daily prayer

    Good morning! How are we faithing? Here's something to think about;


Colossians 3:5-11
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him --a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
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Romans 6:6-7
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
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What does this mean? Do we now never sin since we found Jesus? No, we still goof up but when we seek his face and walk according to the Word, we recognise sin. We no longer are under the spell of sin. Sure some things we do or did that have become habits take conscience effort to change. Some things were so much a part of our lives we never even considered them to be wrong. Now when you do you have a battle with it but here's another thing to remember, Jesus defeated sin on the cross. You no longer are subject to it. You are saved by grace. So can you just continue because you won't be judged by it? Not at all! You now are freed from the slavery of that wrongdoing. Now the battle of the flesh begins and we can enter that battle knowing Jesus already whooped it, it just hasn't died in us yet. Our flesh will do all sorts of weird wild things and if we just let it do whatever, we are in for a long struggle. When you recognise a sin in you life, pray immediately. Run to Jesus. I know people that if their lips are moving, it's a lie. I know people who if a female is near, they become lustful. I know people who bad mouth everything and everybody. It goes on and on and I do not want to judge those people because, that's right, that becomes a sin. I can call a sin a sin but the person may be in a battle and the Word tells us what? Pray for them and when I goof up I hope you pray for me...

Heavenly Father,
  Lord, we were slaves to sin for so long we need your spirit in and all over us to defeat the fleshly desire for that sin. Lord we ask for wisdom and courage to stand for truth. Lord we lift the people we meet today to you. heal them, open their eyes and do the same for us. Help us be strong witnesses for your glory and not for ours. Help us not judge but be a beacon of your grace and love. Shut our mouths when necessary and open them with kind words that lift and not trample. It is in Jesus name we pray, amen