My story is made up of many love letters written from my heart to God’s heart and from His to mine.  I open up to Him with a pen in my hand and a journal in my lap.  The Lord speaks to me through my writings and I am beyond excited to share with you bits and pieces of different letters I have from God.  I share parts of my story so that God’s love, power, grace, forgiveness, and perfectness may be showcased.  As you read I pray the Lord grabs a hold of your heart and fills you with hope!

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Dear Heavenly Father,

There is this one sin that I cannot seem to get rid of in my life.  I do not like it.  I know every time I fall back into this sin trap it takes me further and further away from You.  I feel silly for asking for forgiveness for the same sin over and over again.  I fear You will get tired of me falling backwards into disobedience.  On top of that I have asked so many times for help getting rid of this, but my poor choices are getting in the way of Your help.  I do not know what to do.  I want to overcome and live in victory.  I have done this before with several other things in my life, but this area just seems impossible to overcome.  Lord, I know I need You please show me what my eyes are clearly missing.

Dear Precious Daughter of Mine,

It is true that I will not let anything happen to you that will cause you to break completely.  You may fall back from time to time, but every time you do My grace will catch you.  It is impossible to live a sin free life in a fallen world, but it is not impossible to live with Me in victory!  Once you conquer one area of your life, there will be another and another and another that will creep up on you and try to steal OUR victory again.  It is your choice to choose obedience or disobedience, joy or sorrow, freedom from sin or dependence on sin.   I am waiting to give you My strength moment-by-moment so that you can boldly choose ME over everything in your life that hinders you.  Please do not be afraid to confess your sin to Me.  I already know what it is.  When you come to Me with your sin and ask Me to forgive you, I take it one step further by forgetting it all.  Do not get discouraged when you have to ask again for the same sin, to Me it is like the first time.  You do not know the life that I have planned for you.  All you know is that it is better than your wildest imagination.  The choice of living My life for you is up to you.  You must choose to follow Me and get rid of your hindrances.  I cannot help you until you let Me into that sin that feels so impossible to have victory over.  How badly you want victory will reflect how badly you depend on Me instead of depending on yourself for victory.  I am the only One that gives you victory.  Stop trying to fight this sin that entangles you and start giving it all over to Me to help you.  I promise when you let Me in, I will be there fighting for you.

Love,

Your Dependable God

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Dear Lord,

Thank You for opening my eyes to see that I will never be able to live a perfect life free from sin; all I can do is live through YOUR perfect life!  I can live through YOUR strength, YOUR love, YOUR victory!  Thank You for sharing with me.  Thank You for forgiving me.  Thank You for covering me in Your grace.  I know You hate sin more than I hate sin.  I surely do want to keep my eyes focused on You so that I may get rid of all that hinders me.  I desire to live out the life You have planned for me.  I am throwing off everything that hinders me.  I am living a life dependent on YOU.

Love,

Diane

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Questions for Reflection:

1. What is the one area in your life that seems impossible to overcome?  Do you believe all things are possible with God?  What is stopping you from letting God into that area of your life?
2. When temptations come, I started repeating Stay True to God over in my head.  God has never nor will He ever let me down, I must stay true to Him.  I do not want sin in my life to replace God in my life.  We must remember who we are held accountable to, God not our sin.
3. If there is an area of your life that you are struggling with and you are simply tired of fighting, why don’t you try surrendering it to God?  Why don’t you stop and let His grace be sufficient for you.  Choose to let Him in and follow Him today.
4. Meditate on Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  I suggest memorizing this verse and truly applying it to your life!

God Bless you!

©Diane Meyers 2013