07-18-2008, 12:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New York
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We often look for the sins we're strolling in, but don't see them. SO - Look out for things that you know aren't right, (The boyfriend that abuses you, the friends you know you shouldn't be with, the little bit of drinking you do on the weekends, the posters of beautiful women you have that you say aren't pornography so are okay...etc...) and deny yourself the right to come up with excuses to leave those things as they are. By praying about these things, you'll likely see the sin within them. Pray, wait on, and pursue the courage, wisdom, and strength to now give these things up and deal with them once and for all. Then, once you drop these things because the Lord tells you to, you'll probably find yourself being freed from bondages you didn't even know were within, and attached to these things you held onto. You may find prayers you prayed long ago - and you wondered why they went 'unheard' - being answered, by the graceful cleaning the Holy Spirit has been given room to do. The connections/ relationships between our sins and our needs/wants, and how the former might be in the way of the latter, is not for us to worry about. God has His ways. Sin is sin. Nothing will be for nothing.
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Great response Mark! I just love how the Lord will place a thought in my life, I then share and other folks respond and I continue to learn! You know there is that saying that sometimes the best prayers are the ones that are unanswered.. God knows what is best for us.. he will guide us, he will lead us.. but we got to get rid of our excuses for not wanting to listen and follow!
Hugs
Faithwoman 
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