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•A Prayer to Pray against Sin You Can't Shake•By Anthony Valente👉 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.(2 Corinthians 12:9)You have seen how it steals from your life. You have had others call you on it. You have half-heartedly tried to leave it behind but keep finding it lurking at every doorway. It is your favorite sin. Not that you love it, you may even despise it, but somehow you have yet to shake it. We sometimes settle for calling them vices, weaknesses, or flaws, but Christ has far more in mind for us than captivity. He desires freedom for His people, and giving life to the spiritually dead.The first step in escaping the tangles of sin is always looking first to the only one who has defeated sin and death out of his deep love for us, Jesus Christ. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 Sin continuously pulls down all of humanity with its corrosive ways, but those who have had its stain wiped from their hearts have the power to say “No”. The only way for that stain to be lifted is by seeking Christ as Savior, He clothes us in His righteousness and our filthy rags will be no more. When we begin seeking to walk in victory, we first must set our eyes on the one who is eternally victorious.Let’s pray to our Father now for the strength we need to shake the sin in our lives:🙏 Lord,I confess there is sin in my life I can’t shake. I’ve struggled silently for so along against it. I’ve dismissed it, justified it, tried to convince myself it isn’t as bad as I know it really is. Lord, I know satan desires me to leave my sin in the dark. I confess it to You, and bring it to light. Lord, I need Your strength to defeat this sin. I am thankful that Your power is made perfect in my weakness. I don’t boast in my sin, but boast in You who works in my weakness to make me more like You. I know that I have the opportunity to glorify You by fighting against this sin in my life. Give me wisdom and perspective in the moment I am tempted to sin — help me in that moment see my sin as You see it, and not do the sin my heart longs to do. Oh Lord — who will save me from this body of death! Thanks be to God! Thank You Lord for rescuing me and saving me from my sinfulness. It is only in Your grace that I am saved, and I am so thankful. In Your Name I pray, AMEN 🙏 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.(1 John 1:9)I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.(Romans 7:15)Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.(Psalm 119:37)I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.(Romans 7:19-20)Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.(Hebrews 13:4)“You shall not commit adultery.(Exodus 20:14)Hate what is evil, love what is right, and see that justice prevails in the courts. Perhaps the LORD will be merciful to the people of this nation who are still left alive. (Amos 5:15)Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.(James 5:16)But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(Matthew 5:28)I can do all things through him who strengthens me.(Philippians 4:13)But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself. (Proverbs 6:32)That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(2 Corinthians 12:10)So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.(Colossians 3:5)Whoever knows what is right but doesn't do it is sinning.(James 4:17)For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.(1 John 2:16)For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 6:23)Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.(Psalm 141:9-10)Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.(Hebrews 10:26-27)The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.(Galatians 5:17)“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.(Job 31:1)Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.(James 4:7)Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.(1 Peter 5:8)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.(1 Corinthians 6:18-20)The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’” “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.(Genesis 3:1-6)Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”(John 13:8)(pic verse)I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. I will make your descendants and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel."(Genesis 3:15)Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld