Need to get out of the "I'm a sinner mind-set"....

I will certainly pray for you.

Oh, how I know how you feel!! I have the bad pattern of becoming emotional about my faith late at night and then feeling cold-hearted and apathetic about it when I first wake up in the mornings in contrast...and I get so angry and sick of my sinful self and am tempted to just give up trying to be who God would have me to be...

And it's then that He reminds me, with that gentle, inaudible whisper in the back of my mind...

"When you pass through the waves, I will be with you...the waves will not overcome you...though you may walk through the flames, the fire will not consume you...I have called you by name...You are MINE..."

I will pray, most assuredly, but ask God to remind you who you are in Him when you're feeling defeated...and I promise...He will.

I pray that you remember how free Christ has made you. You're a new creation. We are not bound by the penilty of sin. We sin, yes, but it no longer brings us the damnation that it did before. We are FREE!!!! Just remind yourself, out loud if you need to, that you're free!!!!! Take hope in that. If you are about to sin, just remember..you're free. If you have sinned, repent truely of it and not a second later God FORGETS. If he can forgive you what right do you have not to forgive yourself. Run the race as Paul puts it. If you stumble, so what? Get up and keep going. God loves you sister, REGARDLESS of if you stumble or not. Remember, YOU'RE FREE.

I too feel this way sometimes...a lot of the time, unfortunately. I will definitely be praying for you, and here's something that I (try) to keep in mind..."Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:1-2) Other than that, I really can't add anything to what the others have already said, as it's something I need to remind myself of every day as well. But again, I will be praying for you

His peace, Andrea