If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not
gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.
In this post, I discuss the pitfalls of accountability groups, and the better way to
gain victory over sin in our lives.
Not exact matches
Instead, what we usually do, is invent other «
sins» that we «struggle» so that we can make ourselves feel better about the small
victories we
gain over these fake
sins while completely ignoring the bigger
sins we harbor in our lives every day.
Another blessing that can be
gained from the Bible is how to have
victory over sin.
Scripture reading and prayer will help you
gain victory over that besetting
sin.
So confess your
sins to God and to one another to
gain release and
victory over them, for you have already been cleansed of these
sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and your life should begin to match the reality that is already true of you in Jesus Christ.
Confession is an important step in
gaining that release, that
victory over sin.
Use these times to
gain victory over temptation and
sin.
Sure, we may
gain «
victory»
over some type of
sin, but all we really end up doing is trading one
sin for another, and usually the other
sin is some sort of religious self - righteousness, which is worse than the
sin we started with.