02/01/2024
2024 PRAYERS
WEEK ONE: CONSECRATION
02.0.2024: REPENTANCE OF SIN
Scripture Reading:
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" - 1 John 1:8-9
Other Scriptures to Read: John 8:44
INTRODUCTION
Repentance is not just an audio expression of your regret about something you are convicted you did wrong. It is the will to not go back to avenues that opened up to the sin in the first place. The Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 5 spends time explaining that the solution to dealing with the problem of sin is to arrest it from its roots. For example,
- Arrest the love of money and evil won't be at your door.
- Control your temper and you will not fall into the trap of murder. Matthew 5:21-26
- Stop looking at people lustfully and you won't commit adultery. Matthew 5:27-29
- Stop swearing and you will avoid the traps of lies and exaggeration. Matthew 5:33-37
Following this example, it is clear that its not enough to just confess our sins - we must make practical steps to ensuring we don't return. The Lord gives us this guide;
"And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell." - Matthew 5:30
"If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire." - Matthew 18:8
It is important and best to defeat sin from the place where it is likely to occur. As you turn to pray today,
- List down in your personal prophetic journal the events, occasions or factors that lead you to sin. Ephesians 4:26-27
- Ask the Lord to give you grace to overcome those factors
- Spend at least five minutes praying each of the following prayer points
PRAYER POINTS
Dear Lord, I despise and forsake all my sins and weaknesses, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Romans 6:1
I renounce all lust, perversion, immorality, uncleanness, impurity, and sexual sin in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all witchcraft, sorcery, divination, and occult involvement in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all ungodly soul ties and immoral relationships in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all hatred, anger, resentment, revenge, retaliation, unforgiveness, and bitterness in the name of Jesus.
I forgive any person who has ever hurt me, disappointed me, abandoned me, mistreated me, or rejected me in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all addiction to drugs, alcohol, or any legal or illegal substance that has bound me in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all pride, haughtiness, arrogance, vanity, ego, disobedience, and rebellion in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all envy, jealousy, and covetousness in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all fear, unbelief, and doubt in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all selfishness, self-will, self-pity, self-rejection, self-hatred, and self-promotion in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all ungodly thought patterns and belief systems in the name of Jesus.
I renounce all ungodly covenants, oaths, and vows made by myself or my ancestors in the name of Jesus.
Thank You Lord for helping me today.
AMEN
- Spend time praying in the spirit/soaking or praising the Lord
- Write down the thoughts that the Lord is bringing to your heart in your prophetic journal
- Pray through the revelations the Lord has given you today
