Does UNREPENTED Sin in My Life Stop Me from Getting Healed?
As long as you are not resisting God’s correction, unrepented sin (which would include sins you are committing that you aren’t yet aware are sins) will not stop you from receiving healing or any other blessing that is already yours in Christ. Surely most if not all the people that Jesus healed had unrepented sin of some kind in their lives, but they were healed anyway. The whole point of Jesus’ coming to earth was to pay for your sins so that the barrier that had existed between you and God would be demolished, and you could be a new, righteous creation in Him. Healing is available by grace, not by human goodness or effort, and you must receive it on a grace basis.
The problem arises when God is dealing with you about something and you harden yourself and refuse to change. At that point, your conscience will condemn you. (God doesn’t condemn believers, but He does correct them!) When your conscience condemns you, you feel like a dog with its tail between its legs that knows that it just made a mess on the new carpet or scratched up the new car. You feel sheepish in God’s presence because you know you have unfinished business with Him. Please understand that healing is every bit as much yours as it ever was under those circumstances, but your conscience is going to get in the way of praying the prayer of faith to receive from the same God whom you know you’re resisting. Your boldness in His presence will be gone.
It’s hard to actively resist God in one area while trying to receive from Him in another.
This matter is covered in Scripture:
1 John 3:21-22:
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
In passing, the practice of “repenting for the sins you don’t know you’re committing” is not supportable by Scripture. The Greek word for repent means to change your mind, and you can’t change your mind about a sin you don’t even know about.