LOVE LETTERS|DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SINGLES|DAY 142

Scripture for today

Romans 12:1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.(Msg) 

I get a lot of questions about sex before marriage, so many people are of the opinion that it's absolutely not possible to total abstain especially after have had  one or several sexual experience.  

I give this illustration, a dangerous armed robber who would kill, steal and destroy everything he came across. He has been so dangerous over the years, but one day gives his life to Christ. He turns his back on those things, he is totally different now.  The desire to lie, or steal could come up again but he is new now he wouldn't go back.  So it is with us who have sexual struggles.  

Sometimes we give excuses with our past.  We tell ourselves "if I hadn't had sex before maybe it would have been easy!" God is more at work in your present than your past. Stop using your past as an excuse. God's power is not just helping us over come the lying or stealing or dishonesty so also sex. We shouldn't limit the power of God at work in us. Everything we have and do should be given to God everyday as an offering. 

He is more than able to keep us from falling apart each time. We shouldn't be well adjusted to the standard of this world that we fit in so easily. As a child of God you can overcome just anything. 

Prayer: Father, I lift up my sexual desires unto you. I ask that I awaken your power within me to overcome.