How do I stop committing these sins?

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Hi Everyone,
How do I stop committing the following sins. Everytime I try to stop I fail. Only there is an odd time that I succeed, but thats only ever once in a blue moon then Im back in a relapse.
Anyway here are the sins I usually struggle with
Lies, haven’t told one in a while so far yet 🙂 👍
Eating too much - gluttony
Blasphemous thoughts
obstinanacy in sin
Greed for food and material possessions
I miss mass an odd time
Taking the lords name in vain, I rarely do this but when I do its usually saying Jesus! or God! after getting a fright/surprise or when i’m almost falling down

Thank you
 
If you really, really want to, you will be commited to change with the help from God. But you have to really want to throw off the old and become a new person. Mostst of what you have listed are bad habits and lack of disapline, but you can overcome all of these. I think taking the Lord’s name in vien is a bad habit that can put out with the trash with all other trash talk. Keep in mind that we are judge by what comes out of our mouths! Good luck…good effort…better disapline…reall commitment and true love for our Lord. That will do it.!
 
P. S. I looked at some of your interests and think that maybe they are detrimental to your spiratual well being. Horror movies and heavy metal music will not help you with your change. Horror movies make me cringe and cower! Heavy metal music…yuk!
 
Ask the Lord for help overcoming your patterns. He is the Divine Physician, and will know how to help you draw nearer to Him. Its important to actually ask in prayer, this invites Him in to help you!
 
Begin with this…Love…Agape…(Love of others).

Evaluate who you love and why you love in light of the two great commandments to Love God above all else and to Love neighbor as yourself (Mt 22:36-40). If you Love someone, how do you treat them - how do you expect to be treated by others? This evaluation will begin to give you insight to why you fail in these matters.

On a more practical level, overcoming sin involves many of the same elements as any other discipline, sports, dieting, exercise etc. It requires desire, commitment, planning, prioritizing, tenacity, resilience, and perhaps most of all a recognition that improvement and ultimate victory will come over time and not all at once.

So - I suggest that you consider these issues and prioritize them. Which is the most troublesome and difficult and conversely which is the easiest or least problematic. For instance, Gluttony and Greed are pretty serious but are interrelated problems and concentrating on one aspect of this can have benefits in other aspects.
Taking the Lord’s name in vain at times of surprise - and without thinking - is a very small flaw and can actually be thought of as a prayer rather than a sin.

Take these matter to the Lord in prayer. Ask Him to help you sort these things out so that you can address them in proper order and with a heart that says, even if I fail today, I will recommit and move forward with God’s grace.

Lastly - I would suggest that a regular confessor can help you with some of this.

Peace
James
 
The best tools for overcoming any sin are frequent confession and prayer. When you are tempted to commit a sin, pray for help and know that that help has been provided for you because of your prayer. If you choose to sin anyway, you are rejecting the help that God is offering you as a result of your prayer. I find that thinking about this helps me. Sometimes it feels like the help is not sufficient. 🙂 God will keep helping you anyway.

And commit to confession at least once a month even if you are not committing any mortal sins (of course go earlier if you commit a mortal sin such as missing Mass). Don’t worry about confessing the same sins over and over again–we all do. 🙂

And every time you are successful in overcoming temptation, your “virtue muscles” become stronger, so you have progress to build on.

God bless your efforts!

–Jen
 
catholicgirl201 said:
Hi Everyone,
How do I stop committing the following sins. Everytime I try to stop I fail. Only there is an odd time that I succeed, but thats only ever once in a blue moon then Im back in a relapse.
Anyway here are the sins I usually struggle with
Lies, haven’t told one in a while so far yet 🙂 👍
Eating too much - gluttony
Blasphemous thoughts
obstinanacy in sin
Greed for food and material possessions
I miss mass an odd time
Taking the lords name in vain, I rarely do this but when I do its usually saying Jesus! or God! after getting a fright/surprise or when i’m almost falling down

Thank you
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Your post reveals your zeal to amend self. That is enough; God will do the rest. To break free from vice is humanly impossible but our helplessness is NOT hopelessness as our God is the help of the helpless.

All the best and God bless you.
 
catholicgirl201 said:
Hi Everyone,
How do I stop committing the following sins. Everytime I try to stop I fail. Only there is an odd time that I succeed, but thats only ever once in a blue moon then Im back in a relapse.
Anyway here are the sins I usually struggle with
Lies, haven’t told one in a while so far yet 🙂 👍
Eating too much - gluttony
Blasphemous thoughts
obstinanacy in sin
Greed for food and material possessions
I miss mass an odd time
Taking the lords name in vain, I rarely do this but when I do its usually saying Jesus! or God! after getting a fright/surprise or when i’m almost falling down

Thank you
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You will never overcome sin. The best thing to do is to offer God yourself as you are. God doesn’t make junk. He knows your sins and still loves you. Give praise to the Lord for your weaknesses which lead you to him. Be yourself but be your best self! 😃
 
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