Tonight I went out and bought a tin of chewing tobacco and I haven't done it since i got saved...about 2 and a half years ago. I keep falling into sins that have been out of my life since I became born again. Everyone looks up to me because I used to be so solid in my walk and now I'm so discouraged and its been really hard for me to pray and stay in the Word. It's been rough. I love the Lord and I decided I want to be a missionary a while back and I still do. I want to give everything I have to Him and live a life pleasing to him. I keep consciously giving into the flesh and it is unnacceptable. Please pray for me. I don't know what to do. Thank you in advance.
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Where sin did abound, Grace abounded more.
God loves you and is aware of your struggle with the flesh, you are not alone. Your sins are covered in the Blood of Jesus. In due season you will be free....until then, do not condemn yourself and accept his Grace when you fall......One day at a time.....The work he started in you HE will complete.....
You are in my prayers always........Merry Christmas
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You need to stop living your life as if you were still under the law. Before you were born again, that's when you were under the law; no chewing tobacco, no lying, no killing, no this, no that. Now you are living under grace, now live like it!
Do you want to quit chewing just so that you can say you don't chew anymore, or do you want to quit chewing because in your heart you want to please God? See, God is only interested in heart change, not behavior change. You can quit chewing for 20 years but if you quit just so that you can show God and others that you quit, forget it, God doesn't want that...He wants to do the work in you!
By the way, I am an ex-smoker and chewer, and all the glory belongs to Him!
And if you picked up a can of chew tonight, please don't beat yourself up over it, just remember, it's all about him and He is going to love you no matter what!
I'll try and keep you in my prayers
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Father, thank you for cmudave's salvation and for the way you have been with him the last couple of years, thank you that you are faithful to us and that your mercies are new every morning. Lord it is hard sometimes to keep going and I pray that he would know your strength and grace in a big way with the things he has mentioned, please help him to honor you with his life. please refresh him in his relationship with you, and with a longing for your word and time in prayer with you
thank you for your incredible mercy and love toward us, thank you for all you do in our lives, in Jesus name, amen.
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Gal 5:16 [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
I've struggled like you with tobacco too...on and off for years.
Jesus basically told me put more Word in.
So read the Bible more and pray often.
If we could walk this walk alone and live a perfect life...Jesus wouldn't
of had to come.
Be encouraged! Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith.
He that began the good work in you will complete it to the day of His return.
Father I pray that we will have a new hunger this year for your Word.
May we not grieve your Holy Spirit and walk in His counsel.
May we walk in the abundace of love, joy and peace...knowing Jesus
paid it all and all to Him we owe. He finished so we could start.
Help us by your Holy Spirit and Your Word to take our rightful
dominion over every area of our lives to bring Christ glory.
May we be a light in a dark place. A city that is set on a hill.
May they see Your salvation in our lives and fear.
May others see your grace and favor upon us and woo and draw them by
your Holy Spirit to the cross and may many find the true meaning
of Christmas now and through the coming years.
May they find the gift of eternal life through Jesus and walk in your
precepts and in kingdom principles.
May Gods' glory be seen so that the hard hearted have no excuse.
May the down cast be lifted, may the out cast be included. May the hungry be fed,
the thristy given a drink, may the prisoners be set free.
May we share the Word, a hug, a smile the love of God that has been
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
May you love others through us so that they see Jesus in all we do.
Thank you for Jesus! Thank you for the Holy Spirit, Thank you Father
for YOU! Thank you for your Word. That you are not a man
that you should lie. That we can trust you, and that you love us...no matter what!
Thank You for grace and mercy that is new every morning! Thank you for each life represented in these forums. May we all set aside our own agendas and oppinions
and put on Christ!
Love you Father
Love you Jesus
Love you Holy Spirit
Love you all here!
In Jesus name we pray Amen!
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
I've struggled like you with tobacco too...on and off for years.
Jesus basically told me put more Word in.
So read the Bible more and pray often.
If we could walk this walk alone and live a perfect life...Jesus wouldn't
of had to come.
Be encouraged! Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith.
He that began the good work in you will complete it to the day of His return.
Father I pray that we will have a new hunger this year for your Word.
May we not grieve your Holy Spirit and walk in His counsel.
May we walk in the abundace of love, joy and peace...knowing Jesus
paid it all and all to Him we owe. He finished so we could start.
Help us by your Holy Spirit and Your Word to take our rightful
dominion over every area of our lives to bring Christ glory.
May we be a light in a dark place. A city that is set on a hill.
May they see Your salvation in our lives and fear.
May others see your grace and favor upon us and woo and draw them by
your Holy Spirit to the cross and may many find the true meaning
of Christmas now and through the coming years.
May they find the gift of eternal life through Jesus and walk in your
precepts and in kingdom principles.
May Gods' glory be seen so that the hard hearted have no excuse.
May the down cast be lifted, may the out cast be included. May the hungry be fed,
the thristy given a drink, may the prisoners be set free.
May we share the Word, a hug, a smile the love of God that has been
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
May you love others through us so that they see Jesus in all we do.
Thank you for Jesus! Thank you for the Holy Spirit, Thank you Father
for YOU! Thank you for your Word. That you are not a man
that you should lie. That we can trust you, and that you love us...no matter what!
Thank You for grace and mercy that is new every morning! Thank you for each life represented in these forums. May we all set aside our own agendas and oppinions
and put on Christ!
Love you Father
Love you Jesus
Love you Holy Spirit
Love you all here!
In Jesus name we pray Amen!
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Father....I lift this, your little one, up before you. I pray you just examine him from his head to his toes. Examine his needs, his desires....move into his situations, Father. minister to the hurting places, enrich his devotion to you. Give him a fresh infilling of your precious Holy Spirit, now! Give him a new, fresh hunger to be in your word, Father, a new thirst for Your Holy Presence, with him. Give him what he needs, Father in every area.....more, Lord....more Lord....now Lord...A fresh annointing!
Walk in it, brother....give HIM these things that you struggle with...for you know whom you have believed in and you know that He is able to keep that you have committed unto Him against that day.
Be blessed....in Jesus' name...amen
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Walk in it, brother....give HIM these things that you struggle with...for you know whom you have believed in and you know that He is able to keep that you have committed unto Him against that day.
Be blessed....in Jesus' name...amen
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God knows your heart - did taking a chew change your heart? - That is what God is interested in.
Do you come from a congregation that preached all the can't do's and never told you what God can do? The reason I ask - I came from that kind of background and it stays with you.
Just throw all that teaching down and follow the Holy Spirit - you will find yourself free and not wanting to do what you feel God would not be happy with you doing - not because someone told you that you can't do it - it presents a whole new mindset and a happy heart.
Do you come from a congregation that preached all the can't do's and never told you what God can do? The reason I ask - I came from that kind of background and it stays with you.
Just throw all that teaching down and follow the Holy Spirit - you will find yourself free and not wanting to do what you feel God would not be happy with you doing - not because someone told you that you can't do it - it presents a whole new mindset and a happy heart.
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