Prayer of Repentance & Purification - Psalm 51

I can't tell you how many times I've heard passages of this psalm of David quoted. But the real question is how many of us have had to pray it because we got entangled in the sinful web?

Unfaithfulness and fornication are now just as prevalent in the Body of Christ as in the world! No. I'm not posting this to "preach" to you, but to remind you that God will hear the earnest prayer of a broken spirit and a contrite heart that's really sorrowful for the sin they have committed. Psalm 51 is this kind of prayer... This is the New Living Translation.

Let's pray:

Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.

Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there. Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me— now let me rejoice. Don’t keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you. Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness. Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you.