It's never too late to ask God to forgive you

"Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up your everlasting doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. 10 Who is the King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory."      

                                                                                   Psalm 24:9-10   NKJV

Have you ever had that feeling that when you speak to God, He is not listening? No matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to get through. It's almost like when you ring a company and all you hear is, 'We're trying to connect you. Please stay on the line, your call is important to us.' You wouldn't think so after being on the line for ages and still haven't been able to speak to that special person.

God does listen to us, but when there is hidden or unconfessed sin in our lives, it causes a block and He cannot work on our behalf. 'If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear.' Psalm 66:18. We can't get it more plainer than that!

Having unconfessed sin in our lives is like having a heavy weight on our shoulders. Guilt may be present as the Holy Spirit convicts us of our actions or thoughts. Joy is taken out of our day and we may try and cover it up by putting on an act but, pretty soon that doesn't work either. There is only one thing that we can do and that is, ask God for His forgiveness. He will hear this and He will forgive us as well 1 John 1:9. The thing is, often we can't forgive ourselves and we continue to wallow in this feeling of woe. Listen, if God has forgiven you, then that is the end of it!

David tells us to 'Lift up our heads'. When we can't forgive ourselves, we often have a feeling of shame upon us; but receive your forgiveness, God doesn't want you walking around with your head down; lift it up; you are forgiven if you've confessed this.

As we ask forgiveness, it's like the Spirit of God floods us once again. He hasn't left us but, our sin caused a block, but now, the King of glory has come in - the LORD of hosts, who is the glorious King of Israel.

When you've been forgiven there is no condemnation Romans 8:1; He has cleansed us from all unrighteousness. You made a mistake, we all do but now it is under the Blood, Jesus never remembers it and that, is amazing!

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