God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. -Fosdick
If I regard iniquity (SIN) in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: Psalm 66:18
Do you remember when you were growing up and you disobeyed your parents and they got furious with you? Do you remember feeling like they were thousands of miles away yet they were just in the next room? Do you remember what it took to regain the relationship, to be able to talk with them once again? You had to ask for forgiveness. You had to say, “I’m sorry.”
For the lost person reading this post, the Lord will only hear one prayer from you. That is the prayer of faith, when you ask Him to save you, agreeing with Him you are a sinner in need of a Saviour. After that prayer we must confess our sin as often as we commit sin. When we acknowledge the sin in our life, He will forgive! Time and time again!
Consider what John says in 1 John 1, “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”