This week we join together in prayer, each day having its own theme and focus.

Tuesday - Prayers of Confession

As Jesus instructed His disciples to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors,” tonight we also pray to a forgiving God, confessing our sins to Him.

Confession is a vital part of prayer, as we pour out the heaviness of our own sin before the Lord, but merely acknowledging the sin is not true confession. True confession is accompanied by repentance – acknowledging our sin has wounded the one whom our soul loves.

 1 John 1:9-10, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

Tonight, pray and ask the Holy Spirit to search us and expose our sins – if to no one else, to ourselves, that we may confess them and repent of them, turning our face toward God and away from our rebellious autonomy.

If you’re struggling to pray in confession, take a moment to pause and think of those you may have hurt, offended, those periods of anger, or lust, or greed, or envy, and just begin to pour them out before the Lord. Ask the Spirit to aid you in this, that you may feel the weight of your sin lifted before the throne of God.