Therefore Confess

James 5:16

Confession Heals

Psalm 32:3-5

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I

said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you

forgave the guilt of my sin.

Confession Unites

Nehemiah 9:1-3

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered

together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. Those

of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed

their sins and the sins of their ancestors. They stood where they were

and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the

day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord

their God.

Confession Grows

Are you hurting? Pray. Do you feel great? Sing. Are you sick? Call the church

leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master.

Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you’ve

sinned, you’ll be forgiven—healed inside and out. Make this your common

practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can

live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

James 5:13-20

Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half

years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and

everything started growing again. My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write

them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives

from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.