MAKE A FULL CONFESSION...

"Do not think that the use of pious words can be of any help.  It is not merely words that you have to utter; you have to lay all your trouble before God.  As a child tells his mother his griefs, tell the lord all your griefs, your complaints, your miseries, your fears.  Get them all out, and great relief will come to your spirit."

Pour out your heart.  David said, "I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble" (v. 2).  The human heart longs to express itself.  An unuttered grief will lie and smolder in the soul until its black smoke blinds the very eyes of the spirit.

Sometimes it is not a bad thing to speak to a Christian friend about the anguish of your heart.  I would not encourage you to make it a priority -- far from it -- but it may be helpful to some.  However, I do encourage you to make a full confession unto the Lord.  Tell Him how you have sinned.  Tell Him how you have tried to save yourself and have failed.  Tell Him what a wretch you are, how fickle, how proud, how unruly.  Tell Him how your ambition carries you away like an unbridled horse.  Tell Him all your faults, as far as you can remember them.  Do not attempt to hide anything from God.  You cannot do so, for He knows all.  Therefore, do not hesitate to tell Him everything -- the darkest secret, the sin you would not even wish to whisper to the evening's breeze.  Tell it all.  Confession to God is good for the soul.  "Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy" (Proverbs 28:13).

I urge you who are now in a gloomy cave to seek a secret, quiet place and alone with God, to pour out your heart before Him.  David said, "I showed before him my trouble" (Psalms 142:2). 

(Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare - Charles Spurgeon)