How to repent?

[johnthebaptist]

6 hours ago, Regenerated-Adult said:

We are commanded to repent, so it isn't just something that God grants us at the new birth and then after that we don't ever do it again.  We all sin every day, so every day we need to repent.  The question is, how is it to be done?  We can feel sorrow, remorse and contrition for our sinful state inside our hearts, but that doesn't seem to be enough to actually CHANGE ourselves.  There should also be action on our part to initiate the necessary changes we need to make to not fall into the same sins again and again.  How do we go from repentance as a feeling inside ourselves to an outward behavioural change that corresponds to it?

We need to resist the temptation to sin.

[grahampaul]

2 hours ago, johnthebaptist said:

We need to resist the temptation to sin.

true that,

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you in james 4v7.
 

 

[Hopefully]

11 hours ago, Regenerated-Adult said:

How do we go from repentance as a feeling inside ourselves to an outward behavioural change that corresponds to it?

I will say by laying our lives down for Christ. 

“Jesus continued to say to all of them, “Any of you who want to be my follower must stop thinking about yourself and what you want. You must be willing to carry the cross that is given to you every day for following me. Any of you who try to save the life you have will lose it. But you who give up your life for me will save it. It is worth nothing for you to have the whole world if you yourself are destroyed or lost.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭9:23-25

I feel repentance is daily too, but some specific sins I have repented and have been successful at not returning too didn’t just involve me, but relationships with others. So I didn’t just repent sinful actions but also repented the sinful relationships that came with it which caused me to loose people and made me feel that I laid those parts of my life down for Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit. 

 

 

 

[Logostician]

I beleive that the way to move from a desire to change to actual change is to ask Jesus Christ for help.

Phi 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

A change that we decide on, and initiate and attempt to carry out alone is pharisaical and self serving.  A change that is initiated and effected by Jesus unifies us with him.  He is the reason for the change, and helps to bring it about in us.

[Guest clancy]

18 hours ago, Regenerated-Adult said:

We are commanded to repent, so it isn't just something that God grants us at the new birth and then after that we don't ever do it again.  We all sin every day, so every day we need to repent.  The question is, how is it to be done?  We can feel sorrow, remorse and contrition for our sinful state inside our hearts, but that doesn't seem to be enough to actually CHANGE ourselves.  There should also be action on our part to initiate the necessary changes we need to make to not fall into the same sins again and again.  How do we go from repentance as a feeling inside ourselves to an outward behavioural change that corresponds to it?

I can’t change “ myself” only God can help me change.....put him first in “ Everything “....wait on Him and His timing.....we can’t rush God....and trust me....” I” have tried....

[Guest clancy]

23 minutes ago, Logostician said:

I beleive that the way to move from a desire to change to actual change is to ask Jesus Christ for help.

Phi 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

A change that we decide on, and initiate and attempt to carry out alone is pharisaical and self serving.  A change that is initiated and effected by Jesus unifies us with him.  He is the reason for the change, and helps to bring it about in us.

In Jesus Name....Amen!!.

[Guest clancy]

15 hours ago, Regenerated-Adult said:

Right, yes, you pray and God will answer your prayer every time, except every time He fails to, or doesn't do it. 

Isn’t that putting conditions on God, R A.?

I Love God, for saving me from the pit of hell,I believe I was in as a non believer....that’s enough for me....if you get my point, Bro.?

[TheBlade]

Christ said He sent His son into the world not to condemn the world but to save it. And there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. That being said that "CHANGE" you talk about has not happen yet. We are born again new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. "But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me." 

Theres a reason Christ came and died and rose AMEN! Its not how we see our selfs its how the Father sees us through what Christ already finished. God is faithful to what Christ did. So we take our eyes off us and on to Him. To pray to read..always dying daily. Read " I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish."

In just that we read if we walk in the spirit you "shall not fulfill" the lust of the flesh. There is no sin that has control over us. We all we get up dust off keep going. Pray.. you have not because you ask not or your asking wrong/personal things. His WORD is His will.