Prayer
The Great Gift of Confessional Prayer
Pastor Tom
September 14, 2008
Today we continue our series on prayer. Last week we looked at a simple prayer – humbling ourselves before God and embracing our role as His dependants. Today we’re going to look at a prayer that we don’t want to pray. In fact, if we were brought up with a version of Christianity focused on good feelings and prosperity, this prayer sounds depressing. But though we might not want to pray this prayer, we need to pray to this prayer because we are all sinners. Sin is any thought, word or action contrary to God’s law. When we sin, we offend the Holy God, grieve the Holy Spirit and experience a deep interruption in our relationship with God.
This does not mean we are no longer Christians. We are still God’s children. Our sin does not change the status of our relationship with God. But sin affects the state of our relationship with God. Instead of a relationship of harmony, closeness and oneness, we experience disharmony, distance and separation from our Loving God.
