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Originally Posted by TheWordIsOne  Question? How can I have God here my voice?  PSALM 51
One and one with God, along. 
God, the Father wants you the individual to confess to him only. |
Just to clarify... as your response above seems to lean towards praying a prayer to be saved, which is clearly not indicated or taught in the Scriptures.
Proverbs 15:8-9 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Psalms 34:15-16 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah clearly tells us that the unsaved sinners "iniquities have separated" him from God... his "sins have hid His face".
The apostle Peter wrote a similar statement as those of the Old Testament writers...
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
John wrote that God does not hear sinners, but He does hear "any man" that worships Him... "and doeth His will"...
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Jesus said "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you"... we must be "in Christ" to "ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."...
John 15:7 "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
If we must be "in Christ" for Him to give us what we ask for, then there is no way an unsaved sinner can ask and receive salvation through prayer, because an unsaved sinner is not "in Christ"... he is out of Christ until he is "baptized into Christ". There is no instruction nor any example of anyone being able to get "in Christ" by prayer... the Bible clearly teaches that the only way to get "in Christ" is to be "baptized into Christ"...
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
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Originally Posted by TheWordIsOne God, the Father wants you the individual to confess to him only. |
As a Christian we must certainly confess our sins to God (1 John 1:9), but as a sinner we do not confess only to God. Romans 10:9-10 explains how we must confess the Jesus is Lord and the Son of God, just as Jesus commanded in Matthew 10:32 Mat 10:32 "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." And just as the Ethiopian Eunuch did in Acts 8:37 "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."