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God bless you messenger micah, for your wonderful prayer and I say a big big AMEN

SIN...SIN...SIN..Lord may you open our eyes to see what you did to sin,iniquity,flesh,old man,they are all the same person,open our eyes to see what you have done this personality Lucifer have taken in the life of men,for when this personality manifested in peter,you called peter Satan,you rebuked him,open our eyes to see that we are dead to this guy and by the help of your grace exercise our members to its realities.we keep failing,we keep eating with sin,open our eyes that we may see that we are dead and our life is hid in Christ.help us to truly say....I AM DEAD...IT IS NOT I..IT IS JESUS CHRIST...we struggle with sin not because you have not freed us from it but because of two things,either because of our ignorance or because we love that particular sinful act.we lack the fear of God,your word says that the when we fear God we will hate iniquity,sin,flesh.Oh father open our eyes,help us to see that the law defined sin as a trespass of the law,in the new testament you gave a new law,the law of the spirit,to walk in the spirit and not fulfill the desires of the flesh,so any moment we are not walking in the spirit,we are in sin,anything done outside faith is sin,oh what an impossible life to Live.Jesus,we desire to live for you,open our eyes,we are in sin anytime we are not walking in the spirit.This revelation will break us out from the rut of looking at the sinful acts but the greatest sin of denying you the pleasure of walking with us and walking in your undiluted wisdom.Every sinful or fleshful act is the fruit of the fact that we have left the presence of God,we are not in the spirit.We are called to live in the spirit 24/7,daddy,how can this be,how can this be possible,it is an impossible life,oh Lord,open our eyes,we want to know you Holy Spirit,the revelation of Jesus Christ will do.Thank you Lord,Amen.

This is a great topic to discuss because lets face it, our churches are dealing with this whether openly or not. I believe Sin has to be exposed for what it is! One step towards living a holy life, like the others have said, is renewing of our minds. We do this with the help of the HOly Spirit. But let us remember that there is freedom in truth. When we expose those sins, there is freedom in that. That sin no longer has power over you and i also think thats why its so powerful to run to God as soon as you have the urge to sin just like Ejay said.

hi Dare!!! you know I believe that sin is not inevitable for a Christian! Our Lord Jesus, before going back to heaven He left Somebody hear with us: that Person is the Holy Spirit! He is hear to help each and every one to resist the temptation!
sin seems difficult to overcome because the devil knows our weak points and he always knocks on that point ontill we fall!
but if we yield completely to the Holy Spirit and pray always for the Lord to help us and deliver us, by Faith we can make it!
so, none of us here can say "I have never sin" that's a lie!!!
But even though we have sin we can still go back on the wright way, the Lord will forgive us and let us put in our minds and heart to not to go back to what we have rejected!

may the Holy Spirit be with you all!

Ruthy

I posted a comment and i cant even see it here,is that how this forum is run?We choose what to allow ,if it alligns with our theology,i think that is wrong if it is what you guys did to my comment,but if its a mistake,it is forgiven.
Brethren,we have to understand that the words we use show our wisdom or lack of it,or rather the deception we have believed but Jesus is always faithful and just to free us from lies.My friend,it is a lie from the pit of hell to say that sin is inevitable,it is a lie we have been told from hell,because it simply means that the cross has failed.We sin because we are either ignorant or we love that particular sin so much.We should be asking,How can i live above sin,Romas 6 and 7 answers the question,we are called to exercise our new birth authority over sin till our mind is renewed to a standard that we could automatically say no to sin.Please we should not believe that sin is inevitable,with such a believe,there will be no room for escape,God help us

Brothers I think you are both right. Sin is only inevitable when we constantly renew our minds. It is the renewal of our minds through the word of God that keeps us in close connection to God and creates in us the fear of God, which the bible says is the beginning of wisdom.
If you fear God the bible says you will shun evil, hence the fear of God is the pathway to death to sin.

Please my friends let us also keep praying for one another. There is a special force in UNITY. The devil is so organized and united with his crew members, therefore unless we are united one to another and with CHRIST, we cannot be free from our lustful desires.

God bless.
shalom

I fully agree with Ejay comment, sin is very difficult not to commit but I realize that when we become Christians we don't longer need to carry our weaknesses but we should leave them all to the cross because there was someone (Christ) who paid for us. I think a basic thing that we Christians have difficulties in doing is to create/maintain a connection with God and that is why when temptation comes we don't know how to handle it. If I can give you an advice, decide today that you will be spending at least a certain amount of time every day seeking His face. Christianity is not only a Sunday thing because there are 7 days in a week and if Satan can not attack you on Sunday he will do it during the week( he is not foolish ). Our life should be centered on Christ. The only thing I asked God this year was His relationship because I know that when I maintain that I can do all things because he is the one who strengthen me

God bless

Even though we have the the power of choice, we still need to surrender our will to the Holy spirit and remember we can't do it on our own trying to deal with that thing we are struggling with. We only find it difficult to do what is right because we refuse to surrender that part of our life to the Holy Spirit. God want to be part of our life at all time to help us through our struggle. By this I mean, if you are struggling with lustful desires, tell God about it. Anytime that desire come, talk to God right away that: "God I know this is Sin and I don't want to do it any more, please help me ". Repent!
Friends, God will help us only when we are sincere with him. That shows, we have surrendered that part of our life to him and we're not tryna do it on our own.
Lastly, the devil is attacking youths because we are strong (both to build and to destroy)and we can do exploit for God. If you are to recruit Soldier for a battle, would you want to select old Weak men or Strong Healthy ones?

The devil is not foolish!! He can see our future and knows what God has in plan and purpose for us and does not want any of it to come to pass. We are a threat to his Kingdom.