How many Christians are there who pray every Sunday in church, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done!" without ever realizing the spiritual implications of such intercession! What are we praying for? Should we edit that prayer so that it becomes a confrontation: "My kingdom go, Lord; let Thy kingdom come!" Certainly His kingdom can never be realized in my life until my own selfish kingdom is deposed. It is when I resign, when I am no longer king of my domain that Jesus Christ will become king of my life.
A. W. Tozer
The Works Of A. W. Tozer
When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.
Dwight L Moody
Brief Biography
Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?...Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?...We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear , not those who want to be . Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things...To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
In return for the love which brought the Son of Man down from heaven, in return for the love which led Him to die for us on the cross, we cannot give Him holy lives, for we are not holy; we cannot give Him pure souls, for our souls are not pure; but this one thing we can give, and this is what He asks, hearts that shall never cease from this day forward, till we reach the grave, to strive to be more like Him; to come nearer to Him; to root out from within us the sin that keeps us from Him. To such a battle I call you in His name.
Frederick Temple
Biography
To do so no more is the truest repentance.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
Confessing our sins is not for God's benefit, we aren't telling him something that he doesn't already know. Confessing our sins brings our own sinful nature to the forefront of our own eyes. It is now in the light, no longer hiding in the shadows. When we confess to God, it's now out in the open and we are held accountable to repent, to turn away from that sin. We can no longer deny its existence, for the hearer of our confession is our witness. Often, God will bring us support to continue in the path of turning from a besetting sin in the form of a friend or a spiritual leader who will lovingly hold us accountable.
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
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