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#Lord clean me up full#
#Lord clean me up series#
#Lord clean me up free#

God wants to transform you by renewing your mind, and He renews your mind through His Word. God wants to use the pressure of the battle in your mind to motivate you to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (II Peter 3:18).

They betray us to the delusive, glamorous, and temporal pleasures that Satan offers. (See Ephesians 6:12.) God wants us to resist the devil (see James 4:7), and He also knows that our natural inclinations easily betray us. The battle against impure thoughts is far more than a mental or physical struggle- it is a spiritual battle against forces of evil.

You will walk in freedom from sinful thoughts toward that person.

You can trust God to deliver you from temptation.You can invest in that person’s life through prayer.You can visualize that person as a radiant expression of Christ.When you are tempted to sin against someone with thoughts of lust or greed or other wickedness, ask God to give you grace to see that person as He does. If you yield control of your eyes to God, He can train you to see others as He sees them.

#Lord clean me up full#

When it is “evil” with impure thoughts, the whole body will be full of darkness. Scripture tells us that the eye is the lamp of the body. What your eyes see affects your whole body-physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Job was one of the most righteous men who ever lived, and a key to his righteousness is found in Job 31:1: “I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid?” To guard against impure thoughts, we must guard our eyes from evil. One of the main keys to protecting the mind from temptation is control of the eyes. (See Judges 16:21 and I Chronicles 22:7–8.) Contemplate the horrible consequences of sin.

#Lord clean me up series#

The next series of pictures in your mind should be images of men in Scripture who lost the battle against impurity: Samson with his eyes gouged out and David with a divided family and kingdom.

#Lord clean me up free#

Gratefully rejoice that He died to free you from impurity. Visualize your sins nailing Him to the cross, and consider the pain He experienced in paying for the debt of your sins. The first vivid image you should visualize is that of Christ being bruised for your iniquities. When you face temptations, picture Christ suffering for you. However, as we superimpose God’s pictures over them, we will experience freedom from the influence of the evil pictures. Attempts to forget the pictures usually fail. During times of temptation, we often “revive” these pictures and focus on them. Replace the secret pictures that exist in the gallery of your mind.Īt the heart of impure thoughts are secret, wicked pictures in our minds.

God promises to give you wisdom, but you must ask for it in faith.

God is eager to give you all the grace you need to reject the temptation.

You will never face a temptation that is impossible to overcome.

Ask Him for wisdom and help as you discern the root causes of your impure thoughts and actions. God can redeem each defeat by revealing the root cause of each failure. If you expect to win the war without ever losing a battle, you will become discouraged. These losses should only increase your determination to win the war. In the war against impure thoughts, you may lose some battles. God promises, “If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul” (Deuteronomy 4:29). Every believer needs to make that decision as well. Daniel “purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself” (Daniel 1:8). However, you must choose to walk in that victory. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Romans 6:17–18). “God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you. Realize that Christ has already made provision for your victory.Ĭhrist has already won our victory on the cross. (See Romans 6:22 and 8:2.) By God’s grace, as you follow His plan, you can conquer impure thoughts. We are overtaken by temptations that are common (see I Corinthians 10:13), and in Christ we have victory over the destructive power of sin. Satan wants you to believe that you’re the only one who has this problem and that you can’t gain victory over it. Impure habits are a by-product of impure thoughts, and only as the battle is won in the thought life will there be hope of victory over impure actions. Many Christians are discouraged because they are unable to conquer impure habits.