Defeated By My Giants

Ever been in bondage to sin? Ever felt like Paul when he says in Romans 7;15-25  that he struggles with his sinful nature?  "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but I hate what I do... As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.  So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God's law;  but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin."

These blogs revolve around the theme of my struggles with my sinful nature and strongholds, as well as the accompanying condemnation and despair. These thoughts, feelings, and lies I believed are what kept me running from God in condemnation, fear, and shame; and they mark the first stage in my "Yeshua Revolution".