"Our un-confessed sin cancels our communion with Christ" - Boyd Bailey

"Our un-confessed sin cancels our communion with Christ" - Boyd Bailey I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer. Psalm 66:17-19 "Sin is a silencer that shoots down prayer. Our un-confessed sin cancels our communion with Christ. It shatters our souls longing to align with the Almighty. Sin over-promises and under-delivers. It promises you pleasure, but its ultimate outcomes are hollow. It promises you freedom, but it leaves you in bondage. It promises you privileges, but then takes away privileges. Iniquity invites you into its influence, and then hangs you out to dry as you attempt to cry out to God. Indeed, sin is suicidal to your prayer life. Sin and your Savior cannot coexist. It is anti-Christ. Before we pray, we are to come clean with sin. Jesus said it like this, “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24). Getting right our relationships precedes getting right with God. We cannot harbor sin in our heart and expect God to hear our prayers in heaven. Sin confuses and complicates matters. Where there is confusion look out for un-confessed sin. We cannot hear God, because sin has deafened our heart. The eardrums of our soul burst under the pressure of un-confessed sin. Furthermore, sin blocks the door of obedience. As with Cain, sin crouches at the door and hinders our passage. (Genesis 4:7). Therefore, check your motives for coming to Christ in prayer. Make sure it is to manifest His glory and not yours. The half brother of Jesus said, “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4:3). Maturity rids its innermost being of any alliance with iniquity." Bailey, Boyd. Seeking God in the Psalms (p. 96).