Now that you've prayed, are you in need of someone to pray for YOU? Click the button below! You can find out more by clicking the link below! Want more Your Daily Prayer? We also have a podcast ! This podcast is different than the written devotional you just read, but carries the same commitment to a closer look at Scripture each day. This devotional was taken in part from Chara Donahue’s 10 Steps to Take against Sin You Can’t Shake. It is only in your grace that I am saved, and I am so thankful. 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. 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. I know that I have the opportunity to glorify you by fighting against this sin in my life. I don’t boast in my sin, but boast in you who works in my weakness to make me more like you. I am thankful that your power is made perfect in my weakness. Lord, I need your strength to defeat this sin. When we begin seeking to walk in victory, we first must set our eyes on the one who is eternally victorious. 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. “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 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. He desires freedom for His people, and giving life to the spiritually dead. We sometimes settle for calling them vices, weaknesses, or flaws, but Christ has far more in mind for us than captivity. Not that you love it, you may even despise it, but somehow you have yet to shake it. You have half-heartedly tried to leave it behind but keep finding it lurking at every doorway. You have seen how it steals from your life. A Prayer to Pray against Sin You Can't Shakeīut he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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