if your Born Again God has already forgiven your Sins ----we are Holy and Heaven Bound --We will still miss the mark (sin) but God does not impute that sin on us anymore -----and when we do sin we need to just confess with out mouth that we fell off the wagon and then pick ourselves up and get right back on the wagon -----Satan will try and keep your mind feeling guilty and condemned --so you need to cast out those thoughts and know that God sees you as Holy and Righteous ------So you need to know your enemy and how he works -----we are in a Spiritual War every day in our mind ------Satan can only attack our mind ----and we need to learn to cast down bad thoughts---and keep Satan at bay ------
So our sins are already forgiven ---we just confess our sin out loud as speaking out loud is saying we know we have missed the mark and now we putting it under your feet and trampling it into the dust -
And we need to know that we can call on God's Grace to help us in our weakness ------Paul was being harassed by one of Satan's tribes and he ask God 3 times to take this burden away from him =====
This is God's reply ------2 Corinthians 12 ---NIV ---see verse 9 below -----
Paul’s Vision and His Thorn
12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
i say ----Knowing who we are in Christ is very important and will help us have the confidence and strength we need to keep us as much as possible away from sinning ----but when we do --we need to confess and carry on with Maturing in our walk with Christ
Hope this helps in some small way ----Blessing
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