Yo Zeena, CONFESS in the OLD or New Testament be it the Hebrew or Greek Grammatical formation or Meaning/ Intentions isn't to say our sins but to say GOD/Christ's Words that WE have been Cleansed & have been Perfected By the Eternal Washing Power of HIS BLOOD.
Let's see, shall we?
1 John 1:9
If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Not one, but count 'em two NEW Testament verses which deny your thesis of NOT confesssing our shortcomings.
This is NOT to say that the Holy Spirit is going to speak PEACE over you while you continue to walk after your FLESH!-LOL!
The Holy Spirit will WARN you of the DANGER of continuing in sin.
Those who
advocate that we should confess our sins are the Devils incarnate who doesn't know how to rightly divide the Word of Christo
At least I can spell Christ
Besides, who rightly knows besides God the Spirit?
Do you not know that having sins Conscience is putting the Believer into Bondage & negating the FINISHED Word of Christ?
Yet, denying your sins is the WORST thing you can do to be rid of them.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for
my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
We CONFESS that we sinned by walking after the flesh through unbelief!
We don't WALLOW in our flesh anymore BECAUSE we are not IN the flesh anymore.
I'm guessing you are aware that you
have flesh to contend with?
We don't DEAL with the flesh, Christ does, in and through us as we abide by Grace through faith!
BUT, to not ALLOW Him to deal with it is SIN!
YIELD unto God as those brought to LIFE from the DEAD!!!
If you're walking after the flesh you are NOT walking after the Spirit.
No man can serve two masters.. :/
The mind
set on the flesh is death, but the mind
set on the Spirit is Life and Peace.
Washing of the Feet is actually the CLEANSING power of HIS word via the Preaching to the Believer that THEY are Righteous regardless of what they do for Righteousness is a GIFT & Slowly but surely the believers will conform into HIS Image by Beholding HIS Image & not looking at Themselves- LIke how the Chrilden of Israel whosoever looked at the Bronze Serpent were healed, those who LOOK at themselves DIE

It's a shadow & Christ is the Substance
No, you are confounded the washing of your FEET by
WATER with the washing of your CONSCIENCE by the
BLOOD OF CHRIST!
Did I not say you are clean every whitt, only your FEET need washing, even as the LORD JESUS said?
Did He not exhort us to wash each others feet?
Many kept quoting Peter Epistle, that's isn't wisdom from GOD as Peter Epistle are written specifically to the JEWS who kept not believing in Christ & HIS Finished works but kept looking at themselves & their own dirty as SOILED Sanitary Napkins self righteousness like so many Christians hence not able to Reign in LIve as KINGS/Priests/ Prophets/ More then Conqueror in Christ
AMEN!
YET, SHOULD we walk after the flesh, we need to confess that, and be DONE with it, turning BACK to Jesus to CONTINUE receiving His Image, even the END, the Salvation of our SOULS!!!
1 John 1:5-7
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that
God is light,
and in him is no darkness at all.
6
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But
if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.
The mind is not 'usually' instantly renewed you know!
Most of the time sanctification is a PROCESS whereby we are putting OFF the deeds of the flesh and putting ON Christ.
ANYTHING that is not of God HAS to go!
OUT with the old IN with the NEW, and His Mercies are new EVERY morning!
There's nothing wrong with that process.
God allows it for His Glory!
No wonder 90% of Christians in this world are weak/Sick/no Power to REIGN in this LIfe when all are in bondage & not living in the Realm of Christ's Finished works & we have NOTHING to add.
They're weak, sick and lack the Power of the indwelling Christ because He is NOT infilling them by Grace,
because they are not walking by FAITH!
If a man believe not, should God reckon his UNBELIEF as righteousness too?!?
I know GRACE when I hear it, and I also know Grace is NO LICENSE to sin!