How do I let go of sin?

[M1chaeL]

I feel stuck shutting God out. And ignoring Him. I talk to Him last second only when it’s convenient and I constantly try to distract myself.
I usually talk to God in the shower and before I sleep, but only because it’s convenient for me and I’m so two faced.

It feels difficult going to God and staying, because apart of me is so scared of letting go of sin and the old way of life it’s willing to try to forget everything and believe lies.

God helped me know more about him sophomore year (two years ago I think?) and I wanted to dedicate my life to Him, but when summer came I got reminded of old sins and I kept getting into the habit of saying later, but I haven’t been spending enough time with God since then and I’ve just constantly been so disappointed with myself.

I give parts of myself to God, but not enough, so many days not dedicated to him as much as it should be feel like a waste. So many days stuck in sin, I am too anxious to sleep until I give up and talk to God, but that’s too late.

Also, sometimes I feel like I mindlessly walk to sin. I know God gives a way out, but is just a habit or am I just so broken? It’s terrible that I spend a night asking God for help and then I wake up forgetting everything mindlessly going to sin again and starting it all over. God gives me chances to choose him, but I don’t take them enough.

(Sorry if I repeat myself, or things are poorly written. I’ve been confused and foolish, and I want to make sure I could share all the info I could so it could be more clear for people to reply)

What should I do to let go of sin, and go to God more?

(Before God, I was a coward, who wanted to kill my self to avoid pain in life. I’m not really suicidal anymore, but I just feel stuck being a coward who wants to forget and waste away. I’m broken)

 

[Micaiah-imla]

Have you read the holy scriptures?

Do you go to church?

For me, a steady dose of scripture a day keeps sin away.

But more than that, walking in the Spirit through God's word is the way to defeat sin. Mortify the deeds of the body through the Spirit (being born again in truth).

Bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

 

[Butterflyyy]

I feel stuck shutting God out. And ignoring Him. I talk to Him last second only when it’s convenient and I constantly try to distract myself.
I usually talk to God in the shower and before I sleep, but only because it’s convenient for me and I’m so two faced.

It feels difficult going to God and staying, because apart of me is so scared of letting go of sin and the old way of life it’s willing to try to forget everything and believe lies.

God helped me know more about him sophomore year (two years ago I think?) and I wanted to dedicate my life to Him, but when summer came I got reminded of old sins and I kept getting into the habit of saying later, but I haven’t been spending enough time with God since then and I’ve just constantly been so disappointed with myself.

I give parts of myself to God, but not enough, so many days not dedicated to him as much as it should be feel like a waste. So many days stuck in sin, I am too anxious to sleep until I give up and talk to God, but that’s too late.

Also, sometimes I feel like I mindlessly walk to sin. I know God gives a way out, but is just a habit or am I just so broken? It’s terrible that I spend a night asking God for help and then I wake up forgetting everything mindlessly going to sin again and starting it all over. God gives me chances to choose him, but I don’t take them enough.

(Sorry if I repeat myself, or things are poorly written. I’ve been confused and foolish, and I want to make sure I could share all the info I could so it could be more clear for people to reply)

What should I do to let go of sin, and go to God more?

(Before God, I was a coward, who wanted to kill my self to avoid pain in life. I’m not really suicidal anymore, but I just feel stuck being a coward who wants to forget and waste away. I’m broken)

Thank you for this post and your honesty...I think all Christians have an ongoing battle, according to scripture.

A Godly man once told me this helpful thing, I think he had got it from a famous preacher:
The Christian life of the flesh against the spirit is like 2 dogs are fighting inside of you; which one will win? The one you feed the most.

