A Confession that Brings Life: Psalm 51
How We Return to the Lord 2

1st A Confession that Brings Death: The Way of Saul! 1 Samuel 15:12-24

You Practice Partial Obedience, while Pretending Full Obedience.
You Give Yourself Full Credit for Your Seemingly Spiritual Victory.
When God Confronts You Say: “It isn’t So!”
You Blame Someone Else for Your Rebellion:
You Substitute Sacrifice for Obedience. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Downplay Disobedience, When God calls it Like Witchcraft

Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the Kindness of God leads you to repentance.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without egret, leading to salvation but the sorrow of the world produces death.

2nd A Confession That Brings Life: The Way of David Psalm 51

When God Confronts and Convicts: Agree, Immediately With God:

Psalm 32:3 When I kept silent about my sin my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.

2 Samuel 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.

A Confession that Appeals to the Glory of God: (1-3) Exodus 34:7-9

Lovingkindness: To Deal Kindly With: Covenant or unchanging Love, 1 Corinthians 13 Love: Grace, Mercy and Favor of God: it Never Ceases It just keeps coming

By His Loving Kindness,

We enter His House: Psalm 5:7
We are Never Shaken – Psalm 21:7
Our Sins are not remembered Ps 25:7
We Are Saved: Ps 31:16
We Are Preserved: Psalm 40:1
God Meets us and we look triumphantly on our foes: Psalm 59:10
God Answers Us with His saving truth: Ps 69:13
We Are Delivered: Psalm 109:26
We Are Comforted and Revived: Psalm 119:76
He Hears Our Voice: Psalm 119:149
We Have Abundant Redemption: Ps 130:7
Creation was Made
He accomplishes what concerns you Psalm 138:8
He Teaches us the way to Walk: Psalm 143:8
Iniquity is Atoned For Proverbs 16:6
He Has Compassion on Us Is. 54:8
He draws us to Him: Jeremiah 31:3

His Lovingkindness is better than Life: Psalm 63:3
It’s New Every Morning: Lamentations 3:19-26

A Confession That Is Genuinely Humble

That Knows You Deserve Judgment: 4
That takes Full Responsibility: 4 –
That Understands Your Personal Guilt
That Understands Your Absolute Depravity and Propensities to Sin. 5

A Confession Declaring Your Need for Being Clean.

From the Inside Out. 6
From Dirty to Clean from the Corruption to Purity: 7
From an Impure Heart to a Clean Heart. 10
From Faltering Spirit to a Steadfast spirit 10

Know the Basic Needs for Restoration:

The Presence of the Lord 11
And the Power of the Holy Spirit 11

By Faith Experience Total Transformation and Restoration

To Teach Transgressors His Ways 13
To See Sinners Converted to Him. 13
To Declare the Praise of Our Great God. 14

Psalm 103: Knowing the Nature of Our Father who Keeps on Giving

An Honest Appraisal!
Idolatry – Do you love anything or anyone more than God?
Immorality – Have you participated in any immorality? Lustful
thoughts/Adultery Course Jesting/Fornication/Inappropriate Literature/
Pornography
Pride – Are any of these things true of your life? Critical Spirit/
Grumbling/FaultFinding/Anger/Unforgiveness/Criticalspirit/
Bitterness/Jealousy/Pride
Greed- Do you covet things you do not have? Have you stolen? Have you
cheated? Are you a lover of money and things?/Are you entangled with
the affairs of this life? Do you have material lust?
Disobedience Is there anything that God has told you to do that you
have not done? Is there anything that God has told you to give up and
you have not given it up? Do you honor your mother and father?
Selfishness: Do you give cheerfully of tithes and offerings? Are you
stingy? Are you Devastated and angry when things do not go your way?
Do you love your neighbor as you love yourself? Are your statements
mostly about yourself? Do you get your feelings hurt easily? Are you self
centered? Do you just have to have it your way?
Dishonesty Do you lie? Do you stretch the truth? Do you gossip?
Self-Discipline Are you disciplined in the area of your appetite? Do you
over indulge in your eating? Do you take care of your body? Are you filled
with the Spirit or does some other substance influence you? Are you
praying as you should? Have you neglected the word? Are you orderly?
Have you neglected service to the body of Christ? Do you take care of the
things that God has given you?
The Fruit of the Spirit Do you show love? Do you possess joy? Or do
you grumble and complain with an embittered spirit? Do you have peace?
Or is there dissension, factions, fighting arguing and irreconcilable
differences? Are you patient? With your family? With your children? With
your employer or employees? With your church leaders? Are you kind in
word and in deed? Do you practices the goodness of God? Or are you
mean, grumpy and critical? Are you faithful? Can you be depended on?
Are you a person of your word? Do you finish a job you have started? Do
you work in your field as unto the Lord? Are you a self-starter? Are you
supportive? Are You gentle? Or are you harsh? Do you practice self-
control? With your tongue? With your appetites? With your actions? ARE
YOU WALKING BY THE SPIRIT?