A Prayer for a Habit You Cannot Break
For habits that keep returning — screens, drinking, overeating, anything you have tried to stop before.
When it feels like this
The hardest word when you fall in the same place is 'again'. You have already proved to yourself that resolve is not enough. So this prayer does not ask for more resolve. It asks for strength.
An example prayer
A HABIT · A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE
I come before the God who heard the prayer of Manasseh, the most wicked of kings, when captivity had brought him low — and turned him back to his place.
I fell again in front of a habit I still cannot break. Even so, I came without hiding.
Let my returns outnumber my falls.
Thank you that you do not turn away from those who return to you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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