It's good for me to be reminded of this. We have an enemy roaming around seeking whom he may devour. We don't want to be found weak, but strong and ready; then we will be more effective to help other poor lost or struggling souls aswell. Our strength comes from the Lord.
I remember years back, falling to my knees and telling God how hard it was to walk this walk, and I just felt Him say to me, " You know how to pick a spoon up and feed yourself don't you?"
Lol... I knew there and then, it is not so hard as I think to walk this walk, I just need to keep spiritually feeding myself; I just need to pick up that Bible and read it, or go and shut my door and pray; prioritise meetings etc.
More recently, I couldn't stay in the Lord's presence to pray and eventually I asked Him why because it got to a point where it was upsetting me and I knew it wasn't okay. He showed me stuff in my heart that I had to let go of; unforgiveness; and I even had to ask Him to enable me to do that but when I asked, He helped me.
Thank you for being used to remind me of these things. You do right coming on here, asking for help and being honest with other fellow believers👌We need each other.
It helps me to remember when He hung, bleeding to death for me, and then I don't want to ever cherish the sin that put Him there or indeed anything that would separate me from my precious Lord.
With love in Christ...🦋

 

[WarriorofthelivingGod]

I feel stuck shutting God out. And ignoring Him. I talk to Him last second only when it’s convenient and I constantly try to distract myself.
I usually talk to God in the shower and before I sleep, but only because it’s convenient for me and I’m so two faced.

It feels difficult going to God and staying, because apart of me is so scared of letting go of sin and the old way of life it’s willing to try to forget everything and believe lies.

God helped me know more about him sophomore year (two years ago I think?) and I wanted to dedicate my life to Him, but when summer came I got reminded of old sins and I kept getting into the habit of saying later, but I haven’t been spending enough time with God since then and I’ve just constantly been so disappointed with myself.

I give parts of myself to God, but not enough, so many days not dedicated to him as much as it should be feel like a waste. So many days stuck in sin, I am too anxious to sleep until I give up and talk to God, but that’s too late.

Also, sometimes I feel like I mindlessly walk to sin. I know God gives a way out, but is just a habit or am I just so broken? It’s terrible that I spend a night asking God for help and then I wake up forgetting everything mindlessly going to sin again and starting it all over. God gives me chances to choose him, but I don’t take them enough.

(Sorry if I repeat myself, or things are poorly written. I’ve been confused and foolish, and I want to make sure I could share all the info I could so it could be more clear for people to reply)

What should I do to let go of sin, and go to God more?

(Before God, I was a coward, who wanted to kill my self to avoid pain in life. I’m not really suicidal anymore, but I just feel stuck being a coward who wants to forget and waste away. I’m broken)

Well as Christian one of the verses I hold to my heart deeply more than any other is Philippines 1:6 “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;”. Having faith in God’s promise that no matter my level of sin and deprivation he will always continue to work in me and save me from myself. Only a year ago or just over I had suffered from a period of depression lasting two years. This was suicidal depression which I suffered from everyday. No matter what I tried it didn’t work till one day I prayed and two days later my depression left. Ive never felt depressed again, I would even go to as far as saying I haven’t been sad to be honest. And during that phase of depression i tried ungodly things to try help and fill the void. But now a bit more than a year on I’m free and looking forward to the prospect of evangelism and church work. And I feel God’s voice in my life. So ultimately what I’m trying to say is try and have faith that God will help you because sin doesn’t kill a Christian it’s when we lose the desire to follow and love God that kills us. And from your comment I can tell you desire God so he will work in your life.

 

[Butterflyyy]

Well as Christian one of the verses I hold to my heart deeply more than any other is Philippines 1:6 “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;”. Having faith in God’s promise that no matter my level of sin and deprivation he will always continue to work in me and save me from myself. Only a year ago or just over I had suffered from a period of depression lasting two years. This was suicidal depression which I suffered from everyday. No matter what I tried it didn’t work till one day I prayed and two days later my depression left. Ive never felt depressed again, I would even go to as far as saying I haven’t been sad to be honest. And during that phase of depression i tried ungodly things to try help and fill the void. But now a bit more than a year on I’m free and looking forward to the prospect of evangelism and church work. And I feel God’s voice in my life. So ultimately what I’m trying to say is try and have faith that God will help you because sin doesn’t kill a Christian it’s when we lose the desire to follow and love God that kills us. And from your comment I can tell you desire God so he will work in your life.

