Are You Ashamed?

Have you ever done anything that you were ashamed of? I mean really ashamed. We all do things that sometime embarrass us, but I am talking about the kind of things that we really don't want anyone to know. The stuff that is so embarrassing or bad that we don't like to think about it ourselves. The secret stuff that only you, God and the devil know about. I have had that kind of stuff in my heart, we all have. You are not alone. God wants you to know that the sin in your secret place is the sin that short circuts the anointing of God in your life. You may be born again, yet this sin has been plagueing you. It did me for a long time because I refused to deal with the secret sin in my life. At first it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. But when you think you have it under control, you do it again. It seems to keep pulling you back into it. Oh, you pray that God will forgive you, then you do it again. It seems to have a hold on you that you can't seem to break. You want to be free of it, but the truth is, you still kind of like doing it. You hate how it makes you feel after you have done it, but you still enjoy it while your doing it. Then guilt sets in, but you can't seem to bring yourself to the place of really letting it go.
Jesus wants you to know that if you will let him, he will remove this sin from your life and set you free from it.When you have finally come to the place of truly ready to let it go When you are set free it will no longer have a hold on you. According to the word of God, if will will confess to him our sin, acknowledging it, because he already knows about it, and we ask his forgiveness with godly sorrow, repenting because we truely feel bad for it, he will not only forgive us our sin, he will cleanse us from it. He will deliver us, cleanse us, and give us a fresh start as if we had never sinned. When this happens, our heart no longer condemns us and we are free in our spirit to let the mercy, the love, the power and the annointing of God to flow through us. We are truely changed and desire the gifts of God to operate in and through us as he designed us to do. Romans 8 says that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. And when the spirit of God lives in us he helps us, for when we don't know what to pray he (the Holy Spirit) prays through us, uses our voice to pray the perfect will of God.
There is a secret place prepared in every one of our hearts that God wants to fill up with himself and nothing or no one else can fill that place. And God has a secret place he wants us to dwell in him. Psalms 91:1 says, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Here is a song about that secret place in all our hearts.

SECRET PLACE
My heart is like a house
One day I let the savior in
And there are many rooms
Where we would visit now and then

But then one day he saw that door
I knew the day had come to soon
I said, "Jesus I'm not ready
For us to visit in that room."
"Cause that's a place in my heart
Where even I don't go
I have some hidden things in there
I don't want no one to know

But he handed me the keys
With tears of love on his face
He said, "I want to make you clean
Let me go in your secret place."

So I opened up the door
As the two of us walked in
I was so ashamed
His light revealed my hidden sin

But then I think about that room now
I'm not afraid anymore
Cause I know my secret sin
No longer hides behind that door

by Steve and Annie Chapman