How many times have you confessed the same sin to the Lord, and each time you feel sorry and tell Him you won’t do it again? Yet deep inside, you doubt that you’ll follow through. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Perhaps the problem is that despite our confessions, we haven’t entered into genuine repentance.

You will never earn, merit, or be good enough to enter heaven. Your salvation is totally dependent upon receiving God’s grace, a free gift, that you access only through putting your faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

The only way to have peace with God, others, and within our own hearts is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, who is our Reason for the Season.

What are the areas of temptation with which you most often struggle? In the past, what has been your strategy for dealing with these enticements? How successful have you been at resisting? This podcast deals specifically with how our Lord dealt with Satan’s temptations and lessons we can learn from the Master.

In what aspects of life do you lack self-control? Why is it so difficult for you to surrender this to the Lord? Think about the areas in which you have already relinquished control to God. What has been the result? How would remembering God’s faithfulness in the past help you yield even more of your life to Him today?

Do you feel like something is missing in your life? If so, what do you think is causing this sense of emptiness? If you ran to Jesus with this need, what would He tell you to do? Are you willing to let go of whatever He says to relinquish? Is there anything that is causing you to resist following Christ fully? What kinds of things tend to own you rather than you owning them?

As followers of Christ, we have been empowered by His indwelling Spirit to be vessels of healing to the brokenhearted.

Our Lord has commissioned His followers to be “fishers of men.” How are you fulfilling His command? It’s not as difficult as you may think to share Christ with others!