Heavenly Father, I thank You for the blessings that have come down to me from my ancestors on my father’s line and my mother’s line. But I also acknowledge that as a result of their sinful beliefs and practices, they had also sinned against you in many ways. Today I choose to forgive my ancestors for the consequences of their sexual sins that have affected me. Please break the yoke and power of this generational curse of sexual sins off me.

Please forgive me too for my own sexual sins. I know I am enslaved to these sins and that I am powerless to deliver myself. I acknowledge that You can help me and that Jesus have already paid the debt for my sin. All I need to do is claim it personally, for Jesus, had bore all of my sins, past, present and future when He died for me on the cross. I accept the gift of grace offered to me through Jesus’ sacrificial death. I thank You that You know everything about me. Help me to be completely truthful with You. I don’t need to hide any more. If I confess my sins, You are faithful and just and will forgive my sins and purify me from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).

Father, You sent Jesus to rescue me from this body of death! I don’t have to be a prisoner to sin. This battle that rages over my body originates in my mind making me a slave to the sin that is still at work within me. Right now, I surrender my mind to You. Please cleanse my mind on the conscious, subconscious and unconscious levels. Jesus, please Lord over my mind, my thought patterns and attitudes. You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways (Psalm 139:1-3). Come and dwell in me, Lord, by Your Holy Spirit, and set me free to live in Your resurrection life.

Please break the control and manipulation of sexual thoughts and images over my mind, body and sexuality. Please forgive me and set me free from all consequences of my sins. Please cleanse me of all defilement of spirit, mind, will, emotions and body. Cleanse my eyes, ears, hands and sexual organs too.

The reason Jesus appeared was to destroy the devil’s work (1 John 3:7-8). Lord, I have been a willing party to the devil’s work. Thank You that You appeared on this earth to die and be raised again to destroy his work. Please destroy the works the devil has accomplished in me and through me. Set me apart for Your work from now on. According to Your Word, no one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him (1 John 3:9). Please help me to understand and admit that I cannot simply go on and on indefinitely in my sin and claim to belong to You.

I acknowledge to You that my body was not meant for sexual immorality, but for You, Lord. You were meant to take authority over this body and bring it sanctification and meaning. I know that my body is a member of Christ Himself. I shall not then take the members of Christ and unite them in ungodly sexual relationships, whether real or virtual (1 Cor 6:13-15). I renounce the use of my body as an instrument of unrighteousness and by so doing, ask You to break the sexual stronghold that the devil has brought into my life.

Please help me to exercise godly control over my sexual urges. I have simply misused my body. Please cleanse it for Your use. I present my body to You as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to You and I choose to reserve the sexual use of my body only with my spouse. In Jesus’ name, I renounce the lie of the devil that my body is not clean. Father, I thank You that You have totally cleansed me unconditionally. Jesus please Lord over my body and my bodily appetites, my sexuality and sexual expressions. Therefore, I can now accept myself. And I choose to accept myself and my body as cleansed, in Jesus’ name.

I know that my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in me, whom I have received from You. I am not my own; I was bought at a price. Therefore please help me to honour You with my body (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Since I have been raised with Christ, help me to set my heart on things above, where Christ is seated at Your right hand, not on earthly things (Colossians 3:1). Please take my passions and redirect them first toward You. Be the chief focus of all my passions and create a new heart within me. In Jesus’ name. Amen!

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