Confess daily and repent from premeditated sin

In Is My Repentance Real If I Keep Committing the Same Sin? John Piper suggest we separate repentance from confession. Repentance can be thought of as agreeing with God, changing our heart and mind, lifting our eyes up and letting God put our feet on the path, seeing God as our guiding light. 

The daily activity of asking forgiveness is not repentance. Repentance happens when we come to our sense and give our lives back over to God like the prodigal son, like the thief on the cross, like the tax collector who beats his chest. 

• Life of Christians can go off the rails and require repentance like the Churches in first chapters of Revelation needed to repent from forsaking first love (Rev 2:4), allowing false teachers (Rev 2:16,20), being dead (Rev 3:2–3).
• False religious security of wicked, obstinate people leads to doom (Jer 6:22-8:3)
  

Our lives should look different after we've repented and given our lives to Christ: James 2:17, Heb 12:14, John 14:15, Matthew 7:23, Romans 6:2. Yet We Christians still sin everyday... sin can be defined as any action that doesn't flow from loving and abiding in Christ (every action in our lives isn't hitting a bullseye). 

• Jesus said "give us today, our daily bread and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us
• 1 John 1:9. New International Version ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
• This is our daily habit of prayer and confession.
• As long as it's called today...Heb 3-4
• His mercies are made new everyday. Lamentations 3:22-23

Sin will be with us until our inner condition of rebellion is obliterated

Two kinds of confession

1. Superficial, fatalism. Express regret and sorrow but knowing that this is going to happen again, probably this week. Hypocrisy
2. Express guilt and sorrow, but have a hatred for the sin - you have every intention to make war against it. You are going to rob it of its power. Romans 7:16-19

Two kinds of sin

1. Not premeditate, blindsided. Before you wish you haven't done it but it's done. 
2. Premeditated sin, weighing it. You take some time wressing and then doing the sin. 

Warning against perfectionism and the reality of God's faithfulness to forgive us and make us holy: 1 John 1:8-10