There are verses to warn us that if we love sin enough, He will hand is over to it...there are a lot of warnings in the Bible that are there for our good. I don't think you can say that sin doesn't kill a Christian. God is extremely faithful and merciful yes, but also we 'work out our salvation with fear and trembling'... sin is not a light matter. If we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and the Blood of Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear. Depression is not necessarily sin. Sin hinders our walk and relationship with God and leads us down a wrong path that ultimately we will regret.

 

[Butterflyyy]

Have you seen Magenta's picture she recently posted for a new member?!😃...Here it is:
https://image.ibb.co/kuE63H/philippians1_6.png

 

[WarriorofthelivingGod]

There are verses to warn us that if we love sin enough, He will hand is over to it...there are a lot of warnings in the Bible that are there for our good. I don't think you can say that sin doesn't kill a Christian. God is extremely faithful and merciful yes, but also we 'work out our salvation with fear and trembling'... sin is not a light matter. If we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and the Blood of Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear. Depression is not necessarily sin. Sin hinders our walk and relationship with God and leads us down a wrong path that ultimately we will regret.

Okay. You miss understood what I was saying. Sin is deadly, it’s terrible and we should move as far way as possible and get ride of it. I’m not downplaying sin and how bad it because it separate man from God in the garden of eden. But humans can’t escape sin, we’ll always be sin and to say anything else would be to deny the cross. And the fact is Peter sinned “ I find myself doing this id rather not” but the difference is he went to true repentance and had a desire for God and continue to peruse him. You can sin for example commit a sin in sexual immorality and repentance. Unless your repentance is sincere and you truly desire God and his forgiveness it means ultimately nothing. Furthermore, if you focus to much on sin you can fall into legalism and that takes away what Jesus did on the cross. The beauty of it is that no matter how righteous and zealous we aren’t enough but his grace and love is. I’m not preaching hyper grace and believe Christian should try to be as sinless and unworldly as possible without failing into pride or comfortably in sin. My point about the verse was basically that only by Gods hand and works can we be moved away from sin and can we be made holy. That’s what many believes put faith in that God will help and clean us but that’s not a substitute for trying to stop what ever the sin is.

 

[Lion222]

1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I finally realized I must be doing it wrong, because this promise of God was not working for me.
That's when God opened my eyes.

If you hand causes you to sin, cut it off. if your eye causes you to sin pluck it out and throw it away.
If only it was that easy!

Sin is a matter of the heart. You cant go around saying bad hand, and smacking it or bad eye and poking it.
But what do you confess?
The outward expression of sin?
Sin is the why, the motive in your heart that brings you there to those places you always fall down. to those same empty cisterns to get water to satisfy your soul.

If you confession is not the confession of your hearts motives you are not confessing your sin at all.
But that made a new problem clear, Do I know my own heart, do I know why I sin?
So my prayer became search me oh Lord and know my heart, try me and know my anxious thoughts ....

I had to ask God to show me the motives of my heart so I might confess my sin before him and be both forgiven and cleansed from all the unrighteousness associated with that sin.

That is when my life started to change.
But sin runs deep and even when you find yourself standing without sin for a time it is still very easy to stumble and fall.
But it is a whole lot better then being ruled by it.

So Confess the why of your heart and if you do not know why pray for God to show you.
You own heart deceitfully wicked above all else will be working to deceive you and hide the truth even from yourself.

 

[Lion222]

Bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Well said Fred.
From confessing the sin of our hears in its motives
to capturing our thoughts and bring them to God and Gods word to see what He is thinking about what we are thinking.

One is addressing the source.
The other addresses the habits of thought patterns that our wrong heart has established in us.

