Admit the Sin and Listen!

Morning by morning (and moment by moment!) we must choose to remain cleansed vessels fit for the Master’s use.
*”Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for I pray to no one but you.  Listen to my voice in the morning,LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.”Psalm 5:2-3

We are responsible for the negative thoughts which first enter our mind. If we recognize these thoughts and immediately confess and relinquish them to God, we have not sinned.
** “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
(1 John1: 9).

*Many of us have not been delivered because we are too ashamed to admit we are struggling.
******Admit the Sin and Listen!
Every one of us is recovering from something. We ALL are addicted to some sin. (Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard).
*James 4:17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. *All of humanity has sinned in thoughts, words or actions. If we cannot admit that, then we have played the fool (Psalm 14:1).

If we don’t take ungodly thoughts captive, they will take us captive.
* “Listen, all the earth! I will bring disaster on my people. It is the fruit of their own schemes, because they refuse to listen to me. They have rejected my word.”Jeremiah 6:19

*****Admit the Sin and Listen!
*Spiritual discipline is allowing God to get me to a place I am not at———- Discovering MY sins!
* Confessing our sins leads to recovery.
James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed….

God gave His Son, the Son gave His life, and WE receive ALL the benefits!

The Father made this covenant pledge to His Son: “I, the Lord, have called
You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as
a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles” (Isaiah 42:6).
**God was saying, “My hand will always be holding on to Yours and You will never be away from my keeping power. I pledge to keep You safe from all the schemes of the devil.”

This pledge by the Father is made available to us now because the Son’s
sacrifice on the Cross has brought us into their covenant agreement.
God pledged to His Son for you and me!  Now that is Love!!!

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me (Psalm 51:12).

Very simply, the Holy Spirit changes the way we look at our sin. He knows that
as long as we continue to take our lust lightly, we will never be set free.
How does the Holy Ghost do this? By using the convicting Word of God—the piercing arrows of Holy Truth.
** Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God. 1JN 3:9

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 17 God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.

Be quiet on the inside, and let the Lord’s still small voice resound, for He will show you things and bring you through to the victory that only comes from yielding to what He reveals.  You can gain much victory as you overcome, but the victory that He gives will be absolutely supernatural and beyond what you can do through self-effort.  It will quicken your faith and cause you to trust Him more.  These are days when you will have every opportunity to rise up spiritually and become one with Him.
1 Kings 19:11-12  Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
*Sometimes God speaks in the still small whisper. Could our problem with hearing God’s voice today have less to do with God’s apparent silence and more to do with our inability to slow ourselves down, to carve out quiet time to listen without the background noise of the television, music, or the buzz of the cell phone (calls, texts, emails, Facebook msgs), and be totally available to God?
Perhaps this is one of the greatest obstacles to our relationship with God in our time, call it “Spiritual Attention Deficit Disorder”.
Be attentive to His “whisper”, which may come as a thought or image on your mind. Ask, is this from you God?
For me God’s “whisper” comes as a result of reading His Word, the Bible, as He speaks to my heart through it.

Dear God please help me to be a person that trust what you tell me over what I see. Remind me not to try and interpret what I see around me but to seek You(through the Word) for the interpretation. Lord, hear my cry for help to only You and I pray that I seek your wisdom and guidance as I listen.
Lord, Thank You for hearing the quiet words of my heart. I pray that You continue to encourage me to poor out my heart to you and let me be still to hear Your “whisper” to me.   Amen