“Pray for me,I am stuck in sin.”

Just in 2023 about 61 million people died and on average,166,859 people die daily.

With so many people dying it’s really sad that most of Christianity has adopted a new gospel that pampers sin.

Way too many people tell me these words,”pray for me so that I may stop fornication,pray for me that I may stop pornography etc.”

But we do not find this in the Bible.

When people were convicted of their sins in the Bible,and their hearts were pricked by God’s word,they DELIBERATELY TURNED from their sin.

They did not continue and just ask the Apostles or other servants of God to just pray for them while they continue their sin so that God may forcefully just make them stop.

Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery,GO AND SIN NO MORE.

He didn’t say,”go and I will pray for you to stop sinning.”

Stopping the sin is a command from God.

Christianity has been so diluted that people have been taught to pamper their sin and expect that one day God will just forcefully remove them from it.

That is not the gospel of Jesus Christ and we do not find this in the gospel.

Yes other Christians May pray for someone caught in the web of sin that God may have mercy on them and touch their heart.

But the Bible doesn’t teach that after someone hears the word of God for repentance they should ask for prayer and continue sinning.

The next step after hearing God’s word is repentance.

God’s word only comes to do two things;to cause repentance or to be a witness of condemnation for those who refuse to turn to God.

God gives us free will and never forces us.

He cannot forcefully take us from our sin.

We must make a decision on our own to leave our sin.

That is what it means to crucify the flesh,to take up your cross and follow Jesus.

It is a decision you personally make.

And when you make the decision and STOP your sin,now you stay close to Jesus in daily prayer and stop feeding your lusts so that you may have the strength to overcome.

Jesus never pampered sin telling sinners,”just continue and I will pray for you to stop your sin.”

He said ,”GO AND SIN NO MORE.”(John 8:11)

He said,”UNLESS YOU REPENT,YOU WILL PERISH.”(Luke 13:3-5)

He said,”CUT OFF THE HAND THAT SINS,PLUCK OUT THE EYE THAT SINS.”(Matthew 18:9)

Do whatever you have to do to escape hell because if you don’t,you are at risk of being thrown in the place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(Matthew 13:42)

We take the step of repentance and pray for spiritual strength to keep standing.

We first pluck out the eye,cut off the sinful relationships,break that friendship that always leads to your sin,even breaking the phone you use to watch pornography!

God’s instruction is to FLEE sexual immorality,He doesn’t say ask for prayer,He says,”FLEE.”

And this applies to all other sins too!

You must FLEE sin,If you are serious about salvation immediately you realize your sin RUN from it,FLEE,get as far from it as you can because it will cost your soul.

1 Corinthians 6:18,”Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

Do whatever you must do to escape hell!

It is that serious.

Then go in prayer and even do prayer and fasting if you must for that yoke of sin to be broken.

Because if you don’t,it will take you to hell and you will realize that there is no sin that is too difficult to leave.

Jesus knew this and was why He said,”CUT OFF THE HAND AND PLUCK OUT THE EYE.”

Take sin as seriously as this if you care about your soul.

Matthew 10:39 says,”He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.”

If you keep doing something you know is sinful just because you are enjoying it,you will lose your life in hell.

But if you stop that sin you enjoy and turn to Jesus instead,you will find eternal life.

You must crucify your flesh or you will end up in the eternal flames of hell where the worms do not die,the fire is never quenched and worms will become your bed and cover you.(Isaiah 14:11)

Because of how serious hell is,Jesus said it’s better to cut off your hand if it is what causes you to sin and live your life maimed but escape the punishment of hell.

This means the torments of hell are worse than the pain you will feel when you cut your own hand or pluck out your eye or the difficulty you will experience living with no hands or eyes.

The torments of hell are worse than the torments you will feel when you cut off that relationship of sexual immorality or when you break your phone or whatever you use for pornography and live your life without internet if that is the only way you can stop watching porn.

The torments of hell are worse than any pain you can feel when you stop smoking or drinking,they are worse than any withdrawal symptoms to any addictions.

Hell is that serious!

They are unimaginable torments.

The human soul is the most valuable thing above anything else.

That is why Jesus taught that it’s better to lose everything else but save your soul.

Mark 8:36,”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

Acts 2:37-38,”37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

By Rachel Mushala