A Prayer to believe and speak truth
Lord Jesus,
Why do I do things I don’t want to do?
Why can’t I stop myself?
I am giving power to the enemy.
Lord, forgive me!
I have been letting the devil bind me and enslave me
by speaking lies to me
about my self-worth,
value,
worthiness.
All he speaks are lies.
You speak the truth over me.
You say I am
loved,
saved,
worthy,
beautiful,
belonging.
I am your child,
your bride,
your object of rescue.
Thank you, Jesus.
You are always good,
always safe,
always loving,
always protecting,
always using
everything around me
and me, when I let you.
Thank you!
I will believe and speak these words of truth over myself,
and I will change my thoughts and behaviors.
You alone are worthy of my worship
and my obedience.
You have my heart and my life.
In your holy name,
Amen.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:15-25
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