continue in sin ?

have you ever seen those people who sin and wonder if they really are born again? have you ever personally sinned, knew you were God's, and then you came to a point where you were at a place of decision. you had to decide if you were going to give yourself to sin or to God? when you were in sin you knew you were God's child, you even felt His presence? i know that in my sin i was still in God's hand and once my eyes were opened to the wrong i was doing i wanted God. then i had a choice. i saw the emptiness and heartache of sin. I think if we were really honest we've all been sinners while standing in grace. We are born again and still sin the difference is that we don’t continue in our sin. individual consequences might be different, but we've been aware that we are in sin. sometimes we chose to keep doing it. sometime we chose to stop.
i believe that the reason people sin (not all the time, but a lot of the time. because if you go back to the garden of eden adam and eve weren’t hurt, but they doubted and questioned what God had said. They believe the lie of satan over the true Word of God) is because they are hurting. until we learn how to receive the healing in Jesus wounds we will keep acting out of our own wounds and sin.
This part i'm about to write goes more in depth about what i wrote in 'getting out of sin.'
as i said before the human method for healing a wound is sin. The human method for getting anything it wants is sin. God's way is Jesus. how do you receive the wounds of Jesus as your healing? this passage of scripture is enlightening to me:
I Peter 1:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
why do you think peter said that 'by His wounds we are healed?' do you feel healed?
have you ever been struggling with sin and someone told you that you just need to pray and read the Bible more? well that's true, but if you don't know how to pray and read the Bible the truth of God it will bounce right off your heart. Until God's truth removes your foundation (hurt, wounds – things there from sin) there is nothing that will make your actions change; scenarios: girls who want guys attention...maybe she never got that love and attention that a girl desperately longs for from her dad. maybe she's prideful about the way she looks, but why? what happened that made her act that way towards guys? if you trace back your problems you'll find that the foundation of your problem is a wound. and until you receive Jesus wounds you will not be healed. you receive this through prayer and the Word. really praying to God will do more that you can imagine. why else would Paul say that if you cast your anxiety's on the Lord that His peace will guard your heart more that you could've imagined. do you feel that - ever? maybe we humans really don't know what it means to fellowship with God. to really pray. to really cast a burden on Him. we continue walking around with all our hurt. we go round and round in our head, but cannot connect the dots to God. i have found that my wounds were healed when i did what i wrote about in 'sin: getting out of sin.'
if we were chosen BY GOD (now that's a masive deal) to be a royal priesthood, a holy nation...wow. and run from sin...because it will kill us for by His wounds you are healed. I challenge you to find that out for yourself. talk to me if you want about it, but I believe that Jesus wants to heal you of all your hurt so you can start acting out of holiness instead of pain, hurt, regret, and guilt. realize the difference between satan and Jesus. Light and darkness. life is so much a battle for your soul! not about what you should wear today, how well do my profs like me, how well did i do on that paper, does my brother like me, and more. how well is your soul? how alive is your soul? life is in His wounds.

one day i began to get physically ill. i felt this pressure in my chest, so heavy. at the time i thought it was the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I threw-up several times. I kept thinking, "okay, time to stop now." looking back what made me so sick was the fact that God lived me in, His temple and i was desicrating it- giving it to someone else. just like the israelites. satan was trying to take me for his will. it's like when you eat something you're allergic to...you get sick and throw up. i am born again and not made to digest the things of this world when i did i mixed myself with something my spirit is alergic to and i barfed - literally. the battle was raging inside me. satan was gaining power in my life

1 john 3:6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
this verse is so true. if you live in Him there comes a point when sin just doesn't work anymore. it doesn't statify. it just can't. it just makes the wound deeper.


1 peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
you die to sin because you no longer have a desire for it. when you receive Jesus' healing you no longer have a thirst/desire for sinful things. that's why He died. until we receive the death of Christ in our bodies we won't receive His resurrection. By His wounds we are healed.

i don't know if any of this makes sense, but feel free to talk to me anytime if you want more details or just want to talk about what i wrote. even if you disagree

the new year

heidi howard:
Miracles are about to happen.

kirstie howard:
This year I'm going to learn as much as I can!

eden howard:
This year i'm gonna learn to fly.

emily howard:
Discovery of God and his plan for me.

melody infinger:
I just want God.

CLAIM GODS TRUTH!