This is what I do:
Just say this and believe you are talking to God through Jesus, have faith pray this prayer:
"
Father God,
I come to you through your son Jesus Christ, please forgive me of my sin,
Jesus...please help me understand the scriptures and not be condemned by them but reveal it to me because I desire to grow and know about you, reveal your heart to me
reveal how much you love me so that I can love you back too."
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God's mercies are new every morning, so that means if you sinned yesterday, but asked God
today to forgive you for that sin, God would just keep forgiving you and forgiving you and forgiving you and on and on and on like the energizer bunny
he is good and his mercies endure forever!
Its because he see's whats in your heart and he knows if inside you are trying to be serious,
he's willing to work with you, because he earnestly wants to be with you forever. He has good thoughts toward you and not of evil at all times, he loves you and wants you to truly know him.
If you try he's gonna get you with so many awesome blessings! and good things for you like
a rich man who loved his babies would spoil them with what they wanted so would God for you
because then you would see that you are his baby.
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What helps me are these scriptures:
Lamentations 3:23
22It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
and
Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord
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combine these scriptures and believe that every time you pray your sins are forgiven then God forgets them like they never happened.
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A father would not scream at his baby son for falling on its butt trying to walk, because the baby
was trying to walk the father would encourage him and help him back up as many times as he could
until the baby could walk on his own. How much love does God have for us who believe!