The Lord’s prayer says that God forgives our sins, “As we forgive those who sin against us.”
When we don’t forgive others, satan has every right to tempt us all the time. Forgiving others is that important. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to forgive _____________.”
Forgiving others increases God’s love in us, it takes us from darkness into light, (We also have to repent for that) and it gives us a chance to have joy.
People read a bunch of Bible chapters, and have a block of time in prayer, but, if they don’t forgive, they have a power outage.
Second, pray for self-control over secondary habits. We know that praying for self-control for our main habit is a crap shoot. Against a stronghold, a few simple prayers may not work. Only prayers that include quitting verses are for sure helpful, but against other habits, prayers for self-control can help. Example:
Paul wants to quit smoking and drinking. He has a massive stronghold with drinking, but he read that smoking leads back to drinking for many people. In his case, he loves his drinking and knows it leads to destruction, but he hates his smoking and he knows it leads to destruction. So a prayer for his secondary addiction like:
“Father, give me self-control over smoking,“ may very well work. He is willing to delay smoking, or do other things to avoid it, while drinking still really has him.
Third, what secondary habit do you do that leads back to temptation increasing with your main habit?
Today, consider writing a prayer for going to war with that contributing habit.
Fourth, consider having strict planning for that secondary habit. If it leads to your main habit, then fighting it helps to lower temptation for the #1 thing that you want to quit first.
Finally, what things will you work on today, and this week?
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