Proverbs 28:13
This truth has been powerfully illustrated to me in the past week. In one instance, a friend who strongly desired to be freed from a nicotine addiction was completely delivered the same night he confessed both the addiction and allowed those of us by him to gather around him and pray for him. And I myself had been struggling to keep bitterness, an emotion I don’t normally traffic in, at bay for the past year because of some circumstances that had arisen. I finally confessed both the bitterness and the struggle to my husband. Before the words had finished leaving my mouth, I felt the power of it being broken from me, from my heart. Hooray! Perhaps God encourages us to confess our sins one to another, because in confessing them and repenting of them, their power over us is broken. But in keeping them secret, as the enemy wants us to do, their power over us is maintained and strengthened. ♥
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