If I were your enemy, I’d tempt you toward certain sins, making you believe they are basically (even biologically) unavoidable. I’d study your tendencies and proclivities till I learned the precise conditions that make you the most likely to indulge them…” The very personal nature of this week’s discussion is undeniable. For where we might ask for prayer for healing, for safety in travel, for blessing, prayer involving our struggles against our favorite sins is a totally different thing. So what in this chapter helps? I noticed some things that really spoke to me. Three sin groups are:
Moral compromise can lead to a host of bad choices, which can lead to inappropriate or un-Christian actions, leading then to guilt, leading to cover-up.. You get the idea. Unhealthy habits, like the insatiable cookie habit of Cookie Monster, can shackle us in SO many ways. I have a sweet tooth. It’s a huge nemesis for me. I don’t know if sweets are a trigger for you, but whatever the habit is that gets to you, we all need to realize WHO is behind it ~ and it’s not divine. Even good things can become an addiction when taken to an extreme, given inappropriate priorities in our life, that 'good thing' can become a chain holding us back from God’s best for us! Finally, on page 124 Priscilla writes: “The devils’s strategy is to make us believe impurity is, well … normal … that nobody’s hurt if we keep a few forbidden things on hand and enjoy them from time to time. No big deal. But if we steadily engaged in fervent prayer--with our strategy counteracting his strategy---we’d see… unrighteousness is not “no big deal.” It’s a house of horrors. It’s a totally upside-down way to live.” It can’t be any simpler. Believing that whatever impurity you might be involved with, and to whatever degree, we should as Christians desire to be FREE of it! Life’s best is not found in upside-down Christian living, but in right-side up looking! Looking to God for direction! Looking to God for healing and strength. Look to God through the POWER of prayer to prevail!!! Amen and thank you Jesus!
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