ADMIT Principle 4: Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

"Happy are the pure in heart."

Matthew 5:8a (TEV)

Step 5:

We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Therefore confess our sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

James 5:16a (NIV) Why admit my wrongs?

1. We lose our sense of .

2. We will begin to lose our unwillingness to .

3. We will lose our inflated, false .

4. We lose our sense of .

Three reasons or benefits for admitting all your wrongs and your sins to another are:

1. We gain the that the Bible promises!

2. We gain !

Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he rescued them!

(Psalm 107:13 LB)

3. We gain !

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NIV)