Faith Bible Study Guide
The believer who is always confessing his sins and his weakness is building weakness, failure, and sin into his consciousness. If we do sin, when we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). Once you make confession of your sin, don’t ever refer to it again. It is not past history because past history can be remembered. After you confess your sin, it is as though it had never been because God said, “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions … and will not remember thy sins” (Isa. 43:25). God doesn’t have any memory of your sin, so why should you? It is not good taste to remind God of your sins because He has already told you in Isaiah 43:25 that He doesn’t remember that you did anything wrong.
But this is why a lot of people don’t have any faith. They talk themselves right out of faith because when they pray, they bring up every sin, shortcoming, fault, mistake, and failure they can think of to accuse themselves with. And when they get finished condemning themselves, they don’t have any faith at all because they are holding themselves under condemnation; they are making the wrong confession.