Sin runs deep, the corruption complete but if you want to be free and clean, forgiven and cleansed.
Its confess your heart and take your thought captive and renew you mind with the word of God.
Walk before God with your whole heart, don't trust in yourself and what you usually think and in all of it acknowledged Him, bring it to him first to see what God thinks.

 

[Scribe]

Addictions are hard to quit without taking a radical step to change. For example; If you are a heroin addict you should consider calling Adult Teen Challenge near you and go live there for a year and focus on getting completely devoted to Jesus Christ while being in an environment of accountability where you are not trying to do it on your own.

If you are talking about sexual addictions you should check out purelifeministries.org they have a really good reputation for helping people get free. Both these ministries are 100% Faith based and they focus on relationship with Jesus and the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, the new creation in Christ that He makes you and the renewing of the mind with the Word of God. They are free of charge for those who can't afford it. They do not take insurance and are supported by donations from those who believe in their ministry. Teen Challenge has been around since 1958 and has a 76% to 85% success rate depending on the external studies that have been done. Success meaning those who graduate the program are clean 10 years later. There are 6 month to 1 year programs depending on the center near you.
If you are not dealing with addictions like drugs and alcohol you may need to just get involved in a church near you that is known for being on fire for God and talk to the pastor and get some accountability that way.

You need to do something different than what you have been doing. The first step in the right direction is always the hardest. Asking questions here is good but you probably already know all the answers that people are going to give you and you are not doing what they tell you. Get accountable and do it tomorrow. Make that call. Start getting in front of people who will walk out this christian life with you. Take it serious. You do not want to wake up in hell with eternal regret. The Holy Spirit is calling you and you are never going to be happy until you yield 100% of your life and will to Christ and his plan for your life.

The reason you struggle is that you think you love the pleasure of sin, but when you are willing to suffer withdrawal from that sin you will get on the other side and the Joy and pleasure of holiness and freedom in Christ FAR OUTSHINES any pleasure of sin you ever had and when you are basking in the Glory of Christ you will say to yourself "I can't believe that I waited so long to sell out to Christ, I did not know what I was missing"
The change comes alot faster than you think it will take. In just a few weeks you will be saying "I can't believe I used to have that problem" you will be FREE INDEED!

 

[1christian1]

Addictions are hard to quit without taking a radical step to change. For example; If you are a heroin addict you should consider calling Adult Teen Challenge near you and go live there for a year and focus on getting completely devoted to Jesus Christ while being in an environment of accountability where you are not trying to do it on your own.

If you are talking about sexual addictions you should check out purelifeministries.org they have a really good reputation for helping people get free. Both these ministries are 100% Faith based and they focus on relationship with Jesus and the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, the new creation in Christ that He makes you and the renewing of the mind with the Word of God. They are free of charge for those who can't afford it. They do not take insurance and are supported by donations from those who believe in their ministry. Teen Challenge has been around since 1958 and has a 76% to 85% success rate depending on the external studies that have been done. Success meaning those who graduate the program are clean 10 years later. There are 6 month to 1 year programs depending on the center near you.
If you are not dealing with addictions like drugs and alcohol you may need to just get involved in a church near you that is known for being on fire for God and talk to the pastor and get some accountability that way.

You need to do something different than what you have been doing. The first step in the right direction is always the hardest. Asking questions here is good but you probably already know all the answers that people are going to give you and you are not doing what they tell you. Get accountable and do it tomorrow. Make that call. Start getting in front of people who will walk out this christian life with you. Take it serious. You do not want to wake up in hell with eternal regret. The Holy Spirit is calling you and you are never going to be happy until you yield 100% of your life and will to Christ and his plan for your life.

The reason you struggle is that you think you love the pleasure of sin, but when you are willing to suffer withdrawal from that sin you will get on the other side and the Joy and pleasure of holiness and freedom in Christ FAR OUTSHINES any pleasure of sin you ever had and when you are basking in the Glory of Christ you will say to yourself "I can't believe that I waited so long to sell out to Christ, I did not know what I was missing"
The change comes alot faster than you think it will take. In just a few weeks you will be saying "I can't believe I used to have that problem" you will be FREE INDEED!

