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The Power of a Praying Woman
a sin. Have you ever had an unloving attitude toward another person? Whatever does not come from love is a sin. Sin is hard to avoid 100 percent of the time. That’s why confession is crucial. When we don’t confess our sins, faults, or errors, they separate us from God. And we don’t get our prayers answered. “Your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2). When we don’t confess our sins, we end up trying to hide ourselves from God. Just like Adam and Eve in the garden, we feel we can’t face Him. But the problem with attempting to hide from God is that it’s impossible. The Bible says that everything we do will be made known. Even the things we said and thought in secret. “There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops” (Luke 12:2-3). “There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13). What a frightening thought! If each of us will have to give an account, the quicker we get it straight with God the better. In fact, the sooner we deal with the sins we can see, the sooner God can reveal to us the ones we can’t. And God only knows how much of that there is residing in each of us. There is always a consequence for sin. King David described it best when he wrote of his own unconfessed sin: “When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer” (Psalm 32:3-4).