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Post by savedbygrace on May 14, 2022 12:21:06 GMT -7
Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. -Psalm 27:11
Especially because of my enemies...both within me and without! Every single day I need to realize that God wants to lead me!
verse 14 of the same Psalm...
Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!
If I can only learn to WAIT, God will help me to be strong.
(both from ESV)
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Post by savedbygrace on May 16, 2022 4:28:40 GMT -7
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Post by savedbygrace on May 19, 2022 10:17:41 GMT -7
Sometimes temptation can strike right out of the blue, totally unexpected. I found the following promise to be absolutely true today.
"No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."
1 Cor 10:13 ESV
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on May 20, 2022 2:40:05 GMT -7
Amen. Thank you brother. Good reminder of this.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 21, 2022 11:35:06 GMT -7
This time I couldn't even make it for 30 days.
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on May 21, 2022 16:53:18 GMT -7
Thank you for your honestly brother. Jesus is right there, please go to Him and make amends, get a new resolve, learn from whatever the Holy Spirit might be speaking to you, and move on. Even if I look with lust, I fell too, despite what my sobriety date days. I'm no better either. We can do this.
Dear God, please restore my brother and please help us, Please wash us, please make us new again. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 22, 2022 14:41:00 GMT -7
Amen. Thank you Dominic. Today is Sunday. It was a beautiful day in the house of the Lord. Probably Satan's biggest lie to me is the idea that the temptation is simply too powerful for me and that God's promises about drawing nigh to Him, waiting upon Him, and believing His many many promises that He will rescue me if I trust and wait, are somehow not for me. So in one form or another Satan is calling God a liar. And of course there's always the lie that I have repeated my cycle too many times and that even God cannot help me. Of course, that really looks as stupid as it actually is when I put it in writing.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 25, 2022 7:29:55 GMT -7
(from Our Daily Bread) In one kind of martial arts, the first response when facing an attacker is to run away. It's only when that's not possible that we fight.
I think the Bible tells us the same. Knowing our weakness, we do best to physically remove ourselves from tempting situations. Otherwise, we are to resist the devil, as James tells us, and he will flee from us.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 28, 2022 16:32:00 GMT -7
The return of Christ is pretty much in the back of my mind. I do not think about it often. And that is the very time He may actually return!
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."
(Matthew 25:1-13 from the ESV)
I MUST be ready at ALL times!
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on May 28, 2022 21:11:16 GMT -7
me too brother. me too. Thank you for the reminder of God's awesome word.
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Post by savedbygrace on May 30, 2022 13:52:15 GMT -7
From Dominic's post, this stood out for me:
"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
(John 8:36 ESV)
Yes, I still have to work this out, but thanks be to God, JESUS IS SETTING ME FREE!!!
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Post by savedbygrace on Jun 3, 2022 15:38:10 GMT -7
Day 1 today
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bandit
New Member
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Occupation: Cabinet finisher
Interests: Model cars, avid reader, astronomy
Days of Integrity: 3-7-22
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Post by bandit on Jun 3, 2022 16:48:50 GMT -7
No shame my brother. Confess, repent and accept his grace.
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Post by savedbygrace on Jun 7, 2022 9:41:45 GMT -7
I am starting to count from June 6, not because of another total fall, but a serious slip in what I looked at online. So I am now living in Day 2 of wholeness.
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bandit
New Member
Posts: 24
Occupation: Cabinet finisher
Interests: Model cars, avid reader, astronomy
Days of Integrity: 3-7-22
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Post by bandit on Jun 7, 2022 16:02:55 GMT -7
One day at a time brother.
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