Give it Up

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we who have died to sin live any longer in it?
Romans 6:1-2

Ladies! Hope all is well with you.

Today I want to speak with you about habits...bad ones that is. Even as Christian young women we have a few habits that are unnecessary and that need to be broken. Bad habits translate to SIN for us Christians. In fact, some of these habits are the very things that are keeping us away from truly serving God. So, today we will talk about finding a way to combat these habits and replace them with good Godly ones.

Romans talks a lot about how we should renew our mind, kill our flesh and learn to be in the world, but not of it. Is this easy? Not always, but sometimes we find ourselves in situations doing things that we KNOW we can easily say no to. So, how do you avoid this or get yourself out of these types of situations?

FIRST...GIVE it to God. We are not able to handle our situations on our own, let's just face that. There is nothing we can do without the power God has given us. So, stop trying to deal with this bad habit on your own.

SECONDLY, stop using the fact that God has grace and mercy on us as an excuse for doing things. As a Christian young lady we should desire to do better. .Our relationship with Christ should mean so much to us that we would never want to be out of fellowship with Him.

THIRD, after you give it to God you've still gotta take some action. You've got to trust that God will aid you with this situation.

FOURTH, you've got to watch your surroundings. The people you surround yourself with should reflect the person you really are. If you are totally sold out for Christ, why would you surround yourself with people whose faith waivers all the time? How are they going to build you up when you're weak? Find like minded friends and then together you all can reach out to your unsaved friends.

LASTLY, start replacing these bad habits with good ones. If you like to spend money too much, start giving it to your church or to charities. If you curse too much start replacing every curse word or ill thing you say with a compliment. Or do like my friends and I have started and began a charity swear jar. Every time someone curses we charge 50 cents and then at the end of the year we're going to donate the money. If you and your boyfriend cannot resist the temptation to have sex, find things you can do in public that are fun, educational and will keep you entertained.

Being holy is a choice and once you make it there are a lot of things that will come against you. Try really hard to stay true to your calling! With God anything is Possible.

Sorry so long!


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the G.O.O.D. Girls