Mary Sutherland and read by Kelly Givens.

If you hide your sins you will not succeed.

If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy,

Proverbs 2813.

The first time we commit a sin, it is painful.

We are filled with remorse and mourn the fact that we have grieved the

heart of God. But regret is not enough when it comes to dealing with sin.

Unless we confess and turn away from that sin, we are

likely to commit it again. If we allow sin to settle into our life and refuse to confess it.

That sin eventually hardens our hearts

and build spiritual calluses in our soul.

When we become comfortable with our sin, we are walking in enemy territory and

setting ourselves up for spiritual failure and discouragement.

The good news is that Jesus understands human frailty. He is well acquainted with

temptation and the tactics of Satan. Jesus gave his life as a ransom for our sin and he paid our sin debt in full.

First John 119 tells us,

but if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins because we can trust God to do

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