Last Saturday (Sabbath) our pastor told an interesting story and, had it not been serious, it would have been funny. He told about a fellow in a support group who for months on end kept praying about a personal problem.
Week after week he would pray with seemingly great conviction, "Oh God, clean the cobwebs out of my life... clean the cobwebs out of my life!"
Finally, in utter frustration the leader of the prayer group broke into the man's prayer and prayed rather boisterously, "Oh God, KILL THE SPIDER in this man's life!"
If we are struggling with a besetting sin or bad habit, what can we do about it? Certainly pray and ask God for deliverance - but also pray that he will show us the root cause of our problem because, more often than not, our repetitive failures are the fruit of a deeper root.
God not only wants to deliver us from habitual sins but also free us from the deeper root cause.
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