When a relative uses Scripture to control you

Ezekiel 18:20

You are not required to keep repeating another person's sin.

When a relative uses Scripture to control you. It is easy to sound spiritual until this is the thing sitting in front of you. Sometimes the breakthrough is not a dramatic change in circumstances. Sometimes it is catching the old pattern before you obey it again. Family history explains some things, but it does not get to prophesy your future. Jesus Christ can interrupt what has repeated for generations. Let truth interrupt the reflex before the reflex becomes another chapter.

What are you trying to control because you are afraid to trust God with the outcome?

Jesus, interrupt whatever is automatic in me that does not look like Your truth. Give me a clear mind, a guarded heart, and the courage to do the next faithful thing. Amen.

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