Y2Pray
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Title:
Y2Pray
--------------------------------------------- Date:
12/29/1999
Keywords:
"confess" "forgiveness" "grace" "pray"
"repent"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand
strong in the face of sexual temptation.
In this time it seems appropriate to depart from our usual
format to encourage you to take time out just to pray. As the millenium (arguably) draws
to a close, it is good to reflect on who we are, what we are about, and to go to our knees
in prayer, confessing our sin to God and appealing for forgiveness as Solomon did for
Israel while dedicating the Temple. We make no Y2K predictions here, but we know with
certainty that we cannot know for sure whether God will choose to give us another day,
week, year, or millenium to continue our patterns of sin, rebellion, repentance, and
restoration. So, as you read the following, read it as your own prayer to God, and
personalize it, inserting your own confessions and your own pleas. Solomon's prayer was a
dedication of a new temple of God; under grace there is no longer a building which serves
as a temple, but our own bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Are not our bodies
equally deserving of dedication, and of setting aside for holiness? If pornography
addiction is your sin, increase your awareness of the shame and the consequences as you
pray, and take hold of the knowledge that God is merciful if only we will turn to him.
Passage: 1 Kings 8:46-51*
46. "When they sin against you -- for there is no one who does
not sin -- and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them
captive to his own land, far away or near;
47. and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are
held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their conquerors and say, 'We
have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly';
48. and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in
the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the city you have
chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;
49. then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and
their plea, and uphold their cause.
50. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive
all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their conquerors to show them
mercy;
51. for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought
out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.
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