Day Fifteen

On Day 15 (the halfway point!!!!), we talked about how sin can interrupt our fellowship with God.

Ever feel like your prayers are bouncing off the ceiling? Ever feel like there is distance between yourself and God.....that when you sit down to read His Word, nothing happens....when you pray, you sense distance and silence? The Bible says that our sin can hinder our prayer life as well as our connection to God (the very thing that we are trying to solidify through a daily quiet time; 1 Peter 3:12, Ps 145:19, Proverbs 15:29).

When we sense that this has happened, then we need to ask the Lord to reveal to us any sins we may have committed that we have not yet confessed to Him. 1 John 1:9 says that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, and will forgive us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Ask the Holy Spirit to shine the light of conviction on those unconfessed sins so we can "put them on the table", and confess them (agree with God that they are sin, and we were wrong and being unfaithful when we committed them). Use some of the following scriptures to help in this process:

Lord, examine my heart, and show me any unconfessed sin.....
Psalms 139:23-24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. (24) See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalms 26:2 - Test me, O LORD , and try me, examine my heart and my mind

Lamentations 3:37-42 - (37) Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? (38) Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (39) Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? (40) Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD . (41) Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: (42) "We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.


Lord, I see my sin now, and I humbly confess it to You and turn from it (repentance):
Psalm 51

Psalm 32:1-5

If you sense there may be something between you and God, go through this process now. Read the scriptures, and spend time alone with God asking Him to reveal to you anything that is between Him and yourself. Once He reveals that to you, then go through Psalm 51 and Psalm 32, and confess those things to Him.....call them what they are (sin, wrong, inexcusable, etc.), then commit to turning away from those things, and walking in the righteousness of Christ.

Daily Bible reading for today: Acts 12, Joshua 15-17