Prayer Focus for the Week of 8-18-13 Father, Your Word says that if I confess my sins, You will forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.  Help me to receive my forgiveness for past and present sins.  Help me to forgive myself.    When I keep it all inside, my bones waste away through my daylong groans.  For day and night, Your hand [of displeasure] is heavy upon me; all the juices of my life dry up.  I acknowledge my sin to You, Lord, and my iniquity I will no longer hide.    Lord God, I am blessed, for You have forgiven my transgressions – You have covered my sins.  I am blessed, for You will never count my sins against me.  You, Father, are holding nothing against me and You’re not holding anything back from me.  Halleluiah!   Father, You chose me in Christ before the foundation of the world, that I should be holy and without blame before You in love.  In Jesus I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of my sins according to the riches of Your grace.   Lord, I have received Your Son Jesus, I believe in His name, and He has given me the right to become a son of God.  I acknowledge You, Lord, as my Father.  Thank You for forgiving me and absolving me of all guilt.  I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of my testimony.  In Jesus’ name, amen.     “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  1 John 1:9 (KJV) Psalm 32:1-5  (various translations) “Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”  Romans 4:7-8 (KJV) “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”  Ephesians 1:4 (KJV) “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace”;  Ephesians 1:7 (KJV) “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”  John 1:12 (KJV) “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”  Revelation 12:11(KJV)