True Confessions: Prayers to Heal the Secrets in Your Soul Paperback - 2001

True Confessions: Prayers to Heal the Secrets in Your Soul

True Confessions: Prayers to Heal the Secrets in Your Soul" by Linda Schubert is a compact, practical Christian prayer booklet. It is designed for personal use, counselors, clergy, and anyone seeking inner healing.

The book focuses on bringing hidden emotional pain, shame, sins, and "secrets in your soul" such as unacknowledged hurts, negative feelings, and struggles, into the light of God's presence through honest, guided prayers of confession. Drawing from the author's experience (she also wrote the bestseller Miracle Hour) and with a foreword by Rev. Robert DeGrandis, SSJ, it emphasizes that inviting God into our darkest or most painful areas releases "great fountains of grace," leading to deep healing, freedom, peace, and spiritual growth.

Each section includes a sample "true confession" prayer tailored to a specific emotion or wound. Readers are invited to personalize these prayers, speak them aloud or silently, and surrender the issue completely to God. The tone is gentle, compassionate, and Scripture-based, showing how others have successfully processed similar struggles. It is not a theological treatise but a hands-on tool for emotional and spiritual release--widely used for inner healing ministry. The structure builds progressively from common pains to broader surrender and closure.

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Chapter Titles

• Introduction (p. 1)
• When you feel ashamed (p. 4)
• When you feel in pain (p. 7)
• When you feel betrayed (p. 10)
• When you feel angry (p. 13)
• When you feel afraid (p. 16)
• When you feel rejected (p. 19)
• When you feel like a failure (p. 22)
• When you feel insecure (p. 25)
• When you feel resentful (p. 28)
• When you feel stuck (p. 31)
• When you feel sorrowful (p. 34)
• All this and more (p. 37)
• Closing prayer (p. 40)

Each section includes a sample "true confession" prayer tailored to a specific emotion or wound. Readers are invited to personalize these prayers, speak to them aloud or silently, and surrender the issue completely to God. The tone is gentle, compassionate, and Scripture-based, showing how others have successfully processed similar struggles. It is not a theological treatise but a hands-on tool for emotional and spiritual release--widely used for inner healing ministry. The structure builds progressively from common pains to broader surrender and closure.

Key Themes

• Honest confession as the path to healing: Secrets (unspoken shame, anger, betrayal, etc.) lose their power when brought to God in vulnerability. True confession is not about self-condemnation but about surrender and receiving mercy.
• God's grace in negative emotions: Painful feelings are not barriers but doorways. Inviting Jesus or the Holy Spirit into anger, fear, rejection, insecurity, resentment, sorrow, etc., transforms them into opportunities for freedom and deeper relationship with God.
• Practical, repeatable prayer tools: Each section models a simple, powerful prayer that acknowledges the feeling, confesses related sin or wound, asks for forgiveness/healing, and declares trust in God's restoration. Readers are encouraged to revisit sections as needed.
• Inner healing and wholeness: The goal is soul-level release--moving from stuckness, self-rejection, or hidden pain to peace, joy, and empowerment through God's love. It aligns with Catholic/Christian inner-healing traditions while remaining accessible to a broad audience.
• Community and testimony: Brief references to how others have been healed reinforce hope and show that no secret is too dark for God's redeeming power.

In short, this is a concise, life-changing prayer resource that turns personal brokenness into an encounter with God's healing love. Many readers and ministers describe it as a go-to tool for processing difficult emotions quickly and effectively. If you're seeking a compact guide for soul-level confession and restoration, this booklet delivers exactly that.

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