Yes, we’re all on a journey here. We’re not perfect. We all
struggle. We can tell from the fatigue we feel and the stiffness
in our spiritual joints that we haven’t always taken good care
of ourselves. But prayer wakes us up with mercies from God
that are “new every morning” (Lam. 3:23). Prayer is how we
start to stretch and feel limber again, feel loose, ready to take
on the world. And when we start applying prayer to particular
muscle groups—like our confidence in Christ and His victory
over our past—our whole body and our whole being start to
percolate with fresh energy, with the blood-pumping results of
applied faith.
So as you begin crafting a strategy for crushing Satan’s
backdoor assault on your daily freedom and joy, think back
again to that helpful guide we’ve been using:
Praise: Thank Him for completely forgiving you,
cleansing you, changing you.
Repentance: See the foolishness of anything that
perpetuates old sin patterns, and by His Spirit
walk away.
Asking: Ask for freedom, for release, for the
ability to deflect lies and embrace truth.