There's really no such thing as a secret sin, according to Nancy Lee DeMoss.

The thing you're hiding from your husband, the thing you think he'll never find out,

the thing you're hiding from your parents, the way you've sinned against a boss

and stolen time or money or possessions or whatever, the thing you did 15 years ago,

the thing that you thought was so little, but it gnaws at your conscience,

if you don't bring it into the light and confess it, it's coming out someday.

It's Thursday, April 24th, 2014, and this is Revive Our Hearts, the podcast. The Podcast.

Today we'll hear some poor revive our hearts material.

Nancy wrote about it in the workbook Seeking Him,

experiencing the joy of personal revival.

One chapter of that book is on honesty, and she's here to teach on this topic that's practical for all of us. Here's Nancy. I don't know if you ever did this

when you were a child, but I can distinctly remember playing let's pretend games. And that my two

favorite pretend games to play were school and church. And of course,

I wanted to be the teacher or the preacher. That was, I was a controlling child and some things die hard.

But I could remember, you know, getting my, of course, I'm the oldest of seven children. So we had a built-in

classroom or congregation. And as I grew up, I began to realize that a lot of grown-ups are still playing,

let's pretend games. And one of the ones we play most often is let's pretend we're a Christian. Play church, play Christian.

And I realize that the little bit of play acting we did when we were children just kind of takes

on some different forms as we become adults. As we continue through this process of seeking

him and asking God to revive our hearts, we want to experience the joy of personal revival.

And we're talking about some foundational building blocks here.

And that's what we're going to talk about this week, the principle of honesty.

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