The Importance of Confession in Recovery: How to Restore Relationship with God?

Confession, often perceived as an act of acknowledging wrongdoings, which plays a crucial role in your recovery journey. Confession serves as the foundational step toward healing, wholeness, and restoring an intimate relationship with Christ.

Key Components to Confession:

One of the primary components of confession is acknowledgement and acceptance. Being able to acknowledge addiction is being able to say it. Honest acceptance by saying the words “porn” and “masturbation” reduces the power of the addiction. Simply describing this compulsive behavior and its effects to its initial's “p” and “m,” reduces its harmful impact to your spirit and soul.

1 John 1:9, reads, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful to forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (NIV)

Acknowledgement of your transgressions and seeking God’s forgiveness allows you to make peace with where you are and release layers of trauma. Seeking forgiveness pulls you out of denial, deception, and a diluted reality. Confession gives you power over your addiction. Not the other way around.

“If we claim to have fellowship with Him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not walk in truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.”

1 John 1:6-9 NIV

Restoring Relationship with God

When you fallout of relationship with God you can feel like His heart has hardened towards you which is not true. He has actually been waiting for you to return unto Him. Here are a few ways you can begin to rebuild that relationship.

1. Receiving God’s Mercy: God is gracious to forgive. He shows mercy to those who are truly repentant. The greatest example of this can be found in Genesis 3:21. Despite Adam and Eve’s rebellion, he did not kick them out of the garden. He simply made them tunics of skin to clothe their nakedness. When He had the power to do much more

2. Spiritual Detox Renewal: Detoxing spiritually allows the word of God to through scripture, meditation, and prayer be your guide to healing. Keeping a journey of gratitude to facilitate this process can be very rewarding to your recovery.

3. Do not quench the Holy Spirit: Getting naked before God can be very uncomfortable at first. As you maybe be led to do things that out of your comfort zone. This is time that you are creating new patterns and routines for your life. Trust the process. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

4. Creating a Heart of Repentance: As much as porn addiction is a behavior disorder, it is a heart disorder as well. The heart is very deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9-10). And our bodies want what they want no matter what the cost. This blockage keeps you from experiencing God’s continued flow of love

Confession encourages honesty, not just with others but also with oneself. This honesty is critical in an intimate relationship with God. Your willingness to confess and be transparent before the Father, will only strengthen the bonds of trust and understanding you need for recovery. Learn more about recovery visit the Private Obsession Recovery Network .