Prayer points
A sin I keep going back to
The thing you have confessed and confessed
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape.
1 Corinthians 10:13 · King James Version
Lord, I am back. Again. I am ashamed to be saying the same words, and I am saying them anyway because the alternative is hiding from You.
The prayer points
1. 1 Corinthians 10:13
With the temptation also make a way to escape.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There is a way out of this and You have promised it. Show it to me in the moment, not afterwards.
2. Romans 13:14
Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Romans 13:14
Show me the provision I am still making — the app, the route home, the hour alone, the contact I have not deleted. Give me the will to cut it.
3. 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
Forgive, and cleanse. Not just pardon the act — clean the want.
4. Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10
Create something new. I cannot reform what is here; I need You to make something.
5. James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
James 5:16
Give me one person I can tell. Secrecy is where this lives and I am asking for the courage to end the secrecy.
6. Jude 24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling.
Jude 24
You are able to keep me. I am not able to keep myself and I have the record to prove it.
Declarations
Say these out loud. Not to convince God — to remind yourself what is true when your feelings are arguing.
- There is a way of escape and God has promised it.
- I am forgiven — not because I feel it, because He said it.
- Secrecy is the ground this grows in, and I am taking the ground back.
- He is able to keep me from falling.
Father, do not let shame drive me from You. Shame is the second trap and I have fallen into it more often than the first.