Amen...

 

[Butterflyyy]

I feel stuck shutting God out. And ignoring Him. I talk to Him last second only when it’s convenient and I constantly try to distract myself.
I usually talk to God in the shower and before I sleep, but only because it’s convenient for me and I’m so two faced.

It feels difficult going to God and staying, because apart of me is so scared of letting go of sin and the old way of life it’s willing to try to forget everything and believe lies.

God helped me know more about him sophomore year (two years ago I think?) and I wanted to dedicate my life to Him, but when summer came I got reminded of old sins and I kept getting into the habit of saying later, but I haven’t been spending enough time with God since then and I’ve just constantly been so disappointed with myself.

I give parts of myself to God, but not enough, so many days not dedicated to him as much as it should be feel like a waste. So many days stuck in sin, I am too anxious to sleep until I give up and talk to God, but that’s too late.

Also, sometimes I feel like I mindlessly walk to sin. I know God gives a way out, but is just a habit or am I just so broken? It’s terrible that I spend a night asking God for help and then I wake up forgetting everything mindlessly going to sin again and starting it all over. God gives me chances to choose him, but I don’t take them enough.

(Sorry if I repeat myself, or things are poorly written. I’ve been confused and foolish, and I want to make sure I could share all the info I could so it could be more clear for people to reply)

What should I do to let go of sin, and go to God more?

(Before God, I was a coward, who wanted to kill my self to avoid pain in life. I’m not really suicidal anymore, but I just feel stuck being a coward who wants to forget and waste away. I’m broken)

Sounds pretty normal for a Christian to me😊
We are in a battle aren't we... and also we have our flesh to deal with every single day... but the weapons of our warfare are useful, and there is no condemnation in Christ, which is a useful verse👌
Dear brother, just tell all of this to God, you have done the right thing sharing on here with fellow believers because the Word tells us to... but God already knows what you're doing, He knows your heart better than you, and He can show you the answers to all of this.
I recently shared on here a little testimony; many years ago a Christian man used to sometimes lead the meeting in our house church, and once I remember him saying that the Christian life is like you have 2 dogs fighting inside of you; which one wins? The one you feed the most.
I also recall struggling one particular time and sayingbti God, " It's so hard this Christian walk"...
and He ministered to me," You know how to pick up a spoon and feed yourself don't you?"
And I realised, it's not hard at all really; maybe that very thought is a fiery dart against us which we believe.
It is down to choices, all the time, for us; do I pick up my phone or my Bible first? Lol, I needed reminding of that one 😁I'm now reminded of how much we Christians need each other too; so thank you for posting; you've done me good brother; and thank you for your honesty; I struggle just the same way and need to pick up my cross daily if I want to be worthy of Him; and I'm sure the fact that we are not comfortable being like we are is a blessing in itself to turn us the right way.
God bless 🦋

 

[Butterflyyy]

lol I'm sorry, I have mistakenly replied to this post twice🙊🙉🙈🤣... maybe the Lord has brought me to this post right now for a reason👌
Blessings🦋

 

[Butterflyyy]

Well said Fred.
From confessing the sin of our hears in its motives
to capturing our thoughts and bring them to God and Gods word to see what He is thinking about what we are thinking.

One is addressing the source.
The other addresses the habits of thought patterns that our wrong heart has established in us.

Sin runs deep, the corruption complete but if you want to be free and clean, forgiven and cleansed.
Its confess your heart and take your thought captive and renew you mind with the word of God.
Walk before God with your whole heart, don't trust in yourself and what you usually think and in all of it acknowledged Him, bring it to him first to see what God thinks.

Proverbs 3 v 5&6 amen I agree👌

 

[Lion222]

Fair warning, you may not like this.
But it is how it is IMHO
https://howtostopsinning.org/2019/0...n-we-have-redemption-the-forgiveness-of-sins/