I wrote about the “Guilt Cycle” that ruled my life in the post called “My Story #8 The Guilt Cycle”. Now I was learning a new cycle.
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I started seeing the power of redemption and grace. As you feel loved and redeemed each time you fail, God gives you new power to overcome.
- The following verse is the theme of this whole story. We think that we are the ones that have to get it right on our own before we can come to God. It’s the exact opposite. God wants to be our Helper, Confidant, Strength, and Source as we fight our demons. He wants to be there in the fight. We can ask Him to not only help us to do, but to have the will/desire to do. He can give us the want to want to!
Philipians 2:13
For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.