{"id":9670,"date":"2012-03-20T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.familylife.com\/flministries\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:49:00","slug":"confessing-the-attitudes-of-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/articles\/topics\/faith\/essentials-faith\/repentance\/confessing-the-attitudes-of-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessing the Attitudes of My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several years I was part of a mom&#8217;s prayer group in our school. We prayed for revival in our school and in our children&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I would begin to pray the Lord always brought me back to myself. I couldn&#8217;t pray for revival in our children&#8217;s lives without feeling like it was an incomplete prayer\u2014I needed spiritual renewal as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, in the fall of 1995, I began to sense God working in my life in an unusual way. For many years as a parent I had struggled with feelings of anger toward my children. I was diligent in rectifying my mistakes when I made them\u2014for example, if I yelled at the children and shouldn&#8217;t have, or if I disciplined them out of anger, I would ask their forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now I realized that He wanted me to deal with <em>the attitudes of my heart which had led to the anger.<\/em> And, oh, that was difficult\u2014to see my selfishness and my desperate need for Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God directed me to gather my children together to confess this to them. So on the night before Thanksgiving we gathered in the living room. Dennis and I talked about how God had been working in our lives during the previous months. I told them I wanted to make sure nothing I had done in the past would hinder them from experiencing the fullness of God in their hearts. Through my tears I confessed my sinful attitudes, and asked for their forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had never seen me like I was that night. So I think they were a little stunned, a little shocked. But one by one each of them forgave me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, looking back over the years, I can see how God has worked. My relationship with each child is much deeper\u2014God&#8217;s peace is there. God began a process of spiritual renewal and awakening in our entire family that still continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Copyright \u00a9 2005 by FamilyLife. 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