1st: Pain (wounds may pierce the heart – this pain is the root of sinfulness)
- ex 1: feeling as if your father rejected you
- ex 2: your parents divorced at an early age
2nd: Sinfulness (this is the source of the action of sin, sinfulness is connected to attitudes, lies or vows that we cannot break)
- ex 1: “I don’t have what it takes to be a man”
- ex 2: “I’m abandoned”
3rd: Sin (the fruit of sinfulness, commission, omission)
- ex 1: obsessive materialism
- ex 2: promiscuity
HOW TO PRAY THROUGH THIS:
- Ask God to reveal your patterns of sin
- Ask God to reveal the attitudes, thoughts, or lies feeding those patterns
- Ask God to reveal the root of the attitudes
- Ask God to show you where he was in the memory
- Ask God to reveal the lies you believed
- Ask God to reveal the promises you made b/c of the lies
- Ask God to reveal the truth
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