A Scripture a Day...

Great post. If anyone wants to pray for me that would be good. I've started working again in a fairly rough environment. Many of them now know I am a christian. I've had some flack but I don't mind. I just feel sorry for them. But please pray I can really be the light. And also for protection and that I can do a really great job.

 

Very poignant, thanks for sharing that I haven't heard it before. One of the devil's proudest accomplishments is that many agnostics and even some Christians have bought the ruse that proclaims the devil doesn't exist. If someone believes that they are on the precipice of swallowing the even greater lie that God doesn't exist. The devil is out there and actively trying to tempt us but God allows it because withstanding temptation makes us stronger.

 

Heavenly Father, the source of all wisdom and strength. We come to you as sinners but we know You wish to wash us clean. We wish to do your will and bring all souls to you but we need Your words and Your compassion. Please guide us so that or actions demonstrate to the world Your unfathomable love. Let us never turn souls away from you by our words or actions.

 

Thank you brothers. I have had an interesting day. Carried through by our Lord. His grace is sufficient for today. I finally understand what that means.

 

I’m happy to see that this is thread is still going. It has been about a year since I’ve been on here and I am still suffering from my own sin. I will try and post here every day as a constant reminder that I should go to Gods word in my trouble and not turn to the worlds solutions, which are evil.

 

Romans 7: 18-25
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“For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”

 

I am here to bear witness as to what the word has done for me.
It has brought an expected end to my wrestling in the flesh.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on things of the spirit is life and peace.
Start memorizing scripture. Meditate and ponder on that scripture throughout the day. And this truth will set you free.
We are told to throw ourselves at the mercy of the Lord.
And I have found that by abandoning my own wicked thoughts and thinking about scripture instead. It truly does bring peace healing and freedom.
Be encouraged and choose this day whom you will serve!

 

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:1-5
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“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”

 

Matthew‬ ‭4:11‬
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“Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.”
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Matt. 14:29-31 (Knox)
29 He said, Come; and Peter let himself down out of the ship and walked over the water to reach Jesus.
30 Then, seeing how strong the wind was, he lost courage and began to sink; whereupon he cried aloud, Lord, save me.31 And Jesus at once stretched out his hand and caught hold of him, saying to him, Why didst thou hesitate, man of little faith?

As I think of this question, "Why didst thou hesitate...?" I am a bit confused. Did I hesitate to ask the Lord to save me? Frankly, I think I have been calling for Him to save me from this sin for a very long time. Perhaps, my hesitation has been to rely on Him for being more comfort and more joy than the devil promised through my sin. For so long did I choose momentary pleasure along with the enduring agony of guilt instead of the all consuming joy of obeying the Father's commands. I failed to trust the Father would grant me such joy. Lord, save us all from the impulse to do evil and the failure to trust in Your peace.

 

All of our choices to sin boil down to this, I think.

John 6
28 They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”
29 Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”

That's it! The question each day, then, is: Do we believe in him? Do we trust what he has said? Do we live in such a way as if we actually take him at his word?

 

Thank you both for sharing. I’ve realized this as well as I’ve looked into the reason for continually sinning. I completely agree that this is what it comes down to. Do we believe and do we trust what he has said as